Archive - Aug 21, 2009

Mainshill Update - increase in police surveillance

The Mainshill Solidarity Camp was set up in June to stop an open cast coal mine from being built next to the village of Douglass in South Lanarkshire. Two weeks ago it hosted the Camp for Climate Action Scotland. The camp has treehouses, towers and tunnels all built to resist eviction.

Since the end of Climate Camp Scotland we've been sorting out left over tat and continuing building defences. This week we have had an increase in Police surveillance with early morning visits on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Both times two police officers walked around the site taking video footage of defences.

Greece, Lefkada Island: police brutality against a Roma

The gripping account of the brutal beating of a Roma youth (gypsy) by the secret police on the Greek island of Lefkada, in front of his parents, during an identity card
check on 14th August 2009.

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