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WAKE UP WAKE UP!! It's yer Underneath the Arches...
The free weekly direct action newsheet published in Brighton since 1994 - Copyleft - Information for Action
SLEEPER DISSERVICE
brighton and hove's anti-homeless policy

SchNEWS hunkers down and checks out how Brighton and Hove council implement national homeless policy

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SOUTH SUDAN: INDEPENDENCE AND DEATH
oil and the myth of ethnic conflict in sudan

120,000 people have become refugees and up to 3000 have been killed in recent fighting in South Sudan. Independence has done little to halt the violence in the Sudan region.

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Occupy London Update
Occupy LSX is evolving with the times (or the court cases) [ Read Full Story ]
WILLING AND DISABLED

Affected by the Welfare Reform Bill? Take to the streets on the 28th for civil disobedience!

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palestine at a glance

The Palestine-Israel conflict spills over into the cyber realm. Meanwhile a Palestinian woman from Hebron goes on hunger strike over settler attacks.

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When in Romania...

Anti-government protests target the president as austerity bites

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ACTA now
...before it's too late

ACTA explained. A new proposed legislation joins the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.

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Back in the Faslane

Faslane celebrates it's 30th birthday with a month of action

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TESCO VALUES?

Protesters picket Tesco in Israeli goods boycott action

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Bulgarians shut the Frack up

Bulgaria: Wave of eco-activism stops fracking in its tracks

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DEAD SETT?
As SchNEWS PONDERS THE PROPOSED BADGER CULL

We take a look at the forthcoming slaughter and find very little justification for it.

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OCCUPY LSX: PITCHED BATTLE
ST PAUL'S CAMP LOSES HIGH COURT HEARING

The Occupy LSX camp has been ordered to leave Paternoster Square by the High Court

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Gone to Ground
Profile of Simon Greenwood - Foxhunter and Fracker

Crossover episode fun as Crawley and Horsham hunt joint master allows fracking on his land in Balcombe Sussex

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EDL ROUTED IN WHITECHAPEL

English Defence League come unstuck in East London

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Sea Shepherd
dancing on ice

 Sea Shepherd and the Japanese fleet are in the Southern Ocean in their 8th annual showdown. Three Australian protesters are transferred to the Australian customs ACV Ocean Protector after gatecrashing the Shonan Maru 2.

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NOT IN MY FRACK YARD
Caudrilla execs left quaking in their boots after angry fracking meeing

Sleepy Sussex village becomes front line in UK fracking ban fight

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Clermont Ferrand In Flames
anti police riots in france

French citizens hit the streets after fatal police brutality and the attempt to conceal it.

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NO OIL TAINTING

Shell to Sea keep on the pressure as woodland is cleared for gas pipeline.

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WHAT'S THE CRAIC?

Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.

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HEAVY WEATHER
as schnews ponders the climate of activism against extreme energy

A depressive front-page settles as SchNEWS looks at the state of climate change

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FLYING SAUCERS

On Wednesday 21st December Brighton squatters beat back bailiffs with a hail of crockery.

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January
30th January 2012
DEFEND CHOICE! Reproductive Rights Under Attack in Brighton.
An open meeting to discuss the recent attacks that have been happening by anti-choice fundamentalists in Brighton, and a wider discussion about reproductive freedoms as they stand in this country Guest speakers from Abortion Rights, the national pro-choice charity ( www.abortionrights.org.uk ), and the new campaign against anti-choice MP Nadine Dorries' ( www.facebook.com/stopdorries ). Someone from Brighton Pro-Choice will also be speaking about the situation in Brighton.
We will discuss campaign ideas – Everyone is welcome!

Address: Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton
Time: 18:00
Web: http://www.facebook.com/events/232736060134311/
February
5th February 2012
Brighton Punx Picnic Benefit Roast
Delicious vegan nut roast with all the trimmings and lots of gravy £5
All proceeds go to funding Brighton Punx Picnic 2012. A 3day punk mayhem on 20-22April.

Address: Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton
Postcode: BN1 4JA
Time: 2-6pm
Price: £5
Email: brightonpunxpicnic@ymail.com
Web: http://en-gb.facebook.com/punxpicnic
13th February 2012
SchMOVIES presents LIFE IN THE FAST LANE- The Story of the NO M11 Campaign
This feature length documentary presents the inside story of the No M11 Campaign, recounting 15 months of direct action against one of the most controversial schemes in the history of British road-building.

1994. London. On the rooftops of Claremont Road, 300 protesters waited for the start of what was to become the most extraordinary eviction in British history. Nearby, two diggers stood poised to demolish the last remaining houses in the path of the M11 Link Road. By 1:30 pm a convoy of 120 vehicles containing 700 police and 400 private security guards had arrived in the area. By 2 pm Operation Garden Party had begun....

Drawing on personal testimony and nearly 200 hours of front-line footage, LIFE IN THE FAST LANE features the battle for Wanstead's George Green, and the subsequent eviction of its 250 year- old Sweet Chestnut tree. It re-lives the days of the Independent Free Area of Wanstonia, and highlights the celebrated rooftop protests at Westminster and the home of the then Transport Secretary, John MacGreggor. Against a backdrop of growing resistance to the Criminal Justice Act it charts the emergence of CLAREMONT ROAD as an extraordinary symbol of cultural defience, and for the first time tells the story of what became the most expensive eviction in British history.


Address: The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton,
Time: 8pm
Price: Free/Donation
Phone: (01273) 685913
Email: mail@schnews.org.uk
Web: www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies
17th February 2012
Punk Pussy Cats Against The Cuts
Sheffield Uncut present...rnrnBlack Cat White Cat, The Violet May, Pete David & The Payroll Union, Black Echo and other live acts.

