Dissident Island Radio - 16 December 2011 - episode 95:





- A former Foxconn employee speaks about the dirty secrets behind our techno-goodies

- Traveler Solidarity Network on moving beyond Dale Farm

- Some words about the upcoming ALARM conference (Jan 7)

- Prisoner info for comrades behind bars over the holidays throughout



You're guaranteed to hear some banter, bollocks, 'choons, announcements and the …

Brian Haw lost his appeal against eviction from the square, controlled by the London Parks and Gardens Trust but the order does not affect the anti-war protesters from demonstrating on Westminster Council's pavement. The new case will begin May 9th. London, UK, 28/04/2011.

Food and drink were provided to the homeless outside Westminster Catherdral as the council is looking at introducing a byelaw in Central London and Victoria which would banning rough sleeping and giving to the homeless. London, UK, 20/03/2011.

When: Tuesday 8 March 2011, 6:00pm here:

Meet 6pm outside the Town Hall, Mulberry Place, Tower Hamlets E14 2BG

Speeches, protest and road blocking 8 mins 35 secs

Wednesday 2 March 2011, 4.30 / 5pm Kensington Town Hall, Kensington, London W8 7NX

MARCH TO CAMDEN TOWN HALL Assemble 5.30 pm Mornington Crescent (Crowndale Centre, Eversholt St, NW1) 6.15pm Camden Town Hall

http://pcseuston.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/camden-united-for-march-lobby-of-camden-council-monday-28th-feb/

http://camdenunited.org.uk/

UK Uncut activists turned the Islington branch of RBS into a laundrette at 11am in response to Islington Council's threatening stance to axe dozens of vital services in a £52 million budget reduction. London, UK, 26/02/2011.

Lambeth town hall in Brixton was taken over and occupied by protestors as the council met to vote through budget cuts of tens of millions of pounds. Hundreds of people gathered outside the town hall (as they'd done previously two weeks ago) and at around 7pm took over the chamber chanting "This is what democracy looks like" and "No ifs, no buts, no public services cuts!", before holding a people's…

Tonight the Lambeth council was supposed to vote on the cuts. Whether they did it or not is hard to say. The meeting hall was stormed by protestors, who did not quiet down even when they were threatened that the meeting would be adjourned. The protestors were set on staying, so the mayor and council members left. They went into hiding and what happened is hard to say. If they aren't absolute loose…

Episode 76 features words from the Cardiff Unemployed Daytime Disco, followed by a live chat with Zebedee about the Lewisham library occupation and the aboutlordbrowne website. Finally, we head up to Manchester to hear about legal proceedings against opponents to airport expansion.

The show also features details of our upcoming party, our swear word competition, music from deadlybuzz, and the us…

On Thursday evening police were called to Islington Council's budget cuts meeting and physically removed people from the public gallery, after they heckled and chanted "If you vote this budget through, that makes you a Tory too". See videos 1 and 2.

Hackney Alliance has called a Lobby/Protest at the next full meeting of Hackney Council to demand NO CUTS!

PROTEST 27 OCTOBER 6PM TOWN HALL

LOBBY THE FIRST HACKNEY COUNCIL MEETING AFTER THE GOVERNMENTS

ANNOUNCMENT OF MASSIVE CUTS IN THE COMPREHENSIVE SPENDING REVIEW

- WE DEMAND NO CUTS!

 

Members of the Southern Cameroon National Council demonstrate outside Downing Street. On this day in 1961 the British mandated Southern Cameroons became part of the French Cameroun and lost its autonomous status. London, United Kingdom, 01/10/2010.

This morning the squatters of 144 Mayall road had their second eviction notice. The first eviction date saw friends and neighbours turn out en masse to a lovely street breakfast with no bailiffs even trying to show their faces. This time they did show up, supported by the cops. While the first attempt at repossessing the council property was again unsuccessful, they did make a couple of arrests. A…

London's Burmese population demonstrated outside their embassy on the 22nd anniversary of General Saw Maung's military coup in the country. They were also protesting against the upcoming 'sham' elections. London, UK. 17/09/2010.

At least 2,000 people took to the streets of London after meeting at Cavendish Square in strength and unity to protest against animals in laboratories worldwide and the horrible practices they are put through as a result of testing and experiments. London, United Kingdom, 24/03/2010.

A blog by "local people who aren’t particularly happy about what is going on in the name of ‘regeneration’ in Southwark Borough" taking a critical and in depth look at look at an area that is often dealt with, by government councils, on quite a superficial level, resulting in less council housing and further errosion of community, local economy and public space.

A small group of protesters belonging to the European NGO Council on Drugs (ENCOD) gathered outside the Malaysian Embassy in London to speak out against the death penalty for drug possession and use in Malaysia. London, UK. 04/03/2010.

How 600 million of pounds were burned last night in the Hackney Planning committee of London.



Hackney Council effort to sell off most of its land bank asset to speculative driven private property deals suffered a blow last night at its very own home - the Hackney Town Hall.