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Wake Up! Wake Up! The World Is Under Attack!

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Special Report Of Resistance to the first year of the Criminal Justice Act

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CJA!

ONE YEAR ON FROM 'THE POLL TAX ON ACID'

The spark of the largest grassroots direct action movement in a decade, the Criminal Justice Act, is one year old. Happy anniversary. Other struggles come and go, but the fight against Michael Howard's little crowd-pleaser has become a fight for our very own cultural identity. Now that our skin and bones have effectively become the front line in the war on political and social dissent, the choice of whether or not to stand and fight is arbitrary.

But was it ever just about the CJA? Wasn't it about bringing people together at places like the Courthouse, Justice?'s most successful squatted community centre? This not only acted as a springboard for SchNEWS, Conscious Cinema and a million other dreams and ventures, but got people off their arses, thinking about things for the first time, doing things they would normally never do, talking to people they'd never usually talk to. Showing just what we can achieve without the politicians and bureaucrats - creating a so-called DiY culture, but a culture which always seems to flourish when people are under threat or in struggle.

And is Justice? really about getting the CJA repealed - end of story? Please write to your MP and sign our petition ... we don't think so.

As political parties lurch further to the right the vacuum becomes ever more clearer for us to fill. Direct action gets results but it isn't just about being against things.

It shouldn't just be about single issues but challenging the whole way it runs:
* anti-roadbuilding action is now about reclaiming our streets and highlighting the need to end the 'tyranny of the motorcar.'
* saying no to out of town shopping centres and endless consumer crap is about growing your own veg.
* living in a vehicle or bender is about low-impact lifestyles.
* squatting is about recycling the empties.
* producing our own newsletters and videos is two fingers up to censorship and about putting out what we think - not what people think about us.
* free parties is about saying no to crap clubs with rip-off prices and numbskull bouncers.

And all of this is about having fun, being yourself and breaking out of the work-consume-die mentality that is killing the planet. It's an organic, evolving energy engaged in celebration as a struggle. A coming together of the people. So what of the future? One year on, there is a vision, a mushrooming of positive solutions. We need to work towards sustainable lifestyles as well as fighting back.

WHAT DO YOU THINK? AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT?

STAND UP FOR YOUR RIGHTS!

"My message is simple. If they beat us, they'll be coming for you soon"

Merseyside is seeing an escalating wave of industrial action. In the last few months dockers, fire-fighters and residential care-workers have taken industrial action over worsening terms and conditions at work.

Nearly 500 dockers are entering their fifth week on strike. The Port Authorities who made a tidy £35 million last year have been trying to smash the unions power for some time. They want a seven-day week, three-shift day with no union recognition! The 'wildcat' strikers - triggered by an almost random sacking of five workers - have had no money, no official backing from their union and so no strike pay. However, they have organised themselves so that hundreds turn out for regular mass meetings and rotas that ensure pickets at 6 gates into the docks 24 hours a day.

In October all 500 sacked workers attempted to return to work with signed legal documents drawn up by the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) but were met with a massive police presence who threatened them with the new 'illegal trespass' laws. However under an 1848 by-law dockers are allowed to go into the docks as far as the water - so the police then changed their tune and said it was 'unsafe' to enter with such a large crowd!

They are in urgent need of donations.

Please send cash and letters of support to

Jimmy Davies, secretary, Port Stewards, TGWU, Transport House, 37 Islington, Liverpool 3 Tel 0151 207 3388

THE SILENCERS

If you thought peaceful protest was being stamped on and that letter writing from the comfort of your own home was a safer bet - think again.

Now even complaining in writing could see you in court! 5 people who wrote to Sandown racecourse urging the cancellation of the COPEX 95 arms fair are to be sued for libel. Each had ignored solicitors letters demanding they apologise to COPEX and pay £176 legal costs. 8 people from Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAA T) who triggered the letter-writing campaign by calling the fair a 'market place for electroshock batons and other torture equipment' have also been issued writs. In fact organisers COPEX have been dishing them out like confetti at a wedding. GreenLine magazine, the National Peace Council, Peace News, the Peace Pledge Union, Sporting Life and the News and Mail have all had solicitors' letters landing on their doormats.

