UK Newswire Archive
Solidarity with the popular uprisings in North Africa and Middle East
03-02-2011 20:00
Revolving door between planning department and Scottish Coal explains new South Lanarkshire minerals plan
03-02-2011 18:22
South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) have just announced a 6 week consultation on the proposed new minerals plan, setting out areas of recoverable coal that the planning departme
Context for Struggle - S.O.S. South Lanarkshire
03-02-2011 18:22
Disclaimer: This is the opinion of one member of CAS/THWAC and does not speak on behalf of the collective.
Cardiff North Africa / Middle East Solidarity Protest
03-02-2011 17:33
Just a poster for the above event - Friday, 5.30 - 7pm, meet at Nye Bevan statue, Queens St.Misreporting Egypt
03-02-2011 17:15
The rapidly unfolding events in Tahrir Square now stand irrefutably as the result of an act of state repression that is at once inherently insidious in nature, but blatant in its staging. The fact that the initiation of attacks and violence in Cairo came at the behest, under the control, and in the interests of a state mechanism attempting to crush its people, is not incidental to the situation, nor is it a complexity of chaos for history to reveal and make sense of at a later date. It is inherent to the reality of the situation – it is the situation itself and everything that is happening stems from that.
Yet despite the constant stream of reports from both paid journalists, and Egyptian demonstrators, on the ground, either immediately, or later, verified in photos, video or witness statements, that first exposed and consistently reaffirmed the truth of today’s events; the reporting of major news channels has, throughout the day, become more and more a passive journalism of the uncertain.
Mozaz's Funeral
03-02-2011 17:11
Palestine Today 02 03 2011
03-02-2011 15:39
What's really happening with the EU Cosmetics Directive
03-02-2011 15:34
It was recently leaked to the Guardian newspaper that the European Parliament will probably be asked to postpone a ban intended to impose a Europe-wide ban on the use of animals for testing cosmetic products, (and their ingredients), and a simultaneous ban on the sale of cosmetic products tested on animals after the European ban comes into force.Pictures from the anti-cuts demonstrations in Sheffield on Saturday 29th Jan
03-02-2011 15:23
Victory for the 4 Thessaloniki 2003 Summit activists
03-02-2011 15:08
On Monday January 31st the four activists, Simon Chapman (Britain), Suleiman “Kastro” Dakdouk (Syrian origin), Michalis Triakapis (Greece) and Fernando Perez Gorraiz (Spain), were found not guilty in Greek court of the charges related to the EU Summit in June 2003 in Thessaloniki, Greece.upcoming demo and public meeting in Bath
03-02-2011 15:07
Join union members, students, claimants and community activists around Bath and the surrounds, to fight against the Con-Dem cutsRebel Alliance Brighton 6/2/11
03-02-2011 13:27
Rebel Alliance meeting Sunday 6th Februaury, 6pm at The Cowley ClubEdinburgh students shut down lecture by Israeli diplomat
03-02-2011 12:43
The event, hosted by the University's Jewish society and held in Lecture Theatre 1 of Appleton Tower, was re-arranged only the night before after the International Relations society refused to host Khaldi, due to the fact that Palestinian were living under “Apartheid”
The talk was scheduled to start at 5pm but was delayed until 5.30pm, with the organisers citing 'security concerns'. When it did eventually get under way, one SJP member interrupted immediately shouting “Where is the freedom of speech for the 1,500 massacred in Gaza? Where is the freedom of speech for the Palestinian students in Israeli dungeons?”
Inside anti-kettling HQ
03-02-2011 11:23
Cairo, it wasn't. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London, something happened outside the Egyptian embassy that deserves at least a footnote in the annals of protest history. A crowd of students weren't kettled.
In the context of recent British protests, this was a near-miracle. At each of the previous four major student protests in London since the Millbank riot on 10 November, police have kettled – or, in their terminology, "contained" – thousands of protesters, preventing them from leaving an area for several hours, and often from accessing basic amenities such as food, water and toilets.
Police kettle protesters supposedly to quell violence, but protesters arguably only turn to violence out of frustration at being kettled. Most notoriously, police trapped hundreds of teenage schoolchildren inside a tight grid on Whitehall on 24 November – and only subsequently did a few of them smash up a police van abandoned in their midst.
Saturday's non-kettle, then, was a victory in itself. But the real excitement wasn't that it didn't happen – but how it didn't happen. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly why police and protesters behave in a certain way at a certain time, but one explanation for the kettle's failure to form lies with a new communications network, which launched that afternoon:Sukey.
Bristol WDM presents: Hunger for Justice
03-02-2011 11:22
An evening of speakers, discussion and action over the local and global issues of food sovereignty.Small farmers are locked into a world food economy controlled by a greedy few. Find out what social movements are doing to change this and where we fit into the struggle.
When: Tuesday 22nd Feb 7.30pm
Where: Unitarian Meeting House, Brunswick Sq. BS2 8PE
Free Entry
Now we are in the midst of another food crisis, the structures of the world's food economy have again been revealed for their inequities. However, across the world, movements of people are rising up to change this. This evening will host a vibrant discussion of what actions people are taking in the global food sovereignty movement and what is being done here in Bristol. Come along to find out how to get involved in the global justice movement.
Contributors:
• Claire Hall- activist with experience of campesina movements in Colombia
• Christine Haigh – WDM food campaigner
• Dr Alan Terry –Lecturer in the geography of rural development (UWE)
• Claire Milne – Community food activist and lecturer on the global food system at the School of Artisan Food
Invite your friends to this event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125992027471169
Read more about WDM’s food campaign: http://www.wdm.org.uk/
Police agent Mark Kennedy was active throughout Europe
03-02-2011 10:02
Mark Kennedy, the police agent who worked undercover in the environmental movement for eight years, was active in his undercover guise as Mark Stone throughout Europe.Berlin Squat Evicted
03-02-2011 08:37
Berlin commune eviction results in arrests and huge protestsEviction of Liebig 14 former squat in Friedrichshain takes five hours and 2,500 police to counter protesters