Four members of the Crawley and Horsham Hunt are actually on trial for illegally hunting a fox with a dog. The case has no precedent in the Sussex area.
[ Read Full Story ]Pressure is rising against the Israeli Prison Service as around 2,000 Palestinian prisoners enter their third week of hunger strike.
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OK, technically it's not quite summer yet, but Smash EDO kick of the Summer of Resistance with a bad music demo
[ Read Full Story ]Gratton the German Activist who was tasered during the Dale Farm Eviction finally had his electronic tag removed.
[ Read Full Story ]The fuel of the far right – half truths, misrepresentation and lies.
[ Read Full Story ]Long-term Brighton anti-war direct action campaigners Smash EDO are gearing up for the start of the long awaited Summer of Resistance this coming week.
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Climate Justice target UK Energy Summit
[ Read Full Story ]A new strategy inspired by South American peasant movements has emerged in San Francisco. 'Occupy The Farm' intends to break the corporations' control over the food industry and replace it by community-managed food production.
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Worthing based anti-abortionists get a taste of their own medicine.
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Saturday 21st April 2012 evening saw LARC (London Action Resource Centre) play host to a talk from a speaker from Anti-Fascist Action Ireland.
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Update on Sunday 22nds anti-fascist action in Brighton.
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Italian museum burns art works in protest over budget cuts as art imitates life
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A new community-based bartering system emerged in Volos, Greece to counteract the devastating effects of an all time high recession.
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Indigenous and environmental groups are fighting Brazil's Belo Monte dam. Built in the heart of the Amazon, the project threatens to destroy rich ecosystems and displace indigenous cultures
[ Read Full Story ]Coup and secession in Mali are the unintended consequences of NATO's regime change in Libya
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As Palestinian's prepare to mark Prisoner's Day on the 17th April, prisoners call for mass open-ended hunger strike
[ Read Full Story ]Pre games tension spills over into police violence against migrants and activists in Calais
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Anti militarists in Bristol successfully disrupt the Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle Conference in Bristol
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Launch of KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: An A-Z for sex workers
Contributions on sex workers’ rights from US PROStitutes Collective and other international guests from Guyana, Haiti, India, Ireland
Delicious low cost vegetarian food
Organised by: English Collective of Prostitutes
Supported by: Black Women’s Rape Action Project, GMB Sex Workers branch, Legal Action for Women, Safety First, Sex Workers Open University, Single Mothers’ Self-Defence, QueerStrike, Women Against Rape
Address: Crossroads Women’s Centre 25 Wolsey Mews, Kentish Town, NW5 2DX.
Postcode: NW5 2DX
Time: 7pm – 9pm Exhibition opens 6pm and will run for two weeks
Price: Free
Phone: 020 7482 2496
Email: ecp@prostitutescollective.net
Web: http://www.prostitutescollective.net/
Bands include:
Primevil Soup
Anti-Vigilante
Lack of Joe
Lucy and the Scamps
Address: The Hydrant, Preston Circus, Brighton
Time: 7:30pm
Price: £3
We will have a tent set up and will put out food for everyone. Vegan & vegetarian food will be available. If you wish to bring any other food, you are welcome.
There will be a seating area of blankets and (hopefully) fold up chairs.
Leaflets and magazines will be available for everyone.
Generally, this event is for everyone to have fun and to meet up with others
Address: Victoria Square, Birmingham
Postcode: B1 1BD
Time: 12pm - 4pm
Web: http://www.facebook.com/events/286539141431620/
The day will start at 11am and last workshop will be at 6pm. We recommend you get there as early as possible to get in as much learning as you can! Donations cafe will run during the day with tea, coffee and cake and our bar will open at 6pm for you to get a drink and chill out to our evening entertainment. This week we will be raisng money to help pay for court fines dished out for unfair convictions after the Nov 30th protests. Ethical drinking - woo!
