UK Newswire Archive
Attack Struck at Heart of Israeli Hard-line West Bank Settlers' Movement
07-03-2008 09:07
The Palestinian attack today on Jewish yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) in Jerusalem struck at the heart of Israel's hard-line religious West Bank settler's movement.Monday March 10th. 7pm *Screening of Anti-War Doc "Route Irish" HousmansBookshop
07-03-2008 08:58
"ROUTE IRISH" is a 90 minute essay film on the campaign(s) against Irishfacilitation of the US/UK invasion of Iraq.
"An excellent documentary. It deals very very well with the frustrations of a peace movement. It tackles some complex matters which aren't usually discussed or even thought about." -Alex Cox, Director of Repo Man
Guantánamo “Fair Trial” posters censored by shopping centre in Reading
07-03-2008 08:32
Guatemala: hiperdam threatens living space of guatemaltecos
07-03-2008 06:49
Worldwide, already around 80 million people have been displaced from their living space by dams.The hydroelectric installation “Xalalá” in the state Quiché in Guatemala is one of the next large projects that will be realized within the Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) and will have negative impacts on around 6000-8000 people.
South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war
07-03-2008 02:26
Protest at Total sponsoring French Film Festival
07-03-2008 01:43
Stop The Camden Atrocity Laboratory Potential Tragedy In The Making....
07-03-2008 00:21
Oppose planning permission for The Camden Virus Containment Facility / Animal Testing LAb by writing to Mike Greene : Mr Mike Greene, London Borough of Camden Old Town Hall Judd Street London WV1H 9JE. No-one wants thgis troublesome lab to affect them on their on their own doorsteps.....a council estate is no palce for a high security lab. {It will be used for animal torture unless stopped!!}White working class? Is that investigative journalism?
06-03-2008 21:41
Most local and national journalism defaults to notions of an underclass of 'losers' without any analysis of how these 'losers' have been structurally excluded. The recent discovery of 'working class' and 'white' as a disadvantaged group is for purely cynical and sensationalist reasons.The Politics of Non-Proliferation
06-03-2008 21:07
If there was a time when Iranian analysts and decision makers would question the benefits of continuing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, it would be now. The IAEA has allowed systematic US intervention in Iran's nuclear file paving the way to a third round of sanctions. But while US pressure on Iran with the knowledge that no evidence of a covert weapons programme exists, is perhaps in the hope that it will finally force Iran to leave the NPT in protest, Iran seems to be one step ahead and does exactly the opposite.Sign online petition / join campaign.
06-03-2008 20:45
The MRC intend to build a dangerous virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council estate {Somers Town} - please help us stop this. This will ruin the community forever, creating adangerous environment patrolled by armed police and saturated with members of the security services - MI5/6. The arae will be at risk of attack and virus leaks. {Camden New Journal}UCL students expel the military from their campus
06-03-2008 20:27
University College London's students' union, UCL Union, voted to ban the officer training corps, territorial army and all other military recruiters from its premises and events, in what was its best attended general meeting in years, denying the military access to new recruits.Paddy's Day Of Action Against Shell
06-03-2008 18:44
This year´s St Patrick´s day, Monday 17th March, has been called as an International day of action against shell, in solidarity with the people of Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland.Voice from Gaza
06-03-2008 18:36
As the threat of all out war hangs over the Gaza strip and an Israeli Minister threatens a holocaust against the people living there, we publish interviews with people in the Gaza strip, conducted by journalists and political activists from the Bells of Return website, which campaigns for a secular one state solution for PalestineFull article | 1 addition | 8 comments
Instant Muscle 'workfare' Job Centre contractor goes bust
06-03-2008 16:34
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Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.
06-03-2008 16:11
Press release06/03/2008
Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.
For more info contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh:
tel 07875708873 or email
smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk GOOD NEWS:Spanish drop extradition requests for Jamil El Banna and Omar Deghayes
06-03-2008 15:32
Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna,along with Abdel Nour Sameur, returned to the UK from Guantánamo Bay in December 2007. Deghayes and El-Banna were promptly arrested under a European arrest warrant...UCL Union votes overwhelmingly to twin UCL with Palestinian universities
06-03-2008 14:48
On Thursday 5th March, The University College London Students’ Union (UCLU) voted overwhelmingly to twin UCL Union with the Unions of Al-Quds and Al-Azhar Secular Secular Universities in the West Bank and Gaza respectively with immediate effect.Palestine Today 030608
06-03-2008 14:35
Saddiq Family belong to Leeds, urgent support needed.
06-03-2008 14:24
Cycling 17,000km to Australia from Oxford
06-03-2008 13:37
Bike 2 Oz is an online video series about the young couple who successfully cycled the 17,000Km from Oxford (UK) to Sydney (Australia).