The UN human rights instruments have excluded a number of rights which particularly affected the independent peoples (e.g. small business) and the most disadvantaged. They prevent the poor from helping themselves. It is apparent these rights were considered incompatible with neo liberalism and globalization. They constitute 'bottom-up' rights which the discontented will need to struggle for and have included in domestic and international human rights law. These rights also entail an ethical globalization which requires the State to immediately address core minimum obligations domestically and, if necessary, help other States achieve theirs.

Activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Lesquin (Lille, France). This action took place during the start of the No Border Camp in Calais, the 24th of June 2009, where an exagerated police force was summoned to avoid direct actions...

On April the 4, 2008, Moscow cops beat up and arrested seven young men near metro station Sokolniki in Moscow. Now one of them faces up to 5 years of prison.We ask you to support the Global Action Day in support of Seva Ostapov on July the 18th and carry out solidarity actions.

For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the dream.

On 19 April 1992 - Easter Sunday - Spiral Tribe, a self-described "rag-tag sound system group who came together driven by the will to keep the party going", who had been running free raves with a mobile rig across the UK since 1990, set up in a warehouse in Acton Lane, west London. To a packed house, they partied through the night. In the early hours, police officers from the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Support Group, a specialist division with duties including crowd control, surrounded the building. Those who tried to enter or leave had to face the TSG (the same group responsible for heavy-handed policing of crowds in the recent G20 demonstrations). According to witnesses at Acton Lane, some TSG were masked and had their ID numbers covered. The Spirals and partygoers barricaded the doors, but after a 10-hour stand-off, the police revved up a JCB and broke through the outer wall. Scores of ravers later alleged they were beaten in the dark of the warehouse; witnesses claim one pregnant woman was knocked to the ground. One man who tried to escape over the roof claimed to have been pushed; he fell two storeys breaking both arms and legs. No charges were brought. The next day a police helicopter escorted the Spiral Tribe convoy, 10 vehicles long, out of the London area.

Full Article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/jul/12/90s-spiral-tribe-free-parties

The brutal police treatment of Stonehenge festival-goers in 1985 marked a turning point in the suppression of civil liberties.

Exactly 24 years ago, in a field beside the A303 in Wiltshire, the might of Margaret Thatcher's militarised police descended on a convoy of new age travellers, green activists, anti-nuclear protestors and free festival-goers, who were en route to Stonehenge in an attempt to establish the 12th annual Stonehenge free festival in fields across the road from Britain's most famous ancient monument. That event has become known as the Battle of the Beanfield.

Full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jun/01/remembering-the-battle-of-the-beanfield

On 30th June 2009, anti-deportation campaigners held a demonstration outside Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire to protest against a mass deportation flight to Nigeria. Here is a short video of what happened.

For more details, see campaigners' press releases:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/433514.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/07/433563.html

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

We are asking the Prime Minister to ensure that NHS service provisions and funding arrangements for services for adults with ADHD are reviewed and revised urgently

The lying policeman - BBC Panorama footage edited with my Climate Camp G20 protests documentation... Complaints about police actions regarding the police's controversial "kettling" tactics to surround crowds. Two perspectives one of Asst Commissioner Chris Allison and the other of his officers on site who used "kettling" on the peaceful Climate Camp G20 protesters against orders to the contrary given by Chris Allison so we are led to believe, or were they doing "what they were told" ?????? ..!*F*$£

REPORT BACK FROM THE CALAIS NO BORDERS CAMP

No Borders campaigners, calling for freedom of movement for all people and an end to migration controls, culminated their week long camp in Calais (See SchNEWS 681) with a demonstration outside the city’s main port last Saturday. Over 2,000 people took to the streets against the increasingly tight border controls at the channel crossing, the bottleneck of Fortress Europe where many undocumented migrants - or ‘sans papier’, people without papers – risk their life for months, sometimes years, just to move from France to the UK.

Read full article: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6821.php

A liberated venue somewhere in London
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LATEST: Reclaim The Future 5 is GO

Call 07758119655 or 07729178836 tomorrow for location

Sat 5 sept...workshops start at 1pm then party til dawn

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Venue announced:

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)
London E1 4PE (map) opposite St Mary's university, just West of the Regent Canal, on the south side of Mile End Road

More news is emerging of just how dehumanising and brutal have been the effects of the immigration raids at SOAS organised by external contractor ISS shortly after the cleaners won union recognition and pay rises to the level of the London living wage.

One of the UNISON members picked up, who was traumatised by the clandestine nature of the raid and the appearance of around 40 officers in full body armour, arrived back in Bogota, 48 hours after the raid, wearing the same clothes she was arrested in and with 75 pence in her pocket. Disorientated and distressed, she was simply dumped in Bogota-hundreds of miles from her home town without any concern as to how she could get back to her family. Read more.

Previous features: SOAS Raided by Immigration Police | SOAS Students Occupy Director's Office
Related websites: Justice for SOAS cleaners blog

www.dissidentisland.org

Police floated imposter theory over Ian Tomlinson's death at G20 protests

• Relatives outraged at investigator's comment
• Claim shows inquiry bias, says campaign group

A senior police officer who investigated the death of Ian Tomlinson told his family that the officer who struck him at the G20 demonstrations could have been a member of the public "dressed in police uniform", it emerged last night.

