MET Public Order Unit on Twitter for Climate Camp

Published: August 19, 2009 09:30 by RT

Extract from Camp Legal Guide
http://climatecamp.org.uk/actions/london-2009/legal

News from the Met - The policing operation is called Operation Bentham: Gold is Ian Thomas, Silver is Julia Pendry, and there are various Bronzes, the one for the Camp is Jane Connors. The indications at this stage are, from both the liaison going on with the Met and from our understanding of the current climate post Kingsnorth and particularly the G20, that the Met will not ‘do a Kingsnorth’.

The liaison meetings to date have been constructive with the Met working consciously with ‘no surprises’– however, we are told by those who did the liaison then that they were before Kingsnorth too so there are no guarantees. So keeping that in mind… We have been told the policing will be community style as a community within a community as there is no mass action planned, provided the Camp is not in a sensitive area (like an airport or a road).

There is no plan for a ring of steel around the Camp. Music and sleep deprivation will not be used as a tactic. The policing will be reasonable if the Camp is reasonable. Any affinity group actions will be policed geographically – ie. where they happen. Searches and FIT will not be over used as a tactic but FIT will be present as the Camp forms and people arrive and for the swoop. (Remember you do not have to cooperate with being filmed and photographed.)

We have been told there will be more concern about items going off the Camp for actions than with items going on given that there may be affinity group action. Strategic reserves will be available but if possible out of sight.

There will be a mobile police station for the Camp and the Met hope to resolve complaints informally there. The perimeter will be patrolled but there will not be routine patrols in the camp.

The Met have a twitter for the Climate Camp to keep Campers up-to-date - CO11Metpolice – which you might like to follow. Key working groups like police liaison and legal obviously will follow Met tweets.

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Published: August 19, 2009 11:29 by mhor

Met posts new 'friendly' tactics on Twitter after G20 criticism
Justin Davenport and Nigel Rosser
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23734145-details/Met+posts+new+%27friendly%27+tactics+on+Twitter+after+G20+criticism/article.do

Met Police to use Twitter on Climate Camp protest
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/52408,news,metropolitan-police-to-use-twitter-to-communicate-with-climate-camp-protestors

Whilst PA news says "The force was also preparing to use a mobile police station, helicopter-mounted loudhailer and Twitter account to improve links with protesters"!

Published: August 19, 2009 21:00 by anonamouss

If climate camp's aim is to persuade the government to reform the current capitalist system into a nicer greener one, then collaborating with the state, in this case the police is a logical move. However if climate camp's aim is to tackle the root cause of environmental destruction - capitalism and perpetual growth, then it would seem like a strange step.

Published: August 23, 2009 16:57 by snapper

http://cms.met.police.uk/news/major_operational_announcements/climate_camp_update

20th August

Climate Camp Update

At a press briefing at New Scotland Yard this afternoon, Thursday 20 August, Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, in charge of Central Operations outlined the Met’s policing plans for the forthcoming Camp for Climate Action:

"I just want to give an overview of quite a busy period that’s going to come in the next couple of weeks around events regarding public order policing. As a part of that I’ll take some questions about the various recommendations that have come out of various reports.

Obviously the HMIC report, that the Commissioner asked for, there are some recommendations in there as far as protest is concerned. There’s the Home Affairs Select Committee report, and there’s also the Joint Committee for Human Rights. If you look at all of the recommendations together, they all fit together and I suppose it’s best going through what we’re doing in relation to Climate Camp, hopefully we can show how we’ve bedded a number of those recommendations into the stuff that we’re doing now.

Some of the recommendations are more long term. Things about the training - reviewing the training that we give to our officers. There’s a part about the training that we give to our officers, part about our national mobilisation piece as nationally we need to use the same tactics, and there’s some work that’s more long term that’s ongoing to do with that.

I’d just like to point out, I’ve seen a couple of reports in the papers - I think the words "this is the first test of the Metropolitan Police" in the policing of public order. We’ve been policing public order since 2nd April, all the way through - we moved straight into 70 days’ worth of Tamil protest, or 72, you know, the longest-running protest we had, which was fairly challenging for the organisation.

