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Welcome to Noomap. We are passionate about inspiring boundless and diverse creativity through the development of synergistic, cocreative environments. Our solutions invite humanity to enter a noo domain of interconnectivity, where we get to witness and explore the infinite potential of our gifts and resources when they are openly shared and synergized.
Army whistleblower and transgender activist who spent seven years in military prison after leaking a trove of documents about the Iraq and Afghan wars and the State Department to WikiLeaks in 2010. She is now running for the U.S. Senate in Maryland.
Fifteen years ago this month, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. Today we spend the hour with the war’s most famous whistleblower, Chelsea Manning, in her first live television interview. While serving as an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning leaked a trove of documents in 2010 about the Iraq War to WikiLeaks. She also leaked diplomatic cables, as well as information on Guantánamo and the U.S. War in Afghanistan. It would become the largest leak of classified data in U.S. history. Manning was caught and eventually sentenced to 35 years in prison—the longest sentence ever given to a whistleblower in the United States. Last year, President Obama granted her clemency in one of his final acts in office. She had written to the president requesting what she described as a “first chance at life.” Since her release, Manning has emerged as a leading activist for trans rights and greater transparency. She has been featured in the pages of Vogue, where she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz, and was named 2017 Newsmaker of the Year by Out magazine. In January, she announced her bid for the U.S. Senate in Maryland, challenging Democratic Senator Ben Cardin, who is seeking a third term.
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If you were somewhere near London and at a loose end in the last week of January, you could have attended FOURdifferent arms fairs.
All interests were catered for somewhere across the capital. If armoured vehicles were your bag, the annual exhibition at Twickenham Stadium could provide your fix. If you preferred Surface Warships then the Hilton at Canary Wharf was hosting the “world’s premier international conference for all elements of the surface fleet community”. For those more into military helicopters or cyber warfare, there were fairs for that too.
This might seem like an excessive amount of arms jamborees for one week and one city.
But since the so-called War on Terror began in 2001, and Britain intensified its own role with the Iraq invasion in 2003, London has become the global showroom for the products of war.
Dragon Discs by Camden Town tube station: 1999/2000
Access All Areas first set up as an information and ticket hub for London’s party scene at the back of a Camden record shop in 1999 before opening up a record shop in Kentish Town in 2002 and then moving to its current (until April 2018) office above Camden Market in 2006.
However, AAA was borne out of a desire to provide an interactive space and hub for party people to hangout and engage with each other at London parties. It’s now more than 25 years since Amin Karim, the man behind AAA, first held an information stall – at Club Alien at the Rocket on Holloway Road in 1992 – as he sought to bring a piece of his spiritual and community-minded outlook to parties.
AAA was never primarily about selling tickets – it was about community: not just being part of one, but creating the space to nurture and foster one. Values that Amin drew from the Ismaili community in his native Uganda in the 6os and enjoyed with the squatting community in West London during the 70s.
The stalls acted as and provided a space to hangout, chat, leave feedback, get creative, find yourself or each other, have a cup of chai or any number of other things Amin thought might get people interacting with one another or relax. Such was the stall’s success at Club Alien and Trancentral that other promoters were soon asking him and his partner Kathy to run stalls at their events too including: PLUR, Synergy Project and Restless Natives.
Amin then looked for a permanent base to see if the template he had successfully established at parties to provide a space for like-minded people to hang out and nurture a community could be recreated, but of course it would need to sustain itself.
In 1999 the owner of Dragon Discs in Camden, Rocket, kindly allowed AAA to set up a small table at the back of his shop. From there AAA began selling tickets, set up a flyer stand and sell handmade carts, crafts and jewellery a long with head-shop paraphernalia and employed a handful of friends as well as becoming the community hub that was its original intention. For the first time AAA was invited to run an information stall at a festival: Sona Luna 2000 in Greece, which would go onto become a regular thing on top of the stalls at London parties.
As our community blossomed Dragon Discs sadly closed, so Amin opened up record shop Trackheadz in Kentish Town in 2001 and the fun continued with former Dragon Discs staff Jerome Hill, Mara Bruiser, Syber Symon, Charlie Behrens and Frank One joining the AAA crew of Amin, Johan, Ed Giles and Dan Hart, who between them ran the record shop and AAA respectively. Later recruits included Zebedee, Louise +1, Rob Stow, Ben Onken and Vicki ITA.
Trackheadz in Kentish Town: 2001-2005
For those that remember it Trackheadz was the peak of what we tried to achieve: a self-sustaining space for our community to hang out in, get party and activist information and buy tickets, records and clothes as well as our friends hand made arts and crafts. However, for those that worked and hung out there it was sometimes hard to tell when the party ended and the work began – or the other way around. But needless to say it all contributed to building and cementing a community – both inside and outside of parties – that continues to this day.
Meanwhile the stalls continued at festivals Glade and Samothraki where we provided all our usual services along with lost property, phone charging and an element of welfare for those that needed some TLC. We also started holding stalls at other large outdoor events including the Cannabis march, Anti War Demo, Reclaim the Future, May Day demo and Stop the Hiding event (anti-domestic violence event).
In December 2005 Trackheadz closed down as its lease came to an end, so we found ourselves a small office above Camden Lock market in February 2006 to continue AAA where it focused on event promotion, selling tickets and running information stalls at festivals, however, it continued to act as a space for promoters, party people and friends to connect, catch-up and converse despite most of our work now being done online.
Meanwhile the demand for our information stalls (marquees) at festivals grew taking us to some of Europe’s biggest and best festivals that we were proud to be associated with: Ozora, Boom, Boomtown, Glade, Sunrise, Waveform and Sun where providing people with a level of care and courtesy was the aim of the game.
The Camden Lock office above the market: 2006-2018
Since 2013 we have wound down our activities and focused on the core business due to a family illness and bereavement, which has given reason to question what we have become and what we would like to be, not least the amount of time stuck inside the office.
So accordingly and after much thought we will close our Camden office in April 2018. With a large part of the business being conducted online we can be work from anywhere. The new found freedom will allow us to return to what we set out to do: be part of and support the party community, so expect to see us at parties a little more often catching up with old friends and being a bit more proactive in promoting the events they run or attend.
Theresa May attends church near her Maidenhead constituency on Sunday. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA
The Cambridge Analytica scandal engulfing the official Brexit campaign reached No 10 on Sunday, as campaigners wrote to Theresa May demanding an investigation into what members of her cabinet and her own staff knew.
The letter from the anti-Brexit group Best for Britain came after a whistleblower told the Observer that Vote Leave channelled money through another campaign to a firm linked to the controversial data company Cambridge Analytica in a potential breach of electoral law.
The allegations immediately put pressure on the foreign and environment secretaries, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove, who were leading members of Vote Leave.
May came under pressure herself over the weekend after Downing Street was accused of outing the whistleblower, Shahmir Sanni, as gay in an official statement released on Friday. It was put out in response to allegations Sanni made about the involvement of one of May’s aides, Stephen Parkinson – a former senior Vote Leave official – in wrongdoing at the campaign group.
Sanni said his family in Pakistan, where homosexuality is criminalised, are now in potential danger.
Sanni had raised questions with the Observer about the validity of a £625,000 donation from Vote Leave to an ostensibly independent campaign group called BeLeave was channelled to the digital services firm, AggregateIQ (AIQ), which has links to Cambridge Analytica.
