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London Olympics 2012 prices tenants out of homes

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

london catholic workers new project opened yesterd

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london catholic workers are part of a worldwide radical catholic movement started nearly 80 years ago in america. they have set up nearly 200 houses of hospitality for the poor, the homeless, and the dispossessed, mostly in america, but spreading into european and other countries too. yesterday saw the official opening of another house in east london.

East London Sukkah - Food, Faith and Activism

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Spitalfields City Farm

Buxton Street

London

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G20 April 2nd: Raids and Remembrance

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With the G20 London Summit meeting, several demonstrations took place, including an early morning giant game of monopoly outside the Stock Exchange and several hundred protesting outside the ExCeL centre where the G20 were [report].

Elsewhere a remembrance event took place outside the Bank of England, near to where Ian Tomlinson died during the previous days demonstration. Heavily policed, people…

G20 Radio on Dissident Island - April 1st and 3rd

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Dissident Island Radio and friends present...

Participatory democracy, East London style

First impressions of the Twelth Anniversary Assembly of The East London Communities Organisation, TELCO. (12/11/08)