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I just stumbled across this archive listing of Veggies events from 1985 Molesworth anti-nukes campaign to 2003 Stop the War demo.
https://www.veggies.org.uk/archive.htm
It includes:
1992: National rally (in Nottingham) vs Boots the Vivisectors
1996: M41 Reclaim the Streets
1998: World Day for Animals in Labs in Cambridge, combined with Reclaim the Streets
1999: J18 Carnival vs Capitalism and Wattlington GM Foods protest
2000: Animal rights campaigns at Covance, Newchurch, Harlan, HLS, Bantam & Kingman, plus Live Exports Campaigns
2001: Memorial event for Jill Phipps and Anniversary of #McLibel victory.
2002: Protest vs Peat Cutting at Hatfield Moor
2003: Big Green Gathering and Earth First GatheringHow many of these were targeted by #spycops?
I love the link from the October 18th 2000 listing for Veggies 16th Anniversary!
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I just stumbled across this archive listing of Veggies events from 1985 Molesworth anti-nukes campaign to 2003 Stop the War demo.
https://www.veggies.org.uk/archive.htm
It includes:
1992: National rally (in Nottingham) vs Boots the Vivisectors
1996: M41 Reclaim the Streets
1998: World Day for Animals in Labs in Cambridge, combined with Reclaim the Streets
1999: J18 Carnival vs Capitalism and Wattlington GM Foods protest
2000: Animal rights campaigns at Covance, Newchurch, Harlan, HLS, Bantam & Kingman, plus Live Exports Campaigns
2001: Memorial event for Jill Phipps and Anniversary of #McLibel victory.
2002: Protest vs Peat Cutting at Hatfield Moor
2003: Big Green Gathering and Earth First GatheringHow many of these were targeted by #spycops?
I love the link from the October 18th 2000 listing for Veggies 16th Anniversary!
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See also “COPS” https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/
30th anniversary of McSpotlight 16th Feb 1996-2026
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of McSpotlight.org
www.mcspotlight.org
16th February 1996 - 2026
Media release
https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2026/02/celebrating-30th-anniversary-of.html
Let the resistance continue and flourish!
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See also “COPS” https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/
30th anniversary of McSpotlight 16th Feb 1996-2026
Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of McSpotlight.org
www.mcspotlight.org
16th February 1996 - 2026
Media release
https://radicalhistorynetwork.blogspot.com/2026/02/celebrating-30th-anniversary-of.html
Let the resistance continue and flourish!
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Summary overview of today's hearing of the #spycops inquiry, with @tombfowler, Eveline Lubbers of @undercovernet and Dave Morris (#McLibel)
https://x.com/tombfowler/status/1980304381900988468
Daily live analysis, in each break, is gathered on COPS Campaign YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@copscampaign6863/videos
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Shadow World - the People vs MacDonalds
In 1986, members of environmental group, London Greenpeace, published a leaflet called 'What's Wrong with McDonald's?' It claimed McDonald's was exploiting workers, destroying rainforests, torturing animals, and promoting food that could make people sick, even cause cancer...
McDonald's said the claims in the leaflet were untrue, harmed its reputation and demanded an apology.
Helen Steel, a gardener, and a former postman named Dave Morris, refused.Mark Steel takes us into the murky world of McDonald's Corporation vs Steel & Morris - aka 'McLibel' - the longest-running trial in English history which turned the spotlight on the way big business operates. The case would help bring issues like rainforest destruction and advertising to children into the mainstream. It would also - spoiler alert - be the moment our current Prime Minister first comes to prominence. And if that isn't enough, this story would ultimately have connections with a dark and shameful secret at the heart of the British state - something which Mark discovers he himself had been a victim of.
Presenter: Mark Steel
Producer: Conor Garrett
Executive Producer: Georgia Catt
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
Archive Research: Emma Betteridge
Production Co-ordinator: Dan Marchini
Music Score: Phil KieranArchive excerpts from director Franny Armstrong's 'McLibel,' reproduced with the kind permission of Spanner Films
Shadow World: Gripping stories from the Shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK. BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4
#BBCRadio4 #BBCShadowWorld
#MarkSteel #McLibel #LondonGreenpeaceepisodes are downloadable via podcast tab
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Shadow World - the People vs MacDonalds
In 1986, members of environmental group, London Greenpeace, published a leaflet called 'What's Wrong with McDonald's?' It claimed McDonald's was exploiting workers, destroying rainforests, torturing animals, and promoting food that could make people sick, even cause cancer...
McDonald's said the claims in the leaflet were untrue, harmed its reputation and demanded an apology.
Helen Steel, a gardener, and a former postman named Dave Morris, refused.Mark Steel takes us into the murky world of McDonald's Corporation vs Steel & Morris - aka 'McLibel' - the longest-running trial in English history which turned the spotlight on the way big business operates. The case would help bring issues like rainforest destruction and advertising to children into the mainstream. It would also - spoiler alert - be the moment our current Prime Minister first comes to prominence. And if that isn't enough, this story would ultimately have connections with a dark and shameful secret at the heart of the British state - something which Mark discovers he himself had been a victim of.
