Pig Brother Comes to Glasgow

We've featured the Saorsa Centre before and there's more international collaborative goodness coming along this week at everyone's favourite revolutionary southside swell-hole. As the state increases levels of brutality & repression and loosens the guise of legal restraints, its time for a response...

This coming Thursday (23rd FEBRUARY 7 pm) at the SAORSA SOCIAL CENTRE there's a bunch of films, talks and get-together, followed by refreshments and discussion with MOJO and others (Miscarriage Of Justice Organisation)...

"All over the world cops are getting away with murder.In Barcelona, many people where badly beaten and police fire guns during a raid on a squat party. (See original report here
and follow up report here)

Three weeks ago in the UK, cops raided a house in South East London and a young black man ended up dead as a result of head injuries sustained after a 'fall' from a second story balcony (report here). Then of course the
is Jean Charles De Menezes, shot in the back by police using illegalhollow tipped bullets.

Internationally, police officers who mutilate or kill people on duty usually get off scot free, many times the cases not even making the news. The Swiss internet site PigBrother.info deals with such cases and the police weapons involved. Though often labelled "less lethal" and claimed to be "harmless", actually many proved to be fatal, not to mention lots of them being banned in war by e.g. the Geneva Convention but nevertheless frequently used by policeforces worldwide (like e.g. Dum Dum Bullets that a.o. killed Jean Charles de Menezes, but also the so called "Tear Gas").

In a multi media live show, Soulless and Anger (the makers of the homepage PigBrother.info and also of the banned video comedy "Blutgeil") present typical cases incl. weapons, injuries and favourite police excuses from the UK, Ireland, Italy, France, Germany, USA and Switzerland, where the use of sophisticated police weapons dates back some decades.

Despite the technical aspects and it's heavy going topic, the show is presented in an easy to understand and concise way, and Soulless & Anger also focus on the funnier aspects of several Police Operations making the Officers involved look only too human ...

And they demonstrate, how persistent work in this area can make a difference, forcing the police and the official media to at least sometimes act more by the book or even abolish some weapons or tactics. Without omitting, that such work on the other hand also involves some personal risks, like Soulless & Anger got to know themselves, suffering a.o. an illegal raid of their offices plus several arrests and court cases trying to gag them and to bring their homepages offline - though up to now without success ..."

Plus: Showing the Swiss anarchist film Blutgeil, a low-budget satire on splatter films. (An English equivalent of the title would be "Blood Frenzy", the original English subtitle is "Zurich Cop Eaters IV"). Produced in 1993, out of the squatted Wohlgroth factory building in Zurich, it was censored and its' makers put on trial.