London Newswire Archive

11-12-2004 18:03 | 1 comment(s)

Stop shopping bombs are dropping!

The fountain at Centre Point, on Charing Cross road was today dyed red, to highlight specifically that Iraq is still being occupied, and more generally that the military industrial complex, and their supporters are causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people each year. Read more >>

11-12-2004 17:32 | 0 comment(s)

NO2ID Campaign gets off to 'interesting' start in Cambridge

This afternoon about a dozen activists publicly spearheaded a new camapaign against the proposed National I.D. Card. Read more >>

11-12-2004 13:00 | 0 comment(s)

Five Go Mad In Egypt - Asbestosis and Isolation

I was part of a group of International Solidarity Movement activists who travelled to Egypt on Sunday to meet Egyptian activists preparing to take a convoy of food and medicine from Cairo to Rafah (Gaza). The activists of the Egyptian Popular Comittee in Solidartity with the Palestinian Uprising have taken 25 such convoys since the start of the intifada in an atmosphere of repression and corruption. While in Egypt activists tried to make links with broader social movements in Egypt.
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11-12-2004 12:21 | 0 comment(s)

Five go mad in Egypt - A Day in Cairo

11-12-2004 12:05 | 0 comment(s)

EGYPTIAN AND INTERNATIONALS PROTEST AT GATEWAY TO SINAI

Two hundred Egyptian activists and fifty from Europe were prevented
from reaching Egyptian Rafah by security forces at Bahlouza, the
entry to North Sinai yesterday. The group was accompanying hundreds
of tons of relief supplies for the people of Rafah collected by the
Egyptian Popular committee in support of the Palestinian Intifada.
While the food and blankets were allowed to reach the border at
Rafah, the solidarity demonstration planed for Rafah was held in the
middle of the desert underneath the welcome arch of North Sinai Read more >>

11-12-2004 00:42 | 0 comment(s)

Interview With God: God Returns! America Saved!

Supports Bush 100 Percent Read more >>

10-12-2004 19:14 | 6 comment(s)

Goverment Publishes official G8 website

The UK goverment has launched their official G8 website and it makes for some intresting reading www.g8.gov.uk Read more >>

10-12-2004 15:39 | 4 comment(s)

Michael Crichton in London to promote Anti-Environmentalist novel

Jurassic Park-author and climate change-denier Michael Crichton is in London signing copies of his new novel State of Fear, about Eco-Terroists who use machines to fake environmental disasters Read more >>

10-12-2004 11:53 | 0 comment(s)

Redecorate London

Calling all artists, culture jammers, anarchists, activists, nihilists, punks, and other radicals to... Read more >>

10-12-2004 11:36 | 2 comment(s)

Terrorist graffiti at London Army Recruitment Centre?

Small group blocked the entry to Charing Cross, London, Army Recruitment Centre this morning with banner and fliers to amuse the commuters. Read more >>

10-12-2004 10:45 | 0 comment(s)

End Human Rights Violations in Colombia Picket Tonight Friday 6-8pm in Whitehall

INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY - DECEMBER 10TH
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1948. Yet 56 years later, and despite the ratification by Colombia of all the International Covenants that followed the UDHR, the Colombian people continue to suffer gross violations of their civil and political rights, but also of economic, social and cultural rights.
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09-12-2004 22:07 | 0 comment(s)

The Corporation - hear this

The epic documentary 'The Corporation' is out now showing at cinemas around the UK.
If you can't be arsed to visit the cinema you can listen to rampART radio everyday at 4am or 4pm GMT.... Read more >>

09-12-2004 17:25 | 0 comment(s)

An anti-authoritarian society for ULU? meet monday 13.12

spread the word! Read more >>

09-12-2004 12:19 | 0 comment(s)

Control freak Blair badly governing Britain

The man in charge of Britains inquiry into alleged Iraqi WMD, Lord Butler has today launched a stinging attack on Blair.
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09-12-2004 04:49 | 7 comment(s)

what's really happening to Google ...and the net?

More and more people use Google as the only way to search the net. Nothing wrong, you may say. But Google is changing... Read more >>

08-12-2004 22:51 | 0 comment(s)

Ruddock foreshadows new terrorism laws

The new laws will allow police to access emails and mobile phone SMS messages, enable wider use of surveillance devices, and protect sensitive national security information during terrorism trials.

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08-12-2004 20:01 | 0 comment(s)

5 go mad in Egypt - The tenth of Ramadan

A group of London and Brighton based activists are in Egypt for the convoy to the Rafah organised by the Egyptian Popular Committee for solidarity with the Palestinian Uprising. Over the next few weeks expect a number of reports on the sights and sounds that we come across. In this one, we visit destitute workers with asbestosis occupying their former employers factory in the City of 'The tenth of Ramadan", about an hour out of cairo. Read more >>

08-12-2004 18:22 | 0 comment(s)

Picket 6pm - 8pm Friday 10 Downing St - End Human Rights Violations in Colombia

08-12-2004 14:08 | 0 comment(s)

Indymedia cinema presents... 'XXI Century'

As part of an ongoing showcase of contemporary filmmakers who are finding new forms of cinema to show resistance to globalization throughout the world, London Indymedia presents:
XXI CENTURY PART 5 'Civilization'

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08-12-2004 12:54 | 0 comment(s)

Who's behind the oil-for-food scandal?, MUrdoch, Conrad Black and the Neocons

His "smoking gun" was the news that Kofi Annan's son received payments of $150,000 over several years from a company that was a contractor in the oil-for-food programme.

Where did this news come from? The New York Sun, a tiny newspaper founded by Canadian mogul Conrad Black four years ago as a mouthpiece for the neo-cons. Read more >>