June 2011

We've been inspired this week to see what mischief the Craftisit Collective have been up to.
Shane Caliborne is touring the UK this summer!
Brian Haw, the anti-war peace activist who has been protesting on Parliament Square for over a decade, has died after a battle with cancer.
Anyone who has ever been on a SPEAK day of action will be familiar with the excitement of it all – The crowd raising their voices against injustice, an imaginative and colourful demonstration, and a procession to that most prominent site of UK politics, the Houses of Parliament, where a group of young and conscientious activists will lobby their MPs on issues of global poverty.
Vocal Training is being held Friday 9th - Monday 12th September 2011. Watch the video to see why you should come... Don't miss out!
'The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible' Toni Cade Bambarayou
After decades of indifference, it seems strange that the West should now so suddenly develop a conscience concerning the welfare of Libyan civilians. Libyans have long suffered the tyranny of Gadaffi’s dictatorship, well-armed as it is by companies based in the ‘developed’ world. So why is it only now that those arms sales licenses have been cancelled?
This past month students have been making a stand against universities which profit from and invest in the arms trade.