Veggies Catering Campaign

#Spycops survivors fear a new Home Office ‘consultation’ is an attempt to shut down the Undercover Policing Inquiry, just before it reaches 'our' time.

The Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance is calling on supporters not to fill in the consultation until they have a chance to respond.

The Inquiry, set up 11 years ago today, has covered the Met-police's Special Demonstration Squad from 1968-2008.

The next (4th) 'tranche' of the inquiry should cover the National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU) set up in 1999 to track green activists and public demonstrations. It was uncovered by the exposure by activists of Mark Kennedy. It's activities continue under different Specialist Operations groups.

It is the disclosure and closure relating to that unit that may be denied to those affected.

The Home Office must not hamper the search for truth and justice. Allow the inquiry to do the job it was called on to do, to hold police and public officials to account

https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2026/07/16/spycops-survivors-fear-home-office-will-shut-down-inquiry/

📢We need YOUR help to save the Spycops Inquiry. 

🚨The Public Inquiry into Undercover Policing is currently under threat!

✊Join the fight for justice for Spycops’ survivors!

The Home Office has launched a phony consultation into the Inquiry’s future - without consulting the survivors! It’s clear they hope to either scrap or severely limit the scope of the inquiry. 

🙏Get involved, sign the letter to the Home Office and help save the Spycops inquiry: https://ucpi.uk

🔥So far the inquiry has investigated:

🎯Officers who deceived women into long term relationships described by some managers as ‘state-sanctioned rape’.
🎯Police stealing the identity of dead children for their undercover identity
🎯Spying on justice campaigners and grieving families
🎯Spying on trade unionists and elected politicians

And much more in the next post

“I am appalled by so much of what I have learned throughout this inquiry.”

Former Met Police Commissioner Lord Condon opens his evidence at the #Spycops Inquiry by making a personal apology, “to every single person who has been damaged”, over the decades, by the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS) over the 4 decades of the unit’s existence.

Says he endorses the official Met Police apology made on behalf of current Commissioner Mark Rowley.

He goes on to add that he is now aware of the “appalling behaviour” of some individual officers, but wants to make the point that “the greater fault lies with the Met Police as a whole”.

Paul Condon says that the #spycops were told daily to lie, cheat and deceive as a way of life. The Met should have realised that this work could be corrupting and even someone with a strong moral compass would give in to base instincts.

Analysis by @tombfowler@mastodon.social and Dave Morris at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KT9BuSozM

Follow the inquiry via links at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3-3/

RE: @cckitchen@kolektiva.social

Please follow and support the awesome Cambridge Solidarity Kitchen

@cckitchen@kolektiva.social

WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT

Stand up to RACISM

Stand up to "Patriots” claiming to be Standing Up For Women & Children!

Women Against The Far Right Information Leafleting

Stand Up To Racism Together Leafleting

Meet: Market Place LONG EATON

Saturday 21st March

11:00 AM

SAND UP TO RACISM NOTTINGHAM

WOMEN AGAINST THE FAR RIGHT

STAND UP TO RACIST DERBY

Zionist Alert

University of #Nottingham (UoN)is welcoming Israeli Occupation Forces terrorists to the campus ‼️

Belarus and Russia are banned yet "Israel" is allowed to play at a World Sporting event at UoN

📅 THIS SUNDAY 28th JUNE
🕐 11am
📍Nottingham Hockey Centre, NG7 2PS

REJECTION THE NORMALISATION OF GENOCIDE

CLEAR YOUR DIARIES.
LETS GO
🇵🇸🎤🔈

This week only: "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by Dario Fo & Franca Rame; adapted by Tom Basden

At Lace Market Theatre #Nottingham . 22-27th June 2026

"...the madness feels more relevant than ever"

"50 years later this play is still important. From Stephen Lawrence to Sarah Everard, from environmental protest to Black Lives Matter, the secret state police are still amongst us."

https://lacemarkettheatre.co.uk/LaceMarketTheatre.dll/WhatsOn?f=6983895

Search everywhere for #Spycops

Alan Lodge Common Grounds: Counterculture & Confrontation since 1976

25 Sept–12 Dec 2026
Launch: Thurs 24 Sept, 6-8pm Bonington Gallery, Nottm Trent Uni.

The first major survey of photographer #AlanLodge, aka 'Tash', one of the UK’s most important chroniclers of alternative culture, protest movements, and grassroots activism.

