Greetings all!
The campaign is progressing, despite our relative silence on here. The Census Non-Compliance officers are still doing the rounds, being threatening in some boroughs and really understanding in others.
It is getting closer to the time where legal action, if it happens, will become a reality. If you are threatened with legal action, please get in contact with us by emailing countmeout@aktivix.org.
Also, if you feel like updating us about the progress with your individual campaigns, then please join our email discussion list by emailing countmeout-subscribe@lists.riseup.net (a blank email will work fine).
Remember to keep the pressure up, column inches in papers are always a good idea…
Love,
The Count Me Out collective.
CALL OUT to campaign groups and activists. Let’s make this a big show of public support bring your own and group campaign banners and placards.
“All for one and one for all!”
DAY: NEXT THURSDAY 8th December 2011
TIME: 9.30am
LOCATION: outside – Liverpool Magistrates Court, 107 Dale St, L2 2JQ (opposite side of road from council municipal offices, fly-over end of Dale Steet)
This is a protest against war and the big brother surveillance state, it’s about opposing the world’s biggest (which overtook BAE as of 2009) arms manufacturer Lockheed Martin being rewarded with the £150 million pounds contract (awarded by the Labour government in 2008) for processing the UK census. Furthermore Lockheed-Martin are big in surveillance Lockheed Martin Vice-President Lorraine Martin has said: “We want to know what’s going on anytime, anyplace on the planet.” Would you trust a company with such an ambition with your confidential data?
There’s something sinister and ironic about us peace/anti-war protestors, anti-nuclear, Palestinian supporters, anti-surveillance/anti-ID card campaigners being legally forced, under threat of a £1000 fine and possibily prison if we refuse to pay the fine, to fill out the most personal of information for it to be processed by the world’s biggest arms manufacturer.
Support already confirmed:
Merseyside CND,
Occupy Liverpool,
Wrecsam Peace and Justice Forum,
Nerve Magazine
THE REFUSNIK IN COURT:
Sarah Ledsom, 56, of Bromborough, Wirral, a grandmother who suffers with a disabling chronic condition, is due to appear at the Magistrates Court in Liverpool, 107 Dale St, L2 2JQ, on 8 December at 10am to answer a charge of failing to complete the 2011 Census form. Sarah’s objections to completing the census relate to Lockheed Martin’s contract to process census data given the use of deadly Lockheed Martin weaponry by Israel on the people of Palestine. Sarah plans to run a human rights defence in her case. There will a demonstration and vigil outside the court from 9.30am. Please support this if you possibly can. If you can’t be there in person, please consider sending a message of solidarity to Sarah:
NoCONcensus@yahoo.co.uk
“My conscience will not, cannot condone what is happening to the good people of Palestine, innocent men, women and children being murdered by arms provided by Lockheed Martin to Israel. The very same Lockheed Martin who were given the contract to oversee the census 2011. On Thursday 8th of December I will be pleading not guilty as I will not be part of the collusion against Palestine. I will refuse to pay any fine and am more than prepared to go to prison. This is not about me; this is about the corruption and collusion going on between the UK/US/Israel against the innocent Palestinians and I am standing against it. Will you stand with me and all census resisters?” Sarah Ledsom
Kai Andersen, NoCONcensus (Liverpool) and census refusnik
More Heros of the revolution!