Paramilitary repression and police brutality continue unabated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border three years after the assassinations of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes in Oaxaca, Mexico and Fong Lee in Minneapolis, MN
By Steven Renderos & Sylvia González, November 1, 2009
On 31st October 2009 in City Square, Leeds, the English Defence League held a rally. The EDL is a nationalist, islamophobic organisation formed earlier this year and is widely viewed as racist.
A counter-demonstration was organised by Unite Against Fascism (UAF). Participants described it variously as being dull, jubilant and tightly controlled. Meanwhile, other anti-EDL groups attempted to confront EDL directly. Reports suggest that at least two large groups attempted to reach EDL to confront them at City Square, but were turned back towards the UAF rally by police (see time-line for first-hand accounts).
Paramilitary repression and police brutality continue unabated on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border three years after the assassinations of Lorenzo Sampablo Cervantes in Oaxaca, Mexico and Fong Lee in Minneapolis, MN
By Steven Renderos & Sylvia González, November 1, 2009
This morning (28th october) around 9:00am dozens of costumed activists have blocked all access to the Charlemagne Building in Brussels, next to the Commission’s HQ, where Business Europe, the EU lobby of bosses and industrialists, is supposed to hold their conference on Copenhagen and climate change and hear Barroso self-congratulate himself on green capitalism. Belgian activists retort: Our Climate Ain’t None of Your Business!
October 22, 2009 - As a follow-up to the news-story below [Mainstream Media Absent as Activists Against Racism Movement Delivers 700 Signatures], I thought the community would be interested in knowing that on Monday afternoon, October 19, 2009 —- I joined the list of U.S. citizens who have received uninvited, unexplainable and unwelcome visits to their homes by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) [...] as I continued to reflect on the situation —- I was reminded of information in Malcolm's autobiography, in which he discussed being visited by the FBI numerous times. I just smiled to myself, and said wow —- I'm in good company.