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New Year noise demos: Get thee to the prison gates
December 27th: The darkest night of the year is done, but for nearly 84,000 people in British jails the New Year can be rough as they’re isolated from loved ones.![MWS](https://freedomnews.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/79152690_107768544056975_7657238892705218560_n.png)
The Social Centre Bulletin: Manchester Winter Shelter and a Happy New Year
December 23rd: As winter creeps in a handful of locals decided that the councils apathy regarding the homeless simply isn't acceptable and set about doing something about it.
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Brighton: As council seals arches, where do the people go?
December 17th: On Thursday 12th and Friday 13th several arches and shelters above Madeira Drive, at Black Rock, spaces which had housed a community of people over the summer were sealed off with metal grilles — the question has to be where are those people now?
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The first post election anti-Boris rally (of many)
December 14th: A protest outside Downing Street against the newly-elected Prime Minister last night saw a bit of edge that has been sorely lacking in recent years, say our people on the ground.
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Report: Manchester & Salford Anarchist Bookfair
December 10th: One of the reasons I love Manchester is that it’s always had an attitude of looking out for each other that comes with being broke.
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Lecturers and cleaners stand together as 1,000 picket UCL
December 4th: Up to 1,000 members of academics union UCU and base union IWGB and their supporters walked the pickets today as part of the first-ever joint strike between cleaners and academic staff at University College London (UCU).
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Brighton: local people shut down weapons factory to stop war crimes
November 25th: Local people in Brighton have blocked shipments from a Brighton arms factory EDO MBM Technology Ltd today in order to stop its ongoing supply of war crimes.
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XR leak: Hallam Holocaust comments were a deliberate ‘provocation’
November 24th: A memo from controversial Extinction Rebellion co-founder Roger Hallam, leaked to Freedom, suggests his offensive interview with Der Spiegel was a deliberate tactic to “provoke a big media reaction.” Hallam’s interview with the German newspaper, in which he suggested the Holocaust was “almost a normal event …
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The Social Centre Bulletin: Fash Attack Pie ‘n’ Mash
November 21st: Squatting is the housing equivalent of the cover of A Kestrel for a Knave.
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UCL outsourcing dispute: Are you listening now, provost?
November 20th: Our man on the ground reports on yesterday’s rowdy IWGB union pickets at University College London (UCL) against outsourcing and for pay parity.