London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

10-06-2008 11:18

Free the Cuban Five!

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the United States since 1998... Read more >>

07-06-2008 19:57

Marie Vesco, a French activist involved with the London direct action
groups Whitechapel Food Not Bombs and Brixton Reclaim Our Food
(amongst others) was killed whilst cycling to the Carnival Against the Arms
Trade on Wednesday. Read more >>

06-06-2008 16:00

Dissident Island Tonight...

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05-06-2008 02:39 | 2 additions

Squatting in the media, a squatter responds

On Monday 2nd June, inaccurate and prejudicial articles about squatting appeared in the Hate Mail and the Torygraph, then not to be out done, the Daily Star. All were regurgitating some bullshit statement from the conservative party made by Eric Pickles (a particularly nasty right-wing pro-hunt homophobic toad from Essex). So clearly lacking any genuine research or analysis and so blatant in their anti squatter bias, I felt compelled to complain... Read more >>

04-06-2008 22:01

Why are the police using surveillance on journalists?

Police should stop routine surveillance of reporters and photographers covering demonstrations in London, the National Union of Journalists has told Home Secretary Jacqui Smith.
NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear made the call in a letter to Smith after receiving complaints that journalists, particularly photographers, were facing what amounted to harassment by members of the Metropolitan Police Forward Intelligence Team (FIT). Read more >>

03-06-2008 22:24

Battlelines drawn in city squat eviction

On the front line of Londons expanding city fringe, opposing sides are
squaring up for battle. On 4th June at Gee Street Magistrates Court,
property giant Hammerson will seek a possession order on a Victorian
warehouse that has been left empty and open to the elements since
attempts to gain consent to demolish the building failed. Read more >>

03-06-2008 08:46

Governance and the Institution of the Common - Seminar. 5 June, London

The Art of Rent is a cycle of 4 meetings that started in January at Queen Mary University of London. This series of public seminars was open to everyone: our experiment with the academic structures to build a sort of open university. Open to London, to everybody who live here or pass through this metropolis. We tried to take the word "metroversity" literally and experiment a metropolitan space inside the university's space itself. Read more >>

02-06-2008 09:25

Demonstrate Against Britain's Racist Immigration Laws

Show solidarity with asylum seekers and immigrants
Protest against reporting and detention centres!

TUESDAY 3 JUNE 1 – 2PM
Outside the UK Immigration Service Communications House
210 Old Street, London , EC1V 9BR
(nearest tube – Old Street ) Read more >>

31-05-2008 09:15 | 1 addition

London Critical Mass ride 30-5-08.

Quick report on the ride. Read more >>

31-05-2008 06:17

Solidarity week against repression in France at June, 9-16

Ivan, Bruno and Damien got arrested on January 19, 2008 on the way to the demonstration against the detention centre of Vincennes (near Paris). They were carrying home made smoke powder and bent nails (to slash tyres). At the police station, they refused the finger print identification and DNA taking. Ivan and Bruno are jailed, Damien is under judiciary control. Read more >>

29-05-2008 18:14

TU Certification Office investigating Solidarity

Criminal charges to follow? Read more >>

29-05-2008 13:37

Gentrification and resistance, from NY to London

A report about a London meeting featuring Juan Haro, an activist from the Movement for Justice in El Barrio, a movement fighting displacement of poor residents by housing corporations in East Harlem, New York Read more >>

29-05-2008 10:41

May 31 | 2012 Workshop & Action Reminder

Come | Forward ! Read more >>

27-05-2008 11:15

UNISON Public Meeting, 11th June: Save our services in Lambeth!

Speakers include:
Mark Serwotka – General Secretary, PCS
Alan Walter – Secretary, Defend Council Housing
Heenal Rajani – Lambeth UNISON
Barbara Glosby – Lambeth Pensioners Association
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26-05-2008 19:39

Southfields Get Total Oil Out of Burma Protest

Six protesters demonstrated at the Southfields Total Station, 262 Wimbledon Park Road on 21st May 2008. They were protesting against the French oil and gas giant's 500 million dollar a year funding for the brutal military regime in Burma. The money just goes to the evil junta not the poor people of Burma. The regime has allocated just 5 million dollars to cyclone relief, whilst it earned 2 billion dollars in gas exports in 2007. Read more >>

26-05-2008 17:09

Calling all Activists, Artists and Astronauts for Day of Action against G8

Do you Screenprint? Make Music? Street Art? Perform? Do you like to bake Cookies?
The 5th July 2008 will be your chance to take to the streets and be part of a creative intervention in Croydon. Come together with lots of other artists, activists and alternative astronauts, to create a disturbance in the normal structure of time and space and show your support for the protests against the G8 in Japan. Read more >>

26-05-2008 14:45

America facilitating for the UK Census?

UK-USA 2011 UK CENSUS CONCERNS: The House of Commons Treasury Committee has expressed strong concerns that if the 2011 UK census is run by a US company that the data could be accessed by USA security and law enforcement agencies: Read more >>

23-05-2008 18:55

May 31st | Workshop Skills | Project 2012

Workshop, Direct Action Video Session
Saturday 31st May 2-5pm
Conservatory Café, Methodist Central Hall, Near Parliament Square, Westminster

Please do personally forward to others who you think might be interested in rights, resistance and self-determination discourse and strategy..
Read more >>

23-05-2008 14:05

Pro Life loonies defeated both inside and outside of Parliament.

On Tuesday an attempt to highjack the embryology bill going through Parliament was soundly defeated. Britain’s small but determined Pro Life movement had attached a number of amendments to the bill which included reducing the maximum time allowed for an abortion by half and also denying lesbian couples the right to IVF treatment. In the end every amendment was defeated and the pro lifers also had to suffer the humiliation of having their demo placed next to the pro choice contingent who outnumbered them by about 10-1. Read more >>

23-05-2008 12:06

Scientology cult fails in attempt to ban word "cult" at anti-cult picket

Aim gun at foot. Pull trigger. Repeat until out of feet. Read more >>