The 2011 London Riots

The riots continue in London and surrounding areas for a third night.

"Fires, riots and looting spread across London." -- BBC

Large Sony distribution center burning out of control

Source: London indymedia "Tumbles"

I found this on New Statesman. -Rick

Sean Gittins
Published 29 May 2011
The anti-cuts group stages its largest protest since the March for the Alternative.

http://www.newstatesman.com/2011/05/protest-group-actions-camden

The protest group, UK Uncut, yesterday hosted 40 direct actions across the country - the most significant number the group has made since many of its members were arrested outside Fortnum and Mason on the March 26th March for the Alternative. Yesterday's actions were subtitled the "Emergency Operation" on the group's website and were directed against the Coalition's wavering reforms of the NHS headed by Andrew Lansley.

Leaked documents show how three large British companies have been paying private security firm to monitor activists

Rob Evans and Paul Lewis
guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 February 2011

Protesters at Ratcliffe-on Soar power station, operated by E.ON, which says it has hired security firms to gather information on climate activists. Photograph: Tom Pilston
Three large energy companies have been carrying out covert intelligence-gathering operations on environmental activists, the Guardian can reveal.

The energy giant E.ON, Britain's second-biggest coal producer Scottish Resources Group and Scottish Power, one of the UK's largest electricity-generators, have been paying for the services of a private security firm that has been secretly monitoring activists.

http://www.wavemagazine.net/culture/black-international-cinema-berlin.htm
International, Intercultural Diplomacy undertakings in Berlin Germany & elsewhere.
....And Still We Rise....

Britain Told to Stop "Stop and Search"
Oread Daily http://oreaddaily.blogspot.com/

Well now. How will the British respond to the European Court of Human Rights ruling that Britain's stop and search policies in the six counties of northern Ireland are illegal and a violation of human rights. I'll tell you how. They'll ignore it. AFP reports reacting to the ruling, London's Metropolitan Police said that, as the British government is seeking to appeal the ruling, Section 44 "remains in force in specified locations across London". I'd guess that would apply to the occupied north of Ireland as well.

The signs up all over the airport and various places elsewhere in town
are calling it Hopenhagen, but everybody I know is calling it
Cop-enhagen, which seems far more appropriate. The international media
has been giving this lots of coverage, and rightly so. Of course much
of the media is unable to walk and chew gum at the same time, so other
things, such as the reason the protests are happening in the first
place, can get lost.

Inside the Bella Center lots of stuff is going on. Namely the US,
Australia and others leading the way in making sure nothing meaningful
takes place there, while many other delegates and activists within try
to make the best of it, or at least make the effort to thoroughly

No Deportations to Iraq
Release the Hunger Strikers Now

Demonstrate at the Home Office
2 Marsham Street, London, SW1P 4DF
Nearest tubes: Westminster, Victoria

Monday, 26th Oct, 4:30-6:30pm

Iraqi refugees locked up in Brook House and Colnbrook detention centres are on hunger strike since Monday, 19th  October, to protest against their inhumane treatment and  demand their immediate release. The hunger strikers include some of those who were forcibly deported to Baghdad in the first mass deportation to southern Iraq last week but were returned to the UK after the Iraqi authorities refused to accept them, as well as some who have just been given 'removal directions' to Iraqi Kurdistan (northern

June 18, 2009 TVNZ

More than 100,000 university students, children, and teachers took to the streets in cities across Germany to protest at an educational system they called underfunded and unfair.

Activists blocked the entrances to university buildings, occupied administrative offices, and marched in protest parades in cities including Berlin and Munich, as well as in university towns such as Heidelberg and Goettingen.

Libcom.org June 16, 2009

Strikes at the Lindsey oil refinery in North Lincolshire entered their third day today as talks between business leaders and employees broke down.

The unofficial strike action began at Lindsey Oil Refinery on Saturday as in protest over the loss of 51 jobs, cut by a sub-contractor while another employer on the site was hiring workers.

May 22 2009 Libcom.org

Extended clashes broke out in Athens on Friday 22/5, during the second protest march in two days against police racism, after a cop tore the Koran and brutalised Muslims during anti-immigrant sweeping operations. During the clashes many protesters were injured arrested and hospitalised.

May 16, 2009

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russian police arrested about 40 people at a gay rights protest Saturday just hours before the Eurovision Song Contest final was to start in Moscow.

Protest organisers called for musicians to show solidarity by boycotting the contest, which Russia is hosting for the first time this year.

Infoshop News April 27, 2009

As the right-wing government in Athens has revealed its proposed
anti-anarchist legislation amidst procedures of impeachment that may
lead to immediate elections, anarchists, antiauthoritarians,
libertarians and the entire spectrum of the social antagonistic
movement is stepping up its response to State repression by holding a
series of cross-country protest marches in solidarity to political and
residential squats that have come under fire by the general persecutor
of the country, Mr. Sanidas, who, besides being notorious for having
built his career through right-wing support for his services at

Libcom.org April 24, 2009

Parents have occupied the roof of a South London primary school in a bid to keep it open.

On the morning of April 23rd, parents of children at Lewisham Bridge Primary School, Elmira Street, Lewisham, occupied the roof of the school buildings. They are protesting against Lewisham Council's decision to demolish the school and replace it with a new school run by a private company for ages 3 through to 16. The school is currently closed and the pupils have to arrive an hour early to be bussed to a vacant site in New Cross. This means a very long day for the children.

Libcom.org April 10, 2009

A report and audio recordings of the rally of hundreds of supporters of the Ford Visteon workers occupying their plant against their redundancies with no pay.

Over 200 people marched today from Andersonstown to the factory in Finachy for a rally, which was addressed by Unite Shop Stewards Charlie Maxwell and John Maxwell, including representatives from the SDLP and Sinn Fein.