UK Newswire Archive
Foie Gras off the Menu at 5th Birmingham Restaurant
15-05-2008 21:00
After demonstrations and logical reasoning Opus Restaurant finally decide to remove Foie Gras from their menu.Last Primate Lab in Austria to Close!
15-05-2008 18:43
One less target for the AR2008 gathering...international call for days of action on may 31st and the 1st of june
15-05-2008 17:26
international call for days of action on may 31st and the 1st of juneFull article | 2 additions | 12 comments
Pauline Campbell 1948-2008
15-05-2008 16:08
She leaves behind a proud legacy of tireless campaigning and direct action. Rest in peace Pauline. You will be remembered with great pride and affection by all of us who had the honour of knowing you.
Prisons campaigner Pauline Campbell found dead beside daughter's grave
15-05-2008 15:37
Inquest said today.
Call for action at UN Biodiversity Summit - Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May
15-05-2008 15:31
Call for action to protect biodiveristy, family farms & stop privatisation & the loss of more land to monoculture at the UN Biodiversity Summit in Bonn, Germany - 16-30 May.Driving out small farmers and peasants, genetic manipulation, deforestation, use of pesticides ...it will all be at stake at this Summit.
Ref: www.aseed.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=563&Itemid=1
Prison campaigner Pauline Cambell found dead! RIP Pauline
15-05-2008 15:11
Pauline Cambell found dead in cemetary where daughter buried!Ndeh Family Support Demonstration
15-05-2008 14:50
Layoffs, Pink Slips, and A Plan to Take Back Washington
15-05-2008 14:44
The sheer lack of representation in our government, Local, State, and Federal, has many up in arms as to what can be done. Here are just a few suggestions!**Vancover APC Fight the Olympics - London Talk
15-05-2008 14:34
*Vancover Anti Poverty Committee Fight the Olympics:Public Talk on Wednesday the 21st of May*
Judge stops demolition of Dale Farm Travellers site
15-05-2008 14:34
86 Irish traveller families located at the Crays Hill (Dale Farm) traveller site near Wickford, Essex, won a Judicial Review at the High Court last Friday (9th) against Basildon Council's plans to evict them.Paulline Campbell(prisons campaigner) RIP
15-05-2008 14:18
Pauline saddly found dead at daughters graveside.TONIGHT !!! Interspace / LONDON preparation meeting
15-05-2008 13:46
TONIGHT !!! Interspace / LONDON preparation meeting@ Bowl Court Squat 8 pm
See you there !!!
Interspace: International meeting for squats and autonomous spaces
http://interspace.blogsport.de/ SOCPA: Rebalancing your rights, unravelling the "repeal"
15-05-2008 13:14
The government wants your help (well, mainly the police and MPs, but it looks better this way) to restrict freedom to protest in new soundbite friendly ways, in particular to "prevent permanent demonstrations in Parliament Square":"JOINT COMMITTEE ON THE DRAFT CONSTITUTIONAL RENEWAL BILL
CALL FOR EVIDENCE
The two Houses of Parliament have established a Joint Committee to examine and
report on the Government’s Draft Constitutional Renewal Bill (Cm 7342) published
on 25 March 2008. The committee has been ordered to report by 18 July.
At its first meeting on 7 May the Committee elected Michael Jabez Foster MP as
Chairman.
Members’ declared interests are available on the Committee’s website:
www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/jcdcrb.cfm
The Committee expects to take oral evidence up to mid-June."
http://www.parliament.uk/documents/upload/Cfe080509.pdf
Emergency Protest – as MPs vote on women’s abortion rights
15-05-2008 12:06
Tuesday 20 May, 5.30pmOutside Parliament - details to be confirmed
Defend 24 Weeks – no reduction in abortion time limit
Tube: Westminster
Called by Abortion Rights www.abortionrights.org.uk
Over 115 public figures join the call to recognise the Palestinian Nakba
15-05-2008 11:51
What do Archbishop Desmond Tutu and rock legend Roger Water of Pink Floyd have in common?Full article | 2 additions | 7 comments
“The Rocky Road to a Real Transition”: A Review.
15-05-2008 11:49
The Rocky Road to a Real Transition: the transition towns movement and what it means for social change. Paul Chatterton & Alice Cutler. The Trapese Collective. A free download available here (warning: it is a huge file): 2008. 41pp.
How the Socialist Workers Party rooted for Livingstone and Labour
15-05-2008 10:34
In the days immediately following the May 1 contest for London mayor, the Socialist Workers Party published online a number of articles attempting to explain the poor showing of its candidates for the London Assembly and mayoral candidate Lindsay German, standing as the Left List. These were accompanied by articles on why the incumbent mayor, Labour’s Ken Livingstone, was defeated by the right-wing Conservative Boris Johnson.