21 new community radio stations
Ofcom, the UK regulator, has announced 21 new 5-year licenses for community radio stations.This is great news for the community broadcasting sector and excellent news for grassroots broadcasting.
USAF Lakenheath demonstration
Join our DEMONSTRATION AT U.S.A.F. LAKENHEATH to demand the withdrawal of an estimated 110 B61 nuclear bombs deployed at this base.SUNDAY 25th SEPTEMBER from 12 noon
MAIN GATE (GATE 1) on the A1065 3 miles south of Brandon
MUSIC -- STREET THEATRE -- OPEN MIKE
QUAKER MEETING at 2.30 p.m.
Nuclear science public meeting in Norwich
PUBLIC MEETING -- FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER at 7.30 p.m., FRIENDS MEETING HOUSE, UPPER GOAT LANE, NORWICH"THE DREAM AND THE NIGHTMARE: nuclear science, nuclear weapons and new disarmament strategies"
SPEAKER: PROF. PETER NICHOLLS, University of Essex, and chair of Abolition 2000-UK
Wireless World: Bomb detection wirelessly
A story about stopping terrorists in their tracks.Heaalth Hazard: Type II Magnetic Radiation
This is an medical alert regarding Type II Magnetic Radiation. Research data available at website: One investigator has researched Type II Magnetic Flux Generators, and the magnetic radiation may have severely damaged his bodily functions... www.gmxxnet.com/4.htmlKyoto Protocol Comes Into Effect
On 16 February 2005, the Kyoto Protocol comes into effect, legally binding most industrialised countries to greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2012. The treaty was signed by over 180 countries in 1997 and has since been watered down by special provisions for countries like Canada and Russia as well as limited in its effect by US non-ratification.worldwide climate change conference in Buenos Aires
The Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention onClimate Change is taking place in Argentina from 6 to 17 December 2004.
Over 6,000 participants are gathering in Buenos Aires to decide on the fate
of the global climate. After Russia´s ratification of the Kyoto Protocol,
it is now coming into effect on 16 February 2005. Following are the comments of a participant at the conference.
ASCII reopens on Saturday
It was reported some time ago on this IMC that the ASCII computer collective in Amsterdam was evicted last month. (The eviction was broadcast from the inside, via a webcam, but anyway.) The good news is that the boys and girls are reopening this weekend, in a newly squatted building in the Wibautstraat, A*dam.Cambridge University buys greener energy!
A few weeks ago Cambridge University purchased its new supply contract for electricity for the next two years. They opted to go for a deal with Scottish and Southern which contains 76% Hydroelectric power, 23% Wind/Wave/Solar and 1% fossil fuels. This is a massive improvement over the previous contract of 12% Green energy sources and 88% fossil fuels!More repression: ASCII collective gets evicted in Amsterdam
Key quote: "We will keep on struggling for the right to think differently, act differently and compute differently from the way corporations and fascist state governors are trying to impose us. And if necessary we will compile our last lines of sourcecode on the barricades."Mathematical backing for Open Source software.
The open source community may now have more than ideology on their side, with researchers showing mathematically that their "release early, release often" software development model is the quickest way to bug-free code.What follows is a re-posted article (from a website which is part of the Millenium Maths Project) describing this research. The original article is at:
http://plus.maths.org/issue25/news/programs/
Sustainable Transport?
New sustainability website www.grownupgreen.org.uk which went live this summer, is pleased to announce a bumper package of articles posted this week. With rising fuel prices in the news, one theme is transport with features such as alternatively fuelled cars, an inner city tram network, freight on British waterways, cycling and even walking.Biometrix Conference
The biometrics conference in London in October seems like a perfect opportunity to make people more aware of the dangers of biometric ID cards in Britain.Recent patent developments
There has been a long standing interest on the IndyMedia newswire about the issue of patents - particularly those pertaining to intellectual property. A couple of recent events might be of interest.Action on Climate Change
Cambridge Forum: Action on Climate Change at CB1 Café featured four speakers on climate change yesterday, 15 June.Software Patents Audio
40 minute 64 kbps MP3 audio of the Software Patents talk given by the Foundation for a Free Information Infrastructure rep, James Heald, yesterday. We are having problems with .ogg file uploads, will get that up soon.