The anarchist media collective a-films has just published a new short film ("Two Years Under Siege"/10min) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon.

Elmira Street
London
SE13 7BN

2 mins from Lewisham Station (overland from London Bridge, or DLR)

2A Belgraed Road Social Centre

Belgrade Road

Dalston

(off Stoke Newington High Street)

Bus stop: Princess May Road

14th - 21st June 2009 represents the ninth international Refugee Week - the run up to World Refugee Day, held on June 20th each year.

This year's Refugee Week featured a number of events, from the 'Celebrating sanctuary' festival on the South Bank, and various sporting events featuring refugee teams, to the 'Still Human, still here' demonstration on World Refugee day itself.

FitWatch activists at climate camp last year aggressively targetted by the police.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jun/21/kingsnorth-protester-arrests-video-complaint

Room SGO1

College of Law

14 Store Street

WC1

(Goodge Street Station)

Trafalgar Square, London

Dateline: Housemans Bookshop, Kings Cross, London, UK, 17:00-18:30, Sat 13 Jun 09 – The International School for Bottom-up Organising stages an uplifting, engaging and inspiring book launch for it’s excellent debut publication: “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, featuring Latin American Polyphonic Singing, a Live Excerpt from the book, why we need A Maloka in Every Community, and Freedom Singing to finish off with. In a nutshell – Best. Book. Launch. EVER!!!

The SOAS occupation ended at 12.30pm on Wednesday, having achieved most of what such an action could have achieved. After several rounds of intense negotiations, the occupiers and the management reached an agreement in which the management agreed to all five demands put forward by the protesters, albeit in a not-very-committing way.

See report and the signed document in which the management promises to “review” the immigration raid and “discuss” the possibility of bringing cleaning services in-house and the “health and safety issues” relating to immigration raids on campus.

Ten year's ago today and a global Carnival Against Capital was erupting across the world with co-ordinated protests taking place in over 40 countries on June 18th 1999.

Directly targeting financial centres the J18 day of International Action was stunning in its scale and ran alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Koln Germany. It followed the Global Street Party that had been held alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Birmingham in 1998 and co-ordinated through Reclaim The Streets.

To remember it, here's a set of 23 pictures from London J18 courtesy of a photographer who was there for the morning and the party, but who missed the ensuing riot as police fought to regain control of the City of London.

The reasons for struggle are greater now than then, and climate change and economic meltdowns threaten the lives and livelihoods of us all.

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

LARC, 62 Fieldgate Street. Whitechapel, E1 1ES

SERCO Institute, 22 Hand Court, off High Holborn, WC1V 6JF

Staff and students come together to fight the massive cuts proposed to provision of English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) at Tower Hamlets College.

http://www.freesoascleaners.blogspot.com/

SOAS directors office occupied to demand release of 9 cleaners! Rally called for 4.30pm today‏

DEMONSTRATION Monday 15th June at 8.30am on SOAS Steps. Please bring banners and other visual, audio aids.

We denounce the actions of the school and demand that academic institutions should not be complicit in assisting the Government in implementing their racist immigration programme. We find this particularly disgraceful given SOAS’s attempt to shake the reputation leftover from its colonial past. SOAS cannot lecture other countries about oppression when it complies in programmes such as this.

Without any advance warning from their ISS bosses nor the university management, SOAS cleaning staff were confronted by a hefty team of immigration officers at 6.30am this morning (Friday 12 June). Fearful cleaners were detained on SOAS premises as the officers demanded to see their papers. Some were taken into rooms of the university to be interviewed. A shocked witness said that someone had to intervene when a heavily-pregnant cleaner was being manhandled by immigration officers. Nine cleaners were taken away by Immigration Officers.

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