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WAKE UP!! WAKE UP!! SQUATTING IS UNDER ATTACK!!
The free weekly direct action newsheet published in Brighton since 1994 - Copyleft - Information for Action
OCCU-BYE LONDON
SchNEWS reports from the front lines as police evict the Bank of Ideas and Occupy LSX in one night

Four and a half months after its conception, Occupy London was dealt two severe blows on Monday the 27th

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BHOPAL: spied on by STRATFOR
wikileaks info haul reveals corporate spy ring

SchNEWS interviews Bhopal activist spied on by corporate intelligence agency, Stratfor

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safe crackers
police get overdrawn as brighton squatters occupy hsbc bank

Sussex police attempt to forcibly evict people from 'The World's Local Squat' but are thwarted by the number of supporters and the law.

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BARN STORMED
A concerted effort by police and bailiffs saw the eviction of a barn occupied in protest against the building of the Hinkley C power station on Wednesday 29th Feb. [ Read Full Story ]
POUNDLAND AND FREEDOM
campaigners score victory against workfare

High street retailers pull out of Tory forced labour programme

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PEACE ACTIVIST JAILED FOR AFGHAN WAR PROTEST

Long-time Hastings peace activist Maya Evans has just been jailed for 13 days for refusing to pay a fine.

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ENGLISH DEFENCE LEAGUE: IN FOR A HYDING?

 

UPDATE Report from Anti-fascists in Hyde 25/02/12

After the disturbances in Rochdale, Asian youth turned out  to confront the EDL in Hyde. SchNEWS spoke to one anti-fascist who also made the trip.

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FROM CALAIS TO KHARTOUM

French authorites start deporting to Sudan, and demonstration are held over Africa House eviction alert.

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R.I.P Nikita Kalin
Moscow - anarchist and anti-fascist murdered

The price of anti-fascist and anarchist activism can sometimes be very high as we were painfully reminded a few days ago with the news that twenty year old Moscow anti-fascist Nikita Kalin (Никита Калин) had been found dead

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No Borders please, we're British
No Borders Convergence targets immigration regime.

A six day No Borders Convergence last week (13-18th Feb) saw activists causing a ruckus at various border regime targets around London.

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WHEN PIGS CRY

French cops at la ZAD tear gassed as land occupation continues.

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ABORT MISSION
the disturbing rise of fundamentalist anti-abortion activism in the uk

 

Around the country, even in supposedly right-on Brighton, fundamentalist Christians have been harassing women outside abortion clinics.

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manure gonna love this

Guerilla Gardening callout

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BARNSTORMING
As Anti-Nuclear Protesters Drive the (Hinkley) Point Home

Activists squat a derelict farmhouse in protest against new nuclear.

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TALKING NONCE SENSE

Far right groups attempt to get paedophiles off by nobbling the trial

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A BRIDGWATER TOO FAR

Anti-nuclear tree protestors evicted

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AMID GREEK WOES
deal or no deal as greek citizens refuse to bow to e.u. troika's austerity package

Troika's directive leaves no room for compromise with the latest austerity package yet Greek citizens can't take any more.

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DOMESTIC EXTREMIST DATABASE UNDER JUDICIAL REVIEW

John Catt, Brighton peace activist, takes the political police to court.

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Southern Squatting Shenanigans

A weeks of squatting in Brighton – evictions galore, flying radiators and vagabonds

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Smashing Night At The 1in12

1 in 12 Club gets trashed by late night scallywags, just after costly repairs.

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TROUBLED OVER BRIDGWATER

UPDATE: Tree sitters evicted this morning (Weds 8th Feb)

 

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February
11th February 2012 to 20th March 2012
Dirty Coal Infotour
Coal Action Scotland are resisting new open cast mining in Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire (see SchNEWS 682, 691, 708, 780 et al).

In February & March they will be touring the UK updating people on the latest news and explaining how to get involved.

For more info and dates confirmed so far see http://coalactionscotland.org.uk/?page_id=2862

Address: UK
Web: http://coalactionscotland.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
11th March 2012
Black Fish Benefit- Sunday Roast and Film Screening
Delicious Vegan Nut Roast with all the trimmings and lashings of gravy! £5
A film screening of the 2009 documentary "The Cove". The film reports the annual killing of about 2,300 dolphins in a National Park at Taiji, Wakayama in Japan; and highlights that this is about three times the amount of whales killed in the Antarctic, and purports that 23,000 dolphins and porpoises are killed in Japan every year.

