Parliament Square.

Date: 18/05/09

Time: 12:00 - 14:00

Myanmar/Burma Embassy 19A, Charles St, London W1J 5DX.

Tube: Green Park | Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=W1J5DX

Protest Details on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85977485307&ref=nf

Protest over Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest (day of her trial at notorious Insein Prison)

On Friday 15th May, Burmese demonstrated at the military regime's embassy in London and at the Foreign Office in Kings Charles Street, at Aung San Suu Kyi arrest and detention at the notorious Insein prison. There will be a larger protest on Monday 18th May at the regime's embassy.

with news of more than 1000 new deaths and thousands injured in just a few hours today in Vanni, tamils in london are calling for a solidarity protest outside the US embassy, grosvenor square on monday morning to urge barack obama to intervene.

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grosvenor square

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as more news gets out that the 'safe zone' in sri lanka is a mass of flames, tamils gathered in parliament square this morning with black flags

in secret meetings not recorded in Hansard, our government has formulated a plan to rid parliament square of not only the current tamil protests, but also brian haw's seven and a half year vigil. emergency legislation is expected to pass through parliament unopposed within a matter of weeks.

Statewatch has obtained an excel sheet showing the prediction by the Department of Transport of their projects and the monitoring of protesters by the police.

Tamil protestors have caught police on the hop today and blockaded the road outside Parliament again in the last half hour. Hundreds of protestors have taken the junction at Westminster Bridge Road and traffic is backed up across the bridge and up Whitehall. Police re-inforcements are moving in.

See full article for regular updates and photos.

Out of control or business as usual?

Holding the police to account.

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As Black Flag brings out it's May 2009 issue, we proudly present all three of the pre-2009 issues produced by the current collective, for free download from the libcom website.

The anti-authoritarian spirit of MayDay was marked this year in London with a "Guilty, A Celebration of the  Police State" street party called by the Space Hijackers. Around 300 people gathered outside the Bank of England from 5pm and partied into the evening.



Three mobile sound systems were brought into the square right in the middle of The City, as a well as a traditional MayDay pole and several…

On Saturday 2nd May 2009, protestlondon.co.uk held a protest announcing calls for a declassification on Cannabis Laws, outside the gates of Downing Street, Whitehall. Earlier this year on January 2009 the drug was reclassified back to Class B from its previous Class C status.  The protest, voiced on the de classification of the drug, with the laws making it possible for up to a maximum of 5 y…

The video covers from about 5.30pm to nearly 7pm. Apparently the dancing carried on till dark.



Report with stills:



http://london.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1313



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May Day fun in central London as police refused to play the part scripted for them by the Space hijackers and so took a hands-off low-key approach to policing what turned out to be a wonderful antidote to the bullshit push and shove of the G20. 

The space hijackers and frends took over the square outside of the bank of england for a celebration of the Police State.

The island in the Thames near Surbiton has been evicted today by 100 police in 27 inflatable rafts and a helicopter. The island had been used as a community space, providing workshops and classes to the local community since February and was planning to set up an Eco Centre in the coming years. See photos

Full on eviction early this morning

Met Police Chiefs Heckled and Jeered - Sir Paul Stephenson LIES to the public

These 3,609 new laws are here to control us, not protect us...........

Garden Court Chambers

57-60 Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, WC2A 3LJ

Tube: Holborn (Central and Piccadilly lines) 2 minutes walk

The police have been ordered to pay out £85,000 (plus costs) to 5 activists that were illegally and violently detained at a demonstration outside the Mexican Embassy in 2006. The demonstration was part of a global action to mark the Death of Brad Will and indymedia activist from New York who was murdered whilst covering the uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The Human Rights Action Centre, Amnesty International UK, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA.

The meeting will be in Breakout Room 1 on the main floor.

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The Sri Lankan Embassy in London is currently surrounded by Tamil protestors. They need people, especially non-Tamils, to come suppurt asap.

The address of the Embassy is: 13 Hyde Park Gardens London W2 2LU

Ref: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?x=527013&y=180901&z=0&sv=W2+2LU&st=2&pc=W2+2LU&mapp=map.srf&searchp=ids.srf



Tamils in occupation here and at Parliament Square - where Parameswaran Subr…

More than a hundred people gathered for the St George’s Day celebration at the Cross Bones Graveyard shrine in Redcross Way SE1.  

STRIKE DAY

Make your stand, take a day off work, nursery, school, college, university, and gather in Westminster.



Wednesday 29th April from early...

Parliament Square

Rampart, 15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)