On this show we've got all sorts of stuff and things from here there and

everywhere. We'll be hearing from La Quadrature du Net about ACTA, censorship

and the enclosure of the internet commons.



We'll be hearing from a member of the drive cooperative, discussing London's

newest housing coop. A person from No Borders will be in tonight too, talking

to us about the No Borders Convergence from 13-18…

Protest against the re introduction of dawn raids against those seeking asylum in Glasgow.

Text article here: http://www.indymediascotland.org/node/25926

No person is illegal!!

a blog for women who ride bicycles

The first women and trans session ran on Sunday and it was pretty great. It is something I’ve been really keen to get going for a while, having been inspired by other spokeswomen and projects in different cities such as Bristol Bike Project’s women’s night, Bloomers in Manchester and the brand new Freewheelers bike workshop in Lancaster

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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…

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…

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 …

Sukey is a security-conscious news, communications and logistics support service principally for use by demonstrators during demonstrations. It effectively displays real-time police and protest behaviour combining validated information sourced directly from protesters with direct feeds into Sukey combined with feeds from twitter, facebook, SMS, RSS and others. There is a smartphone application a…

The official blog of the Cuts Cafe where regular updates and the like will be posted as the week progresses.

Also stay tuned to Northern Indymedia for breaking news and action alerts

Following the publication of this schnews article, Indymedia London

would like to make it clear that it does not log, monitor or filter

the IP addresses of those who visit or publish on this website. The

hyperactive code that indymedia london and others [1,2] run on does

not have these facilities built into it.

The story published by schnews relates to the website found at

indymedia.org.uk only.



Th…

Federal investigators have seized servers allegedly abused to launch a denial of service attack against PayPal earlier this month.

An affidavit obtained by the Smoking Gun contains testimony by federal agents convinced that systems at Texan hosting firm Tailor Made Services are likely to contain clues in the hunt for hacktivists who launched an attack against PayPal in response to its decisio…

Ok wonderful people, the site that is mentioned in this article has been built by myself and a couple of friends. The aim is to try and set up a central forum whereby everyone from all over the country can come together and discuss topics ranging from the ongoing fight against public sector cuts, to the more bizarre stuff that goes on in our everyday lives. The forum is almost finished, but the fi…

The Okasional Cafe is a squatted cafe space currently situated 3 mins walk from Picadilly Gardens in Manchester City Centre.



The cafe runs from 3rd-21st december

The University of Salford is suing a former lecturer for allegedly publishing a satirical publication in what he describes as an attempt to “silence opposition” to its policies. The action could have serious implications for bloggers using Wordpress, after the Californian webhosting company passed on personally-identifying information.

Twenty climate activists who planned to shut down one of Britain’s most polluting power stations for a week were found guilty of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass today.

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…

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…

Newcastle Free Education Network protested against the Browne review today

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…

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…

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…

If you ask anyone on the street, "what business is Google in?", they'll answer without hesitation, "they are in the search business." Google is seen primarily as a search company. It gives us, the public, internet search services for free, out of the generosity of its corporate heart. It also happen to give a us a whole pile of other great services: Gmail, YouTube, Gtalk, and the Android…

We know that smoking tar isn't very good for us, but what about extracting oil from it?

This is from the The Campaign for Greener Healthcare which is a dynamic, independent team working on the interface between health and sustainability to bring health messages into the centre of the climate change

agenda and to transform healthcare for a sustainable future.

Strictly speaking the Guardian hack is putting the boot into the American media circus, but many a true word is spoken in jest....

"Clearly these particular Americans have either gone insane or been seriously misled. Where are they getting their information?

"Sixty per cent said they learned it from the media. Which means it's time for the media to give up.

"Seriously, broadcasters, journalists…

This press release from the Medical Justice campaign describes a high-court victory in which it was found that removal of asylum seekers with less than 72 hours notice (so-called "dawn raids") are illegal, and must stop.

Although many people will feel that any forced removal of asylum seekers is wrong, the issue becomes particularly acute when people are snatched from their homes with no warning.…

A close reading of the text of Karl Marx’s Capital, Volume I.

Brilliantly animated in depth analysis by David Harvey.

Support Our Sabs! - Land Rover Appeal



With all the bad news for wildlife that comes with the recent election, we want to do something good. We're trying to raise around £5000 to buy a new Land Rover for our group.

For the last 3 years we've been piling our Sabs over to Sheffield every week.

Buying a Land Rover would double the number of Sabs we can get out in Yorkshire,

and make travelling a…