Thursday, 5th March

On the third demo day in a row for the SHAC London posse, we did 6 demonstrations against the financial contributors to Huntingdon Life Sciences, starting with a morning demo at TIAA-CREF in Cavendish Square just off Oxford Circus.

TIAA-CREF have over 78,000 shares in HLS, and we shamed them in front of their fellow workers. Sell your blood money shares TIAA-CREF!

the streets of london

the island of dissidence

Shell due to start work soon

Shell will attempt to lay the offshore pipe this Spring and preparation work both on land and at sea is due to start in the next few weeks. We are determined to stop this preparation work and so people are needed from mid-March - May. We expect Shell to begin putting up security fences and building the compound very soon, possibly in the next days/ weeks...
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rampART Social Centre

15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)

This morning yet again we were outside the doors of the AIG building in Fenchurch Street demanding they sell their blood money shares in HLS. This company is spending US tax payer's money on supporting the torture of monkeys, puppies and kittens inside HLS - what a disgrace! We were there from half eight to greet the workers going in and stayed for about an hour and a quarter. They didn't like the "World's biggest ever losers" placard one bit, though it is completely accurate.

Tamar Katz is a 19-year-old Israeli who has refused to serve in the Israeli army. Israel requires all young men and women to serve in its army, and Tamar has served three prison sentences for her refusal.

Please join us to hear more about Tamar's courageous stand, and to show your support to her and other refusers.

Tuesay, 3rd March

A quick glance at this morning's newspapers and we were in no doubt
where to do a demo!

AIG, shareholders in HLS to the tune of about 40,000, have just announced record breaking losses of over $60bn in the last 3 months, and over $70bn in the last year. Not only that, but they have been funded by the US tax payer by about $150bn with another $30bn due to follow. As if the US is a perfect country! The US have millions of people homeless, tens of millions of people who can't afford healthcare and tens of millions of people living below the poverty line, and yet it's AIG that get the help from the US government!!

The Ship Pub (Upstairs), 12 Gate Street, Holborn, WC2A 3HP

On November the 5th 2008 took place a global action day for education. Protests took place at least in
Liberia, Germany (Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Mannheim, Marburg), Croatia (Zagreb, Pula), Bangladesh
Canada (Toronto, Ottawa, Sudbury, Thunder Bay, Mississauga, London, Guelph, Peterborourgh, Hamilton,
Scarborough, Kingston, Windsor), USA (Kentucky), Austria, Argentina, England (Gateshead, Manchester), Bulgaria, Serbia, Turkey (Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakir, Ankara), Egypt, Sierra Leone, (f.Y.R.o.) Macedonia, Netherlands, France, Ireland (Dublin, Galway).
though we did not have material from all those places the video is kind of small but tries to give at least a feeling of what happened at this day.

titles are in english in this version

for more information look at
http://www.emancipating-education-for-all.org

Your local job centre, the city, parliament... you decide! from 7 -15 March

Not satisfied with just the impending SHAC City Shakedown march at noon in London, a few London activists warmed up their voices and gave their placards an airing by showing up early at AIG 48 Berkeley Square, London W1J 5AX to greet workers as they came into work. We shamed them in front of their neighbours for their recent investment in Huntingdon Life Sciences. This will not be tolerated AIG and we won't be leaving you alone until those shares are sold.

Around 300 people traveled from around the country (and some from around the world!) to gather by the Bank of England, the only bank in the world to give HLS banking facilities at the behest of the Government for a loud and vibrant demonstration against the financial supporters of HLS in the centre of London.

Around 300 people traveled from around the country (and some from around the world!) to gather by the Bank of England, the only bank in the world to give HLS banking facilities at the behest of the Government for a loud and vibrant demonstration against the financial supporters of HLS in the centre of London.

The march aimed to publicly show the financial investors, or even prospective investors, that we won’t tolerate puppies being thrown around, monkeys being cut open alive and other innocent animals suffering in silence. Of our anger, passion, focus and determination to carry on the fight despite repressive laws and long jail sentences that some SHAC campaigners have received.

