http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/repression/newswire.rss Police and state oppression news. IMC UK Open Content License, http://www.opencontent.org 2009-01-07T23:57:04+00:00 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417468.html On Friday, 19 December 2008, around 150 Sans-Papiers and solidarity activists squatted the "Prediger" Church in Zurich, Switzerland. The squatters demanded from the Canton Zurich documents for everyone, work permits for all and the implementation of the hardship provision. 2009-01-07T22:25+02:00 2009-01-07T22:25:02+00:00 Anti-racism Manchester Migration Repression UK World a-films en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417464.html The founders of the LSE-Palestine Solidarity Initiative (<img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://www.palestinesolidarity.org/">http://www.palestinesolidarity.org/</a>) have condemned the university's "hypocritical silence" over the atrocities being committed against the people of Gaza by Israeli military forces. 2009-01-07T18:56+02:00 2009-01-07T18:56:28+00:00 Education Palestine Repression UK World James Caspell and Ziyaad Lunat en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417456.html (Better version). Largely consisting of an article written in 1999 entitled ‘Palestine: fifty years of ethnic cleansing and dispossession’, an historical overview of the conflict in Palestine since 1947, by Dr. Ismail Zayid. Israel’s ‘defensive measures’ justified by those who talk on behalf of Israel and accepted as given by the media consistently fails to recognise that these militants fire weapons into territory which they believe belongs to them and which they view is occupied by Israeli settlers. 2009-01-07T15:36+02:00 2009-01-07T15:36:00+00:00 Palestine Repression Terror War UK Dr. Ismail Zayid (intro by Mark S Brown) en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417434.html By their unlawful and systematic character,combined with the blockade of Gaza, housedemolitions and extrajudicial executions, the Israeli attacks on Gaza are a dirty war against the Palestinian civilian population 2009-01-07T14:06+02:00 2009-01-07T14:06:18+00:00 Analysis Liverpool Oxford Palestine Repression UK Astrid Essed en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417422.html Largely consisting of an article written in 1999 entitled ‘Palestine: fifty years of ethnic cleansing and dispossession’, an historical overview of the conflict in Palestine since 1947, by Dr. Ismail Zayid. Israel’s ‘defensive measures’ justified by those who talk on behalf of Israel and accepted as given by the media consistently fails to recognise that these militants fire weapons into territory which they believe belongs to them and which they view is occupied by Israeli settlers. 2009-01-07T12:11+02:00 2009-01-07T12:11:49+00:00 Palestine Repression Terror War UK Dr. Ismail Zayid (intro by Mark S Brown) en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417379.html Following is the transcript of an item from todays Democracy Now, the audio for the show can be found here: <img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/6/prominent_austin_activist_admits_he_infiltrated">http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/6/prominent_austin_activist_admits_he_infiltrated</a> see also the Open Letter from Brandon Darby: <img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://www.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/918526.shtml">http://www.indymedia.org/en/2008/12/918526.shtml</a> 2009-01-06T23:04+02:00 2009-01-06T23:04:00+00:00 Promoted Repression Sheffield UK World Democracy Now en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417378.html <br/>Shortly after darkness fell on Saturday night, January 3, Israel launched a massive land invasion of Gaza involving 9,000-10,000 soldiers, tanks, helicopters, and heavy artillery, engineering and intelligence forces, with the support of Israel’s Air Force, navy, and secret police and spy agencies. The ground invasion came after Israel, for the first time, unleashed an artillery barrage on Gaza, striking a mosque and killing at least 11 people. By the next day, Israeli forces had reportedly cut Gaza in half, “bisecting” it between north and south. <br/> 2009-01-06T22:19+02:00 2009-01-06T22:19:01+00:00 Palestine Repression Terror War UK World Larry Everest en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417346.html Images from the 3rd Jan demonstrations in solidarity for the people in Gaza -affected by horrific, un-necessary bombings by the Israeli military over the past weeks. <br/>The day commenced with a march from Embankment through Westminster to Trafalgar Square. <br/>Later in the evening there was a larger, more aggressive demo outside the Israeli Embassy near High Street Kensington. 2009-01-06T19:52+02:00 2009-01-06T19:52:00+00:00 Palestine Promoted Repression South Coast Terror War UK Billy Macrae en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417319.html Today those peace loving Israelis announced that they were still doing everything possible to minimise civilian casualties. They also manages to shell a school built by the UN and kill three of there own troops in a friendly fire incident. Clearly taking great care to hit the right targets? <br/><br/>Saturdays demo was very loud and angry. The Police, following their usual government agenda, said that a mere 10,000 were in attendance. Meanwhile the Stop the War Coalition doubled the figures to 50,000. Both faction should be congratulated for their consistency if nothing else. <br/><br/>After the demo a march heading for the embassy was stopped by Police in an underpass while several thousand others made their way there by tube. 2009-01-06T18:17+02:00 2009-01-06T18:17:00+00:00 Palestine Promoted Repression UK Guido en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417315.html This report confirms that these attacks are quite deliberately directed against civilians, using new unconventional weapons. 2009-01-06T17:25+02:00 2009-01-06T17:25:46+00:00 Palestine Repression Terror War UK World Akram al-Sattari en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417312.html Anger over the policing of last Saturday's Palestinian solidarity demonstration in London continued today, with activists saying the police were "asking for another Hillsborough disaster". 2009-01-06T16:33+02:00 2009-01-06T16:33:05+00:00 Palestine Repression UK Ian Dunt en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417302.html ... one more youngster killed by the police, one more victim of the mercenaries of the state!!! <br/> 2009-01-06T13:19+02:00 2009-01-06T13:19:41+00:00 Repression UK World COPWATCH en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417284.html Security Document World 2009 Conference and Exhibition - Queen Elizabeth II conference centre London 26-27 March 2009-01-06T00:33+02:00 2009-01-06T00:33:36+00:00 Repression South Coast Technology Terror War UK benny bintang en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417277.html From <img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/01/05/privacy-fears-over-new-powers-for-police-to-hack-your-pc-115875-21016760/">http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/technology/2009/01/05/privacy-fears-over-new-powers-for-police-to-hack-your-pc-115875-21016760/</a> <br/><br/><br/><br/> 2009-01-05T22:34+02:00 2009-01-05T22:34:39+00:00 Analysis Repression Technology UK World ARA en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/417244.html The Guardian newspaper published on Saturday a feature on the arrests of nine individuals now known as the Tarnac 9. It's sister paper The Observer followed this up with a pretty awful story titled 'France braced for 'rebirth of violent left'. Interesting in the story is the supposed thesis that the State reckons (or pretends to reckon) that a new wave of militant struggles is about to sweep Europe. 2009-01-05T15:38+02:00 2009-01-05T15:38:20+00:00 Promoted Repression UK World @ en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8