CONTINUED ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS AT LEYTON MARSH We are sending this email to you and to local and national press, community, health and animal welfare organisations near to Leyton Marsh, London E10. Please see below a copy of a two-page open letter, from the Save Leyton Marsh campaign, for your urgent information and action as appropriate. We have sent the top copy of the open letter to the fol…

On Tuesday night there was a meeting of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), Lea Valley Regional Park Authority (LVRPA) and local residents at a small nursery on Riverside Close, Hackney to discuss the 'reinstatement works' for the marsh.

Episode 103 of Dissident Island Radio features:



- Our friend Carl live in the studio giving an insider's perspective on prisoner solidarity. He gives some nice ideas on how to offer support and what to say in those all important letters.



- People from SQUASH and the ASS talking about the future of squatting in England and Wales post Clause 145, and what's going to change once the ban comes into effe…

On Thursday 26th April Mike Wells, a citizen journalist who writes for the Games Monitor website, was filming unsafe working practices on Leyton Marsh at the chaotically managed Olympic construction site.

As a result of his attempt to film and draw attention to the unsafe practices of an excavator working close to pedestrians on Sandy Lane (the pathway running adjacent to Leyton Marsh), Mike was …

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The Olympic Delivery Authority, Waltham Forest Council, Lea Valley Regional Park Authority and Nussli AG put the building site workers and community at risk to save face.

The Ruling May Have Gone Against Us But We Won the Arguments In Court!

both the olympic delivery authority (ODA) and state authorities are already working to stifle any dissent against the coming olympic corporate extravaganza in london. with libel threats, ASBOs, injunctions, potential control of photography, blanket searches, and armoured cars, the olympic war machine is beginning to make itself felt.

This morning Campaign for a Sustainable OLympics masqueraded as the organisers of the Olympics; LOCOG, and issued a hoax press release and website dropping BP as sustainability partner. This was to highlight their unethical decision to make BP Sustainability Partner for the London 2012 Olympics. The story was picked up by several media outlets, including City AM and LBC radio, who ran a live int…

13th april 2012 - small article update below

bailliffs and police mounted a huge operation today to resume work at the leyton marsh olympic site. several people were arrested for public order offences after holding up work for several hours.

i visited leyton marsh yesterday afternoon and spoke to the occupiers and many locals about the olympic build, the legal situation, and the plans to continue resisting.



leyton marsh is a large green space, just north of the lea bridge road, and east of the river lea. it lies between the urban areas of clapton and walthamstow, from where people come in droves to walk, picnic, exercise, fly kites…

Behind Lee Valley Ice Cente on Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton Map: http://tinyurl.com/6ntfscy

Response from Save Leyton Marsh to yesterdays injunction and todays eviction order.

Statement from Leabridge Ward Hackney councillors, 4 April 2012 in relation to the Save Leyton Marsh campaign.

Statement by the Save Leyton Marsh group

Bishopsgate Institute, 230 Bishopsgate London EC2M 4QH

Amnesty International UK Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA

ExCel Centre, London

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.  

Local protesters against an Olympic basketball training facility being built on municipal open land were joined for a picnic and protest on Leyton Marsh by marchers from the Occupy London camp at Finsbury Square.

March from Occupy London site @ Finsbury Sq, EC2.  Map: http://g.co/maps/e8bsp

To Leyton Marshes, Lea Bridge Rd, Leyton.  Behind Lee Valley Ice Cente.  Map: http://tinyurl.com/6ntfscy

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

Episode 80 of Dissident Island Radio brings you:

- Words from Temporary Autonomous Art about their upcoming weekend of exhibitions and events

- The notorious WAG, discussing the disillusion of their group and the formation of ALARM

- An update from the Ian Tomlinson inquest from Dean, who has been in attendance over the past few weeks

- The Counter Olympics Network discussing points objection …

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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…

last night, a star-studded BT-sponsored 'british olympic ball" was targeted for protest by pro-palestinian activists to highlight BT's partnership with israeli telecommunications firm "bezeq international" who provide military telecommunication infrastructure throughout the occupied west bank and golan heights. here there is a report , some pics and a very short film of the night.

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

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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.