Address: Plug, 14-16 Matilda St, Sheffield
Time: 6pm
Phone: Twitter @PunkPussyCats
Email: sheffield.uncut@hotmail.co.uk
Web: http://www.ukuncut.org.uk
22nd February 2012
SchNEWS Benefit
ZOUNDS http://www.zoundsonline.co.uk/

POG http://www.worldofbeardandpog.co.uk/pogwash/

PRIMEVAL SOUP http://www.myspace.com/primevalsoup

Address: Sticky Mikes Frog Bar, Middle St, Brighton
Postcode: BN1
Time: 8pm
Email: mail@schnews.org.uk
Web: http://www.schnews.org.uk/
24th February 2012 to 26th February 2012
Earth First! Winter Moot
A weekend of discussion and networking for those taking direct action against ecological destruction.

Near Glasgow.

Address: Lanark
Web: http://earthfirstgathering.org.uk/
29th February 2012
SchMOVIES presents THIS IS HAWKWIND: DO NOT PANIC with guest speaker NIK TURNER
SchMOVIES presents an evening of psychedelic space rock with THIS IS HAWKWIND DO NOT PANIC - The Documentary...

also with special guest speaker NIK TURNER (vocalist, sax and flute from Hawkwind)
Nik will be introducing the film and taking questions after.

The inside story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands. Emerging from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s, the band trailed radicalism and counter-culture in their wake, and have been a direct influence on punk, metal, dance and rave.

Includes interviews with some of the band's enduring legends, including bassist Lemmy, writer Michael Moorcock, founder members Terry Ollis, Nik Turner and Mick Slattery, and former managers Doug Smith and Jeff Dexter.

Suggested donation of £4 to cover travel expenses

BBC4 (60 mins)

Address: The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton,
Time: 8pm
Price: £4 suggested donation
Phone: (01273) 685913
Email: mail@schnews.org.uk
Web: www.schnews.org.uk
March
10th March 2012
NO MORE FUKUSHIMAS ! Stop Hinkley C Nuclear Power Station!
Weekend of 10-11 March, Stop New Nuclear Alliance is organising a weekend of direct action at Hinkley Point in Somerset. We are trying to stop the government's new nuclear programme. Join us for the fun !See our website for more details.

Address: Hinkley Point, near Bridgewater, Somerset
Directions: Hinkley point is three miles to the north of A39 via the village of Cannington, 5 miles west of Bridgewater.
Nearest Public Transport: Bridgewater and then local bus. Coaches are being organised for the event. Please see web site
Postcode: TA5 1YA
Time: Noon onwards
Price: nothing
Phone: 08452872381
Email: campaign@stopnewnuclear.org.uk
Web: www.stopnewnuclear.org.uk
SchNEWS in Brief...
CRAP ARREST OF THE WEEK

FOR BEING IN AN ENCLOSED SPACE

Whilst trying to get into an empty building, three squatters were arrested under the 1824 Vagrancy Act. The cops claimed (not without reason) that the squatters were found “in an enclosed area.” Under the aforementioned Act they were thus “to be deemed rogues and vagabonds”. The squatters were held for over 17 hours at the police station's own 'enclosed space.' Despite admitting that they were indeed roguish vagabonds, the cops decided there was insufficient evidence to charge them and let them all go. Luckily the Vagrancy Act has been amended slightly since its introduction, otherwise our three incorrigible rogues could have faced punishment by 'hard labour and whipping'.

This feature length documentary presents the inside story of the No M11 Campaign.

Monday, 13th February, @ the Cowley Club, 8pm, Free/Donation

SchMOVIES presents an evening of psychedelic space rock with THIS IS HAWKWIND DO NOT PANIC - The Documentary...
also with special guest speaker NIK TURNER (vocalist, sax and flute from Hawkwind)
Nik will be introducing the film and taking questions after.
The inside story of Hawkwind, one of Britain's wildest acid rock bands. Emerging from the Ladbroke Grove underground at the end of the 60s, the band trailed radicalism and counter-culture in their wake, and have been a direct influence on punk, metal, dance and rave.
Includes interviews with some of the band's enduring legends, including bassist Lemmy, writer Michael Moorcock, founder members Terry Ollis, Nik Turner and Mick Slattery, and former managers Doug Smith and Jeff Dexter.
Suggested donation of £4 to cover travel expenses
BBC4 (60 mins)

Wednesday, 29th February, @ the Cowley Club, 8pm, £4 Suggested Donation

And Finally...

TORY MP LETS THE KHAT OUT

According to Tory MP Mark Lancaster, some 10 million tons of the drug khat are imported into the UK every single week. For those not down with the youth or up with their obscure drug lore, khat is a mildly stimulating, fairly pointless bitter narcotic grass, used by many East African men.

The Right Honourable Halfwit for Milton Keynes was just doing what comes natural to a Tory backbencher- trying to whip up some anti-drug, anti-immigrant hysteria during a House of Commons Early Day Motion- when he casually dropped the 10m figure. Ten million tons of khat means 200kg of the the stuff for every man woman and child in the UK, every single week. That's a lot of chewing to get through.

According to (way off the) Mark Lancaster, the UK consumes about ten times the amount of khat that it burns in coal (about 1m tonnes per week). Either some people are seriously trying to get a high off the stuff (although according to our team of dedicated pharmacological investigators, even 200kg might not give you as much of a hit as a Poundland energy drink) or a Tory MP is talking out of his arse. No prizes for guessing which.

SchNEWS warns all agents, don't bother infiltrating us, we're all spooks here already. And besides all we do is eat biscuits and make bad puns. Honest!