——– Original Message ——– Subject: Why does redbullmusicacademy.com link to the National Front site? Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 19:34:23 +0000 From: Eden To: Red Bull Music Academy Thank you for your great site, which was flagged up on the Blood & Fire discussion board earlier today. I have very much enjoyed reading the lectures …
There are some people you don’t hear from for a long long time, but maybe stumble upon their name in an old email or address book. And you think to yourself, “I wonder what they’re up to now?” because you know it’ll be something interesting. This has happened a lot to me recently because I’ve …
“If I had any sense I’d set up a budget dry-cleaning service, having just forked out £68.50 today for a bunch of clean clothes” Ms Infinite Thought should be aware that there is a precedent in this area. It has been alleged that no less than the Communist Party of Great Britain was partly funded …
Though my corner of Hackney has yet to attain a Middle-Earth level of cosmic grandeur, the ongoing battle between local people and the forces of regeneration has been growing in stature. We’ve got our very own Dark Lord, in the shape of a property developer called Dr Roger Wratten, who has an underground island base …
Website for the community occupation of 34 broadway market. On Boxing Day morning, a new group of supporters of the campaign managed to enter and re-occupy the cafe. We have now undertaken an ambitious reconstruction scheme and are rebuilding the cafe almost as fast the wreckers smashed it down. (We plan not one but two …
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Please copy and send out to as many people as possible Note to press: For details on the Broadway Market occupation please ring Dave on 07949239415 URGENT!!!!! EVICTION OF OCCUPATION AT 34 BROADWAY MARKET Sheriffs and Police broke into Tony’s Café this morning, injuring one of the occupiers and have allowed Dr Wratten’s men to …
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The new “activist” cosmetics range from The Body Shop. I’ve not been able to find out whether it is actually made from or smells like activists, or whether it will engender greater activism in users. It definitely needs a snappy slogan though – “Turn Your Desires Into Reality – Because You’re Worth It!” “Smash The …
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DISCUSS UGANDA “vb. British. to have sex. A euphemism coined in the 1970s by the British satirical magazine Private Eye. It has become one of the magazine’s long-running jokes and is said to stem from a party at which a female journalist was alleged to have explained an upstairs sexual encounter by saying ‘We …
It was a heartening tale of urban regeneration: a dying street transformed by a farmers’ market and an influx of affluent residents. So how did a greasy spoon cafe become the front line of a war between locals and developers? Novelist and Broadway Market regular Hari Kunzru investigates. SocietyGuardian.co.uk | Communities | Market forces