COPEX describe their show as the "definitive showcase of internal security, counter insurgency and special operations equipment and services" but with countries like Iran, Saudi Arabia, China, Columbia, and Algeria having a good sniff around at COPEX 94 - many of whom Amnesty International regard as states which systematically practice torture - you wonder what these nice 'equipment and services' will be used for? Still if money's to be made ...

So why the paranoia? It seems COPEX want to head off a similar campaign that happened this year in Germany, when one of their shows was cancelled just 4 days before it was due to begin coz of pressure from local peace and human rights action groups.

* Undeterred by writs CAAT went ahead with a non-violent blockade of this week's arms fair. 60 people closed the site for couple of hours with repeated invasions of the site. 0171 281 0297

SchNEWS YEAR REPORT

"Fancy a bite to eat? We won't have a burger, there's a McLibel demo outside the shop. We certainly won't buy veal - RIP Jill Phipps. Can't really go for a spin, since we are boycotting petrol stations and motorway extensions. People are living in trees at the end of the road. Head for a train, past the patchwork of travellers' buses and trucks parked up on wasteground by the station. Give them a wave. Have a laugh at the slogans on the defaced billboards. Catch sight of a TV shop showing the news of the Home Secretary's house being invaded by the homeless. Britain's changing. Great isn't it?"
- George McKay, Senseless Acts of Beauty

Where were you?
NOVEMBER 94

3.11.94 Preparing for defiance as the CJB gained Royal Assent to become the new-born Criminal Justice Act. WHAAAAAAA!

4.11.94 Up a crane in Manchester - within 24 hours of the Act becoming law, four people - Ollie, Pete, Chris and Paul - were the first people in the country to be arrested for 'aggravated trespass' for the No M65 campaign. On the roofs of Parliament... later that day, five activists climbed on to the roofs of Westminster Hall at the Houses of Parliament and sat silhouetted against Big Ben with a 'DEFY THE CJA' banner for all the world to see. Could've kissed 'em!

11.11.94 On the roof of the squatted Courthouse, a community centre in Brighton resisting the eviction. Birthplace of a million dreams...

20.11.94 In Michael Howard's backgarden, Folkestone, when 400 people put the Home Secretary and the Government on trial and found them Very Guilty Indeed. While In Essex, police made a mass arrest of 31 hunt sabs in an operation costing £40,000 and marred by allegations of serious assault, including one woman who was beaten semi-conscious with a truncheon while she had her hands cuffed behind her back.

27.11.94 On the top of 'Dolly', a 100ft tower on a doomed squat In Claremont Rd, East London, at the start of Britain's longest post war eviction. Lasting five days it cost the Department of Transport £2M and involved over 700 police, 200 bailiffs and 400 security guards to evict protestors from houses due to be demolished for the M11 Link Rd.

"The Act is, quite simply, a mess. Most police forces have been vary wary of using it, as it is so badly put together it's impossible to put it into practice. The blame for this shambles must be laid firmly at the door of the Home Secretary who introduced the act for the sake of a few cheap cheers at party conference. We anticipate there will be more acquittals, more charges dropped, and that those police forces who seek to use the act in an aggressive way such as Kent and Northamptonshire will be facing a hefty bill for damages with precious little to show in the way of convictions." - Hunt Sabs Association

DECEMBER

17.12.94 At Crookesmoor Middle School in Sheffield where 300 activists held a manic DiY conference to plan the New Year of protest after squatting the empty building - and then tatted a Port-a-loo to stink out the visiting namesake and then Employment Secretary, Michael.

JANUARY '95

2.1.95 On top of a lorry In Shoreham, Sussex, stopping live animal exports in the first action of a six month campaign. Local residents and activists blocked the road forcing the lorries to turn back. The widely-reported window-smashing incident led to 1,500 police turning up the following night, outnumbering protestors six to one.

27.1.95 On top of a lorry in Brightlingsea, Essex, as the live animal trade moved into the tiny community of 8,000 and the police waded into protestors....

28.1.95 On a CJA Defiance Demo in Maidstone, Kent, where police arrested 33 'ringleaders' (most of the demonstrators) they said had organised the march. All charges were later dropped.

FEBRUARY

2.2.95 JILL PHIPPS, 31, is crushed to death by a lorry carrying calves for veal transport at Coventry Airport. Anger beyond belief. RIP. The third animal rights protestor killed under the wheels of animal abusers' vehicles. No-one has been prosecuted for any of their deaths.

13.2.95 In a Kamikazie car convoy to Pollok, Glasgow, from Brighton and Oxford via a host of road campaigns, to be burnt out and buried for 'CarHenge' in the path of the proposed M77. At dawn the following day - St Valentine's - treecutters, bailiffs and police moved in to evict tree dwelling activists protecting the largest urban green space in Europe.

MARCH14.3.95 Invading the site at Solsbury Hill with 250 rampant road protestors on the anniversary of the first action.25.3.95 On a Cardiff City supporters coach, halted by a roadblock outside Plymouth, where police stopped and searched all 36 fans and put them the cells for seven hours before releasing them without charge.

And that was sixteen days before the new 'sus' sections of the CJA became law.

APRIL

28.4.95 Performing naked at a golf-course on St George's Hill in a 'St George and the Dragon' play done Donga-stylee, marking the launch of 'The Land Is Ours' campaign, at the site where the Diggers began their land actions in 1649. For a week people camped half a mile away on land by disused Wisley Airfield and transformed it into a little eco-paradise.

MAY

1.5.95 Up a tree in the 'cosmic village In the sky' at beautiful Stanworth Valley, near Preston, for the Mayday start of a dangerous five day eviction of over forty tree-houses - linked by aerial walkways - in the path of the M65 extension. Two teams of mountain rescue climbers, hundreds of police, bailiffs and private security, two cherrypickers, two caterpillars, miles of fencing, a press blackout, 63 Public Order arrests and several hundreds of thousand pounds of tax-payers money to plough through ancient woodland and continue the govt's insane £16 billion roads programme. Will they ever get the plot?

8.5.95 Holding hands in a ring round Stonehenge with 300 people at dawn. A VE Day celebration with a message. Happy, happy day.

12.5.95 Dancing on the cars in Camden High Street kicking off a summer season of anti-car protests with Reclaim The Streets. A thousand people enjoyed a car-free day with bands, jugglers, a pedal-powered SoundSystem and free food.

JUNE

1.6.95 At an open-cast mine in Garforth, Leeds, where police arrested 19 people for 'aggravated trespass'- including the press!

20.6.95 On a tower on the roof of an East London squat dubbed Munstonia, the last house on the route of the M11, which was taken over when security popped out for a cup of tea....

22.6.95 Putting two fingers up at the Northern Cruiser, as the live animals are exported for the last time (?) through Shoreham Harbour. In six months over 300 people had been arrested under the catch-all Public Order Act and police costs put at (a conservative) £4M. Ever seen 400 grannies giving the Nazi salute to coppers?

24.6.95 Standing victorious on the top of the Brent Spar in the North Sea, as the world's biggest multi-national, Shell, is forced to back down over dumping the dustbin. "I watched as the tugs started turning slowly round and the biggest rainbow I'd ever seen arced across the sky. I stood on deck in a state of shock, holding a flare, my face agog, going 'Wow!"' - Al Baker.

26.6.95 Climbing over a fence at Glastonbury Festival which was declared Europe's biggest free fezzy after 300 yrds of 10ft fencing was ripped down by those who couldn't afford the £68 racket ...I mean ticket....

28.6.95 At the Old Bailey in court with McDonalds as the McLibel trial - Britain's longest running libel case - entered its second year. McDs have been regretting suing Dave & Helen ever since as more and more unsavoury McDetails emerge.

