Weekending: Cycling, speed limits and the tabloids

If it's the end of the week then we should get down to some weekending;

• Graham Linehan writes on the bottom dwelling tendencies of the tabloids. The campaign has finally led to an apology. I don't know if that's enough.
  
• Is there a difference between activism and organising?
• There was an interesting piece in the Guardian Weekly by a Venezuelan woman who's benefitted from the social programmes.
• Hey - calling all cyclists... do you need help planning routes, etc.? Try the new site cycle streets.
• I thought the interview with Ken Livingstone in Total Politics was quite interesting.
• There's been hoo ha about the play Seven Jewish Children. You can read it for yourself and make up your own mind here.

Green news that caught my eye;

• It's Green Party conference this weekend. I've done some roundups here.
  
• Cambridge altuist Tim Eiloart has died. Adrian writes of his passing.
  
• Jenny Jones spoke at the national launch of the smash the Iran sanctions at the House of Commons. You can listen to her, Yassimine Mather and John McDonnell here.
• Local boy Tony Juniper in the Ecologist.
  
• In the US the Greens have a 26 year old Mayor (of a small village) whose first act is to look into dissolving his own office.
• In Iceland news this weekend sees the Green Left's conference. The party hopes to retain it's place with the leftist coalition government after April's elections.
• We have one councillor in Islington but Katie Dawson has still been able to get things done.
• The New Zealand Greens have been challenging the state's right to spy on who they like.
• Jean Lambert helps push through legislation through the European Parliament on LGTB discrimination. In Pink News. Also quoted on jobs.

Finally, great footage from the premier of The Age of Stupid, where film makers collar Ed Miliband, the Environment Minister (who the Guardian are taking to task for conflicts of interest). The film seems to be going down very well;