tamil protesters are leaving parliament square tonight and are calling for support on their march on saturday. a call-out has been put together by members of various supporting organisations.

Our revised list of demands (unfortunately our computer had a trojan horse which meant we lost the document that we had worked hard on to word water tight so had to re-write it again late last night. We hope the school take it on face value based on the general gist and dont conitune to provaricate over the odd incorrectly worded statement.)

This morning the school responded by saying no to all of them except number

Dateline: theguardian CLIMATE CHANGE SUMMIT 2009, Hotel Russell, London, UK, 08:30-09:30, Mon 15 Jun 09 – Despite climate criminal corporation E.ON’s efforts to bag billions of quid from the British State to build new filthy dirty coal fired power stations at Kingsnorth, north Kent and elsewhere, the Guardian still took its polluted money in sponsoring its Climate Change Summit. Whatever next?

• theguardian MULTICULTURAL SUMMIT 2009, sponsored by the BNP?
• theguardian GEOGRAPHY SUMMIT 2009, sponsored by the Flat Earth Society?
• theguardian ABORTION RIGHTS SUMMIT 2009, sponsored by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children?

The Greenwash Guerillas, London Brigade, Detection Platoon #1 could not let this obscenity go un-protested!

SOAS directors office occupied to demand release of 9 cleaners! Rally called for 4.30pm today‏

DEMONSTRATION Monday 15th June at 8.30am on SOAS Steps. Please bring banners and other visual, audio aids.

We denounce the actions of the school and demand that academic institutions should not be complicit in assisting the Government in implementing their racist immigration programme. We find this particularly disgraceful given SOAS’s attempt to shake the reputation leftover from its colonial past. SOAS cannot lecture other countries about oppression when it complies in programmes such as this.

On Friday 12th, SOAS University was raided by immigrantion police, who rounded up several cleaners employed by ISS contractors amidst threats of immediate deportation. The detained persons are held at Old Street and Borough Immigration Centre and are set to be deported on Monday. SOAS staff and students have condemned the raids in a press release.

Updates Monday morning: A demonstration has taken place at SOAS at 8.30am, and another one has been called for the afternoon at 4.30pm, whilst the SOAS directors office has been occupied to demand the release of the 9 cleaners arrested on Friday.

Updates Friday eve: Following a call for solidarity, more than 100 people assembled at the steps of SOAS in the afternoon in an open assembly to discuss a response to the morning's raid, whilst a group of people made their way to Communications House to try and make contact with those detained. There are also reports that one detainee is set to be deported tonight, and the rest on Monday.

Call Out | Free SOAS Cleaners blog | Living Wage Campaign | Justice for Cleaners Campaign

Over 100 people show up on the steps of SAOS for a solidarity meeting

At 6.30am on Friday the 12th June, ISS (the company who contracts SOAS’ cleaning staff) called a meeting for all SOAS cleaners. Within minutes the meeting was raided by approximately 40 immigration police, who detained all cleaners and arrested 9 people accused of working without proper documentation. These 9 people are now on fast-track to be deported from the UK.

Without any advance warning from their ISS bosses nor the university management, SOAS cleaning staff were confronted by a hefty team of immigration officers at 6.30am this morning (Friday 12 June). Fearful cleaners were detained on SOAS premises as the officers demanded to see their papers. Some were taken into rooms of the university to be interviewed. A shocked witness said that someone had to intervene when a heavily-pregnant cleaner was being manhandled by immigration officers. Nine cleaners were taken away by Immigration Officers.

The main doors at Shells headquarters were closed to staff at 9am today, 12 June as protesters dressed as ‘thugs' turned up for a job interview. Shell security locked all doors as protesters tried to enter the building for what they said was a job interview "we hear Shell are hiring thugs to sink ships in Ireland".

For more information on this campaign see IMC-UK feature Rossport resistance intensifies ahead of arival of Solitaire.

This morning at 8, SOAS University was raided by Immigration police who rounded up 9 of our cleaners and are threatening to deport them tonight.

We have fought hard with the cleaners to get them union representation and a decent wage (which we have now got). many of them have been working here for years, and have their whole lives here in london..

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From the Lasthours blog:

Julien Coupat of the Tarnac 9 (see http://www.lasthours.org.uk/news/the-story-of-the-tarnac-9/) was finally released last week after being held for more than 6 months. The investigation against him for sabotaging high-speed train lines and organised, terrorism-related destruction of property continues.

