UK Newswire Archive
Indigenous Leaders Call For End To Uranium Mining
01-03-2009 00:02
One thing nuclear power advocates (and opponents and fence-sitters) always seem to ignore is the devastating impact of uranium mining on indigenous communities worldwide, such as in Australia, North America and Niger, as well as its equally devastating ecological impacts. Now these communities are joining forces to oppose the criminal uranium mining corporations, such as 90% French-state owned crooks AREVA.National demo in Manc'r Wed 4th. Oppose Gaza war. Support student occupations.
28-02-2009 23:28
Students from the University of Manchester have been in occupation in protest over the war on Gaza since the 4th February. This Wednesday 4th March will mark one month in occupation. We are calling a national demonstration in solidarity with the Palestinians and student occupiers, for Wednesday 4th March.MOX from UK / France to Japan: largest plutonium shipment ever about to set sail
28-02-2009 22:50
The two heavily armed ships, the Pacific Pintail and the Pacific Heron lefttheir dock at Barrow-in-Furness in north west England at 12.30pm on Friday, 27 February, 2009, bound for Cherbourg, France, where they will load up before setting sail for
Japan (unless somebody manages to stop them).
Summer of Love '09
28-02-2009 22:44
You are invited to a peaceful revolution - bring flowers!The Right to Work
28-02-2009 22:22
Scientific Prediction of the Big Crash already three years ago
28-02-2009 21:59
n a commentary, three years ago, explaining Marxist 'crisis theory', I predicted scientifically the current American crash!Banner drop in solidarity with SHAC 7
28-02-2009 21:50
On the day of the SHAC City Shakedown march in London anarchists hung a banner from a bridge crossing over the A358, the town center inroad for Taunton, Somerset.Erased: Wiped off the Map
28-02-2009 21:09
On December 19th 2008, the Free Gaza movement sailed from Cyprus to Palestine. Our objective was to break the Israeli siege over the Gaza Strip. We were the last and only foreigners to enter and stay in the territory. We got involved in something that nobody expected.Fractious leadership contest in Unite union
28-02-2009 20:33
The leaders of the Unite trade union have made headlines recently with their advocacy of "British jobs for British workers", first used in the Lindsey oil refinery dispute. Unite joint General Secretary Derek Simpson even joined with the right-wing tabloid, the Daily Star, to promote the demand.SHAC Global Week of Action Part 2: Sweden, Chile, Cambridge & Poland
28-02-2009 19:43
24th: DAY TWO OF CHILEAN ACTION DAYS
27th: BARCLAYS PROTEST IN CAMBRIDGE
27th: POLISH PROTEST AGAINST NOVARTIS
Part 1:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422831.html See newswire posts for photos and videos of London march
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Home Secretary ignores Court decision, kidnaps bailed men and imprisons them in Belmarsh
28-02-2009 18:33
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, appears to have declared war on the government’s own secret terror court, overruling decisions made by judges in the Special Immigration Appeals Court (SIAC) yesterday, and — in what can only be described as an act of executive fiat — unilaterally revoking their bail, kidnapping them on their way home from the London courtroom (or in raids on their homes) and imprisoning them in Belmarsh high-security prison in south east London.The police need help, but they're frightened to ask
28-02-2009 18:25
The article below taken from the Torygraph demonstrates the justifications the police aim to use in order to back moves to give them full access to all digital communications and insist on full data retention. This obviously has relevance to the recent indymedia server seizure and the arrest that followed.Video: Shac City Shakedown 27 February 2009 - City of London
28-02-2009 18:13
Shac City Shakedown 27 February 2009
28-02-2009 17:19
Reflections on Cardiff University Occupation
28-02-2009 14:07
Following on from comments made on an earlier post: http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422914.html I am angry and wanted to say things which people would see, not comment on an old article.
London Critical Mass February ride.
28-02-2009 12:30
About 300 riders turned up and still no police.March of the Corporate Undead, Oxford St
28-02-2009 12:08
Smash EDO benefit gig tomorrow
28-02-2009 11:07
As a part of the "Artivism" week of events there will be a benefit gig for Smash EDO tomorrow, 1st March, at the Prince Albert, Trafalgar Street, Brighton from 8.00pm.Maqbool Butt Day
28-02-2009 10:52
Nuclear warhead plant application on Burghfield flood plain – Latest news
28-02-2009 10:43
A planning committee meeting on Wednesday is set to approve plans for a new nuclear warhead facility on a flood plain at Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) Burghfield, near Reading, Berkshire. The proposal has received a record number of objections from the public, drawing the attention of mainstream media.