Last night protesters took to the streets for the second time in a week to protest against the threat to Emergency services. Despite rumours to the contrary the national Minister has refused to listen to the demands of local residents and the fight is far from over.
Today UKUncut protesters took part in a national action involving over forty Starbucks demanding that they end the practice of using front companies in Switzerland and Ireland to outsource their profits in order not to pay corporation tax despite making large amounts of money from UK outlets. In Camden Lock […]
This excellent video of last week’s anti-corporate Olympics demonstration comes courtesy of Four Man Films. Includes music, demo footage, interviews and soldiers on rooftops.
The Greenwash Gold people who’ve been looking at the various environmental credentials of the Olympic sponsors held an award ceremony in Trafalgar Square. Watch the festivities, and then see them get arrested for spilling (green) custard.
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 […]
The Save Our Placards project ais to preserve all those wonderful hand drawn banners and placards that would otherwise end up in the bin somewhere. Personally speaking, I far prefer the home made placards than the mass produced ones because they are sally funnier and because, more seriously, they don’t […]
On Saturday campaigners invaded the Virgin store on Oxford Street to protest at the privatisation of the NHS – including the fact that Richard Branson has his beady eyes on it.
Thursday 19th April 2012, 6pm Outside DEFRA, 17 Smith Square, London, SW1P 3JR Walk & Cycle March, Rally and Direct Action Join the event on Facebook SPEAKERS CONFIRMED: Jenny Jones, Green Party London Mayoral Candidate and London Assembly member. Alan Andrews, lawyer for Air Quality issues at Client Earth Join us for […]
Yesterday hundreds of members of the RMT London Taxi Branch took to the streets in their cabs at Stratford in a go-slow protest. The cabbies are concerned that Transport for London (TfL) and the Mayor are pursuing policies that are undermining the trade. In the run-up to the Olympics they […]
These lively folk were singing and dancing against oppression in Zimbabwe. A whole host of Africans calling for an end of Muugabe’s regime in central London.
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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