RSS MAD

Alienated at work? Don't sell yourself.

Legislation since the 1990s has introduced a focus on mass education , performativity and marketisation in British Higher Education alienating the workers at the base in the universities.

Palestinian al-Nakbah at 60: the case of unrecognized villages

Yom al-Nakbah on the 15th of May marks the Palestinian catastrophe in which 750,000 people were driven out of their homes 60 years ago. But for Palestinians living in villages that Israel refuses to recognize, the ethnic cleansing process continues to this day. The unrecognized Bedouin villages of the Negev continue to struggle against obliteration.

Offline & Usurpa

Latest London Indymedia Offline news sheet and InfoUsurpa guide

Hacktionlab a rural hacktivist convergence in June

The aim of HacktionLab is to have a convergence where people interested in and/or working in the areas of alternative media, renewable energy, on-line video distribution, free software and any other form of activism that utilises technology.

Communique from police station attack in Athens

The following claim for "Symmories Syneidisis" (Gangs of Conscience) though, was sent to  directactiongr@yahoo.gr together with other newspaper and tv-station mail accounts. Here is a translation:

UK Supermarkets Dump Neurotoxic Aspartame; Japanese Manufacturer Ajinomoto Sues!

Can this company truly be so abysmally stupid, uncomprehending of the legal processes, and unaware of the public furor over their ghastly chemical products? World's largest manufacturer of carcinogens, Aspartame & MSG, must accept responsibility for perpetuating decades-long spike in Neurodegenerative Illnesses: Tumors, MS, ALS, Migraines, Seizures, all thoroughly documented by USA FDA

Indymedia Ecuador communiques

Indymedia Journalists Targeted in Ecuador. English translation of recent communiques:

London Zoo outside City Hall

On 2 May about 60 people gathered outside city hall to await the London election results and protest against the lack of choice generally and the BNP specifically.

Pauline Campbell - lives remembered

Photographs of Pauline remembering some of the women who died in UK prisons in the last 5 years. The audio from the demonstration to remember Jamie Pearce, aged 24 who died at Holloway on December 10th 2007, includes an interview with Pauline.

Tonight on Dissident Island Radio...

Keep it in the Ground // Three strikes and You're out //
IWW // Manchester Anarchist Bookfair // LARC Library // DJ Slipppahz

Indymedia Activists Targeted in Ecuador, Five Arrested

Ecuadorian police detained five journalists associated with Ecuador Indymedia late Tuesday night, May 6th. Four of the five were released from custody on Wednesday afternoon. The government says that the four activists were detained because of their relationship with the fifth detainee, Ecuadorian resident and Colombian national Antonio Alcívar.

The government at first refused to issue a statement on the matter or inform the detainees of the reason for their arrests. The Regional Foundation for Assistance in Human Rights (INREDH) noted that this was a violation of the detainees' constitutional right to be clearly informed of the reason for their detention along with the identities of those who ordered and carried out the arrests.

For a detailed account of the arrests see the English translations of the communiques from IMC-Ecuador (Sp): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4.

Support The Raytheon 9 - Resisting War Crimes Is Not A Crime!

Last Month, Davy McAuley from the Raytheon 9 Campaign & Derry Anti-War Movement visited Cardiff to demonstrate against the huge, privatised new UK Military Academy being built by a consortium that includes Raytheon. Our taxes pay - the merchants of death profit!
Raytheon: Not in Our Backyard! Not in Anybody's Backyard! Not on Planet Earth

Camden Deadly Disease & Animal Torture Lab - there were 27 other bidders.

As you may be aware there is an attempt to build a deadly disease lab in London. There were 27 other bidders for the land at Brill Place next to St Pancras International in the heart of London's business district. The site is also on a Camden council house estate. 12 complied with the planning briefthat the site should be used for 50% housing but were turned down. There is something very stinky about this whole thing...

Effects of UK government policy on asylum seekers : meeting tomorrow, London

Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility present:

Pogrom by rightist Italians is leading to Massive Romani Diaspora

This is a link into to the Indymedia.ie site with regard to the regional
expulsions of up to 20,000 Romani men, women and Children
by Burlusconi loyalists.

There has been four days of mob violence on an Encampment/Shanti in
Naples.

"Get in my pen or you will be arrested"

NOT

So what did go wrong in Iraq?

An analysis of how Britain lost the propaganda war on the weapons of mass destruction.

