UK Newswire Archive
After Lula: New cannidate of the left in Brazil takes lead
24-06-2010 15:12
After Lula: New cannidate of the left in Brazil takes lead"Rousseff has the support of 40 percent of those surveyed during the past three days, compared with 35 percent for the opposition candidate Serra, Veja reported on its website."
One Law For All Demonstration against Sharia in Britain
24-06-2010 12:38
It was a No to Racism, No to Sexism Demo against Sharia Law. It was attended by many left wing supporters, as well as muslims opposed to Islamism. For more info see www.onelawforall.org.ukanimal abusers brag on facebook sites
24-06-2010 12:29
facebook users should not be subject to abuse because they love animals or be subject to abuse because they are dyslexis .its a family site .Big Green Weekend - Live on the Solar Stage
24-06-2010 12:23
The final act of saturday night at the Hebden Bridge Big Green Weekend 2010 Solar Stage. The crowd was gathered on the street outside the trades club in Hebden Bridge having spent the day attending workshops and browsing the stalls. The band was called Mad Jack and the Hatters and drew a large crowd despite the wet weather.
TAX DODGERS – YOUR TIME IS UP!
24-06-2010 12:22
£25 billion is lost each year in unpaid taxesMake the corporations pay what they should. Make the rich pay taxes!
PRESS RELEASE – BRIDGWATER & DISTRICT TRADES UNION COUNCIL, 22ND JUNE
TAX DODGERS – YOUR TIME IS UP!
Whatever the effects of the Con-Dem “Austerity Budget”, one thing is certain – its main aim will not be to solve economic problems, but to prop up an inefficient and unfair economic system, at the expense of the majority of working people.
For some months now we have been fed a lie by politicians of all colours; that the only cure for what is wrong with the economy is to severely cut public services and jobs, as if these were the causes of the economic mess we’re in.
In fact, to avoid returning into even deeper recession, we need to spend in the public sector, to promote jobs, training and economic confidence and growth.
Meanwhile, in 2009, the wealth of Britain’s richest 1000 people increased by one third – the recession isn’t bad news for everyone! Cameron’s Cabinet contains18 millionaires, give or take a few £million – and these are the people, who will tell us to tighten our belts!
So here are a few suggestions from Bridgwater & District Trades Union Council for saving the British economy:
• Tax Research UK says £25 billion is lost each year in unpaid taxes – much of it on unearned income. Let’s employ more public sector workers & open more tax offices and make rich scroungers pay their share. Let’s have a national poster campaign with “Filthy rich tax dodgers – your time is up”
• The Queen wants an increase of £6 million this year, to add to the £7.9 million the tax payer already forks out to the Royal Household each year. Just say no! As the Government says: “Britain’s hand-out culture must be stopped”!
• Privatised railways cost the tax-payer three times as much as did British Rail, because of the subsidies we pay to private companies who then pay profits to their shareholders, and the costs of regulation and franchising. Re-nationalise the railways and save the taxpayer a fortune!
• Compel Britain’s top 50 companies to cancel all dividends to shareholders
(BP are showing the way!) and pay them instead into a ring-fenced windfall fund to provide jobs for unemployed young people. We’ve all got to make sacrifices in this “Big Society”!
• Cancel renewal of the unnecessary and unusable Trident nuclear weapons system – thus saving £4 billion a year, and making the world a safer place
• Cancel bankers’ bonuses and put bankers to work on voluntary community schemes to repay some of their debt to the economy they’ve ruined.
There are billions to be saved in ways like this if the political will were there. Instead, the government attacks the poorest, neediest and most disadvantaged in our society, while propping up a failing economic system which promotes the rich and greedy. It’s not just time for electoral reform, but a drastic overhaul of the whole economic system: people before profit!
Food Crisis in West Africa- We Need Your Support
24-06-2010 11:46
Film: The War Game
24-06-2010 11:22
Using amateur actors to imagine a nuclear strike on Britain at the height of the cold war, this controversial film was almost immediately banned.Sunday 22 August 2.30pm at Arnolfini
Using amateur actors to imagine a nuclear strike on Britain at the height of the cold war, this controversial film was almost immediately banned. Watkins' ambition was to question the illusory aspects of media-produced reality, confronting notions of reality and objectivity by deliberately staging films as though they were really happening.
