I guess that if big brother is watching, I`m on his list now......

[Guest guest]

from latest edition of gagged ( from gwent anarchists) War Crimes The Lancet has published that approximately 655,000 Iraqis have been killed since the illegal invasion. Men, women & children have been blown apart by smart bombs, sliced up by cluster bombs, burnt alive by napalm & white phosphorus, executed without trial by US/UK death squads (with the aid of mercenaries), shot to pieces by trigger happy GIs, beaten up, tortured & raped. This mass murder is the direct result of the actions of George Bush & Tony Blair supported by all the Labour MPs in Wales. They talk of the promotion of democracy or ironically the "war on terror" whilst it is British & American state terrorism that is being waged in the name of peace! The fact is the war in Iraq was planned long before the attacks of 11/9/01. The right wing junta that controls the white house is following through the vision of the

Project for a New American Century. Their desire for greater control of the region's highly profitable resources being the motivation for invasion & occupation. Even General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army & as deep in the ruling class quagmire as anyone, admits that British troops in Iraq are making things worse, not better. Despite the cries of being taken out of context by Blair, the call for war is getting pretty weak when even your own general wants to pack up & go home. Over two million people protested against the war in Iraq, along with millions more around the world. We were right! Not only should the troops be brought home, Bush & Blair should be tried for war crimes. Ransack Parliment 9th October marked the first Sack Parliament demonstration; called to coincide with the return to work for all our hard-working MPs after their summer hols. It seems that the

honourable gentlemen & ladies do nothing else these days than lead the country into illegal wars & tear up age-old rights, so a hundred peaceful protesters turned out to blockade the MPs entry into the house of conmen. In their way were 800 well-armed police thugs; some on horseback hidden round the back of Parliament Square, out of sight of the tourists. Protesters were quickly hemmed in by police whilst those who avoided the cordon were hunted down & arrested for taking part in an illegal demonstration. Under new laws, namely the Serious Organised Crime & Police Act 2005 (SOCPA) - it is now illegal to protest within one kilometre of Parliament Square. Unless, of course, youre Brian Haw, who continues his vigil in the square, despite SOCPA which was introduced precisely to get rid of this irritating individual. Others have not been able to escape the draconian new measures. Maya Evans was the first to be convicted

in December 2005, for reading out the names of dead British soldiers & Iraqis in front of the bars of Downing Street. Recently Milan Rai has been in court for the more heinous crime of organising an illegal demonstration. 38 people were arrested & bailed that day. Some before they'd even got to the demo. A samba band was turned away by police. Protesters were punched & there are allegations that pepper spray was used. Most are due back on 11th December to be charged. Watch this space. Guantanamo Burger & Torture Coffee To cater to the tastes of the jailers & torturers of people illegally imprisoned, there is a Starbucks & a McDonalds at the US Base in Guantanamo Bay. This news seemed to come as a revelation to staff & customers of these franchises in Cardiff. On Saturday 21st October, a hooded figure representing Guantanamo prisoners was escorted through both Starbucks & McDonalds in

Queen Street. Activists held placards with messages such as: Good Bloody Coffee? & Torture? Would you like Fries with that? They handed out flyers with further information & a link to www.cageprisoners.com before delivering anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) to managers. Though there was a hostile reaction from management at both locations, a number of staff & customers responded sympathetically. Kitchen workers in McDonalds clapped & cheered while potential customers were so outraged to learn of McDonalds complicity in Guantanamo that they promptly walked out. Obviously deeply disgusted, one young man hurled heartfelt & well directed admonishment at the manager: Shame on you! Ignoring such reactions & rejecting the information they were offered, managers at both venues expressed neither the slightest

interest nor offered any hint of an apology. Did you get a free vegan burger with this gagged!? The basic idea of Food not Bombs is for people to get together in public on a regular basis to cook & share free food. Three Food not Bombs veggie burger giveaways have been held in South Wales so far this year, two in Cardiff & one on a rainy Saturday afternoon in the picturesque city of Newport. Food not Bombs is not a charity or an organisation, but a way to redistribute food & to protest against the violence of poverty & hunger. Its also an opportunity meet with people & share information & ideas in order to take action against corporate & government violence & injustice. Anyone can get involved in organising or helping out a 'Food not Bombs' event. No-one is in charge & everyone can have a say in how things are done. Why not come along or get involved in the next event? Email CAN or GA if

