Starting at Occupy LSX at St Paul's Cathedral at 12 Noon.

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…

Video of the UKuncut 'Block the Bridge, Block the Bill' NHS action which saw up to 3000 blockading Westminster Bridge on Sun 9th October 2011. 

http://www.ukuncut.org.uk

http://london.indymedia.org/articles/10368

Music by Cosmo - Strike! Occupy! Resist! (Flapsandwich Re-Rub)

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PLEA FOR PEACE IN PARLIAMENT  SQUARE

An anti-wedding zombie breakfast gathering, organised by Chris Knight's Government of the Dead, failed to amass after Chris was arrested last night following a handful of pre-wedding raids in which a guillotine and effigies were also confiscated. London, UK, 29/04/2011.

Brian Haw lost his appeal against eviction from the square, controlled by the London Parks and Gardens Trust but the order does not affect the anti-war protesters from demonstrating on Westminster Council's pavement. The new case will begin May 9th. London, UK, 28/04/2011.

Public & Commercial Services Union members, amongst others gathered opposite Parliament to demonstrate as George Osborne delivered the 2011 UK Budget. London, UK, 23/03/2011.

Food and drink were provided to the homeless outside Westminster Catherdral as the council is looking at introducing a byelaw in Central London and Victoria which would banning rough sleeping and giving to the homeless. London, UK, 20/03/2011.

Tens of thousands of students and schoolchildren marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees.

Violence erupted as thousand of protesters battled police and stormed a building containing the headquarters of the governing Conservative Party.

Over 50,000 students, lecturers and supporters demonstrated against plans to raise the cost of studying at a university to…

House of Lords debate. 8th Nov 2010.



Following a question by Baroness Trumpington of the Conservative party asking: "Is any agency responsible the removal of those occupying the pavement in Parliament Square?" , Home Office Minister Baroness Neville-Jones declares the UK government's intention to bring in new legislation to remove the Parliament Square protesters. One of the protesters: Brian Haw …

On the day that Tony Blair cancelled his book signing event in London, activists scaled the scaffolding on the Houses of Parliament to make a banner drop following a diversion tactic employed at the front gates. London, UK. 08/09/2010

Activists scaled parliament yesterday to protest at the continued atrocities in Afghanistan. One of them, Seamus, has been given bail conditions that imply he may be shot if he trespasses again.

Seamus is also in court at Horseferry Road on Monday morning at 10am on a charge of assaulting war criminal Jack Straw. Support and solidarity warmly welcomed at the Court then.

Parliament Square, Westminster

Over 3000 people descended on Downing Street and closed off Whitehall. The march on the Israeli Embassy began at 1400 hours. London, United Kingdom, 05/06/2010.

George Galloway joined a Stop the War protest to deliver a petition to the Home Office concerning the palestinian protesters that have been given lengthy jail sentences for their involvement in protests outside the Israeli embassy in January as a result of Israeli led offensive Operation Cast Lead. London, United Kingdom, 30/03/2010.

Angry tenants living in affordable and key worker housing owned by the Crown Estate grouped together from five London boroughs and rallied outside the Estate’s headquarters in New Burlington Place to prevent the sale of their homes. London, United Kingdom, 23/03/2010.

If desecrating Nottingham Castle was not enough, on Friday the 5th of March, whilst in London to pay homage to their far right extremist prophet Geert Wilders, the "patriotic crusaders of England's cultural heritage" paid their respect to one of England's most historic sacred Christian sites, deluging Westminster Abbey with gallons of filthy urine.

As Gordon Brown gave evidence inside the QEII conference centre people such as George, who joined the Royal Artillery in 1947 and served one and a half years in the SAS demonstrated outside. George will be 90 on the 8th of May, but he was still determined to show his anger over the continuous war being waged in Iraq. London, United Kingdom. 05/03/2010.

Care workers protest outside Downing Street to demand more funding and acknowledgment from the government for the work that they undertake. London, United Kingdom, 03/03/2010.

Around one hundred protesters attend a demonstration outside the Defence and Security Organisation (DSO) based in Kingsgate House on Victoria Street. The protest was organised by SPEAK, a network who connect young adults and students to campaign and pray about issues concerning global injustice. London, United Kingdom. 01/03/2010.

In a bold occupation at 2.30 this morning, a woman from peacestrike.org.uk has converted the Parliament Square Churchill statue into a mock-up of a Sri Lankan death camp. She intends to stay there as long as possible to highlight the plight of hundreds of thousands of Tamil civilians facing threat of starvation, rape, torture or murder. phone interview link below.

check back here for timeline upd…

There was a huge turn-out for the Tamil march in London this afternoon. Police turned a blind eye to the hundreds of Tamil Eelam flags which were proudly displayed. The march was good-natured, though sombre and dignified.

Previous Features: Tamil Blockade at Parliament | Tamils Blockade Parliament Square Again | SOCPA, the tamils, and the grass | Held for 24 hours by police for flag-waving

tamil protesters are leaving parliament square tonight and are calling for support on their march on saturday. a call-out has been put together by members of various supporting organisations.

Police detained Maria Gallestegui (from peacestrike.org) for 24 hours after her arrest yesterday evening for waving the Tamil Eelam homeland flag at Parliament Square.

Maria has finally just been released from Belgravia police station after being held for 24 hours for waving a flag that a week ago we were categorically told on film was not proscribed and so she couldn't be 'processed' or arrested…

police have been arresting tamils waving their national flag in parliament square. yesterday, maria (peacestrike.org.uk) tested the legality of this by standing outside new scotland yard and arguing it out on film when confronted by officers. this story is regularly updated as news develops.

when is a flag a terrorist flag? the answer, it seems, depends on who and where you are! if you are a tamil student peacefully demonstrating in parliament square, it is, and you get arrested. if you are tony benn mp and you are in parliament square, you get photographed but not arrested. if you stand outside new scotland yard and challenge the police to arrest you, suddenly it magically becomes th…

police, rather than test the truth in court, have taken to their usual method of unlawful seizure and intimidation in the battle against tamil flag waving in parliament square

At 16:00 this Monday afternoon (18th), Tamil protestors broke through the police barriers around Parliament Square and have once again blockaded Parliament. Traffic is being diverted away from the square. Although there were many police present, they were apparently taken off guard.

See full article for the timeline of events.

Photos: [1] Previous coverage: 17 May | 15 May |

as more news gets out that the 'safe zone' in sri lanka is a mass of flames, tamils gathered in parliament square this morning with black flags