"As part of a national day of protest against benefit cuts, Liverpool Solidarity Federation picked the offices of ATOS Origin in the city centre. We were supported in our action by members of UK Uncut Liverpool.

We were there to raise awareness of the role played by ATOS in the governmens war against the disabled"

Protesters who were attacked by police at protests in 2009 have won their case against the London Metropolitan Police in high court today.

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On April 6 more than 300 officers were employed in an “anti-terrorism” operation named ‘Outlaw Operation’ that specially targeted anarcho-insurrectionalist activists. The operation was carried out in 16 different cities including Bologna, where police arrested 5 activists close to the squatted social centre Fuoriluogo and shut down the place. Another person was arrested in the nearby t…

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This is an urgent call for ACTION in solidarity from the Black Triangle Anti-Defamation Campaign in Defence of Disability Rights and Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC).

From tomorrow until Wednesday ATOS Origin ‘Healthcare' Ltd. - the notorious organisation that is involved in disability denial as sub-contractors of the unjust "Work Capability Assessment" on behalf of the DWP will be having a…

The Fortnum 145 are a group of people who were arrested and charged, following the occupation of Fortnum and Mason on 26 March this year.

So far, they’ve been part shocked, part amused, by the awful media coverage of the events of that day. Media spin about violence and attacks has been undermined by footage actually taken inside the store. The mass arrest happened amidst calls for the police to …

Grand National 'equivalent to Spanish bullfighting'

The Grand National continued its tradition of killing horses today when Ornais broke his neck and Dooneys Gate broke his back in the gruelling 4 and a half mile event. Their deaths mean that 20 horses have now perished on the Grand National course since 2000.

Fed up with the bogus coverage of the M26 actions? So were Liverpool Uncut:

"The occupation took place at 2.30pm, when over a dozen people entered the building and announced that they were staging a sit-in. The protesters announced that they were protesting against "the appalling coverage" of UK Uncut actions in London on March 26th and would show "how civilised the UK Uncut occupations are by ha…

Latest episode of It's the End of the World as we know it from the Stimulator, featuring footage provided by Northern Indymedia and London Indymedia during the March 26th 2011 anti-cuts protests in London!

This week:

1. Nippocalypse

2. Green Party uber alles

3. VerMutants

4. The E.N.D. of the U.K.

5. Conspiracy Rap

6. Squaddafi

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On the 79th episode of Dissident island we had a chat with some of the groups from last Saturdays (March 26) London anti cuts demos and mobilisations,  asking important questions all you radio listeners want to hear like how many anarchists does it take to break a windo…

Northern England has very different interactions between nuclear energy and geology than the Japanese archipelago does. Here, we have expert opinion being ignored by politicians looking for waste disposal sites. There, they had expert opinion being ignored in the siting of reactors. Similar propaganda methods were used in both.

In this piece, Ozaki describes his personal experience of the Japanes…

Good analysis as to why protestors can't be divided into 'good' and 'bad - a false dichotomy which attempts to split the movement for the advantage of the ruling powers that be and negate the necessary diversity of tactics that must occur for real social change to happen.

"Theresa May says face coverings could be banned and known troublemakers barred from political rallies in the wake of violence after Saturday's anti-cuts march"

"The government will consider giving the police new powers, including the banning of face coverings, following the weekend's anti-cuts march, the home secretary, Theresa May, has said."

"May said police could be given the power to ban…

x26radio broadcast all day on March 26th for the demonstrations in London against the cuts. It was a collaboration between a number of radical radio, news and tech projects around the UK including Dissident Island, Radio Interference, London, Bristol and Northern Indymedia and ucrony.net

If you want to listen to the show, see the archived files at the following URL's.

10am-2pm : http://london.in…

A video posted on the guardian website by a journalist embedded with a TSG team during the m26 demos. Reveals police tactics and the "lines in the sand" that they were authorised to go over the top for. Also reveals the levels of personal choice that the TSG units have when faced with public order situations. Interesting from a tactical point of view for future actions.

UK threatens detainees' lives by withholding HIV medication

Most HIV+ immigration detainees helped by Medical Justice have been denied life-saving medication in detention according to our new research.

"Detained & Denied", based on the first ever comprehensive analysis of treatment of HIV+ immigration detainees in the UK draws on medical evidence from 8 independent clinicians who assessed the de…

For episode 78, the Dissident Island Crew put together something extra hot.. A Sex Worker Special! The show features:



* Ava Caradona from x:talk discussing sex work and border regimes

* Claire, speaking candidly about her experiences of the vulnerabilities of working in different sex work settings

* Luca, a queer sex worker, political activist, and Open Sex Workers' University organiser, talking…

Spoof website to highlight animal rights issues around the crufts dog show. From the website:

Many people say “with so many homeless dogs around the UK why not adopt dogs instead of breeding/buying them ?”

