- Refections from participants in the Finsbury Square Occupy camp, which is due for eviction in the near future



- A discussion about the social impacts of default, specifically looking at the parallels between contemporary Greece and the Argentina of 10 years ago



- An interview on 'take the flour back', an upcoming mass action against genetically modified wheat in the UK happening on 27 M…

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…

Friday 16 March 2012 marked the 100th episode of Dissident Island Radio - our centenary! And with that in mind we decided to make it a bit special. Alongside the usual mix of music, banter, and special guests on the mic we be heard an extended piece on the consolidation of neoliberal capitalism in Europe post 'crisis'. The discussion focuses primarily on the situation in Ireland, Spain, and Gre…

Episode 98 promises to be an action packed adventure for all the family. This time round we've got:

• Members of the SQUASH campaign discussing the legal aid bill, political motivations and tactics.
• Some nice people over from Germany to talk about the global M31 mobilisation against capitalism, discussing their plan to link radical campaigns, and potential actions against neoliberal austerity…

On this show we've got all sorts of stuff and things from here there and

everywhere. We'll be hearing from La Quadrature du Net about ACTA, censorship

and the enclosure of the internet commons.



We'll be hearing from a member of the drive cooperative, discussing London's

newest housing coop. A person from No Borders will be in tonight too, talking

to us about the No Borders Convergence from 13-18…

Furtherfield Gallery

McKenzie Pavilion

Finsbury Park, London, N4 2NQ

T: +44 (0)20 8802 2827

E: info@furtherfield.org

W: www.furtherfield.org/gallery

 

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 …

after a dark week for social justice, dissident island presents a less than happy show!

- the LAF debates on consensus design making recorded at this year's london anarchist bookfair.

- grow heathrow update on their impending eviction and resistance, as well as some discussion on their political goals and ongoing community oriented activities.

- we have squash in the house talking about the…

I you think you're not technical enough to understand some of the debate on distributed social networks as opposed to centralised ones (like this one) check out this comic animation. It tries to explain the differences and the problems of centralised corporate services in plain English.

www.dissidentisland.org   //   www.catalystradio.org

On our coop special (episode 91) we had noises from:



- Karola at the well-known and loved Cowley Club, a cooperative social centre in Brighton.



- James from Redfield, an intentional community, giving us the lowdown on his travels around and observations of the UK cooperative housing scene.



- Heavy D, discussing cooperative social care provision.



- Jo, on the ins and outs of being part of the actor's c…

Episode 90 of Dissident Island brings you:



* UK uncut live in the studio telling us about why they've been so quiet and what their next moves are



* Words from Occupy Wall Street - quite possibly the U.S. Left's answer to the Tea Party



* A trip down memory lane, looking at Dissident Island's previous homes in social centres past



* Little Sh*t on the decks spinning some dubstep goodness



* The u…

www.dissidentisland.org  --  www.catalystradio.org

This is an update on the Land & Freedom Camp: a 7 day open exhibition and demonstration taking place on Clapham Common from Sat 17th Sept til Sun 25th Sept.

INCLUSIVE DEMOCRACY AS A POLITICAL PROJECT FOR A NEW LIBERTARIAN SYNTHESIS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdIG4SwMJyk

 

ID is a project for direct political democracy, economic democracy (beyond the confines of the market economy and state planning), as well as democracy in the social realm and ecological democracy. In short, Inclusive Democracy is a form of social organisation which re-integr…

Earlier today I posted about a current crisis of censorship on Facebook.

Background:

• Citizen activists created J30Strike.org, a website advocating peaceful demonstration against austerity measures in the U.K. on June 30th
• Sometime in the last 48 hours or so, anyone who tried to post or share a link to J30Strike on their Facebook account was blocked from doing so, receiving instead an error me…

Larc

A small protest was held outside Paddington Green in solidarity with those arrested from the March 26 protest and the recent raids on squats and social centres including the Ratstar in Camberwell, Offmarket in Hackney and the Grow Heathrow Project. London, UK, 29/04/2011.

www.dissidentisland.org

OFFMARKET

111 Lower Clapton rd, E5 0NP

offmarket@riseup.net / 07706279299

Opening hours: Sunday 12-6pm, Monday 12-6pm, tuesday 12-8pm

Open meetings are on monday 7pm if you want to meet us, check the space out or have any proposal to use the space!

Accessibility info for folks with different abilities, see the AccessCodes

 

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…

Elizabeth McGuirk explains the key proposals of the Health and Social Care Bill published on 19 January.

(Track the progress of the bill through Parliament here, and bill documents can be found here.)

In their Red Pepper article 'Dismantling the NHS' Stewart Player and Colin Leys highlighted problematic issues in the July 2010 White Paper 'Liberating the NHS'. The dire consequences they foresaw…

Back from our holiday break us dissidents were still a little fuzzy headed but we managed to pull our heads out of our asses long enough to have functioning conversations with a fair few people. Ben, from UK Uncut, came into the studio and had a good long chat with us about ideas behind the campaign as well as looking at what the year ahead might have in store.

One of the defendants in the recent…

Imperial College London

While some of the crew were up visiting the fine people from Redbricks Radio we met up with some friendly Mancunians and did a show...

• We spoke with our hosts for the evening, Mule Magazine, about what they've been getting up to lately as well as issues surrounding alternative media in general

• Veg, from the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair, came in to give us a rundown on how this year's…

Around 5am 2nd September 2010, high court bailiffs turned up in force, for the second eviction attempt on the east London social center. around 30 officers failed to batter the grade 2 listed door in, and then moved on to the chain saws.

This awoke residents sleeping inside who had seconds to react as the bailiffs, in a change in strategy started smashing through the grade 2 listed windows, …

*This article was originally published in El Libertario #58, March-April 2010. Although originally based on the actual experiences of Venezuela's social struggles, it deals with situations and facts of interest to activists anywhere.

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

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

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