So far the workshop programme is pencilled in as follows:
11am - Laughter yoga: A great way to start your day! Get involved to feel energised, refreshed and renewed after last night´s hangover, and ready to have a fun-packed day of educational ecstasy!
12pm - How to use a sewing machine: Our resident fashion designer gives a masterclass on how to get the most out of your sewing machine - see what you can make out of our skipped fabric piles!
1pm - Pickling and preserving foods: Find out how to make your skipped fruit and veg last forever! An introduction to the simplest methods of preserving food without a fridge or freezer and try your hand at making jam - take it home to wow your squatmates! Bring a jar if you can (with metal lid).
2pm - Flamenco: An upgrade on last week from performance to workshop. Learn how to strut your stuff with our professional flamenco dancers and bring your guitar to learn how to strum along to flamenco beats.
3pm - Poetry and performance: If you liked the incredibly talented slam poets we had in our evening show last week, you´ll love this workshop where you´ll learn how to create your own verses and spit them with style.
4pm - Bike maintenance: Our in-house expert takes your two-wheeled worries and sets them to rest. Find out what´s making that annoying squeaky noise, why you´re so slow compared to your cycling squatmates (it´s not you, it´s the bike, honestly!) and fix your pride and joy with confidence.
5pm - Media training: Ever wondered how those bods on TV manage to come up with such eloquent and reasoned soundbytes? Start stuttering and stammering when faced with the press at protests and events but wish you could get your point of view across? Then this is the workshop for you.
6pm - Guided meditation: Let all the information you´ve been inundated with during the day settle into your mind holes with an hour of meditation and feel all set for an evening of entertainment and performance.
What a line-up! We´re already counting the minutes. The timetable is likely to jiggle around a little, so we´ll say it once more, come as early as you can to make sure you don´t miss out on the action!
As last week, we have our ongoing community art project, there´s still lots of bits that need to be coloured in, and our photo exhibition in the main space. Thanks to everyone who contributed to our interactive language board last week - this week have a go at interactive pictionary - does your squamily ´get´ your artistic talent?
Address: 2-3 Carthusian Street, Barbican, London, EC1M 6DZ
Nearest Public Transport: Barbican Tube
Time: 11am - 11pm
Price: FREE!
Email: shellbarbican@gmail.com
‘What makes good radical writing?’
On Tuesday 1st May the first recipient of the Bread and Roses Award for Radical Publishing shall be announced. The process of creating a radical book prize has brought up interesting questions as to how to evaluate radical writing. Is the primary goal to effectively communicate ideas? And if so, how do we measure its effectiveness? How do we measure it’s radicalism? Must it be accessible to all readers, or is there a place for pedantic or even obscure writing?
Based on their experiences within the radical wing of contemporary journalism and book publishing, our speakers will navigate the tensions between vanguardism and populism that have guided radical writing and actions for the last century, and reflect on how these tensions are manifested today.
Please join us as we tackle these questions in what will be an illuminating discussion on the forms and contents of radical communication.
Address: Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Road, London N1 9DX
Directions: King's Cross
Nearest Public Transport: King
Postcode: N1 9DX
Time: 7pm
Price: £3, redeemable against any purchase
Phone: 020 7837 4473
Email: nik@housmans.com
Web: http://www.housmans.com
European crust/punk/hardcore with
CROP CIRCLES (quality italian fastcore)
LEFT IN RUINS (italian anarcho crust)
51st STATE (west country anarchopunk)
B.H.F. (german political punk)
Benefit for the Brighton Squatters Convergence 17th-20th May
Address: A Squat in Brighton, TBC
Postcode: BN1
Time: 8pm
Price: £3/4
Web: http://punxpicnic.wordpress.com
With a bit of luck there should be some workshops (nominate yourself to run one!) and plenty of opportunities to get rowdy with your fellow
squatters.
Celebrate squatting, meet squatters from all over the UK and other countries, spread the word about what's going on in your city, and mobilise for action against the squatting ban right on Mike Weatherly's door step.
