Everywhere we go today CCTV cameras are watching us. They have become so common that we ignore their presence. Who is watching us? Why? What do the cameras see? How is this information interpreted? The MediaShed decided to answer some of these questions with some direct action. By taking over the CCTV networks the technology can be freed from its usual applications of security. Instead of a process of control, there can be a process of freedom.

The MediaShed decided to make use of the CCTV networks readily available within the environment as way of making films. By hacking and hijacking the cameras the MediaShed can create its very own television studio within buildings, shopping centres or the streets of any town. Thereby eliminating the need for expensive cameras – all that is required is a way into the system and a recording device.

The term video ‘Video Sniffing’ comes from the practice of picking up signals broadcast by wireless CCTV networks using a cheap video receiver (aka War Spying). The MediaShed has adopted this term as Video Sniffin’ and extended it to include hard-wired systems and other ways of playing with CCTV technologies. To find out more click on the project links below

• The commercial
• Mina Olen
• The duellists

56a Infoshop

56 Crampton St

LONDON

SE17 £AE

We are squatters from the Netherlands. We are asking you to organize a protests in your country against squatting prohibition in the Netherlands. We suggest to organize your protests between 26 and 28 of November, because Eerste Kamer (First Chamber of dutch parliament) will vote about squatting prohibition beginnig of December.

Rebellion, a spark in search of a powder keg - the new Action Update is out, the quarterly round-up of ecological direct action from the UK and beyond.

What's in this issue?
Old King Coal meets his Match, but the Nuclear Empire Strikes Back! Read tales of flotillas, bishop-bashing, blockades and occupations as the Rebel Alliance takes on the Empire. The rebels have also been hanging around in nets and on platforms, occupying and locking-on at coal terminals, and passionately attacking power station fences around the world, trying to shut 'em down. Mainshill protest camp continues to pro-actively resist open-cast mining - they climb, occupy, and by night, anonymous pixies sabotage. Who knows when they sleep - with a strong alliance with local villagers, they welcome YOU to come and play anytime, with a gathering at the end of October.

Want more? Radio-towers toppled, dams and trucks seized, naked oil streaks and green smears in defence of the wild, a shit dumped with shit...resistance to peat mining, genetic engineering, logging and Shell in Ireland, and for Vestas wind turbine factory and workers on the Isle of Wight.

Still not enough? Stopping Tesco, climate campaigning successes, runway invasions, more ecotage, and the EF! Winter Moot, plus contacts and upcoming dates.

To download your copy go to this website:

http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_oct09.pdf

If you want paper copies to distribute, contact us at: actionupdate@earthfirst.org.uk or pick up a bunch from our stall at the Anarchist Bookfair in London. To print your own, download from http://www.earthfirst.org.uk/efau/actionupdate_oct09print.pdf

Wanted: We are very skint! Please send us some dosh to help us pay for the printing.
Cheques can be made out to Earth First! Action Update, and poste to The Basement, 78a Penny St, Lancaster LA1 1XN

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Meet @ Victoria Station

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This is a politicised look at the my last six months living in what was a mass squat in Stepney Green. I’m writing this at the request of another L&S member who pointed out that lots of what I have been doing over the last few months is political and worth recording. I already knew it was political to a point, and I had started writing up action reports and articles on the place I’ve lived for the half a year several times, but it always fell apart after a few lines because it felt too personal to express properly. Now that all of the events are in the past, I’ll try and record it in an intentionally personal manner – it is better to have any record at all than none.

An indepth personal - but also politcal - look into the author's six months of living in the squatted Ocean Estate in Stepney Green, Eat London. Keith Hallack, the author of this brilliant text, re-examines everyday life in such a mass squat by looking at different aspects of his experience there.

195 Mare Street

195 Mare Street

195 Mare Street

195 Mare Street

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Central Hall Westminster, Lecture Hall
London
SW1H 9NH

Non-Commercial House, 163 Commercial Street, E1

Around the country billboards containing Poppy Appeal posters from the Royal British Legion are displaying images of British soldiers in Afghanistan, or their grieving widows and family. While the appeal tries to raise it's annual £30 million, most people think the best way to help the troops is to bring them home and prosecute the politicians who sent them. Below we outline how to modify these billboards yourself to carry the messages 'BRING 'EM HOME' and 'PROSECUTE BLAIR'

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Saturday 24th saw another successful edition of London's Anarchist Book Fair. The same as in previous editions, the event was very well attended throughout the day. It is difficult to say exactly how many people made it there, but looking at it from our stall we can easily say that hundreds of people (if not thousands) spent the day checking out the stalls, networking, attending sesssions and, our guess is, plotting too.

The Anarchist Book Fair has undoubtedly become a focal point for the radical, alternative, autonomous and anti-authoritarian political movements of this island, and as such, it offered a large program of talks, presentations, workshops and meetings. London IMC and Dissident Island were busy recording audio from some of these, so here there is a selection:

• Capitalism's Present Crisis: How Will It End?
• London's 2012 Olympics 
• Too Many Prisons, Not Enough Justice 
• Chat With Aki Nawaz (Fun-Da-Mental)
  
• An update with what's happening in Greece
• Ian Bone
• Postal Workers Talk

Non Commercial House, 165 Commercial Street.

Closest Stations: Liverpool Street, Aldgate East, Old Street

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52 knatcbull road (entrance from Burton rd)

High court bailiffs turned up this morning but gave up seeing as the place was barricaded, and supporters were present both outside and inside the builidng.

New Contact Udates for the Teddington Community Garden

Out Of A Job Looking For a New Occupation ! Then Join us down at Teddington Community Garden Project.

Non Commercial House has received 12 hours notice for it's eviction after losing the court case last Thursday. At around 5pm an 'Advanced Notice of Possession of Land' was received from Marston High Court Enforcement Officers & Certified Bailiffs stating that occupiers are required to leave within the next 12 hours, before Friday 23rd October, 0800 hrs. Come and stay the night tonight at 165 Commercial Street ahead of the eviction or head down in the morning before 8am.

Hackney Council is having a survey about a proposed borough-wide controlled drinking area.

London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate Street

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The rampART Social Centre was evicted at 5:30am this morning by 45 police, bailiffs and a priest.

After over 5 years and many eviction scares it has finally happened... 3 people and a dog were inside when police attempted to chanisaw the door. They also had climbers going up to the roof conjuring up memories of the raid during the G20 in April. Police are blocking the entrance to all three roads leading to the social centre with vans and their bodies. They are handing out a piece of paper with a telephone number to call to get belongings out of the building. If you are able to help move or store stuff please contact the rampART collective - rampart@mutualaid.org.

Gee Street

Courthouse, 29-41

Gee Street, off Old

Street.