Out and Loud: Bicycle Soundsystems – Ode to Pedals | 56abikespace's Blog

Out and Loud: Bicycle Soundsystems – Ode to Pedals | 56abikespace's Blog

Out and Loud: Bicycle Soundsystems – Ode to Pedals

11NOV

Pedals the sound system…perhaps you’ve seen it at Critical Mass or at a protest. It was built originally for the 2005 G8 protest ride from London to Scotland! Since then it has appeared at innumerable protests/bike rides/protest bikerides, most likely in part due to both it’s impressive sound and durability: “Pedals set the standard for mobile sound with its incredible volume, sound quality, and low power consumption thanks to features like a 6th order bandpass bass enclosure, class D amplifiers, and a highly efficient horn speaker and tweeters” (Bicycology).

How to DIY your own?

http://www.bicycology.org.uk/pedals.htm

History of Pedals!

Here are also some photos and links to check out of mighty Pedals through the years!

Pedals and Son of Pedals around 2008. Both made by bicycology.

At the G20 Climate Ride in 2009. Credit: Ian Gregory

From the 100 Days to Palestine Critical Mass in 2011

http://www.bicycology.org.uk/pedals.htm
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/activism/pedals.html (up to 2010)

In two years alone, Pedals was used in:

• Rally against GM potato crop trial in Hedon near Hull
• Faslane 365 Cyclists Blockade October 2006
• Camp for Climate Action Drax 2006
• Bicycology Summer 2006 Roadshow
• Big Green Gathering 2006 – Photo
• May 2006 London Critical Mass 
• London May Day Critical Mass 2006
• Runnymede Ride, St Georges Day 2006
• Hyde Park alternative to Guantanamo demo
• Reclaim Love 2006
• DSEi 2005 Party for Peace

https://bicycology.wordpress.com/category/reports/page/2/

Great Pacific Garbage Patch - Ocean Pollution Awareness

DJ Shadow & other artists "Acid Jazz" mix - Full Album

squatting / free spaces / protest sites | Earth First! Action Reports

squatting / free spaces / protest sites | Earth First! Action Reports

squatting / free spaces / protest sites

squatting / free spaces / protest sites

Earth First! Summer Gathering 2016 dates & location

Earth First! Summer Gathering!

All your Ecological Direct Action needs in one place!

17th-22nd Aug - BE THERE!

Northamptonshire

Further info to be announced

Coldcut and Hexstatic - Timber

Virtual Field Trip - Amazon Rainforest

Virtual Field Trip - Amazon Rainforest

John Lee Hooker "Boom Boom Boom Boom" - Mississippi Delta Blues

Hive open organising and networking meeting Monday's 6.30-7.30 pm all welcome tell a friend come and help the hive get a buzz on.www.hivedalston.org.uk we have exciting new projects coming up an Eco park on 4 acres of land in Reading help needed,love phoenix

Hive open organising and networking meeting Monday's 6.30-7.30 pm all welcome tell a friend come and help the hive get a buzz on.www.hivedalston.org.uk we have exciting new projects coming up an Eco park on 4 acres of land  in Reading help needed,love phoenix

Best Liquid Drum and Bass Mix 2016 【1 Hour】 - Best DnB Mix, February 2016

Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe #olsx #occupy #basicincome

Basic Income Gathers Steam Across Europe

By Daniel Raventós and Julie Wark / counterpunch.org

In the last few months basic income—an unconditional cash payment to every member of the population—has been getting more and more attention in the media and social networks. Three items are especially interesting.

First, Yanis Varoufakis, the able Greek economist, Minister for Finance in the first Syriza government and well known for his trenchant opposition to Troika austerity measures bashing the poor and already vulnerable majority of the population, has become such a media star that every time he gives an opinion on political economy, some theoretical aspect of economics or economic policy, his words are widely disseminated. Hence, his remarks on basic income, which he described as “a necessity” at the Future of Work conference in Zurich on 5 May 2016, are of no small import.