Every day we’ve been running a protest of some sort in and around London, as that’s part and parcel of policing the capital. It’s what the Met does, and as I’ve said on a number of occasions since G20 in discussions with yourselves, you know, the vast majority of events pass off perfectly peacefully, perfectly satisfactorily, to the satisfaction of everyone concerned.

If we talk about Climate Camp; obviously, as in all of our events we’re intelligence-led; what are we anticipating happening?

Well, between 26th August and 2nd September, Climate Camp are coming to London. We have been doing a lot of work in the last few weeks and again this falls out of one of the recommendations, working and communicating with Climate Camp representatives, in the spirit of no surprises that came out of one of those recommendations.

Working with those reps so we’ve got a common understanding around things like the use of stop and search, common understanding of how we’re going to operate and how we’re going to police. It is that idea of a no surprise policy between the two sides. The key for us, though, while we have all that good work and all that liaison going on, is we still don’t know where Climate Camp actually is going to take place.

All we know is that it’s going to be somewhere within the M25 - that’s all they’ve told us at the moment. They are saying in their literature something in the region of 3,000 people potentially - we have no idea how many numbers will come out. Our experience in the past is that the maximum there has been at the Climate Camp has been 1,500 or so. Between 1,000 and 1,500. But the issue for us is because we don’t know where they’re going, a lot of the other stuff we haven’t been able to do, around community impact assessment, making sure we’ve got the right resources in the right places, working with the local authorities concerned - we can’t actually do that.

The people we’re liaising with can’t actually tell us, because they themselves don’t know - it’s a different group within Climate Camp that are making the decisions around where the Camp’s going to go to. So we’ve written to that separate group through the people we’re liaising with and we’re saying please let us know, or at least let us know the borough that you’re intending to go to, so that we can start doing some work with that borough. We can start looking at community impact assessment.

If we think about where Climate Camps have been in the past, in many cases they’ve been - "in the middle of nowhere" is not the right description, but they’ve been out of communities, whereas there’s a very good chance that this one will be right in the middle of a community somewhere. And that will have an impact on that community. Clearly, we know Climate Camp will want to work with that community. But if we get the stuff done beforehand, it’s back to the spirit of no surprises and this is that in all those reports that came out, there was the importance of communication between event organisers and the police service. Thankfully, all these reports recognise that this is a two-way process, and that’s why we’re asking Climate Camp to do that as a two-way process.

There’s a range of other recommendations in there, particularly surrounding the use of containment. If we as a police service were to use containment again - and clearly I have said to you containment still remains a tactic that the police service could or would use in certain circumstances. They are very unusual, it’s very rare that we actually use that tactic.

But certainly embedded in the plans that we’ve got are, from the Silver Commander, how we would actually get the learning out of the Mayday protests, and the learning out of G20. This is around provision of facilities, provision of water, effective communication with the crowd, and the release policy. And that’s all included in our plans in the very unlikely event that we have to go to anything like that.

I have to say at the moment there’s no intelligence of any disorder in relation to Climate Camp. I am satisfied the vast majority of people just want to come because they are passionate about a cause. We are aware that one of the aims of the camp is direct action of some sort but we don’t know what sort, what that’s going to look like or where it’s going to go. Certainly we’ve got nothing at the moment that suggests we’d need to use containment.

If we did need to use it, then all those recommendations are in our plans. One of those particular bits is the liaison that we’ve had with Climate Camp themselves, and suggestions that we have a better release policy for people, if they were stuck in a containment, who are distressed or vulnerable. And we’ve got an agreement with the legal observers within Climate Camp that they would assist us in identifying those individuals within that cordon if we got into that position.

But it’s a what if. It’s a contingency plan. We’ve got no evidence that we’re going to get into that kind of situation at all. What we believe at the moment is that there’s a group of people that are going to come to London somewhere and do a camp, and small bits of direct action on the different days. Certainly there’s no intelligence about one major day of activity, which is what happened in previous Climate Camps.

In terms of resourcing - obviously it’s a very, very busy weekend for us that weekend. The Climate Camp starts on the Wednesday with what they describe as their "swoop" and then goes through to the following Wednesday. Over the weekend is obviously the Notting Hill Carnival weekend.

