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

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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

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Join the picket this Friday in Canary Wharf in solidarity with vicitmised cleaners campaigner Alberto Durango and against the use of immigration status to attack workers organising. Come along show your solidarity in protest at this victimisation of a leading trade union activist:

Lancaster Docklands Office
31 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way
London, E14 9XL
Meet 10.30am outside Canary Wharf UNDERGROUND exit

Join the picket this Friday in Canary Wharf in solidarity with vicitmised cleaners campaigner Alberto Durango and against the use of immigration status to attack workers organising. Come along show your solidarity in protest at this victimisation of a leading trade union activist:

Lancaster Docklands Office
31 Beaufort Court, Admirals Way
London, E14 9XL
Meet 10.30am outside Canary Wharf UNDERGROUND exit

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:

Seventy people demonstrated outside Communications House in London on Saturday afternoon (27 June 2009) in a protest organised by Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! in support of the SOAS workers who were detained there, the protesters at Yarls Wood and all migrants in struggle against Britain's racist immigration laws.

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.

Dateline: National Shop Stewards Network Conference 09, South Camden Community School, Charrington Street, London, UK, 11:00-15:30, Sat 27 Jun 09 – On a swelteringly hot summer Saturday, hundreds of trade union militants and their supporters converged for the third annual National Shop Stewards Network Conference (NSSN-09). Whilst celebrating our class’s recent victories at Lindsey Oil Refinery, Visteon, and Linamar, nevertheless – given “New” Labour’s utter and categorical capitulation to the bankers, bosses, and bomb manufacturers – the calls came thick and fast for the re-founding of a proletarian political party.

* UNISON members vote 71% in favour of strike action
* UCU members to take further strike action in coordination with UNISON
* 2nd July set for combined union day of action
* Pickets all morning set to close down London Met Uni for a day
* Rally at Lunchtime (with this space for details)

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3-5 Thorpe Close W10
Ladbroke Grove tube
Buses 7, 15, 23, 52, 70, 295

Call to action in solidarity with detainees at Yarl's Wood detention centre:

JUSTICE FOR THE SOAS 9

VICTORY TO THE HUNGER STRIKERS!

Two weeks after nine cleaners at SOAS were taken into detention, take action for justice for the SOAS 9 and in solidarity with detainees in Yarls' Wood on hunger strike for demands including: freeing children who are detained, denied adequate access to health care, quality food and real privacy. Hundreds of people in Yarls Wood are being denied the medical care they need including a woman with epilepsy and a 5 months' pregnant woman in the families' section. Families have been on hunger strike for over a week now and we need to show them our support!

Elmira Street
London
SE13 7BN

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

2A Belgraed Road Social Centre

Belgrade Road

Dalston

(off Stoke Newington High Street)

Bus stop: Princess May Road

Dateline: Royal Mail HQ, Unilever House, 100 Victoria Embankment, London, UK, 11:00-12:00, Fri 19 to Sat 20 Jun 09 – On the day of an opening skirmish in the class war, strikers organised in the Communications Workers Union (CWU) stage a London-wide 24 hour postal strike, and similar in several Scottish areas. Pickets at the massive London South Mail Centre report one extremely solid strike, the Brockley picket line is “almost a street party”, and strikers rally outside Royal Mail’s corporate headquarters – to leave chief executive Adam Crozier and his boss-class cronies in no doubt that if you pick a fight with the posties, there’s a very good chance you’re gonna lose.

14th - 21st June 2009 represents the ninth international Refugee Week - the run up to World Refugee Day, held on June 20th each year.

This year's Refugee Week featured a number of events, from the 'Celebrating sanctuary' festival on the South Bank, and various sporting events featuring refugee teams, to the 'Still Human, still here' demonstration on World Refugee day itself.

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

Room SGO1

College of Law

14 Store Street

WC1

(Goodge Street Station)

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

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.

A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.

A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.

A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.

A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency. The detainees started the hunger strike on Monday and staged a sit-in in the corridor over their inhumane conditions.

A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

A mass hunger strike by families detained at Yarl's Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire has been met with violent assaults on men, women and children by Serco security guards who mange the prison on behalf on the UK Border Agency.A solidarity protest outside Serco's offices in London (22 Hand Court, Holborn, WC1V 6JF) has been called by No Borders London in support of the Yarl's Wood hunger strikers on Friday, 19th June, from 12noon. Activists from the Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) gathered outside government offices in Newcastle on Wednesday to protest against racism and all immigration prisons.

Report and pics | Read full feature | See videos of London Solidarity action outside Serco Holborn offices on Friday, 19th June:  Speaker 1 | Speaker 2 | Graffitti outside Serco Holborn office | more graffitti | chanting

Trafalgar Square, London