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• Video: Camden Trader speaks out against Olympic copyright rules

  Incredible leaflet issued by Camden Council to local traders.

   

• Paid Intern, Climate Week

  Salary: £11,300 pa pro rata Job Details: Climate Week is offering paid internship positions which will provide practical experience in running a high-profile national environmental campaign. Interns are being recruited to support the team with campaigning, digital communications, and PR. We need people with flair, determination, a commitment to environmental […]

   

• Today’s London Links: Olympics news

  A few of the items we’ve spotted in the last week or so around the upcoming games. After all the fuss about people selling their torches on ebay the Olympics organisers are flogging off “memorabilia”. Guardian. Just another feminist asks are they the international Olympic committee or the gender police? […]

   

• Tomlinson case finally comes to trial

  The trial of PC Simon Harwood, accused of the killing of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson, began this week some three years after his death at a G20 protest. Harwood denies the manslaughter charge. The prosecution claimed that Harwood attacked Tomlinson during a “rush of blood too the head” in a “gratuitous […]

   

• Anti-Olympics events in the next few weeks

   Protest: No missiles in our communities Saturday 30th June, 1pm Wennington Green, Mile End Park, E3 5SN Stop the Olympic Missiles   Fattylympics 7th July Grassroots Resource Cenre, Memorial Park, Memorial Ave. E15 3DB Events include; Fat activism, fun and games, performances. All ages welcome. Fattylympics   Whose Games? Whose […]

   

• Cockney sparrow hunt

  From 18 June to 12 July the RSPB is encouraging Londoners to take part in its survey of “Cockney” sparrows. The oganisation claims the bird is in decline and states “The cockney sparra has lived alongside us for hundreds of years and was once a regular fixture in our London […]

   

• Public Meeting: No More Deportations to Afghanistan

  organised by the National Cooalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns. Monday June 25th Time 7-8.30pm Praxis Community Projects Pot Street, Bethnal Green E2 0EF

   

• Video: Gender and climate change

  At this weekend’s Campaign Against Climate Change Conference in SOAS there was a fascinating session on gender and climate change to coincide with the Rio Summit. Here Camden Green Party’s Natalie Bennett discusses the issues;

   

• Review: Leon Rosselson at The Cellar Upstairs

  The Cellar Upstairs at the Exmouth Arms near Euston hosts a regular season of folk clubs (restarting in September, it’s not a summer sport) with some of the top names in today’s folk scene as well as talented locals who just like to get up and have a go. There’s […]

   

• Gig: We Are Waltham Forest: June 29th

    The gig, organised by Love Music Hate Racism, raising money for We are Waltham Forest is on June Friday 29th at Orford House Social Club and will be a great night for young and older, come along and bring your friends. From 7.30 until Midnight Entry £10/£5