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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ New Scotland Yard Protest

If you haven't seen the footage from the G20 protests by now, you must've been sleeping. Police officers backhanding women, beating peaceful demonstrators with batons, and pushing over Ian Tomlinson, allegedly causing his tragic death (a view held by many). The Stop the War Coalition were particularly angered by such outrageous tactics, and called...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

Young Blood: When Climate Camp Got Ugly

Climate Camp in the city took center stage at Bishopsgate, Central London at exactly 12.30. Dozens of tents were simultaneously pitched in the street and activists sat down on picnic rugs along the road, despite the efforts of a few police who had no option but to retreat to the pavement. Within minutes more tents were pitched, drum sounds and...

Submitted by Adam.Gardner

Young Blood: Activism by Numbers

Numbers was what got talked about this G20. Maybe it's because when you talk about numbers you don't have to talk about individuals and their lives, but leave that whole issue for another time. These numbers were big, like 10 million extra children facing starvation, or how about 1.1 trillion non-existent dollars that governments have lent...

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Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ Enfield Factory Occupation

On Wednesday 1st April, workers at a car parts factory occupied the building. The day before, they had been given six minutes notice of leave, with not a penny in redundancy pay and not a pension on the horizon. Some of the workers had served Ford for over 30 years, but now that US giant Visteon had taken over the plant, and despite assurances...

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

Young Blood: No More Police Brutality!

We'll be living in a dictatorship before we know it guys! Despite the shocking footage inextricably linking police brutality to the death of Ian Tomlinson (during the G20 protests in London a fortnight ago), there will shortly be a new law in place preventing anyone of taking pictures or filming any police anywhere; under the...

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Feature: Diamonds Aren't Forever

A few weeks back, after years of relative stability, violence returned to the streets of Freetown, the capital of Sierra Leone, when clashes between the two main political parties left at least twenty people injured and several women raped.

Submitted by Jody.McIntyre

Blog: Russell Myrie

After last week's G20 centred shenanigans, the conduct of the police was not foremost in my mind. Perhaps needless to say, they didn't cover themselves in glory. But when do they? Of course their job is impossibly hard. The personal sacrifice is immense. Additionally, you'd have to be a fool not to acknowledge that the chaos that ensues at places...

Submitted by Russell.Myrie

Ctrl.Alt.Shift @ No Sweat vs Primark Bosses

Saturday 4th April. No Sweat protest against sweatshop labour outside Primark, Oxford Street, London. Travelling on the bus through London, trying to cover the fancy-dress chains around some of our wrists, we probably looked a bit strange, but this wasn't some student prank; we were going to protest about an issue that a lot of people would rather...

Submitted by Abbey.Broomfield

Feature: DJ For President?

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Feature - No to Nato

G20. IMF. UN. WTO. There have been a lot of acronyms flying around in the media recently, and just when we all though we’d had enough, up pops NATO. NATO dates from 1949 and the beginning of the Cold War, and is a military alliance set up to balance the threat of the Warsaw Pact countries led by the USSR.

Submitted by Kevin E.G. Perry