Upcoming Demos + Actions

Saturday 4th December
UK Uncut: Latest wave of national protests this time targeting tax dodging Philip Green’s Arcadia Group (Topshop, Topman, Dorothy Perkins, Burton, Miss Selfridge and British Home Stores) as well as good old Vodafone, Lloyds TSB, Boots and Barclays. Actions already planned in Birmingham, Edinburgh, London, Leeds, Liverpool, Reading, Oxford, Nottingham and Manchester
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/
http://www.ukuncut.org.uk/targets

Saturday 4th December
Stop the Fees Demo at Lib Dem London Conference (facebook link)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=148974651817209

Saturday 4th December
March on Parliament for a Zero Carbon Britain
12 noon: Assemble at Speakers Corner, Hyde Park. Building a Zero Carbon Britain means Climate Jobs Now: we have a positive vision not only for addresing the global threat of climate catastrophe but also for the economic crisis.
http://www.campaigncc.org

Sunday 5th December
Student protests being planned in towns and cities (facebook link – requires logon)
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=172969552731286

Sunday 5th December
3rd London Student Assembly: No More Kettles
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122031574526310

Wednesday 8th December
TOWER HAMLETS PROTEST OF FULL COUNCIL MEETING – £70M CUTS
Tower Hamlets HOOPS (Hands Off our Public Services) Lobby Tower Hamlets full Council meeting on Monday 8th December at 6pm, against £70m+ cuts to jobs and services. Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2BG.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Hoops-Tower-Hamlets/100001509794712#!/event.php?eid=177519458940227

Thursday 9th December
NCAF National Day of Student Action
http://anticuts.org.uk

Saturday 11th December
NCAF National Day of Action
“Workers, students, pensioners: All To The Street!”
http://anticuts.org.uk

PLUS:

(depending which day the fees vote in parliament is… mid-December maybe 14th Dec)

NUS/UCU National Protests on the Day before Fees Vote
NUS/UCU National Mass Lobby of Parliament Day of Fees Vote, followed by rally + candle demo
http://www.ucu.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=5141

On the 28th of May 2010 Martin Askew was sentenced to 18 months in prison for showing his contempt at the Israeli siege on Gaza at the beginning of 2009, which killed over 1400 people including 400 children and reduced large areas of the already devastated Gaza to rubble. Martin hurt no one in his actions and was in fact brutally, and near fatally, attacked by the police, leaving him needing 70 stitches to his head. Like all t…he protesters who have been put through this ordeal, the process has taken an incredible toll on Martin’s partner and young children. It is a huge injustice that such compassionate and conscientious people are in jail for showing support for a people who are living in a state of constant brutal oppression.

Read about Martin’s case here:
http://gazademosupport.org.uk/articles/protester-convicted-after-being-left-with-70-stitches/

Please come to the court of appeals to demand the release, or at the very least a reduction in sentence, of another of these brave individuals.

24th August 2010, 9am
Royal Courts of Justice
The Strand
London WC2A 2LL

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=London+WC2A+2LL&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-GB%3Aofficial&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq&hnear=London+WC2A+2LL&gl=uk&ei=VJRqTMHEKJm8jAeA4NiDAQ&sa=
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Tomorrow 10 appeals against the unjust jail sentences will be heard at the Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Please come and show your support if you can

See Facebook event http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/event.php?eid=133094830046057

FB - http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/event.php?eid=120512164638897&ref=mf
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/

http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/

Criminalising Dissent: Defend the Right to Protest against Israeli War Crimes

12 May – York: 7pm, Friends’ Meeting House, Penn Room,
(Organised by York PSC and York Against the War)

13 May – Sheffield: Tea and coffee @ 7pm, start @ 7:30, Quakers Meeting House, St James’s Street, (Organised by Sheffield PSC)

14 May – Bradford: 4.30pm, Claremont Community Centre, 15 Claremont, Bradford, BD7 1BG, (Organised by United for Palestine)

14 May – Leeds: 7pm. Unison Office, 160a Woodhouse Lane. Leeds LS2 9EN, (Organised by Leeds) PSC

Isleworth Crown Court, 36 Ridgeway Road, Isleworth TW7 5LP

***SOLIDARITY NEEDED IN COURT***

Nearest Tube Osterley Underground/Isleworth Overground.

JUSTICE FOR THE GAZA PROTESTERS

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Trial ongoing till Monday 26th April

Come and show support at court

A trial is currently taking place for one of the Gaza defendants. The defendant in question was himself attacked by the police at the demonstration in London on the 10th January 2009, receiving a broken nose and requiring 70 stitches.

The trial began earlier this week and is expected to conclude next Tuesday (27th April). It’s vital that the jury sees that the issues in this trial are not isolated, but linked to nearly 80 other young people who are being dragged through the British judicial system for protesting war crimes in Gaza in December 2008 and January 2009.

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Dear all,

Please read this now.

In the following video a young man is getting arrested @6:54 during a demo at the Israeli Embassy on 28th December 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yr9AwNSVSGs

Were you at the demo

and/or

Did you witness this arrest/see this man?

If so please send a witness statement and any footage ASAP by Wednesday evening to gazademosupport@gmail.com and add subject ‘FAO Legal’.

***SOLIDARITY NEEDED IN COURT – 10:30 Monday 12th April, Isleworth Court, London, TW7 5LP
Nearest Tube Osterley/ Train station Isleworth. ***

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Many abuses of police powers occur because we let them. Legal observation and police monitoring are effective tools in tackling such abuses and can make a real difference from collating the data necessary for effective legal challenges to providing and collecting witness statements for those arrested.

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