Ratstar Camberwell raided by antiriot cops

[stuff_it]

Really?

Putting to one side the "Was Laurie Penny there? Really?" question, if what she reported has any truth, then it shows one again the good old Met lying about an operation. Plus ca change.

hey are not specifically related to the Royal Wedding but have been brought forward ahead of the event.

Translation: we have been itching to come down heavy handed on the squatters for years, and the wedding is a really handy excuse to do so.

With all the undercovers they've been putting in the protest movement it's pretty clear that the Feds have a more than healthy interest in this stuff.

 

[TruXta]

How does one abstract electricity illegally? Such an odd term. "Halt, thief, you have taken Maxwell's equations in vain!"

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Guardian article up on this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/apr/28/police-raid-squats-royal-wedding

As an aside, here's a piece om Indymedia about the Brighton squat evictions yesterday: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/04/478374.html

 

[tufty79]

posted on facebook by Trafalgar Square Anti-Cuts Occupation:
Message from Ratstar squat Camberwell: Police numbers have dropped but so have supporters. Now electric board are preparing to dig up electrics. More help appreciated as well as spreading updated. Suggestion to bring tents to pitch in Camberwell Green. #Solidarity with the folks there x


anyone going down?

 

[Citizen66]

12 meat wagons to deal with an alleged bit of leccy meter fiddling. Massive lol!

 

[paolo]

So, dodgy goings on at Jamm and the Grosvenor, and what - five squat raids this week, plus the helicopter etc for some ad-hoc cinema stuff in Bristol, to show the Stokes Croft set-to.

Will be interesting to see how many actual convictions this results in, vs. the manpower, vehicles and aircraft deployed.

 

[Onket]

So, dodgy goings on at Jamm and the Grosvenor,

What's this?^

 

[ddraig]

the plod going to visit before benefits for the students and fitwatch and talking to the venues etc
been posted but can't remember which thread

 

[paolo]

What's this?^

Thread somewhere. Search 'grosvenor'. (soz, on my phone at the mo)

 

[Onket]

Bloody hell! //

 

[MellySingsDoom]

Statement from Solfed about these goings on: http://www.solfed.org.uk/?q=solidarity-federation-police-social-centre-raids-are-simple-intimidation-tactics

 

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