JULY

"Where the CJA has really bitten hard is the free festival movement and the travellers. There's been a mass exodus to Spain and Ireland, where there is less harassment. Without a strong travelling community, it's impossible to have a viable free festival network" - Michelle Poole, Advance Party

7.7.95 Driving around in car for 72 hours looking for The Mother ... the big free anti-CJA festy that never was. A massive police operation of phonetaps, roadblocks and surveillance splintered the party into lots of little babies. Black Moon soundsystem had their rig seized. Eight people were later charged with 'conspiracy to cause a public nuisance' for allegedly organising the non-event - a common law charge which carries a maximum life sentence! Cases are pending.

23.7.95 Raving Against The Machine, as Islington's Upper St - London's main Northern artery - is turned into a thumping great Sunday street party with 2,000 revellers and a soundsystem in a tank! On the evening remaining stragglers found themselves on the wrong side of a line of police riot shields.

AUGUST

1.8.95 Squatting a derelict Pier in Brighton, as homeless people launch 'Operation Crusty' to highlight their eviction as a community from beach chalets. The collective have since moved into a disused nunnery but are being taken to court by 'The Poor Servants of the Mother of God'!

9.8.95 Dripping with blood and playing dead at Faslane at the main gates of the Clyde nuclear submarine base to mark Nagasaki Day - fifty years since the bomb was dropped killing 74,000 in the Japanese city. Police arrested 32 people for Public Order offences.

SEPTEMBER

5.9.95 In an 8ftx8ft cell on Muroroa in the middle of a Nuclear Test - that's where one activist was when the French caused a worldwide storm of protest with their first South Pacific explosion. Al, and cohort Matt, managed to stay at large on the island for 31 hours undetected by thousands of crack French troops.

9.9.95 Digging up the Michael Heseltine's backgarden searching for coal in protest at the environmental nightmare of open-cast sites.

OCTOBER

"The historical fact is that bad laws have been repeatedly overturned by illegal action. In a hundred years time, those involved in protest today may well be regarded as heroes" - PAJ Waddington, Liberty and Order

2.10.95 Being arrested for theft of a biro and other nonsense charges as 31 people are nicked on the first National Day of Action against the Job Seeker's Allowance ...and later infiltrating Newsnight and ruffling Jeremy Paxman to reveal this joke to millions on TV.

8.10.95 Claiming a right Royal victory as 400yr-old trees in Windsor Great Park are saved from the chop by people sitting in the trees and refusing to move for two months.

17.10.95 Driving in a freedom convoy behind a Scottish Pipe Band as the residents of the Isle of Skye say 'NO TOLL TAX' at the opening of the extortionate bridge to the mainland. More than 30 are nicked for Public Order offences.

24.10.95 Sharing a barn with security at Brynhenllys.. as poorly-paid 'slaves' and anti-opencast activists battle for five-days over a monster development that will gouge a hole visible from space out of the heart of the Welsh valleys. More than 40 nicked for Public Order offences.

29.10.95 Wanting to blow-up Chirac at Chequers as 600 people run wild at the Prime Minister's country residence as the de-test-able French President flies in to meet his only friend in the world.

NOVEMBER

1.11.95 Celebrating in Brightlingsea as Roger Mills' live export company goes down the pan (we hope). During nine months over 600 people - or one in 15 of the population - were nicked for Public Order offences. Judge Forbes ruling against Mills in a test-case over the validity of direct action drew a parallel with Gandhi.

3.11.95 Waiting outside a court where Iggy from the Whitstable Flat Oak Tribe could find himself the first person in the country jailed under the CJA - ironically a year to the day it became law. Keen Kent coppers have been wielding the CJA stick nicking over sixty people for "aggravated trespass" since protests against the Thanet Way road extension in Kent began.

"Carry on breaking the law - it's only the only way to beat it" - Phil Pritchard, Road Alert!

