UK Newswire Archive
Hedgehog Survey - Lothians and Scottish Borders
29-04-2011 17:22
The Wildlife Information Centre is launching a survey of hedgehogs across the Lothians and Scottish Borders today.
Thought Police Use Royal Wedding As Cover To Stamp Out Dissent
29-04-2011 17:22
Following pre-emptive arrests in London, now the action moves online as Bristol Anarchist Bookfair deleted from Facebook along with many others under cover of Royal Wedding.
V writes: The Bristol Bookfair facebook page has been deleted without notice by facebook. It is one of many pages deleted in the last 24 hours. Other dangerous groups include Westminster Trades Council, Rochdale Law Centre, Save NHS, Tower Hamlets Greens and York Anarchists - so at least they are being even-handed!
An article on AntiCuts Space has the details and states: "The Anti-Cuts Space London facebook group has been taken down without warning or permission. In the last 12 hours, facebook has deleted around 50 sites. Message people in extant groups to warn them, and tell them to get on your email list or twitter account instead. Screw you Zuckerberg." See full list.
A quick check by us reveals that according to facebook: "Disabled - Inauthentic account. Why was I disabled? Fake accounts are a violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.Facebook requires users to provide their real first and last names." Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is of course our full name, and has not been questionned since we set up the account to network info about the Bookfair several months ago.
Are we surprised? Ha Ha Ha of course not. Of course not, we live in the real world, facebook is just one tool of communication, and its also a tool of capital to make money. We, as anarchists, challenge capital and the state, and aren't in the least surprised to have our account closed down. It may be the website next? Lets face it, at the end of the day we are organising a highly dangerous event where people read, buy and sell books full of ideas, theories and histories of struggle. Even worse, they actually sit down and discuss those ideas. An then afterwards they have a party. Such events have been repressed for centuries by capital and the state. Nothing has changed. The freedom of social networking remains just an illusion of freedom.
Welcome to Stokes Croft, Bristol, Britain 2011. Welcome to the myth of national untiy whilst the royal parasites inbreed. Welcome to the ConDems Big Society.
Comrades and friends who would like to help us continue to spread news of the Bookfair are asked to link to our website, cut n paste or download and upload the info about the bookfair. Cheers.
Other articles: When your face doesn’t fit: Facebook censorship (liberalconspiracy.org) | HOW TO RESPOND WHEN FACEBOOK CENSORS YOUR POLITICAL SPEECH (talesfromthe.net) | Pre-Bristol Bookfair related events 29 April to 6 May |
Political sites deleted from Facebook
29-04-2011 15:22
The AntiCuts Space London facebook group has been taken down without warning or permission. In the last 12 hours, facebook has deleted around 50 sites. The Bristol Bookfair facebook page has also been deleted without notice. These are two of many pages deleted in the last 24 hours. Other dangerous groups include Westminster Trades Council, Rochdale Law Centre, Save NHS, Tower Hamlets Greens and York Anarchists - so at least they are being even-handed!
An article on AntiCuts Space has the details and states: "The Anti-Cuts Space London facebook group has been taken down without warning or permission. In the last 12 hours, facebook has deleted around 50 sites. Message people in extant groups to warn them, and tell them to get on your email list or twitter account instead. Screw you Zuckerberg." See full list.
A quick check by Bristol IMC reveals that according to facebook: "Disabled - Inauthentic account. Why was I disabled? Fake accounts are a violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.Facebook requires users to provide their real first and last names." Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is of course our full name, and has not been questionned since we set up the account to network info about the Bookfair several months ago.
Are we surprised? Ha Ha Ha of course not. Of course not, we live in the real world, facebook is just one tool of communication, and its also a tool of capital to make money. We, as anarchists, challenge capital and the state, and aren't in the least surprised to have our account closed down. It may be the website next? Lets face it, at the end of the day we are organising a highly dangerous event where people read, buy and sell books full of ideas, theories and histories of struggle. Even worse, they actually sit down and discuss those ideas. An then afterwards they have a party. Such events have been repressed for centuries by capital and the state. Nothing has changed. The freedom of social networking remains just an illusion of freedom.
List so far: (notice any connections!)