In true squatter style this event will be focused on D.I.Y. and autonomous ethos so bring ideas, friends and things to share.
Address: Brighton
Phone: 07583 010898
Email: convergencebrighton@riseup.net
Web: http://network23.org/snob
Address: Hugletts Wood Farm Animal Sanctuary, Grovelye Lane,Churches Green,Dallington,East Sussex
Directions: At Woods Corner on the B2096 turn up beside the pub. Go along to the first right turn and turn right, Onto the fork and fork right, At duck pond turn left, on and turn right,HWFAS along on left.
Nearest Public Transport: Robertsbridge rail staion. Pick up available.
Postcode: TN21 9PA
Time: 11am til 5pm
Price: Donation in bucket
Phone: 07884046703
Email: janejacks0n@btinternet.com
For taking the turd way...
German protesters were arrested in Athens on Thursday after leaving a giant golden crap on the doorstep of the German embassy in the Greek capital, in protest against Berlin's “neoliberal EU policy".
The politico/artists collective from Hamburg, Schwabinggrad Ballett, who dumped the excremental offering topped it off with a huge photo of the German national emblem – the eagle, embellished with Angela Merkel's head.
Greek cops soon arrested ten of the 13-strong group and confiscated their fake faeces. They're all now presumably in the shit.
Afro-Punk, explores race identity within the punk scene. More than your everyday, Behind the Music or typical "black history month" documentary this film tackles the hard questions, such as issues of loneliness, exile, inter-racial dating and black power.
Wednesday, May 30, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Follow filmmaker Jeremy Seifert and his circle of friends as they dumpster dive in the back alleys and gated garbage receptacles of L.A.'s supermarkets. In the process they uncover thousands of dollars worth of good food and an ugly truth about waste in America: grocery stores know they are wasting and most refuse to do anything about it.
Dive! Living Off America’s Waste by first-time filmmaker Jeremy Seifert, and made with a budget of a mere US$200, explores how American grocery stores are quietly filling their dumpsters with edible food while so many people in the USA go without proper access to nutritious food.
Monday, June 11, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
As the front man of the Clash from 1977 onwards, Joe Strummer changed people's lives forever. Filmmaker Julien Temple takes a look beyond the guise of the late, anti-establishment icon Joe Strummer to offer a warm portrait of the self-described "mouthy little git" who was born John Mellor and was destined to become the frontman for one of the most influential punk bands ever.
A complex figure who would learn to use his gift for music as a means of decompressing his conscience, Strummer is revealed here through unearthed interviews and the illuminating recollections of his closest companions.
Monday, June 25, 2012, 8:00pm until 11:00pm
Rupert Murdoch is a commie... it's official, well at least according to our friends on the various forums and facebook sites that make up the collective half-wit of the far-right. Just imagine returning home, exhausted from your efforts to hold the George Cross high and shout racist abuse while being showered with horse-shit by a bunch of communist homosexual freaks - only to find out that your favourite newspaper has a decidedly different take on events.
Hilariously the Sun Says op-ed piece on Monday blamed the 'neo-Nazis' of the EDL for dragging the flag 'through the gutter'. This one fact did more to rile the knuckle-draggers of the March for England than any number of airborne bottles of piss.
In fact some of the EDLs intellectual vanguard are beginning to suspect that the red-tops aren't telling the whole truth (!), with one online marcher spouting “DONT BUY A F*CKING NEWSPAPER. IT SPOUTS THE SAME B*LLOCKS ALL THE TIME. TAKE A LEAF OUT OF LIVERPOOL. MOST OF THEM DONT BUY THE SUN ANYMORE SO BOYCOTT ALL NEWSPAPERS!”
Now lads – if you could just extend that (albeit slightly faulty) logic to all the “Muslamic suicide-nonce Sharia Law benefit fraud shame” stories that got you so riled up in the first place, then maybe we could all enjoy next years St George's Day in peace.
