A landlord who attempted to claim that his property was exempt from HMO (House in Multiple Occupation) licensing regulations has been fined £15,000 after Lewisham Council prosecuted him for leaving his rented property in unsafe and dangerous conditions. Dr Paul Banks who owns a supposedly ‘ethical’ housing company, The Manna Housing, is known to be involved in various Permaculture and Raw food rel…

I'm not a public servant, not employed in the UK and not unionised. Went out on strike today anyway. I started from the mobile picket of the South London Solidarity Federation at Lewisham Town Hall, visited Goldsmith College and its teach out session, and joined the Precarious Workers Brigade at Lincolns Inn Fields. Below the pics are some more descriptions and questions about the possibility of s…

On the third day of the unrest in London people started to report clashes with the police in Hackney and Lewisham, around 6pm clashes with police were reported from Peckham Rye area. In Hackney people started to smash windows along Mare Street. There have also been running skirmishes and large fires reported in Croydon this evening. At 9pm there are also reports from, Catford, Ilford, and Clapham…

We joined the J30 Critical Mass at the Brixton Oval. Prior to that we had been for a while visiting the different pickets in the Brixton area, and we quickly realised that this strike wasn't going to be confined to a ritual Unions march in central London. We stood for a while in the Lambeth College picket in Brixton Hill where we noticed the constant shows of support by the honking cars passing by…

Review of the performance of "Twelve", as adapted from "Twelve Angry Men" by Reginald Rose, and performed by Sanford Collective, which was announced here:

https://london.indymedia.org/events/9126

Local members of the public have occupied the disused Job Dentre in Deptford as a response to the brutal cuts to public services being carried out at both a local and national level. 124 Deptford High Street. As of Tuesday 15th of March 11, they are still keeping it, and are holding an open day on Wednesday the 16th from noon onwards.



They aim to create a space from which the anti-cuts movement c…

Several UKuncut 'Big Society Bail-in' actions against Barclays bank took place today across london. At the same time around 1000 people took part in the Lewisham Carnival Against Cuts [pic | videos 1|2] and around 500 marched in Hackney [pic more]. See Tumblewire updates + Live blog archive

In Brixton around 40 people blockaded the Barclays branch for around an hour and a half whilst handing out …

Last Saturday more then 30 people occupied New Cross Library in protest against Lewisham council's plan - originally to close it, now to sell it off to some non-public body and withdraw funding. ( Report | Video ) The occupiers stayed overnight until Sunday and spent Saturday and Sunday with "read ins" and discussions. Read ins were also happening at all the threatened libraries in Lewisham and m…

New Cross Library has been occupied in protest against Lewisham council's plan - originally to close it, now to sell it off to some non-public body and withdraw funding, thus ensuring it will not function properly as a library and will likely fail altogether.

We plan to be here till lunchtime Sunday (tomorrow) at least, so come and pop in, put the word out.

Update from the occupied library, and events today and this evening...

Labour's Lewisham Council votes Mayor Bullock's cuts in behind closed doors, and defends the vote by riot police.

Inspired by the recent student protests and angry about proposed local cuts people in Lewisham stormed the Town Hall where a vote on the cuts was taking place after the number of people allowed into the meeting was cut.

Around 100 people tried to force their way into the building. Extra riot police were sent to the town hall along with police horses and dogs to disperse the protest using force.

ANGRY clashes broke out in Lewisham, London, on Monday night as police stopped campaigners from attending a key council meeting.

Last wednesday (3rd September), as the Camp for Climate Action finished up clearing the site of this years climate camp, a group of activists pitched a tent within the grounds of E-on owed Ratcliffe-on-Soar coal-fired power station in Nottinghamshire. The tent was emblazoned with the words “Climate Camp is coming” in reference to their plans to shut down the power station in October.

An IWW education worker discusses school occupations, grassroots power, and radical education...

Three metropolitan police officers are due to appear in court charged with perverting the course of justice. A man was arrested in January 2008 for possession of cannabis but charges were dropped when a digital voice recording was played raising question to the officers' statements. They are due to appear at Southwark crown court on August 17th 2009 for a five-day trial.

Up to 100 people gathered at the occupied Lewisham Bridge School this morning to stop today’s eviction scheduled for 10:30am. A youthful and lively contingent joined local parents on the roof whilst local supporters gathered outside the front of the school. The mood remained positive, despite a strong police presence including a helicopter earlier in the day.



Bailiffs entered the school but …

Parents and other community campaigners around the Defend Education in Lewisham campaign have been occupying the roof of Lewisham Bridge school in south London since 23 April.

The spirit of the Glasgow school occupation and the Visteon workers has spread and parents in a primary school in Lewisham have occupied the school roof in protest at its closure. Lewisham Bridge Primary School is a thriving community school, recently given a Grade II listing by English Heritage who have described it as having "special architectural and historic interest".



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Early this morning (23 April 2009), parents of children who attend Lewisham Bridge Primary School bravely occupied the roof of the school in protest at Lewisham Council’s reprehensible decision to bus all the pupils and teachers 3 miles each day to another site.

Protesting parents have occupied a school roof-top to voice opposition against plans to build a new academy.

Children from Lewisham Bridge Primary School are being bussed from their school gates to a temporary school in nearby New Cross as part of the plans.

Campaigners said the disruption would adversely affect their children's education and want the plans reversed.

But Lewisham Council insist…