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People Unite in Opposition to Scottish Coal's Open Cast Plans in Midlothian

22-08-2010 12:35

Yesterday around 185 people gathered in Cousland, Midlothian, to show their united opposition to Scottish Coal's plans to mine 2 million tonnes of coal from the 154-hectare site at Airfield Farm – the size of Edinburgh's old and new towns combined – just 500 metres from the village. Many villagers and their families came to the Village Hall and were met by 20 cyclists who cycled from Climate Camp in Gogar and a further 60 from the Climate Camp and beyond who came to show their support for the campaign.

"National" "newspaper" "report" on RBS invasion

22-08-2010 12:35

Report from the Scotsman about Friday's incursion into the RBS offices from the Climate camp. Most notable feature of the report is the constant use of "scare quotes" around the phrase "non-violent" in '"non-violent" protest', as if there were some controversy or doubt over such a statement.

Protest inside Brixton police station

22-08-2010 12:35

About 100 people demonstrated yesterday (21 August) afternoon in front of Brixton Police Station
to remember the death of Sean Rigg, who got arrested on 21 August in 2008 by police,
“restrained” and transported to Brixton police station in the back of a van. He was removed from the van in a collapsed state and died a short while after whilst in the station yard. He was 40 years old.

After the protest outside about 40 people entered the police station to protest inside.

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Brixton Police Station, remember Sean Rigg

22-08-2010 12:34

About 100 people demonstrated yesterday (21 August) afternoon in front of Brixton Police Station
to remember the death of Sean Rigg, who got arrested on 21 August in 2008 by police,
“restrained” and transported to Brixton police station in the back of a van. He was removed from the van in a collapsed state and died a short while after whilst in the station yard. He was 40 years old.

Speakers included many family members of victims of police brutality, including Sean Riggs
sisters. Protestors enrolled a giant list with the names of victims of police violance in
front of the station entrance.

Despite the obvious suspicious circumstances surrounding Sean’s death, the Independent Police
Complaints Commission's (IPCC) report completed in February 2010 with no results. Sean's family described the report as "heavily biased in favour of the police”. In a statement, the family's solicitor asked: "What happened to Sean in those crucial minutes between him being arrested and arriving in a collapsed state at Brixton police station? Why haven’t they been able to access key CCTV footage from the night?"

Speakers remembered the long history of police violence in London and also mentioned the death of Ian Tomlinson, who died during the G20 protest in 2009 after being beaten by police officers.

After the picket about 40 people tried to enter Brixton Police Station to talk to an offcial representative, but were denied access to the offices. They remained inside for about 15 minutes shouting "No Justice, no peace!" (video: http://london.indymedia.org/videos/5434 )

The protest was followed by a public meeting in the Karibu Eductaion Centre in Brixton in the evening.

more information about the case of Sean Rigg: http://seanriggjusticeandchange.com

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#513 - Producing Killers and Selling Wars (Why Any Mother's Son will Do)

22-08-2010 11:51

This week's show looks at the manipulation necessary to create wars from 3 different angles, the brainwashing of recruits, the political manipulation of public opinion, and tailoring of Hollywood's depiction of war.

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Workers' Fightback: Indianapolis and South Africa Wage Battles

22-08-2010 11:39

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Nottingham Carnival 2010

22-08-2010 11:34

Nottingham Caribbean Carnival 2010 was held on the Forest Recreation Ground on Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August. The highlight of the weekend was the big parade on Sunday which drew thousands of spectators.

Photos: Nottingham Carnival: The Big Parade | Nottingham Caribbean Carnival Parade | More from Caribbean Carnival | Caribbean Carnival, Nottingam: Forest Rec Ground

Videos Nottingham Carnival on Friar Lane | Nottingham Carnival on Friar Lane 2 | Nottingham Carnival on Alfreton Road

Previous coverage: Carnival 2010 | Carnival 2007: 1 | 2 | 3 | Carnival 2005: 1 | 2 | 3

The parade went from Friar Lane, just outside the Castle, down towards the Market Square. Making it's way along Beastmarket Hill and up Angel Row, before turning left up Mount Street, onto Maid Marian Way and then up Derby Road. From their it turned down onto Ilkeston Road, right on Highurst Road, up to Alfreton Road before turning right at Bentick Road to enter the Forest Recreation Ground.

The event was well attended and blessed by warm - if not massively sunny - weather. There were various colourful costumes including two huge puppets of cartoon characters Poeye and Olive Oil. The various floats were generally not decorated, but did carry large, and very loud, sounds systems.

