Federal officials said the team of shooters were tipped off that people attending the birthday party were members of a rival gang known as Artistas Asesinos (Artists Assassins), who reportedly work for the Joaquín "Chapo" Guzmán drug cartel from Sinaloa

Serco, 18-22 Hand Court (off High Holborn), WC1V 6JF.

During the days of action around the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference which took place in Denmark - most commonly referred to as the COP15 - a group of radio ethusiasts hailing from around the globe came together to produce daily radio shows for Indymedia Radio in four different languages.

On this 52nd edition of Dissident Island Radio, which broadcast live from the London Action Resource Centre on the 05 February 2010:

We had with us a motley crew of dissidents. Two people (David Mery and Pennie Quinton) who've fought 'The Man' on 'his terms' and won respect for our rights talk to us about the recent European Court of Human Rights decision on the Stop and Search powers of British authorities and DNA retention...as well as the broader assault on our civil and human rights.

Our Northern correspondent Heavy D swung into action and grabbed us some words from SAEAB (Stop Animal Experiments at Braford) about all things animal rights in the grim north, including their upcoming days of action. We also had words about the Stop the Traffic campaign on their plans for the UK's biggest traffic jam and how you can help out.

Live in studio we had Pete the Temp with some fantastic spoken word madness...

So check it! Live and direct every first and third Friday of the month from the social centre scene in London at 9pm GMT and available for download shortly after...

--CLICK HERE TO LISTEN/DOWNLOAD--

Until next time...keep it sweet dissidents,

D*I
www.dissidentisland.org

SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H

Library House, 52 Knatchbull Road (entrance on Burton Road, behind Minet Library), Camberwell, SE5 9QY.

Carmel Agrexco and Cargoflora's depots in Hayes Middlesex was blockaded early this morning. The distribution depots gates were blocked by protesters using D-Locks and Hares' fencing. 

Carmel Agrexco is a partly Israeli state owned company, the largest exporter of agricultural produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank. Cargoflora is a British company which has, reportedly, been handling Agrexco's imports and provides freight services for Israeli flowers which are produced in Westbank colonies.

Held at the London Action Resource Centre, 62 Fieldgate St. London E1 1ES.

At the founding meeting for our Election Meltdown Mobilisation on Sat 30 - Sun 31, over 50 people from of wide variety of groups and networks converged to begin planning a strategy for an effective, decentralised movement in response to the bosses' elections in May. We've set up an open Facebook group, an open activists email group, and are developing plans for People's Assemblies, a Mayday Hometree Street Carnival and more. So now you are cordially invited to join this exciting flock of initiatives, and to initiate and integrate your own, at our next Election Meltdown Mobilisation gathering:
• Saturday 13 February 2010, 15:00-19:00
• Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube (exit 3), 84-86 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL‎
» Location: Map / Street View  
» Phone Contact: 07 854 390 408
» Queries: email – crdlondon@gmail.com
» Election Meltdown on Facebook
» Election Meltdown Mobilisation 2: Facebook Event  
» Election Meltdown - Activists Group

» 'Mayday Tatlin Tower Hometree in Parliament Square' – 3D animated visualisation of a space hijacking icon for a directly democratic People's Assembly; video, 1:20

The Boardroom, Central YMCA, 112 Great Russell Street, London, WC1B 3NQ

Listen to an interview with David Mery on reclaiming his DNA...

On Saturday 6th February the Kronstadt Hangar was opened for the public. In the afternoon, despite a heavy police presence migrants successfully entered the newly-opened space at the invitation of NoBorders activists. The hangar is intended to be a space for information-sharing, debate and practical solidarity.

Together, around 100 activists and migrants broke through police lines chanting “Freedom! Freedom!”. Riot police in full body protection are currently circling the building and threatening the migrants with mass arrests. People are currently occupying the building.      Read full feature

downstairs at The Foundry

old street tube take exit 3, on the corner of great eastern street and old street

CHINA BULLIES DAVOS THE IRRELEVANCE OF DAVOS G8, G20 AND COPENHAGEN

Book to take part in a discussion with radical photographer David Hoffman as he speaks about his part in the I'm a Photographer Not a Terrorist movement, press freedom and concerns over lowering of ethical and technical standards in photography.

The Frontline Club

13 Norfolk Place

Paddington

W2 1QJ

Protesters plan to build a "fortress" occupied by "ordinary people" on land earmarked for the construction of Heathrow's third runway.

SOAS School of Oriental and African Studies, room G3,

Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H

• You are cordially invited to attend..
• An open-ended meeting, arranged so people can consider how a coalition of groups and tendencies might mobilise together in 2010, for a new society. It's suggested this should be in the context of the general election, and on the strategy for an effective, decentralised movement in response, but the agenda is not fixed. All groups and individuals committed to a world free of oppression, very welcome.
• And please forward this invitation to key networks.

• Downstairs at The Foundry, Old Street tube (exit 3), 80 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3JL‎

• Saturday 30 and Sunday 31 January, 15:00-19:00 on both days

» Phone Contact: 07 854 390 408
» Queries: email – crdlondon@gmail.com 

» Election Meltdown on Facebook
» Election Meltdown Mobilisation: Facebook Event

Saturday 23rd January 2010, about two hundred people took the streets of London in protest at ever more draconian immigration controls and this countries pervasive surveillance culture.

