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.

Martin Legassick, one of South Africa's most internationally renown academics and certainly the grand old man of the left, takes a public position in support of the land invasion by Abahlali baseMjondolo that has rocked Cape Town.

On 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent the mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook via charter flight. Six activists locked themselves together, using glass and plastic arm tubes attached to heavy concrete barrels. The blockade lasted for over four hours, after which three coaches carrying the deportees left for an undisclosed airport. All six were arrested (two quite violently) for obstruction of the highway.

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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Background: Ricky Bishop | Injustice Film

Previous coverage: Ian Tomlinson | callout  Campaigns: FITWatch | UCaPV

Short film about the Boycott Israeli Settlement Produce Action which took place at the Tesco Kensington store on Sunday 17th May 2009..

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the London & Brighton, corner of Asylum Road and Queen's Road Peckham, SE15 (check flier for map)

* Assemble 11.00 a.m. Saturday May 23rd Highbury Fields, N1.
* Demonstrate & March
* from Highbury Fields to rally in Archway Park

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featuring the amazing victory won by ex-Ford workers at Visteon! After factory occupations and the threat to picket out workers at Ford's state of the art plant at Bridgend, Visteon and Ford were forced back to the negotiating table - where they conceded a redundancy package better than the Fords package the workers were demanding. This will make it the biggest redundancy package ever paid out by Fords anywhere!

At 16:00 this Monday afternoon (18th), Tamil protestors broke through the police barriers around Parliament Square and have once again blockaded Parliament. Traffic is being diverted away from the square. Although there were many police present, they were apparently taken off guard.

See full article for the timeline of events.

Photos: [1] Previous coverage: 17 May | 15 May |

Parliament Square.

On Sunday 17th a group of Londoners joined in protest against the sale by British supermarkets of Israeli goods and produce from illegal Israeli colonial settlements in the West Bank. The action took place in a West London Tesco. The group assembled around a trolley full of goods labelled 'produce of Israel', explaining the issues around the sale of Israeli goods to the public, alternating facts and chants, drawing the attention of both customers and staff. See video of the action.

The action was entirely peaceful and protesters left of their own accord, however two participants were arrested by the police, and later bailed return to the police station at a later date.

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change
The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change. 

as more news gets out that the 'safe zone' in sri lanka is a mass of flames, tamils gathered in parliament square this morning with black flags

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Demonstrate: Support London Metropolitan University students occupation at Commercial Rd, 5.30pm today!

From UCU and UNISON's Save London Met campaign committee:

Students in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design have occupied rooms in Commercial Rd in protest at the proposed cuts to staff. We understand that they are demanding that Management drop the proposals to make staff redundant and that managers come to explain to students what is happening.

St Paul's Church Hall

Rectory Grove 

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near Clapham Common 

SATURDAY 9TH MAY LONDON L&S PRESENTS:
BBQ BENEFIT PARTY FOR FORD VISTEON WORKERS
1PM TIL LATE @ Freedom Centre

As Black Flag brings out it's May 2009 issue, we proudly present all three of the pre-2009 issues produced by the current collective, for free download from the libcom website.

On Saturday 2nd May 2009, protestlondon.co.uk held a protest announcing calls for a declassification on Cannabis Laws, outside the gates of Downing Street, Whitehall. Earlier this year on January 2009 the drug was reclassified back to Class B from its previous Class C status.  The protest, voiced on the de classification of the drug, with the laws making it possible for up to a maximum of 5 years if caught in possession with the substance. 

The International Solidarity Movement is issuing a call-out for internationals to volunteer as field activists and office workers in the West Bank, Gaza, and occupied East Jerusalem this summer.

Met Police Chiefs Heckled and Jeered - Sir Paul Stephenson LIES to the public

These 3,609 new laws are here to control us, not protect us...........

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Close to Whitechapel/Aldgate East, map http://tinyurl.com/3hfp2a

rampART, 15 Rampart Street, off Commercial Rd, Shadwell E1 2LA
Close to Whitechapel/Aldgate East, map http://tinyurl.com/3hfp2a

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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