Inside SchNEWS Emily Apple, a die-hard anti-capitalist non-stop direct
action activist is being sentenced at Snaresbrook Crown Court next
Wednesday (13). Emily and a friend handcuffed themselves to a docklands
light railway train during protests against the Defence Systems Exhibition
International last September (see SchNEWS 322) The 'exhibition' was
Europes' biggest arms fair, catering for dictators and oppressive regimes
throughout the world, selling landmines hawkjets, cluster bombs, rocket
launchers, anti-ballistic missiles, you name it. The action stopped
delegates on the train - literally in their tracks - from reaching the
place. Her friend has been acquitted but Emily was convicted and now faces
up to two years in prison, with the judge during the trail declaring that
'Society needs a break' from Emily. People are meeting for a breakfast with
her in the park in the grounds of the court on: Wednesday March 13th
Snaresbrook Crown Court, 75 Hollybush Hill, E11 (nearest tube Snaresbrook)
at 9am. Tel 07789 528 043 * Also at the infamous arms fair a WOMBLE (those
with the white overalls, padding and helmets) who was acting as a medic,
was found not guilty of "using threatening words and behaviour" after he
was nicked for the crime of trying to help someone who had been assaulted
by the cops. The case provides an important precedent as the judge didn't
accept the cops' claims that people wearing padding and white suits were
there to be violent (unlike the non-violent people down the road busy
selling weapons to each other) He also clearly sided with the defence after
asking if he'd been wearing anything to identify him as a medic. Will a hat
with a massive red-cross on it do?
