Friday, 25 August 2017

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Welcome to Powerbase - your guide to networks of power, lobbying and deceptive PR

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Watch and share: 'Meet the Frackers: a Spinwatch lobbying tour' Our Fracking portal] tracks the companies, people and lobbyists behind the all-out push for shale gas exploration in the UK and worldwide. It sheds light on who is influencing the debate over fracking and the tactics used to persuade the public and our politicians.
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Our Schools Portal examines the vast global education industry that has sprung up to profit from our schools. It has been described as ‘the largest market opportunity’ since healthcare was privatised. 'Let's all go forth. Let's all make hay,' as one private equity investor at a 2015 UK conference succinctly put it. We reveal the firms leading the reforms; the networks of lobbyists and think tanks working for them across continents; the politicians aiding them; the messages being used to sell these changes, and more...
Propaganda, conflict and war
Watch: What is Propaganda? Powerbase focuses on communication, spin and propaganda in party politics and in war and peace. The database contains collections of articles on British propaganda, counterinsurgency, the neoconservatives, terror experts and the associated terrorism industry, which can influence public opinion and policy in the 'war on terror'. It also documents the disinformation and covert action activities of states, intelligence agencies, and their networks.

Amber Alert from Kirby Misperton fracking warning system. Our first demo is Thursday 31st August at 1.30pm outside Third Energy meeting, Kirby Misperton Village Hall, YO17 6XW. Our first show of strength, please support Facebook Kirby Misperton Protection Camp or email kmprotectors@gmail.com

Amber Alert from Kirby Misperton fracking warning system.

Our first demo is Thursday 31st August at 1.30pm outside Third Energy meeting, Kirby Misperton Village Hall, YO17 6XW.

Our first show of strength, please support

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Help needed for carnival to support Grenfell, painting, making, screenprinting things Green for Grenfell this friday and saturday: People can come to 2 spaces (just say you're coming to help with making Carnival Green for Grenfell): 1 The Village, Acklam Road/Portobello Road W10 5TY 2 Maxilla Gardens, St Marks Road 6NQ You can call 07377 313 730 for more details or with any questions Thank You for caring for our community Green for Grenfell

Help needed for carnival to support Grenfell, painting, making, screenprinting things Green for Grenfell this friday and saturday:

People can come to 2 spaces (just say you're coming to help with making Carnival Green for Grenfell):

1 The Village, Acklam Road/Portobello Road W10 5TY

2 Maxilla Gardens, St Marks Road 6NQ

You can call 07377 313 730 for more details or with any questions

Thank You for caring for our community

Green for Grenfell

Thursday, 24 August 2017

Interesting doc from a few years ago ...shows 3 good squats ...The End of Squatting in the UK? Whatever they say squatting will stay!!

SQUATTING PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE -talk by Phoenix at Off Grid Festival #squatting #protest #occupy #housing #protest

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Wednesday, 23 August 2017

Donald Trump is a Dinosaur!

Phoenix guided tour of the Resistance exhibition at Boomtown

Monday, 21 August 2017

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Sunday, 20 August 2017

Sweet Smoke - Just A Poke (Full Album)

Trump's DOJ Demands Personal Info on 1.3M Visitors to 'DisruptJ20' Inauguration Protest Website | Democracy Now!

Trump's DOJ Demands Personal Info on 1.3M Visitors to "DisruptJ20" Inauguration Protest Website

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senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His group is assisting the website host DreamHost in its opposition to the government’s search warrant for its records about its website, DisruptJ20.org.

The Justice Department is demanding web hosting provider DreamHost turn over 1.3 million IP addresses of people who visited the website DisruptJ20.org, which was used to organize the protests against President Trump’s inauguration. The Justice Department is also seeking names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses and other information about the owners and subscribers of the website. More than 200 protesters were arrested during the Inauguration Day protests and are now facing decades in prison on trumped-up charges. We are joined by Nate Cardozo, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. His group is assisting DreamHost in its opposition to the

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Squatters move into Holloway pub in rents protest | Islington Tribune

Squatters move into Holloway pub in rents protest

With London so expensive, it’s the only alternative to living on streets, they claim

18 August, 2017 — By Emily Finch

Squatters Adam and Jamie at the pub

SQUATTERS this week took over an empty pub in Holloway Road in protest against high rents in the capital.

The five squatters, who say they offer housing and food to the less fortunate, moved into the former Liquor Works pub on Sunday.

“We respect the building. We don’t trash it. We don’t rip out the copper wiring,” said squatter Jamie, 26, who did not wish to give his surname.

“Nine out of ten times, we manage to contact the owners to see if we can look after the building and give it back when they ask. We’re squatting to have somewhere to stay. Rent is too expensive in London.”

A courier originally from Margate, Jamie has been squatting for more than five years. He was living in an abandoned drug and alcohol rehabilitation centre in Finsbury Park before moving into the pub.

The three-storey Irish theme pub had been empty for more than three weeks before they moved in, he said.

The former Liquor Works pub in Holloway Road

Another squatter, Adam, said that, with rents in London so high, squatting was the only alternative to living on the streets.

Saturday, 19 August 2017

Shared Assets - we believe that land is a common good that should deliver shared benefits for everyone.

Shared Assets

At Shared Assets we believe that land is a common good that should deliver shared benefits for everyone.

We provide practical advice, support and training to landowners and communities who want to manage land as a sustainable and productive asset.

We also undertake research, policy and advocacy work to help create an environment where common good models of land management can flourish.

We feed learning from this and all our other work into advocacy, campaigning, and new innovations like Land Explorer, Unlocking Networks and Parks Academy.

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Friday, 18 August 2017

‘Shameful’ Theresa May rejects 9/11 survivors’ appeal to release Saudi Arabia terrorism report

‘Shameful’ Theresa May rejects 9/11 survivors’ appeal to release Saudi Arabia terrorism report: Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected an appeal by survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to publish a report into the role of Saudi Arabia in funding Islamic extremism in Britain.

Prime Minister Theresa May has rejected an appeal by survivors of the 9/11 terrorist attacks to publish a report into the role of Saudi Arabia in funding Islamic extremism in Britain.

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud and British Prime Minister Theresa May in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia © Bandar Algaloud

In July, the government announced that the Home Office report, which was commissioned by former Prime Minister David Cameron, will not be published because of “national security reasons” and the “vast amount of personal information” it contains.

The announcement that the report, completed six months ago, would be permanently shelved has sparked widespread condemnation amid claims the government is trying to cover up substantial evidence of Saudi Arabia funding terrorist organizations in the UK.

Joining the chorus of opposition, a group of 9/11 survivors signed a public letter to May, urging her to publish the report.

“The UK now has the unique historic opportunity to stop the killing spree of Wahhabism-inspired terrorists by releasing the UK government’s report on terrorism financing in the UK which, according to media reports, places Saudi Arabia at its center of culpability,” the letter, signed by 15 survivors, read.

“The longer Saudi Arabia’s complicity is hidden from sunlight, the longer terrorism will continue.”

The British government has rejected their request, however.

Sharon Remoli, who was on the 80th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York when the first plane hit, told the Independent: “The US and the UK continue to protect Saudi Arabia, allowing them to operate freely, with impunity, even supplying them with lethal weapons, as they go about their usual business of inspiring tolerance, committing genocide and human rights violations.”

Brett Eagleson, whose son John died on the 17th floor of the South Tower, told the newspaper the British government is withholding potentially-crucial information.