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Why Criminalise Drugs?

11-09-2009 00:18 | Analysis | Culture | World

Dialect Radio is an internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Bristol studios and posted for download every weekend. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Saturdays 9pm & Sundays 6pm

http://www.bcfm.org.uk/ (or Wednesdays at 6pm during Ramadan)

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12/9/09: Bringing radical alternatives into Bristol city centre

09-09-2009 12:53 | Culture | History | Social Struggles | World

an invitation to all....
...radicals, strugglers, freethinkers, anarchists, workers, fighters, unemployed, dreamers, peace-lovers and planet-savers. Come along and join in the fun!

The Bristol anarchist bookfair 2009 sweeps into the city centre on 12 September. Bringing together local and national groups, networks, individuals and distros, the bookfair provides absolutely anything you have ever wanted to know about anarchism, and much more. It is also, this year, the opening event for the Bristol CoMutiny Convergence – details at

http://comutiny.wordpress.com/

Bookaya.Wikidot.com - The Online Book Project

03-09-2009 22:58 | Culture | Free Spaces | World

Bookaya.Wikidot.com - the first Online Book Project in the Internet is accomplished:
where many different users can become creative in an online community.

Who is afraid of facebook?

03-09-2009 16:16 | Analysis | Culture | Repression | World

It becomes obvious why Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and many other politically active sites were up made available until the “ election show”.

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Bristol anarchist bookfair - programme now online

29-08-2009 23:22 | Culture | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

The programme for the 2009 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is now available in print, and online. With 35 tables filled by some 30 local and national groups/networks/distributors, 17 workshops/meetings/debates, plus films and an all day cafe, you'll find something for everyone at the bookfair, including you!

Anti-fascist documentary "uno di noi" now online

25-08-2009 13:07 | Culture | World

In December 2008, we created an anti-fascist mural in Bochum, to commemorate those seven anti-fascist from different european countries, who had been killed by neo-nazis during the last years.

After we photographed the whole process of production, we brought those and several other materials together and made a documentary of it, about the mural and the background of the seven murdered antifas.

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Elizabeth 'Rocker' Robillard MP for Kensington and Chelsea?

19-08-2009 21:43 | Culture | South Coast | World

The Conservative Party in 'safe' Kensington and Chelsea (London, England ) seat possbily seriously challenged by a notorious disabled, anarchic, atheist actress...Elizabeth Robillard

Artivism on Mill Road!

Last Saturday (15/8/200) from midday about fifty people not only picketed but turned into an art installation the area in front of the proposed Tescos store on Mill Road, Cambridge.

Provocation on the Plinth

14-08-2009 20:21 | Culture | History | Social Struggles | World

PROVOCATION: WHEELCHAIR-USER IN NAZI UNIFORM ON THE PLINTH

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project

Artist and activist Liz Crow sat on the plinth in a crowded Saturday night Square on her wheelchair wearing full Nazi regalia to draw attention to a hidden history and the message it holds for us all today.

Camden police have banned reggae music and events by Black artists from Camden

Camden police have banned reggae music played by Black selectors / MCs / DJs in Camden Town venues. Camden's [if not London's] best known reggae venue was closed after the police blamed the reggae nights for causing drug dealing. The police have since gone around Camden Town venues warning managers and proprietors that they will be shut down if they allow reggae nights in Camden Town.

No Mill Road Tesco Protest

Campaigners and residents met for a protest outside the proposed Tesco site on Mill Road, Cambridge. People from different backgrounds were in attendance from local people to animal rights activists to anti-capitalists, all with one message Mill Road is no place for a Tesco!

Anti-Capitalist Choir Hits Cambridge's Consumerist Temples

Video of 'Buy Less, Sing More' Choir – Saturday 1st August 2009

“Skip” Gates: A Curious Martyr in the Struggle Against Racism

30-07-2009 20:48 | Anti-racism | Culture | Repression | World

President Obama’s “friend” Dr. Henry Louis Gates has been richly rewarded for arguing “that poor African-Americans are largely to blame for the fact that blacks stand at the bottom of the nation’s steep socioeconomic pyramid.” Presumably, and by the same logic, Gates must now blame himself for getting arrested in his own home by a Cambridge policeman.

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Open and transparent local government

30-07-2009 10:05 | Anti-racism | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Traveller and member of public refused entry to council meeting on gypsies and travellers at county hall Devon.

Isn't it time Newcastle had an Indymedia?

27-07-2009 10:34 | Culture | Indymedia | Palestine | World

The North East needs an Indymedia.

State terror in the slums of Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff)

24-07-2009 20:57 | Culture | Repression | World

Human rights organizations launched billboards in downtown Rio de Janeiro with my cartoon about state terror in the slums.

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Action Against Hunger challenges Al Gore to put malnutrition back on the agenda

21-07-2009 15:49 | Culture | World

Action Against Hunger is mounting pressure on Al Gore to produce a film on the world’s greatest health problem.

WATCH THE TRAILER NOW: WWW.ASKALGORE.ORG

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July Events at 56a Infoshop, London (Film and Zines)

12-07-2009 22:22 | Culture | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

Here is this months events at 56a Infoshop in South London, a social centre now in its 18th year of operation. As usual there is the monthly screening of films about work presented by Full Unemployment Cinema. Also there is a special weekender organised to show our finally rejigged Zine Library.

UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User

12-07-2009 08:42 | Culture | Other Press | World

The National Portrait Gallery of London is threatening litigation against a Wikipedia user over his uploading of pictures of some 3,000 paintings.

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How the State Crushed the Early 90s Free Party Scene

12-07-2009 07:52 | Culture | Free Spaces | Repression | World

For a brief moment, at vast and lawless raves such as Castlemorton, a generation glimpsed an alternative way of life. Speaking to survivors of the early 90s free party scene, Tim Guest tells the story of how the state crushed the dream

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World Culture Newswire Archive

Why Criminalise Drugs?

12/9/09: Bringing radical alternatives into Bristol city centre

Bookaya.Wikidot.com - The Online Book Project

Who is afraid of facebook?

Bristol anarchist bookfair - programme now online

Anti-fascist documentary "uno di noi" now online

Elizabeth 'Rocker' Robillard MP for Kensington and Chelsea?

Artivism on Mill Road!

Provocation on the Plinth

Camden police have banned reggae music and events by Black artists from Camden

No Mill Road Tesco Protest

Anti-Capitalist Choir Hits Cambridge's Consumerist Temples

“Skip” Gates: A Curious Martyr in the Struggle Against Racism

Open and transparent local government

Isn't it time Newcastle had an Indymedia?

State terror in the slums of Rio de Janeiro (by Latuff)

Action Against Hunger challenges Al Gore to put malnutrition back on the agenda

July Events at 56a Infoshop, London (Film and Zines)

UK's National Portrait Gallery Threatens To Sue Wikipedia User

How the State Crushed the Early 90s Free Party Scene

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