Campaign for Real Democracy – London meeting at the Whitechapel Gallery
Timings: 18:30 for 19:00-20:30, on Thu 23 Jul 09
Location: the Guernica space, Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 7QX
Location Map: tinyurl.com/CRD-23Jul09-map
Public Transport: Aldgate East tube

YouTube video shows roadside ambush on mayor over lack of funding for rape crisis centres in London.

Campaigners say Boris Johnson failed to spend £744,000 promised for female victims of sexual violence

Direst action = Result, Only I predict a marked reluctance for politicians to embrace the cycling culture...

See video and article: http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2009/jul/21/campaigners-johnson-rape

Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people demonstrated outside London's French Embassy on Monday 20th to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. See full article for pics and background information. More reports 1 and 2.

More Info: Calais Migrant Solidarity | Calais No Border Camp June 2009 | Video: After Sangatte, Europe's Untold Refugee Crisis.

Earlier in the year it seemed to accepted almost as fact that this summer would see waves of unrest and street riots. But half way through summer none have happened. Peter Hogan takes a brief overview of the reasons why people haven’t come out onto the street in any great numbers.

Full article: http://www.lasthours.org.uk/articles/what-happened-to-the-summer-of-rage/

The Royal Court of Justice, Strand, London WC2

Dissident Island celebrated thier second anniversary with a show streamed on Friday 17th. This London based free radio station has been broadcasting on the internet every first and third Friday of the past 24 months, with a great mix of grass roots politics and live DJ sessions. Dissident Island is probably the longest running regular radio show in London of such kind, and a quick look to their archive of the last two years of streaming, explains why they have become one of London's referents for DIY, independent and alternative media.

Here's  IMC-London's birthday toast for Dissident Island's many happy returns!

Demonstration at the French Embassy in London, Monday 20th July

London NoBorders and No Borders Brighton are calling for a demonstration outside the French Embassy in London on Monday 20th July to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France. (see  http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/196 and http://calaismigrantsolidarity.wordpress.com/)

Where: French Embassy, 58 Knightsbridge London SW1X 7JT  (nearest tube Knightsbridge)
When: Monday 20th July, 12.30pm

Rampart Social Centre

Rampart Street

Whitechapel, E1

Monday 20th of July
12:30- 14:30

Greater London Authority, City Hall.
The Queen's Walk, SE1 2AA

Closest station London Bridge.

London Metropolitan University came to a halt on Tuesday 14th of July as hundreds of workers went on a UCU/UNISON coordinated strike in protest at continued job cuts and outsourcing. Workers and students set up picket lines at every building of North and City campuses.

At around midday a lively rally of over a hundred pickets and supporters was then held at the Central House building. Several speakers lined up to condemn the government, HEFEC and the local management for their failure to keep London Met’s finances in order – and trying to make staff and students pay the price. Following the rally a delegation then went to hand in a letter and petition to Peter Mandelson urging him to step in and save London Met University. at the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.

The Apple Tree pub, 45 Mount Pleasant, WC1 (Russell Square, Farringdon, Kings X or Angel tube).

The UN human rights instruments have excluded a number of rights which particularly affected the independent peoples (e.g. small business) and the most disadvantaged. They prevent the poor from helping themselves. It is apparent these rights were considered incompatible with neo liberalism and globalization. They constitute 'bottom-up' rights which the discontented will need to struggle for and have included in domestic and international human rights law. These rights also entail an ethical globalization which requires the State to immediately address core minimum obligations domestically and, if necessary, help other States achieve theirs.

Activists from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Greece blocked the gate of the closed detention centre in Lesquin (Lille, France). This action took place during the start of the No Border Camp in Calais, the 24th of June 2009, where an exagerated police force was summoned to avoid direct actions...

If the cell form of capitalism is the commodity, the cellular form of a society beyond capital is the common. Nick Dyer-Witheford discusses the circulation of commons and the conditions they would create for new collective projects and waves of organising.

It has been eight lean years for the movement of movement since its Seattle high point of 1999. Since September 11th 2001 many activists’ energies have been directed to opposing the invasion and occupation of Iraq, other conflicts in Afghanistan and Lebanon, and abuses of civil liberties and media truth. But the war on terror has also had a deadening effect on oppositional hopes and imagination. Or so it seems to me, an academic in Canada whose political energies have recently been absorbed opposing his university’s making tanks for the US Army. Comrades are engaged in labour organising, post-carbon planning, the self-organisation of the homeless, municipal elections and other projects. But the optimistic sense of another world as not only possible but probable, imminent, has given way to something more sombre. Even in this no-longer-frozen North, the upsurge of popular movements and governments in Latin America is an inspiration. Otherwise, however, horizons have contracted.

