SchNEWS hunkers down and checks out how Brighton and Hove council implement national homeless policy
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]Affected by the Welfare Reform Bill? Take to the streets on the 28th for civil disobedience!
[ Read Full Story ]The Palestine-Israel conflict spills over into the cyber realm. Meanwhile a Palestinian woman from Hebron goes on hunger strike over settler attacks.
[ Read Full Story ]Anti-government protests target the president as austerity bites
[ Read Full Story ]ACTA explained. A new proposed legislation joins the Stop Online Piracy Act and Protect IP Act.
[ Read Full Story ]Faslane celebrates it's 30th birthday with a month of action
[ Read Full Story ]Protesters picket Tesco in Israeli goods boycott action
[ Read Full Story ]Bulgaria: Wave of eco-activism stops fracking in its tracks
[ Read Full Story ]We take a look at the forthcoming slaughter and find very little justification for it.
[ Read Full Story ]The Occupy LSX camp has been ordered to leave Paternoster Square by the High Court
[ Read Full Story ]Crossover episode fun as Crawley and Horsham hunt joint master allows fracking on his land in Balcombe Sussex
[ Read Full Story ]English Defence League come unstuck in East London
[ Read Full Story ]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.
[ Read Full Story ]Sleepy Sussex village becomes front line in UK fracking ban fight
[ Read Full Story ]French citizens hit the streets after fatal police brutality and the attempt to conceal it.
[ Read Full Story ]Shell to Sea keep on the pressure as woodland is cleared for gas pipeline.
[ Read Full Story ]Irish activists move in to liberate government-owned empty buildings.
[ Read Full Story ]A depressive front-page settles as SchNEWS looks at the state of climate change
[ Read Full Story ]On Wednesday 21st December Brighton squatters beat back bailiffs with a hail of crockery.
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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
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.