Salary: £11,300 pa pro rata Job Details: Climate Week is offering paid internship positions which will provide practical experience in running a high-profile national environmental campaign. Interns are being recruited to support the team with campaigning, digital communications, and PR. We need people with flair, determination, a commitment to environmental […]
A few of the items we’ve spotted in the last week or so around the upcoming games. After all the fuss about people selling their torches on ebay the Olympics organisers are flogging off “memorabilia”. Guardian. Just another feminist asks are they the international Olympic committee or the gender police? […]
Protest: No missiles in our communities Saturday 30th June, 1pm Wennington Green, Mile End Park, E3 5SN Stop the Olympic Missiles Fattylympics 7th July Grassroots Resource Cenre, Memorial Park, Memorial Ave. E15 3DB Events include; Fat activism, fun and games, performances. All ages welcome. Fattylympics Whose Games? Whose […]
From 18 June to 12 July the RSPB is encouraging Londoners to take part in its survey of “Cockney” sparrows. The oganisation claims the bird is in decline and states “The cockney sparra has lived alongside us for hundreds of years and was once a regular fixture in our London […]
organised by the National Cooalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns. Monday June 25th Time 7-8.30pm Praxis Community Projects Pot Street, Bethnal Green E2 0EF
At this weekend’s Campaign Against Climate Change Conference in SOAS there was a fascinating session on gender and climate change to coincide with the Rio Summit. Here Camden Green Party’s Natalie Bennett discusses the issues;
The Cellar Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms near Euston hosts a regular season of folk clubs (restarting in September, it’s not a summer sport) with some of the top names in today’s folk scene as well as talented locals who just like to get up and have a go. There’s […]
The gig, organised by Love Music Hate Racism, raising money for We are Waltham Forest is on June Friday 29th at Orford House Social Club and will be a great night for young and older, come along and bring your friends. From 7.30 until Midnight Entry £10/£5
Big Smoke spoke to Tom Moggach, author of The Urban Kitchen Gardener, on a fantastic little community garden project in Camden. It’s great that Camden Council was open minded enough to help support this initiative involving members of the community finding new ways to both fight austerity and make the […]
We’ve spotted lots of interesting links over the last week which we’ve not yet had the chance to highlight, so let’s make a start in catching-up; London buses one at a time is a great blog by a group of “ladies who bus”. Twitter “bullying” is bestial, but there are […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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