you wanna get involved! Anarchist Black Cross Supporting prisoners, resisting repression & working towards liberation! The Anarchist Black Cross is an international movement that aims to support the struggles of prisoners, & of anarchist & class war prisoners in particular. The movement offers solidarity to prisoners to prevent them becoming isolated & to assure activists that if they are persecuted for their activities, they will not be abandoned. Offering solidarity can take different forms depending on the prisoners situation, but useful stuff can include financial help, writing letters, making visits & sending reading material. It may also include organising demonstrations or public solidarity campaigns for prisoners that you support. The Anarchist Black Cross movement believes that prisons have no useful function & only serve to preserve the status of the people who rule over

us. The movement believes that both the prison system & the society that creates a need for prisons should be abolished. It is argued that there are alternative & more effective ways of dealing with so-called anti-social crime. More importantly, anti-social crime is a product of an unfair social, economical & political system which makes a few people extremely wealthy at the expense of the poor. In this society, people who strike for a decent wage, steal to stay alive, break the bosses laws or resist the control & abuse in our lives face police, courts, prison. ABC exists to resist this system & defend those who are persecuted by it. In South Wales, we have started regularly making & sending cards to prisoners to show them that while they are in there for us, we are out here for them! If you know prisoners who would like to receive support or would like to know more e-mail CAN or GA. Lots more information, including addresses of

prisoners who would like to hear from you, can be found at the website of the very excellent Brighton ABC collective www.brightonabc.org.uk Cardiff anarchist in prison A CAN activist went to prison on the 6th October, after refusing to pay fines built up over years of opposition to the US / UK bombing & occupation of Iraq. In the end she owed the state almost #1500 in fine & cost orders, mainly for acts of trespass onto the US air force base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, which was being used to load US war planes with bombs. I couldnt bring myself to pay their fines & court costs, she said. The UK government is responsible, along with their big brother in the US, for the deaths of over two million people since the start of the 1990 gulf war. The last three years alone has

seen the deaths of at least 600,000. This is genocide. Any action is justified in opposing a crime of that magnitude. All of us who took action in opposing this war were right to do so - the only thing we are guilty of is perhaps not doing enough. The activist was sentenced to 28 days in prison, which she served at HMP Eastwood Park. Another woman dies in prison Lisa Woodhall, aged 28, died in Eastwood Park prison on the 8th October. She is the third woman to have died in prison this year, & among 32 to have died since 2003. Anyone who has experienced life inside a local prison cannot be surprised at the number of deaths that take place. In Eastwood Park the most oppressive place of all is the induction wing, known as A wing, where all new arrivals are placed for assessment. This is where Lisa was found hanged. Initially there is an induction process, which involves the

hated strip search, & a cursory attempt at a risk assessment, which is a couple of questions that are supposed to find out whether you are a risk to yourself or others. But the next step is the same for everyone carrying whichever of your possessions they have arbitrarily allowed you to keep, you will be marched off to A wing. The cells here are tiny, grotty & usually filthy. In your 6 x 8 space there is a hard plastic coated mattress on a solid wooden bed. There is a steel toilet at the bottom of the bed, which is encrusted with limescale & looks less than hygienic. You are given a duvet that is covered in stains you try hard not to think about, & a telly that might or might not work. Then the door is locked, & you are left to listen to the noise of A wing. There is no sound insulation on the cells here, so you can hear everything. Women more used to prison life will be shouting to their mates. Those with psychiatric

disorders ( & there are many such women in prison) will be banging their heads & fists against the door or walls. The new arrivals will be sobbing. & everyone else will just turn up their telly to try to shut it all out. Those that are taking medication (anti-depressants for example) before they come into prison often find they face a delay before they can obtain this medication inside, especially if it is a drug not normally stocked in the prison health centre. Rumour has it that Lisa was denied her regular hormone treatment & the effects of this may well have contributed to her suicide. For vulnerable women prison can have a devastating effect, especially if they are being separated from young children. The trauma can be on-going & long lasting. Some will say, well they shouldnt have committed a crime in the first place. But the vast majority of women in Eastwood Park are there because of poor education, drug addiction, or

