UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Reports from the Brighton Tubas Group - Jordan Valley Solidarity

03-10-2009 16:34

Two activists from Brighton are in Palestine and will spend the next month in the Jordan Valley, along with other Brighton-tubas solidarity Group members who will join them over the next few weeks. They will be reporting on the numberous resistance projects in the Jordan Valley, where local Bedouins and other Palestinians are coming together to challenge the occupation by constucting schools, health clinics, homes, playgrounds, roads and water pipes. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

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Mainshill Solidarity Camp needs you! Clear-felling and drilling ongoing

02-10-2009 23:11

Want to support a community in it’s fight against corrupt councils and coal mining companies? Want to protect part of Scotland’s beautiful landscape and endangered wildlife? Want to take land and power away from a wealthy aristocrat and live communally on liberated land? Want to do something about the vast expansion of opencast coal mining and its contribution to climate chaos? Then get yerself down to Mainshill Solidarity Camp!

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SchNEWS 683 - Who Are Ya?

02-10-2009 18:11

Who are the far-right English Defence League, and what are their strategies?... plus, Brighton journalists are forced to give police their footage for evidence gathering, Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak makes and appearance at the Labour Party Conference, while lawyers apply for an arrest warrant for him for war crimes in Gaza, protesters and police in Denmark have a dress rehearsal for December's Climate Conference in Copenhagen, and more...

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Campaign Launched To Free LSE Student Trapped In Gaza

02-10-2009 17:10

Students and alumni of the London School of Economics have started a campaign to allow a student, Othman Sakallah, to be able to leave Gaza and continue his studies at the university.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 40 2009

02-10-2009 16:33

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for September 26th to October 2nd, 2009

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New Deal training fraud

02-10-2009 14:20

If political parties are looking for painless cuts in public spending, New Deal fraudulent training courses should be their top priority.

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Vestas Workers Solidarity Camp - Photos

02-10-2009 09:17

Since the removal of the 'Marine Gate' 'Blade Blockade', and the Turbine Blades that remained in the Vestas Blades UK factory on St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, campaigners have been sorting out the original 'Magic Roundabout' Camp, and considering strategy. A Marquee has been erected and a fair amount of furniture skipped / built to make the area comfortable and well-resourced in terms of power (80-odd watts of solar power for phone and laptop charging), a solar shower, and spare tents for visitors.

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Palestine Today 100109

01-10-2009 21:11

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday October 1st, 2009.

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Edinburgh 5 accused of `aggravated racism`

01-10-2009 20:56

Here is a short account with 4 photos of the hearing at Edinburgh Sheriff Court of the 5 members of the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign accused of `aggravated racism`

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Sheffield Social Centre Photos

01-10-2009 11:12

Some photos from the new Social Centre in Sheffield which opened this morning. There was a visit from the University Security Service, it seems they were just visiting to find out what was happening. Following is the press release put out when the centre opened.

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Foie Gras and Fur Demo’s Across Cheltenham (3 shops fur free already)

30-09-2009 21:29

Today WARN activists help several protests in Cheltenham against businesses selling Foie Gras and fur.

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Palestine Today 093009

30-09-2009 18:34

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday September 30th, 2009.

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Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival

30-09-2009 10:26

Transition Nottingham Urban Harvest Festival Event at Green’s Mill, Sneinton on Sunday 27th September

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London Calais Migrant Solidarity Demo

30-09-2009 07:38

In response to the brutal destruction of the 'jungle' migrant camp in Calais by French authorities, around 30 people demonstrated yesterday near the French Embassy in Knightsbridge, London.

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Palestine Today 092909

29-09-2009 16:35

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday September 29th, 2009.

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Breaking news - Sizewell 5 anti-nuclear blockaders found not guilty

29-09-2009 15:28

Two days into their four-day trial, the Sizewell five have been found not guilty of aggravated trespass after a blockade in 2008 of the Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk.

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Palestine Today 09289

28-09-2009 16:59

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday September 28th, 2009.

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Stop Farnborough Airport Expansion

28-09-2009 15:06

Expansion of Farnborough Airport will lead to increased CO2 emissions at a time when we need deep cuts.

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Around the Campaigns Monday 28th September 2009

28-09-2009 12:37

Constant Moussavou has left the UK
"Thank you all for your letters/support unfortunately the Home Office did not want to listen and Constant was removed to Congo Brazzaville on Wednesday 9th September. We have not heard from him since. Please let me know if anyone does here from or of him."

Yours sincerely,

Priya Thamotheram, Chair, Leicester Civil Rights Movement.
Sanctuary for Constant Moussavou

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Get down to Vestas - Occupy, Camp, Resist, Cook, Produce!

27-09-2009 20:50

There has been a camp outside the Vestas factory on the St. Cross Business Park, Dodnor Lane, Newport, Isle of Wight, since at least the beginning of the Occupation of the factory on 20th July this year. The camp has a well established kitchen run by volunteers who serve quality vegan evening meals 'Roundabout 8', with lunch and breakfast also provided and sometimes cooked too. Those who occupied the factory are often present, together with climate campers and those from assorted lefty groups and unions. Get down there and join 'em! ...and take some cake with ya!