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Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

Six antifascists were recently fitted-up and sent to prison. Because of ongoing legal issues, for the moment we are unable to say more about their case, but a full report will eventually be issued. Suffice to say, they have been well and truly fucked over and deserve our fullest support and solidarity. Please write to them. As always, assume your letters are being read by our enemies and ensure you do not compromise your own security or that of others. Also please note that Thomas Blak and Austin Jackson are as yet unsentenced. For advice on writing to prisoners see the Leeds ABC website. La lucha continua!

Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

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Leeds ABC Benefit Night

Leeds Anarchist Black Cross | 28-06-2011 11:02 | Repression | Liverpool | Sheffield

Sunday 24th July.

Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified US Intelligence Mass Surveillance

According to a Project PM announcement, here are some of the 'classified intelligence' details about Romas/COIN (Odyssey) with capabilities to monitor and automatically analyze millions of conversations, and then secretly store a wide range of personal data. It appears as if even Apple, Google, and Disney's Pixar were trying to be brought aboard to help out in this mass surveillance apparatus.

FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists

Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations "proactively" without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. We speak to former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Texas activist Scott Crow, who has been the focus of intense FBI surveillance from 2001 until at least 2008. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Crow received 440 pages of heavily redacted documents revealing the FBI had set up a video camera outside his house, traced the license plates of cars parked in front of his home, recorded the arrival and departure of his guests, and observed gatherings that Crow attended at bookstores and cafes. The agency also tracked Crow’s emails and phone conversations and picked through his trash to identify his bank and mortgage companies. “It’s been definitely traumatizing at different points,” says Crow. “But if we don’t come out and be open about this, then they’ve already won, and the surveillance and the ‘war on terror’ wins against us.”

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the
free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of
requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and
other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also
deleting search terms by government mandate.

British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

British government's outrageous new "counter-terrorism" measures are receiving a public relations backlash because of their extreme, fascist overtones.

John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

Dear Noam

I am writing to you and a number of other friends mostly in the US to alert you to the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media, 'The War You Don't See', and the abrupt cancellation of a major event at the Lannan Foundation in Santa Fe in which David Barsamian and I were to discuss free speech, US foreign policy and censorship in the media.

Think before you use Skype or any other audio application - who's listening in?

There is an interesting article in the WSJ about how documents found in Egypt prove the security services were listening to activists conversations which were conducted via Skype, now owned by Microsoft, extracts follow.

3 New Mark Kennedy Articles: The State Suppressed Key Evidence

The Guardian has today published 3 articles about Mark Kennedy:

Police knew about plans for Ratcliffe-on-Soar break-in before most activists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-ratcliffe-on-soar

Police spying: secret tapes that put CPS on the spot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-police-spy-secret-tapes

Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-surveillance-tapes-cps

They have even, *finally*, acknowledged that this story was first broken on Indymedia, in October 2010!

Justice for All - Sheffield says No Cuts to Free Advice

Justice For All | 30-05-2011 21:27 | Repression | Sheffield

Advice workers and Solicitors are demonstrating at a rally outside Sheffield Town Hall On Friday 3rd June at 5pm, at Government plans to cut two-thirds of legal aid to their clients.

Saving Iceland on Mark Kennedy Report

Statement from Saving Iceland regarding the recently published report by the National Commissioner’s ‘National Security Unit’. The report was requested by the Minister of the Interior and was supposed to answer the questions if the Icelandic police were aware of and collaborated in British police spy Mark Kennedy’s infiltration of the Saving Iceland network. (Translated from Icelandic.)

America's appalling human rights record

Each year, the US State Department publishes human rights reports for over 190 countries. Its April 8-released 2010 China assessment can be accessed through the following link:

Unsparing in its harshness, it calls China "an authoritarian state in which the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) constitutionally is the paramount authority,"

Indeed, China's no model human rights champion. However, America's record is far worse at home and abroad, yet self-criticism is absent. Moreover, rarely do major media reports discuss abuses. Instead they regurgitate managed news, suppressing full and accurate disclosure of Washington's most deplorable human and civil rights record at home and abroad.

