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Dale Farm info night
25-07-2011 20:55
Dale Farm, Essex, is the UK?s largest Travellers? community, consisting of nearly a hundred separate properties, owned mainly by travellers of Irish heritage and Romani families, lying well outside the village and made up of extended family plots or yards on an ex-scrap yard.
Dale Farm, Essex, is the UK?s largest Travellers? community,
consisting of nearly a hundred separate properties, owned mainly by
travellers of Irish heritage and Romani families, lying well outside
the village and made up of extended family plots or yards on an
ex-scrap yard.
Caving in to racial prejudice, Basildon District Council (BDC) has set
aside 9.2 million pounds to demolish the homes in the back 52 plots
and have asked the Home Office for 10 million more. The council have
consistently rejected planning applications and several appeals..now
is the time for action…
EVICTION DUE 31ST AUGUST…. FOLKS NEEDED FROM 27TH for helping set up
the resistance camp. People from Bristol will be going through out
August. Come to the Factory, 2-8 Cave st, 830, Tuesday 2nd August, to
find out more and get involved! Or email bristolnoborders@riseup.net
For more info…see dalefarm.wordpress.com
Italy - MEP Borghezio: the ideas of the aggressor in Oslo? Deeply healthy
25-07-2011 18:37
YOUTUBE (13mins)-Guantanamo Guard Demands EndTorture, CloseGitmo &Justice 4Hicks
25-07-2011 18:13
YOUTUBE (13mins)-Former U.S. Military Guantanamo Guard Demands End to Torture, Closure of Gitmo & Justice or David Hicks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrNN07qTG7Y&feature=player_embedded
Announcing the Olive Morris Memorial Award
25-07-2011 17:55
The Remembering Olive Collective (ROC) is delighted to invite nominations for the Olive Morris Memorial Award.
In the spirit of Olive’s life and work, 3 awards of £500 each will be given to young women engaged in radical grassroots political activity.
Olive Morris was an significant and inspirational community activist in 1970s Britain, who died at the young age of 27 leaving behind a significant legacy, that the Remembering Olive Collective seeks to honor. Olive was a member of the British Black Panthers, as well as a founding member of the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) and the Brixton Black Women’s Group. The breadth of her political work went from her pioneer role in the local squatter campaigns in South London, through to organising with Black women and the student movement in London and Manchester, to supporting liberation movements in the Third World. For more information about the life and work of Olive, please visit http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com
Criteria
Nominees must be engaged in radical grassroots political work of any nature. For example, as organisers, advocates, activists, lobbyists or being themselves victims of repression for their political activities. Charitable work is not eligible, unless it is part of a wider and demonstrable radical politics agenda. Nominees must be women who are between 16 and 27 years of age and of African or Asian descent. This is meant in a broad geo-political sense that may include, for example, Palestinian women. All women who fall under the above category shall be considered regardless of their nationality and immigration status.
Nomination forms
Anyone can nominate a woman for the award, provided they complete all the information requested in the nomination form. Please download nomination forms from http://rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com/.
All forms to be returned by email to olivemorrishq@gmail.com by 21 September 2011.
Award ceremony
There will be a public award ceremony held at a London venue towards the end of October 2011, with details to be confirmed closer to the date.
The Remembering Olive Collective is a group of women of diverse ages and backgrounds that was active from 2008-2010, dedicated to preserving and reactivating the memory of Olive Morris and the political movements she was part of. The Olive Morris Memorial Award is ROC’s final public appearance, bringing to a close an intense period of work, whose main outcome was the creation of the Olive Morris Collection at Lambeth Archives.
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ROC - Remembering Olive Collective
http://www.rememberolivemorris.wordpress.com
E: olivemorrishq@gmail.com
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Earth First! Summer Gathering Update.
25-07-2011 17:09
Location announced, workshop schedule published, and how the kids space is going to work. All for the Earth First Summer Gathering which begins on the 10th of August and runs until the 15th.Get in touch if you need more information.