psychiatric illness. For these people a prison sentence is a pointless & expensive exercise. For women like Lisa it is a death sentence. BAN ON MASKS AT PROTESTS? Scotland Yard has drawn up plans to be submitted to the Attorney General that will make wearing masks at protests illegal. The law, if passed, will also make the burning of flags a criminal offense. The proposed law is a knee jerk reaction that will apparently help combat extremist Protesters. Clearly such draconian measures will not do anything to address why Protesters become radicalised & by unnecessarily eroding civil liberties in the UK even further, may well have the opposite effect of the one intended & contribute to the radicalisation of UK Protesters. The law is obviously part of the Government's desire to be seen as 'tough on terrorism', but it not likely to have any impact at all on serious terrorism. Shami Chakrabarti,

Liberty's director, said: "It looks like some people have been watching too many American movies. The police already have wide powers, especially for dealing with people wearing masks." Local Sab Update South Wales Hunt Saboteurs have, (at the start of the season), been concentrating on the Pentyrch Hunt. After a sab come across them "sneaking out" on the bank holiday. Kennel watching was met with over zealous policing, with the cops making sure sabs were not going to break any laws whilst blocking the road allowing the hunt to make a clean escape on a number of occasions. Sabs have also been busy fund-raising for this season, thanks to Lost Cherrees, Refuse/All & This System Kills who played at the benefit, & no thanks to Gwent Police for turning up videoing people & their number plates who turned up at the gig because, "the Hunt Saboteur Association are a violent splinter group", according to the boys in blue,

now lets take a "par-sec", (if needed), to think who gets a kicking week in week out, aaahhhh hmmm? Police free to kill Disabled man Gareth Bracey had his back broken & was killed when four Barry police pinned him to the floor. A jury has ruled he may have survived if he had been taken to hospital sooner, rather than being left alone in a police cell for 20 hours. The Paramedics the police called were not told of his paralysis meaning he was moved to hospital without a spinal board. Gareth suffered from ankylosing spondalytis, a condition that had stiffened his spine into the shape of a question mark. Police burst into Mr Bracey's home in Barry in April 2004 & arrested him for his own safety after he allegedly tried to kill himself. His twin brother Jeffrey told the inquest in Cardiff: "There were four officers on the bed trying to handcuff him - he was screaming at them. The officers had him pinned to the floor -

there were two officers on the top of his body & two officers on his legs. I think one had a knee on his neck. Another was sitting on his leg & another was holding his leg. I was shocked at what I was seeing in the bedroom of his flat. Officers had asked me before they went in if he would pose any risk to them. I had told them about Gareth's back & said he was gentle - he wouldn't harm a fly." Despite the jurys unanimous verdict, that Gareth Bracey would have survived had his paralysis been recognised, no-one is being held responsible for his death. Gagged! is produced by GA & CAN. Both are very simular, contact your local group or set one up! Cardiff Anarchist Network (CAN) is a collective of people who want to pursue political demonstrations through direct action. There is no membership, no leaders, just like minded individuals. Email: cardiffanarchists Gwent Anarchists are

