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Our culture is saturated in images. They’re used to sell us almost everything under the sun. Everyone uses images. Well, almost everyone, radicals, anti-authoritarians and the Left for the most part are frustratingly useless at using images effectively. I’ve lost count of the number of meetings I’ve been in where we’ve spent hours on the tiniest semantic point in the flier text, whilst any sense of how the flier might be presented is completely ignored, and sometimes worse.

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Our friend Dave Mahoney was in court yesterday (October 2nd) for a preliminary hearing. It went well with the judge dropping the assault charge that the prosecution was wanting to hold against him.

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Melinda Gebbie and Alan Moore spent 16 years working on their piece of pornography, a three book edition titled Lost Girls. A comic documenting the possible sexual liaisons if Dorothy of The Wizard of Oz, Wendy of Peter Pan, and Alice of the Adventures in Wonderland met in an Austrian hotel on the eve of Franz Ferdinand’s assassination and the outbreak of the First World War. It’s more than just pornography, it’s also intensely political

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I went to Climate Camp during the final week of the event, and before the day of action. I went mainly to enjoy the atmosphere and attend some workshops. I also took my sketchbook though and thought it would be an interesting alternative way of documenting the event.

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On June 15th George Bush came to London. The demonstration against him was met with huge police violence on the day, but it appears that the police aren’t content with leaving it there. Since the day a number of people have been arrested in connection with the demo as

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About a year after the eviction of the former New Camberwell Centre a new social centre has been opened in Camberwell, London, not far away from where the previous one stood. The new building, ‘The Library House’ as it has been named, lies near Loughborough Junction rail station behind Minet Library.

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Another issue from rum lad Steve Larder, and its another good’un. This time we have pages from his life between March and October 2007 as he moves around Nottingham

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This collection shouldn’t be nearly as wonderful as it is. In fact it may just be the best album I’ve heard in the past six months. From Buffalo, New York, this trio

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Simply put this is a thing of beauty. Three songs clocking in at just over an hour; an entire movement of crust punk from Brighton’s Fall of Efrafa. On the unlikely, and unhappy, chance you don’t know who Fall of Efrafa are they formed in 2005

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The European Civil Liberties Network (ECLN) is calling for a day of action against excessive surveillance by governments and businesses. On 11 October 2008, under the title “Freedom not fear 2008” people in a number of European cities are organising protests against this encroachment of people’s individual liberties.

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