London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

08-10-2007 15:30 | 1 addition

Fence down at parliament sq

During today's Stop the War demo large numbers of protesters who had previously occupied the road turned their attention to the fence surrounding Parliament Square green. In the surreal scenes that followed 3/4 of the controversial fence were ripped down and stacked neatly. Read more >>

07-10-2007 22:07 | 1 addition

London Burma Protest

Saturday 6 October 2007, 10,000 people marched in solidarity with the peace protestors and monks of Burma. Read more >>

07-10-2007 01:50

Pictures from the Burma march in London

Saturday's London march for Burma from Tate Britain to Trafalgar sq Read more >>

06-10-2007 06:41

Police ban London antiwar march

The Metropolitan Police have banned a demonstration by the Stop the War Coalition in central London. Police spokesmen have indicated that this is in response to pressure from the Labour government of Prime Minister Gordon Brown. Read more >>

04-10-2007 20:52

Secret work on new nuclear warhead at Aldermaston

Insiders report that the Atomic Weapons Establishment has already commenced work on a successor warhead to Trident, despite there having been no parliamentary debate or vote on the matter.
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03-10-2007 23:51

Update on Smash EDO Action - EDO Workers forced to break window to get to work

At 5am Wednesday morning a barricade was built across Home Farm Road, EDO's security fence was breached, superglue was inserted into the keyholes of the factory doors and two activists locked on to the front doors of the factory... Read more >>

03-10-2007 16:52 | 1 addition

We Will Defy Government Ban on Anti-War March

Stop the War President Tony Benn has delivered a letter to the
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to make clear why our Troops Out
demonstration at Parliament on Monday 8 October will take place,
despite the ban by the government and police. It is essential
that the voice of the antiwar majority in this country is present
at Parliament when Gordon Brown makes his long awaited statement
on Iraq. Read more >>

03-10-2007 10:54

Protest Total Oil this Friday in London

CALL TO ACTION: 'Die-in' and demo at London TOTAL Oil HQ over Burma links
FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER
8:30 - 10:30 am
33 Cavendish Square, London, WC1
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02-10-2007 21:02

Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'

So Britain lectures Burma on the right of people to protest, the U.N., sends an envoy there and the U.S. - whilst behaving in Iraq and Afghanistan as Burma's Junta, shooting, beating, torturing, imprisoning without trial - go in to broken record mode about the right to peacefully demonstrate and 'freedom and democrocy'. Meanwhile, the British government, under the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer write the cheques for the Iraq and Afghanistan bloodbaths) has instructed the police to ban a peaceful march and Lobby of Parliament - on 8th October, the day that Parliament re-convenes after the summer break - demanding that British troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more >>

02-10-2007 15:32

FASLANE 365 "Brief Tale"

Few picture and a little tale....... Read more >>

02-10-2007 14:35

Schnews on Burma: a response

The only thing to say about the title is we’re glad it won’t be easy to find if you’re googling for information on Burma. The actual details of the uprising are clearly unimportant to the authors or it might get more than half a scanty paragraph before USuk is invoked and the true purpose of the article is revealed. Read more >>

02-10-2007 13:38

The Cuban Five: Imprisoned for opposing Terrorism

The National Lawyers Guild and several legal and human rights organizations have called on the U.N. Human Rights Committee and the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture to launch a formal investigation of the United States government’s continuing violation of human rights of five political prisoners known as the Cuban Five. Read more >>

01-10-2007 17:26

Blog strike for Burma! No blogging on 4th Oct: Burmese Bloggers Without Borders

Following the lead of the fabulous Medicins sans Frontieres and Reporters sans Frontieres, the ever-fabulous Burmese People established Burmese Bloggers Without Borders on 30th September 2007. They are asking for a strike of supportive bloggers on Thursday 4th October, 2007.
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01-10-2007 12:45

Aznar’s Silence...

During a Round Table program aired on Cuban television on April 25, 2003, I pointed out that the then Spanish President José María Aznar, an ally of the world's leader in genocides and massacres, had met with President William Clinton on April 13, 1999, at an uncertain juncture of the war in Yugoslavia, and had told him, verbatim... Read more >>

01-10-2007 06:30

Burma: ask embassies in Rangoon to set up WiFi for photographic evidence

The Junta have successfully cut off internet access to the outside world; some landlines are still working but mobiles can only pick up signals near the borders and are in any case rare at $1800 purchase price. The resistance have issued the following call for assistance via WiFi and the embassies in Rangoon. Read more >>

01-10-2007 03:09

URGENT: Burma petition, e-signatures and forwarding requested

To Chinese President Hu Jintao and the UN Security Council:

We stand alongside the citizens of Burma in their peaceful protests. We urge you to oppose a violent crackdown on the demonstrators, and to support genuine reconciliation and democracy in Burma. We pledge to hold you accountable for any further bloodshed. Read more >>

30-09-2007 21:45

Amerika Uber Alles -- Our Nazi Nation

Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, develops the disturbing thesis that we have indeed become the new Nazis. Readers will be surprised both by who helped him form idea and who, ultimately, is behind our Nazification. Read more >>

30-09-2007 16:46

Tasers for the TSG

Now the Met's riot squad will try out Tasers. Read more >>

28-09-2007 18:49

UK-US Military Alliance Creates Fascist UK-Faslane

Who can deny it 'go l**ney, go p*ki, go n*gger, go p**ftah as well as sch*z, go y*ppee and lesser verbal intimidation is heard every day in the UK moreso then most other places in western europe. This is the most common that I have known such verbal abuse since being born in 1961. Who can block now at Faslane? Read more >>

27-09-2007 18:58 | 2 additions

Large turnout at Burmese and Chinese embassies in London

Large numbers of protesters rallied outside the Burmese embassy, before marching to the Chinese embassy to demand China's support for the pro-democracy uprising in Burma.
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