Power Grab: How the Tories are holding onto power (and how to buy an election in 21st Century Britain) | Real Media #olsx #occupy #democracy #toryelectionfraud

Power Grab: How the Tories are holding onto power (and how to buy an election in 21st Century Britain) | Real Media - The News You Don't See

Image: Flickr – Ben Fisher/GAVI Alliance

By Lori Inglis-Hall

It’s perhaps a little obvious, to suggest that politics and a desire for power often go hand in hand, yet since the 2015 election the Conservatives have been unsubtle, to say the least, in pursuing the party’s desire to hold onto power no matter what.

There were hints during the long years of the Coalition of what was to come; the Liberal Democrats’ horror at proposed boundary changes for constituencies (proposals which are back and as bad as ever), the Tories’ horror at the mere thought of electoral reform. Now Osborne (for it is said that he is the architect of such plans) has no need to pander to the supposedly steadying hand of his minority partner Nick Clegg, there is no stopping him. The sheer chutzpah of what is happening in Westminster is matched only by the whimper of discord with which the proposals have been met.

This is a power grab so blatant it surely shows the Tories contempt for the British public. It is time to get angry.

Election Fraud

This story has been simmering for a while, but don’t be too hard on yourself if you aren’t quite up to speed; the press have been strangely reticent in their reporting of possibly the biggest political scandal of the decade (to such a degree that leading political talking heads Alan Johnson and Michael Portillo appeared to know nothing of the claims whenquestioned by Andrew Neil).

The Party is accused of breaking election spending rules by failing to declare accommodation costs for activists involved in the now infamous ‘Battle Bus’ campaign, which is thought to have benefited 29 Conservative candidates fighting for marginal seats. The buses are believed to have played a crucial role in helping 22 Conservative candidates win marginal seats (including 14 from the Liberal Democrats in the South West alone).

Channel 4 News, which broke the story as the rest of the media deliberately looked elsewhere, has alleged that the Conservatives failed to declare some £38,000 worth of accommodation costs. CCHQ claim this was a simple administrative error; the costs incorrectly recorded as part of the candidates’ expenses, rather than as part of national campaign spending.

Yet the (normally toothless) Electoral Commission is taking the matter extremely seriously. Eight Police Forces are investigating the claims raised by Channel 4 News. SNP Politician Pete Wishart has written to the Metropolitan Police to request a nationwide investigation into the allegations.

France floods: Louvre to close as Seine rises further - BBC News

France floods: Louvre to close as Seine rises further - BBC News

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Image captionWaters are rising up the Zouave statue in Paris. The 1910 floods reached his shoulders

The world's most visited museum, the Louvre in Paris, is to close on Friday amid worsening flooding caused by days of torrential rain.

The move will allow staff to move works at risk of damage to higher parts of the gallery, a statement said. 

The Seine, which runs through Paris past the Louvre, has risen five metres above normal levels.

Heavy rains across Europe have left at least 10 people dead, most of them in Germany.

More downpours are forecast right through the weekend across a band of central Europe from France to Ukraine, with as much as 50mm (2in) of rain falling in some parts in just a few hours.

Friday 3rd June Passing Clouds presents three heavyweight thinkers DAVIES PINCHBECK, GREG SAMS and LEE HARRIS in conversation with music producer YOUTH. Doors 7pm. Talk starts 7.30. Followed by party until 4am featuring Dubtrees, Jally Kebba Susso and the Manding Griot and DJs Matt Black and Mixmaster Morris +++. Free before 9pm, £5 before 10, £10 after.

Friday 3rd June Passing Clouds presents three heavyweight thinkers DAVIES PINCHBECK, GREG SAMS and LEE HARRIS in conversation with music producer YOUTH. Doors 7pm. Talk starts 7.30. Followed by party until 4am featuring Dubtrees, Jally Kebba Susso and the Manding Griot and DJs Matt Black and Mixmaster Morris +++. Free before 9pm, £5 before 10, £10 after.

