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Falmouth locals up in arms over migrant ‘prison barge’

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/anti-racist-activists-gather-falmouth-protest-prison-barge

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The current accommodation capacity of the barge is just over 200. The refit commissioned by the government will see that capacity more than doubled to 500.

Which of course inevitably means cramped overcrowding and unhygienic conditions.

Regardless of how the government tries to portray it or dress it up in benign rhetoric, this barge is intended to be used as a prison ship in which to incarcerate refugees, many of whom have fled for their lives from harrowing and torturous conditions in the hope of finding safety from war or persecution in what they believe to be a civilised country.

The barge will, after its refit in Falmouth, be tugged to Portland in Dorset where it will be permanently moored — ironically not so far from where the Tolpuddle Martyrs were unjustly deported for trying to form a union of farm labourers almost 200 years ago.

On Wednesday May 10, within a day of the arrival of the prison barge in Falmouth, over a hundred protesters gathered at a point overlooking the harbour where the Bibby Stockholm is moored, chanted and displayed No To Floating Prisons banners. Speakers called for an end to the racist violence that the Bibby Stockholm represents.

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/anti-racist-activists-gather-falmouth-protest-prison-barge

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Apocalypse-zealots report that woman was arrested for sitting next to Just Stop Oil activists

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Apocalypse-zealots the Daily Mail are reporting that Royal superfan Alice Chambers was arrested – presumably by accident – after sitting next to Just Stop Oil activists. I’m sorry but I find this story very amusing, talk about guilt by association.

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The architect, 36, said she had no idea she was sitting beside the environmental activists as they had not yet begun their planned protest.

As police swarmed on the group at 9am on Saturday, Ms Chambers found herself being handcuffed too.

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She was repeatedly quizzed, physically searched, locked in a cell and officers took her mugshot, fingerprints and DNA in a 13-hour ordeal.

It wasn’t until she was interviewed by two senior officers at 7pm that police finally realised they had made a mistake and that she was an innocent bystander.

She was finally released at around 10pm from Wandsworth police station after breaking down in tears. 

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I wonder if she got the cell with shit on the wall, a blanket full of scabies and a cup of tea and pubes treatment. I’ve been arrested a few times although the police are not anywhere near as nasty to me as they used to be.

ed: I think that I got discordant noise the last time that I was arrested (might have been the time before), many years ago now. I understand that discordant noise is military-grade torture.

later ed: The memories are coming back. I was arrested at Wandsworth police station once. It was a New Year’s Eve and I was arrested because the insane girlfriend I had at the time refused to pay for a black cab. I was put in a cage in a dog van with a barking police dog in the next cage. A fat policeman sat on me and very nearly killed me through suffocation.

So I do find it amusing that someone totally innocent had it.

8.10am 12/5/23

  1. It’s not amusing that somebody is arrested and abused.
  2. I don’t accept that she was arrested by accident. The police know who people are. It might be a message to architects, a joke about her being red-haired.
  3. The discordant music [22/5/23 noise not music] was when I was arrested at the 888 event. I was arrested by soldiers pretending to be police at that event. It’s likely that they were special ops from Hereford since 888 was a special ops event.
  4. I know why I was abused by police at Wandsworth police station and put into a d-o-g van. [ed: and many people have been killed for that reason, I’ve documented it elsewhere.]

9.30am 12/5/23

I can’t find the 888 post, I wonder if it was on the blog at a different host and not transferred over somehow. My blog at my previous host was also ‘hacked’ and posts were lost. That seems to have happened to me a few times for some reason i.e. first and second host.

888 was an event at Baldwin St, Bristol. From memory the date would have been something close to 8 August 2006 hence why I’m calling it 888. The story goes that somebody entered a Nationwide? building society branch demanding money and claiming to have a bomb in a bag. I was intending to pass this location and changed course at the last moment. I was arrested later by soldiers pretending to be policemen at this event.

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Just Stop Oil activists arrested in blanket ban on protests on London roads

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A Just Stop Oil protest in central London
A Just Stop Oil protest in central London

‘Your government has taken away your right to peaceful protest,’ the activists say. ‘If you are not outraged by this, you are not paying attention’

ACTIVISTS from Just Stop Oil were arrested during their daily action in Parliament Square today as they marched against the detaining of protesters and fossil fuel projects in Britain.

More than 40 protesters set off from Charing Cross in central London at 8am, but were forced to move their action onto the pavement after being approached by police officers who said they would impose conditions under the Public Order Act (Section 12).

A blanket notice under the Act was issued on all London roads ahead of the action, making protests unlawful.

The protesters returned to the road while marching past Whitehall before being told to get off the road once again.

They returned to the road for a third time at Parliament Square at which point around 12 protesters were arrested.

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Morning Star: On Victory Day, oppose the erasure of the international alliance that defeated fascism

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Pablo Picasso’s ‘Guernica’.

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During the Spanish Civil War, the Republican forces were made up of assorted factions such as communists, socialists, anarchists, and others with differing goals. Yet they were united in their opposition to the Nationalists, led by General Francisco Franco, who sought a return to pre-Republican Spain based on law, order, and traditional Catholic values.[9]

Guernica, a town in the province of Biscay in Basque Country, was seen as the northern bastion of the Republican resistance movement and the center of Basque culture. This added to its significance as a target.[10] Around 4:30 p.m. on Monday, 26 April 1937, warplanes of the Nazi Germany Condor Legion, commanded by Colonel Wolfram von Richthofen, bombed Guernica for about two hours.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_(Picasso)

There are many derivatives of ‘Guernica’ – often as public murals – since it has achieved iconic status of anti-war and anti-Fascist symbolism.

Morning Star: On Victory Day, oppose the erasure of the international alliance that defeated fascism

VICTORY DAY, celebrating the surrender of Nazi Germany, should be an occasion for international unity.

Time zone differences mean a surrender effective from 11.01pm Central European Time on May 8 1945 is celebrated on May 8 in the West and May 9 in the East, but it was the same victory, won by a people’s war in which the “big three,” Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, played the main military role.

Victory over fascism laid the basis of the modern international system. Britain, the US, the Soviet Union and China coined the term United Nations to describe the Allies in 1942, declaring a “common struggle against savage and brutal forces seeking to subjugate the world.”

To join the UN, a country had to declare war on Nazi Germany, fascist Italy and imperial Japan. International law as we know it flows from the anti-fascist war.

That system is under threat as never before. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has become a proxy war, in which Nato weaponry, equipment, training and actual special forces are engaged.

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On Victory Day, we should strike a light against the gathering dark. Honour the memories of all who fell to defeat fascism. Oppose the rewriting of history, and the march to war.

Morning Star: On Victory Day, oppose the erasure of the international alliance that defeated fascism

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