London Newswire Archive

16-07-2008 20:35

Teachers against Wembley Academy prepare to resist eviction

Some pictures taken around noon on Wednesday 16 July as teachers and others at 'Tent City' opposing the north Wembley Academy were preparing to resist the expected eviction attempt by Brent council.
Photographs (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved. Read more >>

16-07-2008 19:40

Fannie, Freddie, Food and Fuel

The financial crisis deepens with the nationalization of IndyMac and the likely bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie May by the US taxpayer. The financial crisis has company as inflation, and in particular huge increases in global food and energy prices, enters the fray.

The American economic model has been discredited and the American century has lasted but a few decades. These developments have and will further open up a new period in the struggle between capital and labor on the world stage and the US working class will have a major role to play as it re-connects with its militant traditions. Read more >>

16-07-2008 19:20

Boris Johnson may yet take a morally fatal fall - if Wheatcroft is his guide!!!

Boris Johnson's DAILY TELEGRAPH newspaper group and Conservative Party colleague Patience Wheatcroft's so-called forensic audit report into Ken Livingstone's London Development Agency [=’LDA’] is the subject of a lot of 'mainstream media' reporting and commentary today [Wednesday 16 July 2008]. I have been warning Johnson against getting involved in a lower moral standard than that I had associated with Livingstone. It is clear that Johnson is heading for a big fall on grounds of lack of morality and ethics... Read more >>

16-07-2008 18:35

film showing of "Rendition" followed by a talk on Extraordinary Rendition

The London Guantánamo Campaign and Brent Stop The War invite you to a FREE film showing of the film "Rendition" followed by a discussion with Andy Worthington from Reprieve about the topical issue of extraordinary rendition, the CIA-sponsored and international government-backed programme of the kidnap, transfer and torture of human beings Read more >>

16-07-2008 16:44

London Bombings - tube security fugitive dodges another bullet

Yet again the ex-CEO of Comverse, parent company of Verint, the firm in charge of security on the London Underground, has avoided his extradition on the run in Namibia to face charges in New York over his dodgey dealing on Wall Street. The accompanying video has never been screened in the UK either at activist meetings or on TV and it provides the most up-to-date essential background on this story. Read more >>

16-07-2008 14:38

Raymond James Protest after SHAC march

We were passing through the city of London's square mile and decided to do a spontaneous demo... Read more >>

16-07-2008 14:19

Teachers against Wembley Academy resist Brent Council eviction of 'Tent City'

Yesturday, teachers and their supporters - part of the campaign against a proposed academy school in Wembley, NW London - defied Brent Council officials as the deadline to leave their protest camp expired without the threatened eviction. Brent Council obtained the eviction order yesturday for the removal of ‘Tent City’ on Wembley Park Sports ground, and an injunction order against Hank Roberts, one of the leaders of the campaign, who is camped on the roof of the community centre on the site.

THE LATEST: Brent Council have served all protestors on the site with an injunction to leave the site and have already received court paper for specialist baliffs. Police are threatening protestors with being chraged if they resist.

Brent Council have pushed for an immediate eviction order on the Tent City on the Wembley Sports Ground, Bridge Road, so the construction of temporary accommodation for the first 60 pupils can start for what has been termed the 'pre-academy'. (More info and background below).

Wembley Tent City Occupation, Bridge Road, Wembley:
Directions:
Nearest Tube: Wembley Park (Metropolitan Line)
Turn left out the station, walk up the hill to main junction on Bridge Rd, turn left, walk 100 metres, turn left into the gate way to Wembley Park Sports Ground and you're there.

Buses: From Central London: 18 from Euston to Sudbury and then the 182 to
Wembley Park Station (the N18 runs past Sudbury. Get off at Wembley
triangle from which Bridge Road is a 15 minute walk past Wembley Arena).
Other routes: 83 from Golders Green Stn, 302 from Kensal Rise Stn, 297
from Willesden Bus Garage.
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16-07-2008 14:09

Wembley Tent City Occupation Forced Eviction 4pm: Resist!

