26 May - 1 June: Newport Rising: Come & prepare for NATO Summit in Sept

From the 26th May to the 1st June 2014 Anarchist Action Network is holding a week of Anarchist events dubbed the Anarchist Travelling Circus in Newport, South Wales. The week will include, workshops, discussions and skillshares and more. We hope that these events will address some of the issues which most people are facing right now from problems with housing, to welfare cuts and the government austerity agenda, as well as increased poverty, environmental destruction, police repression, racism and the racist border system.

On the 4/5 September another travelling circus is coming to Newport. This year NATO will have their next summit at Celtic Manor Resort, in Newport, south Wales. In early September 2014, “world leaders” – all directly responsible for untold death, illegal torture flights, and wars fought purely to protect Western business interests and resource supply routes – will gather on the edge of this historic Welsh city. Many people from Newport, Cardiff, Bristol and beyond, will oppose the summit and use a diversity of tactics against it.

(UPDATED) DRAFT PROGRAMME FOR NEWPORT RISING FESTIVAL
May 26 – June 1

Newport Rising festival – Gŵyl Safiad Casnewydd

A whole week of events in a venue in Newport

The programme for the week, more TBC!

Mon 26th
11am-5pm: Kids’ Chartist mural re-creation
1-4pm: Self Defence for Women taster session – Women only
4pm: Know your Rights with the Police Training
7.30pm: Community, Democracy and Chartism

Tue 27th
11am: Animal Rights
1pm: No to the new nuclear build. Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons by South West against Nuclear
2pm Fracking in Wales
2-5pm : Stencil/graffiti workshop
4-6 pm: Basic first aid workshop
7.30pm The Levels Motorway Campaign and Fracking in Newport

Wed 28th
2-5pm: Banner-making workshop
Time TBC: The Tea Tent Claimants Solidarity – Strategies for coping with 21st Century unemployment
2pm: IWW Worker’s Power in Under an Hour Training
Time TBC: Beat the Bedroom Tax
7pm: Stopping forced workfare labour by Boycott Workfare.

Thu 29th
2-5pm: Badge-making workshop
3-4.3pm:Why Men against Patriarchy?(all genders welcome)
Time TBC: No Borders Morocco Presentation
7:30pm: Borders & racism, plus film screening about nationalism.
Plus! Anti-facist network stall

Fri 30th:
12.30pm:Prison abolition talk
Time TBC: The Historical Aspects of Anarchism
Time TBC: Anarchism for beginners
7.30pm – ‘How can we destroy capitalism and make new worlds of anarchy and freedom?’ – workshop by Kaput (

https://network23.org/kaput/)
There will be an acoustic gig afterwards with Cosmo, Emu Lou and Raz plus “Dancing Queer” bellydanceing performance.

Sat 31st
Day of protest and street theatre
7.30pm: Talk by people on the Dignity March from Bristol to Cardiff.

Sun 1st
12.30 pm: Session on resisting the drone wars – with emphasis about resistance to Parc Aberporth in Wales and Barclays Bank, investor in drone technology.
2pm: Countering military Recruitment in South Wales.
4pm: Resisting the NATO Summit in Newport – presentation by Stop NATO Cymru.
6.30pm: Organising meeting to build resistance against the NATO summit. All welcome!

Every day:
Free tea and cakes all week.
Free hot meal each evening.
Anarchism Exhibition
Zines and Books
All welcome!

Venue details nearer the time.
To help out or donate food, materials or money, pop round for a chat or email stopnatocymru [at]riseup.net

What is the Anarchist Travelling Circus?

