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Bookaya.Wikidot.com - The Online Book Project

03-09-2009 22:58

Bookaya.Wikidot.com - the first Online Book Project in the Internet is accomplished:
where many different users can become creative in an online community.

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Who is afraid of facebook?

03-09-2009 16:16

Twitter user in Iran
It becomes obvious why Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and many other politically active sites were up made available until the “ election show”.

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Bristol anarchist bookfair - programme now online

29-08-2009 23:22

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The programme for the 2009 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is now available in print, and online. With 35 tables filled by some 30 local and national groups/networks/distributors, 17 workshops/meetings/debates, plus films and an all day cafe, you'll find something for everyone at the bookfair, including you!

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Anti-fascist documentary "uno di noi" now online

25-08-2009 13:07

In December 2008, we created an anti-fascist mural in Bochum, to commemorate those seven anti-fascist from different european countries, who had been killed by neo-nazis during the last years.

After we photographed the whole process of production, we brought those and several other materials together and made a documentary of it, about the mural and the background of the seven murdered antifas.

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Bath Vegan Fayre 2009

22-08-2009 15:43

Bath Vegan Fayre returns this year with another day of free food and information surrounding veganism for local residents.

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Elizabeth 'Rocker' Robillard MP for Kensington and Chelsea?

19-08-2009 21:43

The Conservative Party in 'safe' Kensington and Chelsea (London, England ) seat possbily seriously challenged by a notorious disabled, anarchic, atheist actress...Elizabeth Robillard

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The Tree House Gallery has landed in Regent''s Park!

18-08-2009 09:00

Spherical Reading Gallery
The TreeHouse Gallery is a collaborative project that is taking root in London's Regents Park throughout July and August, re-imagining one of the great outdoor public spaces of the city. The site, situated on the banks of the Boating Lake, will form an array of tree-top structures that will act as a catalyst to ignite the collective imagination, encouraging adults and children alike to explore a variety of creative responses to nature.

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Artivism on Mill Road!

17-08-2009 16:03

Cheerfully resistng!
Last Saturday (15/8/200) from midday about fifty people not only picketed but turned into an art installation the area in front of the proposed Tescos store on Mill Road, Cambridge.

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Mark Thomas: It’s the Economy Stupid

16-08-2009 08:51

MULE’s Michael Pooler caught up with activist comedian Mark Thomas during a visit to Manchester and Salford, which took in visits to Hazel Blears’ house and the Deansgate tax office. Right now the tireless campaigner is asking for an invasion of tax-haven Jersey and the nationalisation of Tesco…

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Provocation on the Plinth

14-08-2009 20:21

Photo credit: Arts Council England/Kevin Clifford
PROVOCATION: WHEELCHAIR-USER IN NAZI UNIFORM ON THE PLINTH

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project

Artist and activist Liz Crow sat on the plinth in a crowded Saturday night Square on her wheelchair wearing full Nazi regalia to draw attention to a hidden history and the message it holds for us all today.

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Folk Against Fascism launched at Sidmouth Folk Fest

13-08-2009 20:32

Folk Against Fascism has been created to take a stand against the BNP’s targeting of folk music, a stand against the appropriation of our culture.

The UK folk scene is a welcoming and inclusive one; folk music and dance have always been about collaboration, participation, communication and respect. The British National Party’s manifesto encourages its members to insinuate themselves into the folk and traditional customs of Britain. This involves the appropriation of British folk music and culture as a means of spreading its peculiar brand of racism and intolerance.

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Camden police have banned reggae music and events by Black artists from Camden

13-08-2009 20:25

Camden police have banned reggae music played by Black selectors / MCs / DJs in Camden Town venues. Camden's [if not London's] best known reggae venue was closed after the police blamed the reggae nights for causing drug dealing. The police have since gone around Camden Town venues warning managers and proprietors that they will be shut down if they allow reggae nights in Camden Town.

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Cambridge Festival of Ideas

13-08-2009 13:12

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The next Cambridge Festival of Ideas will take place from 21 October to 1 November 2009, with over 140 free events in arts, humanities and social sciences

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Yes-Men entertain, then anger audience

12-08-2009 16:50

The simulataneous screening of the new Yes Men film yesterday first entertain, then disappointed in a big way.

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1905

12-08-2009 00:54

... for the empire was important to Britain in other, less material ways too.

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Crunch: The Game for Utter Bankers

11-08-2009 10:17

Who do we blame for the economic crisis? The answer for TerrorBull Games is in the system itself. Few commentators cared to mention 30 years of rampant free market had genetically engineered today’s risk-taking, bonus-guzzling banker.

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Radical Jewish Website Launched - Jewdas.org

10-08-2009 21:59

The UK based radical Jewish group Jewdas have launched a new website with the hopes of it being a hub for critical and comical cosmopolitan minded Jews and gentiles alike.

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Free West Papua - Demonstration - Friday 14th August London

09-08-2009 21:46

The Free West Papua Campaign announce…
14th August 2009 – DAY OF THE BROKEN PROMISE
Demonstration at the Dutch and Indonesian Embassies

LONDON: Friday 14th August 2009
Starting at 13.00 outside the Netherlands Embassy, 38 Hyde Park Gate, London, SW7 5DP

To mark the 47th anniversary of the signing of the New York Agreement in which all Papuans were promised the right to participate in an act of self-determination we invite you to a demonstration at the Dutch and Indonesian embassies. We will be demanding that the governments of the Netherlands and Indonesia put right the broken promise they made to the people of West Papua.

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No Mill Road Tesco Protest

08-08-2009 15:06

Campaigners and residents met for a protest outside the proposed Tesco site on Mill Road, Cambridge. People from different backgrounds were in attendance from local people to animal rights activists to anti-capitalists, all with one message Mill Road is no place for a Tesco!

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Anti-Capitalist Choir Hits Cambridge's Consumerist Temples

01-08-2009 23:15

Video of 'Buy Less, Sing More' Choir – Saturday 1st August 2009