12pm on January 28th Keston Road, opposite Downhills Primary School (Phillip Lane, Haringey). Following extremely well attended meetings against the plans to force four Haringey schools to become academies. The four schools are Downhills Primary School, Nightingale Primary School, Noel Park Primary School, and Coleraine Park Primary School The protest […]
Lisa Hallgarden from Parents and Carers for Sex and Relationships Education spoke to Friday’s rally against abstinence only sex education.
Big Smoke was lucky to catch the fantastic comedian and feminist Kate Smurthwaite earlier. We battled the rain and traffic noise to speak to her about Nadine Dorries’ ill fated ‘Sex Education Bill’. This is what she had to say;
I took this photo this morning of the remaining protest camp in Parliament Square. My understanding is that the part of the camp that dates back to before certain legislation was passed has got some more legal fences to jump before getting evicted. There’s certainly a lot less of the […]
BIKES ALIVE ANNOUNCES MORE DIRECT ACTION – RETURNS TO KINGS CROSS ON MONDAY 23 JANUARY Bikes Alive – the direct action campaign to resist the violence inflicted on cyclists (and on other people) by motor vehicles – is following up its blockade of the Kings Cross one-way system on Monday 9 […]
THURSDAY’S BIKES ALIVE MEETING The meeting of Bikes Alive supporters, announced earlier, is confirmed for 7pm, on Thursday 19 January, in Housmans Bookshop (5 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1). The meeting is for planning and preparation for the action next Monday, for a bit of strategising about Bikes Alive and similar actions in […]
Hi Everyone, Please try and make it to our planning meeting:Thursday, 19 January, 6.30pm, Vida Walsh Centre, just off Windrush Square, Brixton. We will be discussing building the demonstration and carrying out direct action against the new round of cuts that Lambeth Council will be trying to rubber stamp at […]
Two GPs ran 160 miles (or six marathons) from Cardiff (Bevan’s birthplace) to the ministry of Health in Whitehall to highlight the opposition to the Coalition’s health “reforms”. Read the full report here. This video shows some of the speeches made just after the runners arrived.
In this week’s Sunday Sermon Jim Jepps wonders whether negative campaigning actually works. We are all doomed. In the long run everyone of us will die. At some point in the future even the human race will cease to be. And then, at last, the universe itself faces a slow […]
Hope you’re having a good weekend. Here’s a few links we spotted out and about that you might find interesting or useful; The Hackney Citizen asks you to use your spare room for good. The Islington Tribune is bigging up the green volunteers. The Camden New Journal hosts Big Smoke […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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