AQUITOMETER 90%

In the year since the Criminal Justice Act became law over 500 people have been arrested but not a single one jailed (until today?). In fact, around 90% of cases have been dropped or, when they have gone to trial, defendants are acquitted. Many police forces have been wary of testing a poorly-drafted piece of legislation and have opted for a more widespread use of the 1986 Public Order Act - making over 1,200 arrests at live animal export demonstrations alone in the last 12 months. However, the CJA has been used countless times as intimidation. Peaceful protest has, however, been effectively banned by the use of outrageous bail conditions. It seems not to matter whether charges will stand up if the police can bar someone from protest sites until trial. The immobilised protestor then faces up to six months wait when the ludicrous charges are then dropped and no trial takes place and people are acquitted. Many people are now suing the police for wrongful arrest, false imprisonment and malicious prosecution. These figures are as accurate as we can get them. The indication they give is that the police are acting as political servants of the government and their vested interests. It also shows clearly that the Criminal Justice Act is simply not working.

* Since the riot at Hyde Park last year, when the media first woke up to the CJA, protestors have gone from fighting in the streets to fighting in the courts - and winning time after time:

31.8.95 Travellers in Crowborough, East Sussex successfully challenged an eviction order under Section 77 of the CJA when Judge Sedley announced the law was 'Draconian' and 'unlawful' on the grounds that Councils have a legal duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children in need under the Children's Act.

13.9.95 A Druid, King Arthur Pendragon, beat down Babylon in the first test-case of Section 71 of the CJA 'trespassory assemblies' (where gatherings of more than 20 people are declared illegal by decree from Chief Constables). Back then his annual celebration at Stonehenge was stopped by the boys in blue - but now Excalibur has cut another swathe from the Government's field of Law Und Ordnung.

28.9.95 Already condemned by the United Nations, Part 1 of the CJA - the building of children's prisons for 12-14 year olds - was taken to the High Court by the Howard League for Penal Reform who extracted major concessions from the Home Office. Local Authorities in 3 of 5 cases have refused planning permission. Not a brick has yet been built.

2.11.95 Black Moon Soundsystem had their £9,000 rig confiscated in July but have had their rave test-case adjourned again - for the seventh time. Are the powers-that-be scared or do the police just wanna have a party? We should be told.

SchNEWS Yearly Awards'We've got our CJA knickers in a twist' award to KENT CONSTABULARY'Come and have a go if you think yer hard enuff' award to RECLAIM THE STREETS'Builder from Lewes' award to AL BAKER'Best activist age group' award to UNDER-13s'Have I got a sign pointing to my head' award to LINDIS PERCY(7 CJA ARRESTS)

Where will you be? Carry on protesting!

You could be sitting in the Mothership, the UK's biggest tree-house, in Newbury (get on the phonetree - 01635 521770) protecting trees as work is due to start next Wednesday on the £6M contract to clear the site to make way for the Newbury Bypass . or digging down in the underground tunnels and defending a Hillfort at the 'University of Road Protests' at Fairmile in Exeter (01404 815729) ... or come on the Earth First! national action on Dec 3/4 helping to shut down the proposed SuperQuarry in Whatley, Somerset (01935 825074) .... get on your bike for Critical Mass and reclaim the streets for the day on the last Friday of every month in London (meet Waterloo Bridge 5.45pm) and the first Saturday in Brighton (meet 12pm at St Peter's Church) .... defend the dole on the JobSeeker's Allowance Action in Oxford on Nov 24th (01273 671213) ... join anti-opencast mine protestors at Selar Farm Nature Reserve in South Wales when the eviction starts (01639 830553) ... or stay in bed and let it all happen. Your silence is your approval . get active & go for it!

