Monthly Archives: December 2010

Red Dawn over Edinburgh :-)

21/12/2010
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Red Dawn over Edinburgh :-)

The moon turning red on the darkest night of the year, just visible through the clouds at dawn. From this time, the days are getting lighter. Auspicious, or just a neat interplanetary metaphor? 2011 is shaping up to be an interesting year. Class is firmly back on the agenda and anarchist ideas and practice...

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Another day, another cuts demo: Council privatisation

15/12/2010
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This one mostly called by Unison Edinburgh. YOUR JOBS – YOUR SERVICES BE PROUD OF BEING PUBLIC DEMONSTRATE ON 16 DECEMBER www.unison-edinburgh.org.uk Council Lobby City Chambers, High St 8.30 – 9.30am Thurs 16 December The Council meeting on 16 December will make the biggest decisions we have ever seen on cuts, redundancies, privatisation and...

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Britain-wide day of action against welfare cuts tomorrow

14/12/2010
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ECAP write: WED 15th December Britain-wide day of action vs Welfare Cuts 10.30am – 11.30am Leafleting and display of placards at Council Housing/ housing benefit office on High Street (next to Council Chambers) Focusing on the brutal cuts to Housing Benefit which would result in increasing homelessness We will be leafleting the many people who attend...

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Local MP Crockart in Search of Spine

09/12/2010
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Edinburgh West LibDem MP did (or not) the first interesting thing we know of about him this week. He was (apparently) impersonated by someone talking to the London Evening Standard, who said that he’d be standing down as a minister’s aide to vote against tuition fee increases. Furious denials followed. How could anyone think...

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Wikileaks next in the censorship firing line

05/12/2010
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Wikileaks.org is accessible at http://213.251.145.96/ After Wikileaks has provided us with a whole week of hilarious spectacle, making the US and other governments look like arses, a backlash is beginning. First, Amazon took them off of their servers, prompting the comment “if they don’t like the First Amendment, maybe they shouldn’t sell...

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