UK Newswire Archive
Liverpool City Centre being privatised ( Quiggins still Fighting)
05-11-2003 14:25
There was a battle in court yesterday between Quiggins - and those who see us all just as profit - as the middle class yuppies - are arriving like swarms of cockroaches - to take the property, the money and anything else they can they can grab. And the money came here becasue Liverpool is one of the poorer regions in europe. When will the people get up and fight back. Read on.Operacion Digna - Online Demo Report
05-11-2003 13:53
More than 300 women have been murdered in Chihuahua since 1993. Under the slogan: "Stop the femizide! Not one more!", Operacion Digna and JUSTICIA PARA NUESTRAS HIJAS [Justice for our Daughters] called for an online demonstration from Oct 31 to Nov 2, 2003 [Full Feature]Participation in this Floodnet action was impressive: 138,321 hits over the three day period means that 138,321 individual computers were used in the course of the action, from 34 countries. According to a source Electronic Disturbance Theatre, the word got out to lots of underground hacker groups who prefer this sort of anonymous action to signing petitions and participating in marches.
This impressive show of support can be used by the mothers of murdered and disappeared girls as a means of applying pressure to the Mexican government. Also, it is very useful to have hacker support: In Argentina last year, hackers won a case in the Supreme Court that legally protects them if they access government records as public service. Many students at the UCLA conference were very interested in using the internet as an activist tool.
Contributions wanted!
05-11-2003 13:53
Articles are wanted for a new youth/street culture magazine...Free education demo this thursday
05-11-2003 13:28
Charles Clarke, Education Minister, comes to Cambridge!Hartlepool residents court case to stop the toxic "ghost ships"
05-11-2003 12:39
~Urgent Update from Thessaloniki
05-11-2003 12:06
Hunger strikers in critical condition, Carlos Martinez tortured in hospital.ISM Reports: IOF Invasion Into Balata Refugee Camp
05-11-2003 12:03
Wednesday November 5th 20031) Invasion in Balata Camp _ Danielle
2) Lowdown from Jenin _ Ben J.
3) Toronto Man Sues Israelis _ Toronto Star
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FSB Attacks Humanitarian Organisations
05-11-2003 11:47
The FSB, one of the successors to the KGB, have accused humanitarian organisations working in Chechnya and Ingushetia of producing "anti stability" propaganda harmful to the efforts made by the Governments involved to seek a resolution of the "Chechen Problem".Demolition Exhibition: Cambridge
05-11-2003 11:03
"Demolition Exhibition - what goes up must come down" - free art space soon to be demolishedWP: Stop Bush meeting
05-11-2003 10:45
Workers Power Public meetingShowroom Cinema (screen 5)
Thursday 6th November 7.30pm
Anarchists, Base Organizations and Intermediate Struggles
05-11-2003 04:06
What are the possibilities for anarchist intervention in the intermediate struggles and spontaneous rebellions of the excluded class in Vancouver at the present time?Occupation at Sheffield University
05-11-2003 03:47
About 150 Sheffield University students, mostly first years, occupied earlier today (4/11)the University House. The intention is to stay in the building overnight. The occupation, which happened spontaneously and was self-organised by the students’ involved, is being held in protest against the University’s under-hand surplus charges on accommodation.Fear of Being an Individual
05-11-2003 00:47
Why do activists so often focus on hard facts, reams of figures and dry arguments, while neglecting to deal with the intensely human issues of motivation, loneliness, burnout, selfishness and suffering? Why do we so often respond to elite power with anger, disgust and, possibly, violence? How do we overcome illegitimate authority while retaining our humanity?pretty good wired article
04-11-2003 23:57
Wired.com has quite a good article on the new BBC i-can "citizen activism site".Read:
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60994,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_3 Best of all: the links to the spoof website: "I can't"
http://lordrich.newmail.ru/ican/ , which rightly so critisises the approach of the interactive website, like in "We're never going to discuss anything important to anybody,". And looking closely at the BBC-ican site, it is obvious enough: most matters are trivial and so is the advice given.
Is Capital taking over Linux?
04-11-2003 22:35
The latest version of Red Hat Linux will be out this week and it will be called Fedora 1 not Red Hat 10, also SuSE Linux has just been bought by Novell and this has been bankrolled by IBM. What is happening here and what does it mean for the world's most popular versions of the free GNU/Linux computer operating system?How the Far Left Got It's Groove Back
04-11-2003 21:10
Capitalism is a house of whores and pimps, and it’s never been cooler to say so. Only fifteen years ago, we’d have been obliged to meet the response that ‘really existing socialism’ was a house of torturers and trained assassins – which is true, so long as we reverse the meaning of that phrase, ‘really existing socialism’...Gypsy Family in Caravan Effigy Burned by Viscount
04-11-2003 20:34