That is the biggest event for us as the Metropolitan Police Service. Something in the region of 11,000 officer shifts are required just to police Notting Hill Carnival. As a result of having Climate Camp at the same time, we’ve had to call on some colleagues from across the country. So we’ve got about 200 officers from across the country who are coming to assist us for a week.

Their supervisors are down for the big briefing, which is taking place this afternoon down at Gravesend. And at that briefing, again in recognition of some of the recommendations, we’ve actually got representatives from Climate Camp at that briefing. We’ve got representatives from the NUJ at that briefing. Again, not just being there, but giving actual input into the briefing, about what their views and their expectations are.

In total, on an average day I think we’ve got around 500 officers to police Climate Camp. That is over the whole 24-hour period. That’s not at one time because we’ve got to cover the whole 24 hours.

The style of policing for the camp is going to be a neighbourhood style of policing. That’s what we’ve adopted in the past with a small neighbourhood team trying to look after it on the periphery.

Bulletin 0000001405 20 August 2009

Published: August 23, 2009 17:06 by i

FROM: http://climatecamp.org.uk/blog/2009/08/20/open-letter-to-the-met
(See original for more links within text)

Open Letter to the Met

August 20, 2009

Open Letter FAO Chief Superintendent Ian Thomas,
New Scotland Yard
London SW1H 0BG

Dear Chief Superintendent Thomas,

On August 17th, you wrote to the Camp for Climate Action, requesting further information on the location of our next Camp, which will take place from August 27th to September 2nd, somewhere in the London area. You say that you require this information in order to help with “community liaison”, to ensure the Camp is a “safe and healthy” event, and to help you put a “pre-planned and proportionate policing operation” in place. We are writing this open letter in order to alleviate your concerns, and to make our position clear both to yourself and to the public.

Community liaison has been a vital part of every Climate Camp. At Drax in 2006, Heathrow in 2007 and Kingsnorth in 2008, we put a lot of time and effort into spending time with local residents and allaying people’s concerns, and this year will be no different. We have a good track record of building community support for the Camp and for climate change campaigning, we’ve already been in touch with local Councils across London, and our friendly outreach volunteers will be chatting to the locals from the moment we arrive on site. We plan to be excellent neighbours for as long as we’re there, we’ll be open and welcoming to any local residents with questions or concerns, and we’ll leave the site spotless when it’s time to go.

As regards health and safety – thanks for your concern, but again we’ve got it under control. As with previous Camps, we’ll have great food, water, compost toilets, a team of medics, a wellbeing space, excellent on-site communication, emergency vehicle access, and a family space. We also have a “Safer Spaces” policy and a “Tranquillity Team” to help keep the site free from oppressive behaviour or aggro. Anyone who’s spent time at past Camps will tell you how friendly and safe the atmosphere is – better than most mainstream festivals.

Of course, there is one unfortunate exception to all of this. While most visitors to previous Camps have had an inspiring and positive experience, some of us have had to suffer violence (1), intimidation (2), theft (3), sleep deprivation (4) and harassment (5), thanks to past examples of “pre-planned and proportionate policing operations”. Local communities have been disrupted by police road closures and indiscriminate stops-and-searches. Members of the public have been attacked with batons or arrested on trumped-up charges simply for standing on the perimeter of a campsite (nearly all of them have now been acquitted or had their charges dropped). Judging from past experience, the best thing the police could do to ensure the health and safety of the public at Climate Camp 2009 would be to stay as far away from it as possible.

Bearing all of this in mind, I hope that you, and the public, understand why we don’t feel able to reveal the precise location of the Camp at this time. Every other aspect of the Camp has been organised in an open, accountable and democratic way, via monthly public meetings. The only secret is the location. There’s a simple reason for this: I’m afraid we just don’t trust the police. Why? Because it seems as though every time we have a protest, the police turn up and start hitting people. Look what happened at the G20. That’s not really a very good way to win people over.

Just because you’ve started using friendlier language and talking about “lighter-touch” policing, do you really think we’re suddenly going to believe you’re our friends? Just a few weeks back the Big Green Gathering was shut down by the police on spurious grounds, for “political” reasons. If the police are really trying to build up trust within the climate action movement, then that’s a funny way to go about it.