Address: Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton
Time: Roast 2-6pm / Film 7-9pm
Price: Roast- £5 / Film- Donation
17th March 2012
National Anti-Fracking Meeting
Meet anti-fracking campaigners from all around the country and get together to stop fracking in the UK NOW, before it gets a hold and becomes unstoppable.

Address: Methodist Central Hall, Oldham Street, Manchester.
Postcode: M1 1JQ
Time: 11am-6pm
Email: fiona@campaigncc.org
Web: http://www.campaigncc.org/nationalantifrackingmeeting
17th March 2012
Brighton Anti Fascists Benefit Gig
AOS3 (Punk/Dub/Ska), The Autonomads (punkyfolkydubskareggae), Virus (80's anarcho punk), Black Star Dub Collective (Resistance Reggae) and Corn on the Rob. Plus DJ Pink Panther and DJ Jonny Bang Bang.

Address: Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton
Time: 8pm till late
Price: £6/5 suggested donation
April
20th April 2012 to 22nd April 2012
Brighton Punx Picnic
Collectively organised, non-profit 3 day punk festival.

Details TBA

Address: Brighton
Postcode: BN1 1AA
Email: brightonpunxpicnic@ymail.com
Web: http://punxpicnic.wordpress.com/
21st April 2012
Hunt Sabs Benefit
Eastfield(tbc), Flat Stanley, Long LOST Frank, Scarred Society(tbc), Punkwreck & more TBC.

Address: The Wagon n Horses, Adderley Street, Digbeth, Birmingham
Price: £4
28th April 2012
World Day for Animals in Laboratories
March and rally for World Day for Animals in Laboratories.
Please join us to show your disgust at what happens to these animals and to raise awareness with the public and policy makers, who can help change things for the better.

Address: Birmingham city Centre, start at in Victoria Square.
Time: 12 noon
Phone: 07703643327
Email: Info@wdail.org
Web: http://www.wdail.org/
SchNEWS in Brief...
CRAP HEADLINE OF THE WEEK

The closest thing that SchNEWS has to competition in its home city, crappy tabloid The Argus, finally jumped the shark this Thursday with its headline "Smash EDO's Threat To Queen's Jubilee" (click here for the original)
The fact that two things were happening on the same day was clearly enough to prove that the last eight years of direct action campaigning to shut down an arms factory was actually just  an elaborate ruse to hide their true intentions - smashing the monarchy and making sure that good, ordinary rightthinking people have a thoroughly bad time.
Winning quote from the idiotic article comes courtesy of Councillor Geoffrey Theobald, leader of the council's Conservative group: They are not thinking of the residents or businesses in Brighton and Hove in my view. Funny thing that- Mmst of the protesters are residents of Brighton, and they have one business very much in mind.
But probably the whole Argus staff are great supporters of Smash EDO who wanted to big up their mates by making them look like an unstoppable barbarian horde battering down the gates to the city-by-the-sea. In reality, it's most probable people wanted a demo on a bank holiday because they'd be at work otherwise. And yet what's the most repeated chant by idiots against protesters? "Get a job!"

http://smashedo.org.uk/

...and finally...

Police in Siberia have been facing a threat to the Russian state that they have been totally unprepared for. It's not fascist gangs nor Chechen terrorists this time, but children's toys and Lego models that have been shaking the establishment to its very core with angry 2cm2 placards. In the city of Barnaul, police have been seeking ways to combat the mass, miniature protest toy protest that is #occupySIBERIA.

Siberia's top investigators think that they may have found the ringleaders though: Prosecutor Sergei Kirei had this to say, “People are not stupid. The figurines did not come there by themselves. They did not write the placards on their own.”

Having identified the leaders of the toy protest as full sized human beings, they have been trying to clamp down on the human element. One sympathiser with the diminutive Occupy offshoot explained the logic to the petite protests.

“They tried to tell us our event was illegal – they even said that to put toys in the snow, we had to rent it from the city authorities. The authorities’ attempt to limit citizens’ rights to express their position has become absurd. We wanted to hyperbolise this attempt and show the absurdity and farce of officials’ struggle with their own people.”

For pictures of the protest, check out http://www.jeremyriad.com/blog/editorials/siberian-city-uses-toys-to-protest-russian-corruption/

SchNEWS warns all readers, we're living in a world of hunter-killer drones and corporate spy-rings busted by underground hackers. We're living inside an '80s dystopian sci-fi novel. Honest!