UK Newswire Archive
Israel: “How Goodly Are Thy Tents”
07-08-2011 20:25
FIRST OF all, a warning.Tent cities are springing up all over Israel. A social protest movement is gathering momentum. At some point in the near future, it may endanger the right-wing government.
Trouble sparks in Enfield tonight
07-08-2011 19:55
Around 7pm this evening reports are coming in that there has been trouble in Enfield, North London continuing on from last nights disturbances in Tottenham. A police car and shop windows have been smashed up. Police in riot gear are around the area and talk of a large crowd hanging around.
This is folowing some incidences in Brixton after the Splash festival was ending, where there was a strong police presence.
Indignados Demonstrate in Madrid Against Police Violence
07-08-2011 18:55
The "indignados" movement in Spain continues. In Madrid's Puerta del Sol, the police last week evicted an information stall that remained in the place where the first Assemblies took place. In response, up to 800 people concentrated there and faced a violent police charge.
Further disturbances in London
07-08-2011 18:45
Shop windows and police car attacked in EnfieldUrges For Fair War Crimes Trials in Bangladesh
07-08-2011 18:27
I am very much concern about the accused the right to the presumption of innocence, a fair and public hearing with counsel of their choice and the possibility of bail.Recently the British barrister Toby Cadman has been refused by the Bangladesh government to enter into Bangladesh that raises a question about the impartiality of the government towards the free and fair trial.
I highly condemn regarding autocratic attitude of the government towards the human rights lawyer Toby Cadman.
UG#562 - Our Biggest Enemy is Ourselves (Deschooling Society 1)
07-08-2011 18:20
EF! Summer Gathering Site Number
07-08-2011 17:24
The Gathering set up has begun, if you can come down and help before Wednesday that would be grand.Site phone number 1 is 07551689365 or try number 2 on 07866797016.
Gaza Children's Artwork on Display in Chester: 'Loss of Innocence'
07-08-2011 16:15
More information and photos of the day here:
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/08/483081.html
Solidarity demo at Colnbrook
07-08-2011 15:55
Anti-detention campaigners on Friday held a small, but noisy, protest at Colnbrook immigration prison, near Heathrow airport, where two migrant prisoners apparently killed themselves in less than a month. With a megaphone, whistles, a vuvuzela and pots and pans, they made themselves heard to the migrants locked up in Colnbrook, as well as in the adjacent Harmondsworth. Detainees shouted back 'freedom, freedom' and other angry, desperate slogans.
On 31st July, a 25-year-old man in Colnbrook reportedly killed himself. No details or hard facts are known yet. The Home Office is claiming that he died of 'natural causes' but fellow detainees told campaigners he committed suicide after becoming “very distressed.”
Less than a month before, on 2nd July, another Colnbrook detainee, Muhammed Shuket from Pakistan, died on the way to hospital after he apparently tried to hang himself. Again, the Home Office refused to reveal any details and promised “an inquest in due course.”
Earlier this week, on 2nd August, a 35-year-old man locked up in Campsfield immigration prison in Oxfordshire was also found dead. According to other detainees, the Moldovian national was about to be deported and hanged himself in the toilet. (see http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/02/asylum-seeker-dead-campsfield)
The three deaths bring the number of people who have died in UK immigration prisons over the last few years to 16. These crimes should stop and the only way to do that is to close down all immigration prisons and stop forcibly deporting people who have come here to seek refuge and safety.
ATOS Worker - Sick are "Parasitical Wankers"
07-08-2011 12:57
Nottinghamshire Pride 2011
07-08-2011 09:55
On Saturday July 30th, Nottingham’s LGBT community and others gathered for Nottinghamshire (no longer merely Nottingham) Pride. This year, the march preceding the main festivities went from Market Square to the Forest Rec.
On the newswire: Nottinghamshire Pride 2011 | Notts Uncut Newsletter – The Pride Edition!
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Prevented from marching down Mansfield Road by the ongoing gasworks, the march made its way through various back streets. Despite the bizarre route, the procession was well attended and colourful, with the usual mix of drag queens, young people and marching band supplemented by assorted local dignitaries.
Despite its obvious popularity, the event has clearly had the same problems with funding affecting so many of Nottingham’s cultural events (see also carnival, now reduced to one day, and Mela which has been assimilated into the Riverside Festival). This may go some way to explaining the prominence of corporate sponsors including EOn.
Anti-cuts stall in Chester
07-08-2011 09:21
Palestine Day and Hiroshima Day in Chester
07-08-2011 08:52
EDF gets green light to trash 400 acres of greenfield land in Somerset
07-08-2011 07:04
EDF plans to uproot all the trees and vegetation, which provide important habitats for birds, bats, mammals and other precious flora and fauna. It also plans to dig up more soil and rock than was done for the preparation of the London 2012 Olympic site. And all of this before EDF has even submitted an application to the Infrastructure Planning Commission for its planned new nu-killer power station. But worry ye not, because EDF says that if it doesn't get permission to build its new nu-killer reactor (or if it changes its mind for economic or other reasons), then it will restore the land to its former glory.
More photos of the beautiful land EDF wants to trash here:
http://tinyurl.com/44e8vow
Comic strip against violence
07-08-2011 04:40
Tottenham Burning
07-08-2011 02:55
Tottenham riot photos
Non-corporate/eye-witness photos from the Tottenham riots tonight.
Tottenham rioting after police shooting demo
07-08-2011 00:55
Tottenham broke out in riots this evening after a protest of 150 people outside the police station against the police shooting of local man Mark Duggan on Thursday night near the Broadwater Farm estate. The riots went on for some hours and have now moved off the main road into the side streets as locals gather to watch and join in the trouble. The area is now swarming with police vans with riot cops trying to clear the area but general confusion reigns about what is going on. A few shops, a bus and a bank were set alight and talk of some cop cars set alight.
Police horses chasing kids up and down Seven Sisters Road, 25 years to the day from the Tottenham riots of '85. With a Carnival in Brixton tomorrow there is talk on twitter of this spreading. More to come
Free 'Give and Take' stall in Chester now open every day
06-08-2011 23:01
LUC Skill Share Report
06-08-2011 22:03
A report of the first Lincoln Underground Collective Skill Share at the Jolly Brewer, Lincoln on 31st July 2011.Frack Off! 500 ft high Banner Drop Off Blackpool Tower
06-08-2011 10:43
