http://www.overthemoonfestival.com/#!home fri sept 13 -sun 15th 2013

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Occupy vs the Arms Fair meetup 12 noon this sunday Prince Regent Station East London

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  Occupy the London Stock Exchange

  Meet 12 noon at Prince Regent station.
  
  Bring: a tent, fun, food, music, banners and water!
  
  The DLR is not running, but you can get a rail replacement bus 3 stops from Canning Town (on the Jubilee Line), or join the critical mass cycle at 10am at Bank junction. Plan your journey on tfl.gov.uk
  
  Be there by noon and ready for action!

Take Action | Going To Work | Tell High Street brands to fix their dangerous factories in Bangladesh

 

In April over 1200 people died in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza building collapsed. There has never been a clearer sign that all manufacturers and retailers need to lift dramatically their efforts to ensure that those making their clothes are doing so in safety and with dignity.

Due to the pressure of trade unions, campaigners and concerned consumers, over 80 brands – including H+M, Zara, Next, Primark, New Look and Debenhams – have so far committed to a union-backed Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh.
The Accord commits companies to fund an independent safety inspection body that will involve workers in the process, through their unions, and to make long term deals with suppliers, offering more secure employment and training for workers. As such it represents a big deal for Bangladeshi workers.
But whilst most retailers have stepped up to their responsibilities, there are still a few major brands with factories in Bangladesh but who still refuse to sign. Prominent amongst these are 8 names you will probably know from your high street: River Island, Matalan, Bench, Bank Fashion, Peacocks, Jane Norman, Republic and Mexx.
We need to send a clear message to these 8 companies, telling them there are no excuses left for ignoring safety standards and workers rights in Bangladesh.

 Take Action | Going To Work | Tell High Street brands to fix their dangerous factories in Bangladesh

Lyrically challenged!!! 13/9/13 "Love and growth through hip-hop' at passing clouds Dalston

Lyrically challenged!!! 13/9/13
"Love and growth through hip-hop'

Downstairs
Neon black (live band)
Lena Cullen
Big cakes
Beatfox (beatboxer)
Sharmel (dancer)
Dj shorty
LC Collective
Open mic cypher to all conscious rappers

Live graffiti from Brio

Upstairs
I & Ideal (acoustic)
Osama (poet)
Hosted by Kemi Taiwo
Dj Feline

Open mic sign up at 8pm!

At passing clouds 1 Richmond road London E8 4AA

Door contribution £5 before 10pm £8 after

8pm - 3am pass this on let's have an amazing night!

Sending love xxx

US and allies further isolated on Syria after French President Francois Hollande waits on UN report | Herald Sun

US and allies further isolated on Syria after French President Francois Hollande waits on UN report | Herald Sun

THE United States and its allies including Australia appeared further isolated on their stance over Syria with France overnight drawing back from conflict and now saying it will decide on action only after reading a UN inspectors report  

'So it seems the the manufactured coalition  of the willing is unravelling, will America break International Law and start a War of Aggression.' - P

 

Best quote of this article
" Mr Putin’s official spokesman Dmitry Peskov yesterday dismissed Britain as “just a small island no-one pays any attention to” and boasted how rich Russians were buying up most of Chelsea, an upmarket suburb in London."

Privacy on the Internet Tails - About

Tails - About

 Tails is a live system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. It helps you to use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship almost anywhere you go and on any computer but leaving no trace unless you ask it to explicitly.


Tails is a live operating system, that you can start on almost any computer from a DVD or a USB stick. It aims at preserving your privacy and anonymity, and helps you to:

• use the Internet anonymously and circumvent censorship;
  all connections to the Internet are forced to go through the Tor network;
• leave no trace on the computer you are using unless you ask it explicitly;
• use state-of-the-art cryptographic tools to encrypt your files, emails and instant messaging.

Tor Project: Anonymity comms for activists and those in repressive regimes

Tor Project: Anonymity Online

What is Tor?

