JANUARY 2017
London Live Interview with Abigail Woodman of SLM
Thousands oppose marshland ‘housing zone’
DECEMBER 2013
Hackney Council criticised for spending £40k on spraying pavements with glyphosate
Hackney Council Slammed over £40k pesticide bill to spray ‘weedfree’ pavements
OCTOBER 2013
Waltham Forest Guardian: Savage Mowing killing wildlife on Walthamstow Marshes
Hackney Gazette: Put Hackney on the Map with world’s largest edible park urge campaigners
SEPTEMBER 2013
Hackney Citizen: Marshroots art attack is the latest weapon to save green space
Hackney Gazette: East Marsh fiasco a ‘right mess’ as Hackney Council withdraws planning application
Hackney Citizen: East Marsh car park pulled from planning agenda at eleventh hour
Hackney Gazette: Screening of film about how Olympics affected Hackney Marshes
Hackney Citizen: Leader – Save Lea Marshes’ suspicions well founded
Hackney Citizen: Save Lea Marshes campaigners warn of car park threat to green space
AUGUST 2013
March on Marshes demands protection of green lung
Loving Dalston: Go on a day out and help save an East London asset
Hackney Gazette: Campaigners fury at corrupt Council stitch up over third marsh car park
Daily Star: London 2012 Olympic Games leaves toxic legacy
Hackney Gazette: Campaigners slam council over plans to build on Hackney Marshes
JULY 2013
Waltham Forest Guardian: Thousands of dead fish a toxic legacy for polluted Lea river
Loving Dalston: Under-used NE London? Not in these schemes!
Hackney Gazette: Thousands of dead fish in Hackney as river Lea is on its last gasp
Waltham Forest Guardian: Ponytrekking ‘excludes public from green space’
Hackney Gazette: “Free” Radio 1 Concert Cost Hackney Residents £750k
Waltham Forest Guardian: Campaigners ignored over key planning decisions
JUNE 2013
Hackney Weekend pop gig made no money for Council
The E-List Walthamstow (June): Walthamstow Diary (Beating of the Bounds on Leyton Marshes)
MAY 2013
Hackney Gazette: Hackney Council climb down over marsh proposals
Hackney Citizen: Town Hall scraps plans for music gigs on Marshes after outcry
East London Lines: No blanket permission for summer events on Hackney Marshes
Waltham Forest Guardian: Opposition to camp development and loss of green space
Hackney Citizen: Pop Music Events Endangering Legacy of Hackney Marshes
Ancient Tradition Marches on Successfully on Leyton Marshes
Hackney Gazette: Sports Council England Blasts Hackney Council’s Plans to Stage Marsh Festivals
APRIL 2013
Hackney Gazette: Save Lea Marshes Group slams Hackney Council for sham consultation
MARCH 2013
Hackney Citizen: Uproar over council’s plans for Hackney Marshes’ land grab
Games Monitor: Leyton Marsh, Malice and the Prosecution of Mike Wells
Waltham Forest Guardian: Campaigners say new bridge will destroy Marsh Lane Playing Fields
Hackney Citizen: Marshes are money-maker say Hackney Council
Hackney Gazette: Plans for more Marsh events met with furore
FEBRUARY 2013
Hackney Gazette: Olympic Chiefs Accused of Meanness as Conditions Attached to Legacy Funding
Waltham Forest Guardian: Marsh used as Olympic site now rotting
JANUARY 2013
Hackney Gazette: Hackney man cleared of Olympic attack raps legal system
Waltham Forest Independant: Cold shoulder for rink on Olympic site
Waltham Forest Guardian: Former Olympic Site at Leyton Marsh ruled out by the LVRPA
Hackney Citizen: the year that was
Occupy News Network: Leyton Marsh under threat again!
