London Newswire Archive

11-03-2006 14:27

Saving Iceland Activists visit Rossport; report, interview & photos

Four activists from the Saving Iceland campaign visited Rossport this week meet with Shell to Sea campaigners from the area and the solidarity camp. Read more >>

11-03-2006 10:46

2nd Renaissance -14

Withdrawing Support For Militarism [179]
The problem with revenge is that it lowers the humanity of those who exercise it down to the same level, of even below, those who committed the original crime. Although we can't yet know who was responsible for 911 or 1012, we do now know that forces of the Coalition of the Willing (CoW) have, on occasions, been just as barbaric as the people who killed on those dates. This has been amply demonstrated in Afghanistan and again in Iraq. If you doubt this, seek out more facts about the CoW's use of DU and NDU weaponry and cluster bombs. These horror weapons continue, to this day, to put young children and adult civilians at risk of injury or death from unexploded munitions, radiation, and toxic substances in the ground water and the food chain. Read more >>

11-03-2006 05:33

Did Israel President Moshe Katsav aid Muslim Terrorism or only fraud ?

The land of International penny stock fraud makes for strange bedfellows and here often right wing cons of all stripes lie together.So it should come as no surprise that by touting or allowing his name to be used to tout a Michael Zwebner pump and dump penny stock scam(one of many over the years) President of Israel Moshe Katzav not only mixes his name and reputation with American mafia and international crooks and gangsters but also Mr.Zwebner's business partner in a number of scams over the years including UCSY or Universal Communications Systems is the infamous Mohamed Hadid,a Palestinian of ill repute connected to the Herndon,Virginia Muslim charity suspected in both money laundering and terrorist funding activities,including Al Qaeda.
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10-03-2006 20:15 | 1 comment

Xrail hole Bill MPs will need to be vigilant of slippery Xrail-backer

The UK House of Commons hybrid draft piece of legislation, the Crossrail Bill, is being ‘scrutinised’ by a small group of MPs, collected from mainly the three ‘major’ Political Parties. The process has been overstated in its relevant capacity to alter the substantive contents of any Bill. Given that the Crossrail Bill contains monumental powers that will enable the destruction of entire communities in the East End of London, the ability – or the chances - of the MPs committee on the Crossrail Bill to make any difference must be examined against the performance of another committee which in October 2002 ‘heard evidence’ from one Michael Keith, a councillor on the East End Borough of Tower Hamlets Council. The same Michael Keith is now leader of the same council and is widely associated with the promotion of the Crossrail Bill and plan as a whole. Keith is set to be among Tower Hamlets Councillors who would enjoy the chance to appear before the Crossrail committee to make the case for the Council’s defiance of the local community. The MPs need to be much more alert and vigilant this time round then their counterparts were on Tuesday 15 October 2002. Read more >>

10-03-2006 19:32

4 crucial things to remember re: iran '53 . . . . ( + first hand accounts)

. . . . that every journalist working on the iran story should make themselves aware of . . . . since its the forgetting that causes the very worst tragedies. Read more >>

10-03-2006 16:45

srilanka tsunami social project fundraiser @ rampart centre

sri lanka tsunmai benefit @ rampart arts centre, 17 rampart st e1, 8pm -2am //

http://www.rampart.co.nr

//////////////////music and lights #5 ////////////////////////////
our 2nd night at rampart. coming at you with a mixed bag of funky live aucostic+electronic music, slide & video visuals in a comfy atmosphere.
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10-03-2006 11:53 | 5 comments

London Stop WTO Noisy Protest

six of the world’s most powerful countries are now meeting in secret session in London to hammer out a deal to liberalise the world’s economy. Read more >>

10-03-2006 09:43

Khoodeelaar! reports on Blair plot to 'involve' victims of Xrail hole in attack

While UK Prime Minister Tony Blair seems destined to go down as the holder of the 'highest political office in the land' who most disgraced that office by his contempt for 'the constitution' and in abusing the democratic associations with that election-linked office of Prime Minister [the Prime Minister is NOT elected in the UK, yet, contrary to the overwhelmingly banal assertors in the media that it is] , the legacy he is likely to leave behind for the denegation of parts of the UK inner cities will linger even longer than the Daily Mail-type headlines about his sleazy regime. That Blair is bent on letting Big Business defile the East End under the cover of Crossrail is seen in his administration’s frequent appearances in the Brick Lane area, pleading with the community for 'cooperation' with the Crossrail hole programme of destruction of the very same community! These EXCLUSIVELY written Khoodeelaaronline items are linked with the way that the CROSSRAIL hole attacks on the East End have been conceived and are being pushed against the community Read more >>

