One man at least wasn't waiting for the public protest against genetically modified wheat in Rothamsted. According to mainstream news sources Hector Christie scaled the fence on Sunday morning and caused 'significant random damage'.
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Anti-militarists Smash EDO take the drone war to the arms dealers
[ Read Full Story ]The seventh annual Rossport Solidarity Camp gathering is taking place in Erris, Co.Mayo, Ireland from the 1st to the 4th of June.
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Mutant wasteland
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No, you're not paranoid they really are out to get you. Not content with fingerprinting and taking a DNA swab the moment you're dragged across the threshold of the newly-privatised KOPSHOP TM, they're now going to hack into your mobile.
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Three members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt were convicted of illegal fox hunting this week at Haywards Heath magistrates' court.
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Anti-whaling veteran and top sea dog at Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson has been arrested in Germany on a Costa Rican arrest warrant.
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Over 20,000 violent individuals take part in a surprisingly peaceful demonstration.
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A microscopic view on Marine Wildlife Conservation, concentrating in the Mediterrean Sea and the upcoming campaign of the Black Fish this summer.
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On Monday 7th at Orange County Court, California footage of 37 year old Kelly Thomas being beaten to death was shown at the preliminary hearing of two of the officers responsible
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Recoiling from the austerity measures activists and organisations worldwide are starting to get together to fight back against the illegitimacy of the national debts and bailouts. On 7th April the first Euro-Mediterranean Meeting of the newly formed International Network for Citizen Debt Audits took place in Brussels.
[ Read Full Story ]Brighton is hosting the International Squatters Convergence from 17th-19th May...
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The EDLs much-vaunted 'homecoming' to Luton last week-end was, in the end, a damp squib
[ Read Full Story ]Greenpeace action against fuel rip-off merchants Centrica
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SchNEWS examines the the Con-Dems' foreboding plans for an all out attack on Britain's few remaining green and pleasant lands. Will the protest scene dust off its tin whistles and timewarp us back to the nineties?
[ Read Full Story ]Pressure is rising against the Israeli Prison Service as around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners enter their third week of hunger strike.
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While fighting closure, the Portuguese Es.Col.A movement has been inspiring the whole country to engage on self-management of abandoned spaces...
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Four members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt are on trial for illegally hunting a fox with a dog, the first ever such case in Sussex...
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OK, technically it's not quite summer yet, but Smash EDO kick of the Summer of Resistance with a bad music demo
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Bakers, farmers, growers, allotment holders, scientists, beekeepers, and people who eat food are turning out to voice their opposition to GM crops coming back to the UK.
Meet Sunday 27th May, at 12 noon, in Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts. Or take your own action in your own way, at your own time. Together we can stop this trial.
Address: Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts
Time: 12 noon
Email: info@taketheflourback.org
Web: www.taketheflourback.org
There will be a short service at 1.30pm - secular event starts at 2pm. All faiths and none welcome.
Please bring food/drink to share. We’ll have a gazebo or two up in case of rain!
There is room to park cars. We have booked a coach, leaving 162 Holloway Road at 11am. It will call at Slough and Reading stations en route. Please bring £12 (£6 low waged - more if you can afford it) towards costs (£4 from Slough, £3 from Reading). A good idea if you let us know if you want to come by coach.
Address: AWE Aldermaston, Construction Gate
Directions: For useful information in getting there and a map see http://www.aldermaston.net/camp/visit
Time: 2pm
Price: Free
Phone: 020 7700 4200/2393
Email: ccnd@gn.apc.org
Web: http://www.ccnd.gn.apc.org/
Address: Barclay, North Street, Brighton
Time: 12pm
Price: Free!
Phone: 07526557436
Email: smashedo@riseup.net
Web: www.smashedo.org.uk
We are inviting local, national and international groups to take responsibility for a day of anti-nuclear activities, this can be a march to the base, a demo at the gates, a blockade, a mass trespass, a die-in... get creative! If you are a small group or an individual and want to team up with others, we can help choreograph partnerships. We can also facilitate workshops on peaceful direct action at Faslane so no activist experience is necessary. There will be lots to be done day to day and plenty of roles to fulfil during the 30 Days campaign and the time leading up to it so enthusiastic helpers (and donations) will be welcomed with open arms! Communal meals will be provided and there will be plenty of sleeping and camping spaces.
Address: Faslane Peace Camp, Shandon, Helensburgh, G84 8NN.