At the Forest Rec, those involved in the parade queued to display their dance routine in front of the crowds. Others drifted off to explore the various stalls (which included a display from the "Army Information Team" clearly on the circuit, having also been at last week's Riverside Festival) or fairground rides.

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Tesco Keyworth planning timescales

22-08-2010 10:39

Tesco have recently submitted a planning application for a large store in Keyworth. The majority of villagers are opposed to this and an active resistance campaign has been mounted. Here is an update with deadlines for objections and a likely decision date.

The current owners of the brownfield site, builders/developers William Davis, still have planning permission for the 48 sheltered flats which would allow elderly residents to return to their community, which the villagers support. However William Davis can make more profit selling to Tesco. Tesco clearly have plenty of cash to throw at this proposal (so they obviously make loads from shoppers despite their claims to be cheap). For example, it is believed that they have offered three times the market value of an adjoining house so they can pull it down to use the land as part of their proposed car park.

One devious element to Tesco’s plans is to claim that this is a completely new type of store – no doubt in an attempt to negate objections based on comparisons with other sites or stores.

The consultation period for public comments on Tesco’s planning application officially ends on 13 September, but responses will continue to be accepted and noted for several weeks after this. Details are on Rushcliffe Borough Council’s planning website (see link) and the reference number is 10/01333/OUT.

The plans can also be examined at Keyworth Library, Keyworth Parish Council and the Civic Centre. Your comments can be directly e-mailed to RBC at   developmentcontrol@rushcliffe.gov.uk.

Rushcliffe Borough Council's Development Control Committee will meet to make the decision on the Tesco plan on Thursday 21 October at 7.00pm in the Civic Centre

The No Tesco In Keyworth group have not been idle and have prepared guidance and advice on how to object to the proposal.

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Bradford Bother

22-08-2010 09:06

Despite the ban on any EDL march in Bradford, those little rascals are still going to turn up.

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Bradford EDL organiser revealed. Stop the EDL in Bradford!

21-08-2010 23:58

The English Defence League are the racist football thugs that by now everyone has heard of. They have attacked mosques, put pigs heads on mosques, attacked Muslims women & pulled off their hijabs. They have smashed up shops, cars, homes & rampaged through Luton, Bolton, Stoke, Dudley, Aylesbury, causing trouble. They now plan to riot in Bradford in Yorkshire on the 28th August.

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The hole that cost a mint

21-08-2010 20:23

he hole that cost a mint, six month review. As a responsible citizen and commentator your correspondent felt compelled today to visit the recently opened "Temporary Bradford Urban Garden" [1] - link to hoarding pic using this name] which we last reported on in February [2], when plans were about to be unveiled for the opening up of the space.

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Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2010

21-08-2010 20:22

Welcome to the 2010 Bristol Anarchist Bookfair !
Saturday 11 September, from 10.30am to 6pm
At Hamilton House, 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol BS1 3QY (fully accessible via ramp & lifts)

At the bookfair we offer you: 48 tables of stalls over 2 floors, 28 separate meetings/workshops/films spread over 4 rooms (including a Bristol Indymedia room and a Radical History Zone), a kids space, and an all day vegan cafe. All are welcome - come along and find out more, just step inside the door!

This year’s Bristol Bookfair will take place in the midst of the most serious ongoing crisis of capitalism for 80 years, against a background of drastic austerity measures (cuts, unemployment, tax rises, wage freezes, inflation) and worsening environmental mayhem. The class war waged against us by the ruling class has come up with an old trick, the coalition governent, this time of the self-serving LibDems and our class enemies the Tory toffs. Their Big Society is nothing but a Big Con, as they seek to roll back a publicly accountable state (well a bit accountable!) and replace it with a privately run corporately controlled one. Behind their PR bullshit of respect, sustainability and freedom lurks the iron fist of authoritarian capitalism making our lives subservient to their profits, our choices dictated to us by them. They tell us we must all share the pain of this crisis, we hope this bookfair will play its part in ensuring that they do indeed share some of our pain.

The aim of the bookfair is to provide a wide range of anarchist and radical literature, ideas, history, debate, theory, meetings, workshops and films, and merchandise. The event will provide a serious taster of anarchist ideas & practices to those people new to such ideas and looking for an alternative to the way things are, but do not have to be. The bookfair also acts as a get together for existing anarchists & radicals - to debate, discuss, network, plot and plan, and of course socailise!

