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Staff & students fight ESOL cuts in Tower Hamlets

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Staff and students come together to fight the massive cuts proposed to provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Tower Hamlets College.

Victory! - SOAS Occupation wins demands

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SOAS directors office occupied

SOAS directors office occupied to demand release of 9 cleaners! Rally called for 4.30pm today‏

DEMONSTRATION & Petition for SOAS Cleaners

June 15, 2009 08:30

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DEMONSTRATION Monday 15th June at 8.30am on SOAS Steps. Please bring banners and other visual, audio aids.




We denounce the actions of the school and demand that academic institutions should not be complicit in assisting the Government in implementing their racist immigration programme. We find this particularly disgraceful given SOAS’s attempt to shake the reputation leftover from its colonial pas…

SOAS immigration raid press release

Without any advance warning from their ISS bosses nor the university management, SOAS cleaning staff were confronted by a hefty team of immigration officers at 6.30am this morning (Friday 12 June). Fearful cleaners were detained on SOAS premises as the officers demanded to see their papers. Some were taken into rooms of the university to be interviewed. A shocked witness said that someone had to i…

Offline Newsheet June 2009

The London Indymedia newsheet, bringing the news back on to the streets...

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Benefit gig for Iraqi LGBT UK

June 17, 2009 08:00

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The Grosvenor, Sidney road, Stockwell, London SW9 OTP

Rossport Solidarity Night at Belgrade Road

June 12, 2009 18:00

2A Belgrade Road Social Centre

2a Belgrade Road off Stoke Newington High Street

Dalston,

Hackney

 

: Libcom.org: Reflections on the Visteon Dispute

A detailed account and analysis of the struggle of Ford-Visteon car manufacturing workers who occupied and picketed their plants after being sacked when their employers declared themselves bankrupt.

See: http://libcom.org/history/report-reflections-uk-ford-visteon-dispute-2009-post-fordist-struggle

Two Days @ Conference 09: One Group's Discussion

The following notes are an attempt to capture the spirit of the discussion of one of the groups at the Anarchist Conference 09.  The format of the conference was novel and worked very well - everyone who joined was taken away from their "normal" affinity group and placed in a discussion group with a selection of other people who weren't in the same organization, so that each group became to some e…

Summer Cinema Libre @LIbHou

June 10, 2009 20:00

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52 knartchbull road (entrance from burton rd)

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Kew Bridge Eco Village

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In the style of nineties protest camps and 'The Land Is Ours' land rights occupations, a group of people have squatted a brown field site next to the Thames by Kew Bridge in West London. The site has apparently been empty for over ten years. 

Anarchist Conference 2009

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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…

Pix-&-Vidz of THE Labour Party’s Launch Party

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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,…

Space Hijackers and Reverent Billy Starbucks demo

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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

Interview with Visteon worker

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The latest issue of Freedom newspaper has an indepth interview with one of the Enfield workers active in the recent Visteon dispute who won a major victory recently against car giants Ford over redundancy payments when the enire UK forceforce was made redundant.

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food S

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change

 

The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change.

Death & Astonishing Resurrection: THE Labour Party

June 05, 2009 22:00

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

• Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map

• Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising

• Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-flyer

Arrest the Returning MPs

June 01, 2009 09:00

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Rendezvous: Parliament, House of Commons, Cromwell statue

• Location and Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/ATRMPs-map

• Facebook Action Page: http://tinyurl.com/ATRMPs

• Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/ATRMPs-flyer

The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World

June 13, 2009 17:00

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"Support the shop that supports your campaigns!"



Housmans Bookshop

5 Caledonian Road

King's Cross

London N1 9DX 

Tel: 020 7837 4473



Free entry

Nearest tube: King's Cross



www.housmans.com

Tel: +44 (0)20 7837 4473 

shop email: shop@housmans.com

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FOREST OF CROCODILES

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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…

: SHAC: Activists visit investors and customers

Tuesday, 26th May

We met up at Bank at 11:30 and then moved off to our first demo of the day outside the offices of the second largest NYSE shareholder, Legg Mason. We call upon Legg Mason to use their influence as a part owner of the NYSE, to get NYSE Euronext to de list HLS (LSR). We then went to NYSE Euronext itself, Vanguard (largest institutional shareholder of HLS), AstraZeneca (HLS custome…

Pix-&-Vidz of STOP POLICE VIOLENCE! Sat 23 May 09

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Dateline: London, UK, 15:00 Sat 23 May 09 – Hundreds of folks take to the streets to protest against police violence, naked brutality and killings in custody, on the United Campaign against Police Violence's first national demonstration – STOP POLICE VIOLENCE! KETTLE NEW SCOTLAND YARD!

Colnbrook IRC Blockade

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On 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent the mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook via charter flight. Six activists locked themselves together, using glass and plastic …

Pix-&-Vidz of SACK PARLIAMENT! - Sat 23 May 09

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Dateline: London, UK, Sat 23 May 09 – Economic meltdown for global capitalism, political meltdown in both Houses of Parliament, so Meltdown called a SACK PARLIAMENT! protest at short notice – and multi-Guy-Fawkes miscreants, Mister Mayhem, a Red Dragon and dozens of protesters, accompanied by Ian Bone on clown car horn, descended on the Palace of Westminster to blow the fetid, corrupt institutio…

Defend The Right To Protest: Kettle Scotland Yard

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Movie of Defend The Right To Protest: Kettle Scotland Yard

 

How do we end immigration controls?

June 20, 2009 13:00

School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square (nearest tubes Holborn and Russell Square)

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High Court challenge Edwin Stratton

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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…