7pm Wednesday 7th January 'Palestine Solidaity Night'
This Week 'Cinema Libre' presents an evening exploring the Palestinian/Israeli conflict.
Films include
'Occupation 101'
A thought-provoking and powerful documentary film on the current and historical root causes of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and US government involvement. 'Occupation 101' presents a comprehensive analysis of the facts and hidden truths surrounding the never-ending controversy and dispels many of its long-perceived myths and misconceptions.
The film also details life under Israeli military rule, the role of the United States in the conflict, and the major obstacles that stand in the way of a lasting and viable peace. Unlike any other film produced on the conflict, 'Occupation 101' explains the complicated reality with precision storytelling through a series of highly stylized visual edits, and gives audiences a complete context with which to better understand the Israeli-Palestinian debate.
The roots of the conflict are explained with thought-provoking commentaries from leading Middle East scholars, peace activists, journalists, religious leaders and humanitarian workers whose voices have too often been suppressed in American media outlets.
2007 International Beverly Hills Film Festival Winner of the Golden Palm Award (given to the best film in all categories). Winner of the Best Editing Award 2007 New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival Best Documentary Special Recognition 2006 Artivist Film Festival, Hollywood, CA Winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2006 River's Edge Film Festival, Paducah, KY Winner of the Best Feature Film Award 2006 DeadCenter Film Festival, Oklahoma City, OK Winner of the Best Documentary Award 2006 East Lansing Film Festival, East Lansing, MI Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary 2006 Big Muddy Film Festival, Illinois Winner of the John Michaels Memorial Award (for social justice and human rights)
Plus video reports from various Activists and journalists based in and around the Gaza area
As usual we look forward to hearing your opinions and ideas on this issue
Don't forget the Library House's 'Cafe Marie' opens its doors at 6pm so feel free to come down earlier for some fantastic home cooked cuisine courtesy of South londons latest autonimous collective.
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George Monbiot is the author of the best selling books The Age of Consent: a manifesto for a new world order and Captive State: the corporate takeover of Britain; as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed and No Man’s Land. He writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper. This is an archive of his syndicated column about international and British politics and issues, arranged by topic.
During seven years of investigative journeys in Indonesia, Brazil and East Africa, he was shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a poisoned coma by hornets. He came back to work in Britain after being pronounced clinically dead in Lodwar General Hospital in north-western Kenya, having contracted cerebral malaria.
In Britain, he joined the roads protest movement. He was hospitalised by security guards, who drove a metal spike through his foot, smashing the middle bone. He helped to found The Land is Ours, which has occupied land all over the country, including 13 acres of prime real estate in Wandsworth belonging to the Guinness corporation and destined for a giant superstore. The protesters beat Guinness in court, built an eco-village and held onto the land for six months.
He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental science). He is currently visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University. In 1995 Nelson Mandela presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has also won the Lloyds National Screenwriting Prize for his screenplay The Norwegian, a Sony Award for radio production, the Sir Peter Kent Award and the OneWorld National Press Award.
A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.
A global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age. Our aim is to topple existing power structures and forge a major shift in the way we will live in the 21st century.
To this end, Adbusters Media Foundation publishes Adbusters magazine, operates this website and offers its creative services through PowerShift, our advocacy advertising agency.
The Activists' Legal Project is a not for profit collective which provides information about the law to a wide range of grassroots social change activists as well as people who are considering taking action for the first time. We provide information sheets on legal issues relevant to direct activists and offer free legal workshops facilitated by activists, with first hand experience of the criminal and civil 'justice' systems.
No Borders is a network of groups struggling for the freedom of
movement for all and an end to all migration controls. We call for a
radical movement against the system of control, dividing us into
citizens and non-citizens.
We demand the end of the border regime for everyone, including
ourselves, to enable us to live another way, without fear, racism and
nationalism.
PLATFORM works across disciplines for social and ecological justice. It combines the transformatory power of art with the tangible goals of campaigning, the rigour of in-depth research with the vision to promote alternative futures.
London Coalition Against Poverty is a coalition of local community activists and individuals working in advice. We believe that by coming together to combine advice work with direct action within our communities, we can access the rights that we are often denied. These rights are not enough, but at least they’re a start. Currently most of our work is focused on housing in Hackney.
