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13-12-2005 14:00

What's happening with Howard Mallet Centre?

Cafe Afrika closed down, Star FM moved out and Dawe Media Ltd took advantage of a break clause in their lease. So it is now empty apart from the groups using the gym. Ownership has now reverted to the County Council. The County Council have stated firm intentions to sign a 125 year lease to Citylife on 23rd of December. Citylife want to knock down the building and build a social enterprise incubator.

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26-11-2005 23:22

Cambridge Critical 5

The Cambridge Critical Mass was a little short on bodies once again. Five people braved the weather met up at the usual spot.

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21-11-2005 18:13

The future of the Howard Mallet Centre?

A growing and diverse group of Cambridge people are starting to put together a proposal to make use of the (very nearly empty) Howard Mallet Centre.

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31-10-2005 01:55

Wild Thyme photos

Photos from Wild Thyme

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23-10-2005 15:42

Cambridge Critical Mass

Some Cambridge Critical Mass dudes are off to London!

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23-10-2005 03:20

Thoreau's Civil Disobedience

I recently had the good fortune to read Henry David Thoreau's essay "Civil Disobedience". I did not realise it when I first started reading but this essay has a most remarkable history. Tolstoy, Gandhi and Martin Luther King have all read and been influenced by it. Emma Goldman, the American anarchist, was arrested for reading Thoreau's essay from a public platform in 1917.

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17-09-2005 22:10

Norwich Greens release website road movie

Norwich Green Party has released a short “road movie” on its website. Called “Let the bad dream fade”, the movie explores the impact that the NDR road and associated Council plans for Norwich to be a “Growth point” for housing developments.

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11-08-2005 16:38

Cambridge Critical Mass 26/08/2005

Regular 'last friday of the month' critical masses are starting with a meetup on the 26th August 2005.

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10-08-2005 17:09

Boatyard Campaign on Front Foot

The campaign for the Castle Mill Boatyard in Jericho is in high spirits today as it moves into the positive phase after a plan to build luxury homes on the site was rejected despite an appeal by the developers.

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04-08-2005 11:41

Cambridge Social Centre!

An embedded report to come sometime soon, in the meantime here's my personal 'Letter to our Neighbours'...

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31-07-2005 12:55

Earth First! summer gathering 17-21 August 2005

A national gathering to inspire and train all those opposed to the destruction of our planet

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28-07-2005 20:12

Norwich Greens challenge plans for a fried and polluting Norwich economy

Green County councillors are to raise urgent concerns at Monday's cabinet meeting that the Norfolk County Council are planning to make Norwich a new "superheated" economic growth point without proper without public consultation.

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24-07-2005 23:46

Cambridge Critical Massed

The first Cambridge Critical Mass for a while and about thirty people, twenty nine bikes and a unicycle gather on Midsummer Common on a slightly gray and wet Saturday afternoon. While the mass gathers balloons are inflated, flags attached to bikes and Respect newspapers ignored.

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22-07-2005 10:01

Street Art ~ Radio show today (Fri) 2-3pm

Resonance fm 104.4FM - Small Slow Peasants Show

Broadcasting Live to london on FM @ 2-3pm
+ the world via the web (  http://www.resonancefm.com)

Todays theme is 'Street art' with interviews from melbourne, NYC, and London.

What is street art ~ graffiti, sticker art, political posters, busking and street perfomance, urban reclaimation blogging the freeways and more!

For more info go to www.slowsmallpeasants.org.uk

www.resonancefm.com

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15-05-2005 17:28

Anarchist Masquerade Ball!

A posh fundraiser for the mobilisation against the G8 summit.
Saturday June 4th, 12-9 pm
Cambridge (in the Green Area, Strawberry Fair)

Dancing, Music, Info-shop, Speakers, Frivolity
Bring masks, ball-gowns, jackets, costumes, friends

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19-04-2005 12:45

Another Attack on Zanon Occupied Factory

For the second time in a month, right-wing hit squads have attacked the wife of a worker at the Zanon occupied factory in Neuquen, Argentina. The original attack is detailed at:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2005/03/306564.html

Original Spanish text, bad translation follows:

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06-04-2005 14:15

Festival of Dissent Press Release

Festival of Dissent Press Release
Tuesday, 05 April 2005

Anti-G8 Festival of Dissent! 6th-10th April 2005

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06-04-2005 14:12

The Walks: Council approves building cafe on children's playground

The local council has recommended approval of their own planning application, in breach of local planning zones. Will the national government intervene? We hope so.

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13-03-2005 13:48

we need urgently DV tapes to film what its happening in Parliament Square today

we need urgently DV tapes to film what its happening in Parliament Square today

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19-01-2005 01:13

A report from the Cottenham traveler community

A group of activist from the Cambridge Action Network alarmed by the overt racism of some local newspaper articles and websites, decided to visit the traveler community outside Cottenham, Cambridgeshire. Eleven settlements there are under the direct threat of eviction: people are going to be kicked off their land by bailiffs, driven to the county borders, and their homes will be trashed. Unless we do something to prevent it...

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