Spanning five decades, the exhibition brings together work documenting travelling communities, free festivals, rave culture, environmental campaigns, and anti-war protests.

As a member of a travelling community for many years, Lodge offers a rare perspective into the people, places, and subcultures that emerged beyond mainstream society, exploring how they have shaped Britain’s social and cultural landscape over the last 50 years.

Celebrating a life dedicated to activism, the exhibition traces Lodge's journey, reflecting on the changing relationship between citizenship, protest, environmental concern, public space and state authority.

https://www.ntu.ac.uk/about-us/news/news-articles/2026/07/bonington-gallery-exhibition-alan-lodge-common-grounds-counterculture-and-confrontation-since-1976

Tip Tips for using Veggies Burger Mix and being a #Vegan Catering Campaign(er) from home or on the streets.

Mixes from www.veggies.org.uk/shop/

Veggies Events https://www.veggies.org.uk/events/category/veggies-events/

🐀 WORLD DAY FOR ANIMALS IN LABS 🐀

Today, and 24th April every year #WDAIL

🥾 Camp Beagle begin their walk from Huntingdon to Parliament today 🥾

🪧 March through London TOMORROW to demand an end to heinous animal tests (see https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/world-day-for-animals-in-laboratories-rally-2026/) . Look out for #FoodByVeggies including #SamosasForSocialChange as for the last 40+ years)🪧

🐰 What have you done for animals in labs today? We suggest;

🐾 Choosing cruelty free cosmetics and cleaning products

🐾 Sharing the Animal Aid investigation

🐾 Contact an MBR Supplier https://mbrsuppliers.is/

🐾 Sign petitions to end animal testing https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/736578 (this one is being debated on Monday)

🐾 Join your local animal rights group and get ACTIVE for the animals - in #Nottingham see https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/nottingham-animal-coalition/2026-06-15/

Can you help us cater for the People and Planet Powershift conference next weekend?

We will need some extra pairs of hands to help with chopping, peeling and serving Friday evening to Monday afternoon

Travel expenses will be reimbursed and accommodation and food will be provided!

Let us know if you can help 🙏🏼
Email info@veggies.org.uk

More events with #FoodByVeggies at
https://www.veggies.org.uk/events/category/veggies-events/

Contested Commons, protest in Britain with Katrina Navickas

Tues, 23rd June, 2026
7 - 8:30 pm

@FiveLeavesBooks
14a Long Row, Nottingham, NG12DH

Katrina Navickas presents a radical history of England, Contested Commons is a gripping overview of increasingly restrictive policing and legislation against protest in public spaces. It tells the long history of contests over Trafalgar Square, Hyde Park, Cable Street and Kinder Scout, as well as sites in towns and rural areas across the country. Navickas reveals how protesters claimed these spaces as their own commons, resisting their continuing enclosure and exclusion by social and political elites.

She investigates famous and less well-known demonstrations and protest marches, from early democracy, trade union movements and the Suffragettes to anti-fascist, Black rights and environmental campaigners in more recent times.

A history of protest and public space in England.

https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/contested-commons/

Sunday 31 May, 12.30 till 4pm, Seattle activist and author Jonathan Rosenblum will be with Tom Vickers at #SumacCentre discussing the movement against Amazon with #Nottingham progressive groups, including you! (No tickets)

They are working with the Amazon GMB branch, following an exchange when some UK Amazon workers went to the states.

This is followed by an event at Five Leaves Bookshop:

*Organizing Amazon in Britain and America* with Tom Vickers and Jonathan Rosenblum, Sunday 31st May, 5pm at @FiveLeavesBooks.

