Post Tagged with: "Protest"

  • Save Our Placards

    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 […]

     
  • MP accuses police spy of bombing London department store in the eighties

    The BBC is reporting that Green MP Caroline Lucas has used Parliamentary privilege to name a police informer, or agent provocateur, of planting a bomb that two Animal Liberation Front (ALF) members were jailed for in the 1980’s. She claimed that she believed there was strong evidence that under cover […]

     
  • Is the Jubilee over yet?

    For the republican minority this Jubilee has been a lot less fun than the last one, where at least you had some bete noir punk rockers storming up the Thames. This time round we had a Dunkirkesque flotilla which, for all the raptures that the BBC commentators were in, did […]

     
  • Anti-NATO demonstration outside US embassy (video and pictures)

    Today hundreds of protesters gathered outside of the US embassy in Grovsner square to protest against war and occupations. Organised by the Stop the War Coalition and CND to coincide with talks in Chicago with the G8 and Nato. Protesters called for an end to the occupation of Afghanistan, the […]

     
  • A day of discontent: police march and public sector strike in pictures

    As thousands of public sector workers across London went on strike to defend their pensions, around 30,000 police officers also took to the streets against the cuts. Police officers are banned from taking strike action but a number of those we spoke to today raised the idea as a very real […]

     
  • VIRGIN on Oxford St. occupied in protest at NHS privatisation

    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.

     
  • Spring Clean: Thursday 19th April

    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 […]

     
  • You are now entering Friern Barnet: community library

    When Barnet Council decided to close down Friern Barnet Library it sparked wide spread concern. A lively campaign to save the library brought together people in the community because it was one of the last free spaces in the area, and a well used one at that, used for regular […]

     
  • Day of action highlights racism against Roma

    Sunday the 8th April is Roma National day and has seen a number of marches and events internationally highlighting the problems that Roma and travellers face. These included marching on the Italian embassy. In Europe “anti-gypsy” violence and bigotry is on the rise and even in the UK events like […]

     
  • Drawing a line on a woman’s right to choose

    The last month and a bit has seen growing tension over abortion. As anti-abortionists 40 Days 4 Life have been picketing the advice center in Bedford Square in some cases approach women who were going to get advise or a medical procedure, on one occasion bragging that they had turned two women […]