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Pro-Nazi, Pro-Rape, Pro-Pedo Music in London

14-06-2011 21:52

On 25 June and 1 Oct 2011, London's Slimelight nightspot plan to stage concerts by musicians with links to Fascism, Nazism and violent anti-Feminism

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Kingsley Burrell - March for Justice - 2nd July 2011

14-06-2011 21:45

Campaigning for Justice 4 Kingsley Burrell, and in unity with Justice 4 Smiley Culture.
2nd July: March for Justice In Birmingham. We can make this as big as the march in London. It will be a peaceful March

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Fear of Freedom:collectivist bill of rights reducing NZers to dependency.

14-06-2011 19:45

Australia could be landed with a dependent NZ if we become part of Australia. In my view, we will be like 'an anchor their your neck'. Our collectivist bill of rights, Australia is also seriously considering a bill of rights, is reducing the population to a state of dependency. I consider, if we join with Australia it should be a matter of mutual choice and not out of our desperation by our being reduced to 'third world status' and the 'begging bowl'. But I do think God is defending New Zealand so the people can have a choice.

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J30 – A Strike Means Nobody And Nothing Works

14-06-2011 18:55

J30 - A STRIKE MEANS NOBODY AND NOTHING WORKS

On June 30th up to 1 million workers across the country will be walking out on strike. In Nottingham members of the PCS, ATL, NUT and UCU (further education) will be co-ordinating their walkouts to make the day as effective as possible. In other parts of the country some council workers in Unison and Unite are balloting for action and RMT tube workers are striking.

Nationally the AF has issued a statement on the day:

http://www.afed.org.uk/blog/workplace/238-anarchist-federation-statement-on-the-june-30th-strikes.html

 

ORGANISING

Locally we will be building for the day. Here are some ideas of what we think people should be doing locally to help build and strengthen the strike:

  • Strengthening the strike pickets as much as possible. Everyone should support these by going to their nearest picket. This means not just workers in that sector but everyone who is affected by the cuts- other workers, school students, FE and HE students, pensioners, the unemployed
  • Refusing to cross picket lines
  • Joining the strike even if you are not a paid up member of a union
  • Organising meetings in the workplaces in the run up to June 30th to get maximum support for the strike
  • School students and further education students ( where they are still at school because many terms will be ending) should turn out to support teachers and lecturers and organise their own actions
  • Most university students will have finished their academic year. However, where possible they should support the strike pickets and demonstrations where they can
  • The widest possible solidarity has to be reached between teaching staff and support staff. In all sectors, whether education, the civil service or transport the greatest involvement of those not "officially" on strike
  • Encourage those who feel they cannot take part in supporting the strike including workers in other sectors to phone in sick on the day
  • On June 30th delegations from picket lines to visit other workplaces to encourage solidarity action. The organisation of local marches and assemblies where possible
  • Publicise the strike in the local communities to make the day effective, help bring them onboard, explain your positions and what you have in common.
  • Collect funds to help pay strike pay and funds for actions
  • Occupy! The occupation has always been a part of the armoury of the working class as much as the strike. Strike everywhere! Occupy everything!


PLANS

Plans for the day as they stand are, bear in mind these are approximate and liable to be updated as time goes on:

Early: Join a picket! (When we have details on picket lines people can join we'll stick them up here)

11.00 - 12.30: March from waste ground next to BBC into town

12:30 - 13:30: Assembly/rally and meeting in theMarket Square

13.30 - 15.00: Meeting at the Albert Hall with speakers to be announced

facebook event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=226141437413542

 

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Indian, Iran, Cuba have banned cow slaughter,and 8 other animal rights stories

14-06-2011 18:45

Netherlands... expected to ban slaughter without anesthesia or stunning
Korean activists protest fur show
S Africa village stones monkey to death
etc

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Babar Ahmad Police Trial: A Verdict Based on Fear, not Fact?

14-06-2011 18:35

They say a week is a long time in politics. How about almost eight years, and counting, in the criminal “justice” system, with no end in sight. For Babar Ahmad, last Friday (3 June) saw the end of the trial of four police officers accused of assaulting him.

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FBI to Expand Domestic Surveillance Powers as Details Emerge of Its Spy Campaign Targeting Activists

14-06-2011 18:15

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Civil liberties advocates are raising alarm over news the FBI is giving agents more leeway to conduct domestic surveillance. According to the New York Times, new guidelines will allow FBI agents to investigate people and organizations "proactively" without firm evidence for suspecting criminal activity. We speak to former FBI agent Mike German, who now works at the American Civil Liberties Union, and Texas activist Scott Crow, who has been the focus of intense FBI surveillance from 2001 until at least 2008. Using the Freedom of Information Act, Crow received 440 pages of heavily redacted documents revealing the FBI had set up a video camera outside his house, traced the license plates of cars parked in front of his home, recorded the arrival and departure of his guests, and observed gatherings that Crow attended at bookstores and cafes. The agency also tracked Crow’s emails and phone conversations and picked through his trash to identify his bank and mortgage companies. “It’s been definitely traumatizing at different points,” says Crow. “But if we don’t come out and be open about this, then they’ve already won, and the surveillance and the ‘war on terror’ wins against us.”

