Other Actions
LiNKS:
November 7, 2009
14–22 November, Shop 14, Truman Brewery, London E1 6QL
Opening 13 November 6pm then open weekdays: 12–10pm weekends: 10–10pm
10 years ago, in November 1999 an alliance of direct action activists, environmentalists and trade unionists shut down the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Seattle, stopping the next trade round of Capitalist Globalisation. In the process they sparked a Movement of Movements right across the globe its slogan became ‘Another World is Possible’.
This November exactly 10 years from that momentous demonstration, and with most of the predictions of the movements rapidly coming true what with the crisis of the economy, a permanent state of war and the collapse of our eco-system wrecking lives across the planet, the rich and powerful meet again in Copenhagen to discuss the next Climate treaty after Kyoto, yet again activists are preparing to challenge the idea that the Market can solve the problems of the world, and take another step toward that possible world after Capitalism.
Signs of Revolt is an exhibition that weaves together the story of the past decades social movements, drawing out the influences and connections between and across the movements against Capitalism, War and Climate Change.... read more
LiNKS:
- http://signsofrevolt.net
- website
- http://www.facebook.com/event.php?invites&eid=152633464034
- Facebook Group
- http://signsofrevolt.net/?page_id=41
- Info for the 'Festival of Radical Communication' talks
Anti-War
April 14, 2009
A report from the NATO protests Strasbourg April 2-5 2009
Thursday April 2 evening
We left London with the sound of Police helicopters in humming in our ears, we arrived in Strasbourg to find the the same sound coming from scores of French Police helicopters swopping over the city as it got locked down by thousands of CRS riot police and huge metal barriers cutting the City into impassable zones.
The tense times obviously made the warmongers feel they had to put on another impressive show for Capitalist 'democracy', and so just like the G20 protest, denial of the right to protest, intimidation, and blatant whipping up of tensions by Police and the Corporate Media made it as difficult as possible for people to express their opposition to NATO.
Friday April 3
We started out in the morning checking out the convergence centre near the Station, this had a few, mainly autonomist and anarchist activists at it, and heavy police presence outside, so much so that as we came out what we thought might be a raid, because it looked like riot police making there way to the centre was in fact about 50 activists who'd just come off transport at the station getting escorted to the centre by a ring of CRS, totally heavy handed and unneccessary policing.... read more
Climate Change
LiNKS:
April 2, 2009
The build up by the media promised violence - the police provided it.
A few of us spent the day in the City of London with about 10,000 others. As the four marches converged at the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street there was a celebratory atmosphere, the hilariously 'dressed down' bankers in their moccasins and expensive, ironed jeans stood out like sore thumbs, but rather than receiving the media imagined kicking they might have expected, they talked with the protesters, some even admitting the system was screwed.... read more
A few of us spent the day in the City of London with about 10,000 others. As the four marches converged at the Bank of England in Threadneedle Street there was a celebratory atmosphere, the hilariously 'dressed down' bankers in their moccasins and expensive, ironed jeans stood out like sore thumbs, but rather than receiving the media imagined kicking they might have expected, they talked with the protesters, some even admitting the system was screwed.... read more
LiNKS:
- http://climatecamp.org.uk/?q=node/468
- Climate Camp site
- http://www.indymedia.org.uk/
- Indymedia UK, for reports of all the actions against the G20
Anti-War
LiNKS:
April 2, 2009
The Stop the War Coalition, CND and the British Muslim Initiative held a march as a curtain raiser to the G20 summit, starting in London the next day.
Thousands of Stop the War Coalition activists and supporters marched on the 1st of April from the American embassy in London to Trafalgar Square. As world leaders of the G20 gathered in London to discuss their failing attempts to save capitalism, the people had expressed their solutions to the crisis and their contempt at flooding the banking system with our – the tax paying majority of ordinary people – money.... read more
LiNKS:
- www.stopwar.org.uk
- Stop the War Coalition
- ww.cnduk.org
- CND UK
Social Forums
March 7, 2009
An interview with Éric Toussaint by Pauline Imbach
Via:International Viewpoint
The Belém declaration is different. It includes a fundamental diagnosis of the crisis of the capitalist system and a clear position as to how to move out of it. Its title and subtitle sum up this new approach: We won’t pay for the crisis!... read more
Analysis
February 20, 2009
David Harvey outlines the problems for the Neo-Liberals as the economy crashes
Via:David Harvey
Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since 1980 or so will almost certainly increase.... read more
Corporations
August 3, 2008
The dramatic emergence of the sweatshop story could be described as a “global political economy” train-wreck. Just as the big-name brands and department stores began outsourcing all of their production to contractors, the industry was moving to the most corrupt and repressive places in the world. At about the same time, changes in information-sharing technologies made it possible for activists to link up with nascent unions and groups of protesting workers. While business school case studies were heaping praise on corporations for shedding responsibility for manufacturing, the seeds were being sown for a tremendous upheaval that would come to fruition once the contractors' brutal practices were exposed.
When executives at transnational corporations (TNCs) awakened to this tacit alliance forming between Third World workers and rich country consumers, it became a top priority to change the media frame. During a period in the late-1990s, for example, Nike, Inc.... read more
MOViE ARCHiVE
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LiNKS:
December 3, 2007
Alfonso Cuarón, director of "Children of Men", and Naomi Klein, author of "No Logo", present a short film from Klein's book "The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism".
THE SHOCK DOCTRINE explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America's "free market" policies have come to dominate the world -- through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
DIRECTED BY JONÁS CUARÓN.
... read more
LiNKS:
- http://www.shockdoctrine.com/
- shockdoctrine.com [ Naomi Kleins' website]
- http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=kieyjfZDUIc
- The Shock Doctrine on YouTube
Rostock 2007
June 5, 2007
Stunning success in Baltic German fields and lanes.
On Wednesday protestors successfully blocked the main roads in the G8 summit in Heiligendamm in Germany. This was one of the most exciting and successful actions I have ever been on. The BLOCK G8 CAMPAIGN has been planning this action for over a year and was set up by a range of organisations including church groups and veterans of the anti-nuclear movement as well as autonomist and anarchist groups.... read more
Police
April 23, 2007
A surreal challenge to the SOCPA law - the one that limits the right of protest near to Parliament - happened on Saturday 21 April 2007. here's what happened...
In the previous 18 months, there were over 2000 occassions that the police had to grant permission for protests to happen in the "SOCPA ZONE". This law is meant to make anyone holding a protest in area around Parliament write to the police for permission to do so.... read more
Back in 2003 George Bush's visit to London brought hundreds of thousands of people onto the streets. He stayed at Buckingham Palace under siege and the world was certain that although he was feted by the government and the royal family, normal people in the UK did not welcome him. The largest mobilisation during his stay was indeed the biggest EVER protest in London on a weekday; 300,000 people turned out to register their disgust.
We are constantly being told that easy personal actions will 'save the climate'. The problem is that most of these “top ten tips” are ineffectual and play directly to our denial tendencies.
Hardly a week passes without someone emailing, phoning or posting a DVD to the Globalise Resistance office championing the idea of 9/11 being an inside job.
TELL BP TO CLEAN UP IT'S ACT - AND IT'S MESS !