Police spying meeting increasing resistance

May 20, 2008 11:42 | news |

First came FIT… the presence of Police Forward Intelligence Teams at football match crowds and the like.
Armed with cameras they maintained a high-profile presence to allegedly “deter” acts of hooliganism etc.
But somehow their remit then became extended such that they began to monitor protests, demonstrations, and so forth.
So then came fitwatch… a response on the [...]

Is this what a police state looks like?

May 5, 2008 08:47 | news, repression |

Excerpts from the New Statesman post:
“Protestors trickled in down the path from Tower Bridge, dispersing among the crowds of camera-toting tourists and their toddlers, high school volleyball teams on school trips, students and local workers. But what was planned as a protest against the elections and a blockade of the BNP became little more than [...]

Cops Capture Campers!

March 11, 2008 00:07 | news | 1 comment

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 [...]