UK Newswire Archive
G20: The death of peaceful protest?
09-04-2009 11:40
A response from a Fitwatch blogger to the death of Ian Tomlinson and the policing of the G20.Civil Disobedience Protest in Response to Chemical Weapons Atrocity in Sri Lanka
09-04-2009 10:59
British Tamils staged a civil disobedience protest on Monday night on Westminster Bridge. The protest was a spontaneous response, organised by text message, to the news that the Sri Lankan government had used chemical weapons on Tamil civilians at Bhuthukudiyrup in Mulaithivu, killing one and a half thousand people. The NGO War Without Witness has confirmed that mustard gas was used in the attack. Journalists, aid agencies, human rights monitoring groups and the United Nations are all barred by the Sri Lankan government from entering the conflict zone. The mainstream media did, for the first time, provide some coverage of the protest, but has not mentioned the reason for it. Many hundreds of Tamil families, having been moved forcibly from Westminster Bridge by the Metropolitan Police, are now camped out on Parliament Square in an illegal protest, which they are determined to continue until the British Government takes its supposed support for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire to the United Nations Security Council.Brighton Anti-Militarism Conference 2nd-3rd May 2009
09-04-2009 10:30
The anti-militarist network invites all who are prepared to take action against global militarism for a two day conference at the Cowley Club Social Centre in Brighton on the 2nd and 3rd of May 2009.Helen Bih Must Stay
09-04-2009 09:11
plymouth 5 released without charge
09-04-2009 08:56
bbc article with commentary
The Rwanda Genocide Fabrication by Keith Harmon Snow
09-04-2009 07:26
Commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the Kagame Dictatorship's War Crimes Victory in Rwanda - Human Rights Watch, Alison Des Forges and Disinformation on Central AfricaNational Rally for Animals in Laboratories - Nottingham Coach
09-04-2009 05:10
Stop Camden Animal Lab Appeal
09-04-2009 00:46
We need donations of writing paper, envelopes, pens, photocopy / computer paper, stamps, Virgin mobile top up cards etc. We also need donations made payable to Stop Camden Animal Lab. We understand that many people are reluctant to donate money so we will be grateful for practical donations. Please bring donations to c/o 102 Caledonian Road, Kings Cross, London N1.electrohippies: World Intellectual Privateers Day, April 26th 2009
08-04-2009 23:22
the electrohippies are calling upon people around the globe to celebrate World Intellectual Privateers Day on April 26th 2009. In a concerted action across the Internet, we call upon people to select a piece of information or other creative work which should be in the public domain, but which is chained by the rules of intellectual privateering rights (IPRs), and to re-appropriate it for the people of the world to share in common by publishing it as widely as possible on-line.Obama: Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile activity poses a real threat to its neighbors
08-04-2009 22:54
Having engaged in a "charm offensive" during a two-day visit to Turkey this week, did President Obama really have a different agenda than his predecessor Bush?
Boris cancels Rise Festival
08-04-2009 22:53
Boris Johston has cancelled the annual Rise Festival, enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of Londoners every year.
http://www.mayorwatch.co.uk/johnson-under-fire-after-rise-festival-is-cancelled/20097324. Veggie Pride UK - Sat 16 May in Birmingham
08-04-2009 22:53
http://www.veggiepride.org.uk
Young Peoples March for Jobs - As It Passed Bank London
08-04-2009 22:42
I would have also commented on the shallow input the major unions afford these kinds of initiatives (regardless of party fronts or hijacks) But I’d be here till Christmas so take it as read
Britain's policing problem
08-04-2009 22:12
Britain was once famous for its unarmed and relatively restrained police force, but the death of a man at last week's G20 protests in London has brought into focus serious concerns with a new aggressive form of policing. Former police chief Andy Hayman today warned [1] that "If left unchecked, we have a more violent crowd in uniform than the one demonstrating."Here I give my account of the protests and the police tactics used. This article was written several days prior to the release of the video [2] showing Ian Tomlinson, the man who died at the protests, being beaten and pushed by a baton-wielding policeman shortly before his death.
Did anyone see this: Blood & Honour (users, IPs, messages)?
08-04-2009 21:20
Full site dump from Blood and Honour. People who really do "sieg heil" each other at the end of their conversations.
Global Detention Project
08-04-2009 20:10
Mapping the use of detention in reponse to growing global migration http://www.globaldetentionproject.org/home.html
RBS: Fred Goodwin Speaks Out
08-04-2009 19:54
Unknown source obtains leaked email from shamed RBS boss regarding G20 protests.Tamil hunger strike in South Africa
08-04-2009 19:51
Press StatementTamil National Alliance member and former Sri Lankan MP Mr. M. K. Eelaventhan, is embarking on a hunger strike, demanding that the international community take immediate action to stop the war against Tamils in Sri Lanka. Mr Eelaventhan has been in politics for sixty years, fighting for recognition of the political aspirations of the Tamils in Sri Lanka.