Climate change activists have blocked the entrance to the Peruvian Embassy today in protest the country’s killing of indigenous people in the Amazon rainforest.

Up to 100 people have been killed in recent clashes over attempts to extract oil, gas, minerals and timber from the forest where indigenous people have lived for centuries. On June 5, the government's security forces attacked a peaceful blockade, leading to bloodshed on both sides with 30-100 estimated deaths, over 100 injuries and numerous disappearances.

Dateline: “New” Labour Headquarters, 39 Victoria Street, London, UK, 13:00, Thu 18 Jun 09 – As the fetid corpse of “New” Labour clings on to power for grim death, staggering zombie-like towards its doom in the next general election, the Government of the Dead bring a little light Death to the pavement outside their HQ, by decapitating, dismembering and defiling the cadaver of Gordon Brown. And as card carrying, recruit-hungry members of THE Labour Party, they executed their gory task with relish (and a little seasoning to taste). Viddy well, little sisters and brothers – ’twas a Real Horrorshow!

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.

tamil protesters are leaving parliament square tonight and are calling for support on their march on saturday. a call-out has been put together by members of various supporting organisations.

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

Our revised list of demands (unfortunately our computer had a trojan horse which meant we lost the document that we had worked hard on to word water tight so had to re-write it again late last night. We hope the school take it on face value based on the general gist and dont conitune to provaricate over the odd incorrectly worded statement.)

This morning the school responded by saying no to all of them except number

Injunction served on occupation with immediate effect, call out for support. Students occupying the directors office of SOAS university request people to get down to the russell square campus now to help resist the eviction.

Students at the School of Oriental and African Studies (Soas) have occupied the director's offices in protest at the detention and deportation of nine cleaners [video]. Immigration officials detained the cleaners after an early morning raid on Friday last week. At least five have already been deported - some to Colombia, which has an appalling track record of targeting trade unionists.

Over 50 people are involved in the occupation. They have issued several demands to the Soas directorate. These include the immediate release of the detainees who remain in Britain, to campaign for the return of the cleaners who have already been deported, to bring all contract workers in-house and stop the use of contractors to run services, and to stop immigration officers from coming onto the campus.

Updates Tues 16th: 
SOAS management stated that an injunction had been served on the occupation with "immediate effect", but in fact it turned out to be an application for an injunction that that will be dealt with by a judge at a hearing on 22nd June. A well attended rally and demonstration took place in the afternoon [pics]. The occupiers published a revised list of demands.

Update Wednesday 17th: The occupation ended at 12.30pm today. 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 video.

Previous IMC-London Feature | Justice For SOAS Cleaners blog

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.

On Friday 12th, SOAS University was raided by immigrantion police, who rounded up several cleaners employed by ISS contractors amidst threats of immediate deportation. The detained persons are held at Old Street and Borough Immigration Centre and are set to be deported on Monday. SOAS staff and students have condemned the raids in a press release.

Updates Monday morning: A demonstration has taken place at SOAS at 8.30am, and another one has been called for the afternoon at 4.30pm, whilst the SOAS directors office has been occupied to demand the release of the 9 cleaners arrested on Friday.

Updates Friday eve: Following a call for solidarity, more than 100 people assembled at the steps of SOAS in the afternoon in an open assembly to discuss a response to the morning's raid, whilst a group of people made their way to Communications House to try and make contact with those detained. There are also reports that one detainee is set to be deported tonight, and the rest on Monday.

Call Out | Free SOAS Cleaners blog | Living Wage Campaign | Justice for Cleaners Campaign

Over 100 people show up on the steps of SAOS for a solidarity meeting

At 6.30am on Friday the 12th June, ISS (the company who contracts SOAS’ cleaning staff) called a meeting for all SOAS cleaners. Within minutes the meeting was raided by approximately 40 immigration police, who detained all cleaners and arrested 9 people accused of working without proper documentation. These 9 people are now on fast-track to be deported from the UK.

The main doors at Shells headquarters were closed to staff at 9am today, 12 June as protesters dressed as ‘thugs' turned up for a job interview. Shell security locked all doors as protesters tried to enter the building for what they said was a job interview "we hear Shell are hiring thugs to sink ships in Ireland".

For more information on this campaign see IMC-UK feature Rossport resistance intensifies ahead of arival of Solitaire.

Dateline: RMT Picket Line, Seven Sisters, London, UK, 13:00, Thu 11 Jun 09 – On the second day of the London Underground Two Day Strike, pickets from the National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers stake out an autonomous space for Industrial Direct Action, outside Transport for London’s new Pleiades House offices in Westerfield Road, N15 5LD. With red and green flags flying high, a BBQ replacing the more traditional brazier, and toots of support from passing drivers, the strikers were in high good spirits at the success of their action, while remaining angry at their betrayal by the class traitors in ASLEF HQ.

This morning at 8, SOAS University was raided by Immigration police who rounded up 9 of our cleaners and are threatening to deport them tonight.

We have fought hard with the cleaners to get them union representation and a decent wage (which we have now got). many of them have been working here for years, and have their whole lives here in london..

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2A Belgrade Road Social Centre

2a Belgrade Road off Stoke Newington High Street

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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

Below is a list of suggested activities from the Strike Support Group that comrades, and their groups, could do to support the up and coming tubeowrkers strike on June 9-11th

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.

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”!

Police detained Maria Gallestegui (from peacestrike.org) for 24 hours after her arrest yesterday evening for waving the Tamil Eelam homeland flag at Parliament Square.

Maria has finally just been released from Belgravia police station after being held for 24 hours for waving a flag that a week ago we were categorically told on film was not proscribed and so she couldn't be 'processed' or arrested.

This marks a serious turn in a farcical story that has been developing since last week. (full report here)

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 Moth Club, Valette Street, Hackney Central (corner Morning Lane)

Saturday, 30th May was Independence Day in Haringey, north London, as the neighbourhood declared independence from "party politics, religion and government agencies, where individuals and groups in Haringey can organise collectively, exchange ideas and make their own decisions that affect their lives." 

The event combined workshops, film screenings, bike repairs, music, a history walk, and refreshments into a community-organized day of learning, discussion, and strategy. Dozens of community organizations took part.

Photos and Report | Haringey Independence Day website | Haringey Solidarity Group

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND
• Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map
• Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising
• Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-flyer

police have been arresting tamils waving their national flag in parliament square. yesterday, maria (peacestrike.org.uk) tested the legality of this by standing outside new scotland yard and arguing it out on film when confronted by officers. this story is regularly updated as news develops.