The precise location of the Camp for Climate Action 2009 will be announced via mass text as part of the exciting August 26th “Swoop”. I’m afraid you’ll just have to sign up on our website, and wait for the updates just like everybody else!

Yours sincerely,

The Camp for Climate Action Media Team

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(1) http://climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/working-groups/legal/g20_report.pdf
(2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dVmate9RGY
(3) http://climatecamp.org.uk/get-involved/working-groups/legal/Kingsnorth_Policing_Report.pdf
(4) http://blip.tv/file/1869048
(5) http://www.youtube.com/profile_video_blog?user=uklegalobserver

Published: August 24, 2009 15:35 by meep

Open Letter to MET video:
http://climatecamp.tv
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gKRl5lsPOA

Published: August 24, 2009 15:37 by mhor

Climate demo police 'not trusted'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8213644.stm

Climate camp protesters refuse to tell 'violent' police of next site
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23735218-details/Climate+camp+protesters+refuse+to+tell+'violent'+police+of+next+site/article.do

'The best thing the police could do is stay away'
http://www.politics.co.uk/feature/policing-and-crime/-the-best-thing-the-police-could-do-is-stay-away--$1320182.htm

Published: August 24, 2009 15:39 by from uk wire

Report from Last Week's Meeting Between Police and the Camp for Climate Action

Perleece Leeyayzon | 24.08.2009 09:36
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/08/436729.html

Last Thursday, the Camp for Climate Action Police Liaison Team spoke at a "briefing afternoon", at the Metropolitan Police's Training Centre in Gravesend. Why did they do this, and what on Earth could they possibly say to the police? Simon Stanley was at the scene...

Let's be frank. It's a weird task to take on. One day you're doing your best to avoid the cops as you try to invade a power station / airport / corporate HQ. The next day, you choose to sit down in a room full of police. Why?

This isn't just an idle question – many people within the climate movement have suffered terrible treatment at the hands of the police, and are understandably concerned about meetings between cops and Campers. Meanwhile, the recent rapid pace of events has made it hard to keep track of what meetings are going on with the police, and why. This article is an attempt to clear things up a bit, to explain why last week's meeting happened, and what we think it achieved.

The main part of the Police Liaison Team's remit is to gather information first-hand about likely police tactics, strategy, personnel and attitude. However, the group has another important role as well: to give the Camp credibility in the eyes of the public.

Those of us who've had a lot of dealings with the police know how little we can trust them, but many of the public haven't had that experience. If we refuse to talk to the police, then a lot of people will (rightly or wrongly) think we're being unreasonable and so be less likely to get involved with the Camp.

Meeting with the cops also gives the Climate Camp a "human face" and might make some officers be a tiny bit less brutal towards us (we have no definite proof of this, though). And of course, each meeting brings us one step closer to the day when the underpaid officers at the Camp gates suddenly decide to lay down their truncheons, take off their riot gear, stick two fingers up at Gold Command and join us in building a beautiful eco-anarchist utopia. Possibly.

The Police Liaison volunteers aren't "representatives" of the Camp – they don't negotiate with the police, make any concessions to them, or give them any information that they wouldn't have found out anyway. In previous years, this has been a slightly frustrating, often uncomfortable, but nonetheless important job.

This year, however, things have gone a bit weird.

Thanks to the police getting caught in the act at the G20 protests, and the serious of vaguely critical official reports that followed, there has been unprecedented media interest in any meetings between the Camp and the police. The cops are on the back foot and are desperately trying to repair their image, and so rather than fobbing us off until the last minute, they are falling over themselves to drag us into meetings. It's pretty bizarre stuff – and it's not without its dangers.

From their quotes in this recent Guardian article [ http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/aug/18/met-police-climate-camp-twitter], it seems the cops are keen to say "look, we're even having meetings with the protesters, aren't we nice!". There's a real risk that by agreeing to these meetings, we might be unintentionally helping out the police with their propaganda – which is why we worked together with the Camp's media team on an Open Letter To The Met [ http://climatecamp.org.uk/blog/2009/08/20/open-letter-to-the-met] to make the Camp's position VERY clear. While in the short term the idea that the police are going to be all cuddly this time round may help to get more people to the London Camp, in the long term it could be very dangerous. If the public and the media decide the police have mended their ways, then their interest will soon wander, leaving the cops free to get the batons out again.

