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Palestine Place is Coming to London (June 2012)
18-05-2012 16:59
An act of solidarity and resistance will soon implant itself in the heart of the capital. From June 2nd Palestine Place will engulf one of London's great wasted spaces and transform it into a base for workshops and actions in support of Palestine.For more info see:
http://palestineplace.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/Palestine-Place/220970991348655
Nigerian Doctors Strike
18-05-2012 14:02
Reflections on the Lagos state government’s onslaught on doctorsA recent crackdown on doctors in Nigeria is symptomatic of a wider state attack on the working class.
The Caravan for Climate Jobs is in Sheffield
18-05-2012 13:05
http://www.sheffieldrenewables.org.uk/ the driver of the van, Solar Active, http://new.solar-active.com/ and the Sheffield Campaign Against Climate Change https://sites.google.com/site/scaccweb/
Criminal Justice Services continue to cover up lies about John Bowden
18-05-2012 12:53
Edinburgh Criminal Justice Services, or what used to be know as the plain Social Work Deptartment, has seriously compromised its professional integrity by defending a member of its staff who deliberately told lies in a report to the Parole Board in an attempt to sabotage my chances of release from prison. Behaving like corrupt policemen instead of traditional social workers seems now to be acceptable practice at Edinburgh Social Services.Corrupt Social Workers Attempt To Rid Themselves of Prisoner John Bowden
18-05-2012 12:31
Long-term prison militant John Bowden, imprisoned since 1980, is once more facing harassment at the hands of the prison authorities – and all because of another idiot social worker.Previous articles at
http://leedsabc.org/another-attempt-to-sabotage-john-bowdens-parole-by-prison-hired-social-worker/ , http://leedsabc.org/update-from-john-bowden-about-lies-written-by-prison-hired-social -worker-2/, and http://leedsabc.org/support-for-john-bowden/
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Take the Flour Back defend Direct Action on Newsnight
18-05-2012 02:18
Jyoti of Take the Flour Back defends the role of direct action in defending farmers and our food system.... and cuts through all that GM 2.0 nonsense.Ant-G4S demo in solidarity with Palestinian hungar strikers
17-05-2012 23:38
Statement by Census refuser Deborah Glass Woodin
17-05-2012 20:09
Deborah's Census case was heard in Reading Magistrates Court on Monday 14 May. She was found guilty, fined and is minded not to pay the fine.Shrewsbury: Case against Census refuser dismissed
17-05-2012 18:38
What Cuts? MOD Ploughs £5b into Atomic Weapons Establishment
17-05-2012 16:30
The Ministry of Defence has announced spending of £5 billion at the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston and Burghfield in Berkshire.Redditch Green Fair, Sat 2nd June
17-05-2012 15:42
Kensal Rise library barricaded to keep council in!
17-05-2012 14:55
Yesterday morning the community at Kensal Rise library in Brent to blocked the front dooors of the library, preventing the council from removing the books. Around fifty local residents heard that Brent council planned to take the books away after they lost their legal battle earlier in the year, they amassed in solidarity at the entrance and formed a human barracade to keep the removers inside while the police arrived on the scene at midday.
The local campaign group Save Kensal Rise Library had offered to run the building as a community building for free but the council continues to enforce its agenda. The library itself was given to the community by Mark Twain over a 100 years ago and its campaign to not be cut in the current austerity purge has been supported by Alan Bennet, Jacqueline Wilson and other writers.
With a new labour leader now in charge of the council, after the local elections, the group calls for fresh talks hoping there will be a change of heart by the council and common sense prevail.
(Mad) nuke store proposal on Romney Marsh,Kent
17-05-2012 13:20
A nuclear waste storage proposal has been suggested for Romney Marsh, KentRIP Shell
17-05-2012 12:52
ODA Meeting: Why So Scared To Have Your Statements
17-05-2012 10:55
On Tuesday night there was a meeting of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), Lea Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) and local residents at a small nursery on Riverside Close, Hackney to discuss the 'reinstatement works' for the marsh.
To attend the meeting, residents were told they must submit their names, addresses and contact details to the ODA. However after most people had already done so, the ODA then said people could attend the session without doing so (they still tried to take peoples names on entry).
Shortly after the drop-in session began, Caroline tried to record the meeting with a sound recorder. She was told that she needed to give her name and could not record the meeting. However, residents and Save Leyton Marsh group put up a united front and demanded that anything that was said on an individual basis should be said to the whole group and be a matter of public record.
The ODA did not know how to respond. They took ten minutes to liaise privately and decide whether to be recorded. In the end, they came back into the meeting and said there would be a statements from the ODA spokespeople until 7.30pm and then the meeting would resume for individual discussions. The meeting unanimously refused saying everything that was said should be said publicly and with accountability so there should be an open public meeting for the whole session. Some of the ODA refused to give their names until Barry Buitekant and Ian Rathbone challenged this; they said they were councillors acting for the public and anyone acting in this capacity should provide their names.
The LVRPA refused to answer any questions after it was agreed the meeting could be recorded. Residents were absolutely outraged. What does this body have to hide?
There was a lengthy discussion with Mark Sorrell, who claimed that the group has harrassed him, evidencing the postings on Facebook which had been added by Mark Walsh who had later identified himself as a PC and had added a series of fake aliases to the site in order to get information.
Residents were not satisfied with the inadequate answers given to a series of questions related to both reinstatement and to the way the facility gained planning permission and was constructed.
Full unedited sound recording of the meeting available here http://soundcloud.com/saveleytonmarsh/oda-meeting
EDL planning meeting at LGBT bar in Bristol during Pride
17-05-2012 10:48
The homophobic racist EDL will be in town during Bristol Pride to spread their hate and bullshitMessage from recentley released Antifascist Ravi Gill
17-05-2012 03:53
I just hope this can even show 1% for the love I feel for those who supportted me, I'll never forget you and love you always. NO PASARAN!Occupy Brookes demo confronts Vice Chancellor
16-05-2012 21:59
Smash EDO Public Meeting: Down the Drones Thursday 17th
16-05-2012 21:03
Thursday the 17th, 7.30pm at the Friends Meeting House, Ship Street, Brighton.Public meeting with Chris Cole from Drone Wars UK.
Smash EDO Summer of Resistance: Down the Drones
16-05-2012 20:48
