Hogan Lovells International LLP, Atlantic HOuse, Holborn Viaduct, EC1A 2FG
Around 50 people attended the opening night of the Heygate cinema on Saturday 22nd. The event was hosted by the (provisional) Heygate Residents Association which screened the film ‘Doreen’ made by film-makers David Reeve & Patrick Steel. In the film, Doreen Gee - former Chair of the Tenants & Residents Association - reminisces about the culture of the estate and what went wrong with the re…
If you happened to glance at a recent BBC Surrey news website report entitled: ”Runnymede squatters: National Trust wins eviction order”, you could be forgiven for thinking that the Digger’s 2012 Runnymede Eco-village was situated on land owned by the National Trust. We are taking this opportunity to clarify that Runnymede Eco-Village is not situated on land owned by the National Tru…
7.00 pm at the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Street, W1T 6AQ (Warren Street tube)
http://www.campaigncc.org/meltdown
For a Future That Doesn’t Cost the Earth!
Against Austerity, For Climate Justice!
Meet 11am at St Paul’s to assemble before joining the march.
Coach departure times - Saturday 6th October 2012:
8am prompt: leaves from Embankment outside Embankment tube station
8.30 am: picks up outside Hammersmith Apollo (near Hammersmith tube station)
Early morning on the 11th September 12 a group of 20 climate change activists calling themselves ‘Ice Bloc’ unloaded nearly two tonnes of ice into the main entrance of Shell HQ. The protest was timed to coincide with this week's impending announcement of the lowest sea-ice coverage ever recorded, a loss of about 50% more ice coverage than the summer ice minimum 30 years ago. See vi…
Department of Energy and Climate Change, 3 Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2AW
Early morning on the 11th September 12 a group of 20 climate change activists calling themselves ‘Ice Bloc’ unloaded nearly two tonnes of ice into the main entrance of Shell HQ. The protest was timed to coincide with this week's impending announcement of the lowest sea-ice coverage ever recorded, a loss of about 50% more ice coverage than the summer ice minimum 30 years ago.
Wednesday 12 September, 11.45am-1.45pm;
Thursday 13 September, 8.15-9.30am
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH
Nearest tube: Westminster / St James's Park
Map: http://tinyurl.com/8kepllc
Thursday 13 September, 8.15-9.30am
Methodist Central Hall, Westminster, Storey's Gate, London SW1H 9NH
Nearest tube: Westminster / St James's Park
Map: http://tinyurl.com/8kepllc
Heygate Estate residents fight compulsory purchase order
"Unpopular social housing."
"An arrangement of monolithic land uses."
"Out of place in a city fringe location."
These are just a few of the phrases Southwark Council uses to justify its plans to knock down the Heygate Estate, a sprawling 1970s housing labyrinth in south-east London's Elephant and Castle.
Yet, on the estate, resides a…
LARC - and pumpin out your stereo
Mahatma Gandhi Hall
YMCA Indian Student Hostel
41 Fitzroy Square
London
W1T 6AQ
Today Climate Siren activists scaled Tower Bridge to drop a massive banner above the Paralympic symbol which read "Climate Change our Next Challenge". Their blog contains 'an open letter to the world' (see below) where they ask us all to focus on the "changing climate and the threat it poses to our civilisation’s very existence on this beautiful planet" After the drop Tower bridge was evacuated fo…
Room G22-6
South Block
Senate House
Malet Street
London, WC1E 7HU
Venue: London Action Resource Centre (LARC)
62 Fieldgate Street, (corner of Parfett Street), Whitechapel, London E1 1ES
Nearest Stations:- Whitechapel / Aldgate East / Aldgate / Shadwell
Map
Sixteen anti-nuclear protesters - half of them Japanese - gathered outside the Japanese embassy in Piccadilly, London on Friday morning (10 August), for the second week running, in a demonstration organised by London-based group Kick Nuclear. This was in solidarity with weekly demonstrations taking place outside the Prime Minister's residence in Tokyo and elsewhere in Japan against the restarting …
nearly a thousand people representing a smorgasbord of campaign groups marched together under the banner of the counter olympic network (CON) on saturday in east london. the march was followed by speeches in wennington green.
from midday on saturday, as people assembled on the slopes of mile end park, they were joined by an intrusion of police liaison officers in their baby-blue tabards, disarm…