Poorer people are more likely to die of breast cancer. Something most of us would have guessed, but at least its getting in the mainstream press. From the Edinburgh Evening News.

Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty write: 

We are organising opposition to a Council clamp-down against people who owe council tax. People are contacting us who have been subjected to outrageous treatment by sheriff officers Scott and Co, collecting council tax arrears for the City of Edinburgh Council.

As sheriff officers rampage across the Capital in a new campaign of terror and intimidation, targeting the poorest and most vulnerable and bringing back dark memories of the grim Poll Tax years, we hear that the SNP government will not be scrapping the huge Poll Tax debt it helped to create, while concern grows that it is also about to renege on its election promise to replace the Council Tax with a fairer system. Is it time for the Old Brigade of anti-Poll Tax activists to dust off their banners, replace the word ‘Poll’ with ‘Council’, and show the new generation how we wrecked Thatcher’s flagship  policy  and  brought the Tories to their knees? asks Willie McRae.

We have chosen to post this good news which has relevance for everyone...On a local level we think it  it is relevant given the verbal attacks we have received  for making our project (digital desperados) one that focuses on providing opportunities for women of colour.  As well as critical comments about our project posted on indymedia scotland ( the following discussion can be viewed by searching the archives of this site) we also received racist comments on the evening news site and critcal comments written on our publicity posters housed in our project venue (ACE) as well as personal challenges. We think people would do well to read the  three articles posted by  commentators in the indymdia debate.

John Bowden has been caught.

U. Utah Phillips the American union organizer and singer/songwriter has died.

ººº With respect to the situation in Cuba these past few weeks, the Cuban Libertarian Movement – MLC (affinity group of Cuban anarchists in exile) speaks up to answer the unknowns and the challenges facing Cuban society. Ours is the voice of uncompromising commitment to freedom, equality and solidarity that has always been the sound of the Cuban anarchists.

Irrepressible and unstoppable, Projectile returns for the 4th annual festival of anarchist film, culture and politics. As a revolutionary bonus, Projectile 2008 will run for four days over the Bank Holiday Weekend May 23-26. Projectile is a major political and cultural event in the anarchist calendar. Now in its fourth year it promises to be bigger and better than ever.