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UG#630 - The 6th Mass Extinction (And What To Do About It)

13-04-2013 15:44 | Ecology | Sheffield | World

Did you know that the earth is currently experiencing the biggest mass extinction in the last 65 million years? That half the worlds' plants and animals may go extinct in the next 30 years? Or that extinctions are happening at an accelerating pace already around 1000 times the natural rate?

Ding Dong, BBC make history as music downloads become news!

12-04-2013 20:56 | History | Public sector cuts | London | World

The BBC have decided not to play the "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" track on its flagship Radio 1's Official Chart Show.

Lesvos GR: entry to Uni conference of paramilitary coastguard to 'control ID'

12-04-2013 20:43 | Anti-militarism | Policing | Repression | World

University of the Aegean, Lesvos 10 April
Entry of paramilitary coastguards and cops to the international conference ''World Research Day: Political Freedoms, Human Rights and Europe' in the grounds of the University of the Aegean to 'gather details of the organizers' and to 'control ID of visitors'.
Nothing to do with Statewatch, though... surely! It happens regularly.

These fascistic actions were criticized by the central committee of the academics...

Buckingham Palace, Church & Whitehall getting cold feet over Thatcher funeral

12-04-2013 17:34 | Public sector cuts | Repression | London | World

Margaret Thatcher worship FAIL - the carnage continues...

BAYER Shareholder Meeting on April 26 in Cologne: Coalition introduces Countermo

Hazardous drugs, pesticides, GM rice and election campaign donations under fire..

The Coalition against BAYER Dangers has introduced countermotions to BAYER´s Annual Shareholder Meeting on April 26. Environmental and social justice organizations announced to discuss the proposals within the meeting in Cologne. About 4,000 shareholders are expected to attend.

Athens Indymedia "under attack", down

TVXS news site quotes that Athens.Indymedia is likely 'under occupation'

Quotes a call for open meeting tomorrow (

http://tvxs.gr/sites/default/files/article/2013/15/125428g-arkheio_lepses.png)

UG#629 - Speaking Forbidden Truths (The Poor Had No Lawyers, Monetarism's Fail)

This week we conclude our reading of David Graeber's Debt, The First 5000 Years with a focus on the fraud of land 'ownership' and economics. A mix of new and familiar speakers include a reading by Lyn Gerry from episode 90 and a radio adaptation of an Adam Curtis film, The League of Gentlemen.

US Governors Shred Freedom Of Speech Re Filming Animal Slaughter

US government and 3 states have criminalized exposing slaughterhouse, factory farm and laboratory torture.

8 April every week Witch is Dead DAY

I suggest 08 April every year be an annual marking of the end of 'her'

Benefit for Greek Anarchist Prisoners & Squats - Nottingham

10-04-2013 11:30 | Free Spaces | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Our Solidarity Is Non-Negotiable!

Freedom Flotilla West Papua

Indigenous Elders from Australia & West Papua are planning a Freedom Flotilla to West Papua in solidarity against the apartheid of colonisation and destruction caused by multinational mining companies on Indigenous land in West Papua & Australia.
They are being actively supported by a coalition of environmental and
human rights activists, artists and musicians from all over Australia.

Photos from Brixton + all police leave cancelled for Thatcher's funeral

09-04-2013 22:45 | History | London | World

All police leave has been cancelled in London for the day of Thatcher's funeral, next Wednesday. The cortege will leave Whitehall and travel via Trafalgar Square and The Strand, with the coffin being transferred to an army gun-carrier along the route, before being delivered by the Army to St Paul's. That's a long route...

Hopefully alot of miners and print-workers will be making a day of it

Refugee solidarity demonstration in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk (ger)

09-04-2013 22:19 | Anti-racism | Migration | Repression | World

Spontaneous demonstration in Düsseldorf-Oberbilk (Germany), calling attention to armed police raids against refugees/non-citizens in Berlin-Kreuzberg.

Anti-fascist Pavel Krivonosov from Nizhni Novgorod needs help!

08-04-2013 13:05 | Anti-racism | World

Last autumn, a longstanding case against Nizhni Novgorod anti-fascists was returned to investigation, and for a while it seemed like a final victory. However, in contrary to these expectations, the case returned to court this spring and things do not look too good.

State Funeral for Margaret Thatcher?

08-04-2013 12:20 | Anti-racism | Public sector cuts | Repression | World

State funeral for the friend and ally of mass-murderer, torturer and war-criminal Margaret Thatcher?
Should tax-payers be forced to pay for such an insult?

Golden Dawn thrown into the sea by Anarchists

06-04-2013 23:02 | Anti-racism | Workers' Movements | World

Golden Dawn get drunk, make Nazi salutes, attack immigrants & locals, then get thrown into the sea by Anarchists

Mass Movement Of Monsanto Boycott Growing

The Obama signing of a 'Monsanto Protection Act' has given great impetus to
the worldwide Monsanto boycott

UG#628 - Asking Forbidden Questions (Why Do People Put Up With Capitalism?)

This week we learn how much effort has been put to making people assume that the virtues of capitalism are beyond question. We hear three Marxian commentators offering their own angles on the development of capitalism in USA, interspersed with a reprise of Noam Chomsky from episode 29 on the elite's determination to control the public mind lest the democratic state serve the wishes of the majority rather than the privilege of the few.

Islington meeting wants no bedroom tax evictions

04-04-2013 20:38 | Public sector cuts | Social Struggles | London | World

Islington Hands Off Our Public Services organised a meeting in a Canonbury community centre about the Con-Dem bedroom tax. Islington Council's deputy leader spoke.