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The London rampART Social Centre was evicted at 5:30am this morning by 45 police, bailiffs and a priest.
After over 5 years and many eviction scares it has finally happened… 3 people and a dog were inside when police attempted to chanisaw the door. They also had climbers going up to the roof conjuring up [...]
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 [...]
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.
Reflections on the police raids on Rampart Social Centre and the Convergence Space during the G20 Summit. http://info.interactivist.net/node/12540
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
This article appeared on the Guardian newspaper on Sunday 8th March.
It is an audio-slide show and analize the current situation in East Jerusalem .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2009/mar/06/israel-palestinian-territories
Palestinian farmers, accompanied by international Human Rights Workers (HRWs), were fired upon by Israeli forces in the village of Khoza’a, near Khan Younis, this morning. The farmers and HRWs were attempting to work on land around 300m from the ‘Green Line’.