The City of London police investigator made the comment at an emergency meeting with Tomlinson's family and the Independent Police Complaints Commission on 8 April, hours after the Guardian released footage showing the attack on the 47-year-old newspaper vendor.

Read full article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jun/30/ian-tomlinson-inquiry-g20-protests

FutureDateline: “Independent” Police Complaints Commission Headquarters, 90 High Holborn, London, UK, 16:00-18:00, Fri 10 Jul 09 – After 100 days since the death of Ian Tomlinson, the United Campaign against Police Violence intend to ‘Put the “Independent“ Police Complaints Commission on Trial!’ for its innumerable failings in allowing murdering coppers to remain at liberty.

In a bold occupation at 2.30 this morning, a woman from peacestrike.org.uk has converted the Parliament Square Churchill statue into a mock-up of a Sri Lankan death camp. She intends to stay there as long as possible to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians facing threat of starvation, rape, torture or murder. phone interview link below.

check back here for timeline updates later in the day

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On Friday June 26th antifascist activists pasted posters around the city center and at the university to express their solidarity with the russian antifascists affected by state repression. The text on the posters was:

Here there are links to two reports and first hand accounts published in IMC-UK of the Calais No Border Camp 2009, and the Transnational Demonstration for The Freedom of Movement, that took place in Calais city on Satuday 27 June.

Three metropolitan police officers are due to appear in court charged with perverting the course of justice. A man was arrested in January 2008 for possession of cannabis but charges were dropped when a digital voice recording was played raising question to the officers' statements. They are due to appear at Southwark crown court on August 17th 2009 for a five-day trial.

The anarchist media collective a-films has just published a new short film ("Two Years Under Siege"/10min) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon.

Elmira Street
London
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2 mins from Lewisham Station (overland from London Bridge, or DLR)

FitWatch activists at climate camp last year aggressively targetted by the police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/21/kingsnorth-protester-arrests-video-complaint

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AS SUSSEX POLICE RAID BRIGHTON FILM MAKER

Given the amount of aggro handed out to those brave enough to document Babylon’s excesses we wondered how long it was before we started getting our collars felt. Of course they’d need a task force to batter down the steel doors of the SchNEWS bunker - let alone take us alive - so Sussex Police took a more indirect route.

At approximately 8.30am on Tuesday 2nd June, Sussex cops arrived at the home of Paul Light, now revealed as one of the SchMOVIES collective. (For anyone thinking that SchNEWS was still stuck in the Dark Ages with just a scrappy sheet of A4, we’ve moved right into the twentieth century and have our own slightly estranged film-making department.) Paul’s arrest has wide ranging implications for anyone who reports on controversial issues. 

Read the full article here.

There was a huge turn-out for the Tamil march in London this afternoon. Police turned a blind eye to the hundreds of Tamil Eelam flags which were proudly displayed. The march was good-natured, though sombre and dignified.

Previous Features: Tamil Blockade at Parliament | Tamils Blockade Parliament Square Again | SOCPA, the tamils, and the grass | Held for 24 hours by police for flag-waving

Starts at 1pm from Hyde Park Corner - Park Lane
    (Nearest Stations: Hyde Park Corner / Marble Arch)
    Ends at Temple - Embankment
Mass Protest March to Save the Tamils which will leave 1pm for 1.30pm from Hyde Park Corner.

Meeting Point for Autonomous Block Tomorrow: Behind Cafe, Speakers Corner, Marble Arch, 1pm
converge from 12.30pm onwards til 1pm

In London the Met police have been rounding up and arresting children as young as ten who have committed no crime, for the purpose of getting their DNA on record. A FOI request has revealed that in 2008, police in the Camden area arrested and took DNA samples from 386 under-eighteens in a practice they describe as a “long-term crime prevention strategy”. This big fishing expedition will furnish the UK database on children with DNA records which will be held for six years or until the kid turns eighteen.

See full article here: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6793.php

Climate change activists have blocked the entrance to the Peruvian Embassy today in protest the country’s killing of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.

Up to 100 people have been killed in recent clashes over attempts to extract oil, gas, minerals and timber from the forest where indigenous people have lived for centuries. On June 5, the government's security forces attacked a peaceful blockade, leading to bloodshed on both sides with 30-100 estimated deaths, over 100 injuries and numerous disappearances.

Dateline: Housemans Bookshop, Kings Cross, London, UK, 17:00-18:30, Sat 13 Jun 09 – The International School for Bottom-up Organising stages an uplifting, engaging and inspiring book launch for it’s excellent debut publication: “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, featuring Latin American Polyphonic Singing, a Live Excerpt from the book, why we need A Maloka in Every Community, and Freedom Singing to finish off with. In a nutshell – Best. Book. Launch. EVER!!!

The SOAS occupation ended at 12.30pm on Wednesday, having achieved most of what such an action could have achieved. After several rounds of intense negotiations, the occupiers and the management reached an agreement in which the management agreed to all five demands put forward by the protesters, albeit in a not-very-committing way.

See report and the signed document in which the management promises to “review” the immigration raid and “discuss” the possibility of bringing cleaning services in-house and the “health and safety issues” relating to immigration raids on campus.