London Newswire Archive

20-06-2013 11:48

Is #nosecondnightout just another Tory scam?

So, the night before last whilst out walking my dog, I found a guy sleeping in the gardens behind my tower block. Last night he came back. After an internet search I found details for No Second Night Out (NSNO) who claim that they:

focus on helping those who find themselves rough sleeping on the streets of London for the first time. We will ensure there is a rapid response to new rough sleepers, and will provide an offer that means they do not have to sleep out for a second night...

Elsewhere on the site , we are informed that:

Homelessness charity Broadway has won the £5 million two-year contract to take on the mayor of London’s no second night out project from June this year. Howard Sinclair, chief executive of Broadway, said: ‘We are committed to ending rough sleeping in the capital and by working in partnership on this tender – and by expanding the service to south London – we are confident that the great strides we have already made to ease homelessness problems in London will continue.’

So, is this expensive scheme involving Mayor Boris and a homeless NGO a good thing, or is it is just more spin which sees the Tories handing out cashpayers money, with little positive result to be gained? And yes, of course the question is rhetorical......

19-06-2013 10:49

Police powers finally kettled by High Court

For years it has been common practice for protesters held in a kettle (police containment) to be forced to submit to police filming and/or provide their details as a condition of leaving. There have been countless incidents in which protesters who have tried (lawfully) to refuse these demands have been threatened with arrest, or told they could not leave the kettle.

18-06-2013 20:31

Call for signatures in support of the Week of Worldwide Action

EUROPEAN PRONOUNCEMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE WEEK OF WORLDWIDE ACTION “JUAN VÁZQUEZ GUZMÁN LIVES! THE BACHAJÓN STRUGGLE CONTINUES!” FROM TUESDAY, JUNE 25TH TO TUESDAY, JULY 2ND, 2013 Read more >>

18-06-2013 08:57

Celebrate 2years of active solidarity by Bristol Defendant Solidarity

Bristol Defendant Solidarity (BDS) was formed in the aftermath of the street resistance in Stokes Croft in late April 2011. That resistance occurred when the state acted to defend a newly opened Tesco shop on Cheltenham Rd which had been the focus of widespread community opposition.

Now after 2 years of active solidarity work since its formation, Bristol Defendant Solidarity, with a little help from Kebele Sound Collective, present a benefit night of international radical hip hop, rap and conscious beats.
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17-06-2013 19:00

Report/ Photos/ Vid - Solidarity with Ecuador & Julian Assange in London

Photos & Short vids (thanx to Bradleylibero)

17-06-2013 00:51

You are all Eichmanns. We are free.

Letter to all the prison guards, other prison workers and all the cops. Partly written in a London police cell during the Stop G8 week, where police repression was at its highest. Read more >>

16-06-2013 18:51

Report on J12 Stop G8 anti-militarist action

Report from the June 12 demonstration against militarism and capitalist violence

The anti-militarist demonstration on June 12 had been called by Smash EDO, Disarm DSEi and Sussex Stop G8 and was part of the Stop G8 week of action in London.
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16-06-2013 12:31

FLF (food liberation front) action last friday - some pics and words

a small protest specifically against asda and more generally against global food policies, corporations, monsanto, GMOs, G8 and austerity, was characterised again by massive overpolicing in a week of repressive crackdown on anti-G8 protests in london. Read more >>

16-06-2013 00:23

huge turkish solidarity protest in harringay as taksim square cleared

despite a police ban, more than 2000 protestors marched to wood green in north london on saturday night as news was coming in of massive repression in istanbul Read more >>

15-06-2013 23:26 | 1 addition

'they owe us' - canary wharf - J14 - pics and words

on friday, as part of the london week of action prior to the G8 in northern ireland, a few hundred people protested in the belly of the capitalist beast, canary wharf. in some ways a victory, in many ways a disappointment. Read more >>

13-06-2013 23:52

WORLD PREMIERE: Grasp The Nettle (21/6/13)

Special first chance to watch this urban land reclamation documentary adventure film; about the rise and fall of 'Kew Bridge Eco Village' and Parliament Square's 'Democracy Village.' Also featuring a panel discussion chaired by Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed (the Guardian), including Maria Gallastegui from Peace Strike and other activists from the film. Read more >>

13-06-2013 17:24

Why I Don't Eat Meat

Owen Parrett MD describes his odyssey to a vegetarian diet and why Read more >>

12-06-2013 17:48

Demonstration against arms dealers in London, 12 June 2013

Despite yesterday's eviction of the StopG8 convergence centre and a sad weather, a few people from different countries gathered today near London's Piccadilly Circus to demonstrate against arms dealers like BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin and then the Charing Cross Police Station.
Amongst slogans seen and shouted were "Arms dealers are terrorists!" and "Police protects the killers!". Read more >>

12-06-2013 08:42

Roads to Nowhere - National Rally against Roadbuilding July 13

Nationally, there are plans afoot to build hundreds of miles of new roads, at a cost of at least £30bn. Catastrophic climate change, devastating species loss and huge cuts in public spending notwithstanding, George Osborne is determined that these roads must be built.
Come to the beautiful Combe Valley in East Sussex on Saturday July 13, site of the proposed Bexhill Hastings Link Road - the 'first and worst' of the new roads - to say NO to this destruction.
Rally, route walks and a chance to meet others who are determined to stop this madness. Organised by Campaign for Better Transport, Combe Haven Defenders and Hastings Alliance, supported by Greenpeace, the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE), CPRE Sussex, RSPB, Wildlife Trusts and Bexhill Link Road Resistance (Blinkrr).
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