Meanwhile, we aren't the only ones being harassed by the police. That's why the Camp's Legal Team have been building connections with other activist groups including Fitwatch and London Defence and Monitoring, as well as organisations representing migrant communities, the Campaign Against Criminalising Communities, the Muslim prisoner support group and the Newham Monitoring Project. Plans are afoot to get funding for a new umbrella group to keep monitoring the police and holding them to account – wherever and whenever they might operate.

Let's not forget: the police's job is to enforce laws which defend the status quo, protect the wealthy and the powerful, and stand in the way of social change. This has been their role throughout history, and not just within the UK. Meanwhile, we're trying to build a movement to create massive social change by directly confronting the Government and wealthy, powerful, polluting corporations. This doesn't make it very likely that the police are ever going to be our friends.

However, one thing that CAN change is the tactics available to the cops – the exact level of violence and intimidation that they're allowed to get away with. It would be lovely to believe that we might influence this just by having meetings with the police. Sadly, experience shows that the only thing that really works is forcing them to change by exposing their tactics to the world. It's annoying that we have to do this – we'd much rather spend the time on climate action – but if we don't, then things will only get worse.

We'd like to reassure the rest of the climate movement that the Police Liaison team fully understand all of this, and that we are also actively challenging attempts by the police (and the media) to separate our movement into “good” and “bad” protesters. We've done our best to explain this at Gatherings and on email lists, and we're sorry if it hasn't been totally clear! If you have any concerns or suggestions about the work we're doing, please get in touch with us – or better yet, come and join the Police Liaison team and get involved yourself.

So it was with all this in mind that I stood up in front of a crowd of seventy police officers on Thursday afternoon, and explained to them why the Climate Camp was happening, how non-hierarchical decision-making worked, and what this year's Camp will probably look like. I then described what it was like to be charged by a line of riot cops for no discernible reason, to watch your friends being beaten over the head and arrested on meaningless charges, to see people in front of you being pepper-sprayed in the face, and to know you have to stand your ground anyway with your hands in the air because the alternative is to let a beautiful Camp be trampled under their steel-toecapped boots. They listened, in silence. It was one of the weirdest things I've ever done in my life. Whether or not it will make any difference, I really couldn't say; but it felt oddly liberating all the same.

Next, we got to hear the police's pre-Camp strategy briefings first-hand. Then they took us on a tour of the place where they train riot police, a kind of “Riotland” theme park with a life-sized fake Council estate, tube station and sports stadium...but no, that was far too strange to have really happened. It must have been a bizarre dream.

The Camp's Police Liaison and Legal Team are always looking for volunteers to help with their increasingly surreal remit – if you want to help out, contact legal@climatecamp.org.uk!

Perleece Leeyayzon
- e-mail: legal@climatecamp.org.uk

Published: August 24, 2009 17:44 by infos

Operation Bentham Policing Guide

Here’s our best info at present on the cops plan for climate camp. As always things can change and we may have errors in our admittedly scant intelligence operation.

Firstly the camp is on the same Bank Holiday weekend as the Notting Hill Carnival. This will be a bigger operation with 11,500 shifts planned and Commander Broadhurst as Gold with Chief Superintendant Johnson (head of the TSG) as Silver. As the poor relation Climate Camp gets Chief Superintendant Ian Thomas (head of CO11) as Gold and Superintendant Julia Pendry as Silver. Pendry is a full timer at CO11 and is best known for being in charge during on the Gaza demo in January when people were crushed in an underpass by baton charging cops at Hyde Park Corner. The Bronze for the Site will be Chief Inspector Jane Connors, Bronze Reserves East Superintendant David Hartshorn (famed for starting the “summer of rage” stories in a press conference), Bronze Reserves West Superintendant Colin Morgan and Bronze for City Police Chief Inspector Tony Kearny. Chief Inspector Dean Higgins will be the Night Duty Silver.

By some oversight we weren’t given the operational order with ! the number of cops available. However with round 60 Inspectors or their deputies attending the briefing that climate camp police liaison were invited too we can expect that number of serials and a total of 1500 cops over the week. For the first time in at least 30 years the Met has asked for Mutual Aid (no, not the Kropotkin type) from other forces. Kent, West Mercia and Cumbria are supplying officers. The forward rendezvous point is the Royal Business Park north of Royal Albert Dock at 2pm Wednesday 26th August so they may well be staying in the Excel complex, ironic eh?

