[imc-sheffield] [FEAT] Oaxaca Benefit Shut Down by the Police

[Chris]

Hi

This is short -- if anyone can improve it on the wiki page
that would be cool:

  Oaxaca Benefit Shut Down by the Police

  A benefit gig and party put on by the Sheffield
  Anarchist Federation to raise money for Oaxacan
  autonomous organisations was raided and closed down by
  the police on Saturday 29th September.

  "From 3:00 til about 8:30 everything was going well.
  Plenty of people had turned up, we had raised quite a
  bit of money and people were generally having a good
  time... At around nine, the police turned up. At first,
  we were only met with a couple of bobbies on the beat.
  They told us to turn the music down and that they didn't
  want to have to come back to tell us again. We complied
  with this order. A short while later they returned, this
  time they cited breach of the peace and noise complaints
  from local residents. At this point we were given no
  legal warning and shown no noise abatement order... At
  this point TSG arrived. The officer arriving on the
  scene demanded two spokespeople from the organisers to
  negotiate a de-escualtion of the situation. Two
  spokespeople were mandated and let outside of the
  property. The negotiation was a complete farce. The
  officer had no interest in an open dialogue, he ordered
  that the soundsystem be removed from the premises within
  ten minutes and when the spokespeople refused to give
  out their personal details repeatedly threatened them
  with arrest." See the full report for more details and
  photos.

  https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/OaxacaGigRaid

Chris

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