UK Newswire Archive
LGC Press Release: Tortured Londoner Faces Trial In Guantanamo Military Tribunal
01-06-2008 20:37
On Friday 30 May, the US announced its decision to try Binyam Mohamed, the last Londoner in Guantánamo Bay, on terrorism-related charges. All "evidence" relating to the charges was procured through torture in Morocco, one of his pitstops through the murky underworld of "extraordinary rendition". Binyam, if "convicted" in this "kangaroo court", faces the DEATH PENALTY.Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
Critical and Desperate conditions in makeshift refugee camp in South Africa
01-06-2008 19:20
Civil society have so far done the best job possible to pull together over the refugee crisis in South Africa but the situation is just not sustainable. Someone will die soon. Where is the UN?Brazil, Traffic of Wild Animals, Amazônia, Bahia
01-06-2008 18:04
The Traffic of Wild Animals is the biggest source of income of Brazil, the financial greater of campaigns politics of presidents and governors.
The money sent for other countries to fight these crimes only serves to enrich ambient owners of Ongs.
Turning Weapons into Windmills
01-06-2008 17:34
Images from the London anti-Boris Johnson tube demo
01-06-2008 17:20
More of a party than a demo, this event attracted thousands of people wanting to stick two fingers up at Boris Johnson's new policy of zero alcohol on the tube.
It got out of hand at the end, a big flock of police turned up, and things got nasty.
3rd manchester Anarchist Bookfair - Press release
01-06-2008 17:04
The 3rd Manchester Anarchist Bookfair
Saturday 7th June, 2008
11 am to 5pm
Upstairs at Jabez Clegg, 2 Portsmouth Street, M13 9GB
Amdani Juma: Letter to the airline
01-06-2008 14:38
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Middle Classes Turn on Boris
01-06-2008 13:10
In scenes which would have made the Bullingdon Club proud, last night's jolly japes on the tube got a bit messy after the British Transport Police began closing stations before stopping the two trains containing most of the party goers at Edgeware Road Station.Occupied London #3 out now!
01-06-2008 11:45
Urgencies of Everyday life: Between Here and the Outside
Demo to support Amdani Juma, Nottingham activist, at risk of deportation - Pics
01-06-2008 11:26
Palestinians Trapped at Crossroads
01-06-2008 11:22
The Palestinian national movement finds itself in a deteriorating state of paralysis. “There's almost no Palestinian leadership,” Kadoura Fares, a former Palestinian Cabinet minister and a leading member of President Abbas' Fatah party, told the Washington Times on May 15.It is OUR square and it is OUR right to protest in it whenever we want
01-06-2008 10:52
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Response to state crackdown on peaceful protest
01-06-2008 10:36
The recent sentencing of our friend Sean Kirtley says much about the state's view of peaceful protest in a nutshell the prosecutor Lockhart demos 4th june and 8th JuneDepleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle
01-06-2008 09:01
The highest levels of depleted uranium ever measured in the atmosphere in Britain, were transported on air currents from the Middle East and Central Asia; of special significance were those from the Tora Bora bombing in Afghanistan in 2001, and the "Shock & Awe" bombing during Gulf War II in Iraq in 2003.Huddersfield Attack Press Release
31-05-2008 23:26
The fascist BNP and their far right friends have stepped up their intimidation of trade unionists and political activists in Kirklees.On Friday morning a young female student was attacked on her way to work by three armed members of the far right.
Israeli Housing Minister to permit 1460 new housing units in E. Jerusalem
31-05-2008 20:47
Starting to get it?These Extremists reject any 'peace' which would require them to accept their legal and moral obligations, and will continue their war to wipe Palestine off the map (which will perpetuate the threat and misery experienced by all Israelis) until they succeed, or until someone stands up to stop them.
Iran: Former German official says War Imminent
31-05-2008 20:45
The real choice is clear.It's devastation through an illegal and unnecessary war, or confronting the Extremists in the Knesset, and avoiding this Madness ...
The fact that this man repeats many of the lies peddled by the 'neo-cons', I'm suspicious of his conclusion.
Note that the one choice he doesn't mention is removing these War Criminals from power and tossing them in jail before they get the chance to compound their crimes.
Israelis open fire on Gazan protesters
31-05-2008 20:42
Desert Peace just did a great spoof on this, demonstrating what the coverage would look like if Hamas had fired on thousands of Israelis ...George Monbiot Attempts Citizen’s Arrest on John Bolton
31-05-2008 20:35
John Bolton, the former US ambassador to the United Nations, escaped a citizen’s arrest Wednesday night as he addressed an audience in Britain. We speak to George Monbiot, the British activist and columnist who tried to arrest Bolton. Monbiot says Bolton is a war criminal for his role in helping to initiate the US invasion of Iraq.
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