Ten year's ago today and a global Carnival Against Capital was erupting across the world with co-ordinated protests taking place in over 40 countries on June 18th 1999.

Directly targeting financial centres the J18 day of International Action was stunning in its scale and ran alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Koln Germany. It followed the Global Street Party that had been held alongside the G7/G8 mee…

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Around 70 protesters occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (NR TW8 0EW). They plan to setup an eco-village. This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish.



This eco-village occupation is inspired by campaigns like The Land is Our…

52 knartchbull road (entrance from burton rd)

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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…

Dateline: London & Brighton pub, Peckham, London, UK, 22:00 Fri 05 Jun 09 – On the day of Gordon Brown’s forced emergency cabinet reshuffle, Mr Mayhem, Teenage Man, Saddam & the Look-Alikes, Bloco de Louco and other left field luminaries were celebrating “The Death and Astonishing Resurrection of THE Labour Party” in a superb squatted pub in Peckham. For twelve long years, the war criminals,…

Around 70 protesters occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (NR TW8 0EW). They plan to setup an eco-village. This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They are now in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish. See an aerial map of the location, and the KewEcoVillage twitter

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52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5

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A Demo against Starbucks by the Space Hijackers (www.spacehijackers.co.uk) and The Reverend Billy (www.revbilly.com) in the form of a mock funeral. Sunday 31st May 2009

Reverend Billy and The Church of Life after Shopping Come to the UK. www.revbilly.com

Saturday, 30th May was Independence Day in Haringey, north London, as the neighbourhood declared independence from "party politics, religion and government agencies, where individuals and groups in Haringey can organise collectively, exchange ideas and make their own decisions that affect their lives." 



The event combined workshops, film screenings, bike repairs, music, a history walk, and refres…

Dateline: Haringey, London, UK, Sat 30 May 09 – On a gloriously sunny Saturday in May, Haringey Independence Day 2009 provided discussions, workshops, stalls, films, socialising and refreshments for everyone who cares about their community, environment and workplace and wants to change them for the better. 

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

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Indian YMCA , 41 Fitzroy square, W1T 6AQ,Near Warren Street Station

To understand these people is to feel their fears and walk in a forest of unknown things. This film is about rural white South Africans addressing their fears of crime, violence and black people.



Some are well resourced while others are ingeniously resourceful. The consequences are regression and isolation or freedom from fear. Like crocodiles, these people have been left to evolve according to th…

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Britain's drugs classifications and penalties are arbitrary and unlawful, according to a forthcoming High Court challenge.



A London man has been granted leave to appeal to the High Court for permission to judicially review the decision to try him for the production of cannabis.



Medical-marijuana user Edwin Stratton claims the Government's criminalisation of cannabis does not follow the demands of th…

the London & Brighton, corner of Asylum Road and Queen's Road Peckham, SE15 (check flier for map)

Feminist Library, second floor meeting room, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XW. Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo.

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featuring the amazing victory won by ex-Ford workers at Visteon! After factory occupations and the threat to picket out workers at Ford's state of the art plant at Bridgend, Visteon and Ford were forced back to the negotiating table - where they conceded a redundancy package better than the Fords package the workers were demanding. This will make it the biggest …

Speakers Corner, Hyde Park, London.

Parliament Square.

rampART Squatted Social and Creative Centre.

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

On Tuesday 12th around 100 people demonstrated outside the London Metropolitan University's Commercial Road campus, following a call to support the student occupation of the university. Those demonstrating included a continget from the IWW and UCU unions, students and staff from the university, as well as campaigners against the privatisation of education. People demonstrated for about one and a h…

The canteen of London Metropolitan University's Commercial Road campus in Whitechapel has been occupied by students in protest over plans that could see 550 staff jobs axed. This is part of the campaign against LMU's scheme to restructure as a result of its massive financial crisis.

Students and striking staff claim that they should not be made to pay for years of bad management. They state that

Demonstrate: Support London Metropolitan University students occupation at Commercial Rd, 5.30pm today!

From UCU and UNISON's Save London Met campaign committee:



Students in the Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design have occupied rooms in Commercial Rd in protest at the proposed cuts to staff. We understand that they are demanding that Management drop the proposals to make staff redun…

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Time now: 19.53, Monday. Urgent call out to East London Comrades - police expected by 9pm tonight!

Parents and other community campaigners around the Defend Education in Lewisham campaign have been occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge school in south London since 23 April.