Dir. Peter Watkins, UK, 1965, 47m
This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
Film: Little Dieter Needs to Fly
24-06-2010 11:22
Werner Herzog persuades a former US pilot to return to the jungle sites of his capture.This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
Fri 13 Aug 6.30pm
With typical brilliance and idiosyncrasy Herzog persuades a former US pilot who was shot down over Vietnam to return to the jungle sites of his capture and internment to retell and restage the unbelievable details of his horrific experience, all the while being harassed by AK-47-brandishing Vietnamese actors.
Dir. Werner Herzog, France/UK/Germany, 1997, 1h 20m
Film: A Grin Without a Cat: Scenes of the Third World War 1967-1977
24-06-2010 11:22
Saturday 7 August 7.30pmMarker presents a vivid picture of world unrest.
Sat 7 Aug 7.30pm
Re-editing an enormous quantity of film, much of it taken under dangerous conditions during the activist struggles of the 1960s and early '70s, Marker - who always thinks about the condition of film as memory - presents a vivid picture of world unrest, denouncing 'governments, who would like us to have no memory'.
Dir. Chris Marker, France, 1977, 3h, Subtitled
This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
Film: November
24-06-2010 11:22
Thursday 12 August 6.30pmHito Steyerl engages in a fundamental reflection on how fact and fiction are intertwined in global discourse.
Thu 12 Aug 6.30pm
November (NC)
£3.00/£2.00 Concs
In the eighties Steyerl shot a Super 8 feminist martial arts film with her best friend Andrea Wolf (who was later killed fighting for Kurdish independence) in the lead role. Steyerl's memories and accounts of Wolf's life provoke the filmmaker to engage in a fundamental reflection on how fact and fiction are intertwined in global discourse.
Dir. Hito Steyerl, Germany, 2004, 25m
This film is also part of Known Unknowns, a film season which explores the camera's role not only in recording events, but also in producing them; it explores the implications of the camera as an agent of change, something which can deceive and beguile as easily as it can record.
EDINBURGH RIGHT TO WORK CAMPAIGN ' ALL OUT' BUDGET DAY DEMO JUNE 22ND
24-06-2010 10:23
ON TUESDAY jUNE 22ND we saw the embryonic start of major resistance....a demonstration built by CWU Scotland, Edinburgh TUC, Edinburgh Right to Work Campaign, and saw 300 people on the streets of the City with large contingents from all the major trade unions, the IWW, SWP, Anarchist Organisations, SSP, Green Party, and many community activists and student organisations. Key speakers at the Rally were from the EIS, PCS Union, Unite, Unison, and community campaigns who have been victorious against attempts by Edinburgh Council to close schools, tender services, close nurseries and community centres. The general call from both the rally and the demonstration was unity between all political, trade union, and community organisations who took part in the day of protest was action to confront any attempt at Con/Dem cuts to public services whether within the public sector, community, or voluntary sector. A key speaker, Steven Deans, Chair of Unite, Scottish Region, argued that we need to build ' a movement and coalition of resistance'.
Mavi Marmara Bristol Mtg
24-06-2010 10:22
Mavi Marmara Mtg. huge success!There was an excellent local meeting on the Gaza flotilla in Bristol last night, with around 80 people turning up to hear the two local guys who were on the boat, and Ken Loach plus Tam McFarlane of the FBU. Full report & pic here:
http://bristolred.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/flotilla-mee...cess/
There was an excellent local meeting on the Gaza flotilla in Bristol last night, with around 80 people turning up to hear the two local guys who were on the boat, and Ken Loach plus Tam McFarlane of the FBU. Full report & pic here:
http://bristolred.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/flotilla-mee...cess/
Film: Videogrammes of a Revolution
24-06-2010 10:22
This brilliant documentary examines the political role of the camera in recording but also producing revolutionary events.Farocki and Ujica's brilliant documentary examines the political role of the camera in recording but also producing revolutionary events (or history, as they call it), via their persuasive analysis of the political role of TV and video images during the Romanian revolution of December 1989.
