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Weds 1st April: G20 protests - discussion, reaction and chat

MC5 said:
Panorama programme on police tactics.
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Very good programme, especially highlighting the Radley Lakes Community Protest and the tactic of criminalisation used against ordinary citizens trying to safeguard their community's environment, health and well-being for future generations.

Save Radley Lakes saw the open use of hired "security management" who proceeded to act as thugs against the peaceful community campaigners. This was and is a noteworthy advent. Protestors at Radley Lakes were trying to prevent the dumping of ash into their lakes that contained mercury, cadmium and arsenic. "Large corporations are able to suspend freedoms we thought to enjoy":
The above quote and link from Channel4 News in March 2007, highlights what ordinary people are up against in their fight against the injurious acts of multinational corporations.

In another part of the world, the fight to save ancestral lands from pollution and environmental devastation resulting from tar sands oil-extraction by had £53 million donated to put toward the costs of the lawsuits needed to fight against the pollution of the environment.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/20/canada-cree-tar-sands.
 
It just keeps getting worse for the police:
Police 'blocked bleeding woman'

The IPCC concluded that the woman was forcibly pushed by an officer

Police have been strongly criticised for refusing to allow a woman who was bleeding from leaving a cordon for five hours during London's G20 protests.Her GP informed her that bleeding she suffered could have been a miscarriage - though this was never confirmed.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission said the likelihood she miscarried was "low" but called for changes to the policing of protests....


The 23-year-old woman - who has not been named - made a complaint to the IPCC about her treatment by officers at the Climate Camp in Bishopsgate on the day of the demonstration.

She said she was kicked and pushed with shields and batons by police at the G20 protests may have had a miscarriage, a report has said. As a result, she said, she was left with bruising on her arms and legs as well as heavy intimate bleeding.

The woman had not been aware that she was pregnant and medical staff had been unable to confirm that this had been the case. According to the report, she said her treatment by officers was "unnecessary, disproportionate and inhumane" and she felt "violated".

She added: "The police used excessive force against me causing me to suffer bruises, swellings, and potentially a miscarriage. "I will probably never know or be able to prove that I was pregnant but I feel very distressed that this may have happened."

The IPCC concluded the woman was forcibly pushed by an officer and she was not allowed to leave the area of Bishopsgate for four to five hours to make herself more comfortable with regard to her bleeding.

It found officers used shields to move the crowd backwards, a tactic which has not been approved nationally by senior officers.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8187343.stm
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Cunts.
 
Just heard about that on the radio. I hope the officers involved feel ashamed of their behaviour.

But will it make any difference to policing of protests in the future?
 
laptop said:
Maybe kettling is over, and maybe it's over before the Oxford Circus case gets to Strasbourg.
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of course if people put half the effort into avoiding being kettled in the first place that they do into moaning about it after the event then the tactic of kettling would have been stopped as ineffective many years ago.
 
A total of 37 people have been charged over the G20 protests in April, City of London police said today. The force released its first full list of charges brought since the demonstrations. They include violent disorder, arson, criminal damage and assaulting the police. Eleven people are charged with impersonating a police officer in connection with an incident on 1 April when a group of activists were stopped outside the Royal Bank of Scotland offices on Bishopsgate while driving a blue-painted armoured car.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/07/g20-protests-london-37-charged

Police list here:
http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Media/News/37+charged+with+G20+crimes.htm
 
winjer said:
A total of 37 people have been charged over the G20 protests in April, City of London police said today. The force released its first full list of charges brought since the demonstrations. They include violent disorder, arson, criminal damage and assaulting the police. Eleven people are charged with impersonating a police officer in connection with an incident on 1 April when a group of activists were stopped outside the Royal Bank of Scotland offices on Bishopsgate while driving a blue-painted armoured car.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/07/g20-protests-london-37-charged

Police list here:
http://www.cityoflondon.police.uk/CityPolice/Media/News/37+charged+with+G20+crimes.htm
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The impersonating charge will be thrown out, surely? No one in their right mind would think the Hijackers were even vaguely attempting to be taken for filth.
 
One person charged with causing fear/provocation of violence. I witnessed several hundred doing that, but rest assured, none of them will be charged.

I presume the person charged with assaulting a police officer will plead self defence.
 
The Sunday Times (!) takes up the Space Hijackers case:

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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article6850901.ece
 
G20 policing: MPA public meeting

In some ways this morning's Civil Liberties Panel event didn't go perhaps exactly as was hoped. Its main objective was to gather testimony from participants in April's G20 protests for inclusion in a future report, but along with some instructive and powerful accounts there were a few conspiracy theories and a lot of questions that the panel couldn't be expected to answer.

The most revealing of these concerned what the panel and the MPA as a whole is actually for - yet more evidence that the mechanisms by which the Met is scrutinised and held to account are neither as clear nor as widely known as they ought to be.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/davehillblog/2009/nov/05/g20-police-assault-ian-tomlinson-police
 
So, is anyone is St Andrews for this? I only ask because I live about 5 mins away, so a pint or two might be fun. Plus if anyne knows anything about protest tomorrow it would be cool to know. ta.
 
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