Get yer party masks out!

July 12, 2008 18:38 | news |

AS SchNEWS SWINGS ITS LONG LENS TOWARDS STATE SURVEILLANCE It’s time to get yer party masks out- FITwatch are celebrating their 1st birthday! FITwatch have been a welcome presence at demos – obscuring the view of the police Forward Intelligence Teams and preventing police evidence gathering and intimidation of crowds. FIT teams (for the uninitiated) [...]

Arrested for filming a police photographer!

September 30, 2007 09:12 | news |

From the SchNEWS Newsletter of 28th September 2007… “On the Saturday No Border demo in Crawley an independent journalist who was covering the march was arrested by a police photographer. The photographer who couldn’t take his own medicine was getting annoyed at being filmed by the journalist, but he lost the plot when he was [...]