Open Birkbeck
UWE Occupation
Chesterfield Stopthecuts
Camberwell AntiCuts
IVA Womensrevolution
Tower Hamlets Greens
No Cuts
ArtsAgainst Cuts
London Student Assembly
Beat’n Streets
Roscoe ‘Manchester’ Occupation
Bristol Bookfair
Newcastle Occupation
Socialist Unity
Whospeaks Forus
Ourland FreeLand
Bristol Ukuncut
Teampalestina Shaf
Notts-Uncut Part-of UKUncut
No Quarter Cutthewar
Bootle Labour
Claimants Fightback
Ecosocialists Unite
Comrade George Orwell
Jason Derrick
Anarchista Rebellionist
BigSociety Leeds
Slade Occupation
Anti-Cuts Across Wigan
Firstof Mayband
Don’t Break Britain United
Cockneyreject
SWP Cork
Westiminster Trades Council
York Anarchists
Rock War
Sheffield Occupation
Central London SWP
North London Solidarity
Southwark Sos
Save NHS
Rochdale Law Centre
Goldsmiths Fights Back
How to find out the location of Brighton Mayday
29-04-2011 14:55
Just to clear up any confusion- Brighton May Day is on 30th April, not officially of course just the protest. Start location will be announced shortly before on here, Facebook and Twitter. If you can’t get to a computer call 07950 889281 after 1130am and a message will tell you, don’t leave messages or text it, cause no one will get back to you. Alternatively go on the critical mass bike ride, which will form up on the Level at 1030am.Britain’s royal wedding: A big day for the global oligarchy
29-04-2011 14:34
Meanwhile, the spectacles of gore and bloodlust – admittedly despite much public opposition – are located thousands of kilometers away in the Middle East, Iraq, Central Asia, Afghanistan, where over a million civilians have been killed in British-backed “wars against terror” that have yet to be sated even after eight and 10 years of butchery, respectively; and now the latest spectacle opens in North Africa, Libya, where over the past six weeks Royal Air Force warplanes have been bombing and killing civilians in the name of “peace” and “humanitarian concern”
¡VIVA MÉXICO! The Other Mexico On Film Glasgow Screening 8 May
29-04-2011 14:26
In a journey from the mountains of southeastern Mexico to the northern border with the United States, Subcommander Marcos, Zapatista spokesperson, and the people of Mexico trace the forgotten face of a country. A celebration of the struggle for land and dignity.¡VIVA MÉXICO! The Other Mexico On Film Edinburgh Screening
29-04-2011 14:22
In a journey from the mountains of southeastern Mexico to the northern border with the United States, Subcommander Marcos, Zapatista spokesperson, and the people of Mexico trace the forgotten face of a country. A celebration of the struggle for land and dignity.InfoUsurpa 2nd - 8th May 2011
29-04-2011 14:22
Weekly listing of free radical events and actions in London
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Ten anti-monarchists detained in Charing Cross
29-04-2011 14:22
Ten anti-monarchists, young socialists and anarchists, have been stopped, searched, surrounded and detained by police near Trafalgar Square.
12.50pm, Friday 29 April: This morning about ten anti-monarchy protesters, students and young workers who are mostly socialists and anarchists, were stopped by the police outside Charing Cross station, searched and handcuffed. When we left to write this report, they had been held outside the station for about an hour.
Trafalgar Square was tightly controlled, with the help of the police, and it was not actually possible to protest. The group of comrades were preparing to leave to attend the Republic street party in Holborn when the police stopped and searched them. Another thirty police were then called in, arriving in four vans, and surrounded them.
This paranoid, over the top action by the police is part of a wider assault on civil liberties in the run up to the royal wedding.
solidarity gathering at the chilean embassy (28/04/2011)
29-04-2011 14:06
FALL-OUT
29-04-2011 13:45
While Japan’s Fukushima nuclear plant keeps shedding radiation at an unprecedented rate our mainstream media appears to have taken no further interest in what scientists like Australian Helen Caldicott bluntly describe as “the greatest health hazard the world has ever known.”Iranians on 25th day of hunger strike
29-04-2011 13:38
The 6 Iranians who started their hunger strike on the 5th of April continue their protest outside the Amnesty International office in London, and the Home Office in Croydon (Lunar House).People getting arrested before Royal Wedding
29-04-2011 13:22
The three activists were preparing to drive their theatrical props, including a home-made guillotine and effigies, into central London on the day before the Royal Wedding, when three police cars and two police vans drew up near Chris Knight's home in Brockley, said Raddie.
delocalized actions no g8
29-04-2011 12:26
On the occasion of the two-day G8 summit in Deauville (France) some comrades launched a general call for a decentralised global mobilisation.