UK Newswire Archive
Manchester Goes to Climate Camp
23-08-2009 12:33
This week will see a number of Manchester residents head down to London for this year’s Climate Camp. They will converge, with thousands from around the country, at an undisclosed location somewhere inside the M25.Women campaign against rape and torture in the iran-Islamic regime's prisons!
23-08-2009 11:04
According to the reports which have been published about the Islamic Republic's prisons, demonstrators arrested in the recent uprisings, particularly those in Kahrizak prison, have been raped in group, and banes and guards have put them under the worst medieval tortures. Many of the detainees, female or male, have died in rape rooms because they have been repeatedly raped and group raped and due to rupture of uterus or rectum and internal bleeding.Should We Seek to Save Industrial Civilisation?
23-08-2009 10:48
A debate with Paul Kingsnorth.Somalians killed in Libyan detention centre
23-08-2009 09:02
6 Somalians killed in Libya during attempt of evasion from detention centre, another 10 have disappeared and is not known if they are alive or dead.Lesvos: 160 minors on hunger strike in detention Pagani
23-08-2009 08:59
On 18th of August 2009, 160 unaccompanied minors detained in Pagani detention centre went on hunger strike to demand their immediate freedom. All of them are detained in just one room, where they share one toilet, many need to sleep on the floor due to lack of beds. Some of the minors are only eight or nine years old. 50 of them have been detained for over 2 months, the others have been in Pagani for several weeks already. The detention of minors is illegal under greek law.[Greece] Unconditional immediate release of Thodoris Iliopoulos
23-08-2009 06:38
Angel-faced BNP racist aged 12
23-08-2009 03:20
Girl burns golly at BNP's Red, White and BlueLockerbie Bombing: Al-Megrahi's Statement
22-08-2009 21:19
Upon leaving HM Prison Greenock en route back to Libya, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi issued the following statement through his lawyers:Pixies visit EDO in countdown to DSEi
22-08-2009 19:50
In response to the callout for actions against DSEi exhibitors the pixies returned to EDO MBM/ITT in Brighton on the night of the 21st August.Novartis under attack, arson at home of fur farmers
22-08-2009 19:42
CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY FOR GRAVEYARD VISIT (Switzerland)
100,000+ EUROS DAMAGES AT HOME OF FUR FARMERS (Italy)
CAR VANDALIZED AT NOVARTIS MEXICO (Mexico)
WARNING SENT TO NOVARTIS (Mexico)
FITwatch at the Climate Camp
22-08-2009 19:36
This is a call out for all climate campers to do a bit of FITwatching during and after the Swoop, and as people arrive for the climate camp.
Vestas - support needed to prevent blades leaving UK
22-08-2009 17:48
Walrus Bulls Bellowing on a Beach
22-08-2009 16:29
August 22, 2009WALRUS BULLS BELLOWING ON A BEACH
John Chuckman
I am disappointed with the view of some knowledgeable commentators over Scotland’s release of the dying man who was convicted of the Lockerbie-airline bombing.
From a purely power-politics point of view, of course, they are right: judging by the ugly noises echoing across the oceans from America, Scotland has done itself no favor.
But if all affairs are to be carried on in every country from that point of view, it seems to me that it is acceptance of America's right to dictate every matter over the planet, including such intimate matters as how individual countries interpret justice and the government of laws.
This is the acceptance of a de facto aristocracy running the world since American voters - and only about half of eligible Americans bother to vote - represent only a percent or so of the planet’s population. It is remarkable how many Americans do not understand the basic point that not everything a democracy does is democratic or decent or even acceptable, especially things done outside its borders.
Democracies abuse power just as surely as any other form of government, and a democracy with the immense military power of the United States – a power virtually cancerous to genuine democratic values - provides a case study in the inexorable workings of Lord Acton’s dictum.
It would also represent a repression of all the better motives from which individuals and societies act now and then, surprising us and raising the standard of human behavior from the violent-chimpanzee standard that tends to hold for much of humanity and is especially notable in America’s international affairs.
That is unacceptable to most people who are not Americans or who are not dedicated flatterers of America seeking leftovers being dropped from its groaning table.
You only have to ask yourself how Americans themselves would react to others telling them how they should run their court system. The sound would be deafening, like the bellowing of walrus bulls on a stony beach in mating season, which is actually pretty close to the sound of some of America’s professional-victim families today.
Mercy is never misplaced, and I think Scottish justice has reached an admirable decision despite the bellowing of the unthinking American families we have heard from for years.
Apart from that, and a very important consideration, it is almost certain that al-Megrahi is innocent, having been fitted up by American intelligence desperate for a scapegoat with the relentless political pressure of the walrus-bull families.
I have to say, also, I always find it troubling to read the press repeating the lines about 270 victims for the thousandth time. It is an American mantra, emphasizing the special and precious nature of American lives over all others, at least, that is, the lives of upper middle-class Americans.
Rarely do we read an accurate perspective on the Lockerbie event.
The United States Navy stupidly shot down an Iranian airliner with 300 souls aboard as it observed the devastation of the Iran-Iraq War, a devastation America had an important hand in extending.
Those 300 innocent men, women, and children received no mercy, and their horrible deaths certainly never saw any justice. Their families never received compensation. And no apology was even offered by Americans, a disgusting set of behaviors, entirely.
Lockerbie was absolutely clearly revenge, but no one knows who actually committed
the act of revenge.
I might offer the observation, too, that it is the same bellowing Americans always ready to use capital punishment or torture and assassinate opponents or, indeed, to invade the lands of those with whom they disagree, bombing and killing countless innocents – three million just in Vietnam, another million or so in the Cambodia they de-stabilized, and another million or so in Iraq.
The whole pattern of the two acts of wanton destruction explains the basis for the so-called War on Terror. It is simply America's saying, “I can do to you, but you can't do to me.”
Abahlali baseMjondolo in Hackney on 4 September 2009
22-08-2009 15:44
BENEFIT Fri 4 Sept 7.30pm-2am@ the Belgrade Social Centre, 2a Belgrade Rd, London N16 8DJ
Bath Vegan Fayre 2009
22-08-2009 15:43
Controlling the Global Economy: Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission and the Federal Reserve
21-08-2009 19:33
The New World Order was meant to represent a new phase in the global political economy in which world authority rested in one place, and for the time, that place was to be the United States.
Mainshill Update - increase in police surveillance
21-08-2009 18:09
The Mainshill Solidarity Camp was set up in June to stop an open cast coal mine from being built next to the village of Douglass in South Lanarkshire. Two weeks ago it hosted the Camp for Climate Action Scotland. The camp has treehouses, towers and tunnels all built to resist eviction.Since the end of Climate Camp Scotland we've been sorting out left over tat and continuing building defences. This week we have had an increase in Police surveillance with early morning visits on Tuesday and Thursday mornings. Both times two police officers walked around the site taking video footage of defences.
RBS glued shut
21-08-2009 18:04
The Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the largest investors and profiteers of environmental destruction and the international arms trade. They destroy natural habitats, therefore unbalancing the ecosphere, by using genocidal methods against the species populating the Earth.Climate camp benefit @ Rampart tonight!
21-08-2009 17:14
a swoopercalifragelisticexpialidocious night at the last chance saloon- yeeha