Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, tagged citizen journalism, g20, g20 death, ian tomlinson on April 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Breaking News right now on the BBC…
A new post mortem says Ian Tomlinson died from an abdominal haemorrhage not a heart attack after contact with police during the G20 protests.
The statement from the City of London Coroners Court overturns the initial assessment that the newspaper seller died of natural causes.
This stunning news now appears to [...]
Posted in activism, tagged g20, g20 death, ian tomlinson, police on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The guardian now has a fairly substantial list of eyewitness reports surrounding the Police attacking Ian Tomlinson shortly before his death on April 1st
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/apr/08/g20-ian-tomlinson-death-witnesses
The main protests of the day had ebbed away but hundreds of people were still penned inside a police cordon near the Bank of England around 7pm last Wednesday when newspaper seller [...]
Posted in activism, cultural criticism, media, tagged climate camp, g20, g20 meltdown, ian tomlinson, police brutality on April 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The guardian has now released this footage showing Police attacking Ian Tomlinson
Their behaviour here, attacking a man with his back turned, and hands in his pockets is entirely in keeping with the rest of their violent and unprovoked behaviour on 1st April 2009.
The Lib Dems justice spokesperson David Howarth has come [...]
Posted in activism, media, tagged bbc, death, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, media, police, propaganda on April 7, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The Guardian has posted the statements of three eyewitnesses who all claim to have seen first hand the Police violently attacking Ian Tomlinson minutes before he collapsed.
A riot officer came up behind him and grabbed him. It wasn’t just pushing him – he’d rushed him. He went to the floor and he did actually roll. [...]
Posted in activism, climate change, media, media activism, tagged climate camp, g20, guardian, ian tomlinson, police, protest, violence on April 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This from the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/05/g20-protest-ian-tomlinson
The man who died during last week’s G20 protests was “assaulted” by riot police shortly before he suffered a heart attack, according to witness statements received by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.
Investigators are examining a series of corroborative accounts that allege Ian Tomlinson, 47, was a victim of police violence in the [...]
Posted in activism, media activism, tagged activism, climate camp, direct action, g20, indymedia, london, protest on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
For coverage of tomorrow and Thursday’s G20 protests acrosss london be sure to check out London Indymedia and UK Indymedia who will be providing live updates on the day’s actions.
As the Police have been talking up the ’summer of rage’ before any kind of protest/demonstrations have occured it seems likely that there is likely to [...]