If you want to get involved or think we can help you access your rights, contact us on 07932 241737 or londoncoalitionagainstpoverty@gmail.com
It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the problem of climate change. It's easy to feel that we can't make a difference. Our aim is overcome feelings of isolation and helplessness by bringing people together to create a community of resistance. We hope the camp inspires people to take action, share ideas and beyond the camp, make a start in their own localities and spheres of interest.
Our World Our Say is a non-party political organisation with no specific religious affiliation. We believe an active and vocal civil society from all ages and walks of life is crucial to the health of the nation
Our World Our Say works to enable all our voices to be heard over world changing issues, to increase our control over our future. We enable people to join together to take action to ensure politicians and the powerful act in the interests of people and our world.
NO2ID is a campaigning organisation. We are a single-issue group focussed on the threat to liberty and privacy posed by the rapid growth of the database state, of which "ID cards" are the most visible part. We are entirely independent. We do not endorse any party, nor campaign on any other topic.
We aim to publicise the case against state identity management among the general public, in the media, and at every level in government. NO2ID's members are from all sorts of backgrounds and hold all sorts of opinions on other questions. They almost certainly include people much like you. Please support us.
Corporate Watch
www.corporatewatch.org
Corporate Watch is a research and publishing group, and its website is an excellent source of information about the transnational corporations involved in agricultural biotechnology.
Econexus
www.web-econexus.org
Econexus is an independent organisation specialising in the impact of genetic engineering on the environment, farming, food security, health and medicine.
EarthFirst! Action Reports
www.earthfirst.org.uk/actionreports/geneticscrop
Genetics related action reports on the Earth First! Action Reports website.
Friends of the Earth
www.foe.co.uk/campaigns/real_food
FoE is an environmental campaigning organisation. Reports and updated press releases about GM foods can be found on their website.
Genetic Engineering Network
www.geneticsaction.org.uk
The Genetic Engineering Network is a network of NGOs and individuals opposed to the commercialisation of GM technology. Website is now slightly outdated but still some useful information.
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
www.grain.org
GRAIN website is a source of information about GM foods in general and their implications for developing countries.
Genewatch UK
www.genewatch.org
GeneWatch UK is an independent organisation concerned with the ethics and risks of genetic engineering. Lots of information are available, including briefings, articles, reports and press releases.
GM Freeze
www.gmfreeze.org
Campaign calling for a freeze on growing and importation of GM plants and animals,and the patenting of genetic resources for food or farm crops. Good source of up to date information on GM.
GM Watch
www.gmwatch.org
All the latest news and the world's biggest database on the politics, PR and impacts of genetic engineering.
Greenpeace
www.greenpeace.org
Greenpeace is an environment focused group. Genetic engineering is one of the campaigns run by Greenpeace, and their website is an excellent source of information on the topic, including a Shopper's Guide (www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/GM/index2.cfm) which covers major brands and supermarkets in the UK and lists their products according to their GM status, so that people can avoid GM food and buy non-GM alternatives
Primal Seeds
www.primalseeds.org
Primal Seeds exists as a network to actively engage in protecting biodiversity and creating local food security. Information on GM issues can be found in the 'monocult' section. Site has not been updated in recent past.
Save Our Seeds (SOS)
www.saveourseeds.org
Dedicated to keeping conventional and organically grown seeds free of GMOs.
The Soil Association
www.soilassociation.org
The Soil Association, the UK's leading campaigning and certification organisation for organic food and farming, has recently come out with a study showing the devastating impact of commercial GM crop planting in America.
TOGG
www.togg.org.uk
Based in Totnes area. ToGG is a diverse group of friends of many ages and perspectives who campaign against GM. Lots of information, although not that up to date.
Women's Environmental Network
www.wen.org.uk
Women's Environmental Network runs a campaign on Genetic Engineering with lots of information and documents available through their website.
