UK Indymedia - UK Culture Newswire Archive

Stokefest Cancelled!!

01-06-2006 10:57

Proving that they couldn't organise a piss up in a park the festival Stokefest has been cancelled due to the near legendary incompetence of Hackney Council.

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Arphield Recordings Sound Jam/Memorial Stockwell Tube Station Saturday 10th June

01-06-2006 10:27

Join the mob at the Stockwell tube station for an impromptu sound jam/memorial using your oyster cards. 10 June 2006 at 14pm. Download the Arphield Recordings podcast from

http://odeo.com/channel/85358
and bring the sounds on a portable music player to experience a mix of live and prerecorded Oyster beeps.

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Critical Mass is an event held in cities around the world, where cyclists, skateboarders, roller bladers, roller skaters and other self-propelled people take to the streets en masse. Critical Mass is not led, and as a group has no goals other than to meet once every month and enjoy the security and companionship of riding, rolling and travelling through the city together. The general philosophy is expressed by a widely used slogan: "We aren't blocking traffic; we are traffic."

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City of Culture Clowns can't organise a piss up

30-05-2006 09:56

This is a shame becasue the project sounds intresting - but those clowns in the city of culture team are going to ruin everything. Spend loads of council tax payers dosh and organise things crap and tell no-one about them.

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Arboretum Festival Weekend :: The pictures

29-05-2006 14:01

Arboretum Festival Weekend :: The pictures

A free event, held in the Arboretum Park, Nottingham.

Held over two days on Saturday 27th to Suncay 28th May.

With live bands, children's activities and a variety of craft stalls and street artists.

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Loach Irish Civil War Film wins Cannes Palme d`Or : Radio Interview

28-05-2006 20:55

This is a short interview with Paul Laverty Ken Loach`s scriptwriter covering the ideology behind historical interpretation, the role of empire, and the current state of Ireland since it became the neo liberal Celtic Tiger. Music:Dead Cant Dance & Dick Gaughan

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NO MEDIA

27-05-2006 15:59

Between the 21st June 2006 and 4th July 2006 a brave few will eschew all media consumption in an effort to give their eyes and ears a break from the relentless jabbering of the mass media.

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A 'plod' supports Brian Haw !

27-05-2006 15:28

A letter in The Independent from I think a serving police officer who says she supports Brian against the Met....!

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celebrating two years this weekend

27-05-2006 10:49

this weeked is being celebrated as marking two years of existance for the rampART social centre in London.

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an essay about how we don't talk to each other

27-05-2006 09:23

the dog whistle, the timid lefties, and the social swamp
At one end of the geography of the social discourse we have 'the mires of the concerned and conflicted humanist' And on the southern approaches are 'the fens of the rabid and vindictive.'
Whilst in the middle are the broad lowlands that are the social swamp.

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Rhythms of Resistance Manchester & Art and Activism Caravan

26-05-2006 13:28

Interested in Art and Activism?

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A country staiined with blood and injustice. Sri Lanka

26-05-2006 12:12

Approximately a thousand Tamils gathered in solidarity on Sunday 21st May at Trafalgar square between the hours of two and six in the afternoon. They stood united, undeterred by the rain for the freedom of Tamils in Sri Lanka.

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Infousurpa no 25

25-05-2006 05:00

Weekly Independent Poster of Social Centre activities

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World Naked Bike Rides to be held in Brighton, Manchester, York and London

24-05-2006 23:32

Yes, it's that time of year again.... The World Naked Bike Ride is back again! What will you be wearing for the June 2006 ride?

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London Critical Mass in Court

24-05-2006 15:42

article from the bbc

A London cyclist is to launch a high court challenge against police claims that a long-running monthly cycle ride through London is unlawful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5011380.stm

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9/11 and Homeland Security

24-05-2006 09:47

The people who don't know the truth don't want to hear and those who do know are too afaraid to speak

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NeoCon Comics presents: Tales of Iraq War (by Latuff)

24-05-2006 07:30

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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rampART 2 Years Birthday Anniversary Celebration

24-05-2006 06:25

Our favourite autonomous social centre is 2 years old. It was opened on May 21st 2004 in an abandoned warehouse which was previously used as an Islamic girls school. Located in the East End of London near Whitechapel (15 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA) it has hosted over 200 cultural and political events in it’s two years of existance - placing the rampART firmly and literally on the activist map of London.

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Sheffield Free Bus

20-05-2006 17:03

Sick of paying too much money on the buses ? We are offering a donations only bus service so that people can pay what think is reasonable and what they can.

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REMEMBER 7/7

20-05-2006 14:58

A memorial garden, a national silence, supported by ALL
(A REPOST OF THE PICTURE OF THE SHEET HELD UP BY THE PEOPLE AT THE G8 - - - - VERY MUCH APPRECIATED .)
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