SARO-WIWA TO DIE

On Tuesday Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of the main activists against Shell Oil's destruction of the Ogoni Lands in Nigeria, was given a death sentence.The Ogoni land is one of the most polluted places on the planet, with fountains of oil pouring into villagers' fields, contaminated water, leaking pipelines, pools of sulphur and drainage problems. Shell were allowed to do this because oil is Nigeria's biggest commodity. It accounts for 90% of its national revenue and 50% of the oil extracted is by Shell. Ken's brother, Dr Owens Saro-Wiwa said "The land is so devastated environmentally that fishermen and farmers cannot sustain their lives." The Ogoni are forced to import goods to live. They have no choice but to take direct action to save their land and their whole way of life.

Ken belongs to the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), who began a campaign against the destruction and complete burnout of their land 5 years ago. Their aim was to force the oil giants to repair the environmental damage done and to increase the share of the oil revenues to the 500,000 Ogoni people. MOSOP's continual protests eventually forced Shell to halt its operations in the middle of 1993. The demonstrations continued and the Nigerian military began using mobile 'kill and go' police to attack them. Ken was framed for the murder of four Ogoni - two of whom were his in-laws and another two who were his close friends. It was alleged that he did it because they sold out to the military but the trial was purely politically motivated and the military used bribery and harassment to deter witnesses for Ken.

Now he faces death - a verdict condemned by Amnesty International and other human rights groups and people from all over the world. When news reached England, 35 Reclaim the Streeters getting nowhere outside the Earl's Court Motor Show, invaded the Nigerian Embassy smashing windows, pouring red paint everywhere and doing a banner drop. There were 16 arrests under the Public Order Act.

GIVE SHELL MORE HELL! 0181 960 9960

INSIDE SchNEWS

STUART EDWARDS PB 1864 who got 18 months for alleged damage to a road construction site has been moved to an open prison. Please write to him at Stanford Prison, Church Rd.. East Church, Sheerness, Kent, ME12 4AA.

Meanwhile JIM CHAMBERS charged with the same offence as Stuart but having already spent 160 days inside on remand should be out mid-November.MARK SKELLY got 12 months for his alleged role in the riot after last Octobers anti CJA demonstration at Hyde Park. FH 1589 HMP Ranby, Retford, Notts., DN22 8EU.

TREFOR HARRIS also at the Hyde Park riot got 20 months for affray FH 1875 HMP Brixton, Jebb Ave., Brixton, London, SW2 SXF.

MAJOR HEADACHE!

Over 500 hundred protesters invaded Chequers on Sunday, in protest at continued French nuclear testing. President Jacques Chirac arrived at the Prime Minister's country retreat that evening for "dinner and a summit". Twelve people were arrested under the CJA - one, wearing a John Major mask, said "I'm sure that's why the police were so rough". Two were taken to hospital with minor injuries.

One activist described the scene as "wonderful, colourful, angry chaos!" as 150 police, many on horseback, struggled to round up protesters, who were spread all over the field in front of the house.

The Third French nuclear test took place last Friday at Mururoa, 11pm Paris time. The French Defence Ministry said the blast was equal to about 60,000 tons of TNT. "This test was aimed at guaranteeing the reliability and safety of weapons in the future". The safety and reliability of the Atoll itself is still under debate.

Meanwhile people are still disgusted with Chirac's hypocrisy for suggesting that the Pacific become a Nuclear Free Zone after this round of tests. "Its not just that they're not clearing up after themselves" said Hannah Rohan of Youth CND, "but they're not even going to stop developing nukes. These tests are to give them the data to design them with computers - meaning that they can still increase their nuclear arsenals without the unwelcome attention that nuclear tests bring."

Major Facts: (1) The British Prime Minister is the only Commonwealth leader not to condemn the tests. France wouldn't have dared to carry out a test on the eve of a visit to any other country but he knew he could rely on Major's support. (2) He has openly said that he doesn't think Chirac has a choice and he likes using words like "responsible", "safe", "reliable" and "scientific" in sentences that also contain the word "nuclear".

* Environment Secretary John Gummer was left sitting on his own at the first International Children's Conference in Eastbourne last week. All the other delegates stood up when asked if they were against the French Nuke tests.