Anarchist Action Network is planning to hold similar Travelling Circus events around the UK with the aim of raising public awareness of anarchism and building a movement with the strength to take renewed action. Go to

http://www.anarchistaction.net for more information.
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WELSH:

Dyma’r rhaglen ar gyfer yr wythnos, mwy i’w gadarnhau!
26 Mai – 1 Mehefin
Wythnos gyfa o ddigwyddiadau mewn lleoliad yng Nghasnewydd

Llun 26fed:
11:00 -17:00: Ail-greu Murlun y Siartwyr
13-16: Sesiwn Blas ar Hunanamddiffyniad i Fenywod – Merched yn unig
16:00: Hyfforddiant Gwybod dy Hawliau gyda’r Heddlu
19:30: Y Gymuned, Democratiaeth ac Siartiaeth

Maw 27fed:
11:00: Hawliau Anifeiliaid
13:00: Na i adeiladu gorsafoedd niwclear newydd. Ynni Niwclear = Arfau Niwclear gan South West against Nuclear
14:00yh:Ffracio yn Nghymru
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy Stencil / graffiti
16:00-18:00: Gweithdy Cymorth Cyntaf sylfaenol
19.30: Ymgyrch Traffordd y Levels a Ffracio yng Nghasnewydd

Mercher 28fed:
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy gwneud banneri.
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Unoliaeth y Babell De – Strategaethau ar gyfer ymdopi â diweithdra 21ain Ganrif
14:00: Hyfforddiant Pŵer Gweithiwr gan yr IWW
Amser ‘w gadarnhau: Curwch Treth y Llofftydd
19:00: Stopio llafur gorfodol”Workfare” gan Boycott Workfare.

Iau 29fed:
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy gwneud bathodynau
15:00-16:30: Pam Dynion yn erbyn Patriarchaeth? (croeso i bob rhywedd)
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Cyflwyniad Dim Ffiniau Moroco
19:30: Ffiniau a hiliaeth, yn ogystal â ffilm am genedlaetholdeb.
Heyd! Stondin wrth-Ffasgaidd

Gwe 30fed:
12:30: Diddymu Carchardai
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Agweddau Hanesyddol Anarchiaeth
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Anarchiaeth i ddechreuwyr
19:30 – ‘Sut gallwn ni ddinistrio cyfalafiaeth ac yn gwneud bydoedd newydd o anarchiaeth a rhyddid?’ – Gweithdy gan Kaput (

https://network23.org/kaput/)
Hwyrach bydd gig acwstig gyda Cosmo, Emu Lou a Raz yn ogystal â “Dancing Queer” perfformiad bolddawnsio.

Sadwrn 31fed
Diwrnod o brotest a theatr stryd
19:30: Sgwrs gan bobl ar taith gerdded Urddas o Fryste i Gaerdydd.

Sul 1af
12:30: Sesiwn ar gwrthsefyll y rhyfeloedd drônau – gyda phwyslais ar ymwrthedd i Barc Aberporth yng Nghymru a Banc Barclays, buddsoddwr mewn technoleg drônau.
14:00: Atal Recriwtio milwrol yn Ne Cymru.
16:00: Gwrthsefyll Uwchgynhadledd NATO yng Nghasnewydd – cyflwyniad gan Stop NATO Cymru.
18:30: Cyfarfod trefnu i adeiladu ar y gwrthwynebiad yn erbyn UwchgynhadleddNATO. Croeso i bawb!

Bob dydd:
Te a chacennau rhad ac am ddim drwy’r wythnos.
Pryd poeth rhad ac am ddim bob nos.
Arddangosfa anarchiaeth
Ffansins a Llyfrau

Manylion y Lleoliad yn yn cael eu datgenlu yn agosach at yr amser.
Er mwyn helpu neu wneud rhodd bwyd, deunyddiau neu arian, dewch draw am sgwrs neu e-bostiwch stopnatocymru @ riseup.net

Beth yw’r Syrcas Symudol Anarchaidd?
Mae gan y Rhwydwaith Gweithredu Anarchaidd gynlluniau i gynnal digwyddiadau tebyg o amgylch y DU gyda’r nod o godi ymwybyddiaeth o anarchiaeth ac adeiladu mudiad fydd gyda’r cryfder i weithredu dros newid. Ewch i

http://www.anarchistaction.net am fwy o wybodaeth.

AAN
Homepage: https://www.anarchistaction.net/2014/04/04/newport-rising/

Additions

updated timetable - venue address soon

25.05.2014 12:21

Updated timetable is online at:

http://tiny.cc/newportrising

We have a venue in Newport city centre – the address will be announced very soon. Keep checking the web address above or ring/txt 07440 192330.

Anon

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where the trots?

