UK Newswire Archive
Organising Meeting for National day of action to 'Defend Asylum Rights', Saturda
09-05-2007 17:34
There will be an organising meeting on 12 May 2007 after the campaign stall at the Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, Manchester, from 2pm to 4pm . All individuals and organisations are invited to this meeting to organise the national day of action called by TCAR. There will be sister activities taking place in Glasgow, Newcastle and London. NWASDG will be supporting this call. Everyone is welcome. Bring ideas and a willingness to take an active part.Atlantic ruling class 2007 annual meeting (video)
09-05-2007 17:25
What if everything you thought you knew about the world was wrong? And there was an invisible far-right government, a parallel government, operating behind the scenes with almost no scrutiny by the world's press....A Channel Four Farce?
09-05-2007 17:01
In what appears to be a throw back to the black-and-white minstrel shows, where playing the "natives", people would blacken their faces and dance around on stage to "entertain" their audience, it appears that the British station Channel Four may be following suite.
G8 Solidarity Action in Amsterdam
09-05-2007 16:55
Anti-deportation stall, Saturday, 12 May 2007, 12pm.
09-05-2007 16:49
Anti-racist activists from NWASDG and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! will be holding another anti-deportation protest and stall on Saturday 12 May from 12pm on Market Street in Manchester city centre. You are invited to attend and take an active part. Actions speak louder than words. Say no to the racist Labour government's policies of starvation, isolation, detention and deportation of refugees and asylum seekers, where it matters: on the streets.Defend all asylum seekers! No to deportations! No to British state racism!
Hunger strike at Yarl's Wood Prison - 8 May 2007
09-05-2007 16:48
On Tuesday 8 May 2007, barely five days after a hunger strike by the women at Yarl's Wood gaol, in Bedfordshire, another hunger strike began at about 11.00am this morning. According to detainees held inside the prison, over 100 people including children are refusing food. The detainees are refusing to enter their rooms and are staying out in the gardens. The racist authorities are ignoring them as usual, hoping the protest dies down. the protest is against the conditions of the detention: 'we are not criminals, we have not killed anybody, yet we are being held here... this place is a prison really... the kids are scared of the police when they come in... no one can sleep, we are all stressed...' said one of the detainees.Full article | 1 addition | 5 comments
British Aerospace AGM and arms sales
09-05-2007 16:23
Demo in Support Of John Bowden
09-05-2007 16:09
STOP THE HARRASSMENT
Demo outside The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
Friday May 25th 2.00pm
Delara Darabi, 17, on Iranian Death Row:
09-05-2007 16:09
The nature of God – and I ought to Know!
09-05-2007 16:02
[No apologies for the title, as it applies to everyone.] In today’s world far too many killers and murderers are utilising religion as a method of social manipulation, control and (believe it if you would face the reality of your ‘religion’) to JUSTIFY MURDER, THEFT and WAR! If that in itself doesn’t sound an alarm in the heads of all devotees of the ONE nameless, peerless, INFINITE God of ALL, then please go for a walk or entertain yourself with something else, this paper is NOT for you!Demonstration Friday 11 6pm London: Against The G8 and Police Repression
09-05-2007 14:36
This morning (Wednesday May 9th) police raided about 40 buildings in Germany, including several social centres and private homes in Berlin and Hamburg, as well as the alternative web provider so36.net . Police forces searched the "Rote Flora" in Hamburg as well as parts of the "Bethanien" in Berlin. Both places are planning to be decentralised convergence centres for the G8 protests of early June.
We want to show solidarity with the German movement and express our right to protest against the upcoming G8 in June. We want to defy police repression and show we are not intimidated by it!
Friday May 11, 6pm
Kempinski Courthouse Hotel
19-21 Great Marlborough St, London, W1F 7HT
Brum's May Critical Mass
09-05-2007 14:26
1970 Kent State Massacre: "cold-blooded, premeditated official murder"
09-05-2007 13:56
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/369549.html Since then a couple of articles that go into these events in more detail have been posted on
http://freepress.org/ and they are reproduce below.
Mothers in Yarl's Wood join hunger strike
09-05-2007 13:49
UPDATE, 9 May 2007: Mothers join hunger strike.Today 91 families, mainly single mothers with their children, some of whom have been detained for over three months, have joined the protest.
US War Crimes in Iraq on Trial in Bristol Crown Court, Monday 14 May 2007
09-05-2007 13:23
War crimes in Iraq highlighted at retrial of peace activists, Bristol Crown Court Monday 14 May 2007Photo-opportunity
Philip Pritchard and Toby Olditch, two Oxford peace activists known at the 'B52 Two', will be retried on the morning of Monday 14 May 2007, not before 10 am, at Bristol Crown Court.. They are accused of conspiring to cause criminal damage at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire on 18 March 2003 when they tried to safely disable B52 bombers to prevent them from bombing Iraq[1]. The two men say they acted to prevent damage to life and property in Iraq, and war crimes by the aggressors[2].
Wave of Repression against anti-G8 structures
09-05-2007 12:49
wave of repression against anti-G8 structures** police raid against 40 houses and projects in Hamburg, Berlin, and Bremen*
* communication structure of anti-G8 movement targeted*
Wave of Repression against anti-G8 structures in Germany
Finland, Host of the Eurovision Song Contest 2007, does not respect Human Rights
09-05-2007 12:42
Hosting the Eurovision 2007 song contest gives Finland an opportunity to market itself to the rest of the world with empty phrases and images that cover the gloomy reality. By doing so Finland wants cover up such facts as the poor legal protection people in Finland have against the missuse of power by members of the judicial system and various authorities. These practices have the silent approval of those in power.Jail Paris Hilton
09-05-2007 12:33
Paris Hilton has launched a petition for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to pardon her 45 day custodial sentence for drunk driving.She argues she deserves a pardon "for enlivening mundane lives".
Send her to Jail.
This is your "chance card" This is your "community Chest". use it.
Urgent request for help- imminent deportation of hunger strikers and sick child
09-05-2007 12:33
A Kurdish TCAR family from Turkey is being deported today DESPITE the fact that their solicitor has put in an application for judicial review. The judge ruled that the application is not enough to stop the deportation. Tyneside Community Action for Refugees is making an urgent request requesting that you phone the duty officer at the airport to log concerns.