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Contributions sought for Art Not Oil 2010 Diary

12-04-2009 16:53

'Habitat Restoration' - Michelle Waters, from the Art Not Oil 2009 gallery
Hello,

Art Not Oil is making a 2010 desk diary, featuring some of the best work from across our galleries. (We've added the blurb again after this, in case you'd like to know more.)

We're working with Central Books to make sure it's on sale in all the UK's
key art-related bookshops, as well as via mail order to anyone across the
world.

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aint no Jade Goodie - just a brother from another mother

11-04-2009 20:30

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

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electrohippies: World Intellectual Privateers Day, April 26th 2009

08-04-2009 23:22

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.

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Boris cancels Rise Festival

08-04-2009 22:53

Boris Johston has cancelled the annual Rise Festival, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of Londoners every year.
 http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/johnson-under-fire-after-rise-festival-is-cancelled/20097324.

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Subvurt: Surveillance with The CCTV Caberet

08-04-2009 12:15

Tuesday April 14th 7pm at The Britons Protection (show starts 7.30)

A night of ace music, short films, comedy ranting and miscellaneous shenanigans about public space, civil liberties, the database state and more. Prepare to laugh, cry, sigh and get angry...

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OhMyGosh Graffiti / Spray Art Session Finished

06-04-2009 15:35

On Friday, Oxygen Thievez Graff artists finished off the details of their latest work, to repaint the wall at the side of the shop in Major Street, off the Mansfield Road.

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Defaced Banksy

06-04-2009 08:07

Banksy Mild Mild West
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'.

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League Against Cruel Sports

03-04-2009 12:29

London Group for LACS update

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G20 protests video shows perfect example of police tactics

02-04-2009 12:23

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.

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Students for a Free Tibet UK Publish Open Letter to G-20 Leaders

01-04-2009 10:56

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:

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(A) Book & Video Fair of Caracas

31-03-2009 23:42

* Call to the First Libertarian Print and Audiovisual Documentary Fair of Caracas. D O C U M E N T (a) November 2009.

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G20: Big Brother's 25th birthday today! I Kid You Not!

31-03-2009 23:12

Some ambiguity surrounds the exact date but it looks like today is as good a day as any 'bright cold day in April' to celebrate rotten brothers many years of intrusion and spying.

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Roger Scruton claims that as long as Poland exists, freedom exists

31-03-2009 23:09

Roger Scruton, British conservatove philosopher, claims that as long as Poland exists, freedom exists. But it seems that his concept of freedom is rather limited, for liberal-thinking people do not face freedom of speech in Poland.

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56a Infoshop: Nowtopia + Celebrate Peoples History event Sun 5th

31-03-2009 14:33

NOWTOPIA talk with Chris Carlsson
56a Infoshop in South London is presenting an afternoon this Sunday 5th April with Chris Carlsson, the author of NOWTOPIA giving an illustrated talk. We are also using the occasion to open our newest exhibition in the space: Celebrate Peoples History, a selection of the great poster series from the radical art collective Just Seeds.

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Yarrr Matey! 2 - Palestine benefit gig for ISM next Saturday night!

30-03-2009 12:27

Pirating for Palestine! A benefit gig for International Solidarity Movement will take place next Saturday 4th April 2009 from 9pm at the Wagon and Horses, Adderley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham.

Live funk, ska, dubstep, reggae, jungle, and breaks across two dancefloors, and films about the occupation of Palestine.

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Capitalist Incarnate: My interview with a vampire

29-03-2009 18:06

As we sat down across the narrow table from one another, I scrutinized him with the cautious enthusiasm of a scientist observing a lethal strain of bacteria under a microscope. I was face to face with a parasitic capitalist overlord. “Is his disease contagious?” I mused to myself

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callout to take out in the 'housing and autonomous spaces' bloc on 1 April

27-03-2009 14:26

Join the housing march @ G20 Meltdown
1st April (Financial Fools Day)
Meet at Cannon St. train station at 11AM and bring a pillow with you
 blackhorseG20@gmail.com

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Anatomy of a Wrongful Conviction; The Liz Tolbert Story

27-03-2009 04:43

Liz Tolbert with "Leo" a service dog she trained while in prison
Elizabeth "Liz" Tolbert of the United States is challenging her 14 year-old murder conviction in connection with the death of her husband, claiming that her lawyer didn't use evidence in her trial that pointed to her innocence.

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Gaza Aid Trip Success - Driver Mohamed El Haddad reports back

27-03-2009 01:31

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Lynn Breedlove/Trans Workshop/Queer Film Night/Vegan Kaffe

26-03-2009 23:10

Lynn Breedlove (queer feminist trans activist and lead yeller of punk band Tribe 8), brings her performance-lecture-activism workshop to Manchester on 28th March, followed by Queer Film Night presented by local LGBTQ groups and social media activists with Vegan Kaffe on 29th March. Everyone welcome, donations for food,
Yard Theatre show £5.