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Dutch squatters take island

23-07-2015 21:22 | Ecology | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | World

An island in the Amstel river south of Amsterdam has been squatted recently.

UG#710 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control-3 (The Simple Model of Singapore)

We have another program in our series on the failing culture of control. Last time we looked at the development of nuclear technology as a result of competition between nation states, this time we look instead at the 21st development of social technology to divide and conquer the world's population. Faced with the organized efforts to misdirect their altruistic impulses of the public at large by terrorizing them and implanting false beliefs, 3 speakers voice their iconoclastic and unwavering dissent.

Curo Housing and the 1% rent cut.

George Osborne’s budget cut to social housing rents of 1% a year for the next four years is set to throw organisations such as the Curo Housing Group into their biggest financial crisis.

The announcement caught Curo Housing by surprise. Just last year the government had committed to it increasing its rents based on CPI plus 1% a year for the next decade.

SPORT ARE DENTISTS - EDL IN SHEFFIELD #antifa @misscheeky666 @edlnews @slatedl

The regurgitated dregs of Britain's far right "foot soldiers" slithered embarrassingly into Sheffield leaving a trail of slime, used beer cans everywhere, misspelt banners of hate and sweat-encrusted t-shirts announcing their unwelcome presence. Wasting their train fares for a mindless piss-up, the flotsam and jetsam of middle-age angst meandered aimlessly from pillar to post, chanting moronic racial epithets against people with darker skins.

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Tower Hamlets - the Commissioners are being steamed up!

Tower Hamlets Council is not in the news at present.
Could it be that the Commissioners sent in by former Local Govt Minister (Secretary of State, Department for Communities and Local Government) Eric Pickles have sorted out the “rotten borough”?

EDL RADICALISING LITTLE TODDLERS: #edl #antifa @edlnews @misscheeky666 @slatedl

Frightening evidence has emerged that EDL parents are dressing up their children in far right merchandise. Little girls as young as three are being kitted out in clothing complete with fascist political messages designed to groom little kiddies into full-blown neo-nazi hatred which will be with them for life. Bringing up kids with the immorality of racism is totally and utterly unforgiveable. EDL parents are immoral to the extreme.

EDL NAZI THUG ALAN SPENCE CALLS HATE CRIMES GOOD NEWS @edlnews @misscheeky666 #a

The NorthEast Division of the EDL (AKA Alan Spence), has openly come out in support of racist hate crimes on Twitter. Once upon a time, divisional Twitter accounts would have kept their mouths shut as a PR exercise, but now, Tommy Robinson long gone, they openly laud violent Islamophobic hate crimes, proud of supporting criminal hate. This is vile beyond words....

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Tower Hamlets voided votes - who is 'winning'? So far, corruption heads the news

Thursday's scheduled re-election of the 2014 Tower Hamlets Exec Mayor Poll is already hitting the
news in predictable manner. Already 16 allegations are under reported investigation by the Police.
But will any of these alleged offences lead to any root and branch change? Will Tower Hamlets
ever become a decently run democratic Borough? Signs today are that we may have to wait for years before that happens

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B&NES Council, Curo Housing & the missing secure tenancy agreements

Following investigations by the ICO B&NES Council claims it passed the paper copies of 13000 secure tenancy agreements to Curo Housing (formerly Somer Community Housing Trust) which Curo Housing denies ever having received.

On that basis the ICO states it cannot make a decision on which organisation is to blame for this loss as there is a lack of evidence to prove one way or the other ie: its the word of a senior B&NES Council Officer against the word of a senior Curo Housing manager !

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Anti "Austerity" Demo in Cambridge.

Last Saturday (May 30th) about 200 local residents marched through the streets of Cambridge united in one goal: an end to "Austerity" politics.

UG#708 - Facing The Failing Culture of Control - 1 (Drugs, Addiction and Health)

We look at a culture obsessed with control, focusing this episode on the level of the individual. Charles Eisenstein briefly contrasts the old story of isolated individuals in competition with the emerging story of ourselves as parts of a larger self. Then we hear Tomi Gomory, co-author of "Mad Science: Psychiatric Coercion, Diagnosis, and Drugs" on the increasing efforts made to control and categorize people by classifying them as "mentally ill". After some thoughts from Ivan Illich on iatrogenesis, we hear Rebecca Tiger, author of "Judging Addicts", on how the public perception of addiction has been managed as part of the "War on Drugs".U

Liz Kendall vs Tower Hamlets - It is Rabina's Canvassers at the doors

In two weeks time, the embattled Council in Tower Hamlets may have a new occupant in the post of Executive Mayor

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The Fuck Parade Strikes Back! - Reclaim Camden, Reclaim the Beats

Stand up to gentrification!