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Palestine Today 06 14 2011

14-06-2011 14:52

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Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Tuesday June 14th, 2011

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Home demolitions in Fasayel, Jordan Valley, Palestine

14-06-2011 14:40

Today Israeli forces demolished 18 structures in Fasayel, Southern Palestinian Jordan Valley.

At 6 o'clock this morning, about 10 military jeeps, one civil administration car and 3 bulldozers entered Fasayel Wasta and Foqa, turning the area into a 'closed military zone', preventing anybody entering the village for more than 3 hours.

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Letter from imprisoned anarchist Damiano Bolano

14-06-2011 12:36

Letter from Damiano Bolano, imprisoned anarchist comrade of the Revolutionary Organisation Conspiracy of Cells of Fire, from Domokos prison (Greece)

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SpanishRevolution: Graphics 2_ Videos and Txt

14-06-2011 12:02

texts, videos and graphs on SpanishRevolution

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Gay, Muslim, Feminist Activists Welcome Mosque Pledge to Ban Homophobic Speakers

14-06-2011 10:26

LGBT, Feminist, Humanist and Muslim activists express their support for the East London Mosque's significant statement promising to prevent its premises from being used as a platform for homophobic speakers. We urge the Mosque to publicise its commitment through the local, Asian and religious media. We stand united with our neighbours against anti-Muslim bigotry and homophobia.

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Will the Gaza flotilla be safe from Israel's murderous threats?

14-06-2011 09:04

It was a simple question.

On 27 March I wrote to my Member of Parliament asking: "What is the British government planning to do, please, to safeguard British subjects (and indeed the other humanitarians) sailing with the flotilla on its peaceful mission to Gaza?"

The government had been only too happy, I said, to dispatch the warships Cumberland and York to help civilians of all nationalities caught up in the Libyan trouble and deliver aid to the Benghazi medical centre.

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Grassroots journalism - National tour kicks off in Liverpool

14-06-2011 08:37

"The revolution is Online! Citizen TV from Arab Spring to UKUncut" at The Pilgrim 34 Pilgrim Street, Liverpool L19HB at 8pm.

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Peaceful protestors arrested. Cut the TSG!

14-06-2011 07:58

Arrest
"Don't blog when angry" is probably first in a list of bloggers' ten commandments, hidden away in some geek tome somewhere. If so, I hereby break it.

I am livid, for one very simple reason: I have just watched four peaceful protestors be violently arrested by the Metropolitan Police. Countless others I watched get pushed, shoved, and punched. Subsequently another was arrested at a demo outside Holborn Police Station against the initial arrests. Several vans of TSG were deployed to this, again entirely peaceful, in front of a fortified police station to which a couple of dozen students and academics could pose no meaningful threat. A dog section was present, both at SOAS and outside the Police Station.

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Let's Stop a Bad Drugs Law Getting on the Books in the UK!

14-06-2011 02:42

The so-called Police Reform and Social Responsibility Bill, currently under discussion in the House of Lords, is already under scrutiny for various suspected threats to civil liberties, most notoriously clamp-downs on rights of public assembly and protest in response to the actions at Parliament Square. But let's not overlook the section that would actually REMOVE the need for experts of any kind to advise the government about drugs policy!

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What's the Difference Between a Comb-Over and Shaved Balls?

14-06-2011 02:19

This is a before-and-after story endemic to politics everywhere. Self-aggrandizing, rich assholes hide their true motives to get elected. Once they're elected they fiddle while Rome burns.

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No Justice in Kafka’s America

13-06-2011 23:39

In Franz Kafka’s short story “Before the Law”  http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/beforethelaw.htm a tireless supplicant spends his life praying for admittance into the courts of justice. He sits outside the law court for days, months and years. He makes many attempts to be admitted. He sacrifices everything he owns to sway or bribe the stern doorkeeper. He ages, grows feeble and finally childish. He is told as he nears death that the entrance was constructed solely for him and it will now be closed.

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Government Orders You Tube To Censor Protest Videos

13-06-2011 23:31

In a frightening example of how the state is tightening its grip around the
free Internet, it has emerged that You Tube is complying with thousands of
requests from governments to censor and remove videos that show protests and
other examples of citizens simply asserting their rights, while also
deleting search terms by government mandate.

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Why the NATO powers are trying to assassinate Moammar Gaddafi

13-06-2011 22:42

Protecting civilians or western oil companies?

Wikileaks-released State Department cables from November 2007 and afterwards show the real reason for the mounting U.S. hostility to the Libyan government prior to the current civil war.
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