World Culture Newswire Archive

Around 1200 cyclists, mainly naked, rode through the centre of London on Saturday in a protest against oil dependency, celebrating bicycles and the human body and expressing the vulnerability of cyclists. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

Yesterday the 8th LGBTIQ (lesbiangaytransintersexualqueer) pride took place with around 500 people in zagreb, the capital of croatia.
The pride this year was for two reasons something special. On the one hand the stonewall riots have their 40th anniversary in 2009. On the other hand it was first time this year that a legal "anti-pride" demonstration was announced by variouse small croatian fascist and nationalist groups and parties.

For 5000 years Stonehenge has been a gathering place for celebration and recognition of the passing seasons.
On the night of the solstice we get a rare opportunity to gather, celebrate and dance inside of the stone circle -

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A new free to download donation based record label "Free Activist Records" has just been launched. Our first release will be a 20 track compilation to raise awareness of Sean Kirtley anarchist AR prisoner.

I was on the pedal power bike rush on Monday.
As we circled parliament square like most I thought the hunger strike was by a Tamil.
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/06/431535.html
It seems not to be.
Amazing, an Englishman on strike for my people.

all the details:  http://southwalesanarchists.org/bookfair

If you google " http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&num=100&q=%22infringement+information%22+site%3Abaytsp.com&btnG=Search" you can see where anti-pirate mafia company BayTSP send warnings to people they believe downloaded illegal files. Anyone can click their web form to agree a legally binding contract on behalf of the alleged perp. But that is illegal. You can type anything, say anything. Just be careful what you click re: 'Compliance Statement'.

On 23rd May Cardiff will have its first anarchist bookfair in Cathays Community Centre . We invite all Indymedia users/readers to come along and bring your friends!  http://southwalesanarchists.org/bookfair/

The Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective is pleased to announce the date and venue for this years event: Saturday 12 September 2009, at The Island, Silver Street, Bristol BS1 2PY, with a provisional time of 10.30am to 7pm.

As part of traditional Mayday actions, artist and writer Alana Jelinek made a series of poetic art interventions across various sites in London and one in Cambridge starting at 7am on Friday May 1st.

Full Unemployment Cinema present: Free Film Screening - Chop Shop
Sunday 17th MAY - 3pm
56a Infoshop
56 Crampton St
London
SE17 3AE

This interview with mrs Noemi Letizia (18) has sparkled mr Berlusconi's wife reaction and her decision to divorce.

Last night's Mayday street party, organised by the Spacehijackers, saw around 300 people dancing till darkness outside the Bank of England.

cinemaPalestino is a season of films exploring issues that effect us all falling in love, making a home, caring for a family, freedom- but under the shadow of a military occupation that distorts all aspects of daily life for the Palestinian people. cinemaPalestino is a celebration of Palestinian culture through drama and documentary film - despite 60 years of unimaginable oppression, Palestinians have retained a vital, creative and powerful identity. Join us in our celebrations!

* Every Thursday in May and the first Thursday in June

* All Sheffield PSC profits will got to children's projects in Gaza.

CONFUSIN’ MY MIND – IT’S A SIGN OF THE TIMES
Is life all just a game – has the world gone insane?
Some folks think i’m mad cause i refuse to be sad
I refuse to accapt that this life is a lie...
I refuse to accept that this life is just a lie
That children don’t matter – ain’t there no family ties?
United we stand and divided we fall
We must all stand together – no more backs to the wall

the electrohippies are calling upon people around the globe to celebrate World Intellectual Privateers Day on April 26th 2009. In a concerted action across the Internet, we call upon people to select a piece of information or other creative work which should be in the public domain, but which is chained by the rules of intellectual privateering rights (IPRs), and to re-appropriate it for the people of the world to share in common by publishing it as widely as possible on-line.

In the early hours of this morning, Banksy's 'Mild Mild West' on Stokes Croft in Bristol (UK) was repainted by a member of Appropriate Media, presenting an alternative version of this 'alternative Bristol landmark'.

This video report form Al-Jazeera is a great and objective piece, makes a nice change from the other news sources. Perfect example of the police tactics all day yesterday.

LONDON - Students for a Free Tibet UK have published an open letter to world leaders attending the G20 Summit in London on April 2nd, asking 'What is the exchange rate between Chinese Yuan and Tibetan lives?' The letter, framed in economic language, seeks to highlight the fact that trade itself funds state oppression, resulting in the Chinese regime's 'extraordinary growth in human rights abuses' and states directly to world leaders: 'The choice is yours; the G20 summit is an opportunity to invest in a portfolio of Chinese human rights abuses. It is also an opportunity to seek an ethical alternative. People of conscience, the world over, are asking you to put human rights before trade.'

"There is another crisis, aside from global economics, which the world expects the Chinese government to take action on, and that is the human rights crisis in Tibet." said Terry Bettger, spokesperson for Students for a Free Tibet UK, "Despite de facto martial law existing in the region Tibetans continue to strive to call for their rights and justice. World leaders must listen to this cry for help and press Hu Jintao to allow an independent investigation into Tibet to monitor the human rights situation immediately."

Tibetans and supporters will be protesting against Hu Jintao's during his visit to the G-20 Summit, demanding that action is taken towards a peaceful solution for the Tibetan people.

The full text of the open letter is as follows: