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New London activist support site urgently needed
10-04-2011 08:22
The eco-warriors who have been squatting in north London are looking for a new site which could be used as a
support base for activists, including some of the Libyan Freedom Fighters.
We are urgently looking for a new squat and we would like to team up with other activists involved with setting up eco-villages and doing humanitarian work for the victims in war zones around the world.
Our site provides practical help for activists when they need to have their vehicles rescued or repaired and when they need assistance with computers, musical equipment, legal work, and media publicity.
We have offered to help the Libyan Youth Movement and the British Libyan Solidarity Campaign with plans for humanitarian convoys of coaches taking food and medical supplies to Libya.
We are looking in particular for another empty site belonging to the Gaddafi family with a large parking area suitable for our vehicles and tow trucks and other heavy duty equipment, and we are proposing that we could help organise some real support for the embattled people of Libya.
Alternatively any empty property with a building and car parking for about 40 vehicles would be suitable... including warehouses, industrial estates, churches, supermarkets etc.
Our group includes Slow Tony (War on Waste), Jacko (K ring Technologies), Polly (Reclaim the Future), Sam, Laurence, Claire (Kids' Space Climate Camp), Harvey, Rodders, Roger, Sarah, and many other activists who most people know personally.
We are seeking now to become more active and involved with helping to bring the peace and environmental movements closer together to fight against abuse and injustice in the world, and in particular supporting the youth movement in Libya which probably represents the struggle for survival of young people everywhere.
Anyone who has any information about vacant properties that we could use is invited to contact me personally on Facebook or by phone on 07574092829 at any time.
Thank you.
Moronic lies in the Evening Standard.
10-04-2011 08:22
Why I think this 'story' in the Evening Standard is fake.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23939865-anarchists-plot-to-wreck-prince-william-and-kate-middletons-wedding-celebration.do
1) Gasmasks may be useful to protesters in Europe but why carry something that is expensive, heavy and incriminating here? The Police have never used teargas (especially during a Royal Wedding) and seldom use pepper spray in public order situations. A simple piece of cloth could cover someones face and be easily disposed of afterwards.
2) An masonry hammer for doing shop windows. Even the most liberal judge would consider a specialist tool an offensive weapon if it was being carried by a protester. Why have something so pricey and risky when a simple screwdriver or brick would do?
3) When have Police horses EVER been attacked with catapults? Again no one would be dumb enough to carry something like that on a demo. But what great way of demonizing the anarchists. I'm just surprised he didn't have sharpened stick for poking kittens....
4) High impact sunglasses. To be worn under or over the gasmask??
5) A head torch. Are they going to be attacking Wills and Kate via the sewer network?
6) A copy of the Guardian? That well known anarchist text. Or was it just placed in the photo to make it look up to date and credible in the eyes of an imaginative copper or Evening Standard reporter?
7) An A4 notepad. Presumably to write down all those sinister plans in case they forget them? And also to ensure a conviction for conspiracy should it be found?
8) The photo. It is clearly an amateur snap. There is no byline. The camera data has been removed from the metadata (how convenient). But the image is tagged "alpha1". And who uses the term "alpha" as a code? The Police.
9) The mobile phone. To compliment that story about people swapping sim cards in Oxford street?
10) Finally our "Anarchist leader" is a working class bricklayer and father of two from South London. Sorry but I can count the working class anarchists that I have met on one hand. None of them would be dumb or naive enough to feed this crap to the ES.
He also reveals that our intrepid black block are planning to scale tall buildings on a day when everyone knows that EVERY building near the wedding will be under lockdown by the anti terror squad. He then goes on to say that the 200 or so that trashed Picadilly will suddenly turn into 10-15,000 of which 10% (very scientific) are the hardcore. Did he get those figures from the black bloc membership secretary??
The Police are well known for planting bullshit stories in compliant newspapers around major events. Does anyone remember the splash in the Evening Standard in the run up to Mayday 2001 when the anarchists were planning to attack the Police with "Samurai swords"? Or how Jean Charles deMenezes was wearing a bulky jacket and vaulted over the barriers to run away from (erm...) plainclothes cops?
The state is clearly planning on breaking all sorts of its own laws around the wedding (Remember the MAM protesters illegally detained miles from the Jubilee?). This is just another shallow attempt at ratcheting up the tension in the run up to the wedding to give the plods a licence to do what they like. Perhaps most disturbing of all is how crap they are at this. The average ES reader may have been born yesterday. But the average activist could see through this charade blindfolded.
delocalized actions no g8
10-04-2011 08:22
if someone want to do something, let's do it!!
On the occasion of the two-day G8 summit in Deauville (France) some comrades launched a general call for a decentralised global mobilisation. The reasons behind this proposal are, on the one hand, to not let the counter-summit itself become a further experiment (training) of brutal police repression while, on the other, to let the manifold local struggles, with their own paths and insights, take advantage of their differences and make the concomitance with the summit – which is the symbol of all the deprivations and violence to which we are being subjected – a moment of ramifications, multiplication and contamination.The fields that these official summits have for long time advocated to rule are the same on which our daily struggles resonate widely. The spaces of discontent and of lack of a quiet life – from the Greek mass protests, the student (though not only students) rebellions in France, Italy, the United Kingdom, to the ones in North Africa, to which we all express our solidarity and complicity – are sharply increasing realities. They are the ultimate evidence of the failure of a system committed to profit and indifferent to our lives, which are cast into misery and despair.