Directions: road a814, bus 318? from glasgow, train from edinburgh or gasgow low level to helensburgh, then local bus to camp
Nearest Public Transport: edinburgh/glasgow/helensburgh
Postcode: G8 48NN
Price: free/donation
Phone: 01436 820901
Email: Faslane30@riseup.net
Web: faslane peace camp on facebook
Address: Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton
Nearest Public Transport: Brighton Train Station
Postcode: BN1 4JA
Time: 19:00
Price: Free
Web: http://www.facebook.com/events/352697661462210/
Address: SOAS, Thornhaugh Street, London, WC1H 0XG
Nearest Public Transport: Russell Square tube station
Postcode: WC1H 0XG
Time: 10:00
Price: Free entry
Phone: +44(0)207 833 9311
Email: rosie@campaigncc.org
Web: http://www.facebook.com/events/325444387527987
In the last 15 years No Border Camps have been situated in border areas and conflict zones around the world. They have functioned as autonomous zones for the international movement for the abolition of all Earth’s nation-states. It has been a part of the work for a world where no one has the right to oppress others because of where they were born.
- Construction of the camp will start on the second week of June
- The camp will start from the 17th of June and will go on until the 24th
- On the 17th of June there will be a mass demonstration in central Stockholm for a world without borders
- On the 18th there will be a solidarity action with the people detained in the detention center in Märsta
- During the week actions are also being planned against detention- and deportations profiteers, repression, companies who exploit migrant workers and the security complex
Address: Stockholm, Sweden
Email: info@noborderstockholm.org
Web: http://www.noborderstockholm.org
Address: Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Directions: Nearest train station is Lanark
Price: Donation
Email: contact@coalactionscotland.org.uk
Web: http://takebacktheland.org.uk/
On Wednesday 2nd May two Brighton hunt sabs had the cases against them thrown out of Redhill Court. Both had been charged with aggravated trespass following crap arrests during a meet of the Old Surrey & Burstow Hunt on 3rd December 2011.
The judge ruled that for one defendant the prosecution hadn't even put forward any evidence of trespass, nor that there were any actions which could be interpreted as aggravating the non-existant trespass.
The other sab was left with the farcical situation of the prosecution (realising at half time that they had no chance of a guilty verdict) offering no further evidence after the judge had ruled there was a case to answer. As the prosecutor didn't have the authority to officially discontinue, the case had to carry on. Cue much head-scratching all round as a solution to 'avoid any embarrassment' was sought. In the end the defendant had to briefly take the stand, with even the judge almost feeding him lines, before being found not guilty.
Throughout the trial it was Surrey Police who received the most scrutiny and criticism from the judge and the investigating officer was probably the person most relieved not to have to endure the defence case.
Afro-Punk, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
Dive! Living Off America’s Waste by first-time filmmaker Jeremy Seifert, and made with a budget of a mere US$200, explores how American grocery stores are quietly filling their dumpsters with edible food while so many people in the USA go without proper access to nutritious food.
Monday, June 11, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Filmmaker Julien Temple takes a look beyond the guise of the late, anti-establishment icon Joe Strummer to offer a warm portrait of the self-described "mouthy little git" who was born John Mellor and was destined to become the frontman for one of the most influential punk bands ever.
A complex figure who would learn to use his gift for music as a means of decompressing his conscience, Strummer is revealed here through unearthed interviews and the illuminating recollections of his closest companions.
Monday, June 25, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
We're not too fussy about musical taste: in fact everything from Bananarama to Beirut graces the turntables at SchNEWS Towers but here's a genre we felt deserved wider exposure – ambient fash-hop.
Now, fascism has always been proof that the devil definitely doesn't have all the best tunes, and in recent years at least white supremacist music has followed the well-beaten path of Oi Punk and it's offshoots – but not this time...
This daring genre mash-up was the stand-out moment of the the Scottish National Front's election campaign. Of course it has to be heard to experience it's full majesty, but if you took the time to imagine one of Tricky's earlier efforts revived via the medium of a Bontempi organ and the solo vocals of a disgruntled Glaswegian Nazi then you wouldn't be far wrong.
So far the track has accumulated 3000 visits on Youtube, roughly ten times the number of votes the NF received in the electoral contest. Sadly the genius behind this avant-garde leap into the musical darkness has remained anonymous, but we can't help wondering what's next – Balkanized Gypsy Swing, Reich & Roll or Drum & Race anyone?
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