UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Edinburgh Temporary Autonomous Arts Exhibition

08-10-2007 15:59

FREAK, the Free and Reactive Edinburgh Arts Kollective, are transforming a derelict warehouse in Granton into an arts venue for a four day event from the 10th to the 14th of October. There will be art exhibitions, live music, performances, films and educational workshops.

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Parliament Square 4.15pm. GLA barriers down.

08-10-2007 15:33

Grass area taken.

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Fence down at parliament sq

08-10-2007 15:30

During today's Stop the War demo large numbers of protesters who had previously occupied the road turned their attention to the fence surrounding Parliament Square green. In the surreal scenes that followed 3/4 of the controversial fence were ripped down and stacked neatly.

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Palestine Today 100807

08-10-2007 14:58

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday October 8th, 2007.

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Parliament Square 3.40pm

08-10-2007 14:43

Protesters break out.

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March arrives in Parliament Square 2.55pm

08-10-2007 14:01

Loads of cops. Marchers behind barriers.

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Photos of Blockade of Manchester airport Terminal 3

08-10-2007 12:52

These stills show that it is very possible to get into your local airport and blockade the security section for Domestic flights.

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Video of Manchester Airport Blockade

08-10-2007 12:18

Video showing the beginning of the blockade of Manchester Airport Terminal 3's domestic security checking zone. Passengers are being denied access to the departure lounge by seven activists locked together using arm-tube devices.

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Juana suffers heart attack in Jail

08-10-2007 11:29

Friends of Mapuche chief Juana in Bristol and all around the world are deeply concerned at her plight.
If you care about human rights, please read and act!

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Plane Stupid / Manchester Climate Action blockade Manchester domestic terminal

08-10-2007 08:49

Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid have blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport.

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RAF Lakenheath Blockade

08-10-2007 08:35

Six people are currently blockading the main gate at RAF Lakenheath. Their banner states: Stop the War Crimes Not The Protests. They have photographs that indicate that 492 Squadron from Lakenheath dropped over 1,000 bombs in the recent 4 month deployment in Afghanistan possibly including cluster bombs.

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Climate Change Activists Blockade Domestic Flights

08-10-2007 08:28

Activists from Manchester Climate Action and Manchester Plane Stupid have
blockaded the security check-in of terminal 3 of Manchester Airport.
Passengers are being denied access to the departure lounge by seven
activists locked together using arm-tube devices. Two banners have been
unfurled reading, “Manchester City Council...supporting climate chaos” and
“Domestic flights cost the Earth”.

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a good and bad day for liverpool feminists

08-10-2007 00:11

feminists come to liverpool, hurrah!

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SOCPA - brian haw's protest site is now reminiscent of his glory days

07-10-2007 23:38

thanks to ken livingstone's apparently illegal fencing round the grass at parliament square, (all my enquiries to the mayor's office are met with obfuscation and silence), some of brian's supporters have taken the opportunity to find a place to hang all the banners they keep being given

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short film of today's poppy seed guerilla gardening at the ministry

07-10-2007 22:47

this is a short film of today's action
full report and some pics at

http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/10/383027.html

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police overtime scam at afghan protest today?

07-10-2007 22:40

in a remarkable display of over-policing, 8 cops, 4 forward intelligence, a van, and a rangerover accompanied a peaceful inter-denominational walk through the streets of london. the walk was more of a vigil than anything else, to mark the 6th anniversary of our invasion of afghanistan. after five hours overtime, the police headed off and completely missed the security breach at the ministry of defence that happened shortly after

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London Burma Protest

07-10-2007 22:07

Saturday 6 October 2007, 10,000 people marched in solidarity with the peace protestors and monks of Burma.

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On dawn raids (and what happens after)

07-10-2007 20:41

Invariably, it is familes with children who are targeted as they are more likely to be found at home and detained all together.
Baby Ashleen and her mother Juliet were taken in a dawn raid after their door was smashed. Nathan and Jeremiah, three and two years old, were detained with their parents during another dawn raid. Another young mother took an overdose on the eve of her planned deportation, wanting to die and was taken to hospital: her four years old daughter was left in the detention centre on her own.

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poppy protest outside ministry of defence this afternoon - lax security

07-10-2007 18:54

earlier today, there was a peaceful walk by activists calling for the withdrawal of troops from afghanistan (report here later). 12 police followed and filmed the 22 peaceful protestors for nearly five hours. later outside the MOD, opposite downing street, four urban gargeners dug the earth and planted poppy seeds. they remained unnoticed in the 'government security zone'.

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Put The FIT Team On Trial - Call for solidarity and resistance

07-10-2007 18:06

9th October, Highbury Corner Magistrates' Court, 9am