Council balliffs have just arrived on site following the injunctions and threats of prison time, served less than two hours ago, for all involved in the campaign and have given orders for everyone on site to leave before 4pm or face for forced eviction and possible arrest. Read more >>

16-07-2008 13:27

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Anti-Academy Protestors Served Injunctions

Following the resistance and support from across the city yesterday as the Wembley Tent City Occupation defied yesterday's 6pm eviction order, this morning Brent Council officials arrived and served a written injunction order on one Tent City member and injunction orders on every empty tent, lisitng the addressee as "unknown occupier". Read more >>

16-07-2008 11:16

Greenwash Guerrillas Embarrass E.ON

This morning, Climate Campers and friends put a fresh dent in E.ON’s tarnished reputation with a Greenwash Guerrillas demo outside the Guardian Climate Change Summit, which E.ON are sponsoring. Read more >>

16-07-2008 09:08

George Galloway exposed as he betrays East End over Crossrail - deal with Ken

After having done a deal with Ken Livingstone, which involved selling out the East End over Crossrail in true SWP style, George Galloway has been attending the Commons plugging his reputation as a man who cares about the middle East. The man's latest concern is Pakistan while the poor and oppressed in East End continue to suffer at the hands of Tower Hamlets Council and the Respect clique which has joined forces with disreputable contingencies in the Labour, Liberal Democrat and increasingly Conservative Party. In short, George Galloway and his supporters are a fraud. Look at his record Read more >>

16-07-2008 00:38

Anti City Academy protest camp defies eviction order.

Today Teachers and their supporters were celebrating as the deadline to leave their protest camp expired without the threatened eviction. Officers of the council were present but announced that they would only ‘report back’ the situation. Bailiffs were seen casing the area earlier before the deadline. Read more >>

15-07-2008 14:29

The Festival of Useful Openings....

we're looking to have some fun this week and maybe even learn a thing or two. Bowl Court Social Centre thus brings you the Festival of Useful Openings taking place until Thursday 17th July. Come along play some ping pong, have a bike ride
or attempt to make a rocket stove, it's your choice. And if there's
nothing on the menu you fancy why not suggest something else? Read more >>

15-07-2008 13:11

Army Recruitment Centre Demonstration

Peace activists show their objection to the recruitment of young men and women for the war machine outside of an army careers office. Read more >>

15-07-2008 13:07

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Tent City Issued Imminent Eviction - Resist!

Just 30 minutes ago a Willesden County Court judge ordered Hank Roberts and all those with him to leave the Wembley Park Sports Ground immediately, take all tents and belongings and be removed by 6pm tonight, an impossible injunction if you've seen the photos, or face further prosecution and even jail. Resistance and support is needed now. SMASH SCHOOL PRIVATISATION! Read more >>

15-07-2008 12:21 | 1 addition

Carnival Against Vivisection! - German, French and Spanish Translators needed

A huge thank you to those who are currently translating a polish version and helped with the Italian version below. Read more >>

15-07-2008 12:05

Espionage, news manipulation and legal threats against Eco- Warriors

New film out now! Read more >>

15-07-2008 10:59

Is Gordon Brown aware just how negligent the Tower Hamlets Council clique is?

Gordon Brown has placed, via Hazel Blears et al, significant value on the Blairing local Councils that are associated his regime. In fact Tower Hamlets Council is often used by Brown as a platform. But does he realise how devastatingly negligent that Council’s clique of 'leadership' is? And who will count the cost of its letdowns and negligence? Will Brown even be around in office to put a stop to the habit of putting cliques of corruption in positions of State-funded and state-endorsed of power over inner city populations like the ordinary community in the Borough of Tower Hamlets

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15-07-2008 09:58

Natalie Bracht, more reported sightings

On the run for two months now with her five daughters, the police remain hot on the trail of fugative Natalie Bracht. The latest statement from the police say she has been sighted in Devon on a bus from Exeter through Dartmoor. She has previously been reported to have been in Yeovil, Glastonbury and Bristol since originally hiding out in London after abandoning her home in Sunderland. Other reports place her in Holland or Germany. Read more >>