UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Lampedusa's prison for migrants burns: Picket of Italian Embassy
24-02-2009 12:38
Climate Camp launches Press Complaint over G20 article
24-02-2009 02:03
Today, the Camp for Climate Action lodged a complaint with the PressComplaints Commission (PCC) against the Evening Standard. The camp claims
the Standard's article regarding the April 1st event "Climate Camp in
London's Square mile", to be held during the G20, is misleading.
Police round up kids to make sure they 'Staysafe'
24-02-2009 01:22
As a test run for a project to be instated in 69 areas of the UK in April 2009, Yorkshire police stopped 1,200 children who were out at night and took them into 'police protection', before their parents picked them up. Several were also questioned by Children's Services.Students mount a Wall of Debt in Manchester
24-02-2009 00:59
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BMW Workers Self-Organising Against Bosses and Sellout Union
23-02-2009 19:40
Protest against Agrexco's share holders Apax Partners in London
23-02-2009 17:01
Earlier in the morning, an anonymous protester had separately D-locked the building's main door, causing some disruption to the baffled employees arriving to work. Armed with a banner and leaflets accusing Apax Partners of profiting from the illegal settlements, they called upon the company to divest from Tnuva or be complicit to crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.
Police arrived about an hour later and imposed Section 14 of the Public Order Act! But protesters didn't leave until they'd run out of leaflets and energy.
Palestine Today 022309
23-02-2009 16:21
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Monday , February 23ed , 2009.
Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Minse Site
23-02-2009 14:47
residents.
Film & Short update on outcomes of Birmingham University occupation
23-02-2009 13:33
The occupation at the University of Birmingham ended on 20th January on the same day it started when the occupiers decided to leave after two shifts of university security and 30 police besieged the building that evening.
Action against Scottish Coal open cast mine this morning
23-02-2009 11:52
At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to disrupt theoperations of Scottish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the
Midlothians. Some of the 10 activists stopping work today are local residents.
They climbed onto digging machinery to prevent works and climbed onto trucks to prevent
coal from leaving the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morning. Then police arrived but no-one were arrested.
Why the police riot? - part 6
23-02-2009 02:58
This is part 6 of a series, for parts 1-5 see:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422077.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422079.pdf
Two Days of SHAC Netherlands Tour
22-02-2009 22:53
Friday, 20th February - Another nine HLS customers are demoed
'Our mission is clear, our demands simple and straight forward, our motivation indestructible. We will not sit idly by or look the other way whilst animals pine away and suffer inside HLS!'
UN's Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) clarifies misleading media reports on Iran
22-02-2009 21:55
In response to questions by Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi, the IAEA spokesperson, Melissa Fleming, has issued a statement clarifying the IAEA's position regarding the misleading articles in the US and European press concerning Iran's production of low-enriched uranium.
Four Peaceful Anti-Vivisectionists Arrested - California
22-02-2009 20:58
For Immediate ReleaseFebruary 22, 2009
Federal Authorities Arrest Peaceful Protesters
Animal Liberation Front, Other Clandestine Groups Prosper as Result
St Andrews: Student Occupation Rallies, Enters Fifth Day
22-02-2009 17:43
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Victory for student movement: Strathclyde University to end complicity with Gaza
22-02-2009 01:26
Students at Strathclyde University won the vote on Thursday to cut the university’s ties with arms manufacturer BAe Systems which supplied components used by the Israeli military in the recent massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.Group 4 Securicor Attacks South African Shack Dwellers' Movement Against
21-02-2009 15:05
Group 4 Securicor private security guards are being used on the increasingly violent war on the poor in South Africa as the ANC continues with its project to drive the poor out of the cities. For useful links giving background to this statement see http://abahlali.org/node/4807Student University Occupations: A Growing Movement
21-02-2009 14:32
Around 200 students from the University of St. Andrews have been in occupation of Lower College Hall, a key University building, since Wednesday at 12 when a petition signed by over 600 students and staff was handed to the university.Murder of Small Farmer Rights Organizer Sparks Protests in Yaracuy, Venezuela
21-02-2009 14:25
Small farmer rights groups plan to march across the city of San Felipe in Venezuela’s Yaracuy state this Saturday to demand that the hired assassins of Nelson López, a small farmer rights organizer, be brought to justice. López, who was shot fifteen times in the back last Thursday, is the 213th small farmer (campesino) to be murdered since 2001, the year the government of President Hugo Chávez passed a sweeping land reform law which set the conditions for re-distribution of idle sections of large estates to small farmers, according to the Ezequiel Zamora National Farmers’ Front (FNCEZ), one of the groups convoking Saturday’s marches.Two of Top Five HLS Investors Sell Their Shares
21-02-2009 13:36