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Further North East EDL members named and shamed

12-08-2013 18:06

No fascists or racists

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Greater Leith Against The Cuts Meeting

12-08-2013 12:55

6.30pm Tuesday 13th August 2013                      Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh                                            17 West Montgomery Place, EH7 5HA. All welcome. For more info e-mail us at greaterleithc59@gmail.com or contact us on Facebook.

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South London film night on Fracking

12-08-2013 07:47

3 short films (2 from Balcombe, 1 from the desolate North East) and a discussion with a Balcombe resident and speakers from Frack Off, No Dash For Gas & activist.

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Call out for support for forest occupation in Belgium

11-08-2013 14:37

Since the first of Juli we (an action group from the Dutch Earth First!) have occupied a forest in Wilrijk. So far there’s been no great risk of eviction but this is about to change. We expect the chance of eviction will be the greatest from September 12th till September 20th.

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Call out to counter Pompey EDL Demo: Saturday 17th August

11-08-2013 08:57

Anti-Fascists to meet at the fountain, Commercial Road, Portsmouth 12 noon on Saturday 17th August to counter the EDL and NF. Check relevant websites for updates.

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Uprsing at Concentratiuon Camp, Amydaleza, Athens

10-08-2013 20:34

Incidents began at 2100 and peaked (reportedly) at 2200 when so called illegal immigrants set fire to their container cells. Reports of mattresses burned and at least one housing unit destroyed. Lots of tear gas, and flash bangs grenades reported with heavy police and fire unit present. Some reports that police coming the outside looking for escapees?
Reports of injured immigrants, maybe heavy.

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Simon Kirby MP provokes war with Russia

10-08-2013 19:35

Kirby vs Putin
Simon Kirby, MP for Kemptown Brighton, provokes war with Russian by urging the Foreign Secretary, William Hague to 'exert pressure upon President Putin.'

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Pentagon 'shocked' at MoD privatisation & dispatch from Columbia's 'Red Zone'

10-08-2013 19:03

Audio
BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers and Marina Morris
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.
 http://www.thisweek.org.uk

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Council Tax protestor appeared at Magistrate Court

10-08-2013 12:55

1.00pm Thurday 8 August. Nottingham Magistrates Court

Council Tax protestor Ross Longhurst with supporters at Nottingham Magistrates were a liability order was served against him.

 

Council Tax protestor Ross Longhurst appeared at Nottingham Magistrates' Court on 8th. August.  He was charged with failing to make Council Tax payments to Nottingham City Council and a liability order was served against him.  Ross told the magistrates that he was refusing to pay up because the Council want more money for less services and they have been slashing services which hit vulnerable people such as the disabled, sick, old and children.

There were supporters with placards outside the Court and Ross told them that it was rich bankers who brought about the financial crisis but the Government which is forcing the rest of us to pay their debts.  Thousands of people in Nottingham and elsewhere are not paying Council Tax because they simply cannot afford it.  Many families have been reduced to needing handouts from food banks. Labour-controlled Nottingham City Council, like all other local councils across the country, have done nothing to resist the Coalition Government's austerity programme which hits the poorest people hardest.

People who can afford to pay Council Tax should withhold it in solidarity with those who cannot afford it.  Already non-payment is spreading throughout the country and if enough of us take action then it will create a financial crisis for local government as happened with the anti-poll tax campaign.  This could force a change of policy by the Coalition Government.

Information for people summonsed to court over council tax

http://falseeconomy.org.uk/blog/from-leeds-hands-off-our-homes-iinformation-for-people-summoned-to-court-ov

 

Thousands summoned at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court for council tax arrears

http://jus.shef.ac.uk/mawebdissertations2013/austerity-sheffield/thousands-summoned-at-sheffield-magistrates-court-for-council-tax-arrears/

 

Austerity Sheffield

https://www.facebook.com/austeritysheffield

 

Nottingham Anti-Bedroom Tax Demo at the Council House

http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/5810 [with video of the council debate]

 

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Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham.  UK

Email:                 tash@indymedia.org

Web:                   http://digitaljournalist.eu

Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]

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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.

                                   It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"

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Nottingham Green Festival + Vegan Festival

10-08-2013 12:55

The Nottingham Green Festival is confirmed for Sunday 1st September.

The event, now in its 22nd year, is independently organised by grass routes community based volunteers, with no statutory funding. The ethical standards and environmental / human / animal rights ethos of the event are long established, having evolved from the pre-history of the Nottm Peace Festival from which it has grown.

If you are able to run a fund-raiser, book a stall for your group or encourage others to do so, that might make all the difference in ensuring the success of Nottingham's own Green Festival, the place for the whole family to learn, explore and try the latest in everything environmentally friendly and ethical, whilst also having lots of fun in the beautiful setting of the Arboretum Park, Waverley Street / Addison Street, a couple of minutes from Nottingham's Old Market Square.

This event has over 100 product, information and food stalls, kids rides, workshops, alternative therapies and technologies, live performers, entertainments throughout the park, live music bands performing from the bandstand alongside Veggies Catering Campaign and the Vegan Festival within the Green Festival

Read more and find booking details at http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=500

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Nottingham Vegan Festival at Nottingham Green Festival

Vegan-friendly stall holders, businesses & groups invited to the Nottingham Vegan Festival at Nottingham Green Festival Sunday 1st September 2013 12noon to 6pm at Nottingham Arboretum

For 6 years, from 2005 - 2009, Veggies and other vegan campaigners helped organise the East Midlands' Vegan Festival which welcomed over 2000 members of the public each year to the Council House on Nottingham's Old Market Square.

Returning in 2013, the Vegan Festival team are very grateful to the Nottingham Green Festival for providing space to hold a Vegan Festival within the Green Festival.

We invite you to book your stall in the usual way then, contact Veggies to join the 'vegan village' space, together with Veggies Catering Campaign, in and around our marquee near the Bandstand.

We hope that adding the thousands that attend the many Vegan Festivals around the UK to the thousands that attend the Green Festival will make an event truly not to be missed.

If you are attending please contact us, so that we can publicise you at http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=500#veganfest

2011 Indymedia Report:
http://nottingham.indymedia.org.uk/articles/1797

2010 Indymedia Report:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/05/451957.html

2009 Indymedia Report:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/431606.html

2006 Indymedia Report:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/342186.html

2005 Indymedia Report:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/05/312039.html

 

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Gabriel Kuhn reviews The Anarchist Revelation

10-08-2013 11:06

Anarchist writer Gabriel Kuhn reviews The Anarchist Revelation by Paul Cudenec - from Alpine Anarchist Productions.

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Give Squatters a chance

10-08-2013 10:09

Introduced to the warmth of the squatting community by accident. I write on the merits of a sub culture that truly helps society and one that is in my opinion wronlgy misunderstood.

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The Arrest of Claudio Fonnesu

10-08-2013 07:45

Claudio Fonnesu
“They came with helicopters and real machine guns,” says Claudio.

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A Letter to Deep Green Resistance

09-08-2013 11:51

The following is the text of an open letter from a group of concern activists in the Earth First! network to be circulated at this weekends EF! Summer Gathering ( http://efgathering.weebly.com/). It is regarding Deep Green Resistance and asks people to examine DGR's hierarchical, transphobic and anti-anarchist positions of this organisation and its leaders Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith.