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Briefly, Dave Walker, the official Lambeth Conference Cartoonist in Residence, has taken 75 posts down on his blog after being threatened with Libel Action by the new owner of SPCK - the oldest chain of Anglican Bookshops. He has been reporting the story of alleged mismanagement for two years. Already there are a lot Industrial Tribunals from ex-employees, among other things.

For details of the case, please see my other articles.

There’s a new Libel threat to close down Yet another Blogger.

Of all people Dave Walker - the Artist in Residence at the Lambeth Conference - has been sent a cease and desist letter at half-a-day’s notice to take down all posts (75+) relating to the reporting of the new management of the SPCK bookshop chain SPCK bookshop chain by the Society of St Stephen the Great, which he has been covering for 2 years.

Dave has been keeping a close eye on all of this, and providing a forum for people to share news about the chain. He has been told he’ll be sued unless all SPCK posts are removed from his website.

This does not seem like a good way to do it quietly - The Lambeth Conference is crawling with Journalists looking for “different” stories.

When the informal coalition cum network coalesced around the “Usmanov Affair” in autumn 2007, a number of actions happened within the first few days.

At the time Evgeny Morozov, who writes the Daily EM blog about “about the future of technology, media, globalisation and other issues”, put together some reflections under the heading “Cyberactivism 101″ - documenting the lessons that could be learnt by susequent campaigns.

In this post I am recalling his tips for coalitions where an opponent is attempting to close down debate. This is a summary - Engeny’s original article has more detail, and relates the comments to the specific example of the Usmanov case.

Yesterday I promised another Hofmeister beer commercial.

This is - apparently - about why bears are extinct in Bavaria.

I have also updated the list of people posting on the Dave Walker Cease and Desist notice. There are now 27 linked.

Remember - follow the bear.

I was planning to write this evening about Cease and Desist notices, what they are used for and my opinions about how to assess them and respond. Instead, I have something far more interesting for you; one of J Mark Brewer’s Cease and Desist notices itself.

Sam Norton runs the blog “Elizaphanian”. He is one of the Bloggers in receipt of “Cease and Desist” notices from J Mark Brewer, who runs the Saint Stephen the Great organisation.

On July 26th, Sam noted that he had been sent a “Cease and Desist” notice by Mark Brewer:

For the record, I’ve been ’served’ a cease and desist as well…

Now he has decided to publish the entire correspondence.

ASBO Jesus is hopping mad, as well…

A cartoon from ASBO Jesus.

Reuse note: see Jon’s license here. Basically you can reuse the image, but you must give an attribution. You can donate to support Jon at the above link (right hand margin).

I’ll be adding this cartoon to the resources page.