London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

26-08-2013 14:40

Come Out! We Have You Surrounded! A Celebration of People Power.

A Celebration of the power of ordinary people to change the world for the better bought to you by the people that organised the 2011 Rebellious Media Conference A cabaret evening of comedy, personal stories, poetry and music with a hint of the radical.
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24-08-2013 11:38

Social Workers Chid Protection Conference

Children Screaming to be heard The Silent Witnesses Conference

The Old Barn Hotel tollbar road marston grantham Lincolnshire ng322ht WEDNESDAY 04TH SEPTEMBER 2013 0900AM to 1800 Give the voices back to the children give parents their rights back.. Read more >>

20-08-2013 13:28

Save Our Skatepark/Southbank/Society! + No Dash For Gas campers + Anti-Fas

Check out the latest Dissident Island Radio show episode 124... Read more >>

15-08-2013 16:37

Silence of elected post holders on the Bangladeshi-on-Bangladeshi violence

Silence of elected post-holders on the Bangladeshi-on-Bangladeshi violence

This concerns the tragic loss of the life of the boy Ajmol Alom on Monday this week in Poplar in Tower Hamlets.
The news is shocking when a promising lifer is robbed whatever part of the population or whatever the culture or ethnicity. Read more >>

14-08-2013 09:25

Demonstration against Stop & Search and Justice for Jason O’Connor

Date & Time: Thursday 15th August at 9:30am

Location: Camberwell Green Magistrates Court, 15 D’Eynsford Rd, London, SE5 7UP

Facebook event:

https://www.facebook.com/events/211873272269668/?ref=22

Contact:

lcapsv@gmail.com Read more >>

12-08-2013 07:47

South London film night on Fracking

3 short films (2 from Balcombe, 1 from the desolate North East) and a discussion with a Balcombe resident and speakers from Frack Off, No Dash For Gas & activist. Read more >>

07-08-2013 15:12

"UK Coal says "Business as Usual", Shame about the Debt

Following a news story in today's Financial Times about the collapse of UK Coal Operations and who money was owed too, the Loose Anti Opencast Network in this press release has more information on this topic, especially which local authorities have taken a hit. Read more >>

06-08-2013 01:27

Ian Tomlinson was condemned by BBC News presenter Chris Eakin within minutes

The Met Police has "apologised" to Ian Tomlinson's family. But the BBC hasn't!
Yet the BBC ought to do so as well. And sack Chris Eakin. It was Eakin who condemned Tomlinson within minutes of Tomlinson's death at Police hands.
As he read the so-called breaking news about Ian Tomlinson's death, Eakin
went out of his way to make a very detailed statement blaming the demonstrators for
Tomlinson's death and in fact said words to the effect that Tomlinson himself had to blame. Read more >>

05-08-2013 18:00

Cuts to UK legal aid, toxic legacy of 2012 Olympics, Made Possible by Squatting!

Check out episode 123 - ready for your ears... Read more >>

26-07-2013 22:30

Occupy Firgrove: Destruction of the trees

Wednesday morning, police, private security, fencers, tree surgeons, arrived to end the occupation of Firgrove Green and destroy the trees.

The planners lied, said the trees were in poor state of health. The trees had to go, as they showed the planners lied. Green space, the only green space in town, earmarked for destruction for an 80-bedroom Premier Inn hotel. Read more >>

25-07-2013 15:17

Homeless in Tower Hopeless Council estate

With the 'debate' on whether to film Tower Hamlets Council Meetings assuming such importance that Labour Party Candidate for election to Executive Mayor of the Borough if Tower Hamlets has joined the fray, calling the 'debate' over filming 'silly'. It is John Biggs. He reckons that filming and recording of Council Meetings should take place without a row at all. Read more >>

24-07-2013 01:36

Occupy Firgrove call for hellp

Local community have been trying to protect the only green space in Farnborough town centre, a green space, with trees crossed by public footpath. Read more >>

20-07-2013 09:38

Where Am I To Go? London Roma Evicted

WHERE AM I TO GO? LONDON ROMA EVICTED:
JOIN PROTEST ACTION TO MARK 2 AUGUST PORAJMOS COMMEMORATION Read more >>

18-07-2013 07:27

Rushcroft Road Eviction Resistance

As you have probably heard – Monday saw the violent eviction of many homes on Rushcroft road, Brixton, met with strong resistance. I wanted to write down some notes of things that maybe haven’t been reported yet, especially in the mainstream media’s accounts. (This is quite difficult, Monday was very emotional in many ways. This is the neighbourhood I have grown up in and live in today, watching it be further impoverished as we lose yet more desperately needed public housing stock, seeing people lose their homes, and watching police and bailiff violence on my friends.) Read more >>

16-07-2013 17:54

121 - Hackney Renters, ZAD - Klaxon Radio, 52 Commercial Road, DJ Al

Episode 121 was broadcast on July 5th 2013 from LARC in London -

http://www.dissidentisland.org/show/dissidentislandradio-05-july-2013-episode-121/?layout=player Read more >>

12-07-2013 09:44

Boycott workfare Brent

Picket Sainsburys Homebase Willesden, London NW10 Read more >>

10-07-2013 13:21

The Rescue of UK Coal could be a Threat to Communities

This press release reveals why certain communities across the UK are not jumping up and down with joy over the rescue of UK Coal. They are now threatened with the prospect of more opencast mining, just when the UK Coal's consumption is due to drop significantly Read more >>

08-07-2013 18:38

UK protest against the murder of Juan Vázquez Guzmán

Representatives from groups from around the UK delivered a letter to the Mexican Embassy in London yesterday protesting against the assassination of Juan Vázquez Guzmán and the continued harassment of indigenous peoples in San Sebastián Bachajón in Chiapas, South East Mexico. Read more >>

08-07-2013 13:59

Watching the BBC's newswatch?

The BBC's NEWSWATCH is supposed to be about getting the truth and the ethics into the output of the Corporation. But does the slot deliver what moral and ethical viewers expect it to?
Jimmy Saville is only the tip of the iceb erg of unaccountability on the BBC Read more >>

07-07-2013 21:03

KHOODEELAAR! SCOOPS BBC Sunday Politics Programme about Tower Hamlets Council

The BBC Sunday Politics programme broadcast today 07 July 2013, fronted by Andrew Neill had its London segment carry a piece on Tower Hamlets Council featuring John Wright, the Shadwell resident who had been stopped from filing the Council on Wednesday 26 June 2013. But the BBC Report was incoherent and lacked any clear or contextual info even from John Wright himself whom they showed. KHOODEELAAR! scoops the BBC in their view report posted on youtube tonight [Sunday 07 July 2013] Read more >>