This 16 minute video contains speeches and footage from the march. (320x240 mpeg4 ~64MB)

Further Indymedia coverage of the demo is available here:

• Peter Marshal photos - https://indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/01/445139.html
• Report and photos - http://london.indymedia.org/articles/4218
• Dissident Island audio recording - http://london.indymedia.org/articles/4221
• London Indymedia feature and timeline - http://london.indymedia.org/articles/4196

Note: A higher quality screening version is available on the Real2Reel Blip.TV channel (720x576 quicktime ~122MB)

• The video = http://blip.tv/file/3136790
• Other R2R video = http://real2reel.blip.tv

All Real2Reel videos, audio or photos are copyright and available for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license

The Morgue, 122 Dalston Lane, Dalston, London

On Saturday, 23 January 2010, demonstrators took the streets of central London as part of the 'Life's too short to be controlled' demonstration called by No Borders. This article contains links to audio from the demonstration, including the speeches made at the start of the demonstration, in front of the entrance to St Pancras Station and at the end, near the Eros statue in Picadilly.

Following the violence, vandalism and arrests in Stoke yesterday the EDL have very mixed feelings about what happened. Despite a strong turnout the trouble has created a lot of bad publicity and schisms amongst supporters. However, there are also serious lessons for anti-fascists.  

Today's 'Life's Too Short to be controlled' demo that was called by London No Borders attracted over 150 people that gathered at St.Pancras international terminal from 2pm. Whilst people were arriving banners were being unfurled, speeches were given over the mobile sound system, and bandanas specially made for the demo that read 'cctv operating at all times - life's too short to be controlled' and 'Smile you are on cctv - london no borders' were given out to the crowd.

At around 2.30 the demo took to the middle of the road in Euston Road effectively stopping trafic, and started to march south towards Picadilly Circus. For about 2 hours the demonstration managed to maintain control of the roads marching unhindered all the way. Strangely enough there were no police on sight throughout, so the only problems the crowd faced were a few over excited drivers that attempted to move into the demo. At some point, in Russell Square, part of the crowd had to face a nasty taxi drived that repeatedly tried to drive into the demo. Protesters had to forcefully stop him from running over people.

Troughout the journey the atmosphere was very lively and determined. Chants of 'no borders no nations, stop deportations' we repeatedly heard, the mobile sound system kept playing a mix of conscious hip-hop and hard core, a small samba band kept playing, and leaflets were given out to passers-by.

The demo eventually made it to Picadilly Circus, stopping the traffic heading East on the intersection of Coventry Street and Great Windmill for around 15 minutes, with loud hip-hop being played. For a little while it resembled an impromptu street party. The crowd then moved to the square itself where more speeches were given at the foot of the Eros. A protestor then climbed the Eros statue and hung a Palestinian flag from it. After the speeches finished, music kept playing for a while longer until people started to disperse.

The demo ended at about 5.00pm with a general sense of success. People kept together all along occupying the roads in central London, and being in control of the route of the demo at all times whilst managing to defend the space from cars that tried to break it up several times. In this sense, it is a long time since central London had seen such as succesful autonomously organised demo as this one. The fact that the forces in blue (and yellow) didn't appear, not even for a second, made the day even better! :-)

Here there are some shots from today:

Crawley Town Hall, The Boulevard, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1UZ

Tuesday 26 January 6:30pm to 8:30pm
Room G2, SOAS, London
www.soas.ac.uk/visitors/location/maps/

How NGO Bureaucrats and Greenwashed Corporations are Turning Nature Into Investment Capital-

On the occasion of its ten-year anniversary, the antiglobalization movement has been brought out of its slumber. This is to be expected, as anniversaries and nostalgia often trump the here and now in political action. What is troublesome, though, is not the celebration of a historical moment but the attempted resurrection of this movement, known by some as the Global Justice Movement, under the banner of Climate Justice.

By TIM SIMONS and ALI TONAK

If only regenerating the zeitgeist of a radical moment was as simple as substituting 'Climate' for 'Global'; if only movements appeared with such eas! In fact, this strategy, pursued to its fullest extent in Copenhagen during the UN COP15 Climate Change Summit, is proving more damaging than useful to those of us who are, and have been for the past decade, actively antagonistic to capitalism and its overarching global structures. Here, we will attempt to illustrate some of the problematic aspects of the troubled rebranding of a praxis particular to a decade past. Namely, we will address the following: the financialization of nature and the indirect reliance on markets and monetary solutions as catalysts for structural change, the obfuscation of internal class antagonisms within states of the Global South in favor of simplistic North-South dichotomies, and the pacification of militant action resulting from an alliance forged with transnational NGOs and reformist environmental groups who have been given minimal access to the halls of power in exchange for their successful policing of the movement.

Read full article and a responsse to it at the link below:

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.

The London Mass meets at 6.00pm on the last Friday of every month on the South Bank under Waterloo Bridge, by the National Film Theatre.