UK Newswire Archive
Free The EDO 2
17-03-2009 15:54
MAKE SOME NOISE!!!
21st March 4 till 5.30, Horfield Prison, Cambridge Road off Gloucester Road. Meeting at Golden Lion at 3pm onwards.
Italy - Defense Minister La Russa posing with a Sicilian Mafia family
17-03-2009 15:52
Palestine Today 031709
17-03-2009 15:50
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 17th, 2009.
Scotland Yard aid in quelling dissent in Greece
17-03-2009 14:44
The Greek mainstream news source Kathimerini announced yesterday that an appeal to Scotland Yard was made by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to aid Greek authorities in stamping out dissent in the country.Greece has seen a wave of politically motivated rioting, occupations and direct action since the killing of a teenage boy by a police officer in December last year. The situation remains tense as protests have continued into 2009.
According to the article key figures from the British police force will be offering advice on dealing with dissent across the spectrum from bombings to low level vandalism.
Targeted Killing in the campaign against terror
17-03-2009 13:26
US Targeted Killing
http://cryptome.org/us-targeted-kill.pdf Special Ops Targeted Killing
http://jsoupublic.socom.mil/publications/jsou/JSOU07-6turbivilleHuntingLeadershipTargets_final.pdf
Updates on Guantanamo
17-03-2009 11:58
New Guantánamo Detainee Policy Rooted in International Law http://useu.usmission.gov/Article.asp?ID=02f80492-a861-4a91-a431-80895abe77e2
William Johnston Back on Hunger Strike
17-03-2009 11:50
A while ago we were asking people to write letters of complaint on behalf of William Johnston. He was on hunger strike for nearly two months before the medical staff at Glenochil prison would give him painkillers, that had been prescribed to him for life by his GP, for a crippling spinal condition.Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building
17-03-2009 09:57
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Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today
17-03-2009 07:49
Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.Fur Demo's in Bristol
16-03-2009 22:44
Demo's continue against The Cruise in Cabot Circus (shopping center)- the cruise are a chain of shops with 21 outlets in the UK. The Bristol store itself dosent sell fur at the moment but other Cruise stores do.Please send polite letters of complaint to:
CWU demo against privatisation
16-03-2009 22:42
Stop the deportation of Hussein Khedri
16-03-2009 21:28
Please support our friend and stop his deportation, by signing the petition and then sending a copy of the letter to the Home Office which we'll post a copy up of very soon.Direct Action Germany: End of February
16-03-2009 21:26
03/03/2009 - First attack against the Thor Steinar shop in Friedrichshain (Berlin)
02/03/2009 - Spontaneous demonstration for Christian S. / Stones against a Commerzbank (Berlin)
28/02/2009-01/03/2009 - Arson attack on expensive cars (Berlin)
01/03/2009 - DHL branch painted olive green (Berlin)
26/02/2009 - Army vehicles burned down! (Burg)
26/02/2009 - "Erik and sons" hacked!
24/02/2009 - Tires of two police vans slashed (Berlin)
24/02/2009 - Police prevents arsons attack – probable target the german army (Karlsruhe)
19/02/2009 - Package station of Wuppertal's post office colored (Wuppertal)
18/02/2009 - War memorial rendered nicer (Göttingen)
Mid-Feb - Antifa actions during the neonazi demonstration
The not-so-Great British Circus hit by protest again
16-03-2009 21:12
Direct Action; Cyberspace, USA, Italy, Mexico & Netherlands
16-03-2009 20:55
ELECTRONIC SIT-IN AGAINST HLS (Cyberspace)
ATTACK ON KFC (USA)
FUR FARMER'S CARS PAINT-STRIPPED (Italy)
EXPLOITIVE SHOPS GLUED (Mexico)
19 SECONDS OF SOCIAL WAR (Mexico)
WINDOWS AT MCDONALDS SMASHED TO PIECES (Netherlands)
HOAX BOMB LEFT AT JALTENCO POLICE STATION (Mexico)
Joke of a McDonalds trial continuing on April 1st
16-03-2009 20:15
No this ain’t a April fools day prank, the joke of a trial does continue!Operation Achillies - Another SHAC guilty plea
16-03-2009 19:09
The first of the 'second wave' activists has pleaded guilty.Children in immigration prison/ Demonstrate 21st March
16-03-2009 18:56
The UK is the only EU country to indefinitely detain children.(if you think detention is an issue like many others, please read below)
Turin prison for migrants: searches and ropes to the neck
16-03-2009 17:25
(Latest news from a long series of protests and hunger strikes that started in Lampedusa and spread to other immigration prisons in Italy)