19.05.2014 21:12

are Socialist/Trotksyist groups and parties welcome there? are they supporting this protest?

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Low Cost Transportation from London

20.05.2014 12:07

On Sunday May 25th at 3pm a coach will be leaving the Pogo Vegan Cafe at 76 Clarence Rd, London E5 8HB for the trip. Costs are whatever you can afford and all contributions welcome but we ask no animal friends please.

Contact us at the email below for further details

Ar ddydd Sul 25 Mai am 3pm, bydd hyfforddwr yn gadael yr Pogo Fegan Caffi yn 76 Clarence Rd, Llundain E5 8HB ar gyfer y daith. Costau yn beth bynnag y gallwch ei fforddio ac yn croesawu pob cyfraniad, ond rydym yn gofyn ddim ffrindiau anifeiliaid os gwelwch yn dda.

Cysylltwch â ni yn yr e-bost isod am fanylion pellach

AAN
mail e-mail: stopnatocymru@riseup.net
Homepage: https://www.anarchistaction.net/2014/04/04/newport-rising/travel

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stop the war

20.05.2014 14:17

is stop the war coalition involved in this or the main demonstration? why aren't Lindsey German, John Rees, etc speaking??

twerk

UK unveils strategy for national maritime security

20.05.2014 14:54

The UK government has published for the first time a cross-department maritime security strategy, designed to advance and protect national interests at home and overseas in the maritime environment.

Releasing the UK National Strategy for Maritime Security (NSMS) on 13 May, Foreign Secretary William Hague, Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin, Home Secretary Theresa May, and Defence Secretary Philip Hammond stated that the UK "depend[s] on the sea for [its] prosperity and security".

The strategy, they continued, details how the UK will "organise and use [its] current national capabilities to identify, assess, and address maritime security issues at home and overseas, and how [the UK intends] to improve [its] ability to do so in the future through the most efficient use of available resource".

The four secretaries added that the strategy was designed around "an ambitious but pragmatic approach to the opportunities [the UK] could exploit - so as well as having the capabilities to respond to security incidents, [the UK will] also undertake overseas capacity building, deterrence, and diplomacy to disrupt potential future threats before they appear".

With the NSMS focusing on the need to promote a stable maritime environment and freedom of the seas, but noting that maritime trade and energy security requirements are continuing to expand, building a comprehensive cross-government approach to maritime surveillance, information gathering, and decision-making enhanced by regional and multinational co-operation, sits at the heart of the strategy.

Speaking at the public release of the NSMS at the Chamber of Shipping in London on 13 May, Shipping Minister Stephen Hammond said: "While we need to maintain security, and that need is permanent, the nature of the threats we face changes." Alongside the ability to protect UK trade, he outlined a number of potential risk areas (including for cyber attack), such as: cargo and passenger ships; infrastructure at sea and ashore, including offshore assets and ports; and the transportation of other risks directly into the UK, for example through various forms of trafficking.

With the NSMS in place, attention is already turning to its implementation. Hammond said: "We are improving our knowledge of the threats we face now and are likely to face in the future. We will review the maritime risk assessment biennially to ensure that we remain focused on the threats of greatest concern to UK maritime interests." The shipping minister noted that there is a "clear intention" for the maritime risk assessment to feed into wider the national risk assessment process.

Hammond also announced that the UK's cross-government National Maritime Information Centre (NMIC) will move in 2014 to a new, permanent location. IHS Jane's understands the location to be outside Portsmouth, UK. NMIC was established in 2010 under the Strategic Defence and Security Review and is based currently at the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) Permanent Joint Headquarters in Northwood, UK. Alongside the new location, the UK Border Force will take over as NMIC's lead executive agency.

The minister noted how NMIC brings together maritime information from across government, forges links with international partners, and provides real-time information on maritime activity around the UK to support government decision-making. The relocation is intended to further capitalise on opportunities for co-operation, he said. The MoD's Minister of State for the Armed Forces, Mark Francois, added that NMIC is a "world leader at monitoring maritime threats".