Dirs. Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujica, Germany, 1991, 1h 46m
Knesset Bills Threaten to Restrict Israeli NGOs
24-06-2010 10:17
An update about recent legislative developments that attempt to restrict the work of Israeli NGOs as well as a position paper to the European Parliament and links to articles about the Coalition of Women for Peace's work.Oil Industry Under Siege
24-06-2010 08:22
As oil executives gathered at a London hotel for their annual strategising conference on Monday, up to 200 climate activists crossed the river from BP-sponsored Tate Modern to converge on the front entrance with a samba band and a giant paper-mache oil-covered seabird.
Titled "Drum It Out", the protest also put the industry on trial before a People's Court which loudly found it guilty of crimes of pollution, war crimes, climate crime, and more.
The court heard live testimony by witnesses not only from the Gulf, but from Nigeria, Ghana, Colombia, Peru, from Iraq which has suffered the devastation of a war for oil, from Canada where indigenous people are resisting the Tar Sands oil project destroying a land as large as England, and from Kenya and China which are suffering droughts as a result of the changing climate. "The Gulf of Mexico is not the only disaster," the protesters said - "in fact it's not even the largest, and in some places this destruction of life has been going on for decades. The oil industry is not sustainable. They think they rule the world, but they are facing resistance everywhere. They cannot come to this hotel and think they will carry on business as usual".
A dead fish award was presented to Bloody Oil in its various company guises, and a "fish" was delivered to the hotel to be passed on to Congress delegates.
Following the trial, the main and back entrance were besieged by the drumming crowd, with no injuries and no arrests. Two activists who had succeeded in penetrating the building were unceremoniously ejected. The Drum Out will be followed this Saturday by a Teach In, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, where campaigners will learn more about the ongoing resistance by workers and communities in oil regions, will link-up live with organisers in Ghana, and will discuss how to work together to bring the industry down. One protester commented, "If even half the money invested in subsidising oil, cleaning up its disasters and funding its wars were devoted to alternative forms of energy, people wouldn't be suffering these outrages, and the planet would be safe."
Photos: Kristian Buus
Greenwash spill at the BP-sponsored National Portrait Gallery
24-06-2010 08:00
DANGER DEEP IN THE GULF
24-06-2010 05:33
Friendship and Literature
24-06-2010 02:37
This event brings together Christopher Ricks, one of the most distinguished critics of our age and author of True Friendship (2010), and Mark Vernon, founder member of The School of Life and author of The Meaning of Friendship (2010), to talk about the ways in which literature has shaped their understanding of friendship. Admission is free, but seats should be reserved. See link.Christopher Ricks
One of the most distinguished critics of his generation. He is William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities and Co-Director of the Editorial Institute, Boston University, a recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Distinguished Achievement Award for significant contributions to the humanities, and was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford (2004-2009). (Wikipedia: 'known as a champion of Victorian poetry; an enthusiast of Bob Dylan, whose lyrics he has analysed at book length; a trenchant reviewer of writers he considers pretentious; and a warm reviewer of those he thinks humane or humorous. Hugh Kenner has praised his "intent eloquence", and Geoffrey Hill his "unrivalled critical intelligence". W.H. Auden described Ricks as "exactly the kind of critic every poet dreams of finding."') Most recently he has published True Friendship (2010).
Mark Vernon
Writer, broadcaster and journalist, his work appears regularly in The Guardian, TLS, Evening Standard and on the BBC. His studies began with a degree in physics, followed by two degrees in theology, and a PhD in philosophy. He is an honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a founding member of The School of Life.
http://www.markvernon.com
This event is part of The Humane Reader day.
united utilities /rrs /this is the incinerator companies record
23-06-2010 22:34
rrs plan many incinerators in uk .thier prototype incinerator on th e isle of wight has bee shut down for now breaching dioxins they are also responsoble for the floods in cockermouth cumbria .they filled the resavoiur above to the brim . then heavy rains came .houses flooded ,bridges washed away .apoliceman died .yet to be dealt with now they build deadly incinerators causing child deaths cancers ect in the uk .stop them nowBudget protest: Nottingham
23-06-2010 21:59
The SWP-initiated Right to Work campaign called for protests across the country against the budget. These were supported by Unison and, locally, by the Nottinghamshire and Mansfield Trades Council. Trade unionists and others demonstrated outside the Council House from 5.30pm. I understand there were also protests by the PCS (the civil service union) at lunchtime.