They obviously don’t understand that most of these dogs are filthy half breeds that deserve to be homeless.

After realising that Crufts has nothing to do with sofas, we have tea…

Warning! Link to YouTube

James Bond considering what it would be like to be a woman in support of International Womens Day. Yes it's a rough combination, but the message is a good one.

HUNDREDS of anti-establishment protestors stormed a Wirral court today and "arrested" a judge.

In chaotic scenes, police rescued Judge Michael Peake from their clutches and escorted him safely from the building.

Protestors from the public gallery charged at Mr Peake to make a civil arrest chanting "arrest that judge".

Police scrambled over court benches to control the near-riot and one protesto…

Dissident Island Episode 77: DOWNLOAD NOW!!!



- Words from some Grow Heathrow residents about their upcoming PEDAL bike ride to Palestine as well as talking to us about Reclaim the Fields

- Justus, our German correspondent, spoke to us about Antifa in Dresden and Anit-Nuclear actions across Germany

- An audio piece from Dale Farm travellers site in Essex, the biggest travellers site in Europe some of …

Dissident Island Episode 77: DOWNLOAD NOW!!!



- Words from some Grow Heathrow residents about their upcoming PEDAL bike ride to Palestine as well as talking to us about Reclaim the Fields

- Justus, our German correspondent, spoke to us about Antifa in Dresden and Anit-Nuclear actions across Germany

- An audio piece from Dale Farm travellers site in Essex, the biggest travellers site in Europe some of …

An audit of the UK Border Agency’s process for reviewing the immigration detention of individuals who claim they are survivors of torture, published on 1st March 2011 by the Home Office over a year after it was conducted, totally fails to deliver on its intention to establish the extent to which the UKBA is complying with its policy against the detention of torture victims except in ‘very exc…

An "oil leak" has revealed that several large energy corporations have had their electronic resources systematically sabotaged by hacktivists. The energy corporations have tried to deflect attention from their vulnerability to principled, White-Hat envirohacks by blaming their competitors (mainly China, where by coincidence the servers used to launch some of the attacks were hosted.)

"As the Washington historian William Blum has documented, since 1945, the US has destroyed or subverted more than 50 governments, many of them democracies, and used mass murderers like Suharto, Mobutu and Pinochet to dominate by proxy. In the Middle East, every dictatorship and pseudo-monarchy has been sustained by America. In “Operation Cyclone”, the CIA and MI6 secretly fostered and bank-rolled…

Facebook's platform played the bigger role in Hosni Mubarak's downfall. It was the "We Are All Khaled Said" page Ghonim set up in June to memorialize a businessman who died in police custody that became the cradle of the revolution. But Facebook the company, unlike Google, has hardly embraced the honor. Last fall, it removed the crucial page rather than allowing the administrator to protect …

As we navigate our way through the baffling conundrums of cultural appropriation and related matters, here's some ancient writing on the subject.

"Freed's black slang and flamboyant delivery was soon cleaned up, with white jocks perfecting the pronunciation and selling Coke and Clearasil to white teens. But the honest, down-to-earth sounds of R&B did not produce a good format for advertisements a…

Manchester MULE rode up to the corner of Oxford Road and Whitworth Street in Central Manchester to ask the passing public just what they thought of David Cameron’s “Big Society”…

Episode 76 features words from the Cardiff Unemployed Daytime Disco, followed by a live chat with Zebedee about the Lewisham library occupation and the aboutlordbrowne website. Finally, we head up to Manchester to hear about legal proceedings against opponents to airport expansion.

The show also features details of our upcoming party, our swear word competition, music from deadlybuzz, and the us…

Angry scenes as officers eject protestors from meeting



Published on Fri Feb 18 14:42:43 GMT 2011

Police ejected protestors from County Hall as politicians voted through £179 million cuts at an extraordinary budget meeting.

The tense meeting had to be halted twice, once when police were called to clear the public gallery and, again, when a fire alarm was activated an hour later, sparking a mass e…

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DISSIDENT ISLAND EPISODE 75 - 4TH FEB 2011

* Collective for better Collectives talking about their group and upcoming events

* Live in the studio - a reflection on the upcoming Space for Change with Camp for Climate Action UK

* A discussion with Corporate Watch on "non-lethal" weapons - and how Israel is testing them in Palestine

* An audio montage - snippets of a c…