Newsnight have had to eat dirt…toxic dirt over the Trafigura case. Because the 30,000 Ivorians who sued Trafigura got paid out before the issue of deaths was established in court it meant that Newsnight would have to win that argument in court….a very expensive libel action indeed. So its cheaper to backdown despite widespread evidence to the contrary.
Libel Laws need reforming…to get to the truth more easily.
Change the libel laws a campaigning track by Sly and Reggie
Carter Ruck seems to have got Newsnight to pull their piece on the toxic waste scandal.
But its still on Youtube even if pulled from the BBC.
Beat the ban by putting the youtube video on your blog
Not a good day.
Looks like Carter Ruck have managed to get the excellent piece made by Newsnight on the Trafigura case to get withdrawn from the web.
Do your bit by doing this.
All the more reason for the libel reform campaign, launched this week, to get things changed.
New track from Sly and Reggie ‘Change the libel laws‘ can be heard on the last.fm
The nice people at Carter Ruck, the law firm who defend Trafigura..nice work guys.. have managed to get Parliament to gag itself…again.
Read about it here in the Times.
Basically if some dodgy client has the money to get its lawyers to slap a super injunction on its own dodgy dealings not even Parliament can be reported if it appears in Hansard.
A super injunction forbids anyone from reporting not only the contents but the existence of the injunction itself. And now if Parliament comment or discuss the matter the injunction silences that comment as well.
You have been warned.
Sly and Reggie sing Carter Ruck..you cant gag the people
Fancy a bit of agitating?
Involve yourself in a flashmob on Thursday Novemeber 26 2009 outside the offices of Trafigura, 2 Portman St W1 6DU at 1pm
Trafigura are still suing Newsnight over the toxic waste scandal and the plan is to get the ban lifted.
Publishing Hansard is one of the people’s basic rights and so the following text is not to be gagged.
“The recent example of the release of toxic waste in the Ivory Coast leading to the deaths of a number of people and the hospitalisation of thousands underlines the risks involved in the movement and management of waste.”
Bring your camera phones and film yourself saying these words and post them around the web.
Sly and Reggie will be there. Dubs blazing.
Sign up here for the event on Facebook
Listen to Sly and Reggie Dub track Trafigura Trafigura
There’s a well organised campaign to Save The South London Line.
Mayor Boris Johnson is trying to trim the train service and the good people of Camberwell are not having it one bit.
Some new concessions to discuss the matter have been won by the campaign but there is still a long way to go.
After Boris’s recent heroic act Sly and Reggie will be giving Boris just a gentle ribbing at Mayor’s Question time tomorrow outside the Academy in Brixton.
Little clip here of Sly and Reggie posted on the Guardian website at the Mass Lobby of Parliament supporting Amnesty International in their efforts to protect women in this country from violence.
As Sly points out, its the men who are the problem. Bad men..naughty men.
C’mon guys let get our act together. And I’m gonna start with a bit of tidying.
Amnesty International have organised a mass lobby of Parliament to keep up the pressure to supply vulnerable women in the UK with funding for protection.
Lobbyists are meeting at the Trocadero in the morning and then walking down to Westminster to ask their MPs to further the good work that is being done in this country to protect women from violence
Sly and Reggie plan to accompany the walkers down to Parliament with the track Malalai Joya.
Sly and Reggie will be on their best behaviour as they will be entering the exclusion zone on their way down Whitehall. No flag and awfully polite…it is a middle class protest you see.
All those pushy parents who keep the middle classes in power have been dealt a warning.
Polly Curtis in the Guardian has highlighted an enquiry by Ed Balls which threatens to bring those cheating mums and dads to justice..the ones who lie and cheat to get their kids into the school of choice.
Chatting up the vicar, renting a house for a week to get fake utility bills…its all gotta go..sorry.
So its Catchment Criminals Beware by Sly and Reggie.
You have been warned!
After the Jan Moir and Trafigura twitter excitements some are worrying about the new twittering classes and its power to act as a mob.
Nick Cohen here in the observer is a bit worried.
John Henley in the Guardian worries again that free speech is at risk in this article.
Richard Wilson at ‘dont get fooled again‘ calls it the Geek Chorus but is enjoying the sound.
Where will it end? Well even the inventors of Twitter dont know where its going according to this in Wired
Its all part of the Middle Class Mayhem folks.
Sly and Reggie sing ‘It s A Middle Class Protest“