This session is about how workers at Amazon in the UK and in the USA are trying to organise against a fiercely anti-union company, and why the fight against Amazon matters for all of us.

For political activists searching desperately to make sense of the world after the re-election of Donald Trump and the rise of Reform, the two authors offer a framework for fighting our way out of the despairing miasma of 21st century capitalism.

Info & tickets at
https://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/organizing-amazon-in-britain-and-america-with-tom-vickers-and-jonathan-rosenblum/

#SpeakersForum program at @greengathering@social.coop . Highlights in #AltText

My recommendations:

- Thurs 8pm: Gentle Angry Women. Film in which three young activists trace the legacy of Greenham Common Women’s Peace protest forty years on and discover the alarming reality of British nuclear armament.

- Thurs 9pm - a compilation of short protest videos by Zoe Broughton, who has documented many Veggies adventures.

- Fri 3pm: How Animals Heal Us. Jay Griffiths explores how animals can have a role in every level of healing, from the individual to the collective, guiding us in how we might create societies that are healthier, fairer and kinder.

- Sat 2pm: Zionism is Racism

- Sat 7pm: #Spycops film, updates and Q&A with Tom Fowler

- Sun 7pm: People's Emergency Briefing plus Q&A with Phoenix of Climate Emergency Centres Network

https://www.greengathering.org.uk/speakers-forum-radical-cinema/

Helen Steel on Friday 24th at the #Spycops Inquiry.

Helen will give evidence in person. Her evidence will be visible in the room and on the live-link webinar. However, her evidence will be audio-only on the YouTube stream, delayed by 15mins.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYKiPnIJStY

Meanwhile, earlier this week, former Met Police head, Lord Condon, apologies and admits failure to control spycops:

https://www.channel4.com/news/former-met-police-head-admits-failure-to-control-spycops

Follow everything via the links to all channels at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3-3/

Veggies 2026 world tour dates are here!

Taking us from Bakewell to Chepstow we have an absolutely jam packed calendar in this, our 42nd year!

See listing in image #AltText

We need your help to feed the masses with ethical and delicious vegan food!

We have a sign up form so that people can easily express interest in which events that they are up for helping with.

If this is tricky for you then just drop us an email info [at] veggies.org.uk or message us on Facebook or Instagram.

Please share with like minded folks who you think would like to get involved!

The sign up form —>
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/bS2I9Vfe6tGkPmZTAh2K8t4hxSAAL9qcSflSbwA-NsU/

Btw Faceless Paradise, 23-26 July, is now at Lewes, Surrey (rather than Dorking)

Other new events this year include
- Crew meals for Ground Rules Festival throughout the 10™-26" June set up and main event.
- People and Planet Gathering, 3-6 July
- Stainsby Festival, 16-19 July
- Great Vegan Gathering, 28-31 Aug
- Animal Freedom Gathering, 25-27 Sept

#samosasforsocialchange

Legal fees fundraiser to support a lead claimant from the Lambeth Bridge mass arrest in 2020.

The arrest took place on 3rd September 2020 on Lambeth Bridge, London, during a ‘Critical Mass’ bike ride. It was at the time of the September 2020 Extinction Rebellion ‘Autumn Rebellion’.

There is a fundraiser at #SumacCentre on 20th June . Details, and link for
online donations, at https://sumac.org.uk/event/lambeth-bridge-legal-campaign-fundraiser/

124 people were arrested, bikes were seized, property went missing and many were imprisoned to be released with no charge. Of those 124, 100 are seeking justice.

A trial date is now fixed, the Lead Claimant trial will commence on 11 October 2027 for 9 weeks. It will take place at the High Court of Justice in London.

The outcome will crucially not only determine the success and/or settlement value of the remaining group but will hopefully make the London Metropolitan Police think twice about carrying out such action again.

Donations may be made at https://chuffed.org/project/159140-lambeth-bridge-justice

Urgent call out from Pigs in the Wood

!! Please share! Very urgent homes needed for these poor pigs living in horrendous conditions. The pigs only have until Friday before they will be destroyed. They have been seized by environmental health as some irresponsible person had not castrated his pet pigs. We are aligning with Retreat Rescue in Kent to save these innocent lives.

