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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 Subramaniyan is in the 21st day of his hunger strike, now joined by 2 young women - all vow to continue their protest until there is a permanent ceasefire.

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)

The City of London...Bank and Bishop's Gate.

Did the Met Police use Agent Provocateurs/ Police Agitators during the G20 Meltdown festival? While this may seem far-fetched to the casual observer, it is a commonly-used technique for "protest management" by riot police across the world. It provides the justification for heavy-handed retaliation by the police and media over-reaction. More importantly, those now charged with breaking and entering the RBS bank on 1st April are the innocent dupes of a morally corrupt police operation; a case of entrapment.

With all thats gone on in the media, Lord West speaks out in favour of the police tactics used on the G20 protests earlier this month.

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

The Library House
52 Knatchbull RdCamberwellNW1 8QS

School of Oriental and African Studies - Junior Common Room

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square

As Parliament was sitting again after having been absent from Westminster for Easter holidays, Tamil people and their supporters in London stepped up their protests on Monday 20th against the military onslaught in the Tamil areas of northern Sri Lanka. Thousands of people blocked Parliament Square for the whole day, whilst large numbers of police and riot TSG forces in standby-by kept a close eye.

By 20:30 in the evening thousands of people were still blocking the road outside Parliament. See updates and photos [1 | 2] Further potests are taking place on Wednesday 22nd. See photos and report.

Update Monday 27th March: Sri Lankan Embassy in London surrounded by Tamils.

Photo reports Saturday 11th Demo: 1 | 2

A report on how things went and what was achieved

tamils protesting en masse in parliament square - closed down parliament - TSG on stand-by

New video footage of police brutality has emerged filmed during the G20 protests. A man is struck in the head with a baton by police and subsequently arrested... His Crime? Sitting on the ground!!!

AID SHIP TO SAIL TO SRI LANKA, LOOKING FOR PASSENGERS TO DOCUMENT THE VOYAGE.

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

in a move reminiscent of the farcical GLA fences prior to nelson mandela's visit, and at the time of the burmese protests in summer 2007, the tamil protest in parliament square is being marginalised by the GLA and police while thousands die in sri lanka

Stratford Picturehouse is situated adjacent to the Theatre Royal on Gerry Raffles Square.

Stratford East Picturehouse
Salway Road

London E15 1BX

Tel: 0871 704 2066
Fax:
Email: stratfordeast@picturehouses.co.uk

New Scotland Yard, 8 -10 Broadway, SW1H 0BG

Reflections on the police raids of Rampart and the Convergence Centre during the G20 and the criminalisation of dissent. 

On the Thursday following the G20 protests, two squatted social centres in East London were raided by riot police, apparently looking for instigators of the attacks on the Royal Bank of Scotland. Click at the ´More´ link above for the full text.

Photos of the raids at rampART 1 , 2, 3  and Earl St Convergence Centre 1, 2, 3 | Corporate media vdeos 1 | 2

Memorial march for Ian Tomlinson

The police passed a new law that says that any person taking photographs of a police officer may be considered illegal and can face fines or imprisonment up to 10 years.

Some photos from the demo at Bank on Saturday 4 April against police brutality in the wake of the G20 policing and the death of Ian Tomlinson. Not to be confused with the somewhat larger demo this Saturday.

One Saturday April 12, 2009, there was a march in support of the Tamil struggle, in the centre of London. Here are a few pictures from the event.

Around four hundred people marched today from Bethnal Green Police station to Cornhill, where Ian Tomlinson died after being subjected to police violence at the G20 protests on the 1st of April.

Sri Lankan Government uses Chemical Weapons in Vanni (Northern part of Sri Lanka) Warfront

Starts at 1pm from Embankment
to Hyde Park
( Nearest stations: Embankment, Temple, Westminster)