like-minded individuals believing in autonomy, respect & justice; against all forms of exploitation & bigotry. Aiming to increase the knowledge of & create a resistance to governments & big business abusing people & the earth. Email: gwentanarchists No Borders South Wales organises on migration issues & acts to break down boundaries; racial, cultural, gender, sexual, class & political that divide us. Email: noborderswales South Wales Against the G8 (SWAG8) is a coalition of groups wishing to mobilise against next year's G8 Summit both in Germany & in the UK. Email: swageight Peoples Autonomous Destination (PAD) aims to create physical space in Cardiff for groups & individuals who cannot or will not work within the constraints of governmental or corporate control. Email: thepad Phone: 07910973876 Web: www.thepad.org.uk South Wales Animal Rights Network (SWARN) working for animal liberation Email: swarn Phone: 07903677111 South Wales Hunt Sabs saving animals lives now, actively sabotaging bloodsports. Newport Post: PO Box 1894, Newport NP19 4WZ. Phone: 0770815642 Swansea Email: swansea_ar Post: PO Box 7, Swansea, SA9 2YE Phone: 01792475092 Keep up to date with news from all over the world like the sort you find in Gagged! online at a variety of websites. Here are a few that wed recommend: www.schnews.org.uk www.indymedia.org.uk www.libcom.org www.anarkismo.net . www.infoshop.org Diary Dates November 13th - Big Aldermaston Blockade to stop the building of a facility to build nuclear weapons. www.blockthebuilders.org.uk 17th-19th - Introduction to Renewable Energy in Wales 3 day course at the Centre of Continuing Education, University of Wales , Aberystwyth. www.greendragonenergy.co.uk 25th - National DEFY-ID Gathering, 11am, Sumac Centre, Nottingham. www.nottingham-defy-id.org.uk/gathering 25th - Buy Nothing Day Why not spend a day without spending? www.buynothingday.co.uk DECEMBER 2nd - Anti-war demonstration at RAF Brize Norton - 12 noon in Carterton, Oxfordshire. www.stopwar.org.uk 15th - Citizen Fish, Bus Station

Loonies, This System Kills & The Rejected. TJs, Clarance Place, Newport. 7pm #8 Anarcho-punk yuletide knees-up!Peter H

 

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Thanks Peter. I have written to Starbucks but can't find a 'contact'

for McDonalds - I wonder why!

 

I note the police were taking videos and photos of the hunt sabs

benefit show. Another reason showing why people might want to cover

their faces.

 

Jo

 

, peter VV <swpgh01 wrote:

>

> from latest edition of gagged ( from gwent anarchists)

> War Crimes

> The Lancet has published that approximately 655,000 Iraqis have

been killed since the illegal invasion. Men, women & children have

been blown apart by smart bombs, sliced up by cluster bombs, burnt

alive by napalm & white phosphorus, executed without trial by US/UK

death squads (with the aid of mercenaries), shot to pieces by trigger

happy GIs, beaten up, tortured & raped.

> This mass murder is the direct result of the actions of George

Bush & Tony Blair supported by all the Labour MPs in Wales. They talk

of the promotion of democracy or ironically the " war on terror "

whilst it is British & American state terrorism that is being waged

in the name of peace!

> The fact is the war in Iraq was planned long before the attacks

of 11/9/01. The right wing junta that controls the white house is

following through the vision of the Project for a New American

Century. Their desire for greater control of the region's highly

profitable resources being the motivation for invasion & occupation.

> Even General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British army &

as deep in the ruling class quagmire as anyone, admits that British

troops in Iraq are making things worse, not better. Despite the cries

of being taken out of context by Blair, the call for war is getting

pretty weak when even your own general wants to pack up & go home.

> Over two million people protested against the war in Iraq, along

with millions more around the world. We were right! Not only should

the troops be brought home, Bush & Blair should be tried for war

crimes.

> Ransack Parliment

> 9th October marked the first Sack Parliament demonstration;

called to coincide with the return to work for all our hard-working

MPs after their summer hols. It seems that the honourable gentlemen &

ladies do nothing else these days than lead the country into illegal

wars & tear up age-old rights, so a hundred peaceful protesters

turned out to blockade the MPs entry into the house of conmen.

> In their way were 800 well-armed police thugs; some on horseback

hidden round the back of Parliament Square, out of sight of the

tourists. Protesters were quickly hemmed in by police whilst those

who avoided the cordon were hunted down & arrested for taking part in

an illegal demonstration.

> Under new laws, namely the Serious Organised Crime & Police Act

2005 (SOCPA) - it is now illegal to protest within one kilometre of

Parliament Square. Unless, of course, youre Brian Haw, who continues

his vigil in the square, despite SOCPA which was introduced precisely

to get rid of this irritating individual.

> Others have not been able to escape the draconian new measures.

