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09-10-2012 21:24
Days before the anti-austerity protest was due to begin West Midlands TUC announced it would change the start time to an earlier time and change the assembly point from the High Street to Victoria Square. To counter this act of self sabotage Birmingham NUT and Birmingham Against the Cuts stock to the original plan and formed an education feeder march.
Tory Conference Demo
Days before the anti-austerity protest was due to begin West Midlands TUC announced it would change the start time to an earlier time and change the assembly point from the High Street to Victoria Square. To counter this act of self sabotage Birmingham NUT and Birmingham Against the Cuts stock to the original plan and formed an education feeder march.
09-10-2012 16:42
Sacked Remploy workers are going to demonstrate outside the Tory Party Conference from 8:30am on Wednesday over the closure of 36 Remploy factories with compulsory redundancy for 1,752 people of whom 1,518 of these are disabled.
8:30am
ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Accessibility information: Demonstration will be held outside. I’m afraid I don’t know how long it is expected to go on for. There is level access to the demonstration area in Centenary Square, and accessible toilets within 500 meters in Paradise Forum and Brindley Place restaurants/bars.
New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Train Stations are all around the same distance from the ICC and have level access. Five Ways train station is slightly closer but does not have level access.
Remploy Demonstration At Tory Party Conference – 8:30am Wednesday
Sacked Remploy workers are going to demonstrate outside the Tory Party Conference from 8:30am on Wednesday over the closure of 36 Remploy factories with compulsory redundancy for 1,752 people of whom 1,518 of these are disabled. 8:30am
ICC, Broad Street, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Accessibility information: Demonstration will be held outside. I’m afraid I don’t know how long it is expected to go on for. There is level access to the demonstration area in Centenary Square, and accessible toilets within 500 meters in Paradise Forum and Brindley Place restaurants/bars.
New Street, Moor Street and Snow Hill Train Stations are all around the same distance from the ICC and have level access. Five Ways train station is slightly closer but does not have level access.
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08-10-2012 18:31
More than a hundred angry protesters dressed as badgers shouted abuse at senior Tories as they entered the conference. The demonstration was a protest against the new badger cull recently introduced by the government. It was also against plans to repeal the ban on fox hunting.
Badger Cull Tory Conference
More than a hundred angry protesters dressed as badgers shouted abuse at senior Tories as they entered the conference. The demonstration was a protest against the new badger cull recently introduced by the government. It was also against plans to repeal the ban on fox hunting.
08-10-2012 17:50
A hundred people from all across Birmingham and beyond, students, trade unionists and community groups all chanting loud and clear homophobia and bigotry are not welcome in Birmingham.
Picket the Bigots - Tory Party Conference
A hundred people from all across Birmingham and beyond, students, trade unionists and community groups all chanting loud and clear homophobia and bigotry are not welcome in Birmingham.
07-10-2012 07:35
Ballymurphy Massacre Vigil
5pm Mon 8th October
Meet at Hall of Memory Centenary Square Broad Street B1 2EP
Lobby Tory Conference re Ballymurphy Massacre
Lobby Tory Party ConferenceBallymurphy Massacre Vigil
5pm Mon 8th October
Meet at Hall of Memory Centenary Square Broad Street B1 2EP
06-10-2012 17:06
last night Turkish warplanes bombed areas of Kurdistan
http://www.kurdistantv.net/Default1.aspx?page=articles_slide_show&c=slideshow&id=94235
Turkish warplanes struck around midnight against several areas in the Kurdish Iraqi area,
Turkish jets bombers targets Kurdistan region in North of Iraq
last night Turkish warplanes bombed areas of Kurdistan http://www.kurdistantv.net/Default1.aspx?page=articles_slide_show&c=slideshow&id=94235 Turkish warplanes struck around midnight against several areas in the Kurdish Iraqi area,
02-10-2012 17:57
Coventry Peace House seeks new members
Coventry Peace House currently has space for new members.
