Intersquat meeting and festival in Berlin, 10-19 September 2010

from email, 4 July 2010: "INTERSQUAT – Festival in Berlin from 10th until 19th of September 2010. Let’s come together to provide a base for discussions, introducing different thoughts, initiating meetings, linking each other, developing new perspectives and creating a self-determined and autonomous free space from 10th until 19th of September 2010 at the Berlin INTERSQUAT Festival..." more

Electronic Frontier Foundation: Encrypt the Web with the HTTPS Everywhere Firefox Extension

from EFF, 18 June 2010: "Today EFF and the Tor Project are launching a public beta of a new Firefox extension called HTTPS Everywhere. This Firefox extension was inspired by the launch of Google's encrypted search option. We wanted a way to ensure that every search our browsers sent was encrypted. At the same time, we were also able to encrypt most or all of the browser's communications with some other sites..." more

Newswires: Gaza Flotilla

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the following keywords: Gaza, flotilla, Mavi, Marmara... more

London Anarchist Bookfair, Saturday 23 October 2010

from bookfair, 1 June 2010: "We have now booked the venue for the 2010 bookfair. We will, for the fourth year running, be holding the event at Queen Mary's, University of London on the Mile End Road. The date for the 2010 bookfair will be SATURDAY 23RD OCTOBER 2010 from 10am to 7pm..." more

Europe's unions flex muscles against austerity plans

from reuters, 28 May 2010: "ROME, May 28 (Reuters) - Trade unions in southern Europe have this week ramped up their efforts to block deficit cutting austerity plans, announcing strikes, protest rallies and most recently efforts to unify their action across borders. Italy's 6-million strong CGIL union announced a nationwide stoppage on June 25 to be preceded by protest rallies around the country two weeks earlier, while Greece's private sector union GSEE said it would strike next month against pension reform..." more

G8/G20 security bill to hit $833 million

from gipfelsoli, 25 May 2010: "CANADA: CTV News has learned that Ottawa expects to spend $833 million on security for next month’s G8 and G20 summits. In March, the federal government had allocated $179 million for its security budget. But under new estimates that will be introduced in the House of Commons later Tuesday, these costs should increase by $654 million to a total of $833 million, officials tell CTV..." more

Holland: Anarchist perspective on the squatting ban - "We should squat more houses and barricade them"

from ainfos, 26 May 2010: "We should squat more houses and barricade them. We should show them what making squatting illegal really means. No more nice phonecalls to the Wijkagent so he can check the meters. No more waiting for a year for a building to be empty, no more agreements with the owners if they have no good plans with the buildings, no more nicely waiting to be evicted. No more fluffyness..." more

London: Party at the Pumps 2! 15 May 2010

Party at the Pumps, London 15 May 2010

from email, 12 May 2010: "Party at the Pumps Part 2... This time it’s Shell! When: Saturday, 15th May. Meet: 1pm at Oxford Circus, London. And for all you cyclists out there, there will be a special Party at the Pumps Critical Mass making its way to the party. Meet 1pm at Marble Arch (under the arch). Bring: a zone 1-2 tube pass, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes. Party 1 had Samba, twin sound systems, a live Ceilidh band, face-painting, free cakes and 200 people. Party 2 will be bigger and better, with activists joining us from Brighton, Oxford and beyond. Get ready for sunshine, music, and dancing on the forecourt!" more

Mervyn King warned that election victor will be out of power for a generation, claims economist

from guardian, 29 April 2010: "Mervyn King is warning that the victor in next week's election will be forced into austerity measures that will keep the party out of power for a generation, according to the US economist David Hale. "I saw the governor of the Bank of England [Mervyn King] last week when I was in London and he told me whoever wins this election will be out of power for a whole generation because of how tough the fiscal austerity will have to be," Hale said in an interview on Australian TV reported by Reuters..." more

London Olympics 2012: one big party or one big prison?

London Olympics 2012: Amputee exercise

from gamesmonitor, updated 18 April 2010: "By Mike Wells - Security precautions for London 2012 include the construction of a 17.5 km, 5,000volt electric fence, topped with 900 daylight and night vision surveillance cameras spaced at 50 metre intervals. On first sight of the fence you could be forgiven for thinking you had slipped through a wormhole in the space-time continuum to find yourself on the perimeter of a Soviet era Gulag..." more

Update about Turin anti-racist anarchists trial

from ainfos, 18 April 2010: Declaration to the court read by one of the Turin anarchist anti-racists arrested on February 23 2010. "Bearing a sense of justice and freedom that has nothing to do with the law, every anarchist makes of his or her life a continuous invitation to struggle against injustice, and therefore to violate the laws that produce such injustice: the life of every anarchist is a long and reiterated ‘instigation to committing crime'..." more

Canada: Anti Prison Demo during G20 in Toronto

from gipfelsoli, 4 April 2010: "On Sunday, June 27 2010 at 5pm there will be a Demonstration Against Prison in Toronto. Anarchists are organizing the demonstration as a part of the larger mobilization in opposition to the G20 meetings. This is a statement of our perspective and intention for the demo, more details to come soon..." more

Newswires: Haiti

Updated daily: Articles from external newswires filtered for the keyword "Haiti"... more

A Convergence of Dreams: The Third Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement

NYC: The Third Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement, February 2010

from narconews, 2 April 2010: "The invitation reads, “We propose a coming together, a convergence, to which we can all bring: our histories, what makes us difference, and our dreams.” And in February 2010, rebel voices from throughout the world came together in East Harlem, New York at the Third New York City Encuentro for Dignity and Against Displacement. Hosted by Movement for Justice in El Barrio (Movement), more than 200 people and 40 organizations joined the gathering..." more

The Summer of Rage? A critical look at the G20 London protests, a year on

from qwertyuiop, 1 Apri 2010: "Did anyone notice the summer of rage? Like all British summers, it was disappointingly non-existent: a few letters in the guardian, a climate camp of Cath Kidston tents and, to top it all, hardly a day of sun. At the beginning of the year, the forecast was hopeful. We were told we were in the midst of a crisis..." more


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