Boycotts list
This is a list of current boycotts, focusing on those affecting consumers in the UK. Ethical Consumer would like to stress that inclusion in this list does not constitute an endorsement of a particular boycott. The boycotts are called by the campaign groups listed as contacts and reported by Ethical Consumer. Where possible this site contains direct links to the companies in question to make registering your disapproval even easier. We aim to keep this page as up-to-date as possible, but if you see any out-of-date boycott information please email us. Although this list is updated regularly, for the most up-to-date information on the status of any of these boycotts please get in touch with the listed contact.
Alternatives to boycotted companies are provided in Ethical Consumer magazine or on the new Ethiscore website.
Take a look at our Boycott Bush site for the main corporate donors to the Republican party.
Click the pic below for more info on Starbucks continual support of the israeli military
3 Mobile
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma. Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Aeroplanes
Aviation is the fastest-growing source of climate change causing greenhouse gas emissions.
Contact Flight Pledge Union or send an email
Adidas
for using kangaroo skin to make some types of football boots.
Contact Viva tel 0117 944 1000
Asda and Wal-Mart
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican Party. See BoycottBush for more information.
Bacardi
for continuing to use its Cuban origins in its marketing despite being active in anti-Cuba lobby groups in the US.
Contact: Rock around the Blockade on 020 7837 1688
Body Shop
Since L'Oreal (26% owned by Nestlé) bought out the Body Shop earlier in the year, campaigns have brought together concerns about animal testing, relations with the Majority World, human rights, discrimination in the UK and the environment.
Contact: Boycott Body Shop or 01452 539 916
Naturewatch (01242 252 871) have a long-standing boycott of L'Oreal due to animal testing, and have extended this to cover the Body Shop.
Botswana
for forcing the Gana and Bwi Bushmen out of their land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve
Contact: Survival International on 020 7687 8700
British Heart Foundation
for conducting animal testing in order to find out about a human condition. The boycott is called by PETA whose British Heartless Foundation website contains a list of health charities which do not test on animals.
Contact: PETA on 020 7357 9229
Burma
is ruled by one of the world's most brutal regimes and has used forced labour to prepare the country for tourism. Burma Campaign UK has a list of companies operating in Burma.
Contact: Burma Campaign UK, 28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT,
Tel: 020 7324 4710 or email
Canada
for the government-subsidised slaughter of nearly one million seals over the last three years. Campaigners are also calling for a boycott of Canadian fish and seafood, as exports to the UK earn five times more for Canada than the landed seal hunt in Newfoundland.
Contact: Respect for Animals www.boycott-canada.com 0115 952 5440
Humane Society of the USA www.hsus.org/ace/19076
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) www.ifaw.org 020 7587 6700
Caterpillar
for selling bulldozers to Israel in full knowledge that they will be armoured and used to destroy Palestinian homes, infrastructure and agriculture in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. These abuses are detailed in War on Want's alternative company report on Caterpillar.
Contact: War on Want, Fenner Brockway House, 37-39 Great Guildford Street London SE1 OES
Tel: 0845 193 1952
ChevronTexaco
For dumping billions of gallons of toxic waste in the Ecuadorian Amazon and failing to clean it up.
Contact: www.chevrontoxico.com
China
for its continued human rights abuses and for its occupation of Tibet
Contact: Boycottmadeinchina, email usa@boycottmadeinchina.org
Coca-Cola
for its repression of trade union activity in Colombia and its depletion of groundwater resources in India.
Contact: Colombia Solidarity Campaign, UK arm of campaign on 07743 743041 or email.
Websites: Colombia's Food and Drink Workers' Union SinalTrainal, who called the boycott on 22nd July 2003, Killer Coke, and Coke Watch
In India, Coca Cola has caused severe water shortages, polluted groundwater and soil around its bottling plant, distributed its toxic waste as "fertiliser" to local farmers and sold drinks with extremely high levels of pesticides.
Website: India Resource Centre
Colgate-Palmolive
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is the testing of household goods and their ingredients.
Website: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
DHL
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma. Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
De Beers
for supporting the Botswanan government’s efforts to forcibly remove Bushmen from their ancestral lands to resettlement camps.
Contact Survival International on 020 7687 8700
Dolce & Gabbana
for using a chimpanzee in an advert.
Contact: Animal Defenders International on 020 8846 9777.
