Dissident Island Radio show - EPISODE 62 - broadcast live on 16 July 2010 and now available for download - featuring:

• Words from Queer Invisible Academy about fighting homophobia in Hackney and the media
• 'How to' guide on car scrumping sent in from one of our listeners
• Present and future of the Radical London network, with voices from Action East End, Harringey Solidarity, and the Whitechape…

15th July 2010 saw the launch of "Beat the Boreholes"; a campaign of mass civil disobedience to stop Shell works in Mayo this Summer. At 7am in the morning campaigners entered the water in Broadhaven Bay in kayaks and a safety rib in a peaceful attempt to prevent Shell from bringing in a second borehole drilling platform.

See also http://www.rossportsolidaritycamp.org/content/beat-boreholes-l…

'Police record massive increase in domestic abuse calls after England World Cup exit'

An article from The Mule about the increase in violence after the world cup. Large sporting events increase the amount and level of violence in homes, and especially against women.

"Greater Manchester Police recorded 353 incidents of domestic abuse in the city following England's World Cup defeat against German…

If you want comprehensive coverage of the EDO trial Bristol Indymedia seems like the place to go.

Hoorah for the decommisioners!

On 3 and 4 of May, 2006, more than 2,500 state and federal Mexican police arrived at the small town of San Salvador Atenco, Mexico State, to repress members of a social movement (People´s Front in Defence of Land, FPDT) protesting in support of local flower sellers who had been displaced from their traditional place of work because the government was planning to build there a Wall Mart.

Dem…

Report and pictures of the Newcastle protest for the Freedom Flotilla at:

http://thegreymatter.wordpress.com/2010/06/09/newcastle-protest-for-freedom-flotilla/

A representative selection of video from protests in countries around the world regarding the Gaza Flotilla atrocities.

EPISODE 59 of Dissident Island Radio, broadcast live on June 4th 2010 featuring:



• an update from SmashEDOdecommissioners trial starting on 7 June;

• a few folks active in the the London social centre scene, rampART and 195 Mare Street, about the ins and outs of organising autonomous spaces in the capital of capital;

•  words from the brave cyclists nearing the end of the Merthyr to Mayo cycl…

In Yiddish it’s called Chutzpah, to have the nerve to say something outrageous, the perfect description—if what was said wasn’t so odious—by Israeli propagandists. I’m talking here about an Israeli spokeman on RT.com the other night, attempting to justify the murderous assault on the Gaza aid activists. Attack becomes “defence”, international waters become Israeli, or not as the case may be.…

delegitimize.com is a new media library project that plans to publish a series of both topic-specific and current event-focused archive websites, with the help of the pro-Palestinian community and beyond. Sites will be:

1. created on an as-needed basis, sometimes in immediate reaction to Israel’s actions or breaking news;
2. deployed in non-crisis periods to address obvious research gaps in line w…

More pictures of the EDL march through Newcastle, the counter demos and the police presence are up at www.thegreymatter.wordpress.com

Soon to come: report on the Newcastle demonstration in solidarity with the Freedom Flotilla

The Grey Matter

While we were doing soup run last week we came across stories of people being attacked by young thugs on our streets. Only last week an elderly man between 58 & 63 years old; who sleeps on Preston's streets was attacked from behind by two young thugs for money or anything else they could get.





The man was beaten around the face and head leaving him needing stitches and badly bruised. He to…

This is a guide with step-by-step instructions for recording and publishing internet video.

Make Internet TV is suitable for many levels of experience; just jump right in at the chapter that seems right for you.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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 …

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.

This might be worth a read for those thinking that Apple are an ethical company

In this short film from Lippy.tv, British South Asian men in Dewsbury discuss identity.

This was made as a response to recent allegations in the local rag that q certain part of Dewsbury were a "no-go area for whites." The discussants mention that the reporting was likely to be exaggerated in the interests of selling more newspapers. The production leads us through an unpacking of what identity m…