UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Vigil for Shaker Aamer(last British resident in Gitmo): Saturday 5 Feb
07-02-2011 18:47
Palestine Today 02 07 2011
07-02-2011 16:09
'Less Lethal Weapons' mean more repression
07-02-2011 11:43
Dissident Island interviews Corporate Watch on the subject of 'less lethal weapons'.
Civil Disobedience at Downing Street for 9/11 Justice
06-02-2011 21:55
Gareth reports:
On Monday 31st January 2011, in solidarity with Jon Gold’s action outside the White House, I took a ‘911 Truth’ sign to Downing Street – the British Prime Minister lives at No. 10 – and sat down outside the gates. Within seconds I was approached by a policeman carrying a machine gun who demanded I immediately move, a request with which I respectfully declined to comply with. After ten minutes I was approached by two Ministry of Defence policemen who issued the same request. We talked a little about 9/11. Moments later a police van pulled up and four police officers got out – I was also surprised to see a further four Ministry of Defence policeman approaching to see what was going on. After explaining that I was respectfully going to decline all further requests to move on I found myself being dragged from where I was sitting, put into the police van, and driven away to Charing Cross Police Station
I was released later the next evening having been detained for 30 hours. I’m glad I took a good book!
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Aussies go to High Commission to Demand Defence of Julian Assange's civil rights
06-02-2011 15:33
Shhhhh In at Sheffield Central Library #shh4sheflib
05-02-2011 16:31
Nottingham Anti-Mubarak Demo
05-02-2011 12:23
On Friday 5th February, Nottingham Stop the War Coalition organised an "emergency protest" in support of anti-Mubarak demonstrators in Egypt in front of the Council House.
The protest was announced as beginning at 5pm. When I turned up in the Market Square just before then there was nobody there and I briefly assumed that I'd got the time wrong. Fortunately I was wrong and an initially small group formed and began to grow.
When people began organising themselves into something resembling a protest, rather than just a bunch of people standing around, there were perhaps 40-50 people. Apparently the protest had been announced at some mosques and the number continued to swell, reaching towards 100.
Protesters were short on placards, although somebody did turn up with a large and unfortunately mis-spelt sign calling for "Victory for the Egytian Revolution." Once people got going there was vocal chanting, including, "Hey ho, Mubarak has to go!" Protesters also chanted, "From the Nile to the sea, Egypt soon will be free," a variation of the well-known, if controversial, "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free." (It would be churlish to point out that, unlike the Jordan River which marks the boundary of historical Palestine, the Nile actually flows through Egypt.)
The protest included a broad range of people, including lefties, punks, students, women in headscarves and others. It was overwhelmingly made up of relatively young people. (Presumably a sizable proportion of the Eqgyptians in Nottingham are here as students.) If the corporate media coverage can be believed, this would seem to reflect the demographic of the pro-democracy in movement in Egypt itself.
After some standing around chanting, protesters went for a brief march around the square, before returning to the front of the Council House. It can sometimes be difficult to work out what people are chanting, even if you know what the issue of concern is and at least some passersby seemed confused by what was going on. (This can't have been helped by the limited number of placards and the absence of leaflets explaining why people were there, both usually available in vast numbers at such events.) I overheard one person asking their friend, "Are they from Egypt?" There were also a small number of hecklers, although they were typically unimaginative, with one person offering the astonishingly insightful comment, "You're in England!"
According to the Post, there had already been a silent protest at the University of Nottingham on Tuesday, attended by around 200 people who had relatives in Egypt. A further protest has been announced on Sunday 6th February outside Vodafone on Clumber Street, in support of a call by Egyptian trade unionsl for international solidarity. Protesters claim Vodafone "collaborated with Mubarak" in his attempts to defeat the revolution. Another demonstratio will be held in Market Square in the event that the army or police move against the demonstrators, with a celebration in the same place "when" Mubarak goes.
Nobody should have any illusions about the direct political impact of such protests. It is difficult to imagine Mubarak remaining stalwart in the face of protests by millions of Egyptians only to crumble when he discovers that there are 100 people in Nottingham's Market Square. Targetting Vodafone does put a local face on a distant issue, but it is not obvious what we are demanding from Vodafone. Withdraw from Egypt? Restore service for normal Egyptians in the face of demands from the government?
What is important, however, is the impact of a wave of international solidarity on protesters in Egypt. It is to be hoped that messages of solidarity from across the world will lift the spirits of demonstrators who have been on the streets for days and been the victim of horrific state-sanctioned violence. Solidarity protests also give a voice to Egyptians outside the country, who may be concerned about friends, relatives and loved ones.
Support Demo for People of Egypt
05-02-2011 00:23
5.00pm 4th February
Folks gathered outside the Council House in the Market Square in support of People of Egypt.
Over 100 folks gathered outside the Council House in the Market Square in support of People of Egypt. A few speeches and a march around the Market Square, all got together at very short notice. Developments in Egypt happening by the hour presently.
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Egyptian protesters return to the streets Friday for 'Day of Departure' demos
05-02-2011 00:03
At least 100,000 demonstrators held protests in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and other cities in Egypt Friday, calling on the Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to step down immediately. Friday's 'Day of Departure' protests came after a group of Mubarak supporters attacked demonstrators with clubs, pipes and guns on Thursday, killing four.Mark Cassidy undercover 1995 - 2000
04-02-2011 18:52
This article recently appeared in Big Issue in the North.It's about infiltration of anti-fascist / anti-racist activity in Hackney from 1995 - 2000.
Clegg confronted by Anarchy & Peace at death park!
04-02-2011 16:35
Goings on in Cuts Cafe
04-02-2011 16:22
Cuts Café has had a very successful week with the workshops and entertainment. The squatted space has caused Hammerson to issue a statement about the regeneration / gentrification plans.
Another Trident Ploughshares woman jailed, for 14 days
04-02-2011 09:28
Please send letters and cards of solidarity to:Sylvia Boyes
HMP New Hall
Dial Wood, Flockton
Wakefield
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Quaker Woman Imprisoned over Anti-Trident Protests
Sixty-seven year old Sylvia Boyes, a Quaker from Keighley, appeared on Thursday (3 Feb) at Bingley Magistrates Court. She was sentenced to 14 days in New Hall Prison for refusing to pay fines arising from a series of protests against Trident in and around Faslane Naval Base in Scotland during the summer of 2009.
Mozaz's Funeral
03-02-2011 17:11
Palestine Today 02 03 2011
03-02-2011 15:39
Pictures from the anti-cuts demonstrations in Sheffield on Saturday 29th Jan
03-02-2011 15:23
Edinburgh students shut down lecture by Israeli diplomat
03-02-2011 12:43
The event, hosted by the University's Jewish society and held in Lecture Theatre 1 of Appleton Tower, was re-arranged only the night before after the International Relations society refused to host Khaldi, due to the fact that Palestinian were living under “Apartheid”
The talk was scheduled to start at 5pm but was delayed until 5.30pm, with the organisers citing 'security concerns'. When it did eventually get under way, one SJP member interrupted immediately shouting “Where is the freedom of speech for the 1,500 massacred in Gaza? Where is the freedom of speech for the Palestinian students in Israeli dungeons?”
Palestine Today 02 02 2011
02-02-2011 15:48
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Buried at C? Sizewell nuclear power station blockaded by anti-nuclear campaigners
02-02-2011 08:06
Glasgow University Occupation!
01-02-2011 21:22
Glasgow University students are currently occupying a building against the attacks by the university administration on the Hetherington research club and the cuts agenda of the government and the council.
