Somerset's badgers are in the sniper's sights as activists vow to disrupt the cull.
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Russian anti-fascist unfairly imprisoned under Putin's new house rules.
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It's wildcat vs Kitkat as Brighton's binmen take on the Green council.
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It's Hove vs Gove as the education secretary aims to concrete over recreation ground in the name of God.
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More updates from Calais No Borders Network
[ Read Full Story ]Squatted community social centre and veg shop opens in Lewes.
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Sudanese refugees and supporters protest in London to highlight the 10 year anniversary of the conflict which ripped apart their regions.
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UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
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'Ground the Drones' demo to take place in Lincoln this Saturday as UK expands armed drone programme - and international resistance to the Drone Wars amps up.
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Anti-cuts protesters block Lord Freud's Highgate London home and stage "evict a millionaire" demo.
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A member of the Old Berkshire Hunt pleads guilty to assault.
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New Squat Law Fails In Court
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Brighton turns out thousands to oppose the March for England's message of hate.
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UPDATE: They finally coughed up. After two days of consistent hassling by activists at the Department for Transport earlier last month, during which one person got nicked, the DfT sheepishly released the previously top secret (read: problematic and embarrassing) documents about the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road.
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Oh Christ ..not again, about as welcome as Jimmy Saville at an orphanage, it's time for the outbreak of political venereal disease that is the March for England set to tarnish the streets of Brighton again on April 21st.
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'Non-citizens' take to the streets of Berlin in the latest instalment of the Refugee Strike shaking things up in Germany.
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SchNEWS goes on a fishing expedition with co-founder of the Fin Free Cambridge Campaign and finds out about the group's initial success and what's in hold for the future.
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With protestors gearing up for a second round of resistance there could be 'diversions ahead' for the East Sussex County Council and the road backing scum Trinity College in the University of Cambridge.
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In solidarity with 235 Sussex University workers whose jobs are threatened with privatisation, protesters from around the country converge on Sussex University's campus (alread site of an ongoing occupation), invade management HQ and make a bonfire out of corporate files.
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It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years since the US-UK coalition invaded Iraq. 10 years since that fatal day on the 19th of March 2003 when the neoconservative “Crazies in the White House” bought their own propaganda and believed they could reshape the Middle-East with a blitzkrieg military campaign of “Shock and Awe”.
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DOOM (England/Sweden)
ACTIVE MINDS (England)
BLACK CODE (France)
WANKYS: (England)
ANO (England)
@ the boston dome/ 178 junction rd/ tufnell park/ N19 5QQ
doors 7pm sharp!/ vegan food/ £8
SATURDAY 25th MAY 2013:
OI POLLOI (Finland/Scotland)
INFEKCJA (Poland)
LAST LEGION ALIVE (Belgium)
CONTORT (Ireland)
PUTREFACTION (Ireland)
THISCLOSE (Scotland)
GOOD THROB (England)
CYDERNIDE (England)
@ the boston dome/ 178 junction rd/ tufnell park/ N19 5QQ
doors 2pm sharp!/ vegan food/ distros/ projections/ £10
SUNDAY 26TH MAY 2013
PUNX PICNIC & SCUMBAG OLYMPICS
2-6.30pm @ north end of Kennington Park, SE11 (oval or kennington tube)
Kid friendly
Then… ScumFest hangover Gig
THE JACK RATTS (England)
MEINHOF (England)
RABIES BABIES (England)
THE LOWEST FORM (England)
SLOW PLAGUE (England)
FRAU (England)
£6/ 7pm start @ the Grosvenor, 17 Sidney road Stockwell SW9 0TP.
No advance tickets.
Proceeds from scumfest 2013 to benefit diy space london (http://diyspaceforlondon.org/) a project working to create a DIY space with radical values for music and other countercultural activities in London.
The ScumFest collective is a 100% not-for-profit collective.
We aim to create a space that is free of sexism, racism, homophobia and transphobia.
Facebook pages for individual days:
FRIDAY May 24th: http://www.facebook.com/events/105641526283152/
SATURDAY May 25th: http://www.facebook.com/events/129333107233413/
SUNDAY May 26th: http://www.facebook.com/events/320080211445067/
Web: www.scumfest.org
Called by Catholic Worker, Payday, Queer Strike, Veterans for Peace UK, WiseUp for Bradley Manning
Bradley Manning’s court-martial begins 3 June.
A man of exceptional courage and principle
In a statement he read in court on 28 February 2013, gay US Army PFC Bradley Manning proudly admitted having leaked information to Wikileaks in order to inform the public of US war crimes and government skulduggery that was being kept from us.
Address: Grosvenor Square, London
Postcode: W1A 2LQ
Time: 2-4pm
Phone: 020 7482 2496
Email: payday@paydaynet.org
Web: www.refusingtokill.net
The badger cull:
Scientifically flawed
Shown to possibly increase TB
Scapegoats an endangered species to hide poor farming practices
Dress in black and white for the badgers!
A family day out in aid of a good cause! Bring pic-nics, badger masks, black and white balloons, home-made banners, lots of energy and good vibes!
Transport leaving from all over the country
Confirmed coaches so far leaving from Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucestershire and Bristol. More locations to be announced. Please check facebook page PROTEST THE CULL for more info.
Address: MILLBANK, SW1
Nearest Public Transport: Nearest tube Westminster, served by the Circle, District and Jubilee lines
Time: 12 NOON
Web: https://www.facebook.com/events/110322372498385/
corporate jamboree.
Stop G4S campaign is calling for a Europe-wide demonstration of outrage as
G4S congratulate themselves on another year of profiteering at the expense
of human dignity.
