UK Culture Newswire Archive
Creative activism by the Mischief Makers - a short history
07-01-2007 13:32
The Mischief Makers are a group of activists and artists based in Nottingham (UK) who formed early 2005 as a creative response to the G8 Summit, held at Gleneagles Hotel, Scotland in July that year. The collective uses creativity to support community, environmental and social justice campaign and activist groups. The groups aim is ''to inspire people and empower them to identify challenges and take action in their local environment''. (1) Here follows a short overview of their first 2 years in action...
tree clearance starts ar Tara- Indymedia .ie site is down - help please
06-01-2007 20:54
Illegal tree clearance at Tara, Indymedia.ie site is down,help neededEpiphany Derive Tomorrow in Manchester
05-01-2007 12:44
Meet 3.30 sharpish at The Basement (24 Lever Street Manchester) this Saturday January 6th for a wonderful wander round our cityHungry For A Month
05-01-2007 07:35
What Are Green Seniors?
01-01-2007 23:19
Green Seniors have always existed. They are the people who, regardless of age, fight for what they believe. They are the people who see the way that our natural environment is changing for the worse and want to do something about it. They are the people who are a pain in the neck of authority, in fact of anyone and anything that operates in a way that degrades the environment for no good reason.Student-run infoshop opens
31-12-2006 23:31
ZNet's Anti War Songs
30-12-2006 03:30
... which include Dylan's Masters of War, Lennon's Working Class Hero, Ochs's I Ain't Marching Anymore, Newman's Political Science, Springsteen's Born In the USA and many many more.Full article | 1 addition | 6 comments
Hang Him, hang Him Quick!
27-12-2006 02:15
The puppet judiciary of occupied Iraq today announced that Saddam Hussein would be hanged within 30 days. Saddam is presently being tried for the mass murder of Kurdish villagers but the judiciary insisted that he MUST be executed regardless of any other proceedings. This decision is a ‘just in time’ corporate-style decision – just in time for what the uninformed reader would ask? Just in time to save America from incrimination for supplying the chemical weapons and expertise required to kill the innocent Kurdish villagers – that is the REAL NEWS of the day!Zombie Day
22-12-2006 15:54
Activenet play at Faslane
22-12-2006 15:48
The funky peeps from the Midlands travelled up to the abomination at Faslane near Glasgow to be silly in pursuit of a better world.The Anarchists' Ball - 3-Sided Football Endcliff Park 30 12 06 12pm
21-12-2006 13:39
Three goals, hexagonal pitches...The rules have changed over the years, but FIFA would have a field day with this lot. Goal shrugs off the shackles of organised leagues and hangs out with the anarchists.It is unlikely that Luther Blissett is even aware of the fact that he's the inspiration behind three-sided football, a form of the game that 'deconstructs the mythic bipolar structure of conventional football'. But then Watford is not a hotbed of class war and, although it is rumoured that he organised a three-sided football league during his playing days, Blissett probably isn't attending Hackney Anarchist Week in east London. Goal is, however, and it is here that we encounter the Luther Blissett 3-Sided Football League, named after the man himself. The game has been further developed by anarchist group the London Psychogeographical Association (LPA).
Played on an hexagonal pitch between three sides, each defending one goal, the aim is not to score the most goals, but concede the least. Goals are conceded when the ball 'is thrust through a team's orifice', so dissolving 'the homoerotic/homophobic bipolarity of the two-sided game'. Put simply, three-sided football is, ideally, an exercise in co-operative behaviour, with one side persuading another to join in a campaign against the third - thus breaking down the very basis of capitalist organisation - and all before teatime.
Billion Eyes of the Beast
21-12-2006 13:18
On the Web, anyone with a digital camera has the power to change history.In 1991, when a bystander videotaped the police beating of Rodney King
in Los Angeles, the incident was almost unbelievable‹ not the violence
but the recording of it. Imagine! That four policemen would pummel a
subdued man, and someone would just happen to have a camera! What were
the odds?
Pot Cultivation in Today’s America
21-12-2006 03:48
It’s official, marijuana represents the USA’s most lucrative locally grown product – at $200 billion/annum, corn, wheat and potatoes are chicken feed. While U.S. borders seep various powdered imports it’s good ol’ home grown pot that makes the bankers smile. The USA is drowning in contraband and the negative social ramifications of the neo-PROHIBITION of unenlightened conservative beliefs – when will they ever learn?RECLAIMING THE SEASON
21-12-2006 02:26
Disgusted with the personal debt, spiritual emptiness and ecological damage that the holiday seawson now entails, writers and activists began to promote the idea of a downshifted Christmas in the late nineties.State of Mancunia
21-12-2006 01:53
Manchester poet fined under draconian “police state” psuedo laws.the open publishing aspect of Indymedia is dead
20-12-2006 13:42
Well. No mention of access inequality. But perhaps, when 'user generatedcontent' reaches the cover of Time magazine it means that the open
publishing aspect of Indymedia 'is dead.'
BNP member arrested in Ipswich on suspicion of murder
20-12-2006 03:29
BNP member Steve Wright is identified as second person arrested in Suffolk of killing of five sex workers. The 48 year old fash was arrested in a dawn raid on his home in Ipswich's red light district, where he regularly took in prostitutes while his wife was at work.Organic needs defending, join the campaign
19-12-2006 12:08
One of London's most fashionable restaurants, used by film stars and members of the Royal family, has become the first in the country to be fined for falsely claiming that meat used in a number of its dishes was organically farmed."Support action for Ungdomshuset" DK
18-12-2006 02:50
Riots broke out in copenhagen as court decide to shut down Ungdomshuset youth', cultural and social center.