This event will provide you with all the tools you need to join the fightback against the LibDemCon coalition. The future is unwritten, it is not set in stone, it depends on what we do in the present.

On our website at http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org you will find full details of the stalls and meetings at the bookfair, along with other events. We will also upload the full programme to the Bristol Indymedia site as soon as its available. Feel free to download and circulate publicity and info from the website.

Solidarity, love and rage!
Bristol anarchist bookfair collective xxx

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Mass insanity:“War on Terrorism” propaganda ratcheted up ahead of war escalation

21-08-2010 18:13

Exemplified by the furor over the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” in New York, and rumors of a new Al-Qaeda “mastermind”, 9/11 “war on terrorism” propaganda has been ramped up to deafening levels by various political factions. Nearly a decade since Bush/Cheney’s 9/11 false flag deception, a fearful, self-destructive American mass public remains fully brainwashed by “war on terrorism” deception--- ignorant of history, and militantly oblivious to facts.

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Right Wing Extremist Spies on Climate Campers with British Army Equipment

21-08-2010 17:24

There appears to have been a deadly serious game of cat and mouse going on between environmental activists, a local Scottish journalist, and the right wing extremist who has been threatening violence against the Camp for Climate Action in Edinburgh.
Boasting that he is a professional soldier recently returned from fighting in Afghanistan where he says he killed Muslims for reading Islamic literature, and now posting his threats on Twitter under the name “wearethebritish” the extremist claims to have been using British Army military surveillance equipment to spy on the climate campers.

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Antiwar Forum Attacks.. The 504 Gateway Timeout

21-08-2010 16:49

A number of antiwar forums have been experiencing 504 Gateway attacks.
Are they from government intelligence, corporate, war profiteer or other sources?

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Is Federal Abuse of Power Enslaving American People

21-08-2010 16:02

Given the massive size of our National Debt, the recent unexpected rise in unemployment, the fact that we are constantly in a state of war, legislators on both sides of the aisle cannot seem to tighten their collective belts and our government cannot accept its role as the protector of our Constitutional rights, are we becoming a “slave state?”

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Burial of Nuke Waste in Cumbria

21-08-2010 15:30

A West Cumbrian Councillor has proposed that Allerdale should withdraw from the dodgy process designed to force Cumbria into "geological disposal" of nuclear waste.
The new government like the last is desperate to have been seen to have solved the problem of nuclear waste - to pave the way for new nuclear build.

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Israel will attack Iran: Will Israel attack Iran?!

21-08-2010 09:44

Over the past five years, Iran has been recurrently under the threat of an imminent war which the mainstream media have overwhelmingly talked of; a war against Tehran to overthrow the Islamic Republic and bring to power a "democratic" regime which the "international community" favors. The psychological warfare machinery is being activated again as each newspaper and website represents one arsenal. Jeffrey Goldberg is taking steps to become the Judith Miller of war against Iran and the world once again watches the funny advertisement of human rights by those who are terrifically massacring "humans" in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan, getting prepared for a new bloodshed in Iran.

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Nazi Boxing Fundraiser at the Circus Tavern Essex!

21-08-2010 08:22

Following their planned "Fumble For The Fatherland" bout in February at the Caesars Nightclub venue at Streatham in South London, the neo-Nazis of the EDL are planning a boxing fundraiser on Saturday the 4th of September at 7PM at the "world famous" Circus Tavern in Purfleet, Essex.

The sport of proud Muslim legends Muhammad Ali and Amir Khan is being hijacked by EDL's Essex organisers to raise the profile of the violent fascist organisation, and will happen just days after they destroy Bradford with their self-styled "World War III" in Bradford the previous weekend.

Advertised by EDL Facebook admins as an official EDL Fight Night, starting at 7pm, a EDL's boxing poster-boy from Luton will be tainting the non-racist sport of boxing with vitreolic violent Ismamophobia, the crowd to include some of the countries most objectionabe racist football hooligans including convicted knife thug Jeff Marsh who stabbed Manchester United fans for fun (who runs the Casuals United blog), and they have already sold 100 tickets, and expect to have several hundred far right thugs in the audience.

Like most fascist organisations, the EDL is run as a business, and tickets are retailing at £32 each, with the EDL taking a sizeable cut of ticket sales:

http://www.defenceleagueclothing.com/index.php/english-defence-league-edl/edl-fight-night-boxing-ticket.html

Hosted by the hard man, former drug dealer and notorious East End criminal (and born again Christian) who calls himself Boxing's Pirate Promoter Alan Mortlock, a regular at hosting unlicenced fights at London venues, this evening of racism and boxing will be accompanied by the EDL's version of Skrewdriver "Alex And The Bandits", and Luton boxer will be entering the ring displaying EDL logo shorts and flags for the contest.

