30-04-2005 00:13
Peace Party plan to unsettle Blair in Sedgefield! While the people party, anti-war activists will plot and scheme
Blair's electoral downfall in his own constituency.
Read more >>28-04-2005 23:12
Here is a quick edit of the events leading up to my arrest last month while filming a demo in london.
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28-04-2005 13:45
On tuesday 3rd May, a couple of intrepid media activists will start a 110 mile cycle to bring a heavy old tricycle from Dorset to London. On arrival, the rusty old workhorse will be de-rusted, painted and then equipped with laptops, wifi and a hefty 12 volt power system.
It is estimated that the gruelling delivery journey will take four days if all goes well. The two cyclists will take it in turns to pedal while the other rest on the back of the trike. Attempts will be made to hitch a lift back to London with the huge trike but it's considered pretty unlikely to work. During the trip leaflets about Indymedia and the G8 bike carvan will be distributed to curious bystanders.
If you happen to be driving from the South Coast to London with an empty van, trailer or a large roof rack, perhaps you could offer a lift. If you live on route then offers of crash space would be much appreciated.
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26-04-2005 18:37
Taking an ex pat look at what is wrong with the American media and how a few Pubs would solve all their problems.
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26-04-2005 14:47
The lies mount and mount...the followers of Messiah Bush still don't listen...what is wrong here?
Read more >>26-04-2005 05:13
Nick Griffin et al deliver a risible CD to homes in the Keighley area, including a song penned by the Great Chimaera himself!
Read more >>24-04-2005 07:32
Sunday, 24 April 2005
Cyber Terror: New Privacy Co-op Targeted
Less than a week old, one globally based Counter Surveillance Co-operative is more than aware of the new strategies employed in the effort to bring rampant censorship across the Internet.
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20-04-2005 23:05
20-04-2005 14:16
Kate Davies is the Chief Executive of the Notting Hill Housing Trust. What are her achievements?
Read more >>19-04-2005 20:00
On Novermber 14 2001 Tony Blair told Parliament about an Al-Queda tape, made on Oct the 20th by Osama Bin Ladin for distribution among his associates.
""In an unbroadcast video tape made last month, Osama bin Laden declares that his al Qaeda network "instigated" the Sept. 11 attacks, the British government said today, and explains that "if avenging the killing of our people is terrorism, let history be a witness that we are terrorists.""
Read more >>19-04-2005 10:41
Various groups and individuals from around Nottinghamshire are in the process of setting up an Independent Media Centre. Plans for the project include a radiostation, website, print out and a training group to work within various communities.
Read more >>17-04-2005 13:01
CLIVE SOLEY AND NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST website
NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST
Read more >>16-04-2005 19:01
Where is the missing £400million of the workers money?
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16-04-2005 08:51
15-04-2005 16:59
There's loads of stuff happening in London's social centres but for some unknown reason the events annoucements of the rampART seem to have been getting stuck in the moderation queue on the London Social Centres Network mailing list for the last few weeks or so while other stuff has been getting through. If you've subscribed to that list then below is a run down on some of the events coming up that you might not have been aware of. If you'd like to recieve timely announcemnts of events coming up then subscribe to the rampart mailing list (
http://lists.riseup.net/www/subrequest/rampart) ...
Summary...
Sat 16th April : Real2Reel benefit party
Mon 18th April : G8 Climate Counter Summit follow up meeting
Mon 18th April : Clown training
Tue 19th - Fri 22nd : Exhibit of radical polish street art
Sat 23rd April : TRAPESE / Schnews at Ten event
26th - 30th: Indymedia Film Festival
1st May: G8 bike ride benefit bash.
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On saturday 16th the rampART social center in London is hosting a benefit party for the Real2Reel video activist collective (see
http://www.real2reel.co.nr).
As well as screenings of Real2Reel shorts and film making workshop - the musical highlighs of the evening include; Duncan McPherson, Corneilius Lookwood. Lower Depths (punk - 2nd time at the rampART), DavidCronenberg'sWife, Surge, DJane Sexyrubbersole (much loved d&b set), DJane Mondstrom and DJ Milo (rampART radio regular)..
Suggested donation at the entrance £3.
See
http://rampart.omxtra.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=90 for full info.
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13-04-2005 12:49
Video evidence collected by on the streets by independent journalists is being used more and more to challange in the courts the lies of the police. In the USA court cases have begun for the 1,806 people arrested in New York last summer while the Republican National Convention was taking place. In the first case the prosecutor abruptly dropped all charges when video evidence provided proved that the officer who had just testified had not even been present at the arrest! Similar stories can be found around the world and while the footage taken by grassroots videographers rarely making it onto the corporate controlled mainstream media, the footage may often prove vital in protecting people against the worst abuses of power by the police.
The police clearly don't like their actions being recorded and are scared of the power of the photos and video footage taken by independent journalist (and don't forget with indymedia we can all be journalists). This fear is demonstrated by this quote by Cheif Supt Davies of the Mets Public Order Branch published in the Police Review in 1997:
"Like all forms of modern protest, experience has shown environmentalist to be highly organised and media friendly. It is almost standard now that the media will give protesters cameras, both video and still, to record a protester's eye view. This would almost certainly result in a significant propaganda victory for the protesters as they are selective about what they release".
However it is the police who are selective, selecting where and what can be filmed. During protests to save greenbelt land from contruction projects in Manchester and Birmingham the police erected fences around the sites and banned all journalists. An observation platform well away from the action was erected with views of only a tiny section of the forest was constructed by officers leaving the actions of balliffs and police unobserved during the evictions.
Obviously the power of the alt media is recognised by the police and frequently those with cameras will be the first targetted for arrest or harrasment.
Ex undercurrents journalist Roddy Mansfield (who now works or Sky News) was arrested for forgetting his press card PIN while covering a protest in London. While reporting on the Manchester Airport, HTV producer John Fraser Williams, sustained two broken ribs after being beaten by police.
Photographer Nick Cobbing was arrested in Oxford merely for leaving a demonstration. The animal rights protest he was covering was covered by a section 12 order and when it came time to leave he told a senior police officer him his NUJ press card. However, shortly after he was arrested.
There is an almost endless list of such stories: David Sims freelance photographer detained for 11 hours, being arrested for breach of the peace at Greenpeace demo against arrival of genetically modified soya beans into Liverpool Docks. Was arrested in spite of repeatedly showing his NUJ card. Police returned camera, but kept roll of film.
In a more recent case in the UK, a freelance journalist was arrested just minutes after filming an arrest that occured during a protest outside a meeting of G8 environment ministers taking place in London. It was reported afterwards that the police kept the camera and footage but have since dropped charges.
(
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/308413.html)
Read more >>13-04-2005 11:12
When will we realize that there can't be this many "accidents"?
THE TARGETED ASSASSINATION OF IAIN HOOK A TOP BRITISH UN OFFICIAL BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE UNCOVERED UP!
by Dr. Jack Shepard
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