Stokes Croft video

There's now a very interesting video about the Stokes Croft affair, as told by the people who were there. I believe this is a rough cut, but it looks pretty good to me:

There had been a plan to screen this in a local park the night before last, but the police reportedly confiscated the screen and sent everyone away on the grounds of "public order". So, they decided to show it in someone's house instead - with semi-comic results...

Stokes Croft video

There's now a very interesting video about the Stokes Croft affair, as told by the people who were there. I believe this is a rough cut, but it looks pretty good to me:

There had been a plan to screen this in a local park the night before last, but the police reportedly confiscated the screen and sent everyone away on the grounds of "public order". So, they decided to show it in someone's house instead - with semi-comic results...

Panem et Circenses

I heard that Stokes Croft had been blocked off (yet) again, so wandered down there this afternoon. It was at least more low-key than some recent events, though there was still a superfluity of riot shields, police vans, etc.



( Meanwhile, behind the lines )

In other news...

Twenty-five police arrest a couple of pensioners and someone in fancy dress for intending to take part in street theatre.

Only selected crowds were allowed to gather in London today.

According to Laurie Penny, the police have been using the excuse of the Middleton/Windsor wedding to clean up protesters and scruffy customers of all stripes, on the pretext that they might - who knows? - be planning to disrupt the happy event: "The royal couple can rest safe in the knowledge that they are being protected from cooking workshops and mother-and-toddler yoga sessions."

Facebook has been purging the accounts of protest groups such as UK Uncut.

By the way, isn't it terrible, the crackdown on protests that's going on in Syria? Aren't you glad nothing like that happens in this country?

Panem et Circenses

I heard that Stokes Croft had been blocked off (yet) again, so wandered down there this afternoon. It was at least more low-key than some recent events, though there was still a superfluity of riot shields, police vans, etc.



( Meanwhile, behind the lines )

In other news...

Twenty-five police arrest a couple of pensioners and someone in fancy dress for intending to take part in street theatre.

Only selected crowds were allowed to gather in London today.

According to Laurie Penny, the police have been using the excuse of the Middleton/Windsor wedding to clean up protesters and scruffy customers of all stripes, on the pretext that they might - who knows? - be planning to disrupt the happy event: "The royal couple can rest safe in the knowledge that they are being protected from cooking workshops and mother-and-toddler yoga sessions."

Facebook has been purging the accounts of protest groups such as UK Uncut.

By the way, isn't it terrible, the crackdown on protests that's going on in Syria? Aren't you glad nothing like that happens in this country?