Squall 14

The Masher

A new magazine for Travellers launches itself in this issue - pages 42-43.

Skool Bus Seeks Winter Park-up
- Travellers' School Charity is looking for a site with kids to teach over the winter

Blaggers Guide
- In this issue how to bleed air from a diesel engine

Anorak Special
- Kicking off this to-be regular column with some indepth technical data for several Bedford motors

Educated?
- Cambridge University warns students about the influx of travellers at Strawberry Fair

News and Other Busyness

page 5.
Masonic Judge Called In For Exodus Case
- brought out of retirement for an unbiased hearing

Cannabis Writer Released
- Mick Marlow released

Squatting In Ulster
- families forced from their homes due to attacks increases squatting in Northern Ireland

Jail Tensions Rise
- inhumane conditions in Belmarsh Prison raising tensions to 'desperate' level

6.
Briefs
Britain's Boot Camps
Breach Of The Peace
Disabled Campaigner Fined
Freebirds

Arms Exhibitor Drops Libel Action
- peace campaigners win court case against Copex

Greenham Cancer
- inquiry around high incidence of leukaemia around the air base

Watchdog Slams Shell's Lies
- Shell called out for its lies about its role in the death of Ken Saro-Wiwa

BAe Protesters Reluctantly Jailed
- two jailed for action in support of the women who smashed the Hawk jets

British Firms Equip Indonesian Police
- British weaponry used to quell riots in Jakarta

7.
Bookshop Libel
- Housemans and Bookmarks threatened with libel for stocking anti-fascist magazine Searchlight

European Court Blow For Travellers
- gypsies lose right to live on their own land in European Court of Human Rights

Exodus Dread Cleared Of All Charges
- core member of Exodus cleared of all charges court following bogus murder charge

Giant Crispbread Eats Famous Landmark?
- plan to flog London's most famous landmarks for advertising

8.
Briefs
Benefit Grass Up Line
Smart Card Tricks
European Grouse
Losing The Plottery
Animal Rights United
Benefit Helpline Cut

Benefit Fraud
- social security offices and other public buildings to be flogged off to friends of the Tory Party

Stiffer Sentences For Dealers
- govt white paper to make punishments for drugs and other offences much harsher

McDonald's At Stonehenge?
- yes McD's are applying to construct the new visitors centre

Benefits To Be Privatised
- benefits system to be flogged off

JSA Staff Fear For Safety
- dole workers in two-day walk-out over worries about violent attacks on staff

NFU Condemn Countryside Movement
- National Farmers Union in conflict with right-wing land-owners movement

9.
Special Branch Help McDonald's
- McLibel trial brings up information about Special Branch's surveillance on protesters and collusion with McDonald's.

McLibel Trial Latest
- now officially the longest court battle in British history - comes back from summer recess

10.
Police Expo On Security Hardware
- an inside look at a secret trade show held in Manchester in July

Special Branch Attempt To Infiltrate Ploughshares
- ex-police woman asked to spy on her friends in the Ploughshares movement

Prison Exercise Abolished
- EU rules on prisoner's rights broken as British prison restrict exercise time

More Prison Works
- building programme to keep up with hike in prison inmate numbers

11.
Exodus In Zurich
- Exodus invited to one-week cultural event

No Prosecution For Police Assault
- Manchester police get away with attacking an Asian student Amer Rafiq who lost an eye in the assault

CS Spray Given Go Ahead Despite Concerns
- over 40 police forces in UK will carry CS spray from next year, but some are voicing concerns

Big Mike & Fries
- Michael Portillo lines up for McDonald's photo opportunity while historic building in his constituency gets flogged to McD's.

13.
Exodus Defend Community Farm
- police raid Long Meadow Community Farm while Exodus are in Zurich

25.
Manchester Pansies Sieze Job Centre
- activists take over job centre in protest against Job Seekers Allowance

Road Rage

page 54.
Twyford Compensation
- Hampshire police agree to large payout to two women wrongfully arrested at Twyford Down

One Hundred Year Slaughter
- the centenary of the first ever fatal car accident

Highways Agency Yobbo
- Highway Agency in M11 Link Rd PR shocker

55.
Cow Discharged: Bomber Innocent
- Newbury protester acquitted for petrol bomb

Hunger Striker Victory
- Newbury protester wins court battle over repressive bail conditions

Injunction Threat To Protest Rights
- more injunctions served on Newbury protesters

Militant Anarchist Cyclists Arrested
- following Critical Mass in support of tube worker's strike

International Squall

Zapatista!
Update from the jungles of Chiapas

Pirating The Airwaves
Pirate radio making waves against oppressive regimes
- page 57

Killing Without Question
A succession of governments and corporations have used the people of Bougainville as profit fodder. Neil Goodwin reports on the battered history of a Pacific Island and the involvement of British mining company RTZ.
- page 58

Organise, Invade, Produce!
Tired of having no land, no food and no rights, community activists in Brazil have turned to squatting. Simon Lewis visited their cultivated occupations to speak with them.
- page 60