Britain, Anarchist Action Network - Stop NATO Cymru launch #NatoCopWatch campaign against police harassment

In the wake of anti-NATO campaigners facing unwarranted police presence at their events, 
the increase in surveillance expected in South Wales in the run-up to September?s NATO 
Summit and police pestering activists in their own homes, Stop NATO Cymru have launched a 
campaign encouraging people to film and photograph police connected to the Summit and 
share the evidence on social media. ---- Communities in and surrounding Newport have 
already been threatened with up to 9,000 police being drafted in to the area for the 
Summit and it is expected that surveillance of locals will increase rapidly over this 
month. ---- Supporters of Stop NATO Cymru have already reported police harassment of 
street stalls and meetings across South Wales, individual email accounts being compromised 
and, on July 31st, Police Community Support Officers visiting rented flats in Cardiff, 
asking to take photos of the inside in connection with the Summit.

When activists can be treated this way just for our attempts at social change ? harassed 
in the streets and at our homes ? our reasons for challenging things as they are become 
clear. At no point is the state?s power over people?s lives more obvious than when it 
glaring at us through the lens of an ?evidence gatherer?s? camera. The last year has seen 
huge revelations as to the extent of state surveillance, with a combination of corporate 
and state powers having access to virtually any aspect of our lives at their own 
discretion. This September those powers will be gathering in Newport, planning the 
maintenance and expansion of their influence through military strategy. We will be 
gathering to oppose them.

Until then we urge people ? particularly those living in South Wales, who will bear the 
brunt of state surveillance in the oncoming weeks -to be aware of police intrusion into 
their lives and to film, photograph and upload images of the police to social media using 
the hashtag #NatoCopWatch, turning the cameras on those who seek to photograph us, keeping 
track of those who track our movements and exposing those who seek to suppress us.

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Stop Killing People You Twats ? Benefit Comp for Stop Nato Cymru
Posted on August 19, 2014 by pebrots | Leave a comment
From Recordiau Afiach, Cardiff



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page for ?2.99 or more. 38 amazing songs, with a political message, with all funds going 
to the group Stop Nato Cymru who will be opposing the Nato Summit in Newport next month.

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Featuring Will Tun & the Wasters, Ruffstylz Music, Attila the Stockbroker?s Barnstormer, 
C?r Gobaith, Agathocles, Skunkadelic, David Rovics, Tig Linn, Radio Rhydd, The Smashrooms, 
Class Actions, Autonomads, Black Star Dub Collective, Afro Cluster, The Brave Toaster, Cop 
On Fire,Tracey Curtis, Abergaz, Bandit The Panther, Piombo, Lila, Camilla, Jamie Bevan a?r 
Gweddillion,Little Eris & Mab Jones, Gab De La Vega, Global Parasite, The RoJ LiGht, 
Mwstard, Quercus Burlesque, Taffy Twp, Death Pop, Mark Ayling Acoustic, TiTs Up, Brian 
Curran Acoustic, Raz Chaoten, Dangle Manatee, Ammonika and Son Capson

It?s all a mix of styles, with something for everyone ? hip hop, electro, punk, folk, a 
choir?.

SHARE IT AROUND YOUR NETWORKS AND FOR MORE INFO ON STOP NATO CYMRU ? 
https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/en/

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Stop NATO Cymru Week of Action
Posted on July 28, 2014 by pebrots | Leave a comment
Stop NATO Cymru Week of Action

Sat 30th Aug ? Fri 5th Sep
Newport, South Wales

All week: action camp near Newport, with gigs, workshops, skillshares.
Plus additional infopoint in Newport. Locations announced near the time
(via contacts below).

Sat 30th Aug ? Infopoint opens & Radical bloc will join demo against NATO in Newport.

Sun 31st Aug ? Day of action against drones, securitisation and policing.

Mon 1st Sep ? Day of action against austerity, benefit cuts and evictions.

Tue 2nd Sep ? No Borders South Wales day of action.

Wed 3rd Sep ? Day of skillshares and action training.

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Thu 4th Sep ? Stop NATO mass action to disrupt the summit. Further details
near the time (via contacts below). Affinity group actions to help disrupt
the summit also welcome!
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Fri 5th Sep ? Affinity group actions against capitalism, the state and
NATO; get together with your mates and organise your own action.

