Late last night, Sunday 3rd, a group of local activists brightened up yet another dark chapter in the policies of Herefordshire Council. These graffiti knitters showed their support for the campaign to save 14 lime trees on Edgar Street by decorating them in a multitude of coloured woollen creations. If you haven’t experienced the joys [...]

Yesterday over a hundred people gathered outside the annual Tory Party Conference in Birmingham to protest against the upcoming pilot badger cull planned for two areas in the West Country, the latest part of an increasingly intense debate over the morality and practicality of killing badgers to lower TB in cattle.  For a number of [...]

h.Energy kicked off early last week with a flash mob in Hereford High Town. Over 100 people surprised shoppers by breaking into song. The organisers were equally surprised when many of the shoppers joined in for the encore. (click here to see footage of the flash mob) Now in it’s third year, h.Energy has over [...]

In the early hours of Monday morning, activists appalled at the crackdown on homeless beggars and the council’s lack of action to create badly needed new homes seized one of Birmingham’s 11,000[4] empty properties. The group calling themselves Birmingham Tenants and Homeless Action Group issued a statement on their website[1] condemning the City Council for failing [...]

It’s a year on from the riots that swept across the country and some interesting statistics have been released. A total of 1,292 naughty boys and girls have been jailed for their part in the riots, out of over 3,000 prosecuted. The average custodial sentence was 16.8 months, four times higher than the average term dished out [...]

Four women were arrested outside City Hall in London today, after holding a topless protest accusing the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of supporting ‘bloody Islamist regimes’ with poor records on women’s rights. The demonstrators from Ukranian feminist group, Femen, had slogans written on their bodies, such as ‘No Sharia’ and ‘Olympic Shame.’ In a statement put out [...]

A detailed new report launched today by the Network for Police Monitoring (Netpol) highlights how promises made by the police to ‘adapt to protest’ after 2009′s G20 demonstrations in London have been forgotten in a remarkably short space of time and a far more intolerant ‘total policing’ style response to protesters has developed in the [...]

Protests are planned as Circus Mondao, a travelling circus that uses animals, arrives at Hereford Racecourse. There has been a call-out advertising the planned protest published on Indymedia UK. Animal Aid Hereford have also said that a peaceful protest will take place on Thursday, via their facebook page. The protest is planned to take place [...]

Local residents lead by example today when they planted potatoes in the grounds of Victoria House in Whitecross. Activists hope this act of ‘guerrilla gardening’ will publicise their campaign to secure the future of the area for use by the wider community. Victoria House and the surrounding land is currently owned by Herefordshire Council. At [...]

Saturday 31st March was called as the ‘M31 European Day of Action Against Capitalism,’ which included protests across the continent and a general strike in Spain. Closer to home, a second ‘national day of action against Workfare’ was called, with over 20 protests being held in towns and cities across the country. Workfare means unemployed people [...]