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New Anti- Fascist film trailer - 'No Pasaran'.
02-05-2013 15:24
New Riseup! Radio show
02-05-2013 14:55
Latest issue of Riseup! Radio available now!
http://www.mixcloud.com/RiseupRadio/24-dont-get-short-with-me/
https://archive.org/download/RiseupRadioMay2013Show/may%20show.mp3
We're having a go at going shorter but more regular - expect shows clocking in at under an hour every couple of weeks.
This show we talk to someone from Chiapas about what's going on in the Zapatista communities over there. We hear about the on going court case against a group of squatters in Germany. Doom brings us up to speed on the case of a Nottingham man who has been unjustly been put on remand for alleged "threatening behaviour" during a DWP interview. We also catch up with Eva at Nottingham Uni. to talk about the crossovers between activism and academia with a focus on animal rights and Veganism.
We also get a couple of poems from a local group called Persona Non Gratis
All this and a fresh tune from Gallery 47 and Metaphi's remix of the Animist tune Tin Head
Check http://riseupradio.wordpress.com/ for more shows
Nottingham
02-05-2013 14:55
On a walk into our city centre and back today, on a beautiful sunny day, I witnessed a couple of things I felt like I could not ignore. Neither could I act at the time. Why?
The first thing was that the Council Graffiti Teams were out in force battling "enviro-crime" (i) as street art has been branded. I witnessed them cleaning off a discreet stencil I have admired many times as I walked past it of a 'street angel' that was on the abandoned auction house on Mansfield Road.
This attitude of street art being criminalised regardless, without question, seems to be prevalent. In a recent conversation with a local spray artist it was revealed that many of the 'legal allocated' spots that street artists have previously been 'allowed' to use have been taken away. A little research revealed that this has been the case for a few years (ii). This spray artist told me about an occassion when he was innocently spraying an art piece on the side wall of the Sycamore Centre in St. Anns when John Collins suddenly emerged from some hobknobbing he had been doing inside and promptly told the young artist to "stop vandalising HIS property." Now there are a number of problems with this exchange. Firstly, community centres do not belong to John Collins, they belong to the city and therefore the people of Nottingham. Secondly this was one of the spaces that had previously been 'legal' to paint and now is not. How can they take away an artist's imperative to create like that?
The second thing I witnessed was an even more insidious atrocity. It may sound typical however it shook me deeply to witness it. The scene was a street beggar being harrassed by two CPOs (Community Support Officers.) Council cops. Plastic pigs. They had this poor women at the side of the very busy Clumber Street. They were photographing the piece of cardboard she had written a message on to communicate to passers by the need she was in. Is this our council's front line response to rising poverty? To police it?
At what point do we stand up and say enough is enough!? At what point do we stop 'taking orders'? How are we going to look after ourselves, our families, our friends, our communities against the rising poverty created by the onslaught of "austerity measures"?
I don't have these answers. None of us do right now. Thats why we need to start working together to build our communities to be strong enough and resilient enough to start working out some solutions.
(i) http://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=1709
(ii) http://puregraffiti.com/art/2010/03/legal-graffiti-banned-in-nottingham/
Thatcher memorial unveiled in Birmingham for International Workers Day
02-05-2013 10:07
May Day protestors target Edinburgh workfare exploiters
02-05-2013 00:55
May Day in Edinburgh saw anti workfare demonstrators touring companies and charities using unpaid forced labour. Starting with an excursion into the giant Homebase at St Leonards the protestors from Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty went on to visit no fewer than 7 exploiting employers.
First ever Bilderberg Fringe Festival to take place in Hertfordshire
02-05-2013 00:06
A group of concerned citizens are launching the first ever Bilderberg Fringe FestivalComprising talks, workshops, comedy and music on Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th June 2013
Alex Wood: UKIP Nazi caught on Facebook
01-05-2013 23:23
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2316924/UKIP-candidate-Alex-Wood-caught-camera-apparently-making-Nazi-salute.html
On Known and Unknown Self (dis) Organisation.
01-05-2013 21:47
Protest treated as anti-social behaviour
01-05-2013 19:00
Powers given to the police to deal with anti-social behaviour are increasingly being used to gather information on participants in political protest.
Section 50 of the Police Reform Act gives police the power to demand personal details, if the officer reasonably believes that the individual has been involved in anti-social behaviour. Over the years the police have interpreted a wide variety of protest activity as ‘anti-social behaviour’ in order to obtain the names and addresses of those taking part. This has included sit-down protests, handing out leaflets and spontaneous demonstrations.
MAY DAY CALL TO ACTION! Defend the Children’s Garden!
01-05-2013 18:55
The Children’s Garden is one of Glasgow’s oldest community gardens, set up some 12 years ago when a community group turned a patch of derelict ground into a thriving community space. Today they need your help.Hostile Takeover Of Yahoo By Wall St. Loansharks like Daniel Loeb And War Promot
01-05-2013 16:53
Wall St takeover of Yahoo in 2011 and 2012 has meant censorship,promotion of war, sensationalist tabloid journalism,
promotion of hunting and meat, a decline in free Yahoo email services Some on Yahoo groups are told
their group is 'invalid'. Some are unable to add
new contacts to their email lists. Phone support has declined. Email clients have been informed of a 25 minute wait.
Yahoo help online has also declined.
March For England Dismal Failure
01-05-2013 08:23
Apologies for late posting ...UG#632 - The War On Kids (The Youth Of Today's Toxic Legacy)
01-05-2013 03:12
Wrexham: Exhibition of Children's Art from Gaza
30-04-2013 19:55
Loss of Innocence
This is an exhibition of more than fifty pieces of children's artwork “some funny, some tragic, many beautiful” collected by Rod Cox during a visit to Gaza with the Aid Convoy early in 2009 in the wake of Operation Cast Lead, a sustained attack by Israel which, according to Red Crescent spokesperson Dr. Khalil Abu Foul, "did not just have 1500 killed, or 5000 wounded. It has traumatised the entire population, all 1.5 million." The exhibition is going to be in Wrexham for the next few weeks, starting with the Cathedral until 17 May.
Liverpool May Day March & Rally
30-04-2013 19:46
At Your Service (Tales from Community Service)
30-04-2013 17:32
Article written by contributor who is currently serving a 120 hour community payback order, in which they are required to do a program of unpaid work for the terrible "community"1. This Article forms the First part of a short series detailing different aspects and analysis of the community payback program, from thinking about the actions being performed and their implications to offering a kind of insight into what this shit is actually like. Please distribute to anyone you know who might be about to get sentenced to community payback.a nice blog article about the future of the camp
30-04-2013 16:55
Camcorder Guerilla film: A call to support the longest running peace camp in the world
30-04-2013 16:55
Visit Faslane Peace Camp
A brand new 10 minute film from Camcorder Guerrillas.
A call to support the longest running peace camp in the world.
Available now on vimeo
https://vimeo.com/65068433
