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Occupy London, Global Day of Action #15Oct

15-10-2011 10:55

Protestors from Occupy London Stock Exchange are set to occupy an area in the City of London as part of the October15 Global day of Action, which sees protests in over 950 places across the world - inspired by OccupyWallStreet and the wave of prior occupations seen across the world (more)

See previous Occupy London Assembly report

Occupy London
http://occupylondon.org.uk


#15Oct
http://15october.net

15th October. What’s the plan? #15oct
http://takethesquare.net/2011/09/24/15th-october-whats-the-plan-15oct/

London Audio Call out
http://soundcloud.com/occupylsx/october-15th-call-out

Interview with Naomi Colvin, an activist and organiser with Occupy London
http://www.newleftproject.org/index.php/site/article_comments/occupy_london_creating_an_alternative

Why we Should all be Occupying The London Stock Exchange
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/jolyon-rubinstein/why-i-will-be-occupying-t_b_1008580.html

15th October 2011: Birth of a Global Anti-Capitalist Movement?
http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.com/2011/10/15th-october-2011-birth-of-global-anti.html

Counterfire live blog
http://storify.com/counterfireorg/occupy-london-stock-exchange

 

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Memo about direct democracy to: Occupy Wall Street and Friends

15-10-2011 10:28

take back political power
The Occupy movement, currently active in hundreds of places across the world, must find ways to maintain energy and momentum. One strategy should be to establish our right to citizen-led governance, so that we can propose, change and veto public including economic policy.

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UG#570 - The Fundamental Wrongness of 'Rights' (Law as Fiction)

15-10-2011 09:36

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The show this week looks at the ideas of 'law' and 'rights'. As George Carlin says, if the government can take it away, it isn't a right, it's a privilege. A disturbing but important thought in these days in which governments worldwide are becoming more open about their subservience to expediency. We hear from a range of speakers, and our material ranges from the comic to the deadly serious.

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UG#569 - The Light Within (Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole?)

15-10-2011 09:32

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This week we introduce a new author, Jacques Lusseyran. As a teenager, although completely blind, he organised some of the most effective French resistance to the Nazi occupation. We begin with a reading of Steve Talbott's Can Technology Make The Handicapped Whole? about techno-fixing human beings, which focuses on Lusseyran. Next, we read one of Lusseyran's essays, The Blind in Society. Finally, an interview with Laura Fogg, author of "Travelling Blind -- life lessons from unexpected places", on her experience of helping the blind to navigate.

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp 22nd October

15-10-2011 02:55

With the winter coming Faslane Peace Camp is having a creative day of workshops and action against the Trident missile system based at Faslane.

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Brent-Kensal Rise library

15-10-2011 00:28

Brent SOS Libraries campaign was unsuccessful on thursday in the high court against closure. Local community resists full closure.

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London Anarchist Bookfair Programme now available

14-10-2011 20:55

The Programme for this year’s London Anarchist Bookfair is now out and can be collected from Freedom Bookshop and all the usual other places once we’ve got it there.

Freedom Bookshop
Angel Alley
84b Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7QX
Opening hours:
Monday to Saturday
Midday till 6pm
Sunday
Midday till 4pm
Phone:
020 7247 9249
Email
: shop@freedompress.org.uk
Directions

Website: http://anarchistbookfair.org.uk/

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Autumn Action Day at Faslane Peace Camp 22nd October

14-10-2011 19:54

A day of wonderful workshops, events and direct action.

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Indignados in Brussels: real democracy under eurocrats’ noses

14-10-2011 18:12

They come mostly from Spain, but also from France, England, Germany, The Netherlands… Several hundreds of people are occupying for one week HUB University, in Brussels. A week of collective living, assemblies, political discussions and workshops – to end up with tomorrow’s big demonstration. On the eve of the October 15th, the indignados are everywhere – and came to Brussels in full strength.

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15th October 2011: Birth of a Global Anti-Capitalist Movement?

14-10-2011 16:59

Global map of the 15th October Occupy X events
In my opinion, it is very likely that the historians of the future will look upon tomorrow as the day a truly global anti-capitalist movement was born. Following the example of Occupy Wall Street, Los Angeles, Boston, and hundreds of US towns and cities, a huge number of small and large occupations will begin on every continent except Antarctica (see Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America).

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Dale Farm: The wider context

14-10-2011 16:14

The last time I wrote about Dale Farm I had been living there for four days and it had felt inspiring to be a part of Camp Constant and the Dale Farm Solidarity Campaign, trying to resist the eviction of the largest Traveller community of its kind in Britain. I am now writing this six weeks later and after an aborted eviction attempt and a short respite as another appeal has gone through the courts, eviction is once again imminent. It is not my intention to interrogate the facts around the council’s pretext for the eviction as I already laid down in my previous article my argument for why I believe it is unjust and based on prejudice. After having lived there for five weeks the following article represents just a small part of my personal experience of being at Dale Farm, the wider context of what I have discovered and why I think you should get your arse down there immediately.

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Activists Occupy Roof of Green Hill Beagle Farm

14-10-2011 10:43

Activists in Italy have occupied the roof of the beagle delivery unit at Green Hill (Marshall BioResources), Europe's largest farm breeding dogs for vivisection. Currently in the UK, the farm's sister company - B&K Universal - are attempting to gain permission to construct a facility holding 2,000 beagles for laboratories.

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Royal Navy Medic Michael Lyons loses appeal

14-10-2011 10:33

Today at the Royal Courts of Justice Royal Navy Medic Michael Lyons was unsuccessful in overturning his conviction for refusing to carry out rifle training in preparation for deployment to Afghanistan. He was also unsuccessful in arguing that his seven month sentence was excessive.

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From Bristol With Love 9

14-10-2011 08:38

From Bristol with Love is a showcase for local music, local news and new forms of local thinking.

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Second Open Letter to those concerned with the progress of our enemies

14-10-2011 01:59

Second Open Letter to those concerned with the progress of our enemies (including some necessary clarifications and refutations of the cop consultant's defence team's claim)

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LAN Campaign Concludes With Company Policy

13-10-2011 23:37

Last month, NAVA revealed how wild primates were being taken from the Peruvian Amazon by an academic-governmental consortium and shipped abroad for use in experimentation.