Friday 16 November 2012

10th - 17th November 2012

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Brighton News

10th-17th November
LAST WEEK'S LATE EDITION - APOLOGIES!!!

Well it was a good little run of regular editions, but the Occupied Argus has really struggled to keep up this past fortnight. Our attention has been diverted by the Homelessness Working Group and the pace of current events, locally, nationally and internationally. You can read how last week's edition ended up below.

For the time being we are unfortunately going to have to scale back the depth of RP/analysis/reportage.
Apologies to all our subscribers and supporters. We will still be maintaining the calendar and producing operational updates as frequently as is necessary/possible.If any Occupy supporters are interested in taking the reigns of this project, or picking up some of the slack on it, please get in touch.

Bear with us - we're not going anywhere!

What's Happening Now Then?
There is an emergency demo in solidarity with Gaza today, 12pm @Victoria Gardens - smashEDO and other Palestinian Solidarity Groups will be in attendance.

Emergency Gaza Demo
Saturday November 17th
Meet Victoria Gardens 12pm, then on to

Picket SodaStream
Saturday November 17th 
Western Rd - 1pm

There is also an anti-workfare picket organised by Brighton Benefits Campaign going on at the same time:

Picket Workfare:Superdrug
Saturday November 17th
London Rd - 12pm

Then in the evening, there's

Brighton Reclaim the Night
Saturday November 17th
Meet 6pm at the Station

SmashEDO Fundraising Sunday Roast
Sunday November 18th
2pm - 5pm, The Cowley Club

 What's Coming Up:

We will be performing some anti-commercial christmas carols in churchill sq shopping centre for:

International Buy Nothing Day
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere.
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

And

National Day of Action Against Workfare
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere in the UK

 The Homelessness Working Group have been working towards the formation of a multi-agency taskforce to grapple with the City's most pressing local issue. You can add your thoughts, feelings and ideas to the agenda here:

Ending Homelessness Conference
TBC Tuesday 27th or Thursday November 29th, 5.30pm-7.30pm
Brighton Town Hall

Media WG - Weatherley's Law Video Project
The Media Working Group plan to film questions for Mike Weatherley pertaining to his new anti-squatting law. After witnessing firsthand the righteous anger of the squatting community, @Sussex Uni, the media group feel this debate needs to be had and it needs to be had urgently. The intention is to facilitate that debate in a fair, free for all forum "at arm's length" in the form of "to camera" interviews.

If anybody is interested in getting involved, or just wants to try to ask Mr Weatherley a question in a public forum, please get in touch.

National:

 Occupy Bath are Back! :)
Camp re-established this weekend.
http://standingstonesblog.blogspot.co.uk/http://


International:
Gaza :(

Everywhere else still :(

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Saturday 3 November 2012

3rd - 10th November 2012

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Brighton News

3rd - 10th November 2012
Each week we will repost and compare the past week's news and views from a diverse range of sources.

Local:

Emergency Conference to End Homelessness

Occupy Brighton's Homelessness Working Group are hosting an emergency conference:

"Ending Homelessness in Brighton & Hove"
We hope to bring our community together to form a task force focused on getting homeless people sheltered this winter and beyond.

Monday 12th November, 2pm 

@The Blind Tiger Club Brighton.


 The conference is open for all to attend.

See the full invitation, proposed agenda & get involved at occupybrighton.co.uk


National:

Ethnic Cleansing in London

Local authorities are shifting the plebs out of the City to various locations around the country. This "in defiance" of toothless ministerial "demands" that people should be housed locally.



Dave Defends Dodgy Dictator Deals

Not surprising, but good to have some background data from Constantine Report confirming everybody's suspicions about our multimillionaire arms dealing PM's actual ideology:fascism.

This week, Dave offered to arrange "safe passage" for Syria's genocidal president, Bashar al-Assad. The head of Human Rights Watch said offering immunity to Assad would give him a licence to kill (more of) his opponents.

Dave has restricted access to all journalists (except for the BBC's Frank Gardner), during his current arms dealing trip in the middle-east .

Alan Moore Releases Anonymous/Occupy Single

As well as hosting the exclusive premiere of Moore's track, NME has an "extra-special competition with prizes that supporters of Occupy and Anonymous – or fans of V For Vendetta will not want to miss".

The Occupied Argus will be checking NME.com tomorrow for details of how to enter...
 

 

 

 

 

 





International:

Anonymous Bonfire Night: Protests & Hacks

"Trending" quote from the Vice article:
 
"It’s been said that Parliament is a kind of theatre, one in which the British establishment put on a democratic charade by taking the piss out of each other’s haircuts while agreeing with each other on the big issues – the old ideological battles between left and right being a thing of the past. If that’s true, then it’s mirrored in the UK's current protest scene. It’s basically a pantomime where everyone assumes a role, hams it up and then goes home to prepare for the next performance."




UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS:

Occupy Brighton Media Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
12pm The Blind Tiger Club

Occupy Brighton Homelessness Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
3pm The Blind Tiger Club

Defend the NHS General Meeting
Tuesday 6th November
6.30pm King & Queen

SWP- Open Meeting
Wednesday 7th November
7.30pm Friend's Meeting House

Ending Homelessness Conference 
Wednesday 12th November
2pm The Blind Tiger Club 
  
Trades Union Council
Wednesday 14th November
8pm King and Queen
 
Brighton Meditation Mob For Tolerance
Friday November 16th
5.30pm - Madeira Drive
http://www.facebook.com/events/371289599625568/

Brighton Reclaim the Night
Saturday November 17th
Meet 6pm at the Station

SmashEDO Fundraising Sunday Roast
Sunday November 18th
2pm - 5pm, The Cowley Club

Buy Nothing Day (UK)
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere in the UK
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

National Anti-Welfare Reforms Demo
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere in the UK 
(The Analogical) - Stand up and be counted (video)

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27th October - 3rd November 2012

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27th October - 3rd November 2012
Each week we will repost and compare the past week's news and views from a diverse range of sources.

Brighton Council Cuts Double

Schools, bin collections and libraries could all be in the firing line after forecasts for council cuts nearly doubled in a matter of days. A similar picture is reflected around the UK.
 

 

 

 

Hopeful Plan or Market Scam?

Brighton residents are raising £200, 000 to buy the community hall in Exeter St after St Luke's Church were forced put it on the market.

Is this another example of the market "socialising the losses"?

 

Local Arms Factory Haunted

Anti-militarist group, smashEDO's annual halloween demonstration was angry and noisy. smashEDO have been campaigning against EDO-MBM's factory in Home Farm Rd, Brighton for 8 years now, causing the factory much bother - if you would like to see Brighton & Hove reinstated as a peace messenger City (which we were before EDO set up shop here) please support this campaign.

SmashEDO have a fundraising Sunday roast at the Cowley Club, November 18th, 2-5pm.

 

Drinking Problems on The Rise

Hospital admissions for alcohol specific illnesses are up 15% across Sussex. Sicknesses including liver disease, strokes and high blood pressure. Hove MP, Mike Weatherley has responded by calling to scrap hikes in the price of beer. A populist move, which endorses our nation's culture of alcoholism and empowers nobody but the market. The Occupied Argus wonder how the increase in drinking relates to the apparent increase in violent crime...

 

Brighton Puts the "T" in LGBT

"No more Mr & Mrs".

 

National News:

No Dash For Gas Activists Put Their Lives on the Line 

Early on Monday 29th October, sixteen people scaled the chimneys of West Burton gas-fired power station, shutting it down and halting further construction.

They're still there, in high winds risking everything to make their point.
  

 

 

 

Bank of England: "Occupy Were Right"

Are the banksters pretending to wake up? :/

 

 

 

Stuart Rodger Sentenced For Shouting At Dave

100 hours community service for shouting "no ifs, no buts, no public sector cuts".

One in Five UK Workers Don't Make a Living Wage

The Government seems to want corporations and businesses to foot the bill for worker subsistence, rather than actually raise the legally required minimum wage.

(BBC) - One in Five Workers Struggling
(the Independant) - 5m On Less Than The Living Wage
(The Argus) - Living in Hope of a Living Wage

 

Government Announces Recession is Over. Really?

hmm...classic doublespeak,...like when dave said "the Tories aren't the party of the better off".

 

Tories Sell NHS Land to Their Own Donors

The Tories have put 5.5 million square metres of NHS land up for sale at 348 locations. The largest of these, 580,000 square metres of NHS land in Colchester, Essex, is being sold to a property developer who donated over £1 million to the Tories.





 

International News:

Anonymous Take Down 89 Child Porn Sites

Takedowns attributed to PrOtOn_An0n. Arrests likely to follow. :)


 

 

 

 

 

Western Media Blackout on Iceland's Economic Revolution

Still no mainstream headlies...lots on alternative media channels though :)

 

 

 

 

Contentious Chinese-Canadian Tar Sands Deal

FIPPA is the Canada-China Foreign Investment Protection and Promotion Agreement - which protect "investors" from human rights and environmental laws for 31 years.

Avaaz have a petition you can sign.




UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS:

Occupy Brighton Media Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
12pm The Blind Tiger Club

Occupy Brighton Homelessness Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
3pm The Blind Tiger Club

Defend the NHS General Meeting
Tuesday 6th November
King & Queen 6.30pm

SWP- Open Meeting
Wednesday 7th November
Friend's Meeting House 7.30pm
  
Trades Union Council
Wednesday 14th November
8pm King and Queen
 
Brighton Meditation Mob For Tolerance
Friday November 16th
5.30pm - Madeira Drive
http://www.facebook.com/events/371289599625568/

Brighton Reclaim the Night
Saturday November 17th
Meet 6pm at the Station

SmashEDO Fundraising Sunday Roast
Sunday November 18th
2pm - 5pm, The Cowley Club

Buy Nothing Day (UK)
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere in the UK
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

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Saturday 27 October 2012

20th - 27th October 2012

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20th - 27th October 2012
Each week we will repost and compare the past week's news and views from a diverse range of sources. 

Argus Report on Brighton's Poverty Crisis

Popular mainstream Brighton rag, The Argus have produced the latest report on Brighton & Hove's poverty crisis. 

48 homelessness agencies in the city are struggling to cope with unprecedented demand for food and shelter as temperatures drop. 

Brighton & Hove council reckon there are 37 rough sleepers in the city. Antifreeze say the number is about three times higher, according to research conducted by 10 agencies on a single night. 


All this, in spite of Brighton Housing Trust being awarded £250, 000 odd towards the "No second night out" initiative back in January.

Many of Mike Weatherley's displaced squatters are also now sleeping rough. At the time, Mike said it was insulting to "compare rough sleepers with squatters". The link between these two vulnerable groups is now undeniably self-evident.

 

Protests Over Cuts to Brighton & Hove Care Homes, or Bus Routes?

Tory Woodingdean Ward Councillor, Dee Simson successfully conflates the issue of care home closures with the provision of bus routes... Brighton & Hove City Council are closing two care homes and cutting the 52 bus route, which further isolates yet more of the most vulnerable people in our community.

 

CCTV Snoop Poop Scoop Law & £1K Fines To Extend Throughout Sussex 


Introduced in Brighton & Hove in 2009, the controversial snooping bye-law is now being extended to extract wealth from dogwalkers throughout Sussex.

Meanwhile, even the BBC has this week described the Government's draft communications bill as "leading to a police state"...

Find out more about the looming surveillance state and join the campaign to defend our civil liberties at reformsection5.org.uk/

 

Caroline Lucas Urges Government to Abandon Badger Cull



Brighton Green MP, Caroline Lucas has called on the government to abandon it's plans to massacre the country's badgers.

Brighton Tory MP, Simon Kirby says she was right about EU Parliamentary meetings in Strasbourg being too costly and carbon intensive. He doesn't mention the badgers.

 

Worthing Council Blow £20K on iPads, Cut Budget for Public Spaces

   

Cannabis Grown in Every Street in Brighton? 



Shock horror! Not in Brighton, surely?

Earlier this year, Green Councillor Ben Duncan called for cannabis to be decriminalised in the city.

Is a commonsense drugs policy on the horizon or would that be naive optimism?

 

 

600 Brightonians fill Trades Council Train to Mass Demonstration in London

Thanks to the TUC, who organised transport for at least 600 Brightonians to join a few hundred thousand people marching in unity on the streets of London, against government cuts to just about everything.









National News:  

DPAC Brings London to a Standstill (Again)


Disabled People Against the Cuts locked and glued their wheelchairs together, blocking Marble Arch during the mass demonstration in London last Saturday.  

 

 

 

Parliamentary Paedo Ring Exposed

MP Tom Watson has called for an inquiry to examine evidence that a powerful paedophile ring has close ties to number 10 and Parliament.

Mr Watson said the police should re-examine the file relating to Peter Righton, who was convicted in 1992 of importing child pornography from Holland.



"The evidence file used to convict Peter Righton, if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring," he said.


Two-faced Hunt

"Health Secretary" Jeremy Hunt visited Norfolk's Dementia Care Unit last Friday, singing the praises of mental health care workers there. 
The same day, he posted notifications to 500 of these frontline NHS workers that they would be losing their jobs. 

Hunt proceeded to give an interview to itv, outlining his ambition to "make England the best place in Europe to grow old"...

 

 Lord Bichard: "Retired Should Work for Their Pensions"

Former head of the Benefits Agency Lord Bichard has suggested retired people should be encouraged to undertake community service – or have their pensions docked.

Dot Gibson, general secretary of the National Pensioners Convention, said: “This amounts to little more than national service for the over-60s and is absolutely outrageous".

   

£75m Hedge Fund Raping NHS

New £75m Hedge Fund to charge £25 for hearing tests on a day when 40% of NHS Trusts make cuts to hearing services. Cherie Blair is a 10% shareholder of the £75 million Allele Equity Fund. 

Many donors linked to Tory Party.

The first privatised NHS hospital to officially go into the red is £4m in debt. Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambrigeshire was the first hospital to be privatised in the UK back in January. It's losses have doubled in the last 10 months.

