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Sat 5 sept...workshops start at 1pm then party til dawn

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Venue announced:

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)

London E1 4PE (map) oppo…

In a bold occupation at 2.30 this morning, a woman from peacestrike.org.uk has converted the Parliament Square Churchill statue into a mock-up of a Sri Lankan death camp. She intends to stay there as long as possible to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians facing threat of starvation, rape, torture or murder. phone interview link below.

check back here for timeline upd…

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change

 

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change.

The anarchist media collective a-films has just published a new short film ("Two Years Under Siege"/10min) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon.

AS SUSSEX POLICE RAID BRIGHTON FILM MAKER

Given the amount of aggro handed out to those brave enough to document Babylon’s excesses we wondered how long it was before we started getting our collars felt. Of course they’d need a task force to batter down the steel doors of the SchNEWS bunker - let alone take us alive - so Sussex Police took a more indirect route.



At approximately 8.30am on Tue…

There was a huge turn-out for the Tamil march in London this afternoon. Police turned a blind eye to the hundreds of Tamil Eelam flags which were proudly displayed. The march was good-natured, though sombre and dignified.

Previous Features: Tamil Blockade at Parliament | Tamils Blockade Parliament Square Again | SOCPA, the tamils, and the grass | Held for 24 hours by police for flag-waving

tamil protesters are leaving parliament square tonight and are calling for support on their march on saturday. a call-out has been put together by members of various supporting organisations.

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and ev…

Clock Tower/Little Ben, outside Victoria Station, opposite the Palace Theatre where Billy Eliiot is showing

Police detained Maria Gallestegui (from peacestrike.org) for 24 hours after her arrest yesterday evening for waving the Tamil Eelam homeland flag at Parliament Square.

Maria has finally just been released from Belgravia police station after being held for 24 hours for waving a flag that a week ago we were categorically told on film was not proscribed and so she couldn't be 'processed' or arrested…

Today (June 2nd) is the 8th anniversary of Brian Haw’s one-man protest in London’s Parliament Square – he has been there for 2,922 consecutive days and nights.

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND

• Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map

• Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising

• Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-flyer

police have been arresting tamils waving their national flag in parliament square. yesterday, maria (peacestrike.org.uk) tested the legality of this by standing outside new scotland yard and arguing it out on film when confronted by officers. this story is regularly updated as news develops.

when is a flag a terrorist flag? the answer, it seems, depends on who and where you are! if you are a tamil student peacefully demonstrating in parliament square, it is, and you get arrested. if you are tony benn mp and you are in parliament square, you get photographed but not arrested. if you stand outside new scotland yard and challenge the police to arrest you, suddenly it magically becomes th…

police, rather than test the truth in court, have taken to their usual method of unlawful seizure and intimidation in the battle against tamil flag waving in parliament square

At 16:00 this Monday afternoon (18th), Tamil protestors broke through the police barriers around Parliament Square and have once again blockaded Parliament. Traffic is being diverted away from the square. Although there were many police present, they were apparently taken off guard.

See full article for the timeline of events.

Photos: [1] Previous coverage: 17 May | 15 May |

Parliament Square.

Date: 18/05/09

Time: 12:00 - 14:00

Myanmar/Burma Embassy 19A, Charles St, London W1J 5DX.

Tube: Green Park | Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=W1J5DX

Protest Details on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85977485307&ref=nf

Protest over Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest (day of her trial at notorious Insein Prison)

On Friday 15th May, Burmese demonstrated at the military regime's embassy in London and at the Foreign Office in Kings Charles Street, at Aung San Suu Kyi arrest and detention at the notorious Insein prison. There will be a larger protest on Monday 18th May at the regime's embassy.

as more news gets out that the 'safe zone' in sri lanka is a mass of flames, tamils gathered in parliament square this morning with black flags

This evening, anti-fascist Jews targeted a secret Jewish National Fund event where the guest of honour was none other than the fascist Avigdor Lieberman.

This morning of small group of south londoners replied to the call-out for "Unauthorised" Reading of the Names of Afghan War Dead and went in front of a Territorial Army Centre near Camberwell.

We read the list of Afghan civilians dead into the intercom of the base, and we shouted the names of the English soldiers killed in Afghanistan to the passbyers.

Troops out of Afghanistan!

St Paul's Church Hall

Rectory Grove 

SW4 0DX

near Clapham Common 

15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)

Queen Elizabeth Conference Centre, Broad Sanctuary, London SW1P 3EE

Trident Ploughshares Press Release - Thursday 30 April, 2009

Six anti-nuclear campaigners from Trident Ploughshares affinity group the Muriel Lesters visited nuclear weapons profiteers Jacobs Engineering outside their Tower Bridge office in London earlier today [see note 1]. The campaigners displayed a banner reading "Nuclear Bomb Makers" and various placards to the busy passing traffic and pedes…

These 3,609 new laws are here to control us, not protect us...........

The police have been ordered to pay out £85,000 (plus costs) to 5 activists that were illegally and violently detained at a demonstration outside the Mexican Embassy in 2006. The demonstration was part of a global action to mark the Death of Brad Will and indymedia activist from New York who was murdered whilst covering the uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico.

Belated report of vigil held on Thursday 9 April, just before Easter.

Catholic Workers Counter-recruitment at Dalston Military Showroom

In these times of escalating war on Afghanistan/Pakistan (Af-Pak) and crashing economy, the British military have opened a recruitment/showroom in low income Dalston, London. The showroom is "home to a virtual battlefield stimulator which gives vistors a chance …

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