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Check out this most awesome and hilarious 57th episode of Dissident Island Radio, featuring:

• D*I discs with Anja, the latest addition to the island, in the hot seat;
• Bicycology Tim on the upcoming Merthyr to Mayo bike ride;
• The WAG with their take on the election and a look forward to life under the Tories;
• Wietse on his nautical adventures on the Sea Shepherd;
• Announcements, tunes, the us…

Independent: Mail deliveries have been stopped to a house after postal workers were attacked by an elderly cat, Royal Mail confirmed today.

Over the past few weeks 19-year-old Tiger has attacked three people delivering at his home.

Now Royal Mail has told owner Tracey Brayshaw her pet is aggressive and it is not delivering any more post to the house in Farsley, near Leeds, West Yo…

Guardian: A man who placed a poster of David Cameron containing the word "wanker" in his window has described how police handcuffed him in his home on election day, threatened him with arrest, and forcibly removed what they said was offensive campaign literature.

David Hoffman, 63, said police went "completely over the top" when they visited his home in Bow, east London, and demanded he take…

As Blighty staggers today towards a possible LabLibDem alliance, or maybe an unholy ConservoDemocrat pact, the BBC has been busy putting together an in-depth analysis of Gordon Brown's legacy, as he prepares to to the right thing take the long walk into political oblivion.

We have to say, it's one of the Beeb's better pieces of work:

The first Hyperactive Summit was held this past weekend, 7-9 May 2010. The meeting was a mix of politics and technology centering around issues of free code, autonomous/anarchist social movements, grassroots reporting, and state and corporate surveillance. It had a special focus on the Hyperactive content management system used by Northern Indymedia, which was built by the London IMC collectiv…

Well, hey, we all knew it smelt bad and left its users with a faint sense of shame and self-disgust, but now those clever people at Business Insider (cough!) have put a few more nails in Faceache's coffin by spelling out exactly how the users are actually being used.

Oh lordy. Perhaps the Northern RSS feed will dish this little beauty up onto Facebook in an echo chamber of reflected contempt goin…

In usual tradition Briggate were up on Otley Chevin at 03:30 well before the dawn (and well before the Buttercross Belles!) in order to see in the summer.



It was dark and cold when we arrived, and we started out dancing with only the moonlight for guidance. Gradually the sky began to lighten in the East and by 04:15 when the Belles joined us we were starting to be able to see where we were dan…

The 3rd edition of our summer camp at Highbury Farm in the beautiful Wye valley taking place between the 11th and 13th June, it'll feature two days of workshops, discussions, open space barcamp sessions and hacklabs looking at how technology and other things can be useful (and dangerous) for activists with lots of introductory stuff for newbies and more advanced stuff for those who want to del…

With May the first rapidly approaching, here's a review of the May Day Conference, held at the 1in12 for MayDay 1998. Held in the aftermath of the dissolution of the Class War Federation, a movement was searching itself for new ideas and new tactics, leading all the way up to the present day.

This was the second event under the name Reclaim Mayday!, the title of saturdays rally and events this Sa…

Local people asked David Cameron, Conservative Party leader, questions about how he was going to improve Bradford if he wins the election. The Conservative local council in Bradford has lead to a huge hole taking the place of what was going to be a shopping centre and the abandonment of the historic Odeon building.

Cameron's answer to the problem? 'Give me a fresh start by letting me do it again.…

5th April 2010 10:44 EST WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff.

Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-sight, clear…

Listen to an interview with a student organiser after a demo to defend their organisation space...

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Hundreds of people descended upon the BP petrol station on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Common for a four hour long 'Party at the Pumps'. Dancing to live music from the Rhythms of Resistance samba band and the Green Kite Midnight ceilidh band, plus MP3s piped through the Dissident Island mobile sound system, accompanied by Bicycology, we rocked the forecourt, left peacefully and there were no…

Campaigners for the survival of the under-threat theatre believe they have found compelling evidence why it should become a protected building.

They hope to submit an application for listed status to English Heritage within the next few days. The application is the work of volunteers the Alternative Task Group which was set up in opposition to the officially sanctioned Task Group formed by Scarbo…

Two police officers of Greater Manchester have been jailed for 18 months for inflicting "deliberate cruelty" on a 19-year-old woman while in custody. The judge told the court that her treatment was "little short of torture".

The leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, stepped down today after it emerged he had been cautioned for assault on his 16-year-old stepdaughter. The City Council and Manchester Labour, however, insist the incident is just a "private matter" and say his resignation is only temporary

Check out the 56th episode of Dissident Island Radio, broadcast on 2nd April, featuring:

• Election Meltdown: plans on May 1st

• Hackers -vs- scientology

• Rastko on Serbian social movements and the Women in Black

• Steal Something From Work Day

• Zapatista solidarity up North

• Mr Binge pumpin out the cheese

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Whilst we don't hold sway with that whole party politics shtick around these parts, can we just point you in the direction of the Pirate Party for their useful analysis of recent developments in the Digital Economy Bill.

"Parliament does not need to protect, or even encourage analogue-age business models if it wants a Digital Britain; they must either engage with new technology or suffer the cons…

Mothers Protest Family Separation, De-Valuing of Caring Work

On Saturday, March 13, mothers and those who depend on them held simultaneous protests in ten cities around the world in honor of the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day. Called by the Global Women's Strike, the events united under the call to "Invest in Caring, Not Killing," beginning with payment for the first carers: mothe…

"The main story, however, is of the penetration of these groups of often naive utopians by the sinister functionaries of the secret state whose job it was to protect the status quo: the policemen and spymasters who lurked in the shadows seeding uncertainty and dissent, cultivating tensions, beguiling with deceits, and luring credulous and impressionable idealists into committing crimes they m…

Following numerous complaints about the poor standards of health care provded by Serco, the company that runs Yarl's Wood, 3 medical staff who work there have been referred to the GMC, the body that regulates doctors.

There is a burgeoning body of evidence, much of it produced by volunteer doctors who visit Yarl's Wood to document what goes on there, that basic health-care is routinely below NHS …

A summary of upcoming actions opposing cut cuts at Manchester Metropolitan University

Around 1,500 Unite Against Fascism supporters gathered in Victoria square to protest against the English Defence League who were also staging a rally in the square. Bolton, United Kingdom, 20/03/2010.

Over 500 members of the EDL took to the streets of Bolton to rally in Victoria square. In similar style to the London demonstration, the Unite Against Fascism supporters were on one side of the square and the EDL on the other with a heavy police presence. Bolton, United Kingdom, 20/03/2010.

The English Defence League (EDL) have made plans to march through Sheffield on 30th May. They have already held a series of actions elsewhere in the country, such as in Birmingham, Manchester, Nottingham and Leeds, apparently demonstrating against ‘extremist Islam’. Sheffield has a strong working class history thanks to it’s industrial past, but our class has also come into conflict with nationali…

Here is a round up of the recent struggles and events in Preston, based around the future of the bus station, the University's involvement in the arms trade, providing shelter, food and support for the homeless, amongst many others.

Government plans designed to bring the National DNA Database in line with human rights legislation have been criticised today by an influential group of MPs as not going far enough.

The Commons Home Affairs Select Committee said that DNA profiles from those not convicted of a crime should only be retained for three years.

Facebook has been awarded a patent on displaying news feeds of users' activities — creating an interwebs stir that basic social network functionality could soon fall prey to Facebook IP rights.