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| 30th November 1994
| Issue 2 Justice? Brighton's Campaign in Defiance of the Criminal Injustice Act SchNEWS
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Hunt Sabs 63 A recent article in the Evening Argus quoted Sussex police as saying that despite the Criminal Injustice Act being law there will not be "a dramatic change in policing in Sussex". But while the country has been slow of the mark other police authorities have been lapping up the new powers... Hunt Sabs have made a flying start in the CIA league with 63 arrests so far. In Essex 33 were arrested in violent clashes with police, 23 were charged with aggravated trespass. According to the Hunt Sabs implementation has been patchy up and down the country, with Police the monitoring the situation and awaiting home office guidelines for a possible clampdown in January. Travellers in Scotland leapt into 2nd place, mysteriously being "charged but not arrested". Apparently under the illegal clamping clauses a site of 5 vehicles, and 5 benders were moved off Forestry Commission land. And on the Level, Brighton Council are going to evict all vehicles parked there saying the places are needed for people to shop. One traveller said "what about places for people to live?" Meanwhile in Truro, Cornwall, 130 herbalists marching against proposed EC restrictions on "natural" medicines were told by police that under the Act only 49 of them could march without a permit. So it seems apparent the clampdown has begun but not just on travellers, hunt sabbers and road protesters being targeted. And perhaps that will be the Act's downfall. CARRYING ON DEFYING! Courthouse Trashed!The Courthouse has been smashed to fuck, our keen on the spot investigator that they have knocked holes in some exterior walls and trashed the roof. This is interesting because Alford Developments, the owners, promised under oath that they would use the building to house the homeless over christmas, under the Winter Watch scheme. The Council Empty Properties Officer told them at the time that the Courthouse was the last building he'd put forward as it was already in effective use by Justice? The owners haven't been in touch with Winter Watch and they certainly haven't put any money into it and the Council can't seem to get it together to fund the scheme either. So it looks like the Courthouse will be housing one security guard and his dog over christmas. Let's hope its bloody draughty!
Racist AttacksThere have been four firebomb attacks in less than two weeks on Manor Hill off-licence in Whitehawk. Police have said they believe the attacks to be racially motivated. The ANL are also trying to stop a Kemptown address being used for despatching racist material across Europe. They're having a meeting on the 14 Dec 94 @ Whitehawk youth centre to discuss opposition to Fascism. ERT goes homeKeith Richardson, secretary general of the European Round Table of Industrialists, came to Sussex University last week to give a talk on "Europe - co-operation or conflict". The ERT group are made up of 40 leading capitalists representing a combined annual sales turnover of 400 biliion. They boast they can talk to any European minister at any level whenever they wish, and it is they that are pushing for new motorways across Europe, closer co-operation between industry and Europe, restructuring of the labour market (ie crap wages/no benefits) etc. Unfortunately for Rlchardson around 1/3 of his audience didn't want to hear what he had to say and under a barrage of abuse and heckling the talk was finally abandoned. Amid complaints about freedom of speech in a democracy one heckler replied "no-one votes for the ERT and their views are pushed down our throats every single day of our lives. Freedom of speech is a valuable principle but not for those who use it to deny liberty. Quote of the Week #1"Labour must not go down in history as a party anxious to abolish the pleasures of others." From Leave Country Sports Alone, Labour supporters campaign leaflet. Quote of the Week #2"Let there be light" God
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