Please only respond if you have a CPH number and agree to checks.

If you can offer a forever home (or even a foster home) to any of the pigs please email pigsinthewood@yahoo.com. These pigs are a mixture of Berkshire, Sandy black spots and mixed breed (as some escaped).

Date announced for the 2026 volunteer-run #GreenFestival at #Nottingham Arboretum

Sun 13th Sept 2026
Share widely to avoid clashes

Put it in your diary. Tag groups in comments

More: http://
nottmgreenfest.org.uk
Follow #NottmGreenFest

stalls@nottmgreenfest
Others: info@nottmgreenfest.org.uk

Thats All Folks!

On Thursday 26th March we heard from the last of the #spycops in the SDS (Special Demonstration Squad) - and he was a particularly odous peace of work.

Big up and big love to all the (civilian) witness, commentators, researchers & campaigners.

Everyone else has until June 15th to review #Spycops info everywhere.

You could start with the commentaries at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9dWQ54Hpew&list=PLLClkePy4sq6KpvtSGebx4J4E2y4rWSNz

Then follow
@copscampaign@mastodon.social and all the links at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p3/

Foods available from Sumac Centre food distro this week include
- baking potatoes
- leeks
- parsnips
- cabbages
- cauliflower
- onions
- cucumbers
- bread, rolls, sliced bread & French sticks

Freely available on Sunday / Wednesday, or join us for a pop-up community lunch on Wednesdays.

We redistribute fresh foods from Foodprint & Sanatan Food Bank, saving their surplus from going straight to landfill.

Available at events on #SumacCentre diary
https://sumac.org.uk/events/list/

It is the obsession with perfection by the food industry and supermarkets that is driving the food waste crisis.

Food is a right, not a privilege.

Food poverty, the inability to afford, or to have access to, food to make up a healthy diet, affects 8-9% of the UK population.

Food loss & waste accounts for 8-10% of annual global greenhouse gas emissions. 

The planet benefits by surpluses being diverted from landfill, even if it ultimately ends up making compost for the Sumac Garden

https://sumac.org.uk/event/community-food-hub-3/2026-03-22/

At last! Nationally coordinated recycling polices are being rolled out. Here's some highlights (from Nottingham):

*tetrapacks*. Yeah! They are still an awkward mix of foil, plastic and card. We have saved 1000 tetrapaks, and the unnecessary transport of a tonne of water, by switching to Overherd oat milk powder

Loose *foil* - gather enough for tennis ball sized wad.

*plastic bags and wrap*. This is a huge advance for home recycling! Many types are covered, with some exceptions. I do however I am sceptical about how and where it will be processed so, like us at Veggies Catering Campaign , you should avoid the use of plastic bags and wrap

Veggies and #SumacCentre have been obsessive about recycling since our beginnings at the #RainbowCentre on Mansfield Road which, together with Nottm FoE from 1985, was part funded by the collection of cans and newspaper, long before household recycling became widespread.

Here's a clean link to full details:
https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/newrecyclingitems

📷⁩ ⁨Earth First Summer Gathering 2026
12th - 17th August, Peak District
Nearest Train Station: #Sheffield

Five days of cross-movement pollination and solidarity in the form of workshops, skill shares, crafts, games and political education. These gatherings are a space for those who believe in the liberation of all life to put our heads together and dream new worlds into being. Come along and learn about past environmental struggles and movement victories, biocentrism, green anarchy, current direct action and social justice campaigns, and let's figure out how we can tear the capitalist system a new one.

Beautiful surroundings, kids' space, live music and late-night jams, delicious vegan scran, Veggies cafe space, #SamosasForSocialChange and much more! Bring ya hiking boots and your dancing shoes, and all your mates!

More info including about accessibility and transport, wellbeing and covid will be shared on https://www.earthfirst.uk/ nearer the time.

We are working through our archives to preserve at Sparrows Nest Library in Nottingham. Intersting documents are coming to light, including this early 1990's statement "Veggies Against Apartheid".