Donna Karan
to hold the clothing company accountable for sweatshop conditions in its suppliers' factories. The Ain't I A Woman campaign is sponsored by National Mobilisation Against Sweatshops and the Chinese Staff and Workers Association.
Esso
for doing more than any other company to sabotage international action on climate change, and for being a top donor to George W. Bush. Find out why you should Boycott Bush or contact Greenpeace at 020 7865 8100.
Website: www.stopesso.com
Gecko's Adventures
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies offering tours to Burma. Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Iams (owned by Procter & Gamble)
for unnecessary animal testing. It is estimated Procter & Gambles is responsible for the deaths of 50,000 animals each year.
Contact: Uncaged Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG tel: 0114 272 2220, info@uncaged.co.uk
See also Procter & Gamble.
Israel
following 'decades of refusal to abide by UN resolutions, International Humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention.' Click here to find out more about the boycott of Israeli products.
Film-makers, musicians, performers and academics have also added their voices, and are calling on their colleagues not to visit, exhibit or perform in Israel.
Websites: Boycott Israeli Goods or Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Box BM PSA, London WC1N 3XX tel: 020 7700 6192. See the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel and the British Committee for Universities of Palestine (BRICUP) for information on cultural boycotts. BRICUP can be contacted on 0207 712 1709 and info@bricup.org.uk
Japan
due to whale hunting for "scientific" reasons in a protected whale sactuary around Antartica. This year, Japan may also start hunting endangered humpback whales.
See Boycott Japan for more information.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) on 020 7587 6708 is also campaigning for the conservation and protection of whales and co-ordinates letter writing campaigns to the Icelandic, Norwegion and Japanese governments.
Junckers
due to selling Indonesian merbau flooring despite confirming that it is of unknown source. Without guarantees of the wood?s origin, it?s likely that merbau wood flooring could have come from Indonesia?s last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Kahrs
due to selling Indonesian merbau flooring despite confirming that it is of unknown source. Without guarantees of the wood?s origin, it?s likely that merbau wood flooring could have come from Indonesia?s last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Let's Go
for being on the Free Burma UK's list of companies publishing travel guide books with information on travel in Burma. Strong evidence exists that tourist facilities, roads and other constructino programmes in Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710.
Liberty Apparel
to hold the clothing company accountable for sweatshop conditions in its suppliers' factories. The Ain't I A Woman campaign is sponsored by National Mobilisation Against Sweatshops and the Chinese Staff and Workers Association.
Lonely Planet Guides
for being on the Free Burma UK's list of companies publishing travel guide books with information on travel in Burma. Strong evidence exists that tourist facilities, roads and other constructino programmes in Burma have used forced labour and involved severe human rights abuses.
Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list (tel: 020 7324 4710)
or Tourism Concern on 020 7753 3330 or email info@tourismconcern.org.uk
L'Oreal
Naturewatch has a long-standing boycott of L'Oreal due to its continued use of animal testing for cosmetics. The French multinational uses ingredients that have been tested on animals, despite public statements to the contrary. It has also been criticised for lobbying against an EU ban on animal testing for cosmetics.
Contact: Naturewatch on 01242 252 871
Lucozade (owned by GlaxoSmithKline)
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican Party. See BoycottBush for more information.
Maxwell House (owned by Altria)
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican Party. See BoycottBush for more information.
MBNA
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican Party. See BoycottBush for more information.
Microsoft
for being on Ethical Consumer's list of top donors to the Republican Party. See BoycottBush for more information.
Nestlé
for its irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula which infringes the International Code of Marketing of Breastmilk Substitutes.
Contact: Baby Milk Action, 23 St Andrews St, Cambridge CB2 3AX, 01223 464420
Pakistan International Airlines
The International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF) have launched a consumer boycott of PIA, acting on behalf of eight trade unions to pressurise the Pakistani government to stop the victimisation of aviation workers. For more information contact ITF +44(0)20 7940 9260.
Peugeot
for moving production from the UK to France and low-wage Slovakia. Contact Amicus and T&G unions for more information or ring 020 7611 2500
Procter and Gamble
for its continued use of animal testing for cosmetics, household products and pet food. Brands made by P&G include Always, Ariel, Bold, Camay, Clearasil, Crest, Daz, Dreft, Fairy, Flash, Head and Shoulders, Insignia, Milton, Napisan, Oil of Ulay, Old Spice, Pampers, Sinex, Tide, Viakal, Vidal Sassoon, Vortex and Zest.
