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17-03-2009 07:49
Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today
Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.Full Story | 5 additions | 5 comments >>
16-03-2009 22:42
On Saturday 13th March, the Communication Workers Union organised a march through Bilston, Wolverhampton in protest against government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
CWU demo against privatisation
On Saturday 13th March, the Communication Workers Union organised a march through Bilston, Wolverhampton in protest against government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
16-03-2009 12:24
It is a fundamental principle of UK law that a person cannot be punished twice for the same offence. If you have committed an offence that society deems a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a magistrate, judge or judge and jury, once you have completed your sentence, you are released from prison as it is deemed you have repaid your debt to society and that is the end of the matter - and for the great majority of people in the UK, it is: you can only get punished once.
Stop 'Double Punishment' of Foreign nationals
There are approximately 12,000 foreign nationals in the UK prison systemIt is a fundamental principle of UK law that a person cannot be punished twice for the same offence. If you have committed an offence that society deems a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a magistrate, judge or judge and jury, once you have completed your sentence, you are released from prison as it is deemed you have repaid your debt to society and that is the end of the matter - and for the great majority of people in the UK, it is: you can only get punished once.
13-03-2009 21:50
Birmingham Palestine solidarity workshop this Monday 16th March
Palestine workshop "The history of the occupation, advocacy and effective solidarity" on Monday 16th March at 7.30pm, at the new autonomous space at 138 Pershore Road, just behind Edgbaston Cricket Ground.
13-03-2009 18:31
Activists from Warwick University gave energy giant E.ON the red card at Coventry’s FA Cup sixth round match against Chelsea on Saturday 7th February.
E.ON offside: Student activists target FA-Cup sponsors
Activists from Warwick University gave energy giant E.ON the red card at Coventry’s FA Cup sixth round match against Chelsea on Saturday 7th February.
13-03-2009 16:15
On Saturday 14th February 2009 West Midlands IWW held a cavalcade to raise awareness of cuts taking place at the Birmingham blood centre this March
IWW Blood Service Valentine's Day of Action
On Saturday 14th February 2009 West Midlands IWW held a cavalcade to raise awareness of cuts taking place at the Birmingham blood centre this March
13-03-2009 15:47
Pakistan - Public meeting with prominent author Ayesha Siddiqa
With war on terror moving further into Pakistan, the need to asnwer the challenges of neo-colonialism is pressing. South Asian Alliance has invited prominent Pakistani author and analyst Ayesha Siddiqa, with whom we would be discussing present situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan and people's resistance against Imperialism.
13-03-2009 09:08
Online Poll @ 09:00 Friday 13th March 2009
* 33 % are saying yes
* 67 % are saying no
Cast your vote
http://newstatesman.com/community
NCADC News Service Friday 13th March 2009
New Statesman: Should there be an amnesty for illegal immigrants?Online Poll @ 09:00 Friday 13th March 2009
* 33 % are saying yes
* 67 % are saying no
Cast your vote
http://newstatesman.com/community
13-03-2009 00:28
Amidst a deepening economic crisis engendered by the global financial meltdown, thousands of women workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) poured out into the streets of key Manila, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Cotabato, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day to demand full employment and equality between women and men.
PHILIPPINES: Thousands of Women Marched to Demand Full Employment
Amidst a deepening economic crisis engendered by the global financial meltdown, thousands of women workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) poured out into the streets of key Manila, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Cotabato, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day to demand full employment and equality between women and men.
11-03-2009 15:59
Last weekend students from the University of Birmingham were forcibly removed from the Bullring during a non-violent peaceful protest against Topshops refusal to join the ethical trade initiative.
Students removed by force from Bullring Topshop
Last weekend students from the University of Birmingham were forcibly removed from the Bullring during a non-violent peaceful protest against Topshops refusal to join the ethical trade initiative.
