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4 Issue 80 / 2015 GUESTLIST guestlist.net Newsflash Rich Mix saved fRoM closuRe The venue's legal battles have been resolved The East London arts venue came under threat after Tower Hamlets demanded a lump sum repayment of an £850,000 loan. More than 17,000 people signed a petition in support of the organisation, and now the venue and the council have come to an agreement over the funds. shell stop alaskaN aRctic dRilliNg The oil giant has abandoned the controversial operations Shell has had to halt their Alaskan drilling after only discovering marginal amounts of oil and gas. The company has spent over $7bn on the oil hunt. There was huge public opposition to Shell's operations and environmentalists have called this halt "an unmitigated defeat". fuck paRade hits ceReal killeR café The Shoreditch café was hit in an anti- gentrification protest The protest, which was organised by anarchist group Class War, saw activists carrying pigs' heads and torches attack the Cereal Killer Café with fire and paint. The café charges up to £4.40 for a bowl of cereal and one protester said the shop was targeted as a "symbol of gentrification". When Lin Mei, one of the four women involved in the incident, spoke to the promoter after being refused entry, she was told that the girls needed to line up so they could be sized up by the club manager. Two of her friends were then deemed "too dark" and "overweight" to enter the club. After sharing her experience on social media, there were been protests outside the club accompanied by the hashtag #DoILookDSTRKT. Stormzy, Tinchy Stryder and Sarah-Jane Crawford are just some of the celebrities who have supported the protests, saying that this is commonplace across clubs in the West End. DSTRKT have denied operating a racist door policy, stating that the women were turned away because the club was full. Racist dooR policy at dstRkt A group of women were denied entry to the West End club on the basis of race sNoop dogg lauNches MaRijuaNa Media coMpaNy The weed-loving rapper and entrepreneur Ted Chung launched Merry Jane at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt event in San Francisco. The site will feature content on all aspects of marijuana, including an interview series called 'Deflowered', which will profile innovators in the industry, the latest news on cannabis policy, a cooking show on how to make edibles, and information about cannabis products and dispensaries. Speaking about the venture, Snoop Dogg said, "After watching where the cannabis industry is headed, I wanted to create a platform that will take the movement further by creating a destination where people could find fresh content. Merry Jane is a game-changing platform for pop culture. It's a new frontier y'all!" The website, Merry Jane, merges "cannabis and pop culture"

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