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Remember Fukushima London demo, Saturday 15 March 2014

12-03-2014 14:31

Remember Fukushima Demo, London, Sat. 15 March 2014

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Half-Crimean single mum in Bristol discusses Ukraine crisis

12-03-2014 00:26

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Londoners tell Boris 'Our City is Not for Sale'

11-03-2014 09:49

Report & Photographs from 'London Not for Sale' demonstration against Boris, councillors and the GLA going to the MIPIM conference to carve up London with developers.

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Week of Action : Police Spies Out of Lives

10-03-2014 19:56

THE BATTLE AGAINST SECRECY CONTINUES

Women resist police attempt to strike out undercover police abuse cases

Court Hearing has been confirmed as taking place on 18th – 19th March 2014

This is the hearing which was postponed from last November, and involves a fresh fight against secrecy.

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12 March: Wandsworth - Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace speaks about Pvt Chelsea Manning

10-03-2014 15:22

The Cost of Exposing the Truth: The Case of Pvt Manning

with speaker Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace UK.

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London event highlighting plight of Afghan women.

10-03-2014 12:45

Afghan Women in 2014, INFO night.
18 March

An evening in support of the Organisation Promoting Afghan Womens Capabilities (OPAWC) one of Afghanistan's longest active and radical women's groups. Food will be provided. www.opawc.org

Speakers:

Ewa Jasiewicz has recently returned from Kabul and will share what she has seen of life for Afghan women 12 years on from the overthrow of the Taliban by NATO.

Guy Smallman has been working with OPAWC since 2010 and will do a slideshow presentation of OPAWC's projects in Kabul and Farah province.

Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/events/216561981870950/

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Five minors face long years for a crime that unlikely ever happened

10-03-2014 10:42

Friday 14 March 2014 marks the one year anniversary of the kidnapping and imprisonment of five Palestinian teenagers (at the time aged 15-17) for alleged stone-throwing, following a settler car accident that took place close to their village of Hares in Salfit district (West Bank), Palestine. In what clearly appears to be a trumped-up case with no hard evidence of a crime or eyewitness accounts that would link these particular boys to the accident, they are being charged with 20 counts of attempted murder each and are facing long years in prison.

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Tear Down The Walls: Prison Abolition Speaking Tour

10-03-2014 00:51

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There are currently 85,690 people held in prison, not including people detained under the Mental Health Act, in Secure Children’s homes or in Immigration detention. The prison population of Britain has doubled over the last twenty years.

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08.03.2014 - Newcastle Anti Badger-Cull March + video

09-03-2014 21:40

On the 8th March 2014 there was a march against the Badger Cull.

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American Fukushima

09-03-2014 18:13

On 3rd anniversary of Fukushima, two authors report American reactors are unsafe at any speed. Shocking risk. Plus audio from March 2 XL Pipeline dissent protest in D.C. & letter from youth. Radio Ecoshock 140312

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ALF Activists Jailed in 1980s Appealing Convictions Due to Police Involvement

09-03-2014 12:16

Andrew Clarke and Geoff Sheppard were convicted of planting incendiary devices at Debenhams stores in Romford and Luton in 1987. An undercover police officer allegedly planted a third device at a branch in Harrow to help convict the men.

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Wave of UK protests to mark anniversary of Fukuhima disaster

09-03-2014 10:28

Protester calling for an end to nuclear power
Opponents of nuclear power will be converging all over the UK to mark the third anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima disaster - and to highlight the precarious state of Britain’s own nuclear reactors.

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Letter from John Bowden about his parole application

08-03-2014 13:17

Please sign the petition to the Parole Board for England and Wales and the Scottish Prison Service to release John Bowden

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The Psychological is Political

06-03-2014 10:17

Socially, the dual strategies of exalting consumerism and increasing control have been central to the neoliberal project. Consumerism and control can be viewed as opposite sides of the same coin. People are encouraged to aspire to ever greater levels of conspicuous consumption, modelled after the lifestyles of a celebrity elite that is plastered all over the media and broadcast into everyone’s living room. Shopping, which was once a means to an end, has been transformed into the UK’s favourite leisure pursuit. At the same time, however, more and more people are excluded from the workforce (sometimes forever) by the movement of industry to areas of cheaper labour, and many others are stuck in low paid work with no prospect of advancement. Large portions of the population are only able to achieve the widely advertised ‘ideal’ lifestyle through illegal means. A highly unequal, consumer-oriented society entices people to break the law, which was illustrated dramatically by the riots in London and other English cities over the summer of 2011

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British Syrians & Friends in Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution

05-03-2014 14:07


THREE YEARS ON … REVOLUTION MARCHES ON
On the 3rd anniversary of the Syrian revolution, join us to march for the Syrian struggle for freedom & to call for an end to Assad’s killing machine
Please join us and invite your friends to show our solidarity with innocent Syrian people being killed by Assad's regimeDate: Saturday 15 March 2014



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ALERT: BRIXTON tomorrow 6 March. Massive police social cleansing operation.

