Recent sentencing summary by Legal Defence and Monitoring Group (LDMG) for the student and anti-cuts demonstrations. Some 180 people (that we know of) have been arrested since Millbank - excluding the Fortnum &Mason 145. There are at least 20 plus who have not yet pleaded or are currently preparing for trial after pleading not guilty to violent disorder – many are facing trial in the new year.
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Freedom News
Inside news
What’s on in February
A list of radical even
ts, activities actions happening this month across the UK. If there is anything we’ve missed out, or you think we should include please get in touch and we shall add it to our events page: http://www.freedompress.org.uk/news/events/
Ultras in Egypt
Ultras Ahlawy - A.C.A.B
At least 73 people have been killed during a match between Egypt’s bitter footballing rivals Al Ahly from Cairo and Al Masry in Port Said. Most of those who died were young supporters and hundreds more were injured in what is Egypt’s worst footballing tragedy.
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February issue of Freedom out now!
The February edition of Freedom Young, Jobless and Hopeless is now available to buy. Either directly from Freedom or at all good radical bookshops or social centres.
Stockists:
» Freedom Bookshop, London
» Housmans bookshop, London
» LARC, London
» 56a Infoshop, London
» Bike Foundry, Birmingham
» Cowley Club, Brighton
» Kebele social centre, Bristol
» Hydra Books, Bristol
» ACE, Edinburgh
» Word Power, Edinburgh
» News From No-where, Liverpool
» Sumac Centre, Nottingham
» October Books, Southampton
» AK Press, Online
Alternatively take out a yearly subscription and have the paper delivered to you at a discounted rate.
» SUBSCRIBE HERE
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Syrian Uprising
As the 9-month long popular uprising escalates in Syria, it looks increasingly likely that ordinary Syrians, who have taken to the streets unrelentingly at the cost of their own lives, will not be the ones to determine the outcome of the battle. Rather, it is international geopolitical interests that hold the cards in this game.
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Leeds Antifascist Film Festival Feb 4-5th
NO PASARAN! : Leeds Antifascist Film Festival
Saturday 4th & Sunday 5th February
SPACE Project
37-38 Mabgate Green
Leeds City Centre
MAP
Since its emergence as a distinct ideology at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, fascism has brought more misery to the world than any other political doctrine. Yet, even today, even after the titanic antifascist struggles of the past, and even the Nazi Holocaust, from Anders Breivik to Dale Farm, the threat of fascism still exists.
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Occupy Oakland police repression
What really happened at Occupy Oakland on Saturday January 28
A firsthand account
For the internet, here’s a first-hand account of Occupy Oakland on 1/28/2012, because the news never tells the full story. I’ll tell you about the street battle, the 300+ arrests, the vandalism, the flag burning, all in the context of my experience today. This is deeper than the headlines. No major news source can do that for you.
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Total policing: Rave on
A new technology is being developed that will allow police the opportunity to disperse crowds with an electronic sound system fitted to riot shields. A US company is in the process of testing the new patented device that emits a low-frequency sound which resonates with the respiratory tract, making it hard to breathe.
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Grassroots community action round-up
Schools, health and nuclear waste dumping – communities fight back!
Parents in Sheffield have joined together and formed a protest group to campaign against their local secondary school becoming an academy. The group KES PLEAS (King Ecgbert School Parents for Local Education Authority Status) is angry at the school Governors going behind parents’ backs in ensuring the school is changed to academy status.
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Whither anarchism? – the current state of UK anarchism
“Revolution must be cultivated by means of systematic propaganda, step-by-step measures, careful planning, and rationally formulated programs that are flexible enough to meet changing social needs: in short, it must be cultivated by a responsible, dedicated, and accountable movement that is serious and organized along libertarian lines”. Murray Bookchin
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