Solidarity demonstration for Prisoners on Hunger Strike - Friday 29 July
25-07-2011 16:18
Thousands of prisoners across California have been on hunger strike for nearly 4 weeks now in protest against the use of solitary confinement following a call by prisoners in the Pelican Bay Secure Housing Unit (SHU). Though the prisoners in Pelican Bay have ended their protest following a number of apparent concessions by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), prisoners in at least three other Californian state prisons, CCI Tehachapi, Corcoran and Calipatria, continue to refuse food.Palestine Today 07 25 2011
25-07-2011 15:51
Morton Hall demo - pics
25-07-2011 13:55
Some pictures taken at Saturday's noise demo.
Main report here.
The far right already have an established 'hitlist' here in the U.K
25-07-2011 12:56
The "Redwatch" website emanating from the U.K is basically a 'hitlist' informing neo-nazis of the whereabouts of "Leftists" in the U.K. The website has three mirrors each hosted on servers at godaddy.com based in the U.S.Operation Gladio: NATOs secret far right terror cells killing innocent Europeans
25-07-2011 11:57
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Shell blockaded on the first day
25-07-2011 07:45
At 6.59 this morning a tripod was erected on the road between Shell's Ballinaboy refinery and their compound at Aughosse, Co Mayo.
Those Magnificent Men and their (F)lying machines
25-07-2011 06:55
A piece showing our media's function as the PR arm of the armed forces (also published on my website www.freedemocrats.co.uk)
Those Magnificent Men and their (F)lying Machines
Apparently newspaper owners and editors up and down the country are scratching their heads and wondering why newspaper sales have plummeted. No doubt some comfort themselves, and each other, by blaming the internet. They would be partly right – but probably not for the reasons they might give. It’s difficult to know how many of them will learn the important lessons of the recent furore that revealed some of the deceit, bribery and corruption that is standard practice behind much of our so-called ‘news’.
Some might think the scandal is confined to the national papers. Not a bit of it. The Guardian’s George Monbiot reported (see Monbiot.com 9.11.09 ‘Champions of the Overdog’) that Sir Ray Tindle, who once controlled about 230 newspapers, including such giants as the Totnes Times, ordered his editors at the outbreak of the Iraq War in 2003 “to ensure that nothing appears in your newspapers which attacks the decision to conduct the war”.
Most British newspapers have always supported war, and continue to do so to this day. It’s because war is very good for business, which matters far more to the Rupert Murdochs and Ray Tindles of this world than the shattered bodies of innocent and defenceless civilians (who are seldom even counted – let alone reported).
A piece of typically shabby war-loving propaganda appeared last Friday (22nd July) in the Grantham Journal. An article bearing the title “Airman Rob is helping to defend the skies over Libya” displayed a nice photograph of a pleasantly harmless-looking chap who, apart from the fact he’s wearing military uniform, could be mistaken for an accountant, or a banker. The article tells us about ‘Airman Rob’s many important duties, such as supporting construction and catering “and even medical services.” Ahhh – he sounds a bit like a social worker really, or a comic-book superhero. But curiously enough, helping to overthrow foreign governments, dispatch tens of thousands of defenceless civilians to eternity, and plunder whoever’s left behind – which is the real purpose of ‘Airman Rob’s employers – doesn’t get a mention.
The words “helping to defend the skies over Libya” in the title are almost too ridiculous to comment on; “helping to steal Libyan oil”, although only part of the story, would at least have been more accurate.
No doubt ‘Airman Rob’ is a thoroughly decent chap with a loving family and human weaknesses just like all the rest of us; and is quite possibly as oblivious of the cynicism of his work as Nazi concentration camp guards were seventy years ago – a natural consequence of enduring similar brainwashing; but what is the media’s excuse? What is the media’s excuse for calling the plundering and murder of innocent civilians thousands of miles away from Britain ‘defending the skies’?
