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Today saw a case management hearing for the upcoming trials, and what was meant to be some form of decision on the ‘Spartacus’ cases. It was also a bit of a warm up for the barristers, Richard and Annabel, who will be representing many of the first trial defendants in court in November.
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Those lovely folks at
mumsuncut
have made a Fortnum145 video: have a butchers!
by
@robsafar
Just no Philip.
The Telegraph have produced this marvellous little reportage on
Sir Philip Green’s assessment on the cause of the riots
. According to him, well, it’s our fault.
We’ve heard that he might be a little upset with UKUncut over some past tiffles, but that’s all water under the bridge. He’s so over that. He’s even gone so far as to say that there is a
“necessity for peaceful protest”
. It great that he’s on board with us that far, but his us(rich folk)-versus-them(bloody ingrates) logic isn’t what we’re about.
But it’s not just our fault. Oh, no. Ian Tomlinson is to blame too. The Telegraph goes on to report that;
His comments reflect the views of a number of retailers who believe that a change in police tactics after the death of a bystander in the disturbances surrounding the G20 summit in London in 2009 encouraged the looting.
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The show of support outside court on Friday went better than last time – nobody was threatened with arrest (as far as we know)!
A huge thank you to everyone that came, your support is surely appreciated.
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In July
MumsUncut
held a tea party in Southampton to raise funds to help with the FM145 campaign. It was super fun and we raised £148. We hope our fundraising campaign continues well, and it’s a good job that we have a lot less work to do now (that they’ve dropped 115 cases)!
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Have you seen this? The Daily Express has posted
this disgusting article
, slandering protesters.
We wanted to be able to get you all to
submit an official complaint to the Press Complaints Commission
, but apparently the Express will no longer be covered by Press Complaints Commission as
they’ve stopped paying into Press Standards Board of Finance
, which funds the regulator.
Ah well. Social media seems to be the regulator of today, anyway.
How about we
let the Express know what we think of them via Twitter
instead
?
EDIT
: You could also phone up their newsdesk, if you feel like you have anything to say to them: on
0207 098 2982
that the prosecutors might drop a “significant” number of cases.
This has yet to be officially confirmed, but it’s sounding promising – especially given the recent news that charges have been dropped against all youth defendants as
it wasn’t in the public interest to continue with the proceedings
.
This would somewhat strengthen the cases of any remaining defendants:
Mike Schwarz, a solicitor at Bindmans, which represents around 110 of the activists, said “all cases should be discontinued”. He said: “There is nothing significant to distinguish any one defendant from another. That is the nature of peaceful civil disobedience.”
We’re looking forward to hearing more about this and we’ll keep you posted!
Watching
Twitter
has been a great way to keep tabs on the Support the Right to Protest solidarity action today!
People on Twitter have been posting updates and comments, like this one from @HeardinLondon:
Ironically outside the @FM145 trial about the right to protest peacefully, folk are being told they will be arrested if they protest. #fm145
So they’ve taped up their mouths (apparently making it
not a protest
) and have linked arms outside the court, reminiscent of the protesters leaving Fortnum and Mason together and unified.
We’ll post more information about how the trial went as soon as we hear. For now, though – thanks!!
Yay!
The Independent has written a
huge, front page article
about the plight of the Fortnum 145 and we really appreciate this story being told
fairly
.
You can read the article online at:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/pressure-mounts-to-drop-charges-against-nonviolent-protesters-2305587.html
