UK Newswire Archive
Deportations Imminent
09-02-2007 21:10
This afternoon about thirty Bristol residents participated in a demonstration of support for two asylum seekers. This demonstration was announced at very short notice after people heard of the plight of these two men. See the original Bristol IndyMedia article:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/newswire.php?story_id=25854
Bush Admin being sued over suppression of Global Warming Science
09-02-2007 20:43
Sen. Kerry and Rep. Inslee Join Conservation Groups in Global Warming Lawsuit Against Bush AdministrationIraq and Darfur: the politics of war crimes
09-02-2007 20:03
The international response to two cases of mass killing—the civil war in the Darfur region of Sudan and the US-led occupation of Iraq—demonstrate the sheer hypocrisy of the claims by the major capitalist powers and the United Nations to defend human rights and uphold international law.USA, Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy refuse to sign UN ban on rendition
09-02-2007 20:00
Fifty-seven countries signed a UN treaty on Tuesday that bans governments from carrying out forced disappearances and holding individuals in secret detention. Washington, as well as a number of European governments, including Britain, Germany, Spain and Italy, refused to sign.Dutch government to compensate for rain forest destruction
09-02-2007 19:51
The Netherlands government has recognised that it was wrong to subsidise as “green energy” palm oil produced at the cost of rain forests, reports a German rain forest advocacy group. “It has recognised that often palm oil production often involves catastrophic destruction of rain forest and promised to learn from this,” writes Rettet den Regenwald e. V.Npower uses Thugs to Evict Radley Lakes Environmental Activists
09-02-2007 18:38
Chinese Smile vs American Gun
09-02-2007 17:19
China's President Hu Jintao re-establishes trade links with Africa vowing not to interfere with the sovereign rights of African nations. The net result of this soft approach is African nations clamouring to the Chinese whose trade links with Africa extend thousands of years into the past. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of large African port cities containing artefacts and trade material from China and Africa. Large amounts of ceramics, ivory, gems, precious metals and a wealth of other artefacts reveal a long history of lively and thriving two-way trade between the two continents.Knowledgelab 4 - 'How do we Know?' - 16th-18th February
09-02-2007 17:06
This is an open invitation to Knowledgelab 4 - an alternative gathering for those interested in exploring political, philosophical and practical solutions to the problems we see around us today.Avian influenza
09-02-2007 16:36
Slowly, slowly the true story is emerging.Recycling in the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor goes from bad to worse
09-02-2007 16:21
The Rotten Borough of Rushmoor is one of the worst performing councils in the country on recycling. And it goes from bad to worse. Council officials have now been forced to admit they have failed to meet their own targets on green waste recycling.Iranian refugees in Birmingham demonstrate against the Islamic regime in Iran
09-02-2007 16:18
CHOMSKY & HERMAN MEDIA CONFERENCE
09-02-2007 15:38
CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988). In this book, the authors (both of whom will be attending/participating in this conference) put forth a model, the Propaganda Model (PM), as a way of understanding the way our mass media system interrelates with our economy, political system, and society in general. Since putting forth their propaganda model, there have been both praise and criticism of this model, and there have also been many changes and technological advances in our entire communication and media landscape. This May 2007 conference (May 15-17, 2007, Windsor, Canada; see www.uwindsor.ca/propaganda) and Spring 2008 publication (of an edited scholarly collection inspired by the conference) will, through vigorous debate/discussion and fresh insight, make great strides in critically analyzing (revising/updating) the ongoing relevance of the Herman/Chomsky Propaganda Model as a useful conceptualization for understanding 21st century media and society.Support a living grant for all students!
09-02-2007 15:30
Last year, on the initiative of Blairite Labour Students, the National Union of Students, which has totally failed to campaign against fees or seriously oppose the government in any way, ditched even its formal policy for a universal, living grant for all students. Please sign this statement for a living grant for all students in FE and HE, and for serious campaign to win it.Creating the Climate for a Staged Provocation-UK?
09-02-2007 15:15
We have a lot of talk for an attack on Iran.We have letter bombs going off..
We have terror raids daily on the news networks.
We have bird flu outbreaks.
What is going on?
No Deportations to Kurdistan/Iraq Demonstrate Monday 12th February
09-02-2007 15:10
Demonstrate Monday 12th February 7.00am to 9.00am
Brize Norton
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Carterton
Oxfordshire
OX18 3LX
Tory MEP backs incinerators over EU wide recycling scheme.
09-02-2007 14:42
Friends of the Earth HQ Press Release Feb 9.Tory MEP, Caroline Jackson is proposing more incineration of waste rather than more recycling as the answer to the ever growing refuse mountain.
EU TO VOTE TUESDAY 13th FEBRUARY.
Under the Spell of the Hegemon
09-02-2007 12:56
Empire-building is a blindness, delusion and false security. Since all people yearn for freedom and self-determination, imperial humbris is based on rewriting human nature and history, stylizing arrogance as a natural law and trashing international law and democratic empowerment. The empire sees the speck in her sister's eye but not the log in her own eye.U.S. Backs Controversial Oil ‘Research’ in Peruvian Amazon
09-02-2007 10:52
from narconews.comThe Movement for Justice in El Barrio
09-02-2007 10:47
Movement for Justice in El Barrio to Present a Message from the Zapatistas in New YorkCrowing about Turkey Spam
09-02-2007 09:17
The Times and various other papers today lead on the story that Bernard Matthews has another factory farm in Hungary, where there was an outbreak of the exact same strain of H5N1. I'd figured that out on Monday just by searching on "Bernard Matthews"+Hungary after reading that the strains are identical. One thing that proves is you don't need to be a great journalist to scoop the UK papers by a week and I'm not back to boast about that.