London Newswire Archive

12-06-2008 17:18

Bowl Court Social Centre Days Are Numbered

The courting hearing today ruled in favor of the property developers claiming ownership of the derelict warehouse in Bowl Court that has been used as a radical social centre since openning 23rd March. The David vs Goliath case was clearly motivated by Hammersons desire to prevent the new social centre becoming a hub for the local campaigns against their proposed development for the area, the biggest development in London since Docklands in the eighties. Read more >>

12-06-2008 14:12

Paper Plane Flash Mob at the Department for Transport on 3 July

Tell Ruth Kelly to Stop Airport Expansion:
- Meet 11am, Thursday 3 July, Department for Transport (DfT), 76 Marsham
Street, SW1P 4DR (tube: St James's Park or Westminster)
- 11.03am: Reveal your 'Stop Airport Expansion' t-shirt, if you have one
- 11.05am: launch your 'Stop Airport Expansion' paper planes at the DfT Read more >>

12-06-2008 13:32

As George Bush visits London, Reprieve tells Bush and Brown: Bring Binyam Back t

Where: Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery
When: 3 pm, Sunday 15 June
Who: Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith, former Guantánamo prisoners, Barney the Dinosaur and other special guests Read more >>

12-06-2008 04:32 | 1 addition

U.K. Anti-Bush Demonstration Banned from Whitehall

Be sure to come out and join in the festivities.

Bring cameras, and anything that makes noise.

Why not block the War Criminal altogether?

Why not demand that he be arrested? Read more >>

12-06-2008 00:44

Why is there so much Violence in Colombia?

…nearly 4 million displaced…more than 2000 trade unionists killed in the last two decades…40,000 citizens killed overall since 1998…more than 15,000 disappeared… Read more >>

11-06-2008 14:26

Women and Trans DIY-SQUATTING Weekend in London, 28th-29th June

This is a callout to all women and trans-folk that would like to be involved in a weekend of workshops around diy-squatting Read more >>

11-06-2008 14:00

Singing Up a Storm workshop, London, Saturday June 28th

Can singing transform the world?
We know that the right song at the right moment can unify, inspire,
educate and galvanise.
We know that it can be brutally silenced.
We know that many voices can be heard where one might be lost. Read more >>

11-06-2008 12:11

Freedom for the Imprisoned Munich Squatters!

On the 27th of June 2007, Steffi, Sven, and Lukas (all at that time between 17 and 19 years old) were stood in an empty building in Westendstrasse in Munich. The majority of the houses located in this street have been uninhabited for a long time, and some of them are used by punks and others to gather. Read more >>

11-06-2008 10:13

Peace Action in London Thursday June 12th

On Thursday 12th June, there will be a peaceful protest against the recruitment of young men and women for induction into the war machine, outside of a military recruitment center in London. Come along and express your opposition to military recruitment in the capital. We will be meeting at Waterloo train station, underneath the clock (in the middle of the station) at 12 Noon. Hope to see you there. Read more >>

11-06-2008 10:03

New report details torture of Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” introduces a new report, by legal action charity Reprieve, detailing the rendition and torture of British resident Binyam Mohamed, who faces a trial by Military Commission in Guantánamo. Read more >>

11-06-2008 02:21

Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs under attack

North AmericaRich White folks represented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) are trying to remove FNB from Market Square, where the group has served food to hungry people for 15 years. Read more >>

11-06-2008 00:02

Smash EDO noise demo

This wednesday the regular Smash EDO noise demo's will resume. Read more >>

10-06-2008 23:19

Lord Chancellor Jack Straw The Moral Dilemma Is Closer To Home?

'Underage' children are often drunk and generally antisocial or even violent on our British streets. Parents apparently do nothing to stop them. Government believes this is immoral and should be controlled by the use of force, through the making of new laws, and new criminal convictions, even on the parents. The Shalom Family evicted by Crest Nicholson present open invitation to the Lord Chancellor Mr Straw. Read more >>

10-06-2008 22:14

Scottish police discriminate ageist Anti-Scientology protests.

Scottish police abuse there authority to discriminate ageist Anti-Scientology protesters. Read more >>

10-06-2008 13:25

Call 4 Action - Israel March

Call for Action against the 29 June Salute to Israel March in London Read more >>

10-06-2008 13:05

After EDO, George Bush this Sunday, London?

PROTEST BUSH VIST - Parliament Square, Sunday 15th June, 5pm.
George Bush is coming to London and a protest site has been announced by Stop The War Coalition. Although not a thrilling action, possible momentum from the great demo at Edo in Brighton last week could make something more direct happen on the streets of London.
Read more >>

10-06-2008 12:56

Vegan Society Press Release: Arrests in Austria

The Board of the Vegan Society is deeply concerned about the arrest and detention without charge on 21st May 2008 of members of our sister organisation the Austrian Vegan Society and similar groups.

We understand that those arrested have now been interned for a further four weeks, see article -

https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400469.html
Read more >>

10-06-2008 12:18

Free the Cuban Five!

A three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals of Atlanta upheld Wednesday the guilty verdicts of the Cuban Five, prisoners in the United States since 1998... Read more >>

10-06-2008 10:30

NLD's Landslide Victory Still Valid: Burma Democratic Concern

Burma Democratic Concern today condemned Burmese military regime attempting to nullify 1990 Elections result in which National League for Democracy led by Aung San Suu Kyi won the landslide victory and call for the international community to make sure to implement 1990 Election result. Read more >>

09-06-2008 23:42

Camden Deadly disease lab / animal testing lab....PR firm and Security firm.

Most of you will know about the attempt to build the "World's largest ever, high level, virus containment facility and animal testing lab" on a Camden council estate and next to St Pancras International.
They have hired a PR agency to "answer letters", which go ignored for months at a time. Campaigners want to know what will happen to the National Temperance hospital site, what safety plans are in place for the Kings Cross lab {B.L.I.S.S. - British Library International Science Site}

The NIMR are also hiring a security firm to guard the NIMR owned old National Temperance Hospital, Grant Security's LTD.

Read more >>