Camp Ashraf solidarity hunger strikers on day 11 outside US embassy, London

Around ten Iranian exiles have been on hunger strike outside the US embassy in London for the past eleven days in protest at alleged brutality by Iraqi forces against Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, at least twelve of whom have been killed, 500 injured and 26 taken hostage according to the protesters.

There will b…

Dateline: Roof-Top Occupation, Vestas Venture Quays Workshop, East Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK, Wed 05 Aug 09 – Before Vestas Wind Systems were handed an eviction order against the 15-day-old Newport turbine blade factory occupation, five climate activists, including an RMT member, occupied the roof of Vestas’ harbour-side facility. With tents set up, plenty of food, and an uninterrupted supply-l…

On Monday afternoon from 5pm a large group of protesters put up tents and banners next to and across the road from the Israeli embassy in central London to protest the evictions of 53 Palestinians in Sheik Jarrah on Sunday. Police initially tried to move the protest but the protesters refused to move. Eventually the inspector in charge of Kensington and Chelsea police force arrived and agreed the …

Sex workers are routinely portrayed in the media as victims.



At London’s first ever Sex Worker Open University, over two hundred sex workers and allies from the UK and abroad took part in workshops, discussions and actions. 



This film presents an alternative and empowered image of the sex worker: http://current.com/items/90496517_sex-worker-open-university.htm

@ RampART Social Centre

15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA

(near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)

Dateline: Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, UK, Tue 04 Aug 09 – Despite hundreds of Vestas Workers, their families, friends, and supporters from across the UK marching in the rain to the Court House, Judge White grants an eviction order to Vestas Wind Systems bosses against the “Boys On the Balcony”, in the 15th day of their factory occupation against 625 green energy jobs cuts and the shutti…

Outside the gates of the Israeli Embassy

2 Palace Green

Kensington

London

W8 4QB

Protesters superglue themselves to the entrance of the dept. of energy and climate change in central London over the closure of the Vestas wind plant.

[BREAKING NEWS] Ed Miliband's London offices were blockaded this morning by a coalition of "red, green and black" activists in a demonstration of solidarity for the factory workers who have been occupying the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight since the 20th July.

The occupation in Newport is protesting against the Vestas management's decision to shut down the factory, cutting 600 job…

Outside Communications House Immigration Reporting Centre

Old Street

London EC1

Outside Communications House Immigration Reporting Centre

Old Street

London EC1

Outside Communications House Immigration Reporting Centre

Old Street

London EC1

1-2pm

Dateline: 4th Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 05:00-06:00, Fri 31 Jul 09 – Gerry Byrne makes best use of her one hour stint on the 4th Plinth, as a part of Antony Gormley's One & Other art project, by staging a one woman “Save Vestas – Save Jobs – Save the World” protest, coping as best she can with a bunch of drunk, abusive, foul-mouthed, profoundly ignorant, laddish twenty-someth…

School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), Torrington Place, central London

Dateline: Vestas Occupation Solidarity Demo No.2, Department of Energy & Climate Change, London, UK, 18:30, Tue 28 Jul 09 – On the eve of Danish wind energy corporation Vestas seeking an eviction order at Newport County Court, Isle of Wight, to turf out the Workers Factory Occupation which is opposing 625 green job redundancies, hundreds of people protested against the pathetic shoulder-shruggin…

London Action Resource Centre

62 Fieldgate Street

Whitechapel

London E1 1ES

The Vestas occupation continues - DEMONSTRATE in London TONIGHT, 6pm outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change, off Whitehall.

Vestival – Because Vestas Workers need our Support and BGG is Cancelled

Start Time: Wed 29 Jul 09 at 08:00

End Time: Sun 02 Aug 09 at 12:00

Location: Camp outside Vestas Blades UK factory occupation, Newport, Isle of Wight

Address:  Vestas Blades, Monks Brook, St. Cross Business Park, Newport, PO30 5WZ, Isle of Wight, UK

Location Map: http://tinyurl.com/Vestival-map

Facebook event: http://www.face…

During the week a group of activists from the London Neighborhood of the Camp for Climate Action travelled down to the Isle of Wight to support the workers of the Vestas who have occupied their factory in protest at the companies decision to close the factor, export the production and dump over five hundred jobs. I went down with them to document their visit...

Demonstration held to highlight migrant situation in Calais.

YouTube video shows roadside ambush on mayor over lack of funding for rape crisis centres in London.

Campaigners say Boris Johnson failed to spend £744,000 promised for female victims of sexual violence

Direst action = Result, Only I predict a marked reluctance for politicians to embrace the cycling culture...

See video and article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/21/campaigners-john…

Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people demonstrated outside London's French Embassy on Monday 20th to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. See full article for pics and background information. More reports 1 and 2.

More Info: Calais Migrant Solidarity | Calais No Border Camp June 2009 | Video: Afte…

Dateline: Climate Camp UK National Gathering, London, UK, 18:00 Sun 19 Jul 09 – At the end of an intensive weekend of planning for the forthcoming Climate Camp in Greater London, campers express their solidarity with the 600 wind turbine manufacturing workers threatened with factory closures by Vestas on the Isle of Wight.

The Royal Court of Justice, Strand, London WC2

Demonstration at the French Embassy in London, Monday 20th July



London NoBorders and No Borders Brighton are calling for a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on Monday 20th July to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. (see  http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/196 and http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/)



Where: Fr…

Rampart Social Centre

Rampart Street

Whitechapel, E1

Activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Lesquin (Lille, France). This action took place during the start of the No Border Camp in Calais, the 24th of June 2009, where an exagerated police force was summoned to avoid direct actions...

Bank of England

Threadneedle Street

London

Your Excellency,



We, the group of people from around the world, mostly creative persons and artists (but also common people) express our outraged by unlawful actions of putschists

The lying policeman - BBC Panorama footage edited with my Climate Camp G20 protests documentation... Complaints about police actions regarding the police's controversial "kettling" tactics to surround crowds. Two perspectives one of Asst Commissioner Chris Allison and the other of his officers on site who used "kettling" on the peaceful Climate Camp G20 protesters against orders to the contrary gi…