Four and a half months after its conception, Occupy London was dealt two severe blows on Monday the 27th
[ Read Full Story ]SchNEWS interviews Bhopal activist spied on by corporate intelligence agency, Stratfor
[ Read Full Story ]Sussex police attempt to forcibly evict people from 'The World's Local Squat' but are thwarted by the number of supporters and the law.
[ Read Full Story ]High street retailers pull out of Tory forced labour programme
[ Read Full Story ]Long-time Hastings peace activist Maya Evans has just been jailed for 13 days for refusing to pay a fine.
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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.
[ Read Full Story ]French authorites start deporting to Sudan, and demonstration are held over Africa House eviction alert.
[ Read Full Story ]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
[ Read Full Story ]A six day No Borders Convergence last week (13-18th Feb) saw activists causing a ruckus at various border regime targets around London.
[ Read Full Story ]French cops at la ZAD tear gassed as land occupation continues.
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Around the country, even in supposedly right-on Brighton, fundamentalist Christians have been harassing women outside abortion clinics.
[ Read Full Story ]Guerilla Gardening callout
[ Read Full Story ]Activists squat a derelict farmhouse in protest against new nuclear.
[ Read Full Story ]Far right groups attempt to get paedophiles off by nobbling the trial
[ Read Full Story ]Anti-nuclear tree protestors evicted
[ Read Full Story ]Troika's directive leaves no room for compromise with the latest austerity package yet Greek citizens can't take any more.
[ Read Full Story ]John Catt, Brighton peace activist, takes the political police to court.
[ Read Full Story ]A weeks of squatting in Brighton – evictions galore, flying radiators and vagabonds
[ Read Full Story ]1 in 12 Club gets trashed by late night scallywags, just after costly repairs.
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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!"
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/