NB the word "Allelle" means "one member of a pair of genes"...


 

PM Dave Cameron to be "Investigated" by Toothless Agency

In a debate with that other bloke from the Labour Party, Dave hinted that the UK's economic growth figures might be good, before they were published. 

The UK Statistics Authority said it had received several queries about the appropriateness of the Prime Minister's words, adding: "We are going to look into it".

We imagine wysteria Dave is soiling his underwear,...not.

 

 

 

 

 

Starbucks Pay no Tax in the UK


Notoriously having built a branch on St James' St without planning permission, starbucks haven't paid tax in the UK since 2009.

If you've been paying attention to UK Uncut, you might have noticed that they're all at it.








International News:

Assange Health Concerns?

The Ecuadorian embassy is concerned for Julian Assange's health. Voice of Russia radio quoted vice foreign minister Marco Albuja Martinez as saying "Assange has grown noticeably thinner" in comments confirmed by the Ecuadorean embassy in Moscow.

 

Exxonmobil Executive Shot Dead in Belgium

Nicholas Mockford, 60, an ExxonMobil executive from Chichester, was gunned down as he left an Italian restaurant in a suburb of the Belgian capital Brussels.

The View From America:

Presidential Debates Rigged (Again)

You may already be aware that the US presidential debates are rigged. They have to be, or it would be too obvious that the two main parties represent the same interests.

 

 

Green Party Candidates, Anarchists and "Preppers" Arrested in US Crackdown

UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS:

Mind and Body with Soul
Saturday 27th -28th October
10am The Sussex County Cricket Ground

SmashEDO Halloween Demonstration
Wednesday 31st October
4-6pm EDO MBM Factory, Home Farm Ind. Est - Brighton  

Stop the Cuts Organising Meeting
Thursday 1st November
7:30pm King and Queen

Occupy Brighton Media Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
12pm The Blind Tiger Club

Occupy Brighton Homelessness Working Group Meeting
Sunday 4th November
3pm The Blind Tiger Club

Trades Union Council
Wednesday 10th November
8pm King and Queen

 Brighton Meditation Mob For Tolerance
Friday November 16th
5.30pm - Madeira Drive
http://www.facebook.com/events/371289599625568/

Brighton Reclaim the Night
Saturday November 17th
Final Details TBC – check
http://www.brightonfeministcollective.org.uk/events/reclaim-night-brighton-november-17-2012/(
http://www.brightonfeministcollective.org.uk/events/reclaim-night-brighton-november-17-2012/

Buy Nothing Day (UK)
Saturday November 24th
All day - Everywhere in the UK
http://www.buynothingday.co.uk/

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Tuesday 23 October 2012

Weekly Format Proposal 13th-20th October 2012

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Brighton News

13th - 20th October 2012
Reposting and comparing the news and views from Brighton & Hove.

Saturday 13th - Squatters Open Art Gallery
Radical art collective CRAB opened a beautifully installed art gallery to conclude SNOB-AHA's peaceful mass squatting action Saturday 13th. Sussex Police apparently praised the squatter's conduct during the demonstration.

https://network23.org/snob/2012/10/15/mass-squatting-action/

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/9984191.
Police_thank_protesters
_after_Brighton_and_Hove_
squatting_march/?ref=nt



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Monday 15th -
Tuesday 16th -
Wednesday 17th -
Thursday 18th -
Friday 19th -


Saturday 20th - 600 Brightonians fill Trades Council Train to Mass Demonstration in London


Thanks to the TUC, who organised transport for at least 600 Brightonians to join a few hundred thousand people marching in unity on the streets of London against government cuts to just about everything... 

http://www.tuc.org.uk/the_tuc/tuc-21553-f0.cfm  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HujD0jsHqVQ
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/20/trade-unions-march-against-cuts
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/de695ee6-1a9c-11e2-b480-00144feabdc0.html#axzz29zMjxuto


National News: 




UPCOMING MEETINGS/EVENTS:

Occupy Brighton Media Working Group Meeting
Saturday 27th October
12pm The Blind Tiger Club

Occupy Brighton Homelessness Working Group Meeting
Saturday 27th October
3pm The Blind Tiger Club


SmashEDO Halloween Demonstration
Wednesday 31st October
4-6pm EDO MBM Factory, Home Farm Ind. Est - Brighton



Stop the Cuts Organising Meeting
Thursday 1st November
7:30pm King and Queen

 Trades Union Council
Wednesday 10th November
8pm King and Queen

 Brighton Reclaim the Night
Saturday November 17th
Final Details TBC – check
http://www.brightonfeministcollective.org.uk/events/reclaim-night-brighton-november-17-2012/(
http://www.brightonfeministcollective.org.uk/events/reclaim-night-brighton-november-17-2012/

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