More G20 stuff

[juliet]

Climate Camp legal team report on the policing of the 24 hr G20 camp. There's a decent summary in the first couple of pages if you don't want to read all of it.

Warning: the witness accounts in Appendix 3 are distressing in places: police violently attacking and threatening peaceful protesters.

(The legal-notebook-based timeline that they have in there is interesting.)

ETA: Government department passed on information about activity and whereabouts of protestors to E.On before last summer's climate camp. Because sharing information about your citizens with a private company is *entirely* acceptable behaviour, oh yes.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Many thanks for doing, and blogging, this work.

Is there anything that the rest of us can constructively do at this point?

[zebrallama.livejournal.com]

This is all very depressing. I'm English but living in Australia, and I'll tell you I'm NOT going back, and this is one of the main reasons why. (Not that that helps the people who have to live there.)

WrongContinentError

Made me laugh.

[ladyjulian.livejournal.com]

I nearly thumped the radio this morning - ACPO chap was on the Today programme saying that it was all proportionate because the protesters came into town with the intention of "damaging property, injuring and killing police officers." WTF?!