Assange

Medialens report that those working on behalf of the bastards who own the private media, (including MOONBOOTS) are seeking to get Anarchist Julian Assange tortured to death by the US to punish his documentation of government actions.

Take Back the Land!

Take Back the Land! // 12-18 July // Mass Action 14 July // Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire

There’s just less than a month to go before Take Back the Land! – the Douglas Valley’s action camp against opencast coal – and the struggle against corporate greed, fat-cat landlords and corrupt local government is heating up.

We’ve got some good news: Scottish opencast operators are struggling to keep going as both of the biggest miners, Scottish Coal and ATH Resources are delaying and scaling back plans in an effort to stay afloat. Now is the time to hit them where it hurts!

There’s some bad news: the World Health Organisation last week announced that diesel fumes cause cancer, strengthening calls for a halt to mining operations because of impacts on community health. This is obviously bad news for people living next to mines, but further evidence that opencast coal kills communities.

And some more information: the Take Back the Land! website has been updated with travel directions and information on what to bring to the camp.
See you on the 12th July – its time to Take Back the Land!

Break Trident

The Ministry of Defence has awarded a £1.1bn contract to Rolls-Royce for reactor cores for use in their Trident nuclear submarines project. They claim that this will provide 300 jobs and will fund an 11-year refurbishment of the Rolls-Royce plant in Derby. This system is built with the cooperation of the nuclear power sector, the Condems & the Labour Party for the purpose of killing everyone. Cut that bastard.

Greek Election Results

The BBC reporting of the Greek election results are wrong to say that the KKE are to the left of Syriza or Democratic Left; KKE are a pro-cuts party carrying the baggage of state capitalism in Russia.
The BBC put "includes 50 extra seats for coming first" in misleadingly small print.
The ruling class would not have accepted Syriza's anti-cuts policies so Greece has narrowly avoided civil war. Better luck next time comrades!

La Victoria De Los Trabajadores Asturianos

 

miners strike in Spain now

Green Festival

2nd and 3rd June 2012 - 12-7pm Leazes Park

GARDEN FESTIVAL

Greening  Wingrove 
SUNDAY 10 TH June 2012
1pm - 4pm  
Nunsmoor Park, Studley Terrace, Newcastle
ACTIVITIES AVAILABLE
* Arts and Crafts – Face Painting
* Seedling Swap Programm
* Newcastle Cycle Centre Bring along your bike for minor repair
* Bird and Bat Box Making
* Acorn Community Reuse and Recycling – bring along any old, small electrical goods to be recycled
(arrangements can be made for collection of large items)
* Bee Keeping Experts available for questions
* Healthy Eating Programme and Health Checks
* Hanging Baskets with the Time Exchange
* Herb Pots – bring your voucher from the Newsletter
* Refreshments will be available

Tyne & Wear Metro Strike Days

7th June; DB Regio employees, (drivers etc)
11th & 12th June; Cleaners,
21st June; Drivers etc *
Resisting low pay and unfair dismissals
There is a call to leave rubbish on the Metro when the cleaners go on strike!
The Party on the Metro went well
RMT Campaign for Tyne & Wear Cleaners Facebook
Video of RMT Regional Organiser Craig Johnston explaining the case
Video from the Party on the Metro

* This strike day has been suspended following an improved pay offer (not for the cleaners) - Sunderland Echo

Direct Action gets the goods!

Blyth Alert

RES has submitted an application to build a 100MW biomass power station at Battleship Wharf in Blyth. It would burn a million tonnes of wood per year.  The planning application says very little about where the wood will come from, but the vast majority is expected to be imported.  If RES get planning permission then they will be able to burn wood from anywhere in the world, whether from destructive logging of native Canadian forests, or from monoculture tree plantations in Brazil or West Africa, where such plantations are being rapidly expanded at the expense of local communities and ecosystems.

