UK Newswire Archive
Bookfair 2010 - Anarchist Cartoonist Donald Rooum
03-12-2010 17:22
London Indymedia caught up with long time anarchist and cartoonist Donald Rooum to discuss his work with Freedom, Peace News and his Wildcat creation, and the things he enjoys about this years 28th Anarchist Bookfair in Mile End, London.
Bookfair 2010 - Interview with Michael Albert
03-12-2010 17:22
An incredibly inspiring interview at the 28th Anarchist Bookfair in London with American activist, political theorist, and writer, Michael Albert on his ideas of Participatory Economics, 'Parecon', which uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and allocation of resources in a given society. Here he touches on his ideas, and how they are slowly gaining wider interest, how it is being used in for example, Venezuala, and how it could change society itself by completely flipping the current economic standard on its head.
Bookfair 2010 - Counter/Mapping Queen Mary Uni.
03-12-2010 17:22
To begin by asking ‘what is the university’ requires an investigation of the function of the university not only as a knowledge factory but also as a border. Our investigation of what the university produces as knowledge, hierarchies and power exposes the border/s that operate in, on and around the university. That ‘the university is a border’ is made possible by the operation of a filter mechanism. The counting of bodies, money in and money out, who can and can not enter, what are we when we leave, the limits of what is and is not knowledge and the complicity with national and global border regimes – who and what is stopped at the border?
A group of students, staff and researchers at Queen Mary University have set out to map the ways in which migration, border technologies, surveillance and monetary flows intersect with the university as our place of work and study.
Imc London Animation
03-12-2010 17:22
After improving the video encoder, Imc London is planning to re-encode all videos, which will highly improve the viewing experience. This is a draft for a short clip to be put at the end of videos on Imc London. If you have any comments, please use the additions for feedback.
Bookfair 2010 - Activist Trauma Support
03-12-2010 17:22
"Trauma work is part of resistance. A lot of people drop out, disappear, stop being active, feel excluded because of their fear or because they are suffering from post traumatic stress disorders (PTSD). Even after obvious incidents like the Diaz school in Genoa, there was no emotional support set up for the victims. A lot them suffered more from the emotional consequences than the physical injuries.
If we want to be effective as a movement, and create sustainable activism, we need to be able to support each other. If we know we will be supported afterwards and we are aware of what can happen to us emotionally in consequence to police brutality, we will be able to feel more secure and prepared in our actions."
Bookfair 2010 - Iv. Milan Rai, Peace News
03-12-2010 17:22
Milan Rai, a British peace campaigner best known for being arrested on 25 October 2005 next to a London war memorial, the Cenotaph, for refusing to cease reading aloud the names of civilians by then killed in Iraq in the course of Britain's most recent war, alongside fellow activist Maya Evans.
He is a writer and anti-war activist, and most recently, has taken on the role as editor for Peace News.
Here Milan discusses the current stand-off between the West and Iran, the media manipulation of the news from Iran, and why we as anarchists and activists, have to support the democracy movement in Iran.
Bookfair 2010 - Interview with Fitwatch
03-12-2010 17:22
Due to evidence that the police forces have been gathering unprecedented amounts of intelligence on indivuduals at demonstrations and actions (1), FITWatch, here interviewed during the 28th Anarchist Bookfair, are asking people to make requests under the data protection act for any information the police may be holding on them, to try and get a better understanding of how the police are gathering intelligence on us, and how they are using it. Please watch this video, or get in touch with FITWatch directly for more information on how you can help.
Bookfair 2010 - Dr. Richard Barbrook
03-12-2010 17:22
Does the word 'Revolution' has any meaning anymore? Is there any point to political writing? and was the last British election actually a coup d'état by the civil service?
This and other questions are put to Dr. Richard Barbrook, winner of the 2008 Marshall McLuhan Prize for 'Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology' and a University of Westminster lecturer.
He begins by discussing Guy Debord's 'The Game of War', as a way to think about politics, and maybe a way of improving how we practice politics better.
BBC Strike Interview
03-12-2010 17:22
Interview with Donnacha DeLong, NUJ vice-president, on the eve of the BBC strike.
The Siege of Millbank
03-12-2010 17:22
Tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees.
Violence erupted as thousand of protesters battled police and stormed a building containing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.
Over 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters demonstrated against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to £9,000 a year, three times the current rate, in the largest street protest yet against the ConDem government's sweeping austerity measures.
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On Cuts and Capitalism
03-12-2010 17:22
A 14-minute interview with David Graeber, on cuts to education budgets.
Interview with Clare Solomon on Student Demo
03-12-2010 17:22
A short interview with University of London Union President, Clare Solomon on last weeks student demonstration in London against tuition fees and cuts.
police force children out of mcdonalds
03-12-2010 17:22
police force children out of mcdonalds and force them down whitehall into kettle where they are then held for hours. they can't explain what law they are using.
mounted police charging protesters at whitehall
03-12-2010 17:22
mounted police charging protesters, they said they didn't, my camera says they did.
words from a police kettle
03-12-2010 17:22
David Graeber and Clare Colomon speak from inside the police kettle on 24th November 2010.
Clashes with police at Lewisham Town Hall
03-12-2010 17:22
Video of clashes with police at Lewisham Town Hall 29/11/10 when protesters interrupted a crucial council meeting.
dayx2: Demo leaving Trafalgar Square 12 noon
03-12-2010 17:22
Dayx2 gainst cuts and student fees: About 600-800 people met at Trafalgar Square at noon.
Almost on the minute at 12 the crowd started mooving, but the police had blocked off Whitehall completely with vans and police lines.
The whole demo spontanously - to the suprise of the police - turned right into St James Park.
dayx2: Demo in Holborn
03-12-2010 17:22
Around 2pm: The demonstration which left Trafalgar Square has grown after walking all the way up to Oxford Street and breaking through police lines who tried to split the demo in The Strand.
Students Run Down Side Street To Avoid Kettle
03-12-2010 17:22
Students running down a side street in Westminster, avoiding the planned route and the hundreds of police officers. Earlier today, the student march split off in different directions and the police was unable to control protesters as they were taking over several main roads.
Anger at the lines
03-12-2010 17:22
At about 5:30pm the 2-300 people still in the detainment zone at Trafalgar Square tried to break out, they almost made it.