Climate action prisoner Paul Morozzo (prison address included) was one of seven activists to publicly defy a bail order banning them from this year’s Climate Camp. The others entered the camp openly through police lines, due to police confusion and poor intelligence.

Room 13

Yesterday I saw something that lit up my world. A spark of freedom in a young girl’s eyes.

The most interesting moment in producing the new edition of Peace News came when I interviewed Ken Coates, who was the prime mover in the Institute for Workers’ Control in the 1970s, and who has playe

This morning I went to the monthly planning meeting of our local home education group, HEDGE (Home Education, Development, Growth and Empowerment).

A few weeks ago I happened to be in the Peace News office when someone texted me that Housmans Bookshop down below were holding a book launch to do with Iran.

I stuck around that evening, and heard an excellent presentation by Shora Esmailian and Andreas Malm about their book Iran on the brink.

Today I travelled for six hours from Hastings to Nottingham (and then six hours back) to attend the management committee of Rootstock.

Rootstock is an investors’ co-operative dedicated to supporting radical social change by raising finance for Radical Routes, the network of workers’ and housing co-ops and social centres.

Last Tuesday I was on trial at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court in London. Well, I was supposed to be on trial, but it never actually happened.

It was supposed to be a trial about my organizing of a name-reading in Parliament Square and opposite Downing Street last October as part of the larger ‘No More Fallujahs’ peace camp weekend of activities.

Today there was a networking meeting of some individuals and groups connected with the civil disobedience end of the peace movement. Because I’m banned from the City of Westminster right now (see later blog), the meeting had to be moved from Victoria to the Peace News building.

Over the last month or so, I’ve been enjoying enormously the memoirs of Michael Albert, the Sixties rebel who never gave up the revolutionary dreams of his college days, but turned them into prefigurative media institutions – South End Press, Z Magazine and ZNet.

I’m not entirely sure what blogging means or should mean, but I think one important part of it is the informality.

Kurt Vonnegut, who just died, was a considerable literary talent, and an important counter-culture figure with radical commitment – and possibly a sort of blogger ahead of his time, with a loose, rambling, semi-autobiographical approach to literature.