Tor is free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis
Learn more about Tor »

Why Anonymity Matters

Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world: it prevents somebody watching your Internet connection from learning what sites you visit, and it prevents the sites you visit from learning your physical location. Tor works with many of your existing applications, including web browsers, instant messaging clients, remote login, and other applications based on the TCP protocol.
Get involved with Tor »

Syrian Showdown | Occupy News Network

Syrian Showdown | Occupy News Network

Government plan to sell legal aid to G4S,Serco,Capita and Eddie Stobart foiled-BBC News - Legal aid U-turn over price competition plan

BBC News - Legal aid U-turn over price competition plan

 Plans to cut the legal aid bill by awarding contracts to the lowest bidder have been dropped, Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has announced.

In a Commons debate on Wednesday, Labour MP Karl Turner had warned: "The government's proposals for PCT will irrevocably damage the criminal justice system.
"PCT will inevitably lead to the market being dominated by the big multinationals, the usual suspects - G4S, Serco, Capita.
"And I fear many new entrants to the market who have absolutely no experience whatsoever in delivering criminal justice will dominate the market."
He warned it would no longer be viable for "small businesses, the expert businesses who have established their practices over a number of years" to "continue to exist".
Mr Turner concluded: "We will see the cornerstone of a civilised society reduced to a factory mentality where quantity will trump quality at each and every time."

Russia releases key findings on chemical attack near Aleppo indicating similarity with rebel-made weapons — RT News

Russia releases key findings on chemical attack near Aleppo indicating similarity with rebel-made weapons — RT News

 Probes from Khan al-Assal show chemicals used in the March 19 attack did not belong to standard Syrian army ammunition, and that the shell carrying the substance was similar to those made by a rebel fighter group, the Russian Foreign Ministry stated.

Why is the BBC Banging the War Drum on Syria? Just Look Who Runs It | Scriptonite Daily

Why is the BBC Banging the War Drum on Syria? Just Look Who Runs It | Scriptonite Daily

 

The Shameful (and Recent) History of Chemical Weapons Abuses by the US Government | Scriptonite Daily

The Shameful (and Recent) History of Chemical Weapons Abuses by the US Government | Scriptonite Daily

 The Shameful (and Recent) History of Chemical Weapons Abuses by the US Government

During this unsettling march to war with Syria, political leaders in the US have repeatedly stated that Syria has broken an agreement, put in place at the end of World War I, that chemical weapons are not to be used in warfare.  Some may be left believing that chemical weapons have been absent from the theatre of war between then and the Syrian attacks on August 21^st 2013.  This is not the case.  In fact, the US is the biggest abuser of chemical weapons on earth, deploying these weapons across the world right to the present day.

 

Revealed: UK Government let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

Revealed: UK Government let British company export nerve gas chemicals to Syria - UK Politics - UK - The Independent

Fuel Poverty Action | a campaign group of the Climate Justice Collective - Over 60 people died everyday last winter

Fuel Poverty Action | a campaign group of the Climate Justice Collective

 
Over 60 people died everyday last winter because of cold homes while the big six energy companies doubled their profits..........making a killing innit

Fuel poverty: an escalating crisis
Over one in four UK households face an impossible choice between heating and eating in the winter.
Deaths from hypothermia have doubled in the past five years, while World Health Organisation estimates show that there were over 7000 deaths from cold homes last winter.
In one of the wealthiest countries in the world, millions cannot afford to heat their homes to a safe level of warmth. This is a national scandal.
Those hit hardest are those living the most precarious lives, including pensioners, disabled people, people with illnesses, students, single mothers and others on low incomes.
While we’re left to freeze in our homes, the profits of the Big Six energy companies – British Gas (Centrica), EDF, E.ON, Npower, Scottish Power and SSE – have soared to record highs. The Big Six cartel are making a killing from a price-fixed energy market rigged in their favour.

Occupy the London Stock Exchange We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable.This Sunday, join Occupy to stop The Arms Fair:

Occupy the London Stock Exchange

We do not accept the cuts as either necessary or inevitable.

We demand an end to global tax injustice and our democracy representing corporations instead of the people.

We support actions to defend our health services, welfare, education and employment, and to stop wars and arms dealing.

We want structural change towards authentic global equality. The world’s resources must go towards caring for people and the planet, not the military, corporate profits or the rich.

