London Newswire Archive

13-12-2007 16:10

The Unconventional Action Paper is Out at Last!

This paper has all the up to date info on the RNC adn DNC protests next year. Order a free bundle while they last! Read more >>

13-12-2007 12:18

SOCPA cycling.

Why are drivers allowed to play their sound systems in the SOCPA zone but not cyclists? Read more >>

13-12-2007 10:44

Total impunity: Shoot-to-kill commander McDowall promoted as 'anti-terror chief'

Does this Top terror role for the Menezes officer mean that it has been accepted that we adopt a routine "shoot to kill any suspect policy" from now on?
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13-12-2007 02:27

Marsh Lane Fields Land Grab continues

The encroachment onto the ancient Lammas Lands at Marsh Lane, Leyton is ongoing as fences are erected and land dug up. Read more >>

12-12-2007 21:36

Gaza Vigil - Saturday 15th December - Free Gaza!

End the siege on Gaza – Vigil outside Downing Street this Saturday

The international Campaign to end the siege on Gaza

There are 1.5 million people, including women and children, in the Gaza Strip suffering the consequences of an oppressive siege and threatened with further measures of power cuts and cuts in foods and medicines allowed into the strip.

Please show your support by attending the candlelit vigil to call for an end to the siege which has so far caused 33 deaths and is causing untold misery to the residents of the Gaza Strip.

Saturday 15 December 2007
4pm to 6pm
Opposite Downing Street, London

Supported by: PSC, PFB, BMI, PRC, STWC Read more >>

12-12-2007 18:11

rampART gets eviction papers

The rampART social centre in London today received court papers for repossesion on the grounds of Tresspass. The hearing date is the 20th Dec. Read more >>

12-12-2007 14:16

Tower Hamlets Council 'leader' must stop peddling CrossRail hole plot

Ken Livingstone seems to fly en waves if fantasy. As he did earlier this week while soaking up more media attention than he craves and is usually given. He made all manner of boasts about the dockland light railway [=’DLR’] station at Langdon Park in [the poplar area] in the east end of London. A particular Livingstone propaganda boast was that the dlr station was guaranteed to make the ‘deprived locals’ get out of the rut. This same theme has been Livingstone’s mainstay in his peddling of CrossRail hole plot against the same east end of London.

Livingstone should know that he is telling a serious untruth when he makes this claim.

How?

Because he has parroted the City of London, Canary Wharf and Big business agenda phrases word fur word in ‘justification’ of his creeping touting for ‘CrossRail’ to be given the £Billons of public money...

All these over - hyped ‘transport’ links are products of plans and strategies that are decided by speculators, developers and those big business elements and forces that want to capture the ‘deprived’ east end and adjoining parts and make the areas eventually free of local people and communities. Just as the CrossRail hole plot is a product of Big Business agenda to link up the various Big Business exploitation centres. This has nothing whatever to do with the local East End people our needs our demands.

My latest questions sent in the past hour to the ‘current leader’ of the ‘local’ Tower Hamlets Council makes the point very clear.

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12-12-2007 11:25

Venezuela Film Screening Tonight

Free screening of great new documentary tonight Read more >>

11-12-2007 19:12

Full report on DSEi arms fair 'trespass on DLR' trial

This is a follow up to the following reports:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/381352.html

and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387021.html
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11-12-2007 17:24

Ken Livinstone At Death Zone 1 Kings Cross BBC1 ITN and...insults the poor

Amid pandemic fears Ken Livingstone went on telly to promote future death zone 1 Rail / tube station Kings Cross / St Pancras and manages to insult London's poor at the same time! Read more >>

11-12-2007 16:19 | 1 addition

Demonstrators Blockade Mexican Embassy in London

Today Monday 10th December demonstrators blockaded both the Mexican Embassy and Mexican Consulate in London, in solidarity with the Zapatistas and in opposition to the attacks on their communities by the state and paramilitaries.
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11-12-2007 14:34

Channel 4 - Political Awards - nominate Brian Haw

Channel 4 News are drawing up a short list of the 'most inspiring political personality of the last ten years'. Read more >>

11-12-2007 14:01 | 1 addition

Critical mass

this saturday to show the fuel protestors that pedal power is the way forward Read more >>

11-12-2007 12:47

Support the Villagers of Nandigram!

Support the villagers of Nandigram, W Bengal against eviction from land and corporate greed. Read more >>

11-12-2007 11:00

Campaign against Climate Change - London Rally

Some photos from the rally near to the American Embassy in London on Saturday 8th December. Read more >>

11-12-2007 10:13

Drivers to demonstrate around Parliament.

Because of the way SOCPA legislation is worded it is unlikely that fuel protesters will be stopped by police under that particular law when they stage a juggernaut go slow around Parliament Square at noon on Wednesday. Read more >>

10-12-2007 17:07

Come To This Party...

7.30 - late late late
Free b4 9.30 £3 donation after. Read more >>

10-12-2007 11:29 | 1 addition

Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

The march showed growing public concern about climate change with over 6,000 marchers and several hundred cyclists making their way through the centre of London. It was a one of over 50 world-wide actions before the UN Climate Change talks in Bali. Images are copyright. Read more >>

10-12-2007 10:36 | 1 addition

Police manhandle Tesco biofuel protestors – corporate protection gone mad?

3 protestors who arrived to set up a peaceful protest against Tesco’s investments into biofuels were manhandled by Police in central London on December 8th who forced them into a metal pen. Despite, this a peaceful protest was held for an hour including a stop by 300 cyclists and 1 minutes silence for those who are suffering or who have died as the result of massive expansion of large scale biofuel plantations across the South.

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10-12-2007 07:11

IWW commence build-up to major assault on NBS bosses

With new phase of IWW campaign against 600 job cuts, the wobblies launch massive recruitment drive. Centres in Brentwood and Tooting are slated for closure. The IWW is going to save them. Read more >>