Maya Evans was the first to be convicted in December 2005, for

reading out the names of dead British soldiers & Iraqis in front of

the bars of Downing Street. Recently Milan Rai has been in court for

the more heinous crime of organising an illegal demonstration.

> 38 people were arrested & bailed that day. Some before they'd

even got to the demo. A samba band was turned away by police.

Protesters were punched & there are allegations that pepper spray was

used. Most are due back on 11th December to be charged. Watch this

space.

>

> Guantanamo Burger & Torture Coffee

> To cater to the tastes of the jailers & torturers of people

illegally imprisoned, there is a Starbucks & a McDonalds at the US

Base in Guantanamo Bay. This news seemed to come as a revelation to

staff & customers of these franchises in Cardiff. On Saturday 21st

October, a hooded figure representing Guantanamo prisoners was

escorted through both Starbucks & McDonalds in Queen Street.

Activists held placards with messages such as: Good Bloody Coffee?

& Torture? Would you like Fries with that? They handed out flyers

with further information & a link to www.cageprisoners.com before

delivering anti-social behaviour orders (ASBOs) to managers.

> Though there was a hostile reaction from management at both

locations, a number of staff & customers responded sympathetically.

Kitchen workers in McDonalds clapped & cheered while potential

customers were so outraged to learn of McDonalds complicity in

Guantanamo that they promptly walked out. Obviously deeply disgusted,

one young man hurled heartfelt & well directed admonishment at the

manager: Shame on you! Ignoring such reactions & rejecting the

information they were offered, managers at both venues expressed

neither the slightest interest nor offered any hint of an apology.

>

> Did you get a free vegan burger with this gagged!?

> The basic idea of Food not Bombs is for people to get together

in public on a regular basis to cook & share free food. Three Food

not Bombs veggie burger giveaways have been held in South Wales so

far this year, two in Cardiff & one on a rainy Saturday afternoon in

the picturesque city of Newport. Food not Bombs is not a charity or

an organisation, but a way to redistribute food & to protest against

the violence of poverty & hunger. Its also an opportunity meet with

people & share information & ideas in order to take action against

corporate & government violence & injustice. Anyone can get involved

in organising or helping out a 'Food not Bombs' event. No-one is in

charge & everyone can have a say in how things are done. Why not come

along or get involved in the next event? Email CAN or GA if you wanna

get involved!

>

> Anarchist Black Cross

> Supporting prisoners, resisting repression & working towards

liberation!

> The Anarchist Black Cross is an international movement that aims

to support the struggles of prisoners, & of anarchist & class war

prisoners in particular. The movement offers solidarity to prisoners

to prevent them becoming isolated & to assure activists that if they

are persecuted for their activities, they will not be abandoned.

Offering solidarity can take different forms depending on the

prisoners situation, but useful stuff can include financial help,

writing letters, making visits & sending reading material. It may

also include organising demonstrations or public solidarity campaigns

for prisoners that you support.

> The Anarchist Black Cross movement believes that prisons have no

useful function & only serve to preserve the status of the people who

rule over us. The movement believes that both the prison system & the

society that creates a need for prisons should be abolished. It is

argued that there are alternative & more effective ways of dealing

with so-called anti-social crime. More importantly, anti-social crime

is a product of an unfair social, economical & political system which

makes a few people extremely wealthy at the expense of the poor. In

this society, people who strike for a decent wage, steal to stay

alive, break the bosses laws or resist the control & abuse in our

lives face police, courts, prison. ABC exists to resist this system &

defend those who are persecuted by it.

> In South Wales, we have started regularly making & sending cards

to prisoners to show them that while they are in there for us, we are

out here for them! If you know prisoners who would like to receive

support or would like to know more e-mail CAN or GA. Lots more

information, including addresses of prisoners who would like to hear

from you, can be found at the website of the very excellent Brighton

ABC collective www.brightonabc.org.uk

>

> Cardiff anarchist in prison

> A CAN activist went to prison on the 6th October, after refusing

to pay fines built up over years of opposition to the US / UK bombing

& occupation of Iraq. In the end she owed the state almost #1500 in

fine & cost orders, mainly for acts of trespass onto the US air force

base in Fairford, Gloucestershire, which was being used to load US

war planes with bombs.

