47 protestors were arrested for peaceful direct action against the renewal of the Trident nuclear warfare system today. For 4 hours protestors chaining themselves to gates, successfully blockading the entrances to Faslane Naval Base, West of Glasgow, where the Trident submarines are housed. After cutting them from the gates police proceeded to arrest the protestors, some of […]
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Sussex University Week of Action-Defend anti-privatisation campaigners against victimisation
STOP VICTIMISATION! STOP PRIVATISATION! Public Forum, Monday 6pm, (TODAY) Sussex Campus, Mark Steel - Comedian and Author, Max Watson - Unison NEC and Activist fighting victimisation at London Met, Alfie Meadows - Acquitted student protester, Dannie Grufferty - VP NUS, Lydia Dagostino - Kellys Solicitors, Rob French - Joint VP, Sussex UCU, Jelena Timotijevic - UCU NEC and Defend the Right to Protest Campaign. Fb event: https://www.facebook.com/events/458011807611962/?ref=ts&fref=ts On Thursday 18th April, 4 […]
~ read more ~Protests over planned use of draconian Public Order Act by police on day of Thatcher funeral
Kunal Dutta, The Independent, MONDAY 15 APRIL 2013, http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/protests-over-planned-use-of-draconian-public-order-act-by-police-on-day-of-thatcher-funeral-8572580.html Campaigners reacted angrily last night after Scotland Yard suggested protesters should consider avoiding Baroness Thatcher’s cortège – because they face arrest under a controversial public order law. A Metropolitan Police spokesman told The Independent yesterday that demonstrators were more likely than usual to be held under Section […]
~ read more ~24 years on: Hillsborough victims’ families demand swift justice for people behind cover-up
Owen Gibson, chief sports correspondent The Guardian, Sunday 14 April 2022 12.40 BST http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/apr/14/hillsborough-victims-families-justice The families of the victims of the Hillsborough disaster have renewed calls for the people responsible for the establishment cover-up that followed to be made fully and swiftly accountable ahead of Monday’s Anfield memorial service to mark the 24th anniversary of the […]
~ read more ~Sally Hunt UCU, Caroline Lucas MP & Ken Loach support call to drop charges against Sussex Uni students and lift the protest ban
General Secretary of the University and College lecturers union and local MP Caroline Lucas have both signed up to a statement calling for any criminal charges relating to protests against privatisation plans at Sussex University to be dropped and for the current protest ban to be rescinded. Around 6000 people have signed two related petitions, […]
~ read more ~STUDENT OCCUPATIONS ARE NOT A CRIME Rescind the injunction, drop the charges
We have now launched a new statement, please sign by clicking the link here: http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/student-occupations-are-not-a-crime-rescind-the-injunction-drop-any-criminal-charges-against-students We, the undersigned, strongly condemn the eviction of students occupying Sussex University in opposition to privatisation plans, including the use of up to 100 police in full riot gear accompanied by vans, bailiffs and private security guards to remove protesters from […]
~ read more ~Brutal eviction of Sussex students today
Today, 2nd April 2013, around noon time, hundreds of police, arriving in full gear and in some 15 police vans, assisted bailiffs and private security guards in evicting Sussex students from the occupation on their own campus. The bailiffs broke through the students’ barricade on the top floor of Bamber House; repossessing the 4th floor of the […]
~ read more ~Support the call for full disclosure on government’s persecution of the Shrewsbury Pickets
Ricky Tomlinson has launched this petition, please sign at http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/35394 Full disclosure of all Government documents relating to the 1972 building workers strike and the conspiracy trials at Shrewsbury Responsible department: Ministry of Justice In 1972, building workers held their first ever national strike for decent pay and health & safety at work. Five months after the […]
~ read more ~Day 53- Sussex Occupiers need your solidarity
Students continue to occupation Bramber House despite the threat of eviction hanging over them and the stepping up of “siege conditions” by university management: http://sussexagainstprivatization.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/day-53-no-food-no-water-no-to-privatisation/ Show your support for them: 1. Send messages of support to the occupation to occupysussex2013@gmail.com 2. Take food and supplies down to them. 3. Continue to sign and circulate the […]
~ read more ~Justice denied by politicians of all stripes
Letter in todays Guardian about attacks on legal aid by Louise Christian, Honorary President of Defend the Right to Protest http://m.guardian.co.uk/law/2013/mar/31/justice-denied-by-all-politicians For over 30 years I have practised as a legal aid solicitor. I have been hugely privileged to work on legal cases for many people who were helped by the best legal aid system in the […]
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