02-10-2012 06:45
In South Africa, miners fight on, in the face of the bourgeois bullets
The three thousand rock drillers of the Lomnin mine in Marikana, South Africa, with their indefinite wildcat strike for an increase in wages, have written, with their blood and courage, a new glorious page in the proletarian class struggle.
01-10-2012 12:00
Assemble: 11am, High Street
March from 11:30am to St Marks Open Space (postcode B1 2PJ)
Welcome The Tories To Birmingham
On Sunday 7th October we’ll be welcoming the Tories to Birmingham for their annual conference, with a TUC organised demonstration marching through the town centre to a rally at St Marks Place:Assemble: 11am, High Street
March from 11:30am to St Marks Open Space (postcode B1 2PJ)
30-09-2012 13:57
EDL Die In Walsall!
The English Defence League held a poorly attended demo at the weekend in Walsall, were outnumbered by anti-fascists and subject to the virulent attentions of West Midland Plod. For those who can’t be bothered here is a summary from an EDL members’ point of view: ‘got up, got pissed, got to Walsall, got mouthy, got battered, got to grow up.’ The deluded fuck-bugles really thought that they would fare better than previous visits to the Midlands and were yet again proved wrong!
28-09-2012 15:34
We are very busy at the moment making plans against the imminent cull. We thought that it might be helpful to activists to make the following points re sustainability and welfare in the field.
War declared on badgers by DEFRA in Gloucestershire, action points/wish list
We are very busy at the moment making plans against the imminent cull. We thought that it might be helpful to activists to make the following points re sustainability and welfare in the field.
28-09-2012 14:46
Badger Cull Campaigners to Target Conservative Party Conference
Photo opportunity: Anti badger cull protest outside the conservative party conference, Sunday 7th October at 12 noon, Outside the International Convention Centre, Birmingham
Badger Cull Campaigners to Target Conservative Party Conference
For immediate release: 28/9/2012Badger Cull Campaigners to Target Conservative Party Conference
Photo opportunity: Anti badger cull protest outside the conservative party conference, Sunday 7th October at 12 noon, Outside the International Convention Centre, Birmingham
27-09-2012 19:09
Oppose the EDL in Walsall
Saturday 29th September meet in central Walsall at 11am
27-09-2012 18:52
Picket the Bigots
Picket the Bigots protest from 12.30 on Monday 8th October in Victoria Square outside the Campaign for Marriage rally in Birmingham Town Hall.
21-09-2012 18:27
Tomorrow's Stop G8 planning meeting - details
Stop G* is a network set up to oppose the G8 summit which is taking place in the UK in 2013
19-09-2012 08:24
Birmingham Council House
Public Meeting No Private Profits From Policing !
7pm on Thursday 27th SeptemberBirmingham Council House
17-09-2012 12:01
Police Violence at 15 Sept Lisbon, PT Demos
about inadmissible police violence at the Lisbon 15 Sept anti-austerity demos.
17-09-2012 10:42
BBC Investigates a Planning Decision of National Importance
The 8th LAON Press release explains why the BBC's Counrtyfile Programme is investigation a Planning Decision which has national implications if it is not altered. The press release gives details of the campains that have been launched to both overturn the decision by means of a judicial review and how to sign a petition to prevent similar applications from succeeding. This decision, if upheld, means that the applications to opencast in other areas of England are more likely to succeed.
10-09-2012 10:13
A report released today by the Birmingham Tenants & Homeless Action Group, who recently made the headlines by occupying an abandoned council owned property[1], exposes the hundreds of empty properties the council are leaving empty, while thousands sit on waiting lists for homes. The report publishes a list and interactive map[2] of all 607 empty houses that are owned by Birmingham City Council. The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information request.
Report exposes the hundreds of homes the council are leaving empty
A report released today by the Birmingham Tenants & Homeless Action Group, who recently made the headlines by occupying an abandoned council owned property[1], exposes the hundreds of empty properties the council are leaving empty, while thousands sit on waiting lists for homes. The report publishes a list and interactive map[2] of all 607 empty houses that are owned by Birmingham City Council. The list was obtained through a Freedom of Information request.