Please support local residents opposed to the development by objecting to the application.  For more background information, links, and suggestions of how to object, please go to

www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2012/blyth_alert/

Green Capitalism is not environmentally appropriate

Notice of Appointment of Examining Authority

Take Back the Land!

Take Back the Land!; a six-day action camp in the Douglas Valley; South Lanarkshire; will be taking place 12-18 July with a mass action on Saturday 14 July. The camp will be set up to directly oppose Scottish Coal's new opencast mine plans for the area and build on years of community struggle and direct action.
More details here: http://takebacktheland.org.uk/

May 1st

Anti Cuts Network

Mayday Rally

Tuesday May 1st 4pm-6pm

Newcastle Haymarket

TYNE AND WEAR MAY DAY 2012

SATURDAY 5th MAY 2012

MARCH AND RALLY

 

Rally speakers include:

GAIL CARTMAIL Assistant General Secretary, Unite the Union

PAULA ROE president, NASUWT

GRAHAME MORRIS MP for Easington

ALVARO SANCHEZ Counsellor, Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in London

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 Assemble 11:00am Times Square (Centre for Life)

March leaves 11:30am for rally at Exhibition Park 12:15

Music on the march from the

FELLING BAND

Entertainment at Exhibition Park includes

MAKING WAVES CHOIR and

BACKYARD RHYTHM ORCHESTRA

Flyer

Boycott Good Energy

Greenwash electricity provider Good Energy have stated that their subcontractor, G4S, who murdered Jimmy Mubenga, fit their "Corporate Social Responsibility".
https://northern-indymedia.org/articles/2491

Community Composting Network

Community Composting Network (CCN) are holding a seminar next Wednesday 28th March at the Mill, Cotherstone near Barnard Castle . It's all about integrating community composting and local food production. The day includes a veggie lunch, a visit to Rotters community composting site, the seminar and it's FREE!

Please see following link for further details and booking.

http://www.communitycompost.org/index.php/events/178-community-composting-for-local-food-seminars

Teesdale Conservation Volunteers and Rotters Community Composting
Conservation Centre
Deepdale Woods
Barnard Castle
County Durham
DL12 9TB

Olympic Authorities Threaten Trees

CONDEM C(A)PITALISM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcKrDoSRG2c

Still Boycott Workfare

http://www.boycottworkfare.org/ commented:

It is reported that sanctions have been removed from the DWP’s “Work Experience” scheme, which is one of five workfare schemes which compel people to work without pay on threat of welfare sanctions. But is this another example of the DWP’s willingness to mislead the public?

There is no sign that sanctions have been lifted in the DWP’s press release which states: “The sanction regime remains in place.” Chris Grayling seems to be painting a murkier picture in TV interviews. Speaking to Sky, he first claimed “If somebody sits down with [the employer] after a couple of weeks and says ‘This really isn’t working out, I don’t want to carry on’, they wouldn’t be sanctioned. I was happy to agree to that.” But by the end of the interview, he offers an example which suggests that it will be in exceptional cases only that sanctions won’t be applied.

Victory of the Red Squirrels!

Save Gosforth Wildlife commented:
The council have proposed that the Salters Lane development shouldn’t go ahead, although the decision has yet to be actually taken and signed off.
https://www.northern-indymedia.org/videos/2439

Clegg OFF!

TUC
v
Liberal Democrats Party Conference
March 10 @ 11.30am
March from: Newcastle Quayside
to: The Sage, Gateshead

Anti Cuts Network
v
Liberal Democrats Party Conference
March 10 @ 11am
March from: Byker Pool, Shields Road, Newcastle
to: The Sage, Gateshead
Poster

Another Victory in Dipton!

All

Appeal by UK Coal Mining Ltd

Site at Adjacent To The A692 Road, Near Leadgate, Consett, County Durham,

DH8 7SL

The Inspector's decision on this appeal was released today. The inspector dismissed it. We've won!!

I've attached the report - it's brilliant reading, and shows the influence a proud and united community can have.

Karen