The request follows disclosures that police have been monitoring political activities at universities around the country, and spying on groups that use non-violent methods to further their aims. Last year it was revealed that police attempted to recruit an activist to become an informant and pass on information about (the) University of Cambridge students and other protesters. [...] One of the panel at the Canterbury fracking debate was Ian Driver, a Green party councillor in Thanet, Kent, United Kingdom, who has no criminal record. Last year he discovered that his political activities had been monitored and recorded by the police. Documents revealed that police had logged 22 occasions on which he helped organise public meetings and demonstrations about animal exports and gay marriage between 2011 and 2012, after he had been elected a councillor. #1world1struggle
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 19:51:07 +0000
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