The Idle No More movement was founded in order to fight the C-45 bill that the colonial state of Canada is trying to pass through, which will make it easier for reserve lands to be bought and sold by big companies to get profit from resources. This bill is a direct violation of Treaties, Indigenous[...]
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Next meeting of GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative)
Location: Occupytalk.org server, room: Assemblies & Round Tables > OPEN SPACE (Mumble instructions below)
Date: Sunday, 3rd of February 2013
Time: 19.00 GMT/UTC, check your local time here: time zone converter
About our initiative
From 26-30 March 2013 the World Social Forum (WSF) will[...]
By January 28, 2013 Category: News No Comments 
The Squash Campaign – a housing justice group – say that the goverment’s anti-squatting law:
- pushes more people onto the streets,
- criminalises the recycling of unused buildings
- encourages landlords to keep empty buildings, pushing the price of rents up for everyone else
- increases the cost to the taxpayer of keeping empty[...]
By January 28, 2013 Category: Blog, News No Comments
An estimated 25,000 people marched in Lewisham today, in rejection against the planned closure of their hospital’s A&E.
This action sent a clear signal, the people want to keep the NHS despite the government’s planned cuts and selling off chunks to private healthcare providers such as Circle and Spire Healthcare. Already, since coming to power[...]
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By January 26, 2013 Category: News No Comments
Members of the International Organisation for a Participatory Society (London and Southampton chapter), Anti-capitalist Initiative, Peoples Assemblies Network, Occupy London activists and The Friern Barnet Library occupation called for an assembly to discuss social movement strategy in 2013. The assembly took place yesterday at SOAS. Roughly 60 to 70 people attended and participated in[...]
By January 23, 2013 Category: News No Comments
Updates:
4pm Friday 25 January – Video of demolition of Battersea Park Adventure Playground – ‘Death of Adventure’
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3.11pm Friday 25 January – Update on pictures of tree damage at Battersea Adventure Park Playground
Following the reports that trees were being damaged during the demolition of Battersea Adventure Park Playground, Wandsworth Council has said[...]
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By January 23, 2013 Tags: Battersea Park Adventure Playground, Wandsworth against cuts, Wandsworth Council
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by Yayra Colque
This weekend provides the very rare opportunity to sit with not only one of the founder women of Idle No More but also to sit and learn from a number of Indigenous thinkers currently in London. Sylvia McAdam Saysewahum is coming to London all the way from Saskatchewan, Turtle Island (Canada),[...]
By January 22, 2013 Category: News No Comments
The masses may seem silent but don’t be fooled. They talk, they complain, they have ideas and in this case THEY ACT.
A non-violent UK wide demonstration is being organised by citizens across the country and continues to grow. The message is clear.
WE SAY NO TO AUSTERITY
WE SAY NO TO THE BEDROOM TAX[...]
www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Buddhist-Action/479066262140051?fref=ts
Buddhism is a variety of traditions and practices based on the teachings of the “Awakened One” or Buddha. Each tradition emphasises different methods of training the mind with the aim of freeing the individual from suffering. Buddhism is also a rich ethical system that emphasises wisdom, kindness and compassion.
So what would a Buddhist[...]
By January 13, 2013 Category: News No Comments