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Magna Carta - Festival For Democracy

Runnymede Eco Village community in Surrey are holding a festival in the name of democracy in close proximation to the planned 800th year Magna Carta national celebrations, which Queen Elizabeth will attend.

The event , which has been named the Festival For Democracy, is co-organised with New Putney Debates and Occupy Democracy. It will host talks and debates on the issues of democracy, land rights and other rights relating to Magna Carta, with a variety of workshops throughout the day to be followed by poetry and music.

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CURO Housing - Asbestos contaminated tenanted housing stock.

"There are many properties with asbestos that are not logged...I would hesitate to tell tenants about known asbestos..." (email from B&NES Council Housing Department to Curo Housing Chief Executive 2nd November 1999 5.00pm)

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Philippine President Aquino no longer deserves any support from workers and trad

11-05-2015 12:04 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

THE workers and the trade unions throughout the world mark today the International Labor Day – 125th anniversary globally and 112th celebration here in the Philippines. This historic and revered day has been an enduring and stirring symbol for the working class despite serious setbacks caused by multipronged and systematic neoliberal attacks against the workers, the masses and their organizations, which have seriously threatened to dilute if not totally wipe out the hard-fought sociopolitical gains achieved by the labor movement in the past hundred years or so.

PHILIPPINES: Young progressives take the helm of Akbayan party leadership

09-05-2015 13:30 | Analysis | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements | World

Akbayan once again proves that progressive politics cuts across generations. With great pride, Akbayan members elected a significant number of young progressive activists to the Party Leadership at the recently concluded 6th Regular National Congress last 23-25th of April.

Tower Hamlets - Water Lily Mile End Road E1 BBC John Ware 'escapes' accusers

BBC Panorama presenter John Ware escaped with minor bruising - to his self respect after he was abruptly verbally attacked by a group which charged him with being a UKIP

Indonesia - The time for being polite is over !

30-04-2015 04:44 | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Amid corruption allegations and political posturing, Indonesia has executed the Bali Nine pair and six others. In our reaction, we do not need to hold back for fear of being seen as arrogant westerners.

Anarchist flags raised in Liverpool by LOVE

29-04-2015 17:41 | Free Spaces | Social Struggles | Liverpool | World

Anarchist flags have again been raised in Liverpool as a group called LOVE take direct action to highlight the reality of austerity for the poorest and most vulnerable working class people in our city. The former Bank of England building in Castle Street has been occupied by various people, numbering fifty or so at any one time, including homeless and hungry people who have come together to form a community, a temporary and maybe not so temporary community of resistance.

World Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Dutch squatters take island

UG#710 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control-3 (The Simple Model of Singapore)

Curo Housing and the 1% rent cut.

SPORT ARE DENTISTS - EDL IN SHEFFIELD #antifa @misscheeky666 @edlnews @slatedl

Tower Hamlets - the Commissioners are being steamed up!

EDL RADICALISING LITTLE TODDLERS: #edl #antifa @edlnews @misscheeky666 @slatedl

EDL NAZI THUG ALAN SPENCE CALLS HATE CRIMES GOOD NEWS @edlnews @misscheeky666 #a

Tower Hamlets voided votes - who is 'winning'? So far, corruption heads the news

B&NES Council, Curo Housing & the missing secure tenancy agreements

Anti "Austerity" Demo in Cambridge.

UG#708 - Facing The Failing Culture of Control - 1 (Drugs, Addiction and Health)

Liz Kendall vs Tower Hamlets - It is Rabina's Canvassers at the doors

The Fuck Parade Strikes Back! - Reclaim Camden, Reclaim the Beats

Magna Carta - Festival For Democracy

CURO Housing - Asbestos contaminated tenanted housing stock.

Philippine President Aquino no longer deserves any support from workers and trad

PHILIPPINES: Young progressives take the helm of Akbayan party leadership

Tower Hamlets - Water Lily Mile End Road E1 BBC John Ware 'escapes' accusers

Indonesia - The time for being polite is over !

Anarchist flags raised in Liverpool by LOVE

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