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The Party Game Is Over. Stand And Fight By John Pilger
Born of the ‘never again’ spirit of 1945, social democracy in Britain has surrendered to an extreme political cult of money worship. This reached its apogee when £1 trillion of public money was handed unconditionally to corrupt banks by a Labour government whose leader, Gordon Brown, had previously described ‘financiers’ as the nation’s ‘great example’… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London Newsletter of events November 2010
2 November, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Loyalty cards and events charging 2. Coalition of Resistance National Organising Conference 3. Housmans Plastic Bag Free Zone EVENTS 4. ‘Adventures in Kate Bush and Theory’ with Debora M. Withers 5. ‘Politics & Song’ with Leon Rosselson 6. ‘Class in British Cinema’ with Carl Neville 7. ‘Electric Eden:… Continue reading
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Cuba50 Celebrating Cuban Culture
Welcome to the Cuba50 newsletter – for Cuban cultural events in the UK. Cuba’s National Day of Culture / Cuban TV soap opera / Dia de la Cultura Cubana / Creole Choir of Cuba / Chucho Valdes & The Afro-Cuban Messengers / The legendary ‘lost’ project that became Buena Vista Social Club Continue reading
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Gilad Atzmon And The OHE: 10th Anniversary Extravaganza
We will celebrate ten years of the Orient House Ensemble, with a special three set performance. featuring special guests Asaf Sirkis, Guillermo Rozenthuler, Tali Atzmon, Romanno Viazaani and the Sigamos Quartet. Materials from our early albums, will be followed by our acclaimed In Loving Memory of America tribute to Charlie Parker. We will also play… Continue reading
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Ahava BDS Campaign
Latest in the series of two weekly protest demos outside the Ahava shop in London, which markets so called “Israeli” goods which are in fact goods made in an illegal settlement on stolen Palestinian land with chemicals stolen from the Palestinian territory at the north western corner of the Dead Sea. Continue reading
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Music and Tones Rise for Gaza By Lauren Booth
9 October 2010 — Pal Telegraph Until now, it’ been a real source of pride amongst Israel’s support network that big name musicians have felt ‘safe’ to appear at Zionist fund raisers. Even whilst Israel commits ever more stomach churning war crimes in Palestine and -as we saw in May with the attack on the… Continue reading
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Jazza Music Festival 12 & 13 October 2010 @ THE SCALA
Cleveland Watkiss takes his place in this glittering lineup, alongside Gilad Atzmon’s Orient House Ensemble and the Sigamos Strings, plus the Jazza All-Stars (with saxophonist Peter King and Polar Bear’s Seb Rochford), singer Sarah Gillespie, folk luminaries Rory Mcleoud and the Unthank Sisters, and more. Continue reading
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Resist the cuts!
Almost 200 people packed a Tower Hamlets meeting to resist the cuts. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Events Newsletter for October 2010
28 September, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Peace Diary 2011 – coming very soon! EVENTS 2. ‘Afrocolombians for the land and against militarism’ with Jota Ramos 3. ‘The struggle for West Papuan’s indigenous rights’ with Rosa Moiwend 4. Mouvement Communiste present: ‘Workers’ Struggle in China’ 5. ‘Hollywood Cinema and American Supremacy’ with Matthew Alford 6.… Continue reading
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Artists for Gaza is Jazza
As a response to the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Palestine, a group of artists have for some months been planning a festival that will bring together luminaries from all areas of music to raise awareness, support and funds for the people of Gaza. As with the devastation that besets Palestine, the JAZZA Festival will not… Continue reading
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‘CANTOS’ based on Dante’s Inferno (Trailer)
Much came about in only one room and a couple of exterior locations around Deptford,London; home to Christopher Marlowe, Pepy’s, Sir Walter Raleigh, and the original Cross Bones of St. Nicholas Church mixed with allegorical references to love, loss and chiaroscuro feelings of low light and Dante’s voyage with Virgil. Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books London, Newsletter of Events in August 2010
1 August, 2010 — Housmans NEWS 1. Paul Russell’s UK Street Photography Exhibition 2. What is wrong with using Amazon? EVENTS 3. ‘Soho Noir’ with Cathi Unsworth and Paul Willetts 4. ‘Fighting Fascism in London’ with David Renton 5. ‘How to Live Free in London’ with Katharine Hibbert 6. ‘The Short Film Movement’ 7. ‘Dan… Continue reading
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Al Quds day annual demonstration and rally, London 4 September, 2010
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The Anti-Empire Report 4 August, 2010 by William Blum
When facts are inconvenient, when international law, human rights and history get in the way, when war crimes can’t easily be justified or explained away, when logic doesn’t help much, the current crop of American political leaders turns to what is now the old reliable: 9/11. We have to fight in Afghanistan because … somehow… Continue reading
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LIVE IN LONDON? THIS IS NOW A MUST GO EVENT 26 July, 2010
SPEAKERS: Lance Corporal JOE GLENTON, just released from prison following court martial for refusing to fight in Afghanistan, CAROLINE LUCAS MP, JEREMY CORBYN MP, MARK STEEL, comedian and columnist, LINDSEY GERMAN, Stop the War Coalition, YASMIN KHAN, War On Want. Continue reading
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Defend the Rights of Palestinian Citizens in Israel
The meeting will be a unique opportunity to hear about the serious attacks on the democratic rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, following the decision last week to remove parliamentary privileges of Haneen Zoubi for her participation in the flotilla taking humanitarian aid to Gaza. Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 153 – 15th July 2010: Unfinished Business
+ UNFINISHED BUSINESS + The Identity Documents Bill – the legislation to repeal the Identity Cards Act 2006 – will shortly move to ‘Report and Third Reading’ in the House of Commons. For those of you who haven’t followed the progress of the various Bills that NO2ID has fought over the past 6 years, this… Continue reading
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LPHR PRESENTS SETTLEMENT GOODS AND THE LAW 16 June 2010 6.30pm – 8pm
This workshop is an opportunity for activists, NGO workers, academics, students or anyone interested or engaged in these campaigns to discuss the legal questions provoked by the trade in settlement goods. Is it legal to sell settlement goods in the UK? To what extent does the sale of settlement goods breach consumer and customs law?… Continue reading
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Life Must Go On- Jazza Festival for Free Gaza
Following Israel’s maritime slaughter of defenceless and heroic humanitarian activists, Sarah Gillespie and myself will be donating our earnings from this week’s concerts at Pizza Express Jazz Club (3-5/6), to the Free Gaza organisation. The victims of the massacre will not be the last to spill their blood for Palestine, but they will never be… Continue reading
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Housmans Radical Books, London: Events Newsletter June 2010
26 May, 2010 — Housmans Books NEWS 1. 10 % discount for Trade Union members 2. Sunday opening over summer months EVENTS 3. ‘Human rights violations and resistance in China since 1989’ with Shao Jiang 4. ‘Demilitarising global society’ with Diana Francis and friends 5. ‘Reclaiming the F Word’ with Catherine Redfern and Kristin Aune… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 