UK Newswire Archive
15ft tank is next, say 25ft gun protesters!
16-11-2009 19:16
Following on from the recent good turn out against the arms sellers Heckler and Koch, based in Lenton, Nottingham, the activists and artists responsible for building a 25ft model gun and marching it through the streets, are anouncing their intention to build a 15ft tank and would like help to do so...NATO delegates on the way to Museum of Flight, Edinburgh
16-11-2009 18:46
Bike spotters have intercepted delegates from the NATO Parliamentary Assembly under police escort travelling in several convoys of coaches apparently heading for the Museum of Flight.Coffin at Copenhagen
16-11-2009 17:59
The Copenhagen Climate Change conference next month, once the great hope of environmentalists, had its teeth pulled this week after an accord between China and the United States to postpone an envisaged global treaty that would have set limits to gas and carbon dioxide emissions world-wide.With the main polluters out of the treaty project the conference is a lame duck.
Ironically the disheartening Sino-American accord was reached during President Barack Obama’s visit to Beijing and indicates the Chinese may have used their credit-power - the U.S. owns billions of dollars in trade to Beijing -to bend the U.S. administration to their will and in the process weaken a U.S, president who won his mandate on a pledge to tackle climate change and had proclaimed himself a leader in the battle to save the planet.
President Chavez insists: The Only Road is towards Socialism!
16-11-2009 17:51
Animal abuse Leads To Human Abuse
16-11-2009 17:30
Slaughterman found guilty of murdering woman with a cattle bolt gun.Indigenous women accuse RBS and Treasury of funding 'bloody oil'
16-11-2009 14:57
Three Indigenous Canadian women will visit the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) London headquarters tomorrow to demand that they stop financing one of the world’s most polluting projects – the Tar Sands.Destruction of Farnborough town centre enters final phase
16-11-2009 14:18
The destruction of Farnborough town centre by property developer KPI/St Modwen is now entering its final phase.Announcing a New Meeting at the Durham Working Class bookfair Nov 21st
16-11-2009 13:52
November 21st, 12 Noon, upstairs at same venue; ‘The Syndicalist challenge in the Durham coalfield before 1914’ - a talk by Lewis MatesRatcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 3
16-11-2009 13:27
Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 2
16-11-2009 13:20
Ratcliffe Power Station 'Climate Swoop' 1
16-11-2009 13:12
No Platform for Murderers! NATO Secretary General at Edinburgh University Tomorr
16-11-2009 12:40
Meet outside Old College on South Bridge, Edinburgh at 1pm tomorrow, Tuesday 17^th November. Bring banners and things to make lots of noise with!More Terror Raids in Manchester
16-11-2009 12:24
At around 4 o’clock this morning the police arrested five men under the Terrorism Act 2000. Four of them were detained in Greater Manchester by the North West Counter Terrorism Unit, while the other was arrested near Heathrow Airport. According to police there is “no direct threat against Greater Manchester”.Benefit gig at Black Cat occupied social centre, Bath, Friday 20th Nov.
16-11-2009 11:41
No New Nuclear - planning to win this weekend.
16-11-2009 09:57
Nuclear Power is a capitalist technofix to climate change.
Use less energy. Use energy more efficiently. Problem solved. Don't swallow the Greenwash.
Urban Cash or Urban Rash?
16-11-2009 09:28
UniLife, the less than critical in-house magazine of the University of Manchester, has heaped nothing but praise upon the Chancellor elected and installed last year, local property developer and chairman of the Urban Splash Group Tom Bloxham MBE.Immigrant workers arrested in factory raid
16-11-2009 09:26
Police and immigration officers arrested 23 workers at a clothes factory in Ardwick, Manchester, last Wednesday as part of a massive raid to catch people working illegally.Anti-Vivisection Demo @ Bradford Uni - This Friday
16-11-2009 02:58
Following our expose of the University of Bradford's small vivisection laboratory, we are calling a demo this week at the campus.Gerrard Winstanley 400th Anniversary Celebration
15-11-2009 23:40
Details of a celebration to be held in honour of the life and work of Digger leader Gerrard Winstanley