See: http://www.lasthours.org.uk/news/julien-coupat-of-the-tarnac-9-released/

The Grosvenor, Sidney road, Stockwell, London SW9 OTP

From Democracy Now:

The oil giant Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to pay a $15.5 million settlement to avoid a trial over its alleged involvement in human rights violations in the Niger Delta. The case was brought on behalf of ten plaintiffs who accused Shell of complicity in the 1995 executions of Nigerian writer and environmentalist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others. We speak to Ken Wiwa, the son of Ken Saro-Wiwa, and attorney Judith Brown Chomsky.

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/6/9/shell_to_pay_out_155_million

From the BBC website:

Six Metropolitan Police officers have been suspended or placed on restricted duties following allegations of ill-treatment after a police raid.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8092417.stm

From the BBC website:

Three terror suspects on control orders have unanimously won a major ruling over the use of secret evidence.

See: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/8092763.stm

Lecture Theatre 106, First Floor, Roberts Building, UCL, Torrington Place (opposite Waterstones, Malet Street).

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and evictions, ecological issues (and their co-optation), militant squatting for housing, workplace and school occupations, and hundreds of other tactics for self-organized trouble-making during a time of crisis. 

There was a major intervention by a group of anarcha-feminists during the conference plenary, featuring a video (on youtube) projection calling out the sexists in the movement for the hypocrisy and stupidity of their political attitudes.

Conference: Read more | Callout | Interview with organisers | Conference Website | Short Report | Anarcha-feminists take action

Issues:  Two days of discussion | Does your mum know you're an anarchist? | A Critique of Anarcho-sexism | Why Indymedia Sucks

Dateline: Bank of England, London, UK, 12:30, Thu 04 Jun 09 – Marking the 20th anniversary of the massacre of thousands of our brother and sister students and workers by the Chinese State’s “People's Liberation Army” (ironic killing joke unintended) in and around Tiananmen Square on 04 June 1989, the CIRCUS of TIANANMEN links the ongoing exploitation of Wage Slaves by the Banksters of England and China with the wholesale industrial-scale slaughter of those who would challenge the exploiters' power over us.

Police detained Maria Gallestegui (from peacestrike.org) for 24 hours after her arrest yesterday evening for waving the Tamil Eelam homeland flag at Parliament Square.

Maria has finally just been released from Belgravia police station after being held for 24 hours for waving a flag that a week ago we were categorically told on film was not proscribed and so she couldn't be 'processed' or arrested.

This marks a serious turn in a farcical story that has been developing since last week. (full report here)

A Demo against Starbucks by the Space Hijackers (www.spacehijackers.co.uk) and The Reverend Billy (www.revbilly.com) in the form of a mock funeral. Sunday 31st May 2009

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND
• Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map
• Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising
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To understand these people is to feel their fears and walk in a forest of unknown things. This film is about rural white South Africans addressing their fears of crime, violence and black people.

Some are well resourced while others are ingeniously resourceful. The consequences are regression and isolation or freedom from fear. Like crocodiles, these people have been left to evolve according to their own laws and devices.

The completed feature length documentary will be available after September 2009 with plans for international broadcast in time for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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police have been arresting tamils waving their national flag in parliament square. yesterday, maria (peacestrike.org.uk) tested the legality of this by standing outside new scotland yard and arguing it out on film when confronted by officers. this story is regularly updated as news develops.

when is a flag a terrorist flag? the answer, it seems, depends on who and where you are! if you are a tamil student peacefully demonstrating in parliament square, it is, and you get arrested. if you are tony benn mp and you are in parliament square, you get photographed but not arrested. if you stand outside new scotland yard and challenge the police to arrest you, suddenly it magically becomes the tamil eelam national flag and is NOT proscribed. murky goings-on at parliament square.

Dateline: London, UK, 15:00 Sat 23 May 09 – Hundreds of folks take to the streets to protest against police violence, naked brutality and killings in custody, on the United Campaign against Police Violence's first national demonstration – STOP POLICE VIOLENCE! KETTLE NEW SCOTLAND YARD!

Dateline: London, UK, Sat 23 May 09 – Economic meltdown for global capitalism, political meltdown in both Houses of Parliament, so Meltdown called a SACK PARLIAMENT! protest at short notice – and multi-Guy-Fawkes miscreants, Mister Mayhem, a Red Dragon and dozens of protesters, accompanied by Ian Bone on clown car horn, descended on the Palace of Westminster to blow the fetid, corrupt institution sky high... with GUNPOWDER!   

Movie of Defend The Right To Protest: Kettle Scotland Yard

Several hundred people protested at New Scotland Yard on Saturday afternoon under the 'against police violence' banner. They didn't manage to quite encircle the building, but held a powerful and empowering event which is part of a growing fight back against police state Britain.

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