Full Article: http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-1/commonism/

On April the 4, 2008, Moscow cops beat up and arrested seven young men near metro station Sokolniki in Moscow. Now one of them faces up to 5 years of prison.We ask you to support the Global Action Day in support of Seva Ostapov on July the 18th and carry out solidarity actions.

Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St. London NW1

We are asking the Prime Minister to ensure that NHS service provisions and funding arrangements for services for adults with ADHD are reviewed and revised urgently

The lying policeman - BBC Panorama footage edited with my Climate Camp G20 protests documentation... Complaints about police actions regarding the police's controversial "kettling" tactics to surround crowds. Two perspectives one of Asst Commissioner Chris Allison and the other of his officers on site who used "kettling" on the peaceful Climate Camp G20 protesters against orders to the contrary given by Chris Allison so we are led to believe, or were they doing "what they were told" ?????? ..!*F*$£

G8 2009. From Rome, looking at L’Aquila and the World.

“Seven winds in the lower calendars and geographies:

first wind, a worthy and angry youth”.

Subcomandante Marcos, Ezln, Chiapas, Mexico.

Message to the greek rebels on december 2008.

On July 8th, 9th and 10th the president-master of the italian government, Silvio Berlusconi, will host the summit of the “Big Eight” of the Planet. The summit will take place in the fortress of a State Police Corps, in Coppito, a town close to L’Aquila, a city where people and land are still devasted by the earthquake of the 6th of April 2009. The president moved there the summit from its original destination: a luxury liner off the sardinian coast of La Maddalena.

Due by the action of this arrogant governor, leader of a speculation and war system responsible for the crisis, is taking shape an attempt to validate again the failed global political governance. The situationist of reaction, Silvio Berlusconi, gives to the “Big” of the Planet the opportunity to perform a show of “sobrity”, as he called it. A show he would like to be appropriate to face the growing ostilities and rebellions rising in every corner of the World against the G8’s decisions and dominance.

Read full text (it, eng, es):  http://www.indipendenti.eu/blog/?p=6913&lang=en

REPORT BACK FROM THE CALAIS NO BORDERS CAMP

No Borders campaigners, calling for freedom of movement for all people and an end to migration controls, culminated their week long camp in Calais (See SchNEWS 681) with a demonstration outside the city’s main port last Saturday. Over 2,000 people took to the streets against the increasingly tight border controls at the channel crossing, the bottleneck of Fortress Europe where many undocumented migrants - or ‘sans papier’, people without papers – risk their life for months, sometimes years, just to move from France to the UK.

Read full article: http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news6821.php

A liberated venue somewhere in London
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Venue announced:

454-490 Mile End Road (old car showroom)
London E1 4PE (map) opposite St Mary's university, just West of the Regent Canal, on the south side of Mile End Road

More news is emerging of just how dehumanising and brutal have been the effects of the immigration raids at SOAS organised by external contractor ISS shortly after the cleaners won union recognition and pay rises to the level of the London living wage.

One of the UNISON members picked up, who was traumatised by the clandestine nature of the raid and the appearance of around 40 officers in full body armour, arrived back in Bogota, 48 hours after the raid, wearing the same clothes she was arrested in and with 75 pence in her pocket. Disorientated and distressed, she was simply dumped in Bogota-hundreds of miles from her home town without any concern as to how she could get back to her family. Read more.

Previous features: SOAS Raided by Immigration Police | SOAS Students Occupy Director's Office
Related websites: Justice for SOAS cleaners blog

The Dog House, 293 Kennington Road, SE11 6BY

www.dissidentisland.org

Meeting at Portman Square, at the south end of Baker Street

Here there are links to two reports and first hand accounts published in IMC-UK of the Calais No Border Camp 2009, and the Transnational Demonstration for The Freedom of Movement, that took place in Calais city on Satuday 27 June.

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.

A group of locals and housing activists have seized the constituency home of the MP couple who had the highest expense claim of all! Both Labour MPs they were known as "Mr and Mrs Expenses" two years before the MP spending scandal broke; Mrs Keen, a health minister recently admitted making an expense claim for private hospital treatment for a member of her staff. At the centre of their scandal was their double mortgage claim, where they illegally used Parliamentary expenses to pay interest on the mortgages of both their homes - one of which has now been occupied by outraged locals along with activists from all backgrounds and nationalities.

July Delegation to Venezuela: Human Rights, Food Sovereignty & Social Change
 
The Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of NY invites you to join us in July for a 10-day trip to Venezuela examining advances in food sovereignty and other initiatives for social change.

INN ON THE GREEN
3-5 Thorpe Close W10
Ladbroke Grove tube
Buses 7, 15, 23, 52, 70, 295