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NHS Campaign Victory + How to Opt-Out of "Care Data"

20-02-2014 07:27

NHS Care.data OPT-OUT form
Major victory for NHS anti-privatisation and anti-surveillance campaigners -

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Boycott Workfare Welfare Action Gathering

18-02-2014 11:25

BHF abuses the workless

Boycott Workfare’s welfare action gathering on Saturday was a massive success. 80 people from groups across the country came to participate in the day of workshops based around info and skill sharing on the various welfare issues we face. The programme was packed, with sessions on JSA, ESA, housing, fuel poverty, and more, with people remarking on the difficulty of deciding which workshop to attend when there were clashes. We organised the gathering because supporting claimants to know and enforce their so-called rights, and claimants organising together and shaping the campaign, has always been a major part of what we do. For this to happen effectively local mutual support groups are key (it was from a London Coalition Against Poverty group that Boycott Workfare came out of) – we’ve distributed thousands of ‘How to Avoid Workfare’ leaflets but along with these, we really need a buddy or a group of people when challenging Job Centre Plus. The gathering was called to support the growing number of local groups so that we can build on the impressive work of challenging workfare and sanctions across the country through mutual support and direct action, like the examples shared with us early on in the day of the occupation of the £3 million council house and a blockade of the workfare exploiters Salvation Army.

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ClevelandPolice False Arrests leads to more Forensics LIES

13-02-2014 15:35

23 arrests,one mans life,Lost entitlements,Data Abused,frauds in forensics.

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Bedroom tax decisions can be appealed

11-02-2014 19:44

An Upper Tribunal decision defines a bedroom as a room used as or furnished as sleeping accommodation. The decision provides for successful appeals.

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Dear council, a poem, from rent.

06-02-2014 19:27

Just a poem about rent, to councils , inspired by the up and coming MIPIM selling off land around Europe fair in March, in Cannes.
Details of which attached after the poem.

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Metropolitan Police lies "blown out of the water" + tips for #copsoffcampus

22-01-2014 00:46

After video footage emerged of a Metropolitan Police officer punching a student protestor on the 4th of Dec 2013, the "Our University Our Streets” demonstration takes place on Weds 22nd Jan 2014, at 1pm, outside the University of London Union, Malet Street, London... against the backdrop of malicious Metropolitan Police prosecutions being "blown out of the water" by photographic evidence, and of massive compensation pay-outs by the Met to victims of police violence.

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No NATO Newport planning meeting

20-01-2014 11:34

Monday 3rd February at 6pm

Da Vinci's Coffee Shop, 10 High Street, Newport, NP20 1FQ

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Metropolitan Police Crowd Control Barriers....

20-12-2013 07:26

Metropolitan Police Crowd Control Barriers
.... can be surprisingly useful :)

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For once, a huge police mobilisation didn’t beat students up! - #copsoffcampus

12-12-2013 22:25

As more than a thousand students and supporters marched through London yesterday, a massive police mobilisation shadowed and chased them without resorting to violence. As a result, the march remained fluid and peaceful. It would make sense that the next step is to stop wasting public money and deploy few or no police in future.

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ULU London - TV coverage takes #copsoffcampus message to hundreds of millions

11-12-2013 19:39

TV coverage takes #copsoffcampus / ULU London protest message to hundreds of millions of people -

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Counterfire's Firebox café goes arse-over-tip?!

10-12-2013 01:26

The last thing "progressive minds" needs is a "haven" - what progressive minds need is to communicate with the LARGEST AUDIENCE POSSIBLE

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Riot police assembling near ULU now (Friday evening)

06-12-2013 17:13

Text received from mates on the ground, 16:50 Fri 6 Dec 2013 - 10 riot vans plus 1 squad car lurking in Russell Square, another riot van hiding round the corner in Store Street, Senate House surrounded by security, police helicopter circling overhead. Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU. Nearest tubes Euston Sq, Goodge St and Russell Sq. Get down there quick!

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#copsoffcampus protest attacked by police, with yet another mass arrest

06-12-2013 01:21

In the latest of a series of mass arrests, (the data-mining and extra-judicial punishment tactic recently favoured by the Met), around 36 people were arrested at the student #copsoffcampus protest this afternoon. Almost all the arrests were for ‘breach of the peace’, and many are being released in the small hours from far-flung police stations in Bromley, Croydon and even Sutton.

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Day 1: Take Online Action Against The Workfare Conference Monday 2nd Decembe

01-12-2013 23:29

Online action announced, tell the workfare and sanction conference sponsors what you think #ERSA2013

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London protest at Npower over energy profits and fuel poverty

26-11-2013 23:09

As Ofgem release figures showing that the ‘Big 6’ energy companies’ profits soared last year to 4.3% (a rise of 2.8%), with the supplier profit per household nearly doubling to £53, a number of different campaign groups brought their protest to the HQ of Npower in the City today, blocking the road for an hour and attracting a media scrum.

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Public Meeting Newc 30 Nov: Organise to Appeal Against the Bedroom Tax!

20-11-2013 19:51

Newcastle City Council: acting UNLAWFULLY!
DWP: acting UNLAWFULLY!
Come to the meeting to plan action we can take against the council, DWP and the tribunals services to force them to hear all appeals and stop implementing the bedroom tax! Sat 30 November, 3pm, St Michael's Centre, 2 Raby St, Newcastle NE62AL.

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Final Stage in getting justice for child rape and unethical human medical trials

14-11-2013 03:02

Audio
document and recordings of a very painful and damaging process

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Cambridge Bedroom Tax Meeting.

12-11-2013 19:03

Speakers (l to r): John Marais, Daniel Zeichner, Dusty Miller, Liz Kitching.
On Friday November 8th about fifty people met at Arbury Community Centre in Cambridge to discuss the infamous Bedroom Tax.

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November 5th “Million Mask March” in London

09-11-2013 19:01

As part of the more than 400 reported Anon events globally, billed as a “million mask march”, thousands of protestors amassed outside Parliament and then marched through London, while a few hundred joined the ‘Coalition of Resistance’ for their staged civil disobedience on Westminster Bridge.

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Bonfire night with Anonymous in Cardiff

07-11-2013 15:35

Co-inciding with the Bonfire Night protest in London, and numerous demos and actions against austerity elsewhere, a protest called by Anonymous took to the streets of Cardiff on Tuesday night, ending in attempts to occupy the Senedd (Welsh assembly building).