UK Newswire Archive
Request For Support For Mexican Political Prisoner
30-08-2010 09:23
From Amnestia Internacional: http://www.es.amnesty.org/temas/presos-de-conciencia/mexico-raul-hernandez/Mexico: Raúl Hernández, an in
Deportation charter flights to Iraq
30-08-2010 07:17
Mother Teresa Protest by Empire State Building owner.
30-08-2010 04:10
The owner of the Empire State Building, Anthony Milkin refused to honor Mother Teresa by switching on it's lights for her birthday celebration. Mr. Malkin pointed out that "Billions of dollars she raised is unaccounted for and that she took money from many awful regimes in Central America". Abuses at her clinics have been documented by reliable sources and are the subject of two books including the "Missionary Position". WELL DONE ANTHONY.Reprinted from Protest the Pope, Facebook page
Buying Israeli Goods is Funding Apartheid (Brand new artwork by Latuff))
30-08-2010 03:21
SSHD and ACMD to be judicially reviewed re Alcohol and Tobacco Policy
30-08-2010 01:35
Incarcerated US LSD chemist, serving 20 years in UK, seeks to judicially review the SSHD's and the ACMD's political exclusion of alcohol and tobacco from the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. Though the claim is in the public interest, Casey Hardison ultimately wants equal treatment.Request For Support For Mexican Political Prisoner
30-08-2010 00:20
From Amnestia Internacional:
http://www.es.amnesty.org/temas/presos-de-conciencia/mexico-raul-hernandez/ Mexico: Raúl Hernández, an indigenous leader and defender of human rights
MathewStreet - The Biggest Free Festival in Europe
29-08-2010 22:16
EDL Fails to 'Retake' Bradford (and what it means for the South West)
29-08-2010 21:22
Remember when some reported that the EDL (English Defence League) were planning to march in Bristol? Then on the day of the leadership debate in Bristol the EDL did turn up - though in smaller numbers than it was claimed online would attend (though to be fair, we don't know if those posting online as the EDL are really the EL) - well judging by the numbers at the Bradford demo, the high tide of the EDL has been reached, and we may only see lower numbers from here...Back in there were race riots in Bradford - well there were riots, and race was involved, but it was a more complex situation that Asian vs White - as were the St Pauls riots of the 80s more complex that Black vs White. Fast forward to now and the EDL - a group claiming to oppose 'radical Islam' but one clearing ill at ease with itself, sought to the take to the streets of Bradford - a city with a sizeable Asian and Muslim population and 'reclaim' it from the radical Muslims. Not that the radical Muslims ever held the city, but that's another story... It was speculated that this was going to be the 'big one' - especially as rumours were that disaffected BNP supporters, tired of the in-fighting in the BNP and the electoral whiteout it suffered in the recent elections - that the far-right were moving from the ballot box back to the streets.
Well first we the the issue of what exactly the EDL stands for - we know from it's claims that it opposes radical Islam. But we also know that there seems to be a battle within the EDL about who it really is - Neo-Nazi? Pro-the Jewish State? Anti-Muslim? Racist? Pro-Gay? It seems that all of these views are boiling around in the EDL and may are contradictory with each other. In addition the group seems to be unable to top the largest attendance of around 2000 at it's Dudley and Bolton demos earlier this year. It could be that a ramped up police presence is putting off it's supporters - but I suspect it is more around discontent with what it is and what it stands for, after all how easily can a Jewish supporter march next to a Nazi happily sieg-heiling along?
So the big one came and went - and the turnout was put at 700 (though the police often under-estimate numbers at demos) but still less that it' high point. SO this from an account of the day:
"So was the day a success in terms of opposing the EDL? To my eye it was, and to a large extent due to the failure to rise to the extreme provocation and baiting being aimed at the local residents. Instead of the old tactic of shouting 'Nazi' at the EDL (something which surely even the most hard nosed EDL supporter can now not deny given the chanting that was going on) and ineffective speeches-cum-paper-selling tactics of the UAF, action was planned and executed by the local population and a unified, defiant but peaceful show of strength was made. The EDL was shown in their true colours, they didn't spark the race riot they so badly wanted and came off extremely badly in the eyes of the mainstream press whos attention they have been courting for some time now. Their claims to support the police will now ring pretty hollow and it will be hard for them to regroup and continue to recruit new members after this PR disaster." http://northern-indymedia.org/articles/916
This means that even in northern cities where the far-right has been able to claim support, it is not gaining but loosing number - so the chances of huge demos in cities like Bristol, who support for the far-right from judging from the recent elections is minimal at best - is falling by the day. That's not to say we might not see isolated actions by EDL supporters.
Still, the most interesting thing about the day comes from a comment on the above article about an action within the crowd opposing the EDL:
"Couple of things that I saw that I think deserve recognition - the unfolding of the banner in defence of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, the Iranian woman sentenced to stoning - this got a lot of support from everyone gathered around Kirkgate, I know it doesn't need saying but just shows the absolute bollocks that Bradford is somehow one step from Shariah Law. "
Report calls for “infiltration” of 9/11 sites
29-08-2010 20:30
The report, called The Power of Unreason: Conspiracy Theories, Extremism and Counterterrorism, says "most notoriously and influentially, the ‘9/11 truth movement’ has questioned the official accounts of 9/11 and has become a large and growing political force."
