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Spanish surround there parliament NOW Livestream on ONN
25-09-2012 17:09
Spanish surround there parliament NOW Livestream on ONNRomney Primary Fraud In 20 US States
25-09-2012 16:31
Because Republicans own or influence several ‘voting machine’ companies such as ESS whose CEO Chuck Hagel counted his own votes to crown himself senator from Republican Nebraska and Dominion, owned by Canadian conservatives (the company which installed Walker as governor of Wisconsin in the recall) and have a much bigger ad machine budget (Karl Rove, Koch Brothers etc.) American readers of Indymedia are asked to work and pray for election monitoring at every step of the process. Many Ron Paul supporters will vote third party for Libertarian Gary Johnson, twice governor of New Mexico, on the ballot in 50 states. He has twice balanced the state budget, calls for immediate withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a 43% cut in military spending, decriminalization of marijuana (which would reduce border crime) among many other of his principled stands. The following article by Janet Glenn published on OpEdNews.com describes fraud in 20 US states.
QE3 Another Fed Give Away to the Banks
25-09-2012 12:03
Ben Bernanke, the head of the Federal Reserve, announced a few days ago QE3, quantitative easing three, and now he says they're going to continue to buy assets, multibillion dollars of purchases, until the unemployment rate goes down. He was then followed by the European Central Bank and the central bank of Japan
Anonymous: Barrett Brown - Communiqué from Prison 9/20/12
25-09-2012 02:31
"It is hard for me to express how much I appreciate your letter, which is the first I have received here, along with the support I’ve reportedly gotten from others so far...."PHILIPPINES: The ghosts of martial law
25-09-2012 01:25
On September 21, forty years ago, President Ferdinand E. Marcos declared martial law. For almost 13-and-a-half years afterwards, the country suffered terribly from a brutal and corrupt dictatorship. Among the victims of the grave violations of human rights under martial law were the following: 3,257 “salvaged” (summarily executed), 35,000 tortured, and 70,000 incarcerated, as documented by historian Alfred McCoy.Local residents camp & rally against Bexhill-Hastings link road
24-09-2012 21:45
Preparing for peace with Wrexham schoolchildren
24-09-2012 21:43
The Innocence of Muslims: No Fear, No Hatred, No Threat
24-09-2012 17:25
Violence that ensued following the release of the Innocense of Muslims is to blame on certain followers of Islam. Muslim-Supremacists need to be contained.Palestine Today 120924
24-09-2012 17:17
"We are people under blockade and we should have the culture of resistance," he said. "Why should someone have all kinds of fruits on his table?"Liverpool Social Centre Open Day 30 Oct
24-09-2012 12:21
5 Years and no disasters! Find out what's been going on at Liverpool's most happening basement. It's our Open Day and Alternative Freshers Fair.Seeing the woods from the trees at Runnymede Eco.
24-09-2012 00:55
If you happened to glance at a recent BBC Surrey news website report entitled: ”Runnymede squatters: National Trust wins eviction order”, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Digger’s 2012 Runnymede Eco-village was situated on land owned by the National Trust. We are taking this opportunity to clarify that Runnymede Eco-Village is not situated on land owned by the National Trust. It is situated in the disused woodland of the ex-Brunel university Runnymede Campus owned by the private property developer: Orchid Runnymede. The National Trust manages the Runnymede Estate which is next to the Runnymede Campus.
We: a group of 15 people, have been living on the Runnymede Campus since June 15th. The 65 acre campus lies in the Green Belt (although it is designated as a major development site) but since 2007 has lain largely unused. Orchid Runnymede has been granted planning permission to build ‘luxury homes’, elderly care units and student accommodation on the site. This plan has attracted concern and criticism from local residents (see this local news article from last year). The area of woodland where we are living has no management plan and is heavily populated by Sycamore and Ash trees. In places it has been fly-tipped with fridges and other items. Since our arrival we have established the Runnymede Eco-Village community here. We’ve built a long house and other low impact structures made from the renewable timber provided by the Sycamore trees. We’ve also dug a well (where we draw water from), setup solar panels for producing electricity and started to plant crops, and fruit trees.
We have been evicted from the Runnymede Campus (by bailiffs paid for by Orchid Runnymede) three times . The last eviction took place on July 12th (watch a video of the eviction here). Each time we have been evicted we have been forcibly displaced along with our belongings onto National Trust land at Cooper’s Hill Woods (next to the Runnymede Campus). After each eviction, we have returned back onto the Runnymede Campus. The first time we were evicted on June 27th, we briefly camped on the border with the Runnymede Campus in Cooper’s Hill Woods, before moving our tents and equipment back onto the campus and carrying on with our eco-village on the disused land there. Partly due to complacency, we neglected to move 3 tents (two of which were unoccupied) which were just inside the border of the National Trust land).
The border between the Runnymede Campus and National Trust land.
It was the issue of the 3 tents on NT land which the NT used as the basis for their legal action where they sought and successfully obtained a ‘Vacant Possession Order’ (VPO) for the whole of the Runnymede Estate (over 200 acres) against Diggers2012 and Persons Unknown. On receiving the court papers informing us of the legal action , we moved the tents and wrote to the National Trust to let them know that they had been moved. The National Trust decided to carry on with the legal action and obtained a VPO. This means the NT can evict anyone including Runnymede eco-villagers from camping on their land.
As well as the VPO, the NT also attempted to obtain an injunction against Diggers2012 and Persons Unknown from ‘trespassing’ on the Runnymede Estate. The Runnymede Estate is home to the Magna Carta monument: the site where King John is said to have sealed the Magna Carta in 1215 and is heralded as the birthplace of modern democracy. This injunction if granted would have given the NT powers for forcibly remove any unwanted persons from assembling at Runnymede, taking part in a procession or just going for a walk. At a court case on the 13th September in Slough County Court, following objections from three Runnymede Eco-Villagers, a district judge decided not to grant the injunction against ‘Persons Unknown’ (meaning it couldn’t be used against everyone) but adjourned the case and narrowed it to the three Runnymede Eco-Villagers (for more on this click here).
As Runnymede Eco-Villagers, It is not and never has been our intention to setup an eco-village on the open National Trust land at Runnymede. We recognise that the Runnymede Estate is well loved by visitors from near and far. It is also looked after and managed successfully by both volunteers and paid NT workers. It does not fall into our criteria of ‘disused land’. On June 09th, we set out with the intention of finding disused land on which to start an eco-village and this is what we have done on the Runnymede Campus.
The development of the Runnymede Campus appears to have stalled (something reported by local residents). Whilst the site remains in a state of disuse, we intend to carry on living here as a community in a way that can be sustained indefinitely within the ecological capacity of this beautiful woodland environment
Exclusive: Roger Cook, how Murdoch's News Of The World killed The Cook Report
23-09-2012 23:45
A honest letter from the MoD and Faslane exercises in futility
23-09-2012 18:55
Uncharacteristically honest Ministry of Defence letters winged their way to the thousands of residents next to the Faslane Naval Base this week to accompany their Emergency Response Excercise to an unrealistically optimistic nuclear accident.
Faslane Peace Camp interrupt Nuclear "Defence" Seminar
23-09-2012 18:55
The “Introduction to Nuclear Defence” seminar, held in Beardmore Hotel Clydebank on Thursday 6th and Friday 7th of September, invited “young delegates” for two days of seminars and presentations on nuclear defence topics from “leading industry figures”.