UK Indymedia - UK Newswire Archive

Osama bin Aqua Teen Hunger Force

03-02-2007 00:37

In short, Americans are easily frightened by crass manifestations of the tawdry and shallow consumer society they passively accept, even celebrate, usually with dangerous levels of credit card debt. Fear and mistrust are now endemic, thanks to nearly six years of incessant propaganda concerning universal terrorists, Muslim evil-doers, liquid bombs, homegrown fanatics, even dire warnings of pregnant suicide bombers lurking on the local bus or train.

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Queeruption 9 Feedback & Anit-G8 Benefit Party

03-02-2007 00:11

You are invited (at rather short notice) to;

An afternoon about Queeruption 9 in Tel Aviv, Israel and Palestine.
1-8pm, donations probably to support weekly queer demos in Al-Kuds, Palestine
&
LIES, LIES LIES
8pm till late
Queers against the G8, benefit party (www.myspace.com/queersagainstg8)

Saturday 3rd Febuary 2007
RampART Social Centre, 15-17 Rampart St, off Commercial Rd, London. Whitechapel tube.
See below for daytime programme and flyer for party info.

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Zbigniew Brzezinski: Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran

02-02-2007 23:59

A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski

Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran

Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.

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Storm Troopers

02-02-2007 23:26

Police seal off two streets and search every home.

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New Year Destruction at the Hill of Tara in Ireland

02-02-2007 22:31

In flagrant contempt of best archaeological practice, a systematic campaign of tree felling, earth clearance and monument removal has begun at the Hill of Tara. This is before the Public Private Partnership (PPP) contract for the M3 Motorway, to run through the Tara / Skryne Valley, has even been signed. Daily protests are taking place, every 7am in the morning at the Hill of Tara car park.

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Climate Change: European countries have warmest January on record

02-02-2007 21:55

CLIMATE CHANGE:

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Germany: another 1,000 tonnes of nuclear waste headed to Russia - PROTESTS!

02-02-2007 21:31

Gronau, Germany, 1 February - - Another 1,000 tonnes of depleted uranium have left an enrichment plant here on a secret train, headed for Russia.

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Iraq: Who did the US military massacre near Najaf?

02-02-2007 21:22

Whether the slaughter outside Najaf was inflicted on a cult, anti-government tribesmen or a combination of both, it demonstrates that the illegal American presence in Iraq can only be continued by repression and indiscriminate killing in every part of the country. The scale of the massacre is a warning of what is being prepared as US operations are stepped up in Baghdad under Bush’s planned “surge”.

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Hugo Chavez going too fast?

02-02-2007 20:56

To outside observers who get their facts from the bourgeois media it would seem that Chavez is going "too fast". But the ordinary working people of Venezuela are demanding immediate action. They live in such conditions that they can wait no longer.

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Please help to stop deforestation biofuels

02-02-2007 19:46

Please send a letter against deforestation biofuels to the German Chancellor today and ask groups to sign an open letter to the EU to demand that biofuel targets are abandoned in order to protect rainforests and local communities in the global South.

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Blatant discrimination? Children, Asylum and Hillingdon Home Office apparatchiks

02-02-2007 19:07

How the Home Office's planned 'reforms' for children who claim asylum alone is already being implemented by the London Borough of Hillingdon.

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Notting Hill Housing Trust

02-02-2007 19:06

Notting Hill Housing Trust is indirectly controlled by Tony Blair

Labour Party members control the Board of Directors

It is an unaccountable entity that abuses any of its tenants that make legitimate complaints in writing

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Defend Public Health March in Liverpool

02-02-2007 18:15

Merseyside TUC at its meeting on Saturday 20th January agreed to support the NHS Together NW TUC regional demonstration on 3rd March and also to organise a pre-demonstration to be held on:

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Environment minister pied as he tried to GreenWash the governments destructive e

02-02-2007 18:13

On 2 Febuary at around 3pm, a group of people under the guise of fictional company 'Greenwash & Co', did a satirical performance at a talk being given by the current UK minister for the environment, David Miliband, at Edinburgh University. The minister was then pied in the face by a lone pie-bearer in an unrelated incident.

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“Milk is Murder” in red paint stunt

02-02-2007 18:06

Today animal rights protesters covered dairy products and beef with red paint in the ASDA supermarket in Cambridge. The action was in designed to highlight the link between live exports and the milk industry. According to a spokesperson for campaigners “when consumers buy milk products they are supporting the inhumane export of young male calves from the milk industry to other European countries, the animals, if they get there alive may be subject to conditions so inhumane they are illegal in the UK” . According to the protesters, they are exported in order to be raised in veal crates for their 'meat'. "This trade causes suffering and distress to both the baby calves and the mother cows, who have their babies taken at a few days old."

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Terrorist Charge Ridicules New Laws.

02-02-2007 17:40

Eight non-violent peace activists at Mildenhall police station have today been charged under anti-terrorist laws, SOCPA 128,which is the result of an action last October, when the activists entered USAF Lakenheth nuclear base and chained themselves to secure the gates of a munitions storage area to stop the movement of cluster bombs.

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SOCPA - bail act used to ban protest

02-02-2007 17:16

barbara tucker has been temporarily beaten in court. on the latest farcical charge against her (supposedly assaulting a police officer), she has been given conditional bail for five months till trial and warned she will be jailed if she enters the socpa protest zone for any reason before then.
the harrassment of the past few days has taken its toll on her health and she has decided to take a rest for a short while before deciding what to do next.

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Iran Clock Ticking

02-02-2007 17:04

"Another source with a pipeline into Israeli thinking said the Iran war plan has expanded over the past several weeks. Earlier thinking had been that Israeli warplanes would hit Iranian nuclear targets with U.S. forces in reserve in case of Iranian retaliation, but now the strategy anticipates a major U.S. military follow-up to an Israeli attack, the source said.

Both sources used the same word "crazy" in describing the plan to expand the war to Iran. The two sources, like others I have interviewed, said that attacking Iran could touch off a regional - and possibly global - conflagration."

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CSSGJ Spring Seminar Programme

02-02-2007 16:51

CSSGJ's finalised programme of open seminars for the spring semester.

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Jaded with the New McCarthyism

02-02-2007 15:17

Without wishing to revive Old Hat, I preferred to wait to see how the hulabaloo over the tactless Jade Goody played out. It seems more sinister than anyone has yet remarked.