Waltham Forest Guardian: Leyton Marsh being considered for new ice rink
Hackney Gazette: Campaigners’ anger at proposal for expanded ice rink on protected land
DECEMBER
Archipelago of Truth: Campaign of the year
NOVEMBER
W F Guardian: Concern over electricity works on marshes
W F Guardian: Marsh restoration a ‘tragic mess’
Sustainable Hackney: East Marsh restoration begins
Hackney Citizen: Campaigners fear post-Olympic ‘toxic legacy’
Millfields: Meeting to discuss the future of our marshes
Games Monitor: Leyton Marsh Open Invitation to ‘Marshes Unite’ strategy day
Waltham Forest Guardian: Save Leyton Marsh campaigners to hold meeting
Counter Olympics Network: Save Leyton Marsh looks to the future – Meeting 4th November
OCTOBER
Occupy.com: In Britain, Austerity and Arrests as Government Curbs Right to Protest
Caroline Allen: Why Green Space Matters and How to Protect It
Games Monitor: Sustaining, supporting and reviewing communities
London Green Party: Celebrations as Leyton Marsh returned to community
Hackney Gazette: Fury over Olympic handover delay
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Olympic bosses break promise on marsh restoration
Archipelago of Truth: ODA and Lea Valley Park Authority fail to restore Leyton Marsh
The Hackney Post: Authorities refuse to hand back Olympic land
Occupy News Network: Leyton Marsh Celebration – A Marshroots Movement
Occupy News Network: Leyton Marshes hand over for public use delayed.
BBC News: ‘Olympic’ park still closed to residents
London Life: The Angel of the Lee Valley Returns
Hackney Gazette: Olympic site “bomb” was rusty pipe
SEPTEMBER
Hackney Gazette: Olympic bosses “jumped gun” on dumping at Leyton Marsh
WF Guardian: Fears marsh could face future building work
AUGUST
Demotix: End Poverty Torch alternative relay protests to 2012 London Olympics
CNN: Staying out in the cold: Olympic killjoys?
Hackney Gazette, Thursday August 2nd, 2012
Public Services Europe: The darker side of the London 2012 Olympics – an activist’s view
The Guardian: Comment is free: London 2012 protests: heavy-handed policing is an affront to rights
JULY
Corporate Watch: The real environmental impacts of holding the Olympics in East London
FT.Com: Letters: Censorship subverts Olympic ideals
Foggy Saphires: Complete control/Working for the clampdown
Danny Bates: Is Another Olympics Possible?
Positive Politics Podcasts: Sport and the Olympics (feat. SLM)
Games Monitor: Basketball Athlete, Carl Miller, Supports Leyton Marsh Children
Dissident Radio: Olympics special feat. Save Leyton Marsh Group
Huffington Post: Olympics: The Legacy We Fear
Red Pepper: Policing dissent at London 2012
Games Monitor: The Juggernaut rolls on – Olympic Autocracy at Leyton Marsh
Archipelago of Truth: Thoughts on fundraising to pay legal bills in a failed local democracy
Waltham Forest Guardian: Save Leyton Marsh group left with £20,000 bill after losing judicial review over Olympic basketball court
Margaret Gordon, Labour Councillor for Springfield: Save Leyton Marsh
The American Londoner: Five Things About The Olympics That Will Sodden Your Sporting Spirit
The Oxford Student: Playing Games with our future
Hackney Citizen: London 2012: the Games and its discontents
Lives; running: The Anti-Olympic Poverty Torch relay – care to join me for a run?
Lives; running: Reasons to demonstrate on July 28; number 5: the loss of green spaces
Waltham Forest Guardian: Save Leyton Marshes campaign group send a team to “Austerity Games”
PressTV: Is the Militarization of the London Olympics increasing safety?
