You 'public geographers' you. Or are you...?!
Good stuff.
-----Original Message-----
From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of D F J Wood
Sent: 23 November 2006 12:45
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Subject: Re: A student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun by UCLA police
You might also all want to read our 'Report on the Surveillance Society'
for the UK Information Commissioner which came out recently...
http://www.ico.gov.uk/about_us/news_and_views/current_topics/Surveillanc
e_society_report.aspx
David.
Dr David Murakami Wood
Global Urban Research Unit (GURU)
School of Architecture Planning and Landscape
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: A forum for critical and radical geographers
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Cloke
>Sent: 23 November 2006 12:36
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: A student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun
>by UCLA police
>
>
>Absolutely. As a consequence of which, as the founding member
>of Leicester
>No2ID I would urgently recommend those of you of an activist
>bent (which
>should really be all of you) in the UK to get in contact with
>your local
>No2ID group (which you can find by locating it at
>www.No2ID.net) and joining
>up forthwith.. time to stand up and be counted whilst the
>counting's still
>to be done.
>
>Jon Cloke
>Newcastle University
>
>
>From: Sam Kinsley <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Sam Kinsley <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: A student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun
>by UCLA police
>Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:42:25 +0000
>
>Thank you Jon for highlighting this appalling case. Given the
>move towards a more authoritarian approach to policing &
>criminal justice readers of this list might be interested in
>Henry Porter's timely documentary 'Suspect Nation' which will
>be aired on the More4 channel this evening:
>
>"Since Tony Blair's New Labour government came to power in
>1997, the UK civil liberties landscape has changed
>dramatically. ASBOs were introduced by Section 1 of the Crime
>and Disorder Act 1998 and first used in 1999. The right to
>remain silent is no longer universal. Our right to privacy,
>free from interception of communications has been severely
>curtailed. The ability to travel without surveillance (or
>those details of our journeys being retained) has disappeared.
>
>"Indeed, as Henry Porter (the Observer journalist famous for
>his recent email clash with Tony Blair over the paring down of
>civil liberties) reveals in this unsettling film, our
>movements are being watched, and recorded, more than ever before."
>
>http://www.channel4.com/more4/documentaries/doc-feature.jsp?id=107
>
>-------------------------------
>Sam Kinsley
>School of Geographical Sciences
>University of Bristol
>
>On 19/11/06 12:37, jon swords wrote:
>>That is sickening.
>>
>>UCLA have announced a full investigation:
>>http://www.ucla.edu/bulletin/powell-incident.html
>>
>>Jon
>>
>>>From: Jon Cloke
>>>Subject: A student being repeatedly shot with a stun gun by UCLA
>>>police
>>>Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 18:21:11 +0000
>>>
>>>Here's a brief taste of life under King George, especially for our
>>>friends
>>>over the pond..
>>>
>>>http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/161106tortu
redid.htm
>>
>>Jon Cloke
>>Newcastle University
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