Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand, WC2A 2LL

On Thursday 9th February 2012 at 10.00am, in the Royal Courts of Justice, the Strand, London WC2A 2LL, there will be a Judicial Review of the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO), a private limited company, and the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, for the running of a controversial £9 million publicly funded secret 'domestic extremist' intelligence database about political activists.

 

http://hannahdoublebarrel.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/judicial-review-of-pre-emptive-royal-wedding-arrests/

For anyone wanting to know what happened next about the Royal Wedding/Starbucks Zombie arrests, here it is: we got organised; we found more people who’d suffered the same treatment; we found some brilliant lawyers and we’re going to have a Judicial Review into the Metropolitan Police’s …

At the road block on Fleet Street the march was moved up Fetter Lane and repeatedly stopped and held for no obvious reason before getting to Holborn Circus. In spite of road blocks on all streets leading off Holborn Circus, except for one exit for the march, the police suddenly seemed to get very confused. A young woman describes what happened.

Super excited copper telling wandering people that they would be "comitting offences if they do not follow the route". What kind of offence is going for a walk? It wasn't even an attempt to break off the march, just random people walking about very unexcitedly. What did they tell those cops was going to happen today, that he gets so worked up?

Episode 90 of Dissident Island brings you:



* UK uncut live in the studio telling us about why they've been so quiet and what their next moves are



* Words from Occupy Wall Street - quite possibly the U.S. Left's answer to the Tea Party



* A trip down memory lane, looking at Dissident Island's previous homes in social centres past



* Little Sh*t on the decks spinning some dubstep goodness



* The u…

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A major database of criminals, victims and other people has been formally launched by the National Policing Improvement Agency, although police forces are already using it.

Jennie Cronin, director of the database programme at the NPIA, has announced the launch of the Police National Database (PND). 

The Police National Database (PND), launched on Wednesday, contains the details of between 10…

A small protest was held outside Paddington Green in solidarity with those arrested from the March 26 protest and the recent raids on squats and social centres including the Ratstar in Camberwell, Offmarket in Hackney and the Grow Heathrow Project. London, UK, 29/04/2011.

 

The Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) today publishes a Report on the policing of recent protests in central London and the preparations for the forthcoming 'March for the Alternative' planned for this Saturday, 26 March.

• Report: Facilitating Peaceful Protest
• Joint Committee on Human Rights 

The policing of protest engages several human rights, including freedom of expression and …

How are the Metropolitan police preparing for this weekend's mass demonstrations against public spending cuts? Hugh Muir investigates

- Met's assistant commissioner, Lynne Owens

- Chair of the Met Police Federation, Peter Smyth

- Green party London assembly member Jenny Jones

- Liberty's legal director, James Welch

- Val Swain from Fit Watch

- Vikram Dodd, the Guardian's crime correspondent

http://ww…

London police chiefs will be quizzed by MPs and Lords tomorrow over their tactics for the trade union 'March for the alternative' in the city on Saturday 26 March.

Members of the joint parliamentary committee on human rights have already expressed concerns about police trapping demonstrators in so-called kettles during recent protests.

The committee will take evidence from police and represe…

On Monday night at a lobby of a Lambeth council meeting to protest against 30% cuts to public services in the borough; policemen entered the council chamber. Who invited them in, and what they were expected to do is still unclear but the precedent could be important and seems to fit a worrying pattern that is developing in our democracy.

The meeting was open to the public and hundreds had turned …

VIDEO Who's Afraid of Photographers?

Legendary photographer David Hoffman talks on the changes in policing of protests over the years and the role and treatment of photographers. It ends mentioning the change in policing seen after the G20, but cautions against a swing back in response to the austerity cuts - a bit prophetic following the recent student demonstrations.

Houses of Parliament 27th Oc…

It's the coldest day of the year, and I've just spent seven hours being kettled in Westminster. That sounds jolly, doesn't it? It sounds a bit like I went and had a lovely cup of tea with the Queen, rather than being trapped into a freezing pen of frightened teenagers and watching baton-wielding police kidney-punching children, six months into a government that ran an election campaign on a platfo…

Criminalisation of protest and dissent is now a common feature of neo-liberal governance. Here is a chance for you to share your experiences and thereby contribute to a chapter on the situation in Britain for a book on criminalisation of dissent around the world.

Climate Camp Protestors win battle for High Court scrutiny of G20 Policing

Publication date: 25 November 2009

Protestors who were ‘kettled' and beaten during the Fossil Fool's day protest outside the Climate Exchange on 1st April 2009 have won the first round of a battle to hold the senior Metropolitan Police officers involved accountable. Granting permission for their judicial review to proceed…

The long awaited second report by Denis O'Connor, the chief inspector of constabulary, is critical of many aspects of public order policing which alienate the public and infringe the right to protest.

The report "Adapting to Protest - Nurturing the British Model of Policing" looked at the now infamous policing of the G20 protests in london as well as the Climate Camp protest at Kingsnorth and oth…

Civil Liberties Panel open meeting - come and have your say!

As part of the review of the events surrounding the G20 demonstrations there is an open meeting from 09.30-12.30 on 5 November 2009, in London's Living Room, City Hall, The Queen's Walk, London, SE1 2AA.

http://www.mpa.gov.uk/clp/#h2001

 

Sex workers are routinely portrayed in the media as victims.



At London’s first ever Sex Worker Open University, over two hundred sex workers and allies from the UK and abroad took part in workshops, discussions and actions. 



This film presents an alternative and empowered image of the sex worker: http://current.com/items/90496517_sex-worker-open-university.htm

With only ten days to go before the massive protests against the G20 summit taking place in London, the Parliament's Joint Select Committee on Human Rights has accused British police of being heavy-handed, misusing counter-terrorism laws and anti-social behavior legislation when dealing with demonstrators.