Contact: BUAV, 16a Crane Grove, London N7 8LB (0207 700 4888)
and: Uncaged Campaigns, 9 Bailey Lane, Sheffield S1 4EG
tel: 0114 272 2220, info@uncaged.co.uk
Reckitt Benckiser
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test household goods and their ingredients on animals.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
Rolls-Royce
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma. Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
SC Johnson
as part of a boycott of products of companies which still test household goods and their ingredients on animals.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
Shell
until the peoples of the Ogoni region in Nigeria receive a fair share of profits from oil extraction, and are able to live in better environmental conditions.
Contact: MOSOP-UK (Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People), Suite 3-4, Albion Place, Galena Rd, Hammersmith, London W6 0LT, 020 8563 8614
Starbucks
because for every cup of coffee that it sells, farmers in coffee-growing countries such as Ethiopia earn about 2p. It has also been accused by the Industrial Workers of the World union of 'retaliatory firing' of four union organisers in the US
Contact US Organic Consumer's Association for information on the campaign for fairer terms for Ethiopian coffee farmers. More information on how to support the union can be found on by visiting the National Lawyers Guild website or telephoning (001) 212 679 5100.
Singapore Airlines
in protest against threats of government repression during the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meeting. The Singapore Government had issued a warning that it was prepared to cane or imprison protestors who committed "violent crimes" during the meeting meetings, but Friends of the Earth International argued that it was very difficult to identify violent offenders in crowds.
Superdrug
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma. The connection is via Superdrug's parent company Cheung Kong Holdings.
Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Suzuki
for being on Free Burma UK's list of companies with investments in Burma.
Contact Burma Campaign UK for a full list or ring 020 7324 4710
Tarkett
due to refusing to provide evidence to prove the legal source of their merbau flooring. Without guarantees of the wood?s origin, it?s likely that merbau wood flooring could have come from Indonesia?s last remaining rainforests.
Contact Environmental Investigation Agency for more information or ring 020 7324 4710.
Tesco
due to its escalating use of Radio Frequency identification. The tiy computer chips embedded in products or packaging allow monitoring of items which consumers normally consider private, like clothing, wallets and backpacks.
Contact CASPIAN (Consumers Against Supermarket Privacy Invasion and Numbering)
Unilever
as part of a boycott of the products of companies which still test on animals. The focus of the boycott is on the testing of household products and their ingredients.
Contact: BUAV on 0207 700 4888
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"Let's remember November 30 and the days that followed as the launch of the Seattle Rebellion, the anti-corporate resistance that will reshape society in the next 10 years. It wasn't a skirmish or an opening salvo, but a manifesto etched in the streets by tens of thousands of people." - Adbusters
"Media concentration is high, and increasing. Furthermore, those who occupy managerial positions in the media...belong to the same privileged elites, and might be expected to share the perceptions, aspirations, and attitudes of their associates, reflecting their own class interests as well. Journalists entering the system are unlikely to make their way unless they conform to these ideological pressures" - Noam Chomsky
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety" - Benjamin Franklin
"...A lot of journalists come up and say whats the point [of coming to the rally]. Well I'll tell you what the point is. First time I came here was nearly 50 years ago, standing on this platform when Sir Antony Eden launched a war against Egypt - the Suez War - and a few months later Eden was out on his ear and we had a new Prime Minister. I was here in 1964, and I remember it very well, it was in support of a very well known terrorist and the next time I met him he had a Nobel Peace Prize and was President of South Africa, that was with the anti-apartheid movement! Trafalgar Square is the real parliament of this country!" - Tony Ben
"Though we are often faced with violence, we must never make the mistake of responding in kind. We must use every democratic tool available to us, to shame, expose and embarrass the governments which have merrily sold us down the river. But we must remain, in all respects, better than them." - George Monbiot
"If Hamdryas baboons had nuclear weapons, they would destroy the world in a week" - E.O. Wilson
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