UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Mayweather Sets Fire to Capitalism
22-11-2011 00:21
An American fighter (Floyd Mayweather) caused trouble by burning up a 100 dollar note in Atlanta (USA). Compared to the "occupy" movement this act has more direct clout against capitalism than any one of his right crosses or left hooks.New Rising Tide International Political Statement
21-11-2011 20:48
Just in time for the 17th UNFCC Conference of the Parties (COP17) in Durban, the international Rising Tide network is putting out an updated version of the Rising Tide Political Statement. This defines our view on a wide range of issues to do with climate change, and is what binds the network together. This statement has been agreed and signed by all Rising Tide groups around the world.We Are 0%
21-11-2011 19:14
The concept of 99% turned itself into the mass of tended-to-be-represented folks not different from former 100%-ers represented in “we are all humans” system - usually named as bourgeois democracy.We are outside from 100% of statistics based paneconomism which is deeply racist at its core.
We’re against oppression by plutocratic 1%-ers or that established by manipulative majority.
We are unmanageable multitude of selforganised zeros.
http://antisystemic.org/SW/SituationistWorker-0%25.pdf
Scathing Attack on Library Cuts from Former Head of Libraries
21-11-2011 17:38
John Dolan, the former head of Birmingham Libraries, attacked the council’s library cuts programme in a open letter published in the Birmingham Post.Egypt today
21-11-2011 00:58
As the military dictatorship tries to consolidate power and people continue to be horrificly tortured to death in detention (eg Essam Atta), large numbers reconverge on Tahrir Square and are violently attacked by the security forces
25th Nov John Holloway talks in Brighton
20-11-2011 17:52
John is also talking the day before up at the University of Sussex.
That talk is entitled 'Rage Against the Rule of Money'
http://www.sussexstudent.com/events/index.php?page=event&event_id=662443
Open Letter to a Chancellor (U$A)
20-11-2011 16:57
For all it's problems, at least the Occupy is bringing out the contradictions inherent in repression of peaceful protest .. and I guess that's good.
Context -
http://www.salon.com/2011/11/20/the_roots_of_the_uc_davis_pepper_spraying/singleton/
Press Release/Statement: The Reality of Occupy Brighton
20-11-2011 16:20
The following statement recieved consensus at two General Assemblies and was warmly recieved at OLSX (St. Paul's). Please forward to media working group and all press contacts.New Human-rights group for Sussex
20-11-2011 15:31
OUR ELECTED REPRESENTATIVES DON'T ACT IN OUR INTERESTSCOUNCILS AND OTHER AUTHORITIES
ARE A LAW UNTO THEMSELVES,
Greece: Demonstrations for the Nov 17 uprising in Athens - photos
19-11-2011 19:49
from:
http://www.babylonia.gr/
George Bush & Tony Blair's trial: Sparks fly at Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
19-11-2011 14:11
But before the actual proceedings could get underway, Defense Counsel Team Leader Jason Kay Kit Leon charged one of the Judges with bias. Prosecutors characterized the allegation of bias and request for recusal as a "surprise" attack for which the Court had not had the opportunity to prepare.
NCAFC Conference 10-11 December
18-11-2011 23:12
National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts conference
Time: 10 December at 11:30 - 11 December at 16:00
Location Birmingham (venue tbc)
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180710782016143
Slowly slowly falling apart any illusion of democracy or the real face of civil justice
18-11-2011 22:49
Slowly slowly falling apart any illusion of democracyor
the real face of civil justice.
National Day of Action – 23 Nov – Defend Education, Fight Privatisation!
18-11-2011 22:46
Location: Your college, your school, your university
Following the national demonstration in London on 9 November, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is organising a national Day of Action on 23 November to keep the movement mobilised and step up the pressure.
UG#576 - Is 5000 Years Enough? (Debt, Morality & Fiat Currency)
18-11-2011 18:06
UG#577 - Money = Debt = War (The Rothschild Formula and The Myth of Barter)
18-11-2011 18:02
N30 List of Pickets, Demonstrations and Rallies
18-11-2011 14:09
Monsanto, Bayer and Dow face trial for 'systematic human rights abuses'
18-11-2011 13:01
Permanent Peoples' Tribunal accuses biotech giants Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, Syngenta, DuPont and BASF of promoting dangerous pesticides including endosulfan, paraquat and neonicotinoids.
Occupy London ‘repossesses’ multi-million pound bank offices
18-11-2011 13:01
- New ‘Bank of Ideas’ open to public this Saturday. Offices and meeting rooms will be available for those that have lost their nurseries, community centres and youth clubs due to savage Government spending cuts
Occupy London has taken over a huge abandoned office block in the borough of Hackney belonging to the investment bank UBS in a move it describes as a ‘public repossession.’ [1]
Overnight on Thursday, a dozen activists from the Occupy London, campaigners for social and economic justice as part of the global fight for real democracy, gained access to the building and secured it, giving them a legal claim on the space.