> I couldnt bring myself to pay their fines & court costs, she

said. The UK government is responsible, along with their big brother

in the US, for the deaths of over two million people since the start

of the 1990 gulf war. The last three years alone has seen the deaths

of at least 600,000. This is genocide.

> Any action is justified in opposing a crime of that magnitude.

All of us who took action in opposing this war were right to do so -

the only thing we are guilty of is perhaps not doing enough.

> The activist was sentenced to 28 days in prison, which she served

at HMP Eastwood Park.

>

> Another woman dies in prison

> Lisa Woodhall, aged 28, died in Eastwood Park prison on the 8th

October. She is the third woman to have died in prison this year, &

among 32 to have died since 2003.

> Anyone who has experienced life inside a local prison cannot be

surprised at the number of deaths that take place. In Eastwood Park

the most oppressive place of all is the induction wing, known as

A wing, where all new arrivals are placed for assessment. This is

where Lisa was found hanged.

> Initially there is an induction process, which involves the hated

strip search, & a cursory attempt at a risk assessment, which is a

couple of questions that are supposed to find out whether you are a

risk to yourself or others. But the next step is the same for

everyone carrying whichever of your possessions they have

arbitrarily allowed you to keep, you will be marched off to A wing.

> The cells here are tiny, grotty & usually filthy. In your 6 x 8

space there is a hard plastic coated mattress on a solid wooden bed.

There is a steel toilet at the bottom of the bed, which is encrusted

with limescale & looks less than hygienic. You are given a duvet that

is covered in stains you try hard not to think about, & a telly that

might or might not work.

> Then the door is locked, & you are left to listen to the noise of

A wing. There is no sound insulation on the cells here, so you can

hear everything. Women more used to prison life will be shouting to

their mates. Those with psychiatric disorders ( & there are many such

women in prison) will be banging their heads & fists against the door

or walls. The new arrivals will be sobbing. & everyone else will just

turn up their telly to try to shut it all out.

> Those that are taking medication (anti-depressants for example)

before they come into prison often find they face a delay before they

can obtain this medication inside, especially if it is a drug not

normally stocked in the prison health centre. Rumour has it that Lisa

was denied her regular hormone treatment & the effects of this may

well have contributed to her suicide.

> For vulnerable women prison can have a devastating effect,

especially if they are being separated from young children. The

trauma can be on-going & long lasting. Some will say, well they

shouldnt have committed a crime in the first place. But the vast

majority of women in Eastwood Park are there because of poor

education, drug addiction, or psychiatric illness. For these people a

prison sentence is a pointless & expensive exercise. For women like

Lisa it is a death sentence.

> BAN ON MASKS AT PROTESTS?

> Scotland Yard has drawn up plans to be submitted to the Attorney

General that will make wearing masks at protests illegal. The law, if

passed, will also make the burning of flags a criminal offense.

> The proposed law is a knee jerk reaction that will apparently

help combat extremist Protesters. Clearly such draconian measures

will not do anything to address why Protesters become radicalised &

by unnecessarily eroding civil liberties in the UK even further, may

well have the opposite effect of the one intended & contribute to the

radicalisation of UK Protesters. The law is obviously part of the

Government's desire to be seen as 'tough on terrorism', but it not

likely to have any impact at all on serious terrorism.

> Shami Chakrabarti, Liberty's director, said: " It looks like some

people have been watching too many American movies. The police

already have wide powers, especially for dealing with people wearing

masks. "

> Local Sab Update

> South Wales Hunt Saboteurs have, (at the start of the season),

been concentrating on the Pentyrch Hunt. After a sab come across

them " sneaking out " on the bank holiday.

> Kennel watching was met with over zealous policing, with the cops

making sure sabs were not going to break any laws whilst blocking the

road allowing the hunt to make a clean escape on a number of

occasions. Sabs have also been busy fund-raising for this season,

thanks to Lost Cherrees, Refuse/All & This System Kills who played at

the benefit, & no thanks to Gwent Police for turning up videoing

people & their number plates who turned up at the gig because, " the

Hunt Saboteur Association are a violent splinter group " , according to

the boys in blue, now lets take a " par-sec " , (if needed), to think

who gets a kicking week in week out, aaahhhh hmmm?

