LARC...and pumpin' out of your stereo

Provocation: Wheelchair-user in Nazi uniform on the Plinth

Trafalgar Square’s Fourth Plinth as part of Antony Gormley’s One & Other project

Artist and activist Liz Crow sat on the plinth in a crowded Saturday night Square on her wheelchair wearing full Nazi regalia to draw attention to a hidden history and the message it holds for us all today

A network for radical anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist groups and individuals in UK universities and colleges formed and statement of unity agreed upon.
STATEMENT OF UNITY;

1. We reject the capitalist system and the structures that defend it - in particular, the state apparatus.
2. We reject and challenge all forms of oppression, including - but not limited to - heterosexism, racism and disablism.
3. We reject hierarchical organisation and the concentration of power in the hands of the few; we are committed to grassroots organisational methods that allow individuals autonomy within the network.
4. We advocate the abolition, rather than the mere reform, of capitalism and hierarchical structures.
5. We advocate revolutionary means to achieve a world based on sustainability, freedom and equality.

Battle of the websites spectactular! 

A knock down drag-out head-to-head debate between libcom.org and the ukwatch.net mob. Sparks (and visions of future societies) fly as they fight it out.  Who's the winner? You be the judge!

From their site:

PPS-UK are a growing global movement of people that has turned its attention to organising around what we are for, not only what we are against. We are committed to developing, promoting and implementing vision and strategy for alternative participatory social institutions.

There's a good video intro to PPS-UK.

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

On a sunny afternoon, SHAC London decided to meet up for an AstraZeneca demo and this week due to the events in Europe, concerning one Daniel Vasella, of Novartis we were joined by a camera crew from the Swiss television network, TSR.

They had lots of questions, all press is good press! We told them about the 7 exposes in the past 12 years at HLS, of the cruelty, scientific fraud, etc

http://www.shac.net/news/2009/august/6.html

Steps of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square

Welcome home Mandy! At 6am on June 10, two climate suffragettes and the Yes Men barricaded Peter Mandelson's Regent's Park home in support of the Vestas workers and wind power in the UK. The climate suffragettes, chained to his gate, unfurled a banner reading 'Mandy, Put Some Wind in Vestas' Sales' while the Yes Men inflated their 'survivor balls' in preparation for the worst effects of climate change.

Camp Ashraf solidarity hunger strikers on day 11 outside US embassy, London

Around ten Iranian exiles have been on hunger strike outside the US embassy in London for the past eleven days in protest at alleged brutality by Iraqi forces against Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, at least twelve of whom have been killed, 500 injured and 26 taken hostage according to the protesters.

There will be a rally outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, Mayfair on Saturday, 8 August, from 7pm.

Freedom Not Fear 2009

International Action Day
"Freedom Not Fear 2009 - Stop the surveillance-mania"

On 12. September 2009 we call for the 2nd International Action Day in as many capital cities as possible around the world to demonstrate against the total retention of telecommunication data and other instruments of surveillance. We would like to recall the remembrance of the historical achievement of civil rights and liberties as a heritage of the age of enlightenment and to support the trust in security in our free society.

The International Action Day "Freedom Not Fear 2009″ is organized by organizations in several countries.

The goal is to organize protest marches or arts actions or lectures or flashmobs... in as many countries as possible at the very same day on 12. September 2009.

Please click on the tiny flags at the top of the page to get information about the actions planned in your country. You can also find an overview about all coutries/national contacts and other data here.

Your country is not listed or the page is still empty? That means, that nobody has taken responsibility for the protest in your country, so it is an opportunity for YOU do do so!

Here is a help page for you! The concept can be found here. Or please get in contact with us, we will provide you with further informations and will help you with organizing the protest in your country!

Camp for Climate Action 2009: Prepare to Swoop!

On Wed 26th August, the Camp for Climate Action will take back the city of London in a massive public swoop. Everyone is welcome to join us, as we converge on the secret location where the camp will rise. This summer, we are swooping together, and together we will transform a part of London into the physical manifestation of our desired worlds.

"A British man has been arrested for his role in running one of the internet's oldest file sharing websites.

The man - who started the FileSoup website in 2003 - was taken into custody last week after a raid on his home in Taunton, Somerset, and subsequently released on bail without charge."

FileSoup isn't even a tracker, just a forum were people share links. Once again brit police goes and arrests people, raids their home, and doesn't seem to understand how things work.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/04/file-soup-sharing-tv-movies

"One in three young people say they are not willing to pay for for online services such as digital music and video downloads, according to a report published by the European Commission."

everything for free for everyone!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/aug/04/third-young-people-pay-music-online

Sex workers are routinely portrayed in the media as victims.

At London’s first ever Sex Worker Open University, over two hundred sex workers and allies from the UK and abroad took part in workshops, discussions and actions. 

This film presents an alternative and empowered image of the sex worker: http://current.com/items/90496517_sex-worker-open-university.htm

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

Rampart, 15-17 Rampart Street, Whitechapel, E1 2LA

[BREAKING NEWS] Ed Miliband's London offices were blockaded this morning by a coalition of "red, green and black" activists in a demonstration of solidarity for the factory workers who have been occupying the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight since the 20th July.

The occupation in Newport is protesting against the Vestas management's decision to shut down the factory, cutting 600 jobs and representing a severe blow to the local community and to a green economy. The workers are currently entering their fifteenth day of occupation, calling for nationalisation and workers' control of the factory.

The activists in Whitehall, holding placards saying "take back the wind power" and wearing red, green and black as a symbol of their diverse political viewpoints, glued themselves in a chain across the entrance of the Department for Energy and Climate Change, demanding that the factory be kept open.

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Following a late and hesitant start the large Mass proceeded on its joyful way shouting through the Strand underpass. Those at the front chose to avoid the usual popular stopping places with lifted bicycles celebrations. There was hardly any police presence at all, except towards the end when they seemed to facilitate rather than impede the ride. A taxi is shown attempting to ram its way through the riders, a not uncommon tactic by impatient drivers.

http://criticalmasslondon.org.uk/

Wednesday, 29th July

Hey AZ, you're getting a bit paranoid or what?

Some of SHAC London decided to meet up for a AstraZeneca demo this afternoon and we were all raring to go as we hadn't met up for a little while, when we were approached by a copper. Apparently, a rather paranoid Duty Inspector had gotten wind of our demo so decided to send a car load of bobbies down to see what the crack was.

http://www.shac.net/news/2009/july/29.html

School of African and Oriental Studies (SOAS), Torrington Place, central London

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The Vestas occupation continues - DEMONSTRATE in London TONIGHT, 6pm outside the Department for Energy and Climate Change, off Whitehall.

During the week a group of activists from the London Neighborhood of the Camp for Climate Action travelled down to the Isle of Wight to support the workers of the Vestas who have occupied their factory in protest at the companies decision to close the factor, export the production and dump over five hundred jobs. I went down with them to document their visit...

Demonstration held to highlight migrant situation in Calais.

AstraZeneca, 15 Stanhope Gate, London, W1K 1LN

This morning we made a surprise visit to AstraZeneca in one of the richest parts of London - near the US Embassy. It was something that the staff definitely did not want to see as they came into work. Pathetic workers struggled to pull their blinds down to shield their eyes from the placards we were holding. They might not want to know the truth, but their neighbours do and they know that AZ are up to their necks in torture.

http://www.shac.net/news/2009/july/22.html