File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 442


From: "Heather" <Heather-AT-teknopunx.co.uk>
Subject: Fw: FAIRORD ACTION REPORT! 
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 22:36:35 -0000


Sent: Sunday, February 23, 2003 7:01 PM
Subject: FAIRORD ACTION REPORT! 





http://uk.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=55037&group=webcast
> 
> *!*!* FAIRORD ACTION REPORT! 
> by London Anarchist Youth 1:01pm Sun Feb 23 '03 (Modified on 2:25pm 
> Sun Feb 23 '03)  
>  
> The action as it happens! First report from fairford! 
> 
> Today's protest at Fairford resulted in around 400 people attempting 
> to charge into the base after the main gate was torn down by an 
> anarchist black bloc. 30-40 then sprinted off into the base through 
> holes cut in the permiter fence while riot cops were mobilised to 
> push people back out of the main entrance which took about 40 mins 
> before it was cleared. Clashes and fights between the Police "Just 
> Doing Their Job" Guardians of The War Machine and protestors 
> continued throughout the afternoon as they fought to keep determined 
> anti-war protestors out of the base. Around the back of the base 
> later on in the afternoon a wooden fence was torn down where 
> protestors again attempted to enter the base. 
> 
> A number of arrests were made. 
> 
> ONLY DIRECT ACTION WILL STOP THIS WAR!!!!!!
> 
> Sky News are running it as a headline story and these are reports on 
> the net: 
> 
> BBC: 
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2791883.stm 
> 
> Annanova: 
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_753888.html?menu= 
>  
> Call RAF Fairford and ask to speak to the Base Commander, then ask 
> him about the Weapons of Mass Destruction being held there: 
> 
> 01285-714000 
>  
>  


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