London Newswire Archive

28-07-2008 17:26

Angry Penguins & Climate Refugees to Visit Climate Criminals

A large group of displaced penguins, a homeless polar bear, and several of human climate refugees will cross London Bridge to enter the City of London. Read more >>

28-07-2008 16:15

North Camp street parking

Car parking restrictions imposed without public consultation in North Camp are unlawful and unenforceable. That the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor continues to collect monies from an unlawful scheme opens the council, its officers and individual councillors to criminal prosecution.
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28-07-2008 15:38

Sign Petition for Faraj Hassan

Faraj Hassan is currently being subjected to Financial Sanctions ostensibly by the United Nations, but in reality this has been applied by both the Italian and British Governments who are aware that this sanction should never have been applied yet continue to mentally torture this young man of 28.
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28-07-2008 10:22

Kim Powers ARA in hands of cancer research

Kim Powers singer songwriter animal rights activist, gives a short insight into his experiences after the diagnosis 'cancer cup syndrome'.The article comes out soon in the agstg.ch magazine 'albatros' in German, French & Italian. Read more >>

27-07-2008 23:03 | 1 addition

Food not Bombs - Brixton

The London Food not Bombs group gave away food in Brixton's Windrush Square on Sunday 27th July. Read more >>

27-07-2008 17:59

Students and Striking Workers Picket LSE Starbucks Event

Students and striking local government workers united to picket a London School of Economics (LSE) event in Starbucks on Kingsway, Holborn last week, in opposition to the university’s and coffee chain’s support for the state of Israel's occupation of Palestine. Read more >>

27-07-2008 15:29 | 1 addition

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Sports Ground Re-Occupied - Support Needed

First report from the Wembley Sports Ground Anti-Academy Camp. Support Needed.
Save The Sports Ground. Save The Community Green Space. No To School Privatisation. No To Education For Profit.
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27-07-2008 11:52

Smash School Privatisation: Wembley Sports Ground Re-Occupied, AGAIN!

Following the recent residents and local teachers' resistance to the privatised Wembley Ark Academy school plans, this morning an independent group of "concerned citizens" re-occupied the Wembley Park Sports Ground. Read more >>

26-07-2008 22:55

26.07.08 Climate Camp press conference

Images from the climate camp press conference, Saturday 26th July 2008.
The climate camp will move this weekend from its location at Heathrow Airport to a new location - Kingsnorth power station in Medway, Kent. This conference aimed to examine the ongoing situation at Heathrow and bring different groups such as Camp for Climate Action, local campaign groups HACAN and NoTRAG), and Greenpeace to discuss a broad strategy against expansion.

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26-07-2008 17:45

Binyam demo in pictures.

Firstly a huge well done to all the people who have kept this scandal on the agenda with their actions past and present. See:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401098.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/01/389503.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/398635.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2008/06/400790.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400920.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401212.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/sheffield/2008/06/400985.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/03/393504.html

Its hard to image what spending your 30th in a place like guantanamo must be like. Especially after years of confinement and torture. Read more >>

26-07-2008 16:19 | 1 addition

Smash School Privatisation: Next Step In The Anti-Academy Campaign

Following last week’s actions against the privatisation of UK education in Wembley, North West London, a new call out by campaigners to re-squat the land and put another obstacle in the way of Blair’s profitable education program, centring the campaign against school privatisation right under the nose of the new Wembley Stadium. Read more >>

26-07-2008 15:16 | 1 addition

600 million of pounds burned last night at the Hackney Planning Committe

How 600 million of pounds were burned last night
in the Hackney Planning committee of London.

Hackney Council effort to sell off most of its land bank asset to
speculative driven private property deals suffered a blow last night
at its very own home - the Hackney Town Hall.

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25-07-2008 20:49

Sizewell Blockaded yet again

6am and nine anti nuclear power activists head to sizewell for a day on the beach, well almost the beach, they actually stop at the entrance of Sizewell A and B nuclear power stations and lock themselves together with a number of things and seal the entrance for health and safety reasons.
Sizewell looks to be the next place for a new nuclear power station, with two reactors larger than the existing sizewell ‘B’ reactor.
After two previous blockades in the last few months, security had been stepped up and they had put a land rover and two security guards at the gate, but must have decided that this was no longer needed as when we arrived they were not there and yet again we were not spotted. Read more >>

25-07-2008 20:27

News from the Austrian Prisoners

Last week we “celebrated” Kevin’s, Jürgen’s and Felix’s birthdays outside the prisons. These were not normal vegan birthday parties.

More info (English solidarity website)

http://austriasolidarity.com and

http://antirep2008.tk Read more >>

25-07-2008 19:14

Hijacker Legend is RACIST but how to lay down this gauntlet?

‘There comes a time when silence is betrayal’ (Martin Luther King) - Is it racist and/or Islamophobic to continue to subscribe to the official story of 9/11? Should we not denounce it as a racist rumour? Read more >>

25-07-2008 15:47 | 2 additions

Open letter to The Camp for Climate Action from NUJ.

An open letter to The Camp for Climate Action from the National Union of Journalists. Read more >>

25-07-2008 11:02

SUNDAY Training: Self-Defense on Actions

Workshop dealing with police "interaction" and discussions on security and tactics. Read more >>

25-07-2008 09:28

London IWW demo at Polish Embassy

A small demonstration called by London IWW in support of a radical union, 'Workers' Initiative' (Inicjatiwa Pracownicza) in Poland. The demo was called to support WI members being discriminated against in the Polish postal service, and particularly the sacking of a member - Bartosz Kantorczyk - for his lead role in a wave of strikes last year. Read more >>

25-07-2008 08:20

Happy Birthday Binyam! Party/Demo report

Binyam Mohamed turned 30 yesterday in Guantánamo Bay. Held illegally and without conviction for over six years, the British government wouldn't let Binyam come to his party, so we took the party to them! Read more >>

25-07-2008 01:38 | 1 addition

SOCPA Is Dead And Buried

in westminster magistrates court yesterday, an admission was made by the prosecutors that lent weight to the belief that SOCPA can no longer be used against protestors near parliament Read more >>