Our Deaf Leaders

http://occupylondon.org.uk

= News =

This weekend saw the celebration of one week of occupation in support of Battersea’s adventure playground:

http://occupynewsnetwork.co.uk/battersea-park-playground-occupied/

Earlier, Wandsworth Council took a survey to determine what people wanted to do with the playground. It then went ahead and chose the most unpopular option, one that almost 9 out of 10 parents and carers had answered “No” to:

http://occupylondon.org.uk/archives/24661

Meanwhile in Barnet, councillor Robert Rams announced that a charity supporting voluntary organisations in the borough, would be licensed to take charge of the occupied Friern Barnet Library:

http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/topstories/10147745.Council_announcement_leaves_library_squatters_on_the_shelf

Said charity responded with a statement that it had no intention of running the library, this being outside its remit. The community appeared to be doing an excellent job of running it anyway. Read about these and other listening failures as reported by a local resident:

http://wwwbrokenbarnet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/the-peoples-library-councils-position.html

Other related links:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/briernbarnetpeopleslibrary/

http://fbpeoplelibrary.co.uk

= Actions =

Local

Support WAC

http://www.wandsworthagainstcuts.co.uk

Tuesday 15th January 2013

Critical Thinking at the Free University

Session 2 on Education and the New Economy

7-9pm

Friends Meeting House

Ground floor (corridor outside cafe)

173-177 Euston Road NW1 2BJ

http://www.freecriticalthinking.org/session-agenda

Saturday 19th January 2013 

United Against Fascism march. This is part of a Europe-wide and international call for anti-fascist solidarity.

http://www.facebook.com/events/341852705913589/?notif_t=plan_user_joined

http://uaf.org.uk/2012/11/solidarity-with-greek-anti-fascists-sat-19-jan-2013

http://uaf.org.uk/2012/12/all-together-against-fascism-and-racism-in-europe

Tuesday 22nd January 2013

= Blogs =

John

http://johnsinha68.blogspot.co.uk

Mrs Angry

http://wwwbrokenbarnet.blogspot.co.uk

East Jesus

http://eastjesus.org/blog

= Reasons for hope =

15-M gets political on free culture and wiki governance:

http://johnpostill.com/2013/01/09/spains-partido-x-a-new-political-party-steeped-in-digital-culture

Earthian sets up camp in Halabja:

http://earthianblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/10/kalabja-camp/

“It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.” – Gandhi