The report notes that the 9/11 truth movement is "peaceful", but makes no distinction between the legitimate questioning of the official account of 9/11 and any number of unrelated, and often racist, conspiracy theories.
Dialect - Eyewitness Harriet Byles reports back from Palestine
29-08-2010 20:22
plus Julian Lea Jones probes Bristol's local history vaultsDialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) podcast produced by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every week on Friday morning. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Sundays at 12 noon. Or listen live on the internet at http://www.bcfm.org.uk/
Dialect - Eyewitness Harriet Byles reports back from Palestine
plus Julian Lea Jones probes Bristol's local history vaults
listen
http://radio4all.net/index.php/program/45236
download
http://www.radio4all.net/files/tony@cultureshop.org.uk/2149-1-4237-1-DialectPSC.mp3
Timings for Show : Bristol Student visits West Bank
0.00-0.50 Intro (0.50)
0.50-10.51 Harriet Byles (West Bank) (10.01)
10.51-13.41 First Roxy Music Track (including intro and fade out) (2.50)
13.41-20.59 Julian Lea Jones Local History Part 3 (including intro) (7.18)
http://www.history4u.info/
20.59-21.16 Jingle (0.17)
21.16-29.39 Dr Beeching Railways Part 2 8.23
http://www.nostalgiacollection.com/newsite/Introduction....html
29.39-33.23 Cinema Paradiso (inc intro to festival) 3.44
33.23-44.00 Portobello Festival (10.37)
44.00-46.56 Roxy Music Virginia Plain (inc intro) (2.56)
46.56-56.13 Secrets and Lies (inc intro and theme music) (9.17)
56.13-57.52 Poem (inc intro) (1.39)
57.52-58.53 What's On? By JEFF SPARKES (1.01)
58.53-58.45 Round up and outro (0.52)
CREDITS
Presenter: John Peters-Coleman
Reporters: Anthea Page and Tony Gosling
Studio Engineer: Michael Noyes
Producer: Anthea Page
Artwork for Irish Ship to Gaza (Freedom Flotilla 2) by Latuff
29-08-2010 20:04
Chilean Circus of 'Saints and Sinners'
29-08-2010 18:11
HLS Exposed Again - Primate supplier shows shocking cruelty
29-08-2010 17:22
Bradford & Brightin
29-08-2010 11:23
They came, they stood, they shouted. And then nicked off again! Such was the so-called ‘Little Big One!' much trumpeted by the EDL and proving to be a static demo too far.
The Police, Oppression and Resistance
29-08-2010 11:22
PUBLIC MEETING in EASTON7.30pm Wednesday 1st Sept @
Bristol YHA, 14 Narrow Quay, BS1 4QA
Speaker: Jonny Jones
No police officers are to be charged over the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson at last year’s G20 protests in the City of London. This is despite video footage clearly showing PC Simon Harwood with his identification numbers covered and a scarf covering his face as he struck Ian from behind with a baton. Ian died soon afterwards.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reported its decision on the fifth anniversary of the shooting of another innocent man, Jean Charles de Menezes, at Stockwell tube station in 2005.
Ian Tomlinson is the latest in a long line of people killed by the police on the streets of London, and police violence has been seen time and again as riot squads attacked miners, printers, anti poll tax demonstrators, anti-fascists and travellers.
Furthermore, since 1971 there have been more than 1,000 deaths in police custody. Not one police officer has ever been successfully prosecuted as a result.
In the light of such facts, this meeting will consider what really is the role of the police. Do they actually protect us from the crime which seems to blight so many people's lives? Can they and the State in general been seen as essentially neutral institutions in relation to the rest of society, concerned equally with every 'law-abiding citizen's' well-being?
What are the alternatives to the police?
Come along and join in the discussion.
Bradford & Brighton
29-08-2010 10:19
They came, they stood, they shouted. And then nicked off again! Such was the so-called ‘Little Big One!’ much trumpeted by the EDL and proving to be a static demo too far.The EDL - definitely not fascists, honest!
29-08-2010 08:15
Bradford completely destroyed by EDL, millions dead.
29-08-2010 03:01
So there we have it. After months of disinformation, deviancy and nobody really knowing who anybody else is, the "big one" turned out to be a bit of a "small one".Catholic Church, UK govt in bomb cover-up: report. PROTEST THE POPE
28-08-2010 23:43
(Reuters) - The UK government, the police and the Catholic Church colluded to protect a priest suspected of involvement in a 1972 bombing in Northern Ireland that killed 9 people, a report said on Tuesday.Just one more of the thousand reasons to fully support the PROTEST THE POPE demonstrations.
Saturday in Bradford
28-08-2010 23:23
On the 28th of August the English Defence League came to Bradford to stir up trouble much like in 7 July 2001 and were, to a large part, ignored. See the coverage on Northern Indymedia from the time-line and articles [1], [2] and other photos. There was a similar demonstration in Leeds on the 21st of Oct 2009.