UK Newswire Archive
Stop Tesco in Stokes Croft!
08-07-2010 16:22
We now have an important opportunity to stop Tesco. They have now put in their final planning applications giving us our one and only formal opportunity to object to the Tesco.- WE HAVE UNTIL 21 SEPTEMBER TO MAKE OBJECTIONS but ...
... the sooner we do the better
... it's a complicated process so we will be producing template letters and advice on how to respond most effectively so it will be taken into account.
- THE DECISION WILL BE MADE AT A MEETING ON 22 SEPT (tbc) ...
... we're gonna have a party! This is our opportunity to celebrate the amazingness of our community in our its creative brilliance!
... it will be at Council House on College Green
... everyone has the right to speak for 3 minutes so we must all request to do this
... we will provide support on how to do this
Please come to our PUBLIC MEETING on THURS 15 JULY, 7pm at Hamilton House Events space.
We will give you more information about what's going on NOW and how we can use this important opportunity to well and truly put a stop to Tesco - and start planning for our amazing celebration party!
Keep an eye on the website for more info and help on responding to this new consultation.
Queer In/Visible Academy
08-07-2010 15:25
Why Queer? Why In/Visible? Why Academy?
Why Queer?
We are not interested in putting the forms of the world in their place, but displacing them.
We neither believe in ultimate explanations and solutions for the burning questions of existence, order and disorder.
We want to explore our everyday and wider structural oppressions not as one dimensional bodies but as living creatures enmeshed in complex webs of power relations.
We question sexualities and genders as we know them.
Why In/Visible?
We raised our fists in the air too often to demand visibility without thinking of what this would mean in a culture where visibility is associated with controllability.
We don’t need visibility if it means we have to embrace policed sexualities and genders.
The way of putting our bodies in the world is expected to be either masculine or feminine, so that assumptions can be made about what kind of body parts do we have under our pants, and how do we use them.
In mainstream culture we are either visible as men by taking up as much space as possible, or as women by being pretty and by attracting others' gaze to our bodies.
We queer visibility and challenge expectations of body outlooks and modes of being in the world which aim to place all the bodies in binary categories.
Why Academy?
Plato’s Academy was the major birth place of the western civilization obsessed with purity, perfection and order based on the separation of stable and fixed categories from each other. Good and evil, beauty and ugliness, copy and original, natural and artificial are just a few of these category pairs, which make sense only if one element of the binary opposition is considered to be inferior to the other. In our academy we don’t celebrate Pallas Athena as the goddess of knowledge laid on pure concepts, but as the queer persona of an androgynous creature popped out of the head of the boss.
With our academy we are creating a life affirming space not for the disciplined and right bodies but for all the defiant, queer and ethical beings.
The desire for purity and perfection is the hotbed of all the fascisms in the world. We embrace imperfection, variation, fluidity and impurity.
mayor of london continues to make a mockery of justice
08-07-2010 15:19
dpp v jones 1999Palestine Today 07 08 2010
08-07-2010 15:19
Metr0 Mirror Campaign
08-07-2010 14:22
In response to the legal threats by Associated Newspapers Ltd against the satirical spoof "Metr0", websites have started to mirror the "incriminated" paper.
For the background read:
"Days of Action:Metro targeted by anti-racist spoof":
https://london.indymedia.org/articles/5099
Mirrors:
Indymedia NL
http://www.indymedia.nl/media/2010/07/68609.pdf
http://www.indymedia.nl/nl/2010/07/68599.shtml
Indymedia IE
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/97131
http://www.indymedia.ie/attachments/jul2010/metr0.pdf
Indymedia Bay Area
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/07/05/18652681.php
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2010/07/05/metr0.pdf
Indymedia Scotland
http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/20105
http://www.indymediascotland.org/sites/default/files/metr0.pdf
Indymedia Perth
http://perth.indymedia.org/index.php?action=newswire&parentview=152157
http://perth.indymedia.org/storyuploads/152157/metr0.pdf
Indymedia Global
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2010/07/939328.shtml
http://www.indymedia.org/media/2010/07/939329.pdf
UK.gov scraps stop'n'search terror power
08-07-2010 14:11
Police are to be stripped of the power to stop and search anyone for no reason, the Home Secretary has announced.Desperate anarcist call for GM lobbying
08-07-2010 14:10
The EU are due to decide tomorrow on the relaxation of legislation which currently slows up new Genetically Modified seed approval. 16 new varieties are currently being held up by minor technicalities like safety checks, and more will follow if the rules change. Yes I know emailing ministers is a dirty filthy thing to do...Mubarak tryies to save his Military Dictatorship by transfering the presidency
08-07-2010 12:39
Protests against Stonings by the Iranian Islamic Regime
08-07-2010 10:14
Come and join us in our protests against Stoning in IranProfessor Warns Sick Scheme in Danger of Collapse!