Those who will smile and take the ritual pictures during the summit are the same who omit the cyclical nature of this crisis, telling us that the worst is over, that difficulties are now behind us. They are the same who foment fights amongst the poor, in the stubborn attempt to divide natives from migrants, to chose the good and the bad, to point out the abnormal in its several exceptions. Under the pretext of security, controls are intensified, repressive practices are experimented, techniques of internment are being refined in prisons, migrant detention centres and in all the structures embracing marginalisation as the organising principle of the social peace. Thus, while existences get literally ruined, guilty of not having a piece of paper assessing their citizenry, in the streets the army and the police become specialised in enforcing unjust and dangerous laws that force us into miserable lives where there is nothing but sacrifice.
Although the unrest grows stronger among large groups of people, and the basis for a general rebellion starting for Europe are there, we believe there is still a lot of work to do. We believe that the mobilisation called for the 26th and 27th of May can be an opportunity for the different movements to gain strength and courage, to get back to talking to people, to create support and solidarity, to exchange experiences, to try to grow and progress beyond national boundaries.
Eventually, this call is nothing more than an invitation to all those who will read it. An invitation to take action to make something possible to happen in Europe, something that can question the centrality of a summit that is not ours. Something useful as an exercise, hoping it will be the beginning of a progressive, continuous strengthening of our struggles, that must become everyone's struggles. Therefore, we invite everybody to take action at any scale. From graffiti writing to actions, leafleting, debates and meeting.
The distance from Deauville is a possibility.
Free the imagination, we need determination!
IF NOT NOW, WHEN?
IF NOT ME, WHO?
Valencia towards the G8.
Eviction resistance @ Social Centre Plus this Tuesday!
09-04-2011 20:43
We need people to demonstrate against the would-be closure of the space outside the front entrance from 10AM ONWARDS.
Young Hearts Run Free Screening and Q + A
09-04-2011 18:37
Screening Showroom Cinema tomorrow 10th April 6.00pmUG#543 - The Corruption of Money (The Perverse Power of The Price Tag)
09-04-2011 17:34
Palestine Today 04 09 2011
09-04-2011 17:20
Well Hamas are certainly asking for it.Saturday, April 9, Hamas and its allies, acting now on Hizballah guidelines from Lebanon, fired 24 heavy Grad missiles and more than 50 mortars shells at seven southern Israeli towns in an expanding radius up to Palmahim in the north. Despite bomb shelters and home guard measures, 20 Israelis were injured or suffered shock. After 17 Hamas and other commanders were targeted in 48 hours of Israel counter-attacks, Hamas requested a ceasefire through the UN. It came from the Islamist organization's political echelons. Israel replied the request would only be addressed only if it came from Hamas military leaders, who rather than abating their rocket offensive on the Israeli population are intensifying it.
UG#542 - Sanders Speaks Out (Exposing The Fed's Financial Endgames)
09-04-2011 17:05
Euopean campaign to ensure that all cosmetics sold in the EU are cruelty-free!
09-04-2011 16:44
A European ban on the marketing of all cosmetics products that have been tested on animals is due to come into effect in March 2013. However, it now appears that the ban is going to be postponed yet again, possibly even until 2025!This is a call-out for support in developing a multi-lingual, Europe-wide, grassroots network to hold the European politicians are held to account and ensure that on March 11th, 2013 all the cosmetics products sold in the European Union are cruelty-free.
Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:12
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:08
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:06
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Libya: Distractions and diversions
09-04-2011 15:31
So intertwined are the state and the mainstream media that it's now impossible to see any kind of separation between the two. What's so incredible about the power of the media to transform reality for us is best illustrated by the fact that the political elite knew what the 'no-fly zone' really meant, that it was an act of war, the media just omitted this particular detail from its coverage, or rather it relegated it to a footnote, just as it did with the way it presented the illegal invasion of Iraq to the public. Crimes become 'omissions' and 'errors' and finally 'historical' footnotes.
George Monbiot : State infiltrator
09-04-2011 14:00
Monbiot is the public-school son of two active ultra-right wing Tory extremists, and he has done his Nazi parents proud. He has subverted the environmental movement in the UK more than any other state infiltrator. He is the personification of green-washing, and anyone who still admires this obvious shit should be excluded from any genuinely progressive movement. Let's stick to facts.Anarchists plot to wreck Prince William and Kate Middleton's wedding celebration
09-04-2011 08:54
Anarchists are plotting to occupy tall buildings and use smoke bombs and flares to cause chaos during the royal wedding. Activists claim up to 1,500 hardcore militants plan to storm buildings around Trafalgar Square and The Mall, displaying obscene banners and obscuring the London skyline with billowing smoke as images of the wedding are beamed to millions of viewers around the world.New site in London urgently needed for activist support base
08-04-2011 23:30
The eco-warriors who have been squatting in north London are looking for a new site which could be used as a support base for activists, including some of the Libyan Freedom Fighters.the battle of Keratea , Local residents against the riot police - - April 2011
08-04-2011 21:23
about Keratea - district near Athens >>