UK Newswire Archive
The Bio-Zone at the Anti G8 Villages: Protesting with Alternatives
23-05-2003 16:04
A SEED Europe wants to invite you to the Bio-Zone, one of the barrio's in the Intergalactic Village in Annemasse (France). It will be a place to discuss alternatives for a more social, environmental friendly and non-hierarchical society and a good location to prepare for the actions against the G8 Summit.Clinic Raided and Trashed by Israeli Soldiers in Nablus
23-05-2003 15:11
The Israeli government and IOF do as they will with Palestinians, with no one to stop them.Revenue Staff Walk Out In Protest Over Tax Credit Management
23-05-2003 14:03
Hundreds of Inland Revenue staff across the country have walked out of their offices today (Thursday 22 May 2003) in protest at management’s handling of the New Tax Credit programme. Staff in East Kilbride, Coatbridge, Dunfermline, Sunderland and Manchester, staged fifteen minute walk outs today in response to the difficult and stressful work conditions created by the New Tax Credit roll out.Official Carling Buskers
23-05-2003 13:38
Carling and LU have teamed up for a £600,000 deal for carling to set up 'Official' Busking points on the London Underground. The buskers don't actually get a penny from it, they just don't get arrested, although now all other busking is banned so that only 'Carling Buskers' can perform on the underground.Calling time on Tory Blair
23-05-2003 12:49
A call for creative expression of opposition to Tony Blair.Palestinian Refugees Flee under fire
23-05-2003 10:30
Calm after Palestine camp clashesGREENS IN ACEH PROTEST - Blair's "moral inconsistency"
23-05-2003 10:24
Human rights activists are preparing a demonstration at the UK Foreign Office today over Indonesia's military offensive in Aceh - and the Green Party has criticised Tony Blair's "moral inconsistency" in his dealings withoppressive regimes.
CTC Forum
23-05-2003 10:12
Forum for discussions and debates. We have a very active political section. Name is based on the book, 1984.More allegations against Timothy Collins
23-05-2003 10:11
The MOD has confirmed that RIR officer toff Timmy Collins is currently the subject of two military investigations, into the mysterious apparent suicide of East belfast soldier Paul Cochrane, when Timothy and the RIR were based at holywood barracks and also into allegations of mistreatment of iraqi civillians and POW's.Demostration in Lausanne
23-05-2003 09:59
Because of the security hysteria nourished by the medias and the autorities, we found it necessary to make known our motivations and the forms of our actions during the summit. We wish everyone comes in Lausanne respect tgis forms of action.(2)GLOBALIZATION AND TERRORISM.Is there solution?DIEZ HORAS CON LA GLOBALIZACION
23-05-2003 09:26
According to the book: “DIEZ HORAS CON LA GLOBALIZACION”(AMAZON, GOOGLE,YAHOO,NETBIBLO)-Autor: Oscar Sánchez Fernández de la Vega-Editorial NETBIBLO.(
ofdelavega@edu.xunta.es//www.netbiblo.com) -!BY A GLOBALIZATION THAT SITUE IN ITS CENTER THE INDIVIDUAL HUMAN DEVELOPMENT!
-TOWARDS A NEW HUMANISMO-TOWARDS THE NEW MODERNITY
Etoiz Dam
23-05-2003 08:31
Here is an emergency call from the people of Etoiz, Spain. They are in imminent danger as the Etoiz dam is being filled. Below is some of the background, but I dont have information about contacts or what is happening right now - does anyone have this information which they can include as a comment?Youths 'massacred' in Aceh village
23-05-2003 07:54
The Indonesian Army continues to do what it has been doing for decades namely killing innocent civilians"Military chiefs have denied the allegations, saying that civilians are never targeted." Just like in East Timor
Phoney Bliar and Bush Monkey still flogging them all the arms and ammo they need to do a good job ..
ISRAEL DISCOVERS THAT DEMOCRACY IS NOT AN ISRAELI VALUE
23-05-2003 07:43
The Israel Democracy Institute presents its 2003"Democracy Index" at a conference today. The Index
concludes that "Israel is not a substantive democracy" and
notes that "more than half (53%) of the Jews in Israel
state out loud that they are against full equality for the
Arabs; 77% say there should be a Jewish majority
with Arundhati Roy about her new book, "War Talk"
23-05-2003 06:34
My talk "Come September," which is included in War Talk, is about remembering September 11. Not just September 11, 2001, but September 11, 1973, when the CIA-backed coup in Chile installed General Pinochet. September 11, 1922, when Britain marked the imperial mandate on Palestine. And September 11, 1990, when George Bush the First announced to the US Congress his intention to go to war against Iraq.Cig Bans...to Protect Big Oil, Pesticides, Chlorine, etc.
23-05-2003 05:12
The despised IMF and World Bank support "smoking bans"! Why's that? Maybe it's to blame a plant, tobacco, for harms caused by a LOT of petrochemicals, chlorine, and other industrial parts of the Cig Cartel. Big Cig? It benefits by avoiding exposure, liabilities, prosecution for PUTTING the toxins, carcinogens INTO cigarettes...and into unwitting smokers.Republicans will gut Endangered Species Act to Protect Pentagon
23-05-2003 04:10
Despite two reports from the congressional General Accounting Office stating environmental protections have not harmed US military readiness, Representative Richard Pombo (Republican/Libertarian) is on the hunt.Why Are So Many African Governments Corrupt? Ask The Corporations.
22-05-2003 23:43
While the Nigerian Court of Appeals recently ordered Shell to pay the Ogoni people approximately $2 million for environmental damage, few Nigerians anticipate Shell will actually make payments in the knowledge of their past financial support to the notoriously corrupt and violent Nigerian security forces during the Ogoni uprising in the 1990s. Meanwhile, Halliburton Company was forced to admit it paid a $2.4 million dollar bribe to a Nigerian government official in exchange for tax breaks.Santiago Botana Freedom/Hip Hop Piquetero
22-05-2003 21:28
Manifestation on the anniversary of Al-Nakba in Vienna/Austria
22-05-2003 21:09
In Vienna on May 17th there was a manifestation because of the 55th anniversary of Al-Nakba against war, expulsion and occupation in Palestine and Iraq