A friend of mine who once worked at the Grantham Journal told me that it was editorial policy that all articles appearing in the paper should be written for ‘Earlsfield Man’ (Earlsfield is the part of Grantham with the highest social deprivation). It’s the sort of thing I could imagine Rupert Murdoch or Ray Tindle saying. It’s a line of thinking that proposes that the newspaper in general and its articles in particular should be composed in such a way as to appeal to the dullest mind. Well a surprising number of these dull minds know exactly what’s going on in spite of the best propaganda efforts of the media. So if more and more people are turning to foreign internet sites and the likes of Al Jazeera and Russia Today for their news it’s hardly surprising. Although these sources are of course also rich in propaganda at least they tell us some of the hard truths about our own government – truths our own media should be supplying.
Proof of Anders Brehing Breivik's Nazi sympathies & links to EDL leaders
24-07-2011 22:04
Obama reaction to Norway massacre betrays US "war on terror" fundamentalism
24-07-2011 18:12
However, this did not restrain Obama or his New Zealand guest from issuing wild insinuations about Islamic terrorism. Obama is reported to have been briefed by intelligence officials before he spoke on the matter. Which makes his response an all the more odious bit of politicking to turn a horrific, tragic event into a propaganda stunt to stir up anti-Islamic fears and shore up Washington’s illegal “wars on terror”.
What should be disturbing is the level of inculcation of such irrational propaganda. It seems that every and any horror no matter how obviously unrelated to Islamic countries can now immediately be attributed by Obama and other Western leaders to “Islamic terrorists”.
It is as astounding act of reality inversion. The US leader who has taken international wars of aggression to record heights of lawlessness and who has made such a big deal of “embracing the Muslim world” nevertheless shows a disgraceful ability to prolong these wars by twisting any tragedy into a snide vilification of Islam.
Looking after Gledhow Valley Woods
24-07-2011 16:55
Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods had an action day today. Volunteers worked on a variety of tasks to conserve and maintain this area of woodland in Leeds.
Gledhow Valley Woods is a small area of woodland nestled between areas of dense housing. To the South is Harehills, West is Chapeltown, North is Chapel Allerton and East is Oakwood. Residents of these areas anjoy the shared amenity of the woodland, which is maintained by a group of volunteers.
The Friends of Gledhow Valley Woods have been working for the last 14 years to maintain this resource for the benefit of all. Some members of the group have been looking after the woods informally even before then. Today we had a look at some photos taken 30 years ago in what was then known as the meadow. Since then, much of that area has been overgrown, and today we set about clearing it.
Although trees are the largest plant species growning in the woods, there is a great diversity of smaller species. The woodland is managed so as to maximise biodiversity within a small area. This requires some grassland areas to be kept clear of saplings and shrubs, which would otherwise dominate within a few years. There are also wet habitats along the course of the Gledhow Beck and lake.
As well as clearing the meadow today, a few of us went litter-picking, someone worked on controlling the Himalayan Balsam, and a team of us built a stretch of path. The reason for building the path was that before there was just packed earth, which is OK in dry weather but when it rains, the path gets very muddy: people try to avoid walking through the muddy puddles, so they walk along the edge of the path, with the result that it gets wider and wider as people try to avoid the mud. As the path is heavily used, this could result in severe erosion if unchecked.
Anyone who wants to get involved next time would be welcome - keep an eye on this webpage for dates.
State's case against Abahlali baseMjondolo collapses (South Africa)
24-07-2011 15:10
In September 2009 the South African shack dweller's movement Abahali baseMjondolo (which has strong links to the London Coalition Against Poverty) was attacked by an armed ANC mob in Durban. Twelve AbM activists were arrested after the attack and were detained for eight months. The state's case against the 12 has now fallen apart completely and clear evidence of a state frame up has emerged. This report is from the radical legal NGO that represented the 12.Demo against cuts to social care in Oxford
24-07-2011 14:40
A smallish, but lively crowd took the streets (OK, pavements!) of Oxford yesterday to protest against cuts to social care in a "March of the Uninvisibles".“Preclusion” guerilla art exhibition to be held at the Whitmarley
24-07-2011 14:27
A genuinely guerilla experience, Preclusion is a totally unsupported spontaneous art exhibition.