24-hr CND line: 0171 700 2393

SchNEWS IN BRIEF

Joy for the people of Brightlingsea where Roger Mills - the man who brought live animal exports to the town - has temporarily stop trading. Next Wednesday he goes to the High Court where his business should hopefully be wound up. Pissed off lorry drivers, fed up with losing so much money finally pulled the plug on the man triggering off celebrations all-round. This Saturday there's a party at the local community centre and everyone is welcome, except perhaps Mills. For accommodation BALE 01206 304241

*** Michael Heseltine 's new electronic desk diary cost £150,000 to put in and will cost £10,000 a year to run. Bargain.

*** The McLibel trial continues.... burgers sold partly cooked, kitchens with 2 inches of raw sewage on the floor, racist, sexist, and homophobic treatment of staff. It's all coming out. It was 3 years last month since a McD's employee was electrocuted while at work in a Manchester outlet. The trial continues 0171 713 1269

*** The Post Office apologised for late delivery of letters with addresses written in Gaelic. Apparently the new technological gadgetry that sorts out the mail finds it illogical and the computer doesn't understand. Maybe activists, paranoid about surveillance cameras, DNA databases and other techno crap should consider taking a Gaelic lingo course

***A 59-year-old bloke from Worthing, who has spent months trying to get a response for his claim for incapacity benefit, super glued himself to a desk at the benefits agency. His acute back problems made him take early retirement but even after his extreme action all he got was some leaflets on making claims (and a mention in the SchNEWS).

*** 11 people are up in court this week after a demo on Climate Action Day at Hope Street in Glasgow (Britain's most polluted street). The 1st day got adjourned because the court couldn't find a video machine or tape player anywhere in Glasgow to show the evidence!

Party and Protest

WED 8th Picket of "Management Summit 95" 9-11am Park Lane Hotel, Piccadilly, London, W 1 (Hyde Park Corner tube) Executives from Nestle, McDonalds etc. will he speaking 0171 713 1269

SAT 11th Rembrance weekend. Info: Peace Pledge Union 0171 387 5501

SAT 11th Newbury Bypass Public Meeting & Direct Action Training Day. Brighton Unemployed Centre 12 noon - 4pm. Third Battle of Newbury: 01635 45544

SAT 11th International Day of Action Stop The Hawks - No Arms To Indonesia, anniversary of Dili massacre, East Timor 0161 8340295

FRI 17th Raise Your Banners 'a celebration of political song' 0114 255 0262

FRI 17th United Systems benefit nite Club UK Wandsworth, London 0181 959 7525

SUN 19th Remberance Day for Road Victims 0181 964 1021

MON 20th SchNEWS 1st BIRTHDAY BASH at the Concorde, Brighton. Speakers, Conscious Cinema, Live SchNEWS plus Hoof Lung & DJ's Nikki and Markus 01273 685913

NOV 22-3rd DEC National Tree Week (this year sponsored by Esso!) 0171 828 9928

FRI 24th 'Mother' festival trial for 'conspirarcy charges' begins 0181 450 6929

FRI 24th-27th Sellafield Women's Peace Camp (5th Birthday Party) 01706 371 387

SAT 25th Groundswell National No Jobseeker's Allowance Conference in Oxford 01865 723750

THUR 30th The Land Is Ours 7pm Rainbow Centre, Kentish Town, to discuss strategy and aims 01865 722016

and Finally

THE NIGHT OF THE BONFIRE BOYS:
"In both Rye and Guildford policemen were thrown onto bonfires by angry mobs. The Rye Bonfire Boys gained extra notoriety for themselves when they set fire to the Mayor's private yacht, dragged it out of the harbour and left it, burning, outside the Town Hall. Increased police manpower from the 1880s onwards, coupled with various political and social reforms, led to a decline in Bonfire Boy activity. Yet although the last serious rioting took place in Lewes in 1904, violent scuffles between youthful mobs and the police took place in Sussex as recently as 1959. All of which suggests that although times change, the idea that there once existed a trouble-free golden age of law and order is, in all probability, a myth." So put that in your arse and light it, Mr Howard.

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