Kevin Blowe 🏴

Taking a break from social media in favour of talking directly to people I care about so don't message me here. @claptoncfc stan account

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

Back briefly to say this account is no longer monitored regularly so there's no point tagging me or messaging here. Catch you IRL somewhere. Also...

[Dave @MediocreDave]

I love sharing info about protests online. It makes me feel cool and in-the-know and like I'm authentically connected to the movement and it lets everyone else know that I'm a real organiser. It rules! I don't ever check whether it's true half the time, I just put it out there.

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

@BengaliTigger Respectfully, no. The far right intent is to mobilise local racists who aren't in their Telegram groups as they have elsewhere. In Walthamstow for example it was perfectly possible to call a counter protest to meet at McDonald's on the street where the target is without naming it

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

So let me try to understand this correctly. A far right Telegram group published a list of immigration lawyers and centres for its supporters to target. Nobody knows how much of this is probable, bravado or disinformation but the threat exists and countering it is essential.

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

And if anyone points out why this all might have been careless and irresponsible, they are accused of being insufficiently anti-fascist. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

And then rather than mobilising local counter protests against potential far right attacks with assembly points that consider the safety of staff and clients, names and addresses of these targets are again splashed all over social media, globally, a thousand-fold doxxing number 3

[Lucy Brisbane McKay @lucybrisbane]

Last episode of season two, in which I bestow @copwatcher with the title of ‘dad of all copwatches’.

Search Unlawful Killing wherever you get your podcasts 🎙️

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

– the fact the Met in the 90s spent so much time and energy on "subversive" anti-fascist groups was in sharp contrast to its complete indifference to racist violence and harassment.
– if the BNP bookshop in Welling has burnt down at any point, nobody would have shed a tear

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

One frustration I have with the #spycops inquiry is a tendency to pin everything "violent" on Anti-Fascist Action at a time when the far right were a genuine physical threat to black communities. So for the record:

[Tom Fowler @tombfowler]

A report by Trevor Morris of a meeting on 20 June 93 of the anti fascist collective / Unity group with a very long list of groups present. Says organisers did not want AFA/Red Action involvement. Trevor Morris said the other groups would want it peaceful. #spycops

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

– despite major political differences, AFA consistently and generously provided advice in advance of events that could face far-right attacks.
– stopping Euro fascists at the Battle of Waterloo Station in 1992 was a triumph.
– "self defence is no offence" is entirely legitimate

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

I was a continuous member at Stratford East Picturehouse from 1998-2024 and before @picturehouses closes it down, I'm attending the final screening tonight. Lots of happy memories, well over a 1000 films: they really should gift me my usual seat (D1) for this kind of perseverance

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

LBGTQ rights are under attack and homophobia in our communities is growing more brazen: some utter bigots have again vandalised the pavement Pride flag by Forest Gate station in east London.

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

@Bromley_PH And Fulham Road https://t.co/nCE1VKssLu

[Fulham Road Picturehouse @FulhamRoadPH]

🎬 Our final readograph has gone up, marking the end of an era. ✨

Thank you for 94 incredible years of movie memories. Your support and love have been the heart of our theater. Join us for a final celebration of the magic of cinema. 🎥❤️

#ThankYou #MovieMemories #EndOfAnEra

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

I became a member of @SEPicturehouse in 1998. It's where I held my 50th birthday celebration. I suspected the writing was on the wall last year when they shut the bar and it never opened but today I saw the cinema is closing on 28 July

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

Zombies are finally dead

[Clapton FC News @claptonfcnews]

Breaking: @claptonfootball have withdrawn from @SCEFLeague

With no chairman, manager, players, friendlies or trial dates and a move to play in south London, it had looked like the end and this has now been confirmed.

@GreenwaysFC are reprieved from relegation in their place.

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

Having contributed 14 copies of "1984" to this fantastic project, I really hope there's a way to bring it to London at some point soon

[Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest]

We were at the launch of The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth in Jura Village Hall tonight to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Orwell’s 1984, and what a fantastic event it was! #IBF24 guest author @LesWils46219697 read an extract from his book Orwell’s Island, and…

[Islay Book Festival @islaybookfest]

We were at the launch of The Winston Smith Library of Victory and Truth in Jura Village Hall tonight to celebrate the 75th anniversary of Orwell’s 1984, and what a fantastic event it was! #IBF24 guest author @LesWils46219697 read an extract from his book Orwell’s Island, and…

[Kevin Blowe 🏴 @copwatcher]

@BorisMellor I'll admit the source has a far from reliable track record https://t.co/qmFsnLFADi

[INQUEST @INQUEST_ORG]

🎙️We're back with Unlawful Killing, our podcast exploring death, resistance & the fight for justice.

In ep1 @lucybrisbane & Lee Lawrence look at
what happens after someone dies at the hands of
the state, and how families are left to battle for the truth.

https://t.co/V82HtwMBtr