Petros Evdokas from IMC Cyprus has produced a round-up of reports and thinking around the sexual aspects of the persecution of WikiLeaks. Drawing on activist and academic feminist sources, we read of the belittling of sexual violence and the impact this is likely to have for survivors and those who work with them.

See also this global indymedia feature about the repression of WikiLeaks.

Operation Payback is in full swing. The Mastercard and paypal websites were successfully shut down. It's currently Visas turn. Want to show solidarity with Wikileaks or just want to help in the largest internet fightback against capitalism biggest in history.

The more that join in, the more targets can be brought down...

Ready, aim, fire...

Note: The website will warn you about malware but this…

Ongoing video coverage of the COP-16 Climate Conference and counter-mobilization in Cancun, Mexico.  Anyone who has knows other good coverage of this, please post more links! Cheers

On or 71st (or was it 72nd) show we heard the following human noises:

- Sali from anti-airport group ZAD talks to us about resisting airport expansion in Nantes



- Words about Buy Nothing Day in London



- The Santa Belles come in to talk to us about their anti-christmas carol thingy



- An analysis of Reclaim the Night with noises from November's big night out



- Our HOT TOPIC: Snow, liberator or …

Wikileaks has announced by twitter that their website is under a mass distributed denial-of-service attack. "El Pais, Le Monde, Speigel, Guardian & NYT will publish many US embassy cables tonight, even if WikiLeaks goes down," they continue.

The whistle-blowing website had previously announced that the UK government had issue a special notice to media outlets, asking them to discuss with the gove…

 An estimated 600 anti-cuts protestors are currently active in Oxford. Reports are that Vodaphone, Lloyds TSB and Barclays have been subject to occupations and closures.

photos and an article here http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/oxford/2010/11/468927.html

some more photos here http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/11/468907.html

In the last few days, with a wave of demolitions, Israeli bulldozers have spread destruction and despair in the villages across the West Bank: in Qarawat Bani Hassan near Salfeet, in al-Jiftlik in the Jordan Valley, in Hizma, near Jerusalem, in Khirbet Yarza, east of Tubas, and in the South Hebron Hills.

see the original to watch the video and the photos.

The Office for enjoyment of resistance against the cutz are loving that the local kids are doing it for themselves so they have made a special set of commemorative posters to celebrate the youth and their tenacity on the anti fees and cuts demos, check them out here and print out and distribute far and wide.

Dissident Island Radio - EPISODE 70 - 19 November 2010 - this episode features:

• Fitwatch website shut-down, internet providers and the state. Thoughts from Fitwatch Emily, IMCist@ Yossarian and London NoBorders
• Andre and Flo from Radio Freie Wendlands on the recent anti-nuclear actions in Germany
• Tetsuo Kogawa on Japan's microradio history and ideas on the internet and pirate radio
• Rob o…

In Palestine the olive harvest is finished but the struggle continues! Join ISM to support the Palestinians' daily struggle against the occupation!

The presence of activists reduces the risk of violence by extremist settlers and the Israeli army, and supports Palestinians’ right to protest the occupation, the apartheid wall, and illegal settlements. International solidarity activists engage …

The public enquiry into a proposed open-cast coal mine near Fairburn Ings nature reserve in Yorkshire has concluded with the secretary of state issuing a decision today that the mine will not be permitted to go ahead.

Leeds city council planning department had already said 'no' to the proposed development, which would have seen irreversable damage to a nature reserve in order to keep nearby power…

Shortly after the UK spending review placed cyber-terrorism in the top teir of threats, the Royal Navy's website was sunk with all hands.

Arrrrgh, I've spilt me rum on the trident launch codes, cap'n...

Dissident Island Radio - 5 November 2010 - EPISODE 69:

Holy crap. This is a firey hot, jam-packed show. Here's what you can look forward to:

• Our friends from the band 52 Commercial Road on the imminent release of their long-awaited 2nd album on 12 November
• the totally awesome printer's co-operative, Footprint, on their 10th birthday festivities and zine fair
• an interview from this week's 

Northern PCSO used Police National Computer to check out potential boyfriends, got caught, naughty naughty officer.

As part of the UK Uncut day of action against the cuts, York activists took to the streets today to close down not one, but eventually two Vodafone stores. Whilst their friends in the HMRC high command are quite happy to let the bill go unpaid, recent reports have shown how Vodafone owe £6billion in taxes - one rule for the rich, one for the poor...