As to use of powers, Pendry’s briefing ruled out use of Section 50 Police Reform Act to gather names and s58A Terrorism Act taking photographs of police officers is only to be used where there is a clear link to terrorism, so that’s out too. Stop and search is to be kept to s1 PACE and s23 Misuse of Drugs Act but only where reasonable suspicion arises and is “not to be overused”. Knives are a target including those for use in cooking if not brought in vehicles. Section 44 searches will not be used on the camp neither will s60’s if they are already in place where the camp is set up. Any s60 for the camp is only to be authorised by Pendry not inspectors on the ground. Use of s12 & s14 to impose conditions on Marches or Assemblies are only to be done on the authority of Bronze’s. During the swoop potential criminal damage offences are to be monitored by FIT and Evidence Gatherers with authority to arrest reserved to the Bronze’s. Containment remains on the agenda.

All supervisors were warned repeatedly that it is the “era of the citizen journalist and to JAR (Justify Account for and Record) their actions. Let’s see what it’s like in practice. Be careful out there!

Published: August 30, 2009 21:48 by update

CO11MetPolice announce the removal of the mobile police station near camp saying it's not needed.

Marc Vallee reports being assaulted outside camp:

Published: September 01, 2009 20:28 by let's see

Met promises to repeat low-key Climate Camp policing at future demonstrations
Paul Lewis
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/sep/01/metropolitan-police-climate-camp-tactics

Scotland Yard said tonight the model of policing used at Climate Camp, the week-long gathering of environmental activists that ends tomorrow, was a "really successful" approach that would be repeated at future demonstrations.

Chief Superintendant Helen Ball, a spokeswoman for policing at the campsite in Blackheath, south-east London, said neighbourhood-style tactics which included a "low-key" presence, limited surveillance of activists and almost no use of stop-and-search powers proved the Met had changed its approach since the G20 protests in April. The tactic is likely to be repeated at future demonstrations, she said, noting there had been just one arrest in seven days. "Where the opportunity arises to adopt a similar policing style in the future, we will do that."

The Met's six-day policing operation at the camp was in stark contrast to the way the force handled the April demonstrations, when many of the same protesters were "kettled" and charged with batons as they were forcibly cleared from Bishopsgate, central London, which they intended to occupy for one night.

Ball said the approach was "not an accident", but designed to build trust with activists after the G20 that would be repeated at future demonstrations. Organisers of the camp, which will end tomorrow as activists dismantle the site, which has been used as a model for sustainable living and training camp for activism, said more than 5,000 people took part in direct training workshops and discussion about global warming.

Some said the barely visible police presence meant a greater attendance from people who would have otherwise have been nervous about participating.

The decision not to use stop-and- searches was in complete contrast to last year's camp at Kingsnorth power station, in Kent, where there was blanket use of the powers.

But activists were cautious about welcoming the Met's change in stance. "We're not going to be grateful to the police for not assaulting us and not trampling over our civil liberties like they did at Kingsnorth," said Tracy Lane, from the camp's media team. "The fact they maintained a low-key presence at this event doesn't mean any long-term, substantial change in the policing of protest."

Climate Camp was used to prepare for a "mass action" against Nottinghamshire's Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station in October andlaunched a series of smaller protests across the City yesterday. Protesters glued themselves to the headquarters of RBS and superglued themselves naked to the officers of Edelman PR, which represents the energy company E.ON. Friction did arise when Superintendant Julia Pendry entered the camp on the first day to talk to campers. She is understood to have wanted access to the camp, but agreed to backed down and all other meetings with between police and campers were held outside the perimeter fence.

Officers did keep watch of the camp via CCTV cameras erected on a nearby crane. The force used its newly-activated Twitter account to dispell the as rumour that the cameras had directional microphones. Another Twitter message informed campers that a mobile police station parked had been closed "as there is no demand for it".

Published: September 01, 2009 21:05 by imcist@

the above article could ideally have been posted as other media link, see: https://london.indymedia.org/other_medias/promoted