See a copy and full text at
https://sumac.org.uk/veggies-against-apartheid/

Only 4 more days to watch 'Free Party: A Folk History' - rent now for this solstice weekend!

https://watch.eventive.org/freeparty/play/69e9088e67d1eb283561579c

It's the summer solstice this weekend, an event which was so pivotal in the years the film covers, including the free festivals of the 1970s at Stonehenge, the terrible events at the Beanfield in 1985 and the subsequent Glastonbury and free party years and remains so to this day with thousands gathering at Stonehenge, Glastonbury Tor and all around the world this weekend.

To look again at the common urge to gather in a field, to watch the sun rise on the longest day and to celebrate with others is, in some ways the heart and soul of the film. As we approach our final weekend of screenings for this streaming run, on this solstice weekend, we wanted to thank all of those of you who have already watched the film, and for those that haven't suggest that its a great time to do so!!

image c/o Alan 'Tash' Lodge
https://alanlodge.co.uk/

Join us for our live steam of the first day of the #spycops inquiry this Monday 15th June.

We will have a multi-media screening of the various channels following the events in the hearings, including the official Undercover Policing Inquiry live stream, the 'real time transcript' by Tom B Fowler and others, commentary from the community of those affected and analysis in each break by Tom & other core participants.

We will guide you through all this so that thereafter you can follow wherever you are via the links gathered at https://sumac.org.uk/series/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-live-stream-at-sumac-screen-room/

We'll be starting with Bob Lambert who, as the manager of the Special Demonstration Squad, trained the spycops that infiltrated us at the Sumac Centre in Nottingham.

See reports by @copscampaign@mastodon.social and others at https://social.coop/tags/spycops

and the preview of the season by @tombfowler@mastodon.social on youtube at
https://youtube.com/shorts/k_JmVA_iBeQ

RE: @ethicalrevolution@climatejustice.social

Thanks Sam, an excellent selection of ethical accounts to follow. V. Happy to be included (Ethical Consumer Best Buy!)

Emily Apple, todays witness at the Undercover Policing Inquiry, may be one of the campaigners mpst harrassed bu #spycops, having been committed to wortking for a better world since her teen years!

Today's hearing looked in particular at the activities of the Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT) - the close contact police camera teams that followed her from protests to press conferences (she's press officer for Campaign Against the Arms Trade) to hospital (to check out harm received on wrongful arrests, eg at DSEi Arms Fair Protests.

Little surprise that she is acknowledged as a supporter of David Hoffman's photo journalisn iub his book PROTEST!

We have just 3 copies available and £5 from each copy will go to support the #spycops campaigns.

See Book section of our online store at https://www.veggies.org.uk/shop/

RE: @Veggies@social.coop

Last chance to grab some leaflets before the Rescue Not Retail - Pets at Home Week of Action next week!

It really does make all the difference just to go along to your local store either by yourself or with a few friends to your local Pets at Home and either give out some leaflets to visitors or stick leaflets and stickers around inside the store...

PaH need to know that there are lots of us all around the country who care deeply about this issue, and we need to get as many visitors on board as we can!

You can order your resources here:

https://forms.gle/EHDNpuqQsnNhP8Y76

World's longest coastal path opens in England to the public.

The new path is 2,689 miles long

The path has been designed with the heavier rains and rising seas that climate change is expected to bring in mind.

For the first time in English law there is provision for the route to be moved inland – "rolled back", Natural England calls it - if the coastline erodes or shifts.

This allows the trail to adapt to the changing shoreline and aims to ensure that the coastal walk remains continuous and practical for generations to come.

BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy0dxexdd8xo

Ratcliffe Power Station ‘Climate Swoop’

On Saturday 17th October 2009, around one thousand climate activists attempted to shut down Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal power station in Nottinghamshire, taking direct action with repeated breaches of the security fencing.

The action came only weeks before the UN COP15 Climate Conference in Copenhagen, and followed the arrest of 114 activists in Nottingham for allegedly planning to infiltrate the power station in April.