US Star Wars Create Uproar In Europe

As part of the campaign against the Missile Defence Shield (Son of Ronald Regan's Star Wars) that the US is developing, leading to a new arms race and a new Cold War, breaking the Non Proliferation Treaty and against the wishes of the majority of people in Europe, Humanist activists in Czech Republic and other European countries are starting hunger strikes and other actions to prevent the Czech installation of an US Radar base.

Is Melanie Phillips a war criminal?

"The prerequisite for stabilising all these hotspots — including “Israel/Palestine” — and dealing with global Islamic terror is regime change in Tehran."

So says loyal british citizen Melanie ...

Terror Arrests on Campus

Two people have been arrested on the University of Nottingham campus under the Anti-terror laws.

Veggies Campaign News

New veggie catering campaign to be launched, another (almost) bites the dust.

INVITATION FOR WORKSHOP OFFERS AT THE CAMP FOR CLIMATE ACTION 2008

The Camp for Climate Action is back. And we are planning a jam packed
programme of workshops. If this new movement for climate action has a
chance of winning, we are going to need knowledge, skills and the space to
forge a future where people and the environment come before profit.

Project 2012 | May31 Workshop & Video Session

May 31st, 2-5pm Methodist Central Hall, Conservatory Cafe
Please Bring Something Nice to Share

South Africa: Gangster landlord's intimidation of Shack Dweller movement

The poor of Motala Heights, affiliated to Abahlali baseMjondolo since 2006, are fighting a bitter battle against eviction against a local gangster business man and the local state. There have recently been death threats and threats of arson and the local cops are acting as the gangsters' enforcers.

Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Release
Tuesday, 13 May 2008

May 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Video and Photos

Video from the London protest on Oxford Street and at Speakers' Corner and photos from protests around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice.

Foie Gras off the Menu at 5th Birmingham Restaurant

After demonstrations and logical reasoning Opus Restaurant finally decide to remove Foie Gras from their menu.

Last Primate Lab in Austria to Close!

One less target for the AR2008 gathering...

international call for days of action on may 31st and the 1st of june

international call for days of action on may 31st and the 1st of june

Pauline Campbell 1948-2008

It is with great sadness that I report the death of Pauline Campbell whose body was found at the grave of her daughter Sarah this morning. She was an inspiration to all who knew her, both activists and journalists alike. She fought for years for the rights of those whom the government and society would try to forget. She was never afraid to put herself in the firing line and to this effect she was arrested 15 times though the state never succeeded in prosecuting her. To see her courageous action and eloquent speeches it was easy to forget that she fought a daily battle with her grief at losing her only daughter. Something she never really recovered from.

She leaves behind a proud legacy of tireless campaigning and direct action. Rest in peace Pauline. You will be remembered with great pride and affection by all of us who had the honour of knowing you.

Prisons campaigner Pauline Campbell found dead beside daughter's grave

Prisons campaigner Pauline Campbell has died, the advice group
Inquest said today.

Call for action at UN Biodiversity Summit - Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May

Call for action to protect biodiveristy, family farms & stop privatisation & the loss of more land to monoculture at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May.
Driving out small farmers and peasants, genetic manipulation, deforestation, use of pesticides ...it will all be at stake at this Summit.
Ref: www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task;=view&id;=563&Itemid;=1

joachim heimrath

joachim heimrath

heimrath family

heimrath family

Prison campaigner Pauline Cambell found dead! RIP Pauline

Pauline Cambell found dead in cemetary where daughter buried!

Ndeh Family Support Demonstration

Supporters of Claude Ndeh and his family demonstrate outside Sheffield Town Hall demanding that he and his family be allowed to stay in Sheffield.

Layoffs, Pink Slips, and A Plan to Take Back Washington

The sheer lack of representation in our government, Local, State, and Federal, has many up in arms as to what can be done. Here are just a few suggestions!

**Vancover APC Fight the Olympics - London Talk

*Vancover Anti Poverty Committee Fight the Olympics:
Public Talk on Wednesday the 21st of May*

Judge stops demolition of Dale Farm Travellers site

86 Irish traveller families located at the Crays Hill (Dale Farm) traveller site near Wickford, Essex, won a Judicial Review at the High Court last Friday (9th) against Basildon Council's plans to evict them.

Paulline Campbell(prisons campaigner) RIP

Pauline saddly found dead at daughters graveside.