Francois highlighted the enduring role of the UK Royal Navy (RN) in supporting UK maritime security interests, listing examples including: mine countermeasures activity under Operation 'Kipion' in the Gulf; counter-piracy work in the Gulf of Aden; exercises including the 'Joint Warrior' series, and annual deployments such as 'Cougar'; the RN's efforts to support international freedom of navigation at sea; and the recent contribution of the multirole hydrographic and oceanographic survey vessel HMS Echo and Trafalgar-class nuclear-powered attack submarine HMS Tireless to the international search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370.

Emphasising the role of international co-operation in bolstering opportunities to spot security risks at distance, he detailed the RN's role in a "worldwide web" of maritime security alliances including the three Indian Ocean international counter-piracy task groups - the US-led Combined Maritime Forces, the European Union's Operation 'Atalanta', and NATO's 'Ocean Shield'. Francois pointed also to the close alignment of the NSMS with NATO's Alliance Maritime Strategy.

Responding to a question from IHS Jane's , Francois added that, as part of the holistic, collective approach to maritime security, the role of the UK MoD "is to provide naval capability to support those collective decisions that the government departments come to by this new mechanism [the NSMS] …. [and] to make sure that the Royal Navy is available to execute those decisions".

Reposter

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Updated Timetable

20.05.2014 16:26

Looking forward to it, here's the laest version of the timtable. Is it possible to amend this?

The programme for the week, more TBC!
MAY 26 – JUNE 1
A whole week of events in a venue in Newport

Mon 26th
11am-5pm: Kids’ Chartist mural re-creation
1-4pm: Self Defence for Women taster session – Women only
4pm: Know your Rights with the Police Training
7.30pm: Community, Democracy and Chartism

Tue 27th
11am: Animal Rights
1pm: No to the new nuclear build. Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons by South West against Nuclear
2pm Fracking in Wales
2-5pm : Stencil/graffiti workshop
4-6 pm: Basic first aid workshop
7.30pm The Levels Motorway Campaign and Fracking in Newport

Wed 28th
2-5pm: Banner-making workshop
Time TBC: The Tea Tent Claimants Solidarity – Strategies for coping with 21st Century unemployment
2pm: IWW Worker’s Power in Under an Hour Training
Time TBC: Beat the Bedroom Tax
7pm: Stopping forced workfare labour by Boycott Workfare.

Thu 29th
2-5pm: Badge-making workshop
3-4.3pm:Why Men against Patriarchy?(all genders welcome)
Time TBC: No Borders Morocco Presentation
7:30pm: Borders & racism, plus film screening about nationalism.
Plus! Anti-facist network stall

Fri 30th:
12.30pm:Prison abolition talk
Time TBC: The Historical Aspects of Anarchism
Time TBC: Anarchism for beginners
7.30pm – ‘How can we destroy capitalism and make new worlds of anarchy and freedom?’ – workshop by Kaput (

stopnatocymru@riseup.net

What is the Anarchist Travelling Circus
Anarchist Action Network is planning to hold similar Travelling Circus events around the UK with the aim of raising public awareness of anarchism and building a movement with the strength to take renewed action. Go to www.anarchistaction.net for more information.
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WELSH:

Dyma’r rhaglen ar gyfer yr wythnos, mwy i’w gadarnhau!
26 Mai – 1 Mehefin
Wythnos gyfa o ddigwyddiadau mewn lleoliad yng Nghasnewydd

Llun 26fed:
11:00 -17:00: Ail-greu Murlun y Siartwyr
13-16: Sesiwn Blas ar Hunanamddiffyniad i Fenywod – Merched yn unig
16:00: Hyfforddiant Gwybod dy Hawliau gyda’r Heddlu
19:30: Y Gymuned, Democratiaeth ac Siartiaeth

Maw 27fed:
11:00: Hawliau Anifeiliaid
13:00: Na i adeiladu gorsafoedd niwclear newydd. Ynni Niwclear = Arfau Niwclear gan South West against Nuclear
14:00yh:Ffracio yn Nghymru
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy Stencil / graffiti
16:00-18:00: Gweithdy Cymorth Cyntaf sylfaenol
19.30: Ymgyrch Traffordd y Levels a Ffracio yng Nghasnewydd

Mercher 28fed:
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy gwneud banneri.
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Unoliaeth y Babell De – Strategaethau ar gyfer ymdopi â diweithdra 21ain Ganrif
14:00: Hyfforddiant Pŵer Gweithiwr gan yr IWW
Amser ‘w gadarnhau: Curwch Treth y Llofftydd
19:00: Stopio llafur gorfodol”Workfare” gan Boycott Workfare.