From Bolton to Sheffield, Cardiff to Brixton, boxing gyms all across the country pride themselves in offering sports and fitness training to young people from under priviledged backgrounds. Go in any inner city gym, and you will see black, Asian and white kids training together with mutual respect and admiration. The ethos of equal competition is one sadly lacking in most other sports, and for that reason, boxing is part of the government's sports development strategy to coincide with the forthcoming 2012 London Olympics.

Despite the EDL's recent setbacks, organised racism and religious hatred is steadily increasing year-in, year-out with the spirit of fervent Islamophobia fostered by politicians, state institutions and the scaremongering tabloid media who worryingly have turned their attentions from hooked-handed foreign bogeymen to British Muslims (the "enemy within"), to shore-up public support for the War On Terror and silence critics of an extremely unpopular and bloody Afgan war with casualties on all sides.

It is the misguided belief fostered by the rightwing newspaper industry and black ops foreign office "leaks" (the whole of the Taliban have Brummie accents) that has created the environment for a resurgence of the British far right exploited by violent neo-Nazi groups such as the EDL.

Egotist and publicity whore of the EDL Trevor Kelway sees mileage in turning media attentions from race riots to ringside aggression, himself, Jeff Marsh and the rest of the EDL leadership viewing openly-fascist boxing matches as a both a moneymaking opportunity and a cynical PR exercise, a chance to appeal to a wider fan base who might not otherwise warm to their hardcore Hitler loving British Freedom Fighters or the EDL's violently destructive racial football hooliganism.

Whilst potential boxing starlets of tomorrow fritter away hopes of fame and fortune through mutual association with English fascism, sweating tears of endurance as lackeys for an Islamophobic masterplan, spare a thought for Alan Lake and the EDL's other weathly far right backers who will be sipping extravagantly on champage on ice, playing millionairre war games with people's minds while the cancer of organised racism takes a foothold within the grassroots sporting world.

Since the defeat in the rematch of Max Schmeling by Joe Louis (Schmeling himself refusing to join the Nazi party or sack his American Jewish manager, and hiding two Jewish boys in his apartment during the Kristallnacht pogrom), with the rise of Jewish, black and Asian ring fighters, boxing has had an estranged relationship with fascism, and may seem like an unlikely target for the EDL.

Since the New Millenium, the Lonsdale boxing brand became momentarily popular with the European far right in the Netherlands, Belgium, northern France and Germany, especially because a carefully placed outer jacket leaves the letters NSDA showing; an acronym of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiter (National Socialist German Worker), and one letter short of NSDAP, the German acronym for the Nazi Party, however the boxing world has generally embraced non-white people and immigrants (including Muslims) into its gymnasiums, alongside the white working class.

One thing's for sure, the undeniable patriotism and steadfast patriotism of Amir Khan who dedicated his victories after 7/7 to the victims of Islamic terror, will be affronted by the poisonous bile and misdeeds of the EDL, who, despite claims of being "only against religious extremism", regularly create disorder, race hatred and chaos in the city centres of England, Wales and Scotland with straight-armed Hitler salutes, banners calling for the banning of mosques, incessant racist chanting, and behind the scenes, plotting deadly large-scale race riots.

During recent invasions into British cities masked paramilitary followers of this violent anti-Islamic far right gang have physically and verbally attacked innocent (non-extremist) Muslims in the street, vandalised Islamic gravestones, and threatened Muslim taxi drivers with death, (hardly the behaviour of a genuine anti-religious extremist group).

Whatever are one's personal thoughts regarding boxing, with the Olympics approaching, it is important that anti-fascists everywhere show our massed opposition to hate-peddling British fascist bootboys infiltrating the underground sporting world.

Prize Ring Boxing can be located at www.myspace.com/prizeringboxing

The Circus Tavern, Purfleet, Essex: Address: Mead Corner, London Road, Purfleet, Essex, RM19 1TS
Phone: 01708 864 001

(Please be polite at all times)

The Circus Tavern was revealed earlier this year as employing Combat 18 bouncers Big Jacko and Wilf the beast Browning.

Please contact the venue, the Circus Tavern, and Prize Ring Boxing, to stop this shameful fascist boxing fundraiser from going ahead.

No Pasaran!

London Antifascists

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