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The 'Resistance' Exhibition/mobile archive will be at www.hivedalston.org.uk 260 Kingsland Rd E8 4DG Haggerston overland June 7th-14th network it #olsx #occupy #protest #movement #climate #antiwar #antiroads #history

Hi folks The 'Resistance' Exhibition/mobile archive will be  at www.hivedalston.org.uk 260 Kingsland Rd E8 4DG Haggerston overland June 7th-14th Preview thurs 9th Main opening Night/ music till 11pm Friday 10th June Covering 1992-2016 25years of protest/social movements from Twyford Down road Protests to Paris Climate summit from Reclaim the Streets to Reclaim the Power.get in touch if u want to help or contribute.featuring written material,leaflets newspapers etc,video from Undercurrents/VisionOn Tv and Photography from Adrian Arbib and co.network it love phoenix

FB event Resistance 25 years of social/protest movements

https://www.facebook.com/events/1613913972257779/

CAPTURE THE FLAG! tomorrow meet at seven dials in covent garden 7ish.

 CAPTURE THE FLAG!  tomorrow meet at seven dials in covent garden 7ish. 

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David Cameron unveils plans to ban free speech and protest #olsx #occupy

David Cameron unveils plans to ban free speech and protest

The government has unveiled plans to ban anyone who criticises it from appearing on TV or protesting.

Under the guise of protecting the public from ‘extremism’ the government proposal will allow police to vet the social media activity of “harmful” individuals and curb their right to speak at public events.

The maximum sentence could be up to 10 years in prison for breaking a banning order.

These new plans would also promise greater powers for British police to access internet data.

Targeted individuals will also be barred from certain public spaces and from associating with named people. The plans were unveiled by Theresa May at the Conservative Party Conference and reiterated by David Cameron, in his speech on ‘extremism’.

So who is included under this new definition of extremists? Are we just talking about people who allegedly bomb buildings?

Well, according to David Cameron, the law will target “non-violent conspiracy theorists” who he claims are just as dangerous as the ISIS terrorists and must therefore, be eradicated.

He referenced 9/11 and 7/7 Truthers as examples of the type of extremism that must be dealt in a similar fashion to ISIS.

Such individuals are deemed to be a threat to “the functioning of democracy.”

Furthermore, the Home Office claimed that the government’s “counter-extremism” strategy would encompass “the full spectrum of extremism”.

In other words, you no longer have to be violent or cause harm to another to be declared a terrorist. David Cameron has announced that even those with views that are not accepted by the government will now be deemed extremists.

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Government wants impunity from UK courts over torture, judges told | Law | The Guardian

Government wants impunity from UK courts over torture, judges told | Law | The Guardian

 Abdel Hakim Belhaj wants to sue British agencies and former foreign secretary Jack Straw. Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Richard Norton-Taylor

Monday 21 July 2014 14.06 BSTLast modified on Saturday 7 May 2016 16.56 BST

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The government is determined to prevent ministers and officials from being accountable to the courts for colluding in wrongdoing abroad even if it involves torture, three of the country's most senior judges were warned on Monday.

In a case with "profound and far-reaching implications for the rule of law", British officials would enjoy "impunity from its own courts", the judges were told.

The warnings came from Richard Hermer QC, acting for Abdel Hakim Belhaj and his Moroccan wife, Fatima Bouchar, who were abducted in a joint MI6/CIA operation in 2004 and secretly flown to Tripoli, where Muammar Gaddafi's security forces tortured him.

Blair government's rendition policy led to rift between UK spy agencies | UK news | The Guardian

Blair government's rendition policy led to rift between UK spy agencies | UK news | The Guardian

 Eliza Manningham-Buller and Tony Blair in 2006. Photograph: Composite

Nick Hopkins and Richard Norton-Taylor

Tuesday 31 May 2016 17.56 BSTLast modified on Wednesday 1 June 2016 00.55 BST

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British involvement in controversial and clandestine rendition operations provoked an unprecedented row between the UK’s domestic and foreign intelligence services, MI5 and MI6, at the height of the “war on terror”, the Guardian can reveal.

The head of MI5, Eliza Manningham-Buller, was so incensed when she discovered the role played by MI6 in abductions that led to suspected extremists being tortured, she threw out a number of her sister agency’s staff and banned them from working at MI5’s headquarters, Thames House.

According to Whitehall sources, she also wrote to the then prime minister, Tony Blair, to complain about the conduct of MI6 officers, saying their actions had threatened Britain’s intelligence gathering and may have compromised the security and safety of MI5 officers and their informants.

The letter caused a serious and prolonged breakdown of trust between Britain’s domestic and foreign spy agencies provoked by the Blair government’s support for rendition.