The Racket: Protesting the Olympics
Vice: Hunting for the Olympics River Monster
Mobilise, Transform: Community Bill of Rights
The Olympics should be radicalised: Like Stonehenge’s Summer Solistice
Local heroes: unheard voices of the Olympics
Hackney Green Party: Green Candidate visits Olympic Site on Leyton Marsh
Channel 4 Conflate Terrorism with Peaceful Protest at the 2012 Olympics
JUNE
Freedom: The brutal truth about the London Olympics
Mondaq: They Protesteth Too Much: Construction Sites And Protesters
Occupied Times: Leyton Marsh Protestor Issued With Two Year ASBO
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTONSTONE / WANSTEAD: Concern over dispersal zone
London Indymedia: Defend Our Right to Protest – Report back from public meeting
Occupymeditation: 26 June – Save Leyton Marsh and exploring community building
Random Blowe: We Are All Simon Moore
PressTV: Activists to rally against UK’s assault on right to protest
Waging NonViolence: Londoners organize as the Olympics swallows their Communities
Random Blowe: Welcome To The Security Games
Waltham Forest Trades Council: Olympic Fallout
Waltham Forest Guardian: Review Launched into Approval of Olympic Site
New Internationalist: Soldiers, security and sleeping in sheds – London’s Olympic Reality
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Olympic protester’s ASBO extended by two years
4therecord.org: Statement of Solidarity with Simon Moore
Defend the right to Protest: Full two year ASBO imposed on Simon Moore for peaceful protest
BBC London: London 2012: Protester’s banning order extended
Braintree and Witham News: Braintree: Enforcement officers evict London protesters
TNT Magazine: London focus: Protesters speak out against Olympic Games
lives; running: We are all Simon Moore
lives; running: Simon Moore: ASBO decision
Indymedia London: Olympic Asbo Judgement
The Taxman: I’m sure I can find plenty of publicly accessible spaces in and around the Olympic Park
From The Guardian, letters page. 14 June 2012
The Guardian: letters: Sheep, chickens and the Tor – but where are The Wurzels
lives; running: Simon Moore speaks
Indymedia London: Court Hearing for Olympic ASBO
Defend the Right to Protest: Solidarity Call out on behalf of Save Leyton Marsh Group
lives; running: Simon Moore: an update
Indymedia: Update! Olympic ASBO arrest Released!!!
Indymedia London: Olympic ASBO arrest @ Windsor Eco village
Indymedia London: pre-injunction served on windsor eco-occupation
Archipelago of Truth: Hendrix avoids dying in a pool of vomit
The Marshman Chronicles: Trouble on Hackney & Walthamstow Marshes: Here Come the Lumpit Games 2012
Five Ring Circus: the London 2012 experience
Random Blowe: Today’s People’s Picnic on Wanstead Flats
Time: Occupy Olympics: Why Protesters Want to Disrupt the London Games
Lives running: The neo-liberal Games
Occupy Law UK: Why it’s not enough to protest – we need to build new legal structures for the 99%
Olympic Games: Police Plan Pre-emptive Arrests to Stop Disruption
The Occupied Times: Olympic U-turn
MAY
Newsjiffy: Save #Leyton Marsh benefit on July 31
Archipelago of Truth: Leyton Marsh Laugh
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Plants blamed for dogs’ poisoning
Games Monitor: drop in, tune out
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Probe into “poisoning” on Olympic land claim
Lives; Running: Today I am blogging in solidarity with…
Private Eye: Rotten Boroughs ‘Bad ODA’
Caroline Allen, Green Party: More Green Space Lost to the Olympics
Leader Hackney Citizen: there is more than one Games Monitor
The Next Layer: Save Leyton Marshes
Angel of the Lea Valley to Return to Leyton Marsh
The Metro: Photographers fighting back against excessive security for the Olympics
#M12 The Evolution of A Movement
Londonist: Occupy Finsbury Square Served Eviction Notice
The Upcoming: Olympic sculpture gets cool reception
Financial Times: Protesters plan to target Olympics
Iain Sinclair: The Olympics Scam
SchNEWS: Crap ASBO of the Week
Beecholme and Environs: Marsh basketball Q’s answered by ODA
Open Dalston: “Imagine that”. When the unthinkable becomes the reality. Leyton Marsh
RandomPottins: Roughed up then cuffed. Olympic trial run?
