Dissident Island Radio - April 6 2012 - On episode 101 we heard from:



- Dan from UK Uncut talking their impending legal action against HMRC and Goldman Sachs in a bid to recoup £20 million in tax revenue.



- Corporate Watch in Part 1 of a discussion of tax avoidance by companies involved in private healthcare & privatisation.



- Nick from Housman's bookshop telling us about the entrants to thi…

Here is a report from the camp at Leyton Marsh next to the site of a planned 'temporary' Olympics basketball training facility.  The camp is here to support the local community and the Campaign to Save Leyton Marsh.  

On this show we've got all sorts of stuff and things from here there and

everywhere. We'll be hearing from La Quadrature du Net about ACTA, censorship

and the enclosure of the internet commons.



We'll be hearing from a member of the drive cooperative, discussing London's

newest housing coop. A person from No Borders will be in tonight too, talking

to us about the No Borders Convergence from 13-18…

Greedy landlords are pushing tenants out of their homes in time for the London 2012 Olympics in favour of highly profitable short term rentals.

Happy New Year from London Indymedia, and please read on for some very special New Year Messages from some incredibly awesome friends, creators, activists, commentators, and supporters, including Occupy London, John Pilger & many more. Please add your own New Year Messages below. 2012! See you on the streets! ...

Really Free School

Central London location to be announced at the time!

http://reallyfreeschool.org/

On Sunday 21st November, the Save Wanstead Flats campaign plans to use wooden stakes and tape to mark out the boundaries of the proposed police base on the Flats, in order to show just how much space it will swallow up in 2012.



Maps or drawings can never make as much sense to local residents as seeing its massive size for themselves but campaigners would prefer not to wait until construction s…

On Sunday, 6th September about 200 people gathered for a mass picnic against the planned Metropolitan Police operational centre for the Olympics 2012 on Wandstead Flats. Although the sky was grey and a brisk wind was keeping the kite flyers busy, the announced rain never came. The superintendent for the park was brave enough to attend and got grilled by local residents about numerous issues with t…

On the spot to the west of Centre Road, where the police want to site their Olympic operations base in 2012

Wanstead Flats

E7

London

What if... "Dozens died and thousands more were exposed to dangerous levels of cancer-causing radiation after a train carrying high level nuclear waste exploded as it passed through the Olympic Park in Stratford, east London this afternoon. The public is being warned to steer well clear of the area as the radioactive plume makes its way across the capital and the southern half of England."

The ri…

Mp3 Audio (below) from a very informative talk organised by Corporate Watch. Olympics: Gentrification, Corporate Interest, Corruption and Resistance.

IWW construction workers on the Olympic construction site have produced a damning report on the state of the worksite. The report argues for greater worker control of unions and a militant rank-and-file approach.

Excerpt from the summary of the report:

This report documents and critically analyses the working conditions of construction workers on the Stratford City development site of the 2012 O…