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A weeks of squatting in Brighton – evictions galore, flying radiators and vagabonds
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In February & March they will be touring the UK updating people on the latest news and explaining how to get involved.
For more info and dates confirmed so far see http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?page_id=2862
Address: UK
Web: http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/
It will create a temporary space for the production of counter-narratives and practices to the very idea of governing people's movement through border controls.
Address: London
Web: www.london.noborders.org.org/convergence2012
1994. London. On the rooftops of Claremont Road, 300 protesters waited for the start of what was to become the most extraordinary eviction in British history. Nearby, two diggers stood poised to demolish the last remaining houses in the path of the M11 Link Road. By 1:30 pm a convoy of 120 vehicles containing 700 police and 400 private security guards had arrived in the area. By 2 pm Operation Garden Party had begun....
Drawing on personal testimony and nearly 200 hours of front-line footage, LIFE IN THE FAST LANE features the battle for Wanstead's George Green, and the subsequent eviction of its 250 year- old Sweet Chestnut tree. It re-lives the days of the Independent Free Area of Wanstonia, and highlights the celebrated rooftop protests at Westminster and the home of the then Transport Secretary, John MacGreggor. Against a backdrop of growing resistance to the Criminal Justice Act it charts the emergence of CLAREMONT ROAD as an extraordinary symbol of cultural defience, and for the first time tells the story of what became the most expensive eviction in British history.
Address: The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton,
Time: 8pm
Price: Free/Donation
Phone: (01273) 685913
Email: mail@schnews.org.uk
Web: www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies
Address: Top of Trafalgar Street, opposite Price Albert pub, at entrance to Trafalgar Place. Brighton, BN1. One minute from train station
Directions: Trafalgar Place, Brighton. Opposite Prince Albert pub.
Nearest Public Transport: Brighton Train station.
Postcode: BN1 4ed
Time: 12.30 to 13.30
Price: Nil
Phone: 07790 270941
Email: stevebanfield@yahoo.com
The Traveller Solidarity Network is urgently seeking volunteer legal observers to help monitor and deter police and bailiff misconduct during a number of forced evictions which may be perpetrated against Traveller, Gypsy and Roma people in the next few weeks. This includes likely further enforcement action against the Irish Traveller community at Dale Farm to force these families from their own land. We know from previous experience that policing of these forced evictions can be oppressive and downright brutal. Volunteering as a legal observer is an important way to help support these vulnerable communities and those settled people who stand in solidarity with them. Previous experience is not necessary as full training and pre-brief will be given at the meeting - 6.30pm on Tuesday 14th February 2012 in London - that's next week!!
If you are interested please email dalefarmbackoffice@riseup.net ASAP, confirming your forthcoming attendance at the meeting and detailing any relevant experience you may have.
Address: London - venue tbc
Time: 6.30pm
Email: dalefarmbackoffice@riseup.net
Web: http://travellersolidarity.org/
Address: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, SE10 9NF London, United Kingdom
Nearest Public Transport: Cutty Sark DLR
Postcode: SE10 9NF
Time: 18.30 - 22.00
Price: Free but booking required
Phone: 020 8312 6608
Email: madam.miaow@virgin.net
Web: http://www.annachen.co.uk/the-steampunk-opium-wars/
Address: Plug, 14-16 Matilda St, Sheffield
Time: 6pm
Phone: Twitter @PunkPussyCats
Email: sheffield.uncut@hotmail.co.uk
Web: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk
Address: Cowley Club, London Rd, Brighton
Postcode: BN1 4JA
Time: 8pm
Price: £3
Web: http://punxpicnic.wordpress.com/
For being a male dressed in black
A squat in Brixton was raided two weeks ago after a "male dressed in black" was alleged to have been seen spray-painting graffiti nearby. The police forced their way inside, and where they discovered not one but five black clad males, which confused them slightly. Unfortunately for the squatters, the police then found a police helmet in an empty bedroom and so decided to arrest every male in the house on suspicion of handling stolen goods. Oddly, female house members where left alone (the cops must believe that the fairer sex are incapable of theft). Now the charges have been changed so that it wasn't one male, but in fact five males spray-painting one spot. Even worse, one of the arrested house members, a Brazilian, is now in the process of being deported to Brazil.
SchMOVIES presents an evening of psychedelic space rock with THIS IS HAWKWIND DO NOT PANIC - The Documentary...
also with special guest speaker NIK TURNER (vocalist, sax and flute from Hawkwind)
Nik will be introducing the film and taking questions after.
The inside story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands. Emerging from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s, the band trailed radicalism and counter-culture in their wake, and have been a direct influence on punk, metal, dance and rave.
Includes interviews with some of the band's enduring legends, including bassist Lemmy, writer Michael Moorcock, founder members Terry Ollis, Nik Turner and Mick Slattery, and former managers Doug Smith and Jeff Dexter.
Suggested donation of £4 to cover travel expenses
BBC4 (60 mins)
Wednesday, 29th February, @ the Cowley Club, 8pm, £4 Suggested Donation
On 1st December last year, the biggest police corruption trial in UK history collapsed after the Judge in the case decided it would be “unfair” on the 8 bent coppers and two dodgy witnesses as a result of the way in which evidence had been handled – including the deliberate destruction of documents by the defendants’ former colleagues.
The police fitted up three men for the murder of Lynette White in 1988 – all three subsequently had their convictions quashed and another man was fi nally convicted in 2003. Following this the IPCC looked into the original investigation by South Wales Police, this lead to a trial of 9 men and a women on corruption and perjury charges – a trial that cost nearly £40 million and resulted in 10 not guilty verdicts (on the instruction of the Judge).
So... what happened to the evidence? Files were sent to the senior investigating offifi cer, one Chief Superintendent Chris Coutts of the err... South Wales Police. Who ordered that they be shredded – all perfectly understandable.
Now the trial has collapsed the ‘cleared’ filth are suing for false arrest (sorry guys, must have missed that one for ‘Crap Arrest of the Week’).
Oh, and the evidence, or at least part of it, has now turned up safe and sound in a South Wales police station in a big box marked ‘EVIDENCE’ so it’s no wonder they couldn’t find it when their mates were on trial..
