London Newswire Archive

17-08-2006 08:18

Diary of a Peace cyclist – week one of the 2006 Peace cycle

Sunday 6th August: 10.45 p.m.
'I like to ride my bicycle'
Too tired to write - and its only my first day and we only cycled 24 miles! Read more >>

16-08-2006 17:04 | 2 comments

TO STOP NEW WARS - remember the "big" peace - remember the "bigger" peace

Nameless "old hacks"s brief gist of a "what the papers aint saying" - accenting the "key background info missing" - that asks why - with a "spin" towards practical "peace process / ceasefire enacting " that asks why THAT isnt already happening _( terms : - "big" peace = israeli/lebanese peace + palestine,syria, iran. A "bigger" peace = end the manufactured "clash of cultures"("war of errorism") + ! Read more >>

16-08-2006 11:11 | 3 comments

The US media and the London terror scare

Since August 10, when British authorities arrested two dozen individuals in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a number of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean, the American mass media has worked ceaselessly to create a climate of fear.
For the first several days after the news of the alleged plot broke, American news programs were virtually unwatchable. The lurid logos and wild, unsubstantiated allegations made a mockery of claims that the networks and cable channels are in the business of “news-gathering.” Read more >>

16-08-2006 01:44 | 1 comment

Live indymedia coverage of 'terror rap' debate this thursday

STREAMED LIVE THIS THURSDAY

This thursday, 17th August, Aki Nawaz lead singer of the radical rap band Fun-da-mental, will be at the rampART social centre in East London to debate Islamophobia, racisim and the health of freespeech and democracy in the UK. Joining him on the platform will be renowned human rights lawyer Louise Christian, Natacha Atlas, Ken Fero of Injustice Films, Shahrar Ali of the Green Party and John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation.

The event starts at 6.45pm but if you can't make it you can catch it live online via indymedia. Read more >>

15-08-2006 15:38

G-Had In the UK

I’m strapped up ’cross my chest, bomb belt attached
Deeply satisfied with the plan I hatched
Electrodes connected to a gas cooker lighter

Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental talks Angela Saini about the All is War (The Benefits of G-Had) album....
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14-08-2006 15:27 | 6 comments

Fight back for women's liberation - Feminist Fightback conference

Feminist Fightback is a conference for feminist activists, sponsored by the Education Not for Sale Women's network, which will be held in London on Saturday 21 October (venue tbc).

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14-08-2006 12:29 | 12 comments

Islamophobia and censorship in Britain

The Sun calls him the suicide bomb rapper, MPs want him arrested and his record company refuses to support his latest album. But would his treatment be the same if he were white?

Aki Nawaz says Exposing the inherent colonial mentality of the British
State is an honour and worth any consequence in any shape or form.
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14-08-2006 11:18

Video of start of Bicycology ride.

Bicycology Roadshow 2006, riding from London to Lancaster and then to Climate Action Camp. Read more >>

14-08-2006 11:06 | 1 comment

Anti-War Film Screening - Tonight

An evening of films on Monday 14th August as part of this years Portobello Film Festival in West London curated by Filmmakers Against War, includes, from the Independent Film School in Baghdad, 'Baghdad Days' Read more >>

13-08-2006 22:09 | 1 comment

bicycology cycle ride sets off for lancaster

about a dozen cyclists, including a sound system and solar-powered mini-cinema met at the finsbury park festival in north london this afternoon to start their ride up to lancaster and the camp for climate action.
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13-08-2006 21:58

What drives warmongers at home and abroad- Stop Thames GREEDWAY!

Why the economic war on the East End is just as bad as other forms of war
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13-08-2006 19:12

Want to Stop Nuclear? - Faslane 365 London meeting

Want To Stop Nuclear??!

On the 1st October 2006 an audacious civil resistance initiative to close down, for a whole year, the Faslane naval base in Scotland, where the UK’s nuclear warheads and nuclear submarines are stored, will begin.
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13-08-2006 18:14 | 3 comments

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST abuse

Now one of the worst NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST Gestapo gauleiters was killed on Friday 11th August 2006.
As she was one of the worst she was recently promoted by the senior management - yet all the good staff were recently dismissed.
The Gestapo gauleiters remain.

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13-08-2006 15:13 | 4 comments

Brize Norton - 2nd gate closed

While peace protestors and activists block one gate - a covert group from London including a full pink samba band blocked the second busy gate on carterton highroad. Read more >>

13-08-2006 01:07 | 3 comments

hackney critical mass against the occupation

this afternoon hackney corporations were targeted in a small critical mass of a dozen cyclists with a sound system. the local population were very receptive and loads of leaflets were handed out. Read more >>

12-08-2006 21:46 | 4 comments

Photos: Downing Street "Ceasefire Now" Protest (11.08.06)

Title: "Ceasefire Now" Protest
Date: 11.08.06
Location: Downing Street, London
Comment/context: Arouind 200 protester outside Downing Street. Organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, CND, British Muslim Initiative and STW.
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12-08-2006 17:19

The Constant Gardener Screening @ Everything4Everyone

Next weeks E4e Cinema screening at Everything4Everyone will be the
Constant Gardener. Read more >>

12-08-2006 03:50

Support Haringey Binman Strike - Picket Monday 14th August

Picket
Monday 14th August - 8.30am
Ashley Road Depot
N17 9AZ
(nearest tube: Tottenham Hale)
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12-08-2006 01:18

Terrorism: you can get it in a can

The Blitzkrieg is upon Beirut, but we are supposed to imagine that little Nazis are flying over our heads. Read more >>

11-08-2006 13:30

Terror and Climate Change (opinion piece)

In the midst of doom and gloom realizations that the Heathrow 'terror network' is mainly to sideline concerns about the war in Lebanon and head off possible sympathies for the main vicitms in this war, a bright note:
Just as 7/7 pushed more people onto their bikes in London, so too perhaps this farce will help put a few people off flying. Read more >>