Now here’s a version of ‘smart-mobbing’, the fad which FmH readers will know I have considered frivolous, that I can get behind. The Chasing Bush campaign, angry about the stage-managing of Bush’s London visit, are encouraging people to send location reports about the Bush entourage, make protests more visible, and spoil the PR effect the Bushies are trying to create with a “security bubble” around the President. —BBC [via b0ing b0ing] Camera phone images from protesters are being posted at the Chasing Bush website. There are unsubstantiated reports, however, that Bush security people have prevailed on Scotland Yard to have cellular antennas in the vicinity of the President’s perambulations shut down on the pretext that they could be used to trigger remote-control bombs.

Here is a sort of umbrella site linking to various “Bush not welcome” efforts. (“The author of this website does not advocate violence and is not responsible for the actions of individual protesters.”)

Related:

US President George Bush will tonight (Tues 18 Nov) be branded ‘one of the world’s arch environmental villains’ by Friends of the Earth’s Executive Director, Tony Juniper, when he addresses hundreds of environmentalists at the Burning Planet rally in Grosvenor Square, London.

And:

The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit yesterday accusing the Secret Service of violating the constitutional rights of protesters at events featuring President Bush and other senior administration officials.

The suit contends that protesters have been forced into designated “free-speech zones” far from TV cameras and the national media, sometimes behind fences or other barriers.

Sign holders sympathetic to the administration and other members of the public are allowed much closer. —SeattlePI