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“With hindsight, I would have taken more food”

Matt Treacy, BBC Radio Solent reporter during the Vestas occupation, reflects on his experience a year ago: As a news story it gathered interest like a rolling stone. It is not often that Danish film crews visit the Isle of Wight, but as the situation escalated the occupation became global news. A local dispute became [...] more >>

Vestas occupation anniversary marked as the Island fights cuts

Source: Save Vestas

Former Vestas workers who occupied their factory in Newport, Isle of Wight last summer to protest against job losses, and a number of their supporters marked the anniversary of the start of the occupation today. A report from the scene of the recoccupied Magic Roundabout: Vestas – Magic Roundabout Re-occupied on 1st Anniversary of the [...] more >>

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Reclaim the Future 5: A vast day/night party event in a liberated, occupied space in London, 5 September 2009

from email, updated 6 September 2009: "Reclaim the Future 5 is a vast all-day all-night information and party event in a liberated, self-managed occupied venue somewhere in London on Saturday 5 September 2009.
* At least two rooms of live bands 9pm-4am
* DJs 4am-7am
* Cabaret * Workshops and stalls all afternoon - info on the arms trade, the G20, prisoner & detainee support, squatting, samba, permaculture, climate change, bike repair, and more... more

Police Review: magazine cartoon - "In staggeringly poor taste"

from J4J campaign, 18 November 2008: We would imagine that, in the midst of the inquest into the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, publications aimed at and widely read by serving police officers would show greater sensitivity in the way they talk about fatal shootings by the police. But evidently not. The magazine "Police Review", in its 14 November edition, decided that the introduction of new rules preventing firearms officers from conferring after a shooting was best illustrated by this appalling cartoon. more