The 'Ratcliffe 114 case later collapsed when it was revealed that the uncovered #spycops undercover police officer, Mark Kennedy, had spied on legally privileged information and hios police handlers had withheld evidence from the trial.

From report by "Tash" Alan Lodge
https://alanlodge.co.uk/blog/archives/1491

We are hopelessly disorganized, or overworked with so many campaign events, mail order shop, Sumac Social Centre etc, so we keep neglecting to follow-up our long, long-standing interactions with @greennet@greennet.social

Amongst other things our email service and 'vast and extensive internet capability' * are efficiently hosted by GreenNet.

* Quote from article by Kevin Toolis in The Guardian Society section in the late '80s / early 90's

This was incredibly special for #PoliceSpiesOutOfLives.

"We've gone from no-one believing us about #spycops to a celebration at #BAFTA where 'The Undercover Police Scandal - Love & Lies Exposed' was nominated for Best Factual Series. Our campaign for justice continues but this was definitely a night to celebrate the wins!"

We are pleased to have featured a 'live' screening at #SumacScreenRoom at #Nottingham #SumacCentre. We will continue to livestream the #spycops inquiry when it recommences on 15th June.

https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t4/

'The Undercover Police Scandal - Love & Lies Exposed' is still available to view on ITV

https://www.itv.com/watch/the-undercover-police-scandal-love-and-lies-exposed/10a5198

@BristleKRS@mastodon.me.uk @tombfowler@bird.makeup @copscampaign@mastodon.social

Much of interest at Undercover Policing Inquiry examining the Special Demonstration Squad (SDS).

The afternoon, with @spycops HN3 'Jason Bishop', touched on SDS rivalry with new NPOIU (see image).

Mentions of 'Rod Richardson', the first we know to be deployed to us in Nottingham & his follow-up Mark 'Stone'/Kennedy.

Events reported on that we supported included DSEi Arms Fair 2001 & 2003, MayDay protests, Earth First (EF!) Gatherings in N.Wales & N.Yorkshire, GM Crop decontaminations & more.

Also 2005 G8 campaign at Gleneagles in Scotland & Dissent network at Stirling, where we built on the EF! camp skills later deployed at Climate Camps (& later XR).

For an overview see instant reaction video by @tombfowler@mastodon.social with Emily Apple, who was seriously spied on by Bishop and was arrested alongside him.

https://youtu.be/-NfPZe_zGHA?si=c0Q9zkp2NO16y2xq

Follow links on the @copscampaign@mastodon.social YouTube channel for more coverage.

You can follow the inquiry via links that we've gathered at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/

This exiting *Food for Thought* festival began today at New Art Exchange.

The exhibition runs to 4pm Saturday with workshops and cookery workshops continue through til 4th March.

https://nottzgardenproject.bigcartel.com/festival-home

 It is a community festival exploring the cultural, social, and ecological importance of food — how it connects us to memory, identity, migration, and the spaces we share.

Bringing people together to learn & finishing in the build of a community garden at the boulevard garden… TOGETHER.

Loads going on in Hyson Green through to the end of APRIL...

Tonight:
Ron Finley - Urban Fruit

This film celebrates the visionary “Gangsta Gardener” (Ron Finley), whose bold approach to growing food transformed his LA community. After the film, share your own wishes for Nottingham’s urban fruit trees and imagine a greener, more edible city! Spaces are limited and tickets must be booked separately, via program website

https://nottzgardenproject.bigcartel.com/food-for-thought

🐹PETS AT HOME DEMO🐹

👋 Join us on Sunday, March 29th for peaceful outreach and to raise awareness of the rescue crisis!
🐭 Hand out leaflets, hold signs, and get people to sign the petition asking Pets at Home to stop selling animals.
🐰 This event is part of the Rescue Not Retail week of action to coincide with Easter—typically a time when people buy rabbits for their kids—as well as the start date of the new CEO of Pets at Home.
🪧 Signs will be provided, but people are also encouraged to make and bring their own!