Iau 29fed:
14:00-17:00: Gweithdy gwneud bathodynau
15:00-16:30: Pam Dynion yn erbyn Patriarchaeth? (croeso i bob rhywedd)
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Cyflwyniad Dim Ffiniau Moroco
19:30: Ffiniau a hiliaeth, yn ogystal â ffilm am genedlaetholdeb.
Heyd! Stondin wrth-Ffasgaidd

Gwe 30fed:
12:30: Diddymu Carchardai
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Agweddau Hanesyddol Anarchiaeth
Amser i’w gadarnhau: Anarchiaeth i ddechreuwyr
19:30 – ‘Sut gallwn ni ddinistrio cyfalafiaeth ac yn gwneud bydoedd newydd o anarchiaeth a rhyddid?’ – Gweithdy gan Kaput (

http://www.anarchistaction.net am fwy o wybodaeth.

South Wales Anarcha

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Local crash space

21.05.2014 10:26

For those that need it we have negotiated some low cost crash space with a local hostel. Drop us a mail or call 07928 714122

AAN
Homepage: www.anarchistaction.net/2014/04/04/newport-rising/

possible?

21.05.2014 14:10

would i be welcome to come and try and sell copies of socialist worker and try and sign up people for a revolutionary party?

swerker

All welcome

21.05.2014 15:28

Do please come along, you will have a warm anarchist welcome. :-)

AAN

venue announced

25.05.2014 18:31

Venue announced: 95-96 Commercial St, NP20 1LU.

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=51.58277&mlon=-2.99287

If you get lost ring/txt 07440 192330.

fox

Venue

25.05.2014 21:53

Venue announced: 95-96 Commercial St, NP20 1LU. Map is here. If you get lost ring/txt 07440 192330.

AAN
Homepage: http://www.anarchistaction.net/

Additional Workshop for Monday

25.05.2014 22:20

12pm Community Singing Workshop

AAN

safer spaces agreement

26.05.2014 19:01

We've decided on a safer spaces agreement:

http://pastebin.com/TeUjDGYt

In particular, we've agreed that we want it to be an alcohol-free and (other) drug-free space, so please respect this - it also covers the gig on Friday evening.

anonysquirrel

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Re the "safer spaces agreement"

27.05.2014 08:07

More time wasted on a ridiculous document that is only required because some people are so determined to be victims they require this sort of 'protection'. Did you not consider telling people that life is tough - grow a pair ?

Stefaan

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Re the "safer spaces agreement"

27.05.2014 13:16

Safer spaces is a nice idea but I've never seen it work. People with strong personalities simply ignore it and the weaker individuals don't complain.

Mary (London)

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who the speakers?

27.05.2014 15:23

the problem with this is that the swp are not running it. they know how to run creches and safe spaces. let the professionals do it. for instance, in all these talks, there are only a bunch of unknowns speaking, nobody famous like Lindsey German, or Tariq ali. this is the problem with this conference in my opinion.

swappie

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where's the love?

28.05.2014 20:16

the only way to peace is to let God into your life. Jesus Christ is the prince of peace, and if you let Jesus into your heart, then there will be peace. for the truth will set you free. look, i used to be an anarchist, i used to take drugs, and listen to punk music. then i found Jesus, and I now see the folly of those ways. Anarchism is the devil's dream. Jesus is the light and the way.

http://www.emmanuel-newport.org.uk/public/

evangel

more details of Saturday action

28.05.2014 23:34

Time and place to meet for the Saturday action/demo/street theatre now announced:

12pm: Day of protest and street theatre. Meet at the venue to head on to other places for some outreach and action.

anonymous

demo time change

29.05.2014 23:19

Time to meet at the venue for the demo has now changed to 2pm:

http://tiny.cc/newportrising

anonymous

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