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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975 - free film at the Cowley Club

01-06-2012 07:46

The third film of the Radical History Film Nights will be screening at the Cowley Club in Brighton on Wednesday, June 6th at 7:30pm. The film is free for all, and is made from recently discovered rare interviews with leading figures of the Black Panther Party.

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Occupy UK: Who Owns Britain? with Sunday Times Rich List journo Kevin Cahill

26-05-2012 12:52

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Friday Drivetime - BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

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Oppression and Fashion

24-05-2012 12:46

Abour the mainstream fetish of consumerism and fashion

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The Wobblies - Free film - Wednesday at the Cowley Club, Brighton

15-05-2012 07:50

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Wednesday, May 16th at 7:30pm there will be a screening of the 1979 documentary “The Wobblies”, about the IWW, the radical anarcho-syndicalist trade union.

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Anti-Authoritarianism Today and Yesterday

11-05-2012 19:35

Meeting on the forthcoming celebration in August of the founding of the Anti-Authoritarian International

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Catholic Church Faces Disruption and Banishment as Irish Cardinal Set To Resign

04-05-2012 20:59

A Communiqué from ITCCS International Brussels and Dublin:
The Roman Catholic Church faces permanent disruption and banishment in at least five countries if it does not comply with ten “non-negotiable measures” by September 15, 2012, according to a global coalition of survivors of church rape and torture.

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Close Newcastle Animal Lab National March

04-05-2012 02:59

Close Newcastle Animal Lab
On May 26th UK activists will converge in Newcastle to march against Animal murderers at Newcastle university.

22 thousand animals are tested upon every year and Newcastle university is one of the last remaining universities to perform testing on primates.

Its time to say NO to animal testing.

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Remembering the Falklands

03-05-2012 10:18

Thirty years ago today the Argentine war ship General Belgrano was sunk on Thatcher’s orders killing 321 young argentine sailors (and two civilians) – the single biggest loss of life during the Falklands war. This was despite the ship being 36 miles outside the imposed Total Exclusion Zone and heading away from the war zone.

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Non Violent Civil Disobedience in the 21st Century

26-04-2012 10:44

In recent years, the activities of UKUncut, the Occupy Movement, the student movement and the forthcoming Olympics protests can be counted as a resurgence of non-violent civil disobedience, as a means of highlighting social issues in the UK. Today’s article examines the key criticisms levelled at proponents of non violent civil disobedience and puts forward the case that their asking is the path to success rather than the obstacle.

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Noam Chomsky on America's Declining Empire, #Occupy and the Arab Spring

25-04-2012 21:04

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Last year, the Occupy Movement rose up spontaneously in cities and towns across the country, radically shifted the discourse and rattled the economic elite with its defiant populism. It was, according to Noam Chomsky, “the first major public response to thirty years of class war.” In his new book, Occupy  https://www.alternet.org/alternetbooks/28/occupy/ , Chomsky looks at the central issues, questions and demands that are driving ordinary people to protest. How did we get to this point? How are the wealthiest 1 percent influencing the lives of the other 99 percent? How can we separate money from politics? What would a genuinely democratic election look like?

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ProtectTheWilderness Updates, Gathering, Information!

23-04-2012 21:55

The good, the bad, and the ugly!
Peasants not allowed into their own Court Appeal!

We're all taking a few days to rest and reorganise right now, so I'll quickly outline the events, what happened and where it's going from here.

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A ramble round Daily Mail tax exile Lord Rothermere's Ferne Park in Wiltshire

23-04-2012 00:59

A bull on a public footpath - that's illegal old boy
Particularly annoyed by the Daily Mail's mean-spirited and skewed reporting of the criminalisation of squatters. That is fine and dandy Mr Rothermere when you are a £750m tac exile and have lots of places to live yourself. Having said all that your rag the Daily Mail has been the only UK media to report the mysterious death of Dr Richard Holmes so yes, free speech does mean the right for you to print what so many profoundly disagree with. The trouble is Paul Dacre cynically prints libelous stories about penniless young squatters when Associated Newspapers' lawyers know that they cannot afford to take you to court.

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How many remember this? April 20, 1914: The Ludlow Massacre

20-04-2012 23:35

The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.

The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn has described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history". Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident. Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.

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Northcliffe bosses rewrite history on 80th birthday of Bristol Evening Post

20-04-2012 21:10

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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five:discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

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Radical Anthropology Talks

13-04-2012 15:06

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Symbolic culture began emerging in Africa some 100,000 years ago, in a social revolution which has lessons for us today....

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Obama Justice Department indicts ex-CIA agent for exposing torture

08-04-2012 19:25

Thursday’s indictment of John Kiriakou for exposing CIA torture of detainees confirms yet again that the Obama administration is continuing and deepening the crimes carried out by the Bush White House. Kiriakou, a CIA agent for 14 years, is being prosecuted for speaking to two journalists about the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah.

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Bormann & Dulles: were the Nazis really defeated in 1945?

07-04-2012 08:38

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BCfm’s weekly politics show presented by Tony Gosling
At five: discussing the big stories in Bristol, Britain and around the world
After six: straight talking and investigative reports with Martin Summers
For all the shows back to Easter 2009 visit the Friday Drivetime archive page.

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ITALY The Fascist diplomat does not lose his job

06-04-2012 11:39

Fasciorock diplomat Vattani
being a Nazi does not affect the image of Italy

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Gunter Grass Addresses Israel's Nuclear Threat

05-04-2012 10:46

Writer, poet, playwright, sculptor, artist, and Nobel laureate Grass is regarded as Germany's most celebrated author. Awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy said his "frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history." It credited his first novel, "The Tin Drum," with restoring honor to German literature "after decades of linguistic and moral destruction." It "comes to grips with the enormous task of reviewing contemporary history by recalling the disavowed and the forgotten: the victims, losers and lies that people wanted to forget because they had once believed in them." Published in 1959, "The Tin Drum" became one of the most admired and revealing allegories of guilt and complicity. He once said he "believe(d) it....a good thing that a writer does not sit on the side of the victors." He also called Germany a psychologically damaged society.



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1954's inaugural Bilderberg meeting held in SS Field Marshal Model's wartime HQ

04-04-2012 23:44

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Shocking new revelations are the fruits of research by retired elecronics engineer Dave Barnby and myself - It seems absolutely clear now that the first ever Bilderberg meeting was held in the former headquarters of the Nazis' Army Group B - Field Marshal Walther Model's SS WW2 HQ. Exactly 10 years after operation Market Garden ... which Bernhard was spying in at the behest of the King George VI who put him in the planning job ... and Lord Carrington was the lead tank that 'stopped for tea' which got Robert Redford so angry in Robert E. Levine's Bridge Too Far film. Exclusive interviews with Capt. T Moffatt Burriss (82nd Airborne) & military historian & former Parachute regiment officer Robert Kershaw
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