UK Newswire Archive
Naples. On the sand, two starfish...
21-07-2008 14:54
Two children of the Roma ethnic group drown in Naples. Next to their lifeless bodies people continue to sunbathe, have fun and swim in the sea.Pictures on:
http://www.everyonegroup.com/EveryOne/MainPage/Entries/2008/7/20_Two_children_of_the_Roma_ethnic_group_drown_in_Naples.html German prisoners bound for hunger-strike over conditions
21-07-2008 14:50
Solidarity welcomed! - Almost 500 prisoners in Germany have answered a call for a co-ordinated hunger-strike on August 1st - 7th by prisoner solidarity
group "Iv.i" (Representation for the Interest of the Detainees).
Palestine Today 072108
21-07-2008 14:50
Former Burnley BNP councillor Luke Smith found dead
21-07-2008 13:51
Inquest on Friday - verdict likely to be suicideItaly G8 summit site switch?
21-07-2008 12:40
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has hinted that next year's Group of Eight summit may not take place on the small island of La Maddalena as planned.Support Hackney Council Estate Residents against sell offs Wednesday 23/07
21-07-2008 12:37
Hackney Council want to sell off land on council estates for development by housing associations: we need green space and playgrounds for our kids. Come to support residents to show their opposition and demand together that more social housing is provided for us but not at the cost of estate residents quality of life.Dictatorial Powers
21-07-2008 12:25
"Based on advice given to Donald Rumsfeld by Defense Department lawyers regarding the use of isolation at Guantánamo, when the lawyers warned that it was "not known to have been generally used for interrogation purposes for longer than 30 days," Marri has now been held in solitary confinement for 66 times longer than the amount of time recommended by the Pentagon's own lawyers (this figure includes the six months that he spent in isolation in Peoria County Jail and the Metropolitan Correction Center in New York, before being transferred to Charleston)."Protest against the abuse of asylum seekers in Leeds.
21-07-2008 12:18
A demonstration was held outside Waterside Court Home Office Reporting Centre in Leeds on Friday in response to a report published on Monday 14th July outlining 300 cases of abuse by immigration staff.South London Film Screening Tonight: On The Verge, Smash EDO
21-07-2008 08:56
7PM, MONDAY 21ST JULY@ Pullens Centre, 184 Crampton Street, Walworth, London, SE17 3AE (Close to Elephant & Castle Tube - Northern Line)
Free entry / donation
Cultures combined
21-07-2008 08:54
Free the Cuban 5 Solidarity Demonstration Edinburgh 12-3
21-07-2008 06:20
Saturday 26 July - Free the Cuban Five demonstration!Edinburgh
Pressure grows to stop the Welsh badger cull
20-07-2008 20:39
A group of MPs have launched a campaign to stop the cull of badgers planned for Wales. They have been signing a Commons early day motion congratulating Environment Secretary Hilary Benn on his principled stance in rejecting calls for a widespread cull in England.Letter from Austrian Prisoner: Christoph
20-07-2008 18:22
Open letter from Christoph, July 7th 2008More info
http://austriasolidarity.com
"La Pastora Durrut" of the Maquis a heroic story of autonomy.
20-07-2008 17:28
His book will at last tell the story of One of the Maquis who has long needed reclaiming from the lies and distortions of the past.
An individual who took the nom de guerre as a Maquis, or member of the AGLA (usually denominated as communist), of "Durruti" (after the honoured Barcelona anarchist). Before that at the age of 32 he had taken the equally momenous step of taking the name "Florencio" in replacement of the "Teresa" which his parents upon seeing his genital malformation had registered on his birth certificate "to avoid later complications" & it was said "military conscription".
Analysis of the Oaxacan social movement from within.
20-07-2008 16:52
Analysis of the Oaxacan social movement from withinm written by some of those intimately connected to grassroots struggle and organisation.Letter of Request from Tre Arrow
20-07-2008 16:44
Letters from Austrian Prisoners: Jan & Sabine
20-07-2008 16:32
See also July Letters from Jan & Sabine: http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/403482.html
Operation Stop The Monkey Business
20-07-2008 14:31
The final action alert from the international week of action against Nepal's plans to export rhesus monkeys to vivisection labs...Today we contact the Embassies and Consulates.Snowdon, the Policeman's grave?
20-07-2008 14:17
The body of another high profile policeman has been found on Snowdon. No cause of death is known as yet. There are parallels with the death of Michael Todd, Chief Constable of Manchester.Support Pat Carmody - Sacked for Unionising a Call Centre!
20-07-2008 14:10
"Every night, all around the country, in the 21st century factories known as call centres, some 750,000 workers will breathe a collective sigh of relief as they get the signal that their shift has finally come to an end."Read
http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=10390 for the inspirational article of how Pat unionised his workplace.