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The “Dignified” Destruction of Calais Refugee “Jungle”
22/09/2009: At 8am in the morning some 600 CRS riot police moved on the Calais refugee “Jungle”, under the orders of French immigration minister Eric Besson, to destroy the camp and arrest all the remaining refugees.
The camp usually held up to 1500 people, but many had fled and [...]
Climate Camp Site Taken at Blackheath, Greenwich in London.
http://qik.com/climatecamp
http://twitpic.com/photos/climatecamp
http://www.youtube.com/user/climatelife
http://london.indymedia.org/articles/1978
On the 26 August 2009 hundreds of Climate activists converge on Blackheath in Greenwich for the set up of the 2009 London Climate Camp. Groups gathered at locations across the city for midday, awaiting instructions to be sent by SMS which led them in stages towards the [...]
http://www.openshoreditch.net/
Following a long running campaign by OPEN Shoreditch a major developer has now abandoned its plans to demolish and redevelop The Light building at 233, Shoreditch High Street in London.
Hammerson’s Managing Director, Martin Jepson, announced yesterday that “Following the local campaign to preserve the Light Bar building, we are preparing amended proposals for our Bishops [...]
By now we all know about the mess that was the eviction of the Climate Camp In The City, which was Climate Camp’s genuinely novel idea to set up home in Threadneedle Street - the heart of London’s banking district, over the G20 summit.
G20 Resistance Roundup
http://submedia.tv/stimulator/2009/04/03/g20-resistance-roundup/
Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit. http://info.interactivist.net/node/12540
TEAR DOWN THE WALLS! RAISE THE ROOFS!
HOUSING MARCH @ G20 MELTDOWN 1 APRIL … meet at Cannon Street at 11AM
On April the 2nd the world’s leaders are meeting in London for the G20 summit. In the wake of the banking crisis, they are meeting to try to salvage a tottering system, which is aimed at [...]
The rampART is one of a number of autonomous spaces around London .
During the G20 demonstration, Rampart, the London Housing Action Now network and others
decided to call for a Land, Housing and “social spaces” block during G20 summit.
Revealed: police databank on thousands of protesters
Films and details of campaigners and journalists may breach Human Rights Act
-Paul Lewis and Marc Vallée
-guardian.co.uk, Friday 6 March 2009 19.30 GMT
VIDEO OF THE LAST CLIMATE KINGSNORTH CAMP
(follow the link below ) :
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/06/police-surveillance-protesters-journalists-climate-kingsnorth
Copy below is the text for the callout from London about the G20 Meltdown on April 1st 2009.