Presenter: Mark Steel
Producer: Conor Garrett
Executive Producer: Georgia Catt
Commissioning Editor: Dan Clarke
Archive Research: Emma Betteridge
Production Co-ordinator: Dan Marchini
Music Score: Phil KieranArchive excerpts from director Franny Armstrong's 'McLibel,' reproduced with the kind permission of Spanner Films
Shadow World: Gripping stories from the Shadows - BBC investigations from across the UK. BBC Studios for BBC Radio 4
#BBCRadio4 #BBCShadowWorld
#MarkSteel #McLibel #LondonGreenpeaceepisodes are downloadable via podcast tab
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the #McLibel case against #McDonalds & how #UKpolice infiltrated #Greenpeace, #SWP & around 1000 other left organisations for years. #SDS officers had relationships with activists & even had kids only to suddenly abandon them & disappear.
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the #McLibel case against #McDonalds & how #UKpolice infiltrated #Greenpeace, #SWP & around 1000 other left organisations for years. #SDS officers had relationships with women & even had kids only to suddenly abandon them & disappear.
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Good to see reference to James Hansen, who spoke on behalf of #McLibel in 1990's (currently featured on BBC Radio 4 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002h03b)
and in defense of the #Ratcliffe114 climate defenders whose 2010 trial collapsed after revelation that the group was infiltrated by #Spycops
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@beforewisdom
This is a new series with mark steel. The series is about the McDonald's case but is also about the #spycopscandal , the inquiry is still ongoing.
The #mclibel case is an important part of the spy cops story as Helen Steel was in a relationship with an undercover cop, obviously she didn't know at the time, but also that the leaflet at the heart of the case was largely written by another spycop. You really couldn't make it up! -
@beforewisdom
This is a new series with mark steel. The series is about the McDonald's case but is also about the #spycopscandal , the inquiry is still ongoing.
The #mclibel case is an important part of the spy cops story as Helen Steel was in a relationship with an undercover cop, obviously she didn't know at the time, but also that the leaflet at the heart of the case was largely written by another spycop. You really couldn't make it up! -
@SusiArnott
It was the fact that he gave his time voluntarily to the case that fooled me into thinking he was a decent person.
How wrong I was.
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@SusiArnott
It was the fact that he gave his time voluntarily to the case that fooled me into thinking he was a decent person.
How wrong I was.
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Michael Mansfield ... law talking guy ...
(classic underachiever (in my opinion))
A #BritishRepublican,[2] #vegetarian, #socialist [3] and self-described "radical lawyer",[4] he has participated in prominent and controversial court cases and inquests including the Birmingham Six, #BloodySundayMassacre, the #HillsboroughDisaster and the deaths of #JeanCharlesDeMenezes and Princess Diana[5] and the #McLibel case.
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Michael Mansfield ... law talking guy ...
(classic underachiever (in my opinion))
A #BritishRepublican,[2] #vegetarian, #socialist [3] and self-described "radical lawyer",[4] he has participated in prominent and controversial court cases and inquests including the Birmingham Six, #BloodySundayMassacre, the #HillsboroughDisaster and the deaths of #JeanCharlesDeMenezes and Princess Diana[5] and the #McLibel case.
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#GeorgeMombiot asserts livestock impact "is now the most active & seductive frontier of climate-science denial, heavily promoted by the meat industry, which is as ruthless & machiavellian as the fossil fuel industry."
He quotes a “study” ... “to support McDonald’s belief that well-managed beef production has an important role to play in a thriving global ecosystem”.
In reality, beef and lamb are the most land-hungry and climate-damaging of all farm products.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/07/cattle-sheep-farming-sustainable-food
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Revealed: at least 25 UK ‘spy cops’ had sex with deceived members of public
Total shows scale of dishonesty in undercover operations over more than three decades
This has been going on for so long, there's several excellent books on it. What disgusting shit the English cops pulled on activists.
#News #UK #Police #ACAB #Activist #Protest #Undercover #Scumbags #McLibel
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Spycops manager Eric Docker says he didn't know if there was direct contact between Special Branch and McDonalds. Claims that in the #spycops he wouldn't know
Dic Penderyn reminds us that McDonalds head of security Sid Nicholson, an ex-Met officer, said during #McLibel trial that McDonald’s security department were all ex-policemen with “many, many contacts with the police service” Also revealed that his staff had traded confidential information about Steel & Morris with Special Branch officers
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#Spycops undercover political policing units, the SDS and NPOIU.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/14/exclusive-braverman-tried-to-curtail-spycops-inquiry/Police Spies Out of Lives https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/
#Undercover Research
https://powerbase.info/index.php/UndercoverResearch_Portal(Note: Labor Party Leader and current/2025 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was spied on by police (SPYCOPS) while he worked on #mcLibel case against McDonald’s in the 1990s, the public inquiry heard.)