On April 10, two days after the State Department's report, China's Information Office of the State Council published its own comprehensive report titled, "The Human Rights Record of the United States in 2010,"

In its report, the US State Department charges were mostly without corroboration. In contrast, China, under six major headings, used data from the US Justice Department (DOJ), FBI, other US agencies, state ones, and think tanks, as well as international and US media reports. They reveal a far different America than official Washington and managed major media reports, concealing dark side truths important to reveal.

John Bowden – Scottish Prison Service Have Learned Nothing From The Stillman Aff

Leeds Anarchist Black Cross | 19-05-2011 14:32 | Repression | Sheffield | World

A few years ago the Scottish Prison Service used jail psychologist Matt Stillman to smear the Anarchist Black Cross as a “terrorist organisation” and use John Bowden’s contact with the ABC as an excuse for his continued detention. Subsequently, both Stillman and his lies were completely discredited. The Scottish Prison Service and the compliant psychologists they use as part of a package of prison repression have, it seems, learned very little from the affair, as John Bowden relates from Edinburgh Prison.

Calling All Squatters! - Old and New

Got any positive, funny or random stories from your squatting experiences?

Israeli troops murder 9 protesters at Naqba border demonstrations

Today, within 2 weeks of the Gaza Flotilla massacre where 9 activists were murdered, Israeli troops have shot dead 9 protesters and wounded more than 100 across 3 different protests at the border.

Mark Kennedy - Billy No Mates

Jello B | 11-05-2011 13:41 | Repression | Sheffield | World

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A Question of Sovereignty

Friends of Muad'Dib | 08-05-2011 00:12 | Repression | Terror War | Sheffield

Queen Elizabeth II is going to be called as a witness to a historic trial that is set to begin Monday, May 9th, 2011 in the Southwark Crown court at 10am.

This might postpone her scheduled and unprecedented trip to Ireland and should be of major interest to everyone in the U.K. and around the world.

Britain's Left Defeats Itself Again.

On November 30th 1999 thousands of anti-capitalist/globalisation activists gathered in Seattle, USA to protest against and successfully shut down a meeting of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). A large part of their grievance was that the WTO was effectively operating in secret with no reporting of the decisions it was making and the effect those decisions were having across the world. So by way of a solution a group of activists set up the Independent Media Centre or "Indymedia" for short. The idea was create a network of un-moderated, open publishing websites so people from all over the world could share news about the decisions being made in the name of globalisation and the actions that were being taken to protest against them. The Independent Media Centre was probably one of the most successful ideas to come out of the Seattle protests and there are now 180 Indymedia sites across the world in places as diverse as Japan, Israel, Kenya and Burma making Indymedia the blueprint for the sort of "Citizen Journalism" that's become so fashionable recently.

New Evidence Shows that Icelandic Police Lied about Mark Kennedy

New Photographic Evidence Shows that Icelandic Police Lied about their Dealings with Mark Kennedy

Sheffield Repression Newswire Archive

Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

Antifascist Prisoners In Need Of Support

Leeds ABC Benefit Night

Project PM Leaks Dirt on Romas/COIN Classified US Intelligence Mass Surveillance

FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists

Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

British government: We wasted millions chasing wrong terrorist threats

John Pilger writes on 'the extraordinary banning of my film on war and media'

Think before you use Skype or any other audio application - who's listening in?

3 New Mark Kennedy Articles: The State Suppressed Key Evidence

Justice for All - Sheffield says No Cuts to Free Advice

Saving Iceland on Mark Kennedy Report

America's appalling human rights record

John Bowden – Scottish Prison Service Have Learned Nothing From The Stillman Aff

Calling All Squatters! - Old and New

Israeli troops murder 9 protesters at Naqba border demonstrations

Mark Kennedy - Billy No Mates

A Question of Sovereignty

Britain's Left Defeats Itself Again.

New Evidence Shows that Icelandic Police Lied about Mark Kennedy

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