05-03-2014 13:08

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PLEASE SPREAD. Tomorrow (Thursday 6 March) there will be a major social cleansing operation in Brixton involving police, bailiffs, and immigration officers. Organised by Met Police and Lambeth Council, with the friendly title "Brixton Unite", the council leaflet advertises a full day of "weapon sweeps in parks and open spaces, trading standards and licensing visits, abandoned car removals, Anti Social Behaviour operations, tenancy enforcement and operations to tackle robbery."

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Stop Workfare In Its Tracks – Join The Week Of Action 29 March – 6 April 2014

05-03-2014 12:52

In April George Osborne’s mass workfare scheme will begin. Unemployed people will be sentenced to 780 hours community work simply for being unable to find a job. Not even lone parents with young children are to be exempt from the scheme which will see so-called charities like Groundwork UK and the Salvation Army paid by the tax payer to force people to work for free. Part time workers and those currently genuinely volunteering will also face being sent on unpaid work.

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Vote for the Biggest Biomass Baddie! Take part in the Biomess Awards ceremony!

03-03-2014 12:37

On the 9th and 10th of April a conference bringing together the biggest corporate names in biomass will take place in London. Representatives from key organisations in the global biomass industry will be attending to discuss how to further increase their profits from environmental destruction and social injustice.

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Veggies Backs the Badgers!

03-03-2014 10:55

Nottingham's ethical, all-vegan catering campaign Veggies has been on the road twice to Birmingham in the past few days, to show support for our scapegoated badger friends who are under attack from the Tory government. The government are trying to implement an appallingly misguided and underhand policy to cull one hundred thousand badgers in an effort to eradicate Bovine TB. As well as killing an innocent, and much loved member of British wildlife, the policy also flies in the face of the best scientific advice and public opinion, both of which are overwhelmingly in opposition to a cull.


So on Saturday 22nd the Veggies team took their well-known colourful trailer and set up in Victoria Square to cater for several hundred people that were rallying there throughout the day to vocalise their dissent. Badger campaigners were very happy to see Veggies and throughout the day's events the team shifted some 200 burgers, 100 samosas, lots of cakes and pasties and were able to give a donation of £120 towards the organisational costs of the event.

The march was very well covered by various media, with both ITV and BBC reporting that over 1,000 people took to the streets to voice their peaceful objection to the misguided badger cull, as well as detailed coverage from the local Birmingham Mail.

A Veggies volunteer joined the march carrying a tray full of their 'Samosas for Social Change', a sight that has been seen many times over the years on grassroots marches and demos (Veggies celebrates their 30th anniversary later this year!)

It was a motivating day full of compassionate badger campaigners from all walks of life and different organisations. Speeches were given by members of Care for the Wild, League Against Cruel Sports and the Hunt Sabs Association, amongst others.

Then (because the Veggies crew love badgers so much!) they headed back out to Birmingham this Tuesday 25th just passed for the second anti-cull demo. This was outside the ICC where the national NFU (National Farmers' Union) conference was taking place. The NFU is a collection of individuals and companies responsible for undertaking the failed badger culls and planning to undertake more, as well as lobbying for less humane ways to kill badgers such as gassing and snaring.

This time Veggies had a more informal set-up, giving out hot drinks, pasties and cakes by donation. As ever, cold people were very happy to see the team and a great day was had networking with other groups and joining in the chanting going on outside the venue ("Shame on you, NFU" has quite a good ring to it!)

Today (Friday 28th Feb) the findings are back from the Independent Expert Panel appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to help ministers evaluate the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of the Gloucestershire and Somerset pilot culls. The culls were categorically a failure in both effectiveness and humaneness.

 

For more information on the badger cull issue please see the 'Stop the Cull' website: http://badger-killers.co.uk/

Read about Viva's Dump Dairy' campaign: http://www.viva.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/badgers

And of course, see what other campaigning adventures Veggies is going on this year over on their website: www.veggies.org.uk

 

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Worldwide March Against Corruption – London pics and report

03-03-2014 09:50

Several hundred people marched across London yesterday afternoon as part of worldwide events in UK, Canada, US, Australia, Nepal, and the Netherlands.
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