Socialist Worker Online: Olympic cops arrest blogger
Lives; running: Save Leyton Marsh: Mike Wells freed on bail
Peace News: We are all being ASBO’d
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Solicitor reported by Olympics protesters
Tom Hickman: Freedom of Expression and the Olympics
BBC News: Protester barred from all Jubilee and Games events
A World to Win: Olympic Clampdown Takes Sinister Turn
The Lawyer: Olympic Rights and Wrongs
The Occupied Times: Leyton Marsh Community Rights vs The Corporate State
Indymedia: Criminal Neglect at Leyton Marsh
Caroline Allen for a Green London: Save Leyton Marsh from Olympic bullying
Waltham Forest Guardian: Protestors March Against marshes development
APRIL
A World to Win: Olympics clampdown takes sinister turn
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Campaigners to march over marshes development
Hackney Citizen: An Olympic legacy for Hackney
Games Monitor: Olympic Chiefs Flout Legal Principle By Threatening Citizen Journalist
Hackney Citizen: An Olympic Legacy for Hackney
Hackney Citizen: Angel of Lee Valley Artist Supports Leyton Marsh Protestors
The Independent: Judge told of Olympics basketball site ‘asbestos’
Irish Examiner: UK judge told of Olympic site asbestos
Camp In London: Save Leyton Marsh from Olympic Disaster
BBC: London 2012: Leyton Marsh protest order renewed
The Guardian: London 2012: protesters urged to keep away from Olympic torch relay
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Marshes protesters lose High Court battle
The Independent: Judge told of Olympics basketball site ‘asbestos’
BBC NEWS: London 2012: Leyton Marsh protest order renewed
BBC London News: view from 7mins in
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Marshes protesters to contest injunction
Games Monitor: Olympic Chiefs Flout legal Principle by Threatening Citizen Journalist
Anorak: Olympic ASBOs are more Beijing than London
Law, less ordinary: Olympic ASBO issued
Random Blowe: ASBOs Are Latest Weapon Against Olympics Dissent
The Guardian: Protester receives Olympics asbo
Inside the games: Six arrested at Olympic basketball centre protest camp
Press TV: UK police arrest six occupy protesters
London Olympics 2012: An Opportunity to Cleanse the City?
Indymedia: Report of Yesterday’s Protest, Eviction and Arrests
Washington Post: UK police arrest 4 people while evicting London Olympic site protesters
East London Lines: Leyton Marsh Occupy protestors jailed, fined
Hackney Citizen: Four Arrested as Olympic protestors evicted from Leyton Marsh
Construction Enquirer: Arrests as Olympic protesters evicted
Indymedia: Leyton Marsh Resistance
The Guardian: Police arrest six at east London Olympic facility protest camp
BBC London: London 2012: Charges over Leyton Marsh venue protest
BBC London: Leyton Marsh basketball venue eviction
Waltham Forest Guardian: Police arrest Marshes protestors
Independant OnLine: UK police evict Olympic protesters
Evening Standard: Games basketball site protesters could face eviction
N.B. This report contains inaccuracies and false information. We are demanding a retraction of parts of this report and an apology from the Evening Standard.
New Internationalist: Occupy the Marsh
London24: Olympics protesters lose legal fight over camp at basketball site
The Independent: Order gives go ahead for Olympic basketball protest camp eviction
Waltham Forest Guardian: Marshes eviction a ‘travesty of justice’
The Occupied times: Leyton Marsh Judge has Olympic tickets for……wait for it…..Basketball!