More details of all events will be available at the camp, and from:
network23.org/stopnatocymru anarchistaction.net
@anarchistaction 07440 192330 stopnatocymru@riseup.net
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Stop NATO Cymru and Anarchist Action Network National Convergence
Posted on July 28, 2014 by pebrots | Leave a comment
Saturday 16th August 12-6pm Blackpool, at Reclaim the Power

Sunday 17th August 12- 6pm Blackpool, at Reclaim the Power

Stop NATO Cymru is a group initiated by local activists to mobilise against the NATO 
summit. Stop NATO Cymru joined with the Anarchist Action Network as a group with the same 
fundamental principles and as a group with the experience and skills gained from the 
anti-G8 mobilisation in 2013. These principles are based on the PGA Hallmarks, we are 
overtly anarchist and support a diversity of tactics.

The Anarchist Action Network is working with Stop NATO Cymru to mobilise against the 
forthcoming NATO summit. This is the last National Convergence before the summit ? come 
and join the mobilisation!

Please email us in advance to discuss any queries at: stopnatocymru at riseup dot net. 
This is our number, for further information you can also ring/text: 07440 192330

All welcome except cops & journos.

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Stop NATO Cymru Day of Action against Militarism

On the morning of Friday, July 25th, supporters of Stop NATO Cymru took action in London 
and Cardiff, locking themselves to the front doors of missile developer MBDA, occupying 
the HQ of arms company Airbus Group and closing the Armed Forces Careers Centre in Cardiff 
by occupying the roof. This was part of an ongoing anti-militarist campaign in the run up 
to September?s NATO Summit in Newport, targeting all institutions which perpetuate 
violence on a global scale.

Cardiff Armed Forces ?Careers Centre? closed
MBDA is jointly owned by arms companies Airbus Group (37.5%), BAE Systems (37.5%) and 
Finmecanica (25%), companies guilty of providing arms used by Israel to bombard 
communities, demolish hospitals and murder innocent children in schools. Palestinian 
solidarity activists stood with us against these monsters, with Israel having used British 
bombs on playing children, family homes, schools, independent journalists, rescue vehicles 
and hospitals in the last week alone.

Protester locks on
In solidarity with Stop NATO Cymru, anti-miltarist activists from Stop the Arms Fair 
entered the lobby and picketed the entrance to the London HQ of Airbus Group (aka EADS). 
Airbus Group is a major profiteer of war. They manufacture jets, drones (including some 
with nuclear warheads) and surveillance technology. They are the second largest arms 
producer in Europe, with investments in authoritarian regimes such as Saudi Arabia, UAE 
and Kazakhstan. Airbus has recently announced new contracts worth ?50mil, and have urged 
the arms industry to take ?full economic advantage? of the NATO Summit. The summit is an 
opportunity for them to showcase their killing machines and blood-stained business 
through NATO procurement. Stop NATO Cymru opposes the NATO war machine, arms production 
and the murder of anyone for corporate profit.

(Welsh) When the rich declare war, it?s the poor that die.
Earlier this month the British Army launched a recruitment drive entitled ?More Than Meets 
the Eye?, aiming to dispel myths surrounding life in the forces, boost their falling 
recruitment figures and secure the flow of ?a new stream of young blood? as head of 
recruiting, Major General Chris Tickell, so aptly put it.

They are right about one thing, there is more to life in the army than meets our eyes ? 
more to what the media, charities and the state show of the idealised soldier. Waves of 
forced redundancies are leaving thousands unemployed, many of them young people, promised 
adventure and reward at the recruiting office before being spat into the jobcentre, often 
injured, with thousands wounded over the last decade.

Even those who keep their job are constantly exploited y the state. The fact is that every 
individual within the armed forces ? from the musician to the infantryman ? is part of an 
effort to further the state?s expansionist agenda. In Afghanistan, war for oil saw the 
deaths of almost 4,000 coalition troops and an estimated 20,000 Afghan civilians killed to 
bring NATO?s version of democracy to the Afghan people. Now we see conflict flaring in 
Ukraine, with British companies having armed the Russian dictatorship, America throwing 
its weight behind a neo-Nazi backed government and the people of Ukraine and the world 
suffering the consequences.

We took action to show that we will not stand by and watch ordinary people suffer in the 
wars of the wealthy. We are anti-militarist, opposed to states, their armies and the world 
that creates them. When NATO brings its circus to Newport in September, we will make our 
feelings known.

NATO is the militarist juggernaut that encourages military spending in times of austerity, 
stokes the flames of conflict in places like Ukraine and represents the armed wing of 
capitalist exploitation. In spite of the power behind NATO ? and all militarist 
institutions in a world of government by violence ? we will keep up our fight on the 
streets, doing all that we can to bring change, until every gun is cold, every bomb is 
dead and every cage is empty.