While the community highlights a pattern of racism, violence, and police impunity, authorities have responded by ramping up police presence ~ Mateo Sgambati ~ Nights of unrest have unfolded in Lisbon for the past week, following the police killing on 21 October of Odair Moinz, a 43-year-old Cape Verdean father of two. Authorities initially claimed
Sheer violence breaking out from the police towards protesters again.
An ill-advised immigration raid launched on a sunny Saturday in Dalston, London turned ugly yesterday after police officers attacked large crowds who’d turned out to oppose it. The high street raid, which kicked off at around half-six as people thronged the street getting dinner or going out for the evening, was picked up almost immediately
Black Protest Legal Support (BPLS) has condemned police violence seen in London during the Free Palestine and Colombia protests last Saturday. Below, Freedom reproduces the statement from BPLS. CW: Police brutality, racialised violence. BPLS condemns the continued levels of extreme police violence and aggression towards Free Palestine protesters in London on 15th May, including a
The first time I encountered violence outside of the family I was fifteen and there was a machete pointed at my throat. My boyfriend and I used to take a long walk to the only 24- hour off-license in several square miles when we were doing pills and ran out of cigarettes. We never prepared
On 9th of January, Mohamud Mohammed Hassan was murdered by the South Wales Police in Cardiff. Communities across the city soon rallied to oppose this blatant, horrible act of racism, with a fundraiser for Mohamud’s family reaching its goal of £30,000 within two days, and the hashtag ‘#Justice4Mohamud’ quickly spreading like wildfire throughout social media.
This year’s 6th of December marked 12 years since the cold-blooded murder by the Greek police of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia. A long period of time in which justice hasn’t been served, to say the least. Even worst, last year the cynicism of the authorities reached to an unseen level –
As social movements continue around the world to end the impunity that police forces have, the African continent has seen their biggest movement within the country of Nigeria with the #EndSARS protests. Nigeria has the largest population on the continent, and the largest population of young people has taken to the streets to protest the
Many of us have been following recent events in Minneapolis where a community is resisting police terror following the murder of George Floyd, with outpourings of solidarity from across the world. In the UK, however, we hear a common refrain from progressives about how police here are not as violent as in the US. As
On Monday in Minneapolis, Minnesota an unarmed black man called George Floyd was murdered by white police officer Derek Chauvin as three others stood and watched. In yet another example of the institutional racist brutality of the police. They came after George because he was accused of using a fake ID at a nearby deli.
A new zone to defend, La Guinguette Vaillante opposes the destruction of natural habitats north of Toulouse ~ from La Grappe ~ A few minutes from the city centre of Saint-Jory, with walking access to the rail lines and their construction site, La Guinguette Vaillante (“The Valiant Tavern”) is built in an enclave of vegetation
Reflections on three decades of environmental activism ~ Helen Baczkowska ~ The first thing to do was to re-arrange the furniture—what was set out for a speaker and audience quickly became a rough circle.
Company still provides employer’s liability to UAV Engines in Staffordshire ~ Cristina Sykes ~ Activists from Palestine Action this morning occupied the Aviva Centre in Bristol, with one protester climbing the overhang while another spray-painted the front glass of the building.
Judge declines prosecution of anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito and 11 others for incitement and subversion ~ Sonia Muñoz Llort ~ A judge in Italy has declined to indict twelve anarchists associated with the insurrectionary magazine Vetriolo of various incitement and subversion charges.
Discussing that Nazi salute by Elon Musk (and the rather more important direction of travel to come), the not particularly encouraging situation following the Gaza ceasefire, and how moral panics are built around incidents like Stockport to empower State repression.
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