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The Grosvenor, Sidney road, Stockwell, London SW9 OTP

2A Belgrade Road Social Centre

2a Belgrade Road off Stoke Newington High Street

Dalston,

Hackney

A detailed account and analysis of the struggle of Ford-Visteon car manufacturing workers who occupied and picketed their plants after being sacked when their employers declared themselves bankrupt.

See: http://libcom.org/history/report-reflections-uk-ford-visteon-dispute-2009-post-fordist-struggle

The following notes are an attempt to capture the spirit of the discussion of one of the groups at the Anarchist Conference 09.  The format of the conference was novel and worked very well - everyone who joined was taken away from their "normal" affinity group and placed in a discussion group with a selection of other people who weren't in the same organization, so that each group became to some extent a cross-section of the anarchist movement in the UK.

Each paragraph below represents a different person speaking, so the perspective shifts quite a bit, but it is interesting to observe how strangely coherent the whole discussion proved to be.

52 knartchbull road (entrance from burton rd)

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In the style of nineties protest camps and 'The Land Is Ours' land rights occupations, a group of people have squatted a brown field site next to the Thames by Kew Bridge in West London. The site has apparently been empty for over ten years. 

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and evictions, ecological issues (and their co-optation), militant squatting for housing, workplace and school occupations, and hundreds of other tactics for self-organized trouble-making during a time of crisis. 

There was a major intervention by a group of anarcha-feminists during the conference plenary, featuring a video (on youtube) projection calling out the sexists in the movement for the hypocrisy and stupidity of their political attitudes.

Conference: Read more | Callout | Interview with organisers | Conference Website | Short Report | Anarcha-feminists take action

Issues:  Two days of discussion | Does your mum know you're an anarchist? | A Critique of Anarcho-sexism | Why Indymedia Sucks

Dateline: London & Brighton pub, Peckham, London, UK, 22:00 Fri 05 Jun 09 – On the day of Gordon Brown’s forced emergency cabinet reshuffle, Mr Mayhem, Teenage Man, Saddam & the Look-Alikes, Bloco de Louco and other left field luminaries were celebrating “The Death and Astonishing Resurrection of THE Labour Party” in a superb squatted pub in Peckham. For twelve long years, the war criminals, torturers, financial fools, and expenses cheats of “New” Labour have been fraudulently stealing working peoples’ votes for their own nefarious ends, so NOW is the time – as the logo of THE Labour Party has it – for a sea change in political engagement: “LABOUR – TAKE THE POWER”!

A Demo against Starbucks by the Space Hijackers (www.spacehijackers.co.uk) and The Reverend Billy (www.revbilly.com) in the form of a mock funeral. Sunday 31st May 2009

The latest issue of Freedom newspaper has an indepth interview with one of the Enfield workers active in the recent Visteon dispute who won a major victory recently against car giants Ford over redundancy payments when the enire UK forceforce was made redundant.

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.

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND
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Rendezvous: Parliament, House of Commons, Cromwell statue

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Housmans Bookshop
5 Caledonian Road
King's Cross
London N1 9DX 
Tel: 020 7837 4473

Free entry
Nearest tube: King's Cross

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To understand these people is to feel their fears and walk in a forest of unknown things. This film is about rural white South Africans addressing their fears of crime, violence and black people.

Some are well resourced while others are ingeniously resourceful. The consequences are regression and isolation or freedom from fear. Like crocodiles, these people have been left to evolve according to their own laws and devices.

The completed feature length documentary will be available after September 2009 with plans for international broadcast in time for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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Tuesday, 26th May

We met up at Bank at 11:30 and then moved off to our first demo of the day outside the offices of the second largest NYSE shareholder, Legg Mason. We call upon Legg Mason to use their influence as a part owner of the NYSE, to get NYSE Euronext to de list HLS (LSR). We then went to NYSE Euronext itself, Vanguard (largest institutional shareholder of HLS), AstraZeneca (HLS customer), TA Associates (who own Numeric Investors; HLS' fourth largest institutional shareholder) and Brown Advisory (second largest HLS shareholder).

http://www.shac.net/news/2009/may/26.html

Dateline: London, UK, 15:00 Sat 23 May 09 – Hundreds of folks take to the streets to protest against police violence, naked brutality and killings in custody, on the United Campaign against Police Violence's first national demonstration – STOP POLICE VIOLENCE! KETTLE NEW SCOTLAND YARD!

On 12th May 2009, a dozen anti-deportation campaigners from the Stop Deportation network and the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees blockaded the entrance to Colnbrook and Harmondsworth detention centres near Heathrow, to try and prevent the mass deportation of 45 Iraqi Kurdish refugees held at Colnbrook via charter flight. Six activists locked themselves together, using glass and plastic arm tubes attached to heavy concrete barrels. The blockade lasted for over four hours, after which three coaches carrying the deportees left for an undisclosed airport. All six were arrested (two quite violently) for obstruction of the highway.

Dateline: London, UK, Sat 23 May 09 – Economic meltdown for global capitalism, political meltdown in both Houses of Parliament, so Meltdown called a SACK PARLIAMENT! protest at short notice – and multi-Guy-Fawkes miscreants, Mister Mayhem, a Red Dragon and dozens of protesters, accompanied by Ian Bone on clown car horn, descended on the Palace of Westminster to blow the fetid, corrupt institution sky high... with GUNPOWDER!   

Movie of Defend The Right To Protest: Kettle Scotland Yard

School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square (nearest tubes Holborn and Russell Square)

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Britain's drugs classifications and penalties are arbitrary and unlawful, according to a forthcoming High Court challenge.

A London man has been granted leave to appeal to the High Court for permission to judicially review the decision to try him for the production of cannabis.

Medical-marijuana user Edwin Stratton claims the Government's criminalisation of cannabis does not follow the demands of the law as stated in the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Feminist Library, second floor meeting room, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XW. Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo.

Short film about the Boycott Israeli Settlement Produce Action which took place at the Tesco Kensington store on Sunday 17th May 2009..

The People's Age is near but will have to be struggled for by focusing on the 'bottom-up' human rights approach which are the rights left out by the Global Elites at the UN in their discussions of economic and social rights over the past four years which resulted in the 'we are all in it together' approach presently being adopted by States.

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

Parliament Square.

Date: 18/05/09
Time: 12:00 - 14:00
Myanmar/Burma Embassy 19A, Charles St, London W1J 5DX.
Tube: Green Park | Map: http://maps.google.co.uk/?q=W1J5DX
Protest Details on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=85977485307&ref=nf

Protest over Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest (day of her trial at notorious Insein Prison)