A full story and pictures appear on the York S…

Newcastle Free Education Network protested against the Browne review today

The leader of Harrogate Borough Council has been suspended from the Conservative Party after being photographed dressed as Adolf Hitler.

Mark 'Stone' has been an undercover police officer from 2000 to at least the end of 2009. We are unsure whether he is still a serving police officer or not. His real name is Mark Kennedy. Investigations into this identity revealed evidence that he has been a police officer, and a face-to-face confession has confirmed this. Mark claims that he left the police force in late 2009, and that befor…

Report from a demo at Lancaster against the austerity measures on 20th Oct 2010, with photos

Hundreds of demonstrators have stopped 375,000 gallons of fuel from leaving a depot after blockading the road to Coryton oil refinery.

A spokeswoman for the Crude Awakening demonstrators claimed 500 protesters blocked the road to the UK's busiest oil depot near Stanford-le-Hope. She said at least 50 oil tankers had been prevented from getting to and from the site.

[See also this article from Lon…

EPISODE 68 featuring:



• IMCista Maqui, talking about the cuts in Spain, grassroots resistance, the general strike on Sept 29 and what's happening now...

• DJ experiences from the 80s and 90s rave scene, thanks to Tom Wrongspeed

• Music, a 'hot topic' discussion around the Birmingham Tory Party Conference demo and Smash EDO, banter, bollocks...

• DJ Wrongspeed on the decks



And its ready for down…

Dissident Island is ace. And available to download now!!! yeah!!! woohoo!!!

• 'What does it mean to grow up' - audio from a recent informal discussion at LARC

• A participant in the Right to Work campaign on mobilising to demonstrate at the Tory Conference on 3 October

• exclusive new tracks from Freddy Frog

• DJ Vacuum Cleaner spinnin disco 

• and so very much more

ready for you …

While some of the crew were up visiting the fine people from Redbricks Radio we met up with some friendly Mancunians and did a show...

• We spoke with our hosts for the evening, Mule Magazine, about what they've been getting up to lately as well as issues surrounding alternative media in general

• Veg, from the Manchester Anarchist Bookfair, came in to give us a rundown on how this year's…

Truth To Power: Guerilla Projection on FBI Headquarters Highlighting Suppression of Dissent

It is one week after a nationally-coordinated series of FBI raids seizing computers and documents, grand juries subpoenas and harassment of antiwar activists in Minneapolis, Chicago, California and North Carolina. A group of activists and video artists executed a guerrilla projection on the FBI Headquarte…

Another malicious worm hit Twitter over the weekend, days after the micro-blogging site reached near-meltdown from a technically similar attack.

This time around the danger came from clicking links contained in micro-blogging messages beginning "WTF [URL]". Last week's more serious onMouseOver problem struck when users moved their mouse cursor over an infected tweet. These messages contained…

Unhappy meals: American doctors' TV ad features a corpse holding a hamburger and the line 'I was lovin' it'. McDonald's, which has thrived in the recession, isn't laughing

For this show the dissidents scoured the world selecting the finest information to put inside your head (through your ears)

- we talked to an Ad Hoc Properties resident about his experiences living in an 'anti-squat' and how seeing Leegstand Zonder Zorgen has affected his outlook

- all the way from 'down under' we had a member of the City is Ours group in Melbourne about squatting and housing ri…

Mass action targeted at the oil industry taking place in London on October 16th 2010.

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Floods in Pakistan – Drought in Russia – Huge glaciers breaking up in Greenland

Our climate system is rapidly sliding into crisis, as oil companies destroy people’s lives and the environment to keep sucking up their profits.

Oil saturates every aspect of our li…

Cops in Manchester dropped a USB stick containing their 'anti'-terror manuals, amongst other porky scratchings. What a shame that the finder didn't give it to a real journalist...

3 September 2010 - EPISODE 64 - Dissident Island Radio:

So we got a bit too drunk at our birthday party show and missed the 2nd broadcast in August...but we're back! With lots of great stuff on the show, including...

• Gringo Ben with a report back from the Camp for Climate Action UK's Edinburgh excusion in the backyard of the RBS HQ
• Audio from the People's Conference in Cochabamba, Bolivia, li…