08-07-2010 10:06
More than two-thirds of people who are applying for ESA are failing in their claims. Yet of the 8,000 people a month who are contesting these decisions, almost half are winning their appeals.Hinkley site to be razed prematurely [1]
08-07-2010 09:22
Upto five hundred acres of species-rich woodland, hedgerows and fields may be destroyed by EdF even before it receives full planning consent from the Infrastructure Planing Commission (IPC) to build its two massive nuclear reactors. A large hole will be excavated in preparation for foundations and the adjoining coastline, a protected area, may be cemented and terraced and a huge jetty built into the estuary, in preparation for the eventual building works. All this will involve the movement of a million cubic metres of soil and rock.
Upto five hundred acres of species-rich woodland, hedgerows and fields may be destroyed by EdF even before it receives full planning consent from the Infrastructure Planing Commission (IPC) to build its two massive nuclear reactors. A large hole will be excavated in preparation for foundations and the adjoining coastline, a protected area, may be cemented and terraced and a huge jetty built into the estuary, in preparation for the eventual building works. All this will involve the movement of a million cubic metres of soil and rock.
EdF have signaled they wish to apply to West Somerset District Council to undertake the premature destruction well in advance of their expected planning submission to the IPC in December. The Commission will then take a year to decide for or against the nuclear building proposal, which will be signed off by a Minister.
West Somerset District Council have said due to its 'grand scale' they are committed to undertake a broader range of consultation than they are legally required to by holding events at towns which may be affected by the early disruption, such as Cannington which falls in the neighbouring local authority of Sedgemoor. The council wishes to involve parish councils and interest groups beyond their obligation to write letters to the directly local villages. The Council is waiting receive the application papers but cannot yet say when they will launch their consultation. Full article.
Full article | Council stands up to Hinkley over earthworks application | Hinkley C application slips amidst uncertainty |
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BNP moves its “operations centre” into the South West
08-07-2010 09:22
Despite being hammered in the South West in the local elections and loosing lots of deposits, the BNP moves its “operations centre” into the South West, to Unit 13, Salmon Springs Trading Estate in Stroud.Here is the full story:
Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, is hoping to seize back the initiative and regain his members’ confidence by setting up a new campaigns executive.
Headed by Clive Jefferson, the man who replaced Eddy Butler as the party’s national elections officer, it is intended to “coordinate and marshal the entire Party for the purpose of winning elections”.
The new structures are also intended to consolidate the hold of Griffin and his “consultant” Jim Dowson on the party. Paul Golding, another diehard Griffin loyalist, has been put in charge of a new “communications and publicity department” encompassing media and communications, the BNP website, publicity and design. The new department has been “designed and researched by Midas Consultants and Mr Golding”, the party website announ-ced in an attempt to counter the attacks on Jim Dowson, one of whose many businesses is Midas Consultants.
During election campaigns the campaigns executive will “converge on” the BNP’s “operations centre”. A BNP email requesting donations to equip it did not disclose where it was, but Searchlight can reveal its location in Unit 13, Salmon Springs Trading Estate in Stroud.
Three rooms in the unit were leased by Adlorries.com Ltd, one of Dowson’s companies, for three years from spring 2009 at a rent of £5,000 a year. They were to be used as a training centre for the BNP run by Michaela Mackenzie, but have remained empty after the party sacked her from her posts as administration officer and national nominating officer. Like many in the BNP it appears she clashed with Dowson. She has appealed to the employment tribunal, another case that could leave the BNP with a large legal bill.
Mike Howson, a former military trainer and Griffin’s bully boy in the South West, will now run the BNP’s training department there. Howson, the BNP’s ageing national youth officer, took over from Peter Mullins as the BNP’s South West regional organiser and promptly instigated his suspension from the party.
Simon Bennett, the BNP’s former webmaster, claims that Howson was one of those who tried to confront the party leadership over Dowson’s “dodgy dealings and history”, but after they were all “frog-marched to a court style hearing”, Howson folded “like a pack of cards” and is now “a poodle to Jim Dowson”.
Meanwhile the in-fighting at the BNP over their failure to break through gathers pace... http://lancasteruaf.blogspot.com/2010/07/billious-nasty....html
Consultation Day [1]
08-07-2010 09:22
Trinity Community Arts will be holding a Consultation Day on Sat 24 July 2010, from 10am - 2pm, open to members, local residents, hirers and Centre users to shape the future of Trinity.Trinity Community Arts
Consultation Day
Sat 24 July 2010
10am - 2pm
As Trinity has charitable objectives we propose to register as a charity. We are running a consultation event, inviting members, hirers, local residents, and other beneficiaries to get involved and shape our vision for the future. The aim of the day will be to establish:
* Public perceptions of Trinity
* Trinity's role in the community
* What people would like to see from Trinity
* A shared vision for future
We are encouraging those with an existing interest in the Centre and the local area to attend.
If you would like to attend please complete the Online Registration Form http://www.3ca.org.uk/about/get-involved/membership/reg...-form
or email your name, contact details, area of interest and any dietary requirements to info@3ca.org.uk by Friday 16 July 2010 (extended deadline).
We look forward to hearing from you.
