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The free weekly direct action newsheet published in Brighton since 1994 - Copyleft - Information for Action
SETT FOR A SHOWDOWN

Somerset's badgers are in the sniper's sights as activists vow to disrupt the cull.

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RUSSIAN ROULETTE

Russian anti-fascist unfairly imprisoned under Putin's new house rules.

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DUST-UP!

It's wildcat vs Kitkat as Brighton's binmen take on the Green council.

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LEVEL PLAYING FIELD?

 

It's Hove vs Gove as the education secretary aims to concrete over recreation ground in the name of God.

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CALAIS COPS AGAIN? SACREBLEU!

More updates from Calais No Borders Network

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On the Lewes

Squatted community social centre and veg shop opens in Lewes.

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Darfur: It ain't over.

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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FULL DISCLOSURE?
Combe haven update - the struggles continues... In London.

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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DO FEAR THE REAPER

'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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A CUT ABOVE THE REST

Anti-cuts protesters block Lord Freud's Highgate London home and stage "evict a millionaire" demo.

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WHIP ROUND
Two hunt supporters come a cropper in court this week.

A member of the Old Berkshire Hunt pleads guilty to assault.

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LIVING ROOM?
New Squat Law Fails In Court

New Squat Law Fails In Court

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MOBS AND COPPERS
..an anti-fascist day out by the seaside.

Brighton turns out thousands to oppose the March for England's message of hate.

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FULL DISCLOSURE?
Combe haven update - the struggles continues... In London.

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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Minor Ding Dong as Witch Dies

Thatcher-haters party into the night.

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STEALING A MARCH?
Far-right march in Brighton to be met with counter-protest.

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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Refugee Revolt
Refugees and undocumented people organise and protest in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands.

'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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SHARK TALE
An update from the Fin Free Cambridge Campaign.

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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Bexhill Bypass: Round Two
Updates from the Stop the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road Campaign

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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Not a Happy Campus
1000 up-for-it protesters descend on Sussex University to mobilise against privatisation.

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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Lock and Awe
Campaigners lock on to the EDO-MBM arms factory to commemorate 10 years since the iraq Invasion

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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May
24th May 2013 to 26th May 2013
ScumFest
FRIDAY 24TH MAY 2013:
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
June
1st June 2013
Defend International Whistleblower Bradley Manning
Demonstrate outside the US Embassy on 1st June: International Actions to Free Bradley Manning

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
1st June 2013
NATIONAL MARCH AGAINST THE BADGER CULL
Show the government you do not consent to the proposed cull of badgers this summer

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/
6th June 2013
Protest - G4S Shareholders Annual General Meeting 6th June 2013
On June 6th G4S returns to the City of London for its annual
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/
9th June 2013
BRIGHTON NAKED BIKE RIDE
Join us for a naked lunch, a seaside bike ride in the buff, a paddle in the sea and a naturist beach picnic!
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
11th June 2013
STOP G8- #J11- ONE COMMON STRUGGLE
London is right at the heart of global capitalism. And the West End of London, including elite areas like Piccadilly, Mayfair and Knightsbridge, is where power and greed are most concentrated. The West End is home to: Corporations, Vulture funds, Tyrants, Playground of the mega rich... On #J11 we will party in the streets, point out the hiding places of power, and take back the heart of our city for a day. Our streets. Our world.

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/
22nd June 2013
People's assembly against austerity
This is a call to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their wages, jobs, conditions and welfare provision come under renewed attack by the government.

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
SchNEWS in Brief...
Casual Story of the Week!!

We really probably shouldn't indulge ourselves but something about the ongoing fictionalization of events in Brighton last Sunday by the far-right keeps us heading back to Facebook and Twitter for the latest fantastic developments.

Now you might think the reams of photos of boneheads being kicked all over the pavement/hiding behind the police/ getting bashed on the bonce by flying objects might present a fairly conclusive picture of what happened – but you'd be wrong.

Unfortunatley for EDL fashion victims Casualties United – they weren't quick enough with the camcorder when one of their girls ( a kickboxing champion no less!) battered seven antifa men unconscious. Now that'd be worth seeing! Unfortunatley overcome with modesty the Casuals seem to have disappeared this stirring episode from their Facebook.

In an unconscious admission of what really happened (i.e the fash got kicked all over town) Casuals are pinning all their bullshit on one incident down near the pier – apparently a happening so fearsome no 'commie' dares speak of it. The Casuals crack suicide squad (some of whom had already taken a bit of shoeing) managed to run a vaguely defined number of Antifa (think of a number – quadruple it and add five) and batter them all – glorious stuff!!

Sadly back in boring mundane reality what actually happened was that a small group of Casuals, was confronted by a larger mixed group of anti-fascists. To be fair the Casuals did start when outnumbered and managed to split a girl's head open with an umbrella. They were then put on their arses and two of them (including Steven Sands in what must have been one of the worst afternoon's of his life) got nicked.

One participant observer told SchNEWS “They actually weren't very good at fighting – it was all sort of rush in, try and get the first punch, then grab hold of someone and fall over”. Maybe SchNEWS is being unfair and staunch nationalists that the Casuals are they were practising some indigenous form of martial arts – the way of the stunned ferret or some such.

And finally...

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...)

SchNEWS advises all readers, experiment on politicians not beagles. Honest!