SchNEWS

FITwatch celebrate one year, and SchNEWS looks at the police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT), who have become a common sight at protests, and a campaign to resist them.

For being an artist... a man in Belfast gets arrests for carrying marker pens around at night - assuming he's a graffiti artist.

Racism from the top in the NHS, as the British govt makes it harder for immigrants and asylum seekers to get the free health care, something the rest of the population (are supposed to) enjoy - as well as a volunteer group set up to provide free health for those excluded.

There will be an international day of action against private equity firms, who anonymously shift huge piles of money behind the scenes, making a mint and avoiding tax along the way. Protests in London will focus on one such company, KKR.

The site of a proposed City Academy - the new privatised schools - in Wembley has been re-occupied with a tent city as the locals, teachers and students try to save the local recreation ground from being taken from the community.

Student's profane exam paper lends weight to accusations of dumbing down in schools

Critical Mass memorial rides for French activist killed on way to demo....

Indymedia newsletter out, animal activists arrested in Hereford, Chcken liberation and more...

Two years for stealing a dog....

London resident Binyam Mohamed still in Guantanamo after years of torture...

Fete against G8, Cowley Road carnival in Oxford, SHAC national demo and demo against E.ON...

What's in a name..?

Fox hunting is now banned in Britain. Yet hunting goes on, and hunt saboteurs become hunt monitors as they film and provide evidence that the illegal activity continues. One thing that has changed since the ban is protesters can't be arrested for 'aggravated trespass' - eg trespassing to interrupt a lawful activity, but now hunt monitors are being targeted in an high court injunction, under the Protection From Harassment Act.

Protesters blockade the depot of Carmel Agrexco, a company part owned by the Israeli government which imports produce grown illegally by Israelis on occupied Palestinian territory.

Some short bulletins from SchNEWS, including Derbyshire open-cast coal mine protest, Bath Bomb, Nerve, and Crap Arrest Of THe Week.

Survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, continue their struggle for justice after a 500 miles walk to the capital Delhi to speak with the Prime Minister, leading to actions and seven on indefinite hunger strike.

On the anniversary of the McLibel trial, activists hold a protest at a McDonalds branch in Cambridge, with one arrest.

Ten animal rights protesters have been held without charge for four weeks under anti-terror type laws. One, Dr Martin Balluch is on hunger strike.

A selection of the forthcoming dates in the SchNEWs 'Party & Protest' listings.

Plans are being made in San Francisco to commemmorate the presidency of George W Bush - they want to rename the local sewerage works after him.