📅 Sunday 29 March
⌚ 11AM-1PM
📍 Castle Marina Retail Park
*https://fb.me/e/7lHZaS9eH*

RE: @Veggies@social.coop

OUR MEETING POINT HAS CHANGED.

📍BMW Park Lane
https://w3w.co/giving.tuned.dizzy

Find us on the website under :

Start Zone G
NGOs, charities + climate

(Animal Action Bloc, Position 17)

https://www.togetheralliance.org.uk/blocs

Camp for Climate Action . Heathrow 2007 #spycops

Please help us help #SparrowsNest Library Archive our 40 years of campaign materials.

https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/library-bookshop/

[57:00] In relation to #SumacCentre "RW" [aka HN118 "Simon Welling"] contests reports by his #spycops unit that he "has good access to this open social space and community cafe which is often used for national gatherings of various autonomous groups, such as Dissent and assorted Hunt Sab groups ... Particularly good access into the vegan field kitchen group, Veggies, that often provides catering facilities inside the eco camps that spring up around summit venues."

Tuesday is the Day of Dissent at the #Spycops inquiry.

Follow the inquiry via the links at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/

We're stepping up our efforts to get our archives into the Sparrows Nest Library.

See Dissent related stuff at https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/search.php?query=Dissent&digital=0&logic=and&query2=

To support our library/archiving work visit https://sumac.org.uk/get-involved/library-bookshop/

The #spycops inquiry is writing 'OUR' history for future generations - if any survive the secret police disruption of democratic & activist action against the crises we face.

Last week we heard from four witnesses: Joe Batty, "Monica", Roger Geffen and 'GRD'.

They were spied on by Carlo Soracchi, Jim Boyling, Jason Bishop, Mark Kennedy and others.
See the summary discussion with @tombfowler@mastodon.social, @copscampaign@mastodon.social, a number of Reclaim the Street core participants, and others, at https://www.facebook.com/tombfowler/videos/1858430264797924

The Undercurrents video of the No M11 Link Road campaign is published on the Inquiry official archive at https://www.ucpi.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/UCPI0000038788-1.AVI.MP4

'thellama451' originally published this 2 years ago but it's worth revisiting:
"The #spycops inquiry is still going on and every activist on the planet should be interested in this. Lots of links included for material, evidence and who you should follow" > https://goatandvine.substack.com/p/why-arent-you-following-the-spycops

Like us, you can also follow via all the platforms shown at https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/

One cannot fail to be impressed not only in Helen Steel's skill as a #spycops witness but her resilience and (despite it all) her strength and humour.

However it turn dark as the inquiry hears more about secret state police manipulation of women, leading Helen to consider going on the run with John Dines out of concern. She is very emotional and struggles to speak.

Hear from Belinda & 'Lisa' from @out_of_lives@bird.makeup at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7H8hWERCgQ

https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3-3/

see #AltText

🎥 EARTH'S GREATEST ENEMY

An essential film for anyone fighting for peace, justice and a livable planet.

📍Mammoth - a Climate Action Cinema

🗓️ 22/05 & 23/05 at 7pm

🎟️ Tickets 👉 https://mammothcinema.co.uk/Event/212780

🎞️ Trailer 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rphBWk15_h4

In Abby Martin's second feature documentary, Earth’s Greatest Enemy reveals a hidden truth behind the climate crisis: the role of the U.S. military as the world’s largest institutional polluter. Drawing on powerful testimonies from veterans, scientists, and frontline communities, it uncovers how military operations poison ecosystems, accelerate global warming, and sacrifice the future for endless expansion

There's an intro to Tuesday's #spycops hearing, covering Reclaim the Streets with Caroline from RTS and @earthfirst@kolektiva.social and Tom Fowler at https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19W73vNAQA/

It is very clear that today's witness, "Monica" is being incredibly brave in sharing personal private information with the #spycops inquiry. None of this is being broadcast for good reason.

For links to follow in other ways see https://sumac.org.uk/event/spycops-undercover-policing-inquiry-t3p2/