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#Spycops undercover political policing units, the SDS and NPOIU.
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2025/01/14/exclusive-braverman-tried-to-curtail-spycops-inquiry/Police Spies Out of Lives https://policespiesoutoflives.org.uk/
#Undercover Research
https://powerbase.info/index.php/UndercoverResearch_Portal(Note: Labor Party Leader and current/2025 Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer was spied on by police (SPYCOPS) while he worked on #mcLibel case against McDonald’s in the 1990s, the public inquiry heard.)
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Did #AndyColes include in his reports details of his attendance at a #McLibel meeting, discussing legal strategy of Helen Steel & Dave Morris.
"Yes"
Have the #Spycops, their handlers and those directing the work of the UK's secret political police unit never heard or never cared about the concept of 'Privilege' - a fundamental legal right that allows individuals and corporate entities to resist disclosure of confidential and sensitive material.
#xposted
https://x.com/PenderynDic/status/1869720620004749343 -
"In a recent article entitled "What's wrong with McDonalds" we said that McDonalds Restaurants were implicated in the destruction of rain-forests in the production of cheap beef and to provide the raw material which goes into their paper bags. As a result of further investigation, we are satisfied that there is no truth in this statement and we apologise to McDonald's Hamburgers Limited for any embarrassment caused"
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"We [McD's solicitors] are instructed by McDonald's Corporation of Oakwood, Illinois who run the McDonalds restaurant chain in the USA and elsewhere in the world. There has come to our clients' attention a leaflet published and/or distributed by your company and dated June 1987 which contains an article entitled "What's wrong with McDonalds". We believe this article emanates from an organisation known as Greenpeace (London)."
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Today's in depth #spycopsTwitter Spaces roundup by @tombfowler can be heard at
https://x.com/i/spaces/1MYGNMdDBgnKwI believe this can be heard without logging in to twitter
Today we heard the 3rd day from Helen Steel of #PoliceSpiesOutOfLives, #McLibel and much more, who will be back later in the inquiry.
The afternoon saw the first of 5 days Q&As with the notorious Bob Lambert who incited crimes, conspired to enact them and framed others with responsibility.
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"The Spies Who Ruined Our Lives" is an intimate feature-length film on the secret undercover political police who infiltrated movements, initiated relationships & betrayed many
28 people came to see it in #Shrewsbury last night. Isn't that a good turn out for a little Torytown!
The film (& #McLibel) was shown to a full house, with #DaveMorris, at #SumacCentre during #Veggies40Years Festival & by @tombfowler in Bristol
https://www.veggies.org.uk/event/the-spies-who-ruined-our-lives-mclibel-film-screening/
Follow #spycops and @copscampaign for latest news.
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This long, fascinating summary covers the third week of ‘Tranche 2 Phase 2’, the new round hearings of the Undercover Policing Inquiry (UCPI), examining the animal rights-focused activities of the Metropolitan Police’s secret political unit, the Special Demonstration Squad, from 1983-92.
An essential read for anyone interested in the shared history not only of #AnimalRights but also #LondonGreenpeace #Community #Solidarity #McLibel #Pacifism #Anarchism
https://campaignopposingpolicesurveillance.com/2024/11/15/ucpi-weekly-report-14-4-7-november-2024/
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"It will also hear allegations that Starmer’s legal advice was shared with McDonald’s to help the corporation win the case."
Ho ho, all that "I was a Human Rights Lawyer who stood up against Big Business" was a crock of shit was it?
Starmer stabbed the McLibel people in the back did he?
Would he do that to us all as PM?
hmmmmmm
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"It will also hear allegations that Starmer’s legal advice was shared with McDonald’s to help the corporation win the case."
Ho ho, all that "I was a Human Rights Lawyer who stood up against Big Business" was a crock of shit was it?
Starmer stabbed the McLibel people in the back did he?
Would he do that to us all as PM?
hmmmmmm
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#SpyCopsScandal
Undercover policeman admits #spying on #KeirStarmer when he was a barristerSpy says he accessed details of legal advice Starmer gave campaigners in #McLibel case
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/15/undercover-policeman-admits-spying-on-keir-starmer-when-he-was-a-barrister
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#SpyCopsScandal
Undercover policeman admits #spying on #KeirStarmer when he was a barristerSpy says he accessed details of legal advice Starmer gave campaigners in #McLibel case
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/15/undercover-policeman-admits-spying-on-keir-starmer-when-he-was-a-barrister
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"The advice #Starmer provided for the #McLibel two has played an important part in his life and his subsequent political career. It was cited in his leadership bid in 2020, in his campaign launch video. Now the covert monitoring of the McLibel pair, including Starmer’s legal help, will be scrutinised in the coming months at the inquiry."
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"The advice #Starmer provided for the #McLibel two has played an important part in his life and his subsequent political career. It was cited in his leadership bid in 2020, in his campaign launch video. Now the covert monitoring of the McLibel pair, including Starmer’s legal help, will be scrutinised in the coming months at the inquiry."