Bring banners, flags and drums; bring yourself and your friends. Refuse to
be taken in by their whitewashing of abuses, join us at the AGM to hold
G4S to account.
Email: stop-g4s@riseup.net to get involved.
Address: Salters' Hall, 4 Fore Street, London EC2Y 5DE
Nearest Public Transport: Moorgate Tube Station
Postcode: EC2Y 5DE
Time: 13.00
Price: Free
Email: stop-g4s@riseup.net
Web: http://stopg4s.net/
Every year since 2006, Brighton has joined World Naked Bike Rides around the world to celebrate cycling and the human body. The ride demonstrates the vulnerability of cyclists on the road and is a protest against car culture.
Brighton's eighth World Naked Bike Ride will probably take place on Sunday 9 June 2013. Rain and wind meant lower turnouts in 2012 and 2011, but we were still 300 strong. An astonishing 800-1,000 riders took part in 2010 (up from 700, 400, 180 and 160 in previous years). Many more are expected in 2013. As of the 2007 ride, following negotiations with Sussex Police, full nudity is permitted at the event.
The event will form the finale to a weekend of UK and worldwide rides, including nearby Portsmouth, Southampton and London, which will allow people to take part in four southern rides.
The ride forms part of national Bike Week (15–23 June 2013).
Address: Preston Park, Brighton
Time: 12 NOON
Email: http://wiki.worldnakedbikeride.org/wiki/Brighton
Web: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Brighton-Naked-Bike-Ride/116674705198?id=116674705198&sk=info
Join us.
Like any good carnival, everyone’s invited: this will be an open, inclusive, and lively event. There will be a main route with sound systems and public meeting points. Bring music, costumes, banners, friends, ideas. We also encourage independent actions, and will publish soon a detailed map of the area to help you make your own plans. The Green and Black Cross group will provide experienced medical and legal support.
Address: West End of London
Time: 12 NOON
Web: https://network23.org/stopg8/j11-carnival-against-capitalism/
With some 80 percent of austerity measures still to come and with the government lengthening the time they expect cuts to last we are calling a People’s Assembly Against Austerity that aspires to bring together campaigns against cuts and privatisation with trade unionists in a movement for social justice. We aim to develop a strategy for resistance to mobilise millions of people against the ConDem government.
We ask you all to join us at The Peoples’ Assembly Against Austerity at the Central Hall Westminster on Saturday 22nd June 2013.
Address: Cental Hall, Westminster, Storey's Gate, London
Postcode: SW1H 9NH
Time: 9:30- 5pm
Phone: 07872 481769
Web: assembly@coalitionofresistance.org.uk
Meet Cameron D'Ambrosio. He's 18 and lives in a small town outside Boston. He wants to be a rapper and calls himself "Cammy Dee" in his YouTube videos.
Oh, and he's been locked up without bail for weeks - facing terrorism charges and 20 years in prison - all for something he posted on Facebook.
On May 1st, Cam was skipping school and messing around online. He posted some lyrics that included a vague reference to the Boston Marathon Bombing and called the Whitehouse a "federal house of horror." Shortly after that he was arrested and charged with Communicating a Terrorist Threat, a felony that carries 20 years in prison. The post contained no specific threat of violence against any person or group of people, and in the context of the rest of the lyrics and Cams' rap persona, it was clearly nothing more than a metaphor. A search of Cam's house found NO evidence that he was planning any violence, but a judge still ordered him held without bail for the next 3 months, pending trial.
A search of Cam's house found no explosives, weapons, or ANY evidence that he was planning anything other than becoming the next Eminem. Take a minute to watch the video of one of Cam's songs, and decide for yourself whether you think he's a threat to public safety, or just a teenager speaking his mind.Cam is locked up right now and he needs your help. Civil liberties groups haven't jumped in to help. The judge has shown severe bias already. Cam's best shot at justice is to make sure that Authorities in this small town know that the rest of the country is watching, and that we won't let them set a precedent of arresting teenagers for angsty lyrics
It's not a surprise that the judge in the case felt pressure to come down hard on Cam, since the local media has been quick to sensationalize the story and demonize a harmless teenager. Before charges were even formally filed, local newspapers were already posting pictures from Cam's facebook and pointing to "disturbing" posts like "Fuck politics. Fuck Obama. Fuck the government!" and "satanic" imagery (like some image from a metal band's poster.) All of this is free speech that is 100% protected by the 1st Amendment.
For more info and campaign details visit: http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/teenager/
SchNEWS has a long drunk from the well of horror stories about remote controlled killing and bombing by military drones. Now, at last, we can take the piss with news of a more-dumb-than-deadly civilian use. For lo and behold, here comes the beer drone. Lager-than-life organisers of the Oppikoppi music festival in South Africa plan to help punters at this years festie get 'wasted' by flying drones overhead and then parachuting mobile-phone-placed drinks orders down into the crowd. (We know, it sounds ridiculous – and they probably know it but just want the free coverage a cheap publicity stunt can bring... and we've just fallen into their trap. Damn it.)
Whilst a bit of a shake generally does beer no favours, apparently they see no problem with just dropping booze (but not Jägerbombs we hope) from the skies – and on to a thirsty heavy-drinking crowd: well what could possibly go wrong?!
They may have been sold the whizz-bang idea from all the military hype-types telling them about precision targeting and surgical strikes. But knowing as we do the messy actual military truth about collateral damage and indiscriminate killing...the chances of said drink arriving safely into punters fist? We predict a riot. Or lawsuits as a pilot error / malfunction sends an eight-propeller vehicle plummeting into the crowd and it rips someone's face off rather than helping them get off it.
(NB the campsite for the festival is amusingly called District 9. Lets hope it's not full of the prawn sandwich brigade...)
