London Newswire Archive

17-01-2008 15:03 | 1 addition

Protest Against Death of Woman Prisoner, Holloway, London, 16 Jan

A peaceful demonstration atains the death of Jamie Pearce in Holloway Prison on 10 Sec, 2007, organised by Pauline Campbell, took place outside the prison on Wed 16 Jam, 2008.
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17-01-2008 06:52

Social Centres Squat Mania

More Social Centres Wanted Now !!! Read more >>

16-01-2008 21:58 | 1 addition

Massive anti Heathrow dissent in (wait for it) Chiswick

A couple of local residents organised an anti Heathrow expansion meeting in Chiswick last night. Read more >>

16-01-2008 17:52

Economic Terrorist Network

THE DOMINION OF MELCHIZEDEK, a global economic terrorist network has supported fraud and money-laundering in the U.S. and overseas for over 20-years using sophisticated criminal shadowy tradecrafts targeting individuals and businesses the U.S. government claims it cannot protect against. Read more >>

16-01-2008 15:46

Urgent Action on Tibet: Email Gordon Brown

11 January 2008
Urgent message from the Free Tibet Campaign

Call on Gordon Brown to talk Tibet in China next week

Please act as soon as possible Read more >>

16-01-2008 01:01 | 1 addition

Fit up the Cops: It's Pay Back Time

23rd January 2008
Meet Weatherspoons on Baker Street (nearest tube Marble Arch)
9:30am

Bring anything you think could be useful... Read more >>

16-01-2008 00:56

RFID For Prisoners

"Justice Dept" plans RFID chips to control prisoners Read more >>

16-01-2008 00:11

Freedom of Assembly Protest - Part 2: Downing Street

Part two video of the London Freedom of Assembly on Saturday 12 January 2008. Read more >>

15-01-2008 21:51

Brazil: prior censorship against Paraná State's governor is absolutely reprehens

The president of the National Federation of Journalists (Fenaj), Sergio Murillo de Andrade, ranked as "absolutely reprehensible" the court decision that establishes prior censorship in Radio and Television Paraná Educativa.
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15-01-2008 20:39

Embassy Demo for kidnapped Sea sheperd Crew

Demonstration outside the Japanese Embassy in London to demand the release of the Sea Shepherd hostages and to demand a halt to the Whale Slaughter. Read more >>

15-01-2008 17:52

Help Save Baby X - An IVF created black baby with no rights to a father

The website www.savebabyx.com was built in order to raise money for
the legal costs for saving this Black Male child named Baby X and to
raise the issue of how child support is being used for sponsoring both
Immigration and Paternity Fraud & destroying Black Families. Read more >>

15-01-2008 17:16

Supersize My Pay activist speaks in UK as part of anti-sweatshop week of action

The No Sweat campaigns third week of anti-sweatshop action will be taking place 11-18 February 2008, including a speaker from the Supersize My Pay campaign which has organised thousands of young fast food workers in New Zealand. Read more >>

15-01-2008 16:51 | 1 addition

URGENT - protestors held hostage by Japanese wailing ship

Whilst boarding the Japanese wailing ship to deliver a letter, two protesters from the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irving were kidnapped and held hostage. Benjamin Potts 28, an Australian citizen and Giles Lane, 35, a citizen of Great Britain are being held hostage on board the whaling vessel. Both men were assaulted and then tied to the railings of the whaler. They were then moved and tied to the radar mast by the whalers.

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15-01-2008 15:34

WWF : Buy Yourself A New Corporate Image

It seems that any corporation, however bad their past, can sponsor WWF in order to make them look good. Surely this is wrong, but that's what's going on.
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15-01-2008 14:22 | 1 addition

Gordon Brown urged to act for British residents in Guantánamo

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, reports on the presentation of a letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown, asking him to request the US authorities to return two British residents who are still held in Guantánamo, and also asking him to request that the prison be closed down. Read more >>

15-01-2008 14:17

Freedom of Assembly Protest - Part 1

Part one video of the London Freedom of Assembly on Saturday 12 January 2008. Read more >>

15-01-2008 14:14

Lydd airport-planning dec deferred.

Lydd Airport on remote Romney Marsh, Kent' s expansion plans were further delayed when the CEO of Shepway District Council deferred the planning applications full council meeting (due Jan 30) to a later date....
Demo's planned for the 30th are now on hold. Read more >>

15-01-2008 06:26

It's not torture when U.S. forces are doing it...(by Latuff)

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff (to be published in "Ideias" magazine, of the Sindicato dos Servidores da Justica Federal, Rio de Janeiro). Read more >>

15-01-2008 03:17

Bush to Celebrate Ethnic Cleansing

President Bush left Israel after pledging to come back to help celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary.”I intend to come back to help the peace process move forward but also to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary,” Israel's 60th anniversary is referred to as the Nakba or catastophe by Palestinians. Its the anniversary of 1948, the anniversary of their ethnic cleansing. How can Bush be committed to peace and celebrate this? Read more >>

15-01-2008 00:48 | 1 addition

TOTALitarian Oil Out of Burma - London demos

Demos continue this week in London against French oil and gas company TOTAL's ongoing investment in Burma (Myanmar), against the wishes of Aung San Suu Kyi and the Burmese democracy movement. Newcomers are most welcome to come along. All very fluffy and well received by the public. Plenty of banners, placards, leaflets and petitions are available. You can even try on a nice pair of shackles, or climb into a bodybag. Whatever floats your boat.

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