09-03-2006 23:05 | 4 comments

Global anti-war demonstrations March 18th and March 19th 2006

This is an announcement of the Global anti-war demonstrations on the weekend of March 18th and March19th. Read more >>

09-03-2006 14:20 | 1 comment

Tower Hamlets Council is set to be sunk down the Xrail hole

The campaign in the Brick Lane London E1 area against the hybrid 'Crossrail Bill' [UK House of Commons] is getting heightened this week. Campaigners are setting out conditions for individual councillors to show their full commitment to oppose the Crossrail hole attacks. The constitutional implications of this are significant. This includes the possibility of individual councillors being taken to court on their undertaking. Of they refuse to give such clear undertaking then the claim that local democracy works will be exposed as seriously false. Ordinary people will have to defe3nd the community against the Crossrail; attacks. And against similar environemntal, economic and social attacks moiyunted under covers of democracy. Read more >>

09-03-2006 07:40

Infousurpa n14

weekly independent poster of social centres activities Read more >>

09-03-2006 04:12

Peace Not War - Brixton Jamm - Friday 10 March

Video taster of what to expect, if you have never been before.
this time PNW is free to all activists and Indymedia users. Read more >>

08-03-2006 21:16 | 6 comments

Jean Charles de Menezes, innocent victim - BBC Panorama 9PM Wed 8 March 2006

Watch the programme to see about the British police and UK government cover up in the Jean Menezes case. Read more >>

08-03-2006 15:42

Law Lords Rule DSEI Arms Fair Section 44 Terrorism Act Use Valid (Liberty Audio)

Interview update on today's law lords appeal ruling that use of section 44 of terrorism act during protests for stop and search is not a violation of the right to peaceful protest since its use did not deter protests and as such was valid, but that section 44 should not be used when police didn't believe the target of the search was likely to be a terrorist... hmmmm.

Interview with Alex Gask from Liberty and next legal steps
8 mins 11 secs MP3 mono 2.8MB @ 48kbps Read more >>

08-03-2006 12:53

Judith and Mariah's deportations cancelled!

Great news: Both Judith and Mariah's deportation dates have been cancelled. Judith's removal was due on the 7th of March. Andy Love MP has 'made furthur representations' to Immigration Minister McNulty on civil claims grounds. However, they are not free yet. It is a short term victory, now we need to make it more permanent. Thanks a lot to everybody who wrote letters or took to the streets! Keep doing, it is working! The campaign to free Mariah and Judith continues! Read more >>

08-03-2006 11:37 | 3 comments

Democracy Now! London visit

Just a reminder: Democracy Now! the daily _independent_ current affairs show is in London this week.
Listen on 104.4 at 1530 (3:30pm) in London
OR download from

http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl from 1600 (4pm) daily Read more >>

08-03-2006 11:33

Unmanageable Variables: London Int. Women's All Day Celebration + Party (wed)

INTERNATIONAL WOMENS’ DAY
Wednesday 8th March 11 a.m. til late
Unmanageable Variables

At the White Post Centre (formerly The Lord Napier)
25 White Post Lane
Hackney Wick E9 Read more >>

08-03-2006 11:11 | 1 comment

Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein is invoked over Crossrail hole media

Watergate investigative reporter CARL BERNSTEIN was shown in a BBC News 24 'Hardtack' interview with Stephen Sackur this morning [8 March 2006].Bernstein decried the media in the USA where local communities were fed up of being denied the coverage of their lives and of issues that mattered to their local communities. Bernstein could have been equally talking about the East End of London where the campaign against Crossrail whole attacks is being systematically excluded coverage by the so-called independent local press. One of those 'titles' is reviewed here by Khoodeelaaronline Read more >>

07-03-2006 22:12 | 5 comments

" Oona King had let down East End constitients" - women at Bow West

Two women at the Bow West campaign meeting against Crossrail attacks on the East End spoke about the way that Oona King had let the community down. Read more >>

07-03-2006 15:24 | 1 comment

Democracy Now! London visit, do listen

Sorry about the short notice but

Democracy Now!, america's syndicated, community radio news &
current affairs show will be broadcasting from London for the next few
days.
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