(From Occupy LSX Initial Statement)

This Sunday, join Occupy to stop The Arms Fair:

https://www.facebook.com/events/1406612642887333/

Vigil at US embassy tonight – report & pics - UK Indymedia

Vigil at US embassy tonight – report & pics - UK Indymedia

 
A few hundred people attended a vigil outside the US embassy called by the ‘Stop the War coalition’ tonight. Feelings were high, and different groups were represented, but pretty much all agreed that the mainstream media is simply not telling the truth.

The night before eviction resistance party! Free shop, crash space. Thursday 5 September. Notting Hill

The night before eviction resistance party! Free shop, crash space. Thursday 5 September. 7-9 Botts mews, Notting Hill, W25AG

Sabotaging the Badger Cull Activists flood the Somerset cull zone as guns start firing SchNEWS - Direct Action Newsheet

SchNEWS - Direct Action Newsheet

 

Sabotaging the Badger Cull

Activists flood the Somerset cull zone as guns start firing

The shooting of badgers in Somerset has started this week. The cull is aiming to kill over 70% of the badger population in the area in a misguided attempt to stop tuberculosis (TB) in cattle. The TB problem is mainly down to poor farming practices and inbreeding of the cows, (see Schnews 836) but some would rather scapegoat badgers. Gloucestershire has not started their cull yet, but may do next week.

There has always been huge public opposition to killing badgers and the start of the shooting has seen some of those people taking direct action. As soon as the marksmen started shooting, there were people sabotaging it. Stop the Cull reported the first incident on Tuesday night in the Stogumber area when people heard shots and then some people made enough noise to send the badgers safe underground. The shooting stopped. Since then, there seem to have been problems for the marksmen every time badger friendly people find them. Finding them is a bit tricky, which is why more people are needed to help.

The police have been accompanying the Somerset Badger Group on nightly walks from Williton, all in hi-vis, walking the roads and rights of way in the area. They have been a little less successful at keeping track of the hunt saboteurs and assorted others moving about and more blatantly interfering with the shooting using bright torches and noise. Maybe the poor coppers have other things on their minds, since the audacious ‘Angry Foxes Cell ’ set fire to their Firearms Training Unit in Portishead. (That’s probably a whole other article.) The injunction the NFU took out to try to prevent people stopping the cull has proved pretty irrelevant on the ground, with no use of it reported.

There is a Badger Camp set up near Ash Priors village, about six and a half miles NW of Taunton. This is on the edge of the cull zone, providing camping space, vegan food, networking and training for those coming to stop the cull. To find out more join this facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/campbadger/ There’s also a facebook thing to share lifts to the zone: https://www.facebook.com/groups/badgerliftshare

If you prefer not to have a multinational corporation spying on you whilst organising your vaguely illegal activity, you can phone Somerset Badger Group 07425 071 510 or for Gloucester Office 01386 761455 or Gloucester Field Phone 07891639803. Or if you’re coming from South East England you can call Brighton group on 07415 619160. You could find your local hunt sab group at  http://hsa.enviroweb.org/index.php/get-involved/localgroups

You don’t need any special skills or superpowers, just some practical clothing, food, water, and a torch. Read up on the shooting method here, so you know what to look for.

BBC News - Balcombe protests: Fracking row village sees fresh plan

BBC News - Balcombe protests: Fracking row village sees fresh plan

 Oil drilling will cease in a village at the centre of an anti-fracking campaign by the end of September, but further testing could take place under new plans by energy firm Cuadrilla.

Protests were staged in Balcombe over fears test drilling for oil could lead to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking.
Drilling will end by 28 September under planning conditions set out in 2010.
But Cuadrilla said it would make a fresh application by the end of the month to carry out further well tests.

Frack Free Sussex Cuadrilla have withdrawn 2 applications pertaining to their Balcombe site

(101) Frack Free Sussex

Cuadrilla have withdrawn 2 applications pertaining to their Balcombe site, but be ye not lulled, they are regrouping.
They've been caught out on technicalities/legalities because of the extra scrutiny we've collectively forced and the searchlight that's been shone on their reprehensible attempts to get away with all sorts, but the euphemisms on what constitutes fracking are still being manipulated and they are reapplying.
They may even hope to restart in the winter when they think noone will be prepared to camp out. Even if they decide that Balcombe is too much like hard work because of the huge local resistance .. they have designs on plenty other places .. and the BPs and Exxons are not far behind them.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-23944344