The march started off in front of the Bank of England with 20 or so journalists and photographers who followed the protest march around a circular route of 2 miles around the city's financial district.

Monday, 23th February

Only three of us for another mini demo inside the 'SOCPA-zone' where we protested against Barclays (biggest HLS shareholder), but we still managed to do a decent little demo while leafletting about this Friday's march. We managed about 40 minutes of a demonstration before being told to clear off by a sergeant. It's a free society to demonstrate as long as you get permission and give 6 days notice! What a joke! Anyway, SHAC doesn't care about SOCPA and we'll be returning some time soon.

Tuesday, 24th February

Another busy day targeting the companies who assist HLS financially was spent in London.

Please see below details of the legal case against David Miliband, John Hutton and Peter Mandelson in relation to UK's international obligations to cease assisting Israel because of its attack on Gaza.

You may wish to come on Tuesday 24th February at 11.00 am to the Royal Courts of Justice to show your support for Gaza and protest against the British Government's failure to stop supporting the Israeli aggressor.

On the afternoon of Wednesday the 18th of February over 50 students of the University of East London occupied a lecture theatre in protest over Israel's blockade of Gaza and the recent atrocities inflicted upon the people of Palestine.  We have remained in occupation for over four days now.

Wednesday, 18th February

Today a group of vallient freedom fighters numbering 15 invaded London. The bloody brutes of Barclays, King Street, were target number 1 of our crusade today.

Please note that professor finkelstein will be speaking at two different venues on the same day. 

Norman Finkelstein explores the corruption and bias of scholarship surrounding the Palestine-Israel conflict. The talk will examine the growing tendency of pro-Israel commentators to use spurious charges of anti-Semitism to deflect and discredit legitimate criticism of Israel. With historical depth and intellectual integrity, Finkelstein rejects the view that the Israel-Palestine conflict is impossibly complex as a mystification, insists that the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948, and exposes Israel's damning human rights record.

15 -17 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA (near Whitechapel, off Commercial Rd)

7-10pm

Istanbul indymedia reports

While the National Union of Journalists was teaming up with comedian media activst Mark Thomas , Chris Atkins (the BAFTA nominated director and writer of the feature film documentary Taking Liberties), Marc Vallée (photojournalist blogger), The British Journal of Photography and others for a “media event” outside New Scotland Yard, I was busy trying to take photos useful for all my terrorist buddies.

I was a little unsure at exactly what would be useful but I just pointed my camera at whatever all the photographers outside New Scotland Yard were shooting. Apparently these photographers are well known for providing photos to terrorists so I assumed they knew what they were doing. They must be a terrible threat to security as a new law was came into power today which gives the cops the power to arrest photographers in order to prevent just this type of thing from happening. See video [1] [2] of the protest.

Thursday, 12th February - Barclays, AIG and BNY Mellon have demos in the city.
Friday, 13th February - Barclays and Astrazeneca named and shamed

Occupying Goldsmiths Students win total victory in 29 hours.

Eye Witnesses and the authors of "The Wounds of Gaza", published in the Lancet last week, Dr Ang Swee Chai and Dr Ghassan Abu Sittah, will speak at our next IFY meeting at Islington Town Hall on Monday, 16 February 7pm.

Royal Courts of Justice, Strand, London, WC2A 2LL

Students at Goldsmiths college have occupied the Deptford town hall building in the centre of the campus. The red and black flag has been hoisted above the building and a banner embalzoned "OCCUPATION" has been hung on the front of the building.

The students have occupied the building in the aim of securing two scholarships, for students from Al-Quds university, which Goldsmiths is twinned with.

Update Saturday 14th Feb: Occupying Goldsmiths Students win total victory in 29 hours.

Photos | Occupation blog

Wednesday, February 4th

Even more financial demos in the City of London

Central review in English of the Internationalist Communist Group (ICG)