Obama's UK-fest : Vision of a war without end
It was quite a week for America's Nobel Peace Laureate President. After a speech to AIPAC, there was the major, pre-UK arrival "interview" with the BBC's political commentator, Andrew Marr. Less an interview, in fact than a breathlessly adoring audience. As the U.S., and British body bags returned from Afghanistan continue to mount, the BBC's audience learned that troop levels had been: "plussed up" and that: "the Taliban is now back on its heels." The occasional minor glitch of entire prisons inmates escaping, U.S., bases under attack, supply convoys routinely incinerated in industrial numbers (he didn't put it quite like that) had been because the U.S., had been: "distracted by the war in Iraq."
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After the Royal Wedding - next years Queens Jubilee
This is an independent proposal for a networked and autonomous series of groups who just organise events locally and publicise them in one place (possibly Ian Bones blog).[Full Story | 11 comments ]
cyber kettles and network analysis
In the world of police intelligence analysis the use of the social sciences of network analysis has been digitalised with powerful software such as i2 Analyst Notebook.This is not a promotional article for this software. You can't afford to buy it.But you should know how it works.
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European Anarchist Currents - Cowley Book Talks
Cowley Books presents two talks in May by Gabriel Kuhn on 'Gustav Landauer & Early German Anarchism' and by David Berry on Daniel Guerin entitled '"Workers of the World Embrace!" Homophobia in the French Extreme Left.'[Full Story ]
NUS elections: interview with left-wing candidate Mark Bergfeld
Ahead of the National Union of Students elections in April 2011, we publish here an interview with the left-wing candidate Mark Bergfeld, as well as two short replies by students involved in education campaigns.“I doubt Bergfeld has the strategy to win”, says Patrick Rolfe, Really Open University
“Let’s critically support Mark”, says Jess Bradley, Students for Sensible Drug Policy
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Penny for the Guy Ropes
They came, they camped, they conquered (well, almost). During a soul-searching Dorset retreat, Climate Camp have decided to suspend tent-centred activism - citing the “radically different political landscape” of 2011. Having been through Drax, Kingsnorth, Heathrow, RBS, Copenhagen and one helluva lot of hummus, the group are now turning their attention to coordination with the wider anti-cuts and anti-austerity movement.
On the Newswire: Statement | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
In SchNEWS: 736 | 696 | 689 | 642 | 641 | 600 | 558
Links: www.climatecamp.org.uk/2011-statement
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Past is Present: Settler Colonialism in Palestine
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often described as unique andexceptional with little resemblance to other historical or ongoing
colonial conflicts. Yet, for Zionism, like other settler colonial
projects such as the British colonization of Ireland or European
settlement of North America, South Africa or Australia, the imperative
is to control the land and its resources -- and to displace the
original inhabitants.
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Preparing for anti-cuts protests on 26th of March – a personal rallying call
I'm an individual. I belong to and represent no organisation. I have no authority and don't want it. This is just commentary, suggestion, a discussion starter. I'm an individual who has been to many protests and have often been left questioning their effectiveness. We need effective protest right now and that's what this is about. It is also about taking things further than the TUC will want to take things in March.[Full Story | 5 comments ]
Network X Gathering
A call out for a gathering for a network to fight the cuts and beyond. to bring together existing networks and provide the platform for the way forward.
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UG#523 - Ivan Illich & The Collapse of Power
This week we take a look at that enigmatic modern prophet, Ivan Illich. His writings covered a wide range of areas, from health to technology to economics to church history and way beyond. Robert Hutchinson will give a quick biographical sketch and introduce some of his radical strands of thought, before we focus on a single major prophesy, the sudden collapse of social power, its revelation as a fiction. We link this to the confidence based backing of centralised currency and hear from Marshall Rosenberg, George Draffan and others on related fictions which people internalise as a response to hierarchy.
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EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marches - what can we learn?
Lessons for the movement:The Poll Tax Riots and 4 weeks of actions – EDL, Brighton, the Crude Awakening, Anti-cuts marche. How can we learn and move forward.
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Clive Bloom at Cowley
Clive Bloom talks about the updated edition of 'Violent London'
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To the anarchists ...
This was originally posted on Bristol Indymedia at this address
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/693475 I wrote this as part of the bristol anarchist/squatter movement. We seem to have a lot of energy and mobilisation going on at the moment over various issues/campaigns. So as austerity has arrived I've become confused about why on earth we've been so distant from the workers' movements. I wrote this as an appeal to people to get stuck in to local anti-cuts campaigns. It's opened up some very interesting debates online and in person, and has seen some interesting (and for me at least, positive) developments at meetings and in campaigning. I didn't write this to tear us apart - just to suggest ways we could improve our 'service'. I know very little of campaigns outside of the southwest so this may be of absolutely no relevance to you. I'm sure it will be relevant to some though, and I'd like to share my thoughts with people nationwide. I've edited it to bring in some stuff I wrote after publishing.
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A new film on the 2005 London bombings: "Seeds of Deconstruction"
The July 7th Truth Campaign is happy to recommend to anyone interested in the events of 7/7 is one that updates and expands greatly on the information presented in Ludicrous Diversion, and also helps place the events of 7/7 in a wider historical and political context.
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What Goes Up...
As the mainstream media spins it's wheels on the issue of the economy, few even consider the possibility that it's the entire economic system itself that is the problem.[Full Story | 2 comments ]
How Ready For Revolution Are You? Take This Test...
What with all the hype in the news about movements to change this and movements to change that, global activisits this and global activists that, negative press here and in fighting there, I thought I'd knock up this questionnairre type thing, so we can figure out just what the fuck we're doing in this movement (the alternative globalisation movement, i mean...)[Full Story | 5 comments ]
Media disinformation regarding Israel's murderous assault - The role of the BBC
More newsspeak from the BBC, that having spent years helping to demonize (democratically elected) Hamas, is clearly worried that Israel’s actions threaten to undo all the ‘good work’ the BBC has done on behalf of it patron, Israel.
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Brian Haw - 9 (nine) years in London's Parliament Square!
Today the peace campaign initiated in June 2001 by Brian Haw reaches nine years. Here is a selction of photos through the years of the campaign.
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Whose evidence? Which citizens? (Final Version with Additions)
Whose evidence? Which citizens?: A view on the votes for Israel’s inclusion in the OECD(Final version with important additions. Apologies for bombarding the wire!)
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Anti election subvert in Bristol
The cross in the box should provide a clue...
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