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?

[juliet]

Hm. http://climatecamp.org.uk/g20/legal suggests writing to your MP - obviously if you weren't involved then it's more about 'here is this report / information on Ian Tomlinson, I am horrified & what are you going to do about it' than it is 'I was batoned by a police officer, what are you going to do about it'. But I think it's still useful - even *more* so when non-directly-involved people complain, because it shows that it's not just Those Activists who are aware & upset.

More generally: there's lots of suggestions for getting involved at that website!

NB: I wasn't personally at G20, due to WrongContinentError, although I was at Climate Camp last summer, which also featured exciting riot police action. (and the government passing police info onto E.On! How nice of them. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/20/police-intelligence-e-on-berr )

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Letter sent - and my MP is very responsive.

[juliet]

Awesome, go you!