London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

18-01-2007 21:55 | 1 addition

11-01-07: Photos from Catholic Workers Guantanamo protest, US Embassy

Several photographs of the Catholic Workers Guantanamo Bay protest on the evening of 11/01/07. Read more >>

18-01-2007 21:47

Video: Guantanamo Vogue and Disco Dance outside Lockheed-Martin

11-01-2007: A break away group of protestors target Lockheed-Martin for profiteering from Guantanamo Bay. Read more >>

17-01-2007 23:56 | 1 addition

London buses recruitment ads

Something must be done about the part recruitment ads on our buses play in the war effort Read more >>

17-01-2007 02:04

Video - Amnesty action at US Embassy - Close Guantanamo

Late. Read more >>

16-01-2007 13:28

Pictures from Guantanimo action at US embassy.

Some late images of the action organised at the US Embassy in London by Amnesty international. Over 300 people took part. Read more >>

15-01-2007 14:20

SOCPA - brian haw's full display rises like a pheonix

next monday at horseferry road, judge purdy hands down his decision whether brian haw has a case to answer for alleged breach of socpa conditions that led to a night-time police raid by 78 officers in may 2006 cutting his display from more than forty metres down to a mere three. in the meantime, artist mark wallinger has been busy recreating the whole display and his exhibition entitled 'state britain' opened this morning at tate britain, on the very edge of the socpa zone. Read more >>

15-01-2007 01:47

10/01/07: Downing Street Candle-lit vigil for Guantanamo Bay prisoners

Video of the candle-lit vigil for the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay. Read more >>

14-01-2007 12:35

sunday times leaks info about new anti-war exhibition at tate britain

a press release tomorrow will reveal the exact nature of marc wallinger's new installation at the duveen gallery, tate britain. meanwhile the organisers are angry at a leak to the sunday times which was published this morning under the title 'tate puts artistic bomb under blair. Read more >>

11-01-2007 21:44 | 1 addition

Guantánamo Bay Demonstration Outside US Embassy

Demonstration outside the US Embassy to mark the 5th anniversary of the opening of the Guantánamo Bay detention camp. Read more >>

11-01-2007 17:57 | 2 additions

Vigil for Guantanimo prisoners. Wednesday night.

Some pictures from the vigil called by Amnesty International and supported by around 100 people. Read more >>

10-01-2007 16:11

Jan 11: Guantanamo Bay 5th Anniversary 'Celebrations’

PRESS RELEASE
EMBARGOED UNTIL 00:01AM, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 2007

Guantanamo Bay 5th Anniversary 'Celebrations’

Why has Birmingham's HIATT corporation supplied the shackles used during the abuse of 10 British residents and 400 other prisoners in Guantanamo Bay? Read more >>

09-01-2007 23:14

Close Guantánamo: Demonstration on the 5th anniversary

Amnesty International is marking the fifth anniversary of the detention centre in Guantánamo Bay by calling for the closure of Guantánamo Bay. Events are taking place in London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Cardiff and Belfast. Read more >>

31-12-2006 00:07

Akiner:Cultural Learnings of SOAS for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Uzbekistan

Like Borat, this SOAS academic's life revolves around approaching unsuspecting people and persuading them to believe all sorts of drivel about life in a Central Asian Republic. Read more >>

28-12-2006 17:09 | 1 addition

Catholic Workers Blockade Northwood HQ on "Feast of Innocents"

Following a day of reflection on the "Feast of the Holy Innocents" and the wars presently raging on Afghanistan and Iraq, a dozen Catholic Workers and friends made their way to Northwood Headquarters on the outskirts of London.

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28-12-2006 00:47 | 2 additions

BBC aiding & abetting anti-Muslim pogrom in the UK

Set aside for a moment Sir Ian Blair and his daily race-hate lies paid for by London's longsuffering council tax payers. Every time they say 'suicide bomber' on the news my guts go over. Mostly because I know the newsreaders are just trotting out anonymous military sources, but we are SUPPOSED to feel sick. It's part of a psycological operation to get us to hate Muslims in which the highest level BBC editors and managers are complicit. Read more >>

27-12-2006 09:35

Steve Pound MP on SOCPA - Radio 4 Christmas Repeal - Vote now!

Radio 4 is running a Christmas Repeal listener vote, and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) is one of the candidates. Steve Pound, Labour MP, was on the Today programme this morning talking a load of bull about SOCPA, but he was forced to admit that Maya Evans and Milan Rai should not have been convicted under the Act. This jolted me out of my apathy to go and vote and to send a comment to Today (below). Read more >>

25-12-2006 14:57

SOCPA - a cold christmas in parliament square

brian haw maintains his peace vigil in parliament square and is there today with supporters including steve jago and barbara tucker. Read more >>

24-12-2006 15:02 | 1 addition

Alleged Liquid Bomb Plot Credibility Crumbles

The alleged ringleader of a much vaunted plot to blow up multiple transatlantic airliners using liquid explosives has been cleared of terrorism charges and of being a member of any terrorist group, rendering August's terror scare another hyped creation of government scare mongering. Read more >>

23-12-2006 12:42 | 1 addition

Al Qaeda greater than Nazis says Sir Ian Blair

Sir Ian Blair, the Metropolitan Police commissioner, today told the press that he considers Al Qaeda to be even greater than Hitlers Nazis in terms of threat to civilian life. Although Sir Ian admitted that he had no intelligence, relating to a specific attack, he warning of possible outrages this Christmas saying that the threat was "unparalled and growing".
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22-12-2006 23:02

List of Exhibitors at the Counter Terror World Exhibition

Earlier this month, London's Olympia hosted the first Counter Terror World exhibition, at which companies and countries from around the world "shared with each other lessons learned in the war on terror." The official website of the exhibition (

http://www.counterterrorworld.com) has been taken down and now re-directs to

http://www.isnrlondon.com. So the information that the site provided (list of exhibitors etc.) is not available on the web any more. Therefore, we reproduce some of that info below. Read more >>