Wednesday 20 August 2008

A film about a mans journey through anarchist utopias existing today

No Borders Protest Cardiff -Today!

Lunch time today (Wednesday), No Borders South Wales will be having one of
their regular pickets of the UK Border Agency offices at 31-33 Newport Road,
Cardiff.

These are the offices where people made the decision to deport Ama Sumani
to her death, who tried to deport Kemi and Taiwo and their baby, who has
put Jean Pierre in detention, who refused Babi Badalov the right to
remain, where the snatch squads leave from, where local asylum seekers
have to sign and are treated like criminals.

Starts at 12 noon and only lasts an hour. More details:
http://noborderswales.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/protest-this-wednesday/

Citizens Initiative and Referendum I&R

I&R is the campaign for direct democracy in Britain, it is independent of political parties but states that it can help people wishing to attain a plebiscite (referendum). It is certainly worth investigating the website let me know what you think.

Monday 18 August 2008

search for terrorstorm on youtube1

Watch This!

Taking Liberties - Film

Sunday 17 August 2008

Italy - frightening facism?

Following on from the Guardian article about the terrible torture and beatings of the activists in Genoa in 2001, i thought i would also comment on the fingerprinting of the Roma in Italy and the public ignoring the deaths of two Roma children on a popular Naples beach last month. These two things show us that fascism is alive and growing and we need to be ever vigilant and show them that we will not allow this.

This year i have heard concerns voiced in many different groups that many activists might not want to go to the 09 ANTI G8 protests, but i am not to worried as most people i have spoken to have stated that the repressive behaviour by police in Genoa only makes people more determined not to be frightened off by the fascist bully boys.

According to the Wombles:

"The mobilisation to Italy will have to find a way of dealing with the memories of the days and nights in Genoa. It is to be expected that a number of activists will not partcipate in the G8 protests in Italy because of their experiences with Italian police and the Carabinieri (or because of what they heard about them from friends).

Many are traumatised since then; perhaps one could even generalise this for the movements of the "summer of resistance" in Gothenburg and Genoa 2001. With such traumatisation, however, police repression would have reached one of its goal: the prevention of protest.

One of the possible strategies for overcoming the trauma is to remember and re-tell the story. A mobilisation against militarised European external and internal politics could link the role of the paramilitary Carabinieri in Genoa with their current integration into the "European Security Architecture" (Frontex, EGF).

It is quite likely that by 2009 not all the main trials of the G8 summit protests in Genoa will be concluded. Prosecuted activists are in the process of appealing. Supposedly, the publicity work for these trials will be integrated in the mobilisation for 2009."

We need to go to the G8 and look after each other and show them that they can beat us they can torture us but they can never stop us loving each other protecting each other and shouting that we will not live by their fascist laws and we will not ever give in.



Wednesday 13 August 2008

watch to end police brutallity

Climate Camp

check it out!

Wednesday 6 August 2008

How right he was!

I was just thinking these thoughts this when i saw this quote from Hunter S. Thomson i wish i had the courage to speak so openly about my life as he did maybe one day i will.

"We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer."

—"Extreme Behavior in Aspen," February 3, 2003 Hunter S. Thompson

Friday 1 August 2008

Climate Camp

Climate camp site revealed: please help set up the camp

Activists take site for the Camp for Climate Action and reveal location

100 people entered and secured an uncultivated field at Deansgate Ridge at 3.00pm today, only 1 km from Kingsnorth Power Station. They erected and climbed tripods to prevent police from moving them and have erected a marquee alongside a banner which reads ‘No New Coal’.

full workshop programme

Although the climate camp activists have been upfront and open about most aspects of their plans, the location of the camp had not been revealed until today in order to prevent E.ON and the police from attempting to stop it from happening. The uncultivated field is on a road that runs
between Hoo St Werburgh and High Halstow. The Camp for Climate Action intends to return the field in two weeks in as good, if not better, condition than it was found.

Around 20 sheep were in the field when it was occupied. They have been rounded up and are being taken care of with food and water.

The camp, which is due to officially start on Sunday, 3 August, is expected to attract thousands of people coming from all over the UK. The week long camp hosts hundreds of workshops on sustainable living and the politics of climate change. The camp will culminate on Saturday 9 August
in a mass direct action to shut down Kingsnorth power station on protest over E.ON’s plans to build the first new coal-fired power station in the UK for 33 years.

“We want to warmly invite people from the local community to come down and see for themselves what the camp is all about,” said Terry Graves, who has already pitched his tent up in the field.

“E.ON and the government believe that you can have endless fossil-fuelled economic growth in a world of finite resources,” said Christina Greensford, who helped to secure the camp. “People from all over the UK are here to create a democratic, low-carbon society in which our long term
future on this planet is prioritised over the short term profit margins of the fossil fuel industry.”

“We have a future to protect, and today, in setting up the climate camp, we’ve drawn a line in the sand at Kingsnorth.” said Hannah Abbots. “We will not allow companies like E.ON drag us over the edge of climate
catastrophe.”

Press can contact Conor O’Brian at 07530 306267 who is on site and arrange interviews, either over the phone or on the perimeter of the site.

Press can also contact the media team, who are not currently on site, at 07772 861 099

A press advisory will be shortly issued giving information as to when the first media tours of the camp will take place.