Category Archives: activism

Salami slicing to a police state

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Whilst that nice Mr Cameron is killing free speech and trying to introduce state censorship of the internet to protect us from looking at dirty pictures another more worrying bit of legislation is crawling it’s way through parliament. Via the book of face my attention has been brought to an article by Scriptonite Daily concerning the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill 2013-14 which is about to enter the report stage. I’ve not read the entire bill yet, it’s 175 pages, but I shall get back to that and go through it section by section, but a quick check suggests … Continue reading →

I feel a flyer/poster campign coming on

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It’s Friday and this amuses me, really quite tempted to get a few posters and flyers printed for leaving around, would anyone want some? +123-1

Analogies don’t get better

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Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building and so presented something of a challenge. Fortunately they had mobile phones with them (presumably attached securely to them by lanyards to avoid endangering people below) and they tweeted about their expereince during the climb. The climb was apparently to protest against Shell drilling for oil in the arctic, not that Shell have offices in the shard, nor that the shard owners have anything to do … Continue reading →