The police are revolting

fotdmike | April 14, 2009

Found this intriguing image (and accompanying explanatory blurb) on Indymedia…
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A blow struck for Climate Campers?

fotdmike | September 12, 2008

BLOW TO GOVERNMENT COAL POLICY AS CLIMATE CAMPAIGNERS ARE ACQUITTED
10th September 2008
Verdict marks a ‘tipping point’ for climate change movement
Ministers suffered a blow to their energy plans today as six Greenpeace volunteers were acquitted of criminal damage by a Crown Court jury in a case that centred on the contribution made to climate change by [...]

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Cops Capture Campers!

fotdmike | March 10, 2008

Climate Change is an issue that’s affecting us all (whether we acknowledge it or not) and one about which we should all, rightly, be concerned.
Increasingly we are seeing the effects of climate change impacting peoples’ lives all over the world and, unless something dramatic is done, this situation will only get worse. Nor is this [...]

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Disarm DSEi 2007

fotdmike | September 18, 2007

Earlier in the year the Disarm DSEi campaign began a call-out for this year’s protests against the arms fair, with the high point being a mass day of action on 11th September.
For those wishing to know more of the background to the campaign and DSEi itself (the Defence Systems & Equipment International Exhibition) check out [...]

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smashEDO Press Release

fotdmike | August 29, 2007

POLICE FORCIBLY EVICT PEACE CAMP
29/08/07
For more Details: Contact Andrew Beckett or Sarah Johnson
Email – smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk
Tel – 07875 708873
www.smashedo.org.uk
Brighton peace activists campaigning against weapons manufacturers
EDO MBM had their camp evicted and tents impounded under a nineteenth
century bye-law yesterday. Police arrived at the camp (in Wild Park,
Brighton) at 12.45pm on Tuesday and gave campers 1 hour and [...]

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Climate Camp curiosities

fotdmike | August 28, 2007

Now this guy came came complete with a ponytail – and tried to keep well away from the main gate to the Campsite.
Couldn’t get very many pics of him, and what I could get aren’t very good as I was on full zoom and didn’t have a tripod with me – and my hands aren’t [...]

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Climate Camp 2007

fotdmike | August 27, 2007

Reflections on the 2007 Climate Camp

Having returned from the Camp last Tuesday (21st August) I’m just about sufficiently refreshed now to reflect on the week.
Not that it was as tiring as last year’s Camp (and my own particular workload wasn’t quite as intensive this time) but I was still well occupied.
Despite my protestations virtually thoughout [...]

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A victory for citizen journalism!

fotdmike | July 1, 2007

Cop a bit over-zealous in nabbing a 13-year-old for… skateboarding!
Fellow skateboarders (all youngsters, obviously) floating around with camera-equipped mobile phones and even one with a videocam.
Power-crazed cop captured on video.
Video posted to YouTube, and call goes out to community networking sites like MySpace and SiteSpaces.
Spreads like wildfire.
Cop’s superiors compelled to suspend cop whilst investigation gets [...]

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