15-05-2008 23:11
programme of workshops. If this new movement for climate action has a
chance of winning, we are going to need knowledge, skills and the space to
forge a future where people and the environment come before profit.
Invitation For Workshop Offers At the Camp For Climate Action 2008
The Camp for Climate Action is back. And we are planning a jam packedprogramme of workshops. If this new movement for climate action has a
chance of winning, we are going to need knowledge, skills and the space to
forge a future where people and the environment come before profit.
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14-05-2008 17:40
Intl Day Against Homophobia-May 17 (Events Incl Medway,Kent)
The 2008 IDAHO-UK calender has been announced. Events across the UK and around the world.[Full Story ]
09-05-2008 13:47
Reclaim the Campus conference
A one day conference for student activists to discuss the way forward for building a campaigning student movement.[Full Story ]
26-04-2008 18:20
Draft agenda for Reclaim the Campus conference - please circulate and comment
Education Not for Sale, University of Sussex SU, LSE SU and other activists are working together to organise a conference on 17 May. 40 years after 1968, what way forward for radical student activism?[Full Story ]
13-04-2008 12:23
Where next for the student movement? Reclaim the Campus conference, LSE, 17 May
After the defeat of the National Union of Students' leadership's anti-democratic "governance review", left student activists are holding a conference at the London School of Economics on 17 May to discuss the way forward for building a campaigning student movement.[Full Story ]
12-04-2008 15:54
Teaching King Lear in occupied Palestine
When a Brighton deelgation visited a remote school in the Jordan Valley, occupied palestine, one of them found themself teaching King Lear to a class of students, but who learnt the most?[Full Story | 2 comments ]
12-04-2008 15:45
Education and resistance in occupied Palestine
In many areas of the West Bank Palestinians are prevented from constructing, improving or repairing any buildings - this can be homes, schools, clinics or animal shelters. In Al Jiftlik and Fasayil the local people have resisted draconian laws and demolition orders, and built their own schools.[Full Story ]
06-04-2008 16:32
Reclaim NUS! Reclaim the campus!
Following the defeat of the NUS bureaucracy's anti-democratic Governance Review, which would have consolidated the conversion of NUS from a union into a bureaucratic NGO/lobbying organisation, Education Not for Sale and other activists have called a conference at LSE on 17 May in order to discuss how we can reclaim our unions, our education and our society.[Full Story ]
03-03-2008 18:36
Mass Action: Refuse to Pay
A mass climate action is taking place on Sunday 20th April in London. People will board trains into central London, refusing to pay the high prices. There will be a convergence in the central London terminals at around 1pm. The action aims to highlight how the current public transport prices are unaffordable and must be radically lowered if we are to get people out of their carbon intensive cars.[Full Story | 1 addition | 1 comment ]
03-01-2008 14:56
V3 Power ran a course at the Earthship in November 2007 where 10 members of the public spent two days constructing a 2.4m Hugh Piggott wind turbine.
Wind turbine construction course at Brighton Earthship
V3 Power ran a course at the Earthship in November 2007 where 10 members of the public spent two days constructing a 2.4m Hugh Piggott wind turbine.
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05-12-2007 20:23
Meeting to discuss NUS democracy and way forward for the student left - Sunday
A meeting open to all left student activists to discuss the way forward.[Full Story ]
04-12-2007 15:44
On Sunday 25th November, four Sussex University students travelled south to Paris to meet with the University students in Paris and to express their solidarity with those students occupying their Universities in the fight against the CPE laws and the threat of privatisation of their University education.
Sussex students visit Occupied Paris Universities
On Sunday 25th November, four Sussex University students travelled south to Paris to meet with the University students in Paris and to express their solidarity with those students occupying their Universities in the fight against the CPE laws and the threat of privatisation of their University education.
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02-12-2007 11:48
Porkbolter exposes school plans
THE LATEST issue of The Porkbolter has launched the Worthing newsletter into its second decade of south coast dirt-digging and rabble-rousing.[Full Story ]
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07-11-2007 22:33
Eyewitness report: French students occupy as workers clash with government
See the link for an eyewitness report of the ongoing French student and worker actions, from an Education Not for Sale supporter in Paris.[Full Story ]
01-11-2007 15:03
Campaign for NUS democracy - launch meeting, London, 4 November
The Blairite leadership of the National Union of Students are seeking to launch a series of major attacks on NUS democracy - to rule out future student revolts radicalising NUS, and make the student movement safe for Brown. Please come to the meeting on 4 November to launch a campaign against these changes, and for a democratic, fighting NUS.[Full Story ]
22-08-2007 12:08
11th hour - movie references obscure
The new USA "save the world" movie "11th hour", with all its celeb backing, seems almost to obscure the things it tries to explain, but include "blindspots" - or "logic jumps" - that have the - perhaps unintentional - effect of distracting the people watching it from - in these days of "subprimedebtboombustcrashes" is as hard to miss as a Flood.[Full Story | 1 comment ]
30-07-2007 14:11
The British Youth Council are calling on the UK government to denounce human rights abuses in Poland by marching at Brighton Pride on August the 4th, 2007.
Stop Homophobia in Poland campaign to march at Brighton Pride
The British Youth Council are calling on the UK government to denounce human rights abuses in Poland by marching at Brighton Pride on August the 4th, 2007.
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26-04-2007 21:33
Yesterday, (25th April) the evicted houseboat – ‘Shalom’ Family of seven, from Wales, called on banking giant HBOS PLC at their AGM which was being held at the Brighton Dome. A simple message, asking for ‘help’, was conveyed to the Crest Nicholson ‘major shareholder’, and a letter of petition was received by bank staff.
HBOS Plc AGM Brighton - Evicted Family Petition Executive Directors For Help
Yesterday, (25th April) the evicted houseboat – ‘Shalom’ Family of seven, from Wales, called on banking giant HBOS PLC at their AGM which was being held at the Brighton Dome. A simple message, asking for ‘help’, was conveyed to the Crest Nicholson ‘major shareholder’, and a letter of petition was received by bank staff. [Full Story | 1 comment ]
11-04-2007 00:15
News alert:
Nuke Free State Established at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment
Getting the tension right - fingering out the knitting
News alert: Nuke Free State Established at Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment
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