11-03-2009 14:49
1972 was a year of successful industrial action in Britain. The miners had won over pay, the Tory Government had been forced to release five imprisoned dockers. 1972 also saw Britain's first National Building Workers' strike. The strike committees of North Wales building workers would go on to be the victims of one of the worst miscarriages of justice since the days of the Toll Puddle Martyrs. They would be vilified and hounded by parts of the press, convicted by a court as a deterrent to strikers, and abandoned by their own union leaders and the TUC. Six of them would go to prison and one of these would die later as a result of the treatment he received while there. See http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/shrewsbury_pickets.php
37 years later, an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been tabled demanding a public inquiry into the gross miscarriages of justice and disclosure of all Government and security papers relating to the case.
Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 building workers! Support EDM 1002
1972 was a year of successful industrial action in Britain. The miners had won over pay, the Tory Government had been forced to release five imprisoned dockers. 1972 also saw Britain's first National Building Workers' strike. The strike committees of North Wales building workers would go on to be the victims of one of the worst miscarriages of justice since the days of the Toll Puddle Martyrs. They would be vilified and hounded by parts of the press, convicted by a court as a deterrent to strikers, and abandoned by their own union leaders and the TUC. Six of them would go to prison and one of these would die later as a result of the treatment he received while there. See http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/shrewsbury_pickets.php 37 years later, an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been tabled demanding a public inquiry into the gross miscarriages of justice and disclosure of all Government and security papers relating to the case.
11-03-2009 13:09
Evening Mail’s ‘Stirrer’ on Gaza: Inhumanity and Double-Standards
The recent articles of the Birmingham Evening Mail’s commentator “The Stirrer”, aka Adrian Goldberg, are quite peculiar in their timing. It seems that something has stirred “The Stirrer” into writing seemingly unsolicited pseudo-propaganda pieces for the Israeli government.
10-03-2009 23:47
Ballymurphy 11 Campaign in England
The Ballymurphy 11 were murdered during the first three days of Internment August 1971, by the 2nd Battalion of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. This same regiment went on, 5 months later, to murder fourteen civilian demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Two daughters of the Ballymurphy 11 were in Birmingham and Coventry for International Women’s Day events from Thur 5th – Sun 8th March.
10-03-2009 12:26
Activists facing murder charges over suicidal hunter's stunt
A fox-hunt supporter has been killed by suicidally running at an anti-hunt gyrocopter - and two activists could face murder charges as a result!
10-03-2009 09:52
Wednesday 11th March 12:00 pm
UKBA Public Enquiry Office
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH
Glasgow: Come and protest outside the Home Office
Wednesday 11th March 12:00 pm UKBA Public Enquiry Office
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH
10-03-2009 09:49
The Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)
Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009
*************** is back in the UK and back in his communityThe Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
(
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)
09-03-2009 08:03
Kadesh Desturi Swedi a national of DR Congo a resident of Wolverhampton is currently detained in Oakington IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Friday 13th March on Ethiopean Airways flight ET701 from London Heathrow @ 21:00 to Addis Ababa and on to DR Congo.
*Second attempt to remove Kadesh Desturi Swedi*
Kadesh Desturi Swedi a national of DR Congo a resident of Wolverhampton is currently detained in Oakington IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Friday 13th March on Ethiopean Airways flight ET701 from London Heathrow @ 21:00 to Addis Ababa and on to DR Congo.
08-03-2009 15:17
Crufts 2009 is coming to an end.
Animal rights activists from Nottingham, London and elsewhere gave a grand farewell to the Kennel Club, hoping that this will be the last year that people will be allowed to breed dogs for racial(breed), purity whilst thousands of healthy dogs die in shelters around the world because of a demand they created.
Crufts Demo Report
Crufts 2009 is coming to an end. Animal rights activists from Nottingham, London and elsewhere gave a grand farewell to the Kennel Club, hoping that this will be the last year that people will be allowed to breed dogs for racial(breed), purity whilst thousands of healthy dogs die in shelters around the world because of a demand they created.
07-03-2009 11:37
Week 3 of protests at the campus branch of NatWest at the University of Birmingham saw students maintain pressure on the bank, with the demand for RBS to divest from the fossil fuel industry which is funding climate chaos.
Students keep up the pressure on NatWest
Week 3 of protests at the campus branch of NatWest at the University of Birmingham saw students maintain pressure on the bank, with the demand for RBS to divest from the fossil fuel industry which is funding climate chaos.
06-03-2009 20:14