Games Monitor: Leyton Marsh: It’s a joke to a judge
BBC London News: London 2012: Basketball venue protesters face eviction
Construction Enquirer: Olympic builders “harassed” by protesters
London Evening Standard: Games chiefs win injunction on basketball site protest
Press Association: Judge acts on Olympic venue protest
Hackney Citizen: Judges grant Olympic bosses injunction against Leyton Marsh protestors
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Marshes protesters cannot block construction, rules High Court
BBC News – London 2012: Order to limit basketball venue protest
Archipelago of Truth: Legal Devlopments at Leyton Marsh Protest
Waltham forest Guardian: Leyton: Marshes protesters served with eviction orders
Demotix: Occupy protesters threatened with arrest at Olympic building site
The Young Londoner: “I don’t see what Leyton’s got out of (the Olympics)”
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Marshes protesters could be evicted
Indymedia: Legal assault on Save Leyton Marsh Camp/aign
Hackney Citizen: Buitekant and the Olympic beast
BBC News: Protesters occupy Olympics training site on Leyton Marsh
Hackney Citizen: Campaigners occupy Leyton Marshes to protest Olympic development
MARCH
Robinhoodgarden blog: Save Leyton Marsh
Morning Star Online: Protesters look to save Leyton Marsh from London Olympics
East London and West Essex Guardian Series: LEYTON: Protesters halt works at Olympic site
Indymedia UK: Leyton Marsh Camp update
EastLondonLines: Occupy halt Olympic work on Leyton Marshes
The Independent: The protest Games: demonstrators target Olympics
Waltham Forest Civic Society: Leyton Marsh Battle
Open Democracy: Our Olympics: a case for reclaiming the London 2012 games
Construction Enquirer: Olympic protest camp grows as construction halted
Earth First: Save Leyton Marsh Camp & Boules stop work
Occupy London: 7pm today – Occupy London Roving General Assembly at Leyton Marsh
The Lea Valley Walk by Leigh Hatts: St Paul’s protesters on Lea Valley path
Open Democracy: Our Olympics: a case for reclaiming the London 2012 games
Solidarity Federation: Save Leyton Marsh – Update
Morning Star: Protestors look to save Leyton Marsh from London Olympics
Waltham Forest Guardian: Protestors Halt Work At Olympic Site
Archipelago of Truth: Lea Valley Park Authority feeling the pressure?
East london Lines: Occupy halt Olympic work on Leyton Marshes
Construction Enquirer: Olympic protest camp grows as construction halted
The Independant: The protest games: demonstrators target Olympics
London Indymedia: Leyton Marsh Camp Update
Labour: Occupy protestors must leave Olympic site immediately – Jowell
LBC: Occupy move in on Leyton Marsh Olympic Protest
The Independant: Occupy activists camp on Olympic site
Evening Standard: Occupy activist threatens Olympics with ‘greatest act of disobedience’
Gulf Times: Protest Camp halts Olympics site work
Express: St. Pauls mob threaten Olympics
City A.M.:Now activists target Olympic basketball site
BBC News: London 2012: Occupy protesters halt Leyton Marsh work
London Indymedia: Occupation on Leyton Marsh
Construction Enquirer: Anti-capitalist demonstrators occupy Olympic building site
Games Monitor: Peaceful Non-cooperation Halts Work on Olympic Site
Evening Standard: St Paul’s protesters set up new camp on London Olympics site
Indymedia: Save Leyton Marsh – Update
Waltham forest Guardian: Occupy protest blocks 2012 build on Leyton Marshes
Hackney Gazette: Lorries blocked on Leyton Marsh
Hackney Gazette: Lorries blocked on Leyton Marsh
Waltham Forest Guardian: Occupy protest blocks 2012 build
My London Diary: Leyton Marsh Olympic Protest
Demotix: On Saturday 24th Occupy March
London Indymedia: Save Leyton Marsh – update
The Telegraph: London 2012 Olympics: bomb discovered at games training venue
Huffington Post: Nazi Bomb Brings Construction To A Halt
Random Blowe: Yesterday’s Save Leyton Marsh Rally
London Indymedia: Don’t be harsh save our marsh
Newsjiffy: Olympics centre approved on Leyton Marshes despite local opposition
Hackney Citizen: Campaigners lose battle to keep Paralympics basketball courts off Leyton Marsh
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Anger as Olympic centre on green space approved
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Residents’ anger over Olympics marshes plan
Waltham Forest Guardian: LEYTON: Olympic chiefs bid to build sports hall on marsh land
Waltham Forest Guardian: Meeting to be held to consider Olympic Games sports hall on Leyton Marshes