> Police free to kill

> Disabled man Gareth Bracey had his back broken & was killed when

four Barry police pinned him to the floor. A jury has ruled he may

have survived if he had been taken to hospital sooner, rather than

being left alone in a police cell for 20 hours. The Paramedics the

police called were not told of his paralysis meaning he was moved to

hospital without a spinal board. Gareth suffered from ankylosing

spondalytis, a condition that had stiffened his spine into the shape

of a question mark.

> Police burst into Mr Bracey's home in Barry in April 2004 &

arrested him for his own safety after he allegedly tried to kill

himself. His twin brother Jeffrey told the inquest in Cardiff: " There

were four officers on the bed trying to handcuff him - he was

screaming at them. The officers had him pinned to the floor - there

were two officers on the top of his body & two officers on his legs.

I think one had a knee on his neck. Another was sitting on his leg &

another was holding his leg. I was shocked at what I was seeing in

the bedroom of his flat. Officers had asked me before they went in if

he would pose any risk to them. I had told them about Gareth's back &

said he was gentle - he wouldn't harm a fly. "

> Despite the jurys unanimous verdict, that Gareth Bracey would

have survived had his paralysis been recognised, no-one is being held

responsible for his death.

> Gagged! is produced by GA & CAN. Both are very simular, contact

your local group or set one up!

> Cardiff Anarchist Network (CAN) is a collective of people who

want to pursue political demonstrations through direct action. There

is no membership, no leaders, just like minded individuals. Email:

cardiffanarchists

> Gwent Anarchists are like-minded individuals believing in

autonomy, respect & justice; against all forms of exploitation &

bigotry. Aiming to increase the knowledge of & create a resistance to

governments & big business abusing people & the earth. Email:

gwentanarchists

> No Borders South Wales organises on migration issues & acts to

break down boundaries; racial, cultural, gender, sexual, class &

political that divide us. Email: noborderswales

> South Wales Against the G8 (SWAG8) is a coalition of groups

wishing to mobilise against next year's G8 Summit both in Germany &

in the UK. Email: swageight

> Peoples Autonomous Destination (PAD) aims to create physical

space in Cardiff for groups & individuals who cannot or will not work

within the constraints of governmental or corporate control. Email:

thepad Phone: 07910973876 Web: www.thepad.org.uk

> South Wales Animal Rights Network (SWARN) working for animal

liberation Email: swarn Phone: 07903677111

> South Wales Hunt Sabs saving animals lives now, actively

sabotaging bloodsports. Newport Post: PO Box 1894, Newport NP19 4WZ.

Phone: 0770815642 Swansea Email: swansea_ar Post: PO Box 7,

Swansea, SA9 2YE Phone: 01792475092

>

> Keep up to date with news from all over the world like the sort

you find in Gagged! online at a variety of websites. Here are a few

that wed recommend: www.schnews.org.uk www.indymedia.org.uk

www.libcom.org www.anarkismo.net . www.infoshop.org

>

>

> Diary Dates

> November

> 13th - Big Aldermaston Blockade to stop the building of a

facility to build nuclear weapons. www.blockthebuilders.org.uk

> 17th-19th - Introduction to Renewable Energy in Wales 3 day

course at the Centre of Continuing Education, University of Wales ,

Aberystwyth. www.greendragonenergy.co.uk

> 25th - National DEFY-ID Gathering, 11am, Sumac Centre,

Nottingham. www.nottingham-defy-id.org.uk/gathering

> 25th - Buy Nothing Day Why not spend a day without spending?

www.buynothingday.co.uk

> DECEMBER

> 2nd - Anti-war demonstration at RAF Brize Norton - 12 noon in

Carterton, Oxfordshire. www.stopwar.org.uk

> 15th - Citizen Fish, Bus Station Loonies, This System Kills & The

Rejected. TJs, Clarance Place, Newport. 7pm #8 Anarcho-punk yuletide

knees-up!

>

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> Peter H

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