Bad times for indymedia London. I’m not sure when there were better times – probably when it was called indymedia uk – but for some time, most of the people who actually run it have been struggling to leave it in ‘good hands’ in order to move on and dedicate ourselves to other projects.
Back
I have been disconnected for a long time because of a small device that adapts European cables to British networks. I am back to London and I don’t find it more changed than other times when I have come back after being abroad for shorter periods than this time.
Bristol
All is explained in www.indymedia.org.uk: The police have confiscated the server of imc bristol and a personal computer, in the house of a volunteer of imc. All with a search warrant. The volunteer was arrested during the raid and released.
Comfrey
I have found another way of uploading pictures and linking them here. This is a test to see if it works. The first I have uploaded was this one, of a plant called comfrey. You crush the leaves and the resulting stuff is a liquid kind of oil. You put it on the limb that has just been plastered or bandaged, and the pain goes away.
One can say this is nonsense but when I had the plaster removed from my arm, it would hurt as it if couldn’t hurt more; I would put this the ointment on, and off the pain went.
More bristol
Bristol indymedia, http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/ is already on line again and here are more infos…
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/315072.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/315177.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/06/315220.html
The press release has gone out to a number of lists plus the site; a translation into Spanish is here, http://anatemas.noblogs.org/mas-bristol/.
Fair Trade
I found this piece appeared in this blog while eating some fair trade chocolate (my translation): “the Mondragon group announces in its Website that it will sue whoever slander to him on the internet”.
DNI – Spanish ID cards
Today I answer the commentary published in a previous post (in Spanish – here is the English version).
ID Cards
Some people are already signing up to refuse having an ID card: http://www.pledgebank.com/refuse.
Aftermath
A. says things go on as usual in London, specially for people who can’t
afford to use the underground. Accidents do happen, and you can be
knocked down by any car in the traffic.
Live 8
This is a summary of an email that John Bunzl, Trustee from International Simultaneous Policy Organisation, simpol, sent to various lists
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The very name “Live 8” used for the rock concerts on 2nd July indicates a focus on just eight politicians. It implies that just eight people could change the world and make poverty history.
