The Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair is at the ExCeL Centre in London again this year. And so are opponents of the arms trade. Their struggle is the focus of this week’s […]
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DSEI Protest Day 6: Festival of resistance
The sixth day of the Stop the Arms Fair resistance resumed yesterday with a full day of protests and performances by Inter Terrestrials, Boom Boom Racoon, Backyard Bully, Fedzilla, Thunder Tunnel & the Dangle Berry […]
DSEI Protest Day 5: Climate action and police aggression
The fifth day of Stop the Arms Fair coalition’s protests against the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) yesterday was focused around climate action and Greta Thunberg’s Fridays For Future campaign. The crux of the […]
DSEI protest Day 4: Police crackdown intensifies at borders, migration and anti-racism day
The campaign against the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) intensified yesterday, with the police using excessive and violent methods to clamp down on peaceful protesters and infiltrating their campsites. The full day of action […]
DSEI protest Day 3: Military vehicles occupied
Resistance against the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) arms fair gathered momentum today, as people tried to block military equipment from being taken into the arms fair. The theme of the day was demilitarising […]
DSEI protest Day 2: Solidarity with Afghanistan
Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) protests continued yesterday with a full day of action at the ExCeL Centre in London in a show of solidarity with Afghanistan. Phoenix Media Co-operative joined activists on the […]
DSEI protest Day 1: #StopArmingIsrael day of action
Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) protests kicked off yesterday with a day of action against the arming of Israel at the ExCeL Centre in London. Phoenix Media Co-operative joined activists on the ground for […]
TimeToRise #3
TimeToRise is Phoenix Media Co-op’s regular newsletter about what’s new in the struggle for a better world, from the UK and beyond. This week, Afghanistan continued to dominate headlines as Daesh affiliates killed dozens of civilians at Kabul airport. […]
TimeToRise #2
TimeToRise is Phoenix Media Co-op’s regular newsletter about what’s new in the struggle for a better world, from the UK and beyond. Afghanistan This week, the chauvinist Taliban retaking control of Afghanistan is the main story. As Phoenix […]
TimeToRise #1
TimeToRise is Phoenix Media Co-op’s regular newsletter about what’s new in the struggle for a better world, from the UK and beyond. Climate Crisis The first edition of TimeToRise comes in the same week as […]
Hundreds of animal rights protesters gather outside a breeder supplying the ‘experimentation industry’
Campaigners at the MBR Acres beagle breeding facility near Huntingdon, England, called for a public day of action on 22 July. And more than 200 animal rights protesters turned out to support the call. Energetic […]
The campaign to shut down a ‘factory farm’ supplying dogs for animal testing is snowballing
About 200 people came together outside MBR Acres on 9 July to protest the company’s breeding of beagles. Marshall BioResources, which owns the MBR Acres facility in Huntingdon, breeds dogs for medical research. And protesters […]
Yiddish anarchist cafe ‘intimidated’ by police for its window display
Police in Glasgow are charging a cafe owner with breach of the peace. It comes after an attack on the building following an article in Scottish Sun. And the ‘anarchist cafe’ hasn’t even opened its […]
World condemns US embargo on Cuba as Biden continues Trump-era hostility
Cuba’s 1959 revolution took it out of the US sphere of influence. And Washington was quick to respond with a decades-long trade embargo. This has cost the Cuban economy at least $130bn; and under Donald […]
Hunger strike: Campaigner in prison over protest at firm linked to Grenfell/Palestine deaths
Direct-action network Palestine Action occupied an Arconic site in Birmingham on 14 June. This company makes the cladding linked to the Grenfell Tower disaster. It also makes materials for aircraft that the Israeli military uses against Palestinians. Yogi […]