The squat that was formerly the home of Mr & Mrs Expenses, Anne and Alan Keene

38 Brook Rd South

Brentford

TW8 0NN

Royal Festival Hall, Southbank

Meet at door G in green area on level 3

Next Tube: Waterloo

The builing occupied for the Free School last weekend.

Elmira Street
London
SE13 7BN

2 mins from Lewisham Station (overland from London Bridge, or DLR)

Trafalgar Square, London

Dateline: “New” Labour Headquarters, 39 Victoria Street, London, UK, 13:00, Thu 18 Jun 09 – As the fetid corpse of “New” Labour clings on to power for grim death, staggering zombie-like towards its doom in the next general election, the Government of the Dead bring a little light Death to the pavement outside their HQ, by decapitating, dismembering and defiling the cadaver of Gordon Brown. And as card carrying, recruit-hungry members of THE Labour Party, they executed their gory task with relish (and a little seasoning to taste). Viddy well, little sisters and brothers – ’twas a Real Horrorshow!

Dateline: Housemans Bookshop, Kings Cross, London, UK, 17:00-18:30, Sat 13 Jun 09 – The International School for Bottom-up Organising stages an uplifting, engaging and inspiring book launch for it’s excellent debut publication: “The Bottom Will Rise and Create a New World”, featuring Latin American Polyphonic Singing, a Live Excerpt from the book, why we need A Maloka in Every Community, and Freedom Singing to finish off with. In a nutshell – Best. Book. Launch. EVER!!!

Ten year's ago today and a global Carnival Against Capital was erupting across the world with co-ordinated protests taking place in over 40 countries on June 18th 1999.

Directly targeting financial centres the J18 day of International Action was stunning in its scale and ran alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Koln Germany. It followed the Global Street Party that had been held alongside the G7/G8 meeting in Birmingham in 1998 and co-ordinated through Reclaim The Streets.

To remember it, here's a set of 23 pictures from London J18 courtesy of a photographer who was there for the morning and the party, but who missed the ensuing riot as police fought to regain control of the City of London.

The reasons for struggle are greater now than then, and climate change and economic meltdowns threaten the lives and livelihoods of us all.

The Library House

52 Knatchbull road

(entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library)

SE5 9QY.

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Around 70 protesters occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (NR TW8 0EW). They plan to setup an eco-village. This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish.

This eco-village occupation is inspired by campaigns like The Land is Ours which campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race,gender or age.

For more information, please visit:
http://ecocamp.info

52 knartchbull road (entrance from burton rd)

thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/

With the economic crisis hitting people hard, there's no need any longer to explain to people that capitalism is a crazy and destructive way to run the economy - people are talking about it all over the country. Against this backdrop, 300 people met for the Anarchist Conference '09 at Queen Mary, University of London during the weekend. People shared their ideas about fighting repossessions and evictions, ecological issues (and their co-optation), militant squatting for housing, workplace and school occupations, and hundreds of other tactics for self-organized trouble-making during a time of crisis. 

There was a major intervention by a group of anarcha-feminists during the conference plenary, featuring a video (on youtube) projection calling out the sexists in the movement for the hypocrisy and stupidity of their political attitudes.

Conference: Read more | Callout | Interview with organisers | Conference Website | Short Report | Anarcha-feminists take action

Issues:  Two days of discussion | Does your mum know you're an anarchist? | A Critique of Anarcho-sexism | Why Indymedia Sucks

Dateline: London & Brighton pub, Peckham, London, UK, 22:00 Fri 05 Jun 09 – On the day of Gordon Brown’s forced emergency cabinet reshuffle, Mr Mayhem, Teenage Man, Saddam & the Look-Alikes, Bloco de Louco and other left field luminaries were celebrating “The Death and Astonishing Resurrection of THE Labour Party” in a superb squatted pub in Peckham. For twelve long years, the war criminals, torturers, financial fools, and expenses cheats of “New” Labour have been fraudulently stealing working peoples’ votes for their own nefarious ends, so NOW is the time – as the logo of THE Labour Party has it – for a sea change in political engagement: “LABOUR – TAKE THE POWER”!

Around 70 protesters occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (NR TW8 0EW). They plan to setup an eco-village. This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They are now in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish. See an aerial map of the location, and the KewEcoVillage twitter.

More photos 1 and 2 | Videos 1 |  2 | 3

www.dissidentisland.org

52 Knatchbull road (entrance on Burton rd, behind Minet library) SE5

thelibraryhouse.wordpress.com/

A Demo against Starbucks by the Space Hijackers (www.spacehijackers.co.uk) and The Reverend Billy (www.revbilly.com) in the form of a mock funeral. Sunday 31st May 2009

Reverend Billy and The Church of Life after Shopping Come to the UK. www.revbilly.com

Saturday, 30th May was Independence Day in Haringey, north London, as the neighbourhood declared independence from "party politics, religion and government agencies, where individuals and groups in Haringey can organise collectively, exchange ideas and make their own decisions that affect their lives." 

The event combined workshops, film screenings, bike repairs, music, a history walk, and refreshments into a community-organized day of learning, discussion, and strategy. Dozens of community organizations took part.

Photos and Report | Haringey Independence Day website | Haringey Solidarity Group

Dateline: Haringey, London, UK, Sat 30 May 09 – On a gloriously sunny Saturday in May, Haringey Independence Day 2009 provided discussions, workshops, stalls, films, socialising and refreshments for everyone who cares about their community, environment and workplace and wants to change them for the better. 

London & Brighton pub, 139 Queens Road, Peckham, London SE15 2ND
• Location & Public Transport Map: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-map
• Facebook Event Page: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising
• Event Flyer: http://tinyurl.com/TLP-rising-flyer

Indian YMCA , 41 Fitzroy square, W1T 6AQ,Near Warren Street Station

To understand these people is to feel their fears and walk in a forest of unknown things. This film is about rural white South Africans addressing their fears of crime, violence and black people.

Some are well resourced while others are ingeniously resourceful. The consequences are regression and isolation or freedom from fear. Like crocodiles, these people have been left to evolve according to their own laws and devices.

The completed feature length documentary will be available after September 2009 with plans for international broadcast in time for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

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Britain's drugs classifications and penalties are arbitrary and unlawful, according to a forthcoming High Court challenge.

A London man has been granted leave to appeal to the High Court for permission to judicially review the decision to try him for the production of cannabis.

Medical-marijuana user Edwin Stratton claims the Government's criminalisation of cannabis does not follow the demands of the law as stated in the Misuse of Drugs Act.

the London & Brighton, corner of Asylum Road and Queen's Road Peckham, SE15 (check flier for map)

Feminist Library, second floor meeting room, 5 Westminster Bridge Road, SE1 7XW. Nearest tubes: Lambeth North, Elephant and Castle, Waterloo.

The Free is being republished..Your chance to input a novel set in changeover to Money-Free.

Watch the trailer, and order a copy!

featuring the amazing victory won by ex-Ford workers at Visteon! After factory occupations and the threat to picket out workers at Ford's state of the art plant at Bridgend, Visteon and Ford were forced back to the negotiating table - where they conceded a redundancy package better than the Fords package the workers were demanding. This will make it the biggest redundancy package ever paid out by Fords anywhere!