The Trinity Centre. Trinity Road. Bristol. BS2 0NW
Derby Animal Rights Resurected
08-07-2010 01:21
Lewes Road community garden demo (Fri July 9)
07-07-2010 22:55
The demo starts at 9.30 with the appeal hearing due to start at 10.30am this Friday. The Big Lemon Bus company is laying on a free bus leaving the garden on Lewes Road, Brighton at 8.30am (donations to the court costs and garden fighting fund).
Israel on Trail for War Crimes!
07-07-2010 22:10
Decommissioner Elijah Smith finally released from prison
07-07-2010 21:25
Elijah Smith was granted bail at a hearing today and was finally released from prison at around 5.30pm after 18 months on remand.Hinkley site to be razed prematurely
07-07-2010 21:22
Upto five hundred acres of species-rich woodland, hedgerows and fields may be destroyed by EdF even before it receives full planning consent from the Infrastructure Planing Commission (IPC) to build its two massive nuclear reactors. A large hole will be excavated in preparation for foundations and the adjoining coastline, a protected area, may be cemented and terraced and a huge jetty built into the estuary, in preparation for the eventual building works. All this will involve the movement of a million cubic metres of soil and rock.EdF have signaled they wish to apply to West Somerset District Council to undertake the premature destruction well in advance of their expected planning submission to the IPC in December. The Commission will then take a year to decide for or against the nuclear building proposal, which will be signed off by a Minister.
West Somerset District Council have said due to its 'grand scale' they are committed to undertake a broader range of consultation than they are legally required to by holding events at towns which may be affected by the early disruption, such as Cannington which falls in the neighbouring local authority of Sedgemoor. The council wishes to involve parish councils and interest groups beyond their obligation to write letters to the directly local villages. The Council is waiting receive the application papers but cannot yet say when they will launch their consultation.
The proposals were outlined in a recent Community Forum Meeting held by EdF and attended by Stop Hinkley and other interested parties including councillors.*
The local village of Shurton has meanwhile achieved a small victory in forcing EdF to rethink its southern boundary, formerly alongside the homes and gardens of villagers. After a hail of objections the boundary is to be moved further north. The victory follows a planning decision in May where West Somerset District Council agreed with villagers that proposed trench digging was inappropriate so near peoples' homes.
EdF's 'Second Stage Consultation' is due to be launched tomorrow in a morning programme on Radio Somerset. The full consultation document is expected to be published on Friday with EdF's responses to feedback from the first consultation which ended in January, and its preferred options. It is widely expected to rule out the expensive by-pass from Hinkley to Dunball, allowing traffic to avoid Cannington and Bridgwater.
The reactor design is currently being investigated for safety by the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate (NII) who expect to make a statement on EdF's preferred design in June next year. However the Generic Assessment Team, as it is known has said any licence it issues may have 'exception' clauses within it, which must be resolved before any particular reactor is switched on. This could include the controversial 'Control and Instrumentation' system which was considered flawed by the NII last year. Another design fault in the system which responds to changes in electricity demand was discovered in the French European Pressurised Reactor some months ago.
Stop Hinkley has joined other campaign groups in calling for a public inquiry over the 'Justification' of new nuclear power stations, which the Liberal Democrats, now part of the coallition Government have supported. Chris Huhne, who as Energy Secretary has ultimate responsibility for power stations, has said he does not believe the economics of nuclear power add up and will not allow public subsidies to nuclear power companies.
Jim Duffy, spokesman for Stop Hinkley said: "EdF are running six months behind schedule with their application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission and this may be their way of regaining time with their hopes to operate Hinkley C by December 2018. But it is utter vandalism to destroy all that wildlife long before any decisions can be made about the controversial nuclear reactors and puts unfair pressure on the planners and local community. EdF say they'll restore the site if they don't get permission but how do you restore a century old oak woodland or an ancient hedgerow?"
"EdF have lots of hoops to get through before they get permission to build. They should hold off till the final yea or, preferably, nay. Meanwhile West Somerset people should say no to this travesty."
Jim Duffy
Stop Hinkley Coordinator
www.stophinkley.org
07798 666756
Notes:
Planning Officer at West Somerset District Council - Andrew Goodchild - 01643 703704
Attachments: Go to www.stophinkley.org
- Photos of Hinkley C site including protest placards, pics of coastline, open fields, hedgerows, old trees. Photos courtesy of Paul Glendell.
- * Minutes of Community Forum Meeting 20th May, recently published
FREEMAN ECO VILLAGE swoop
07-07-2010 18:13
This is an invitation to participate in a land reclaim project in south east London, swoop date 17th July 2010. If you would like to be involved then our contact details are below. Contact us for meeting point and more details can be found on our facebook group FREEMAN ECO VILLAGE.peas love and freedom
Joint Statement of May First and plentyfact on METRO vs metr0
07-07-2010 16:46
Joint Statement of Mayfirst and plentyfact on METRO vs metr0see:
http://plentyfact.net/stuff/joint-statement-mayfirst-plentyfact.html Bullying use of copyright law fails to stifle political commentary - Trans-Atlantic collaboration keeps site running
Contact: Alfredo Lopez,
alfredo@mayfirst.org, plentyfact, collective@plentyfact.net