London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

12-02-2008 05:03

Victims of HealthQuest Abuses in N.S.W. Australia Contact Amnesty in London

On several occasions since 1995 victims of the N.S.W. Government Medical Office, HealthQuest, have contacted Amnesty International in London. We have yet to receive a response. Soviet psychiatry is being used against dissident public servants and whistleblowers in N.S.W. Australia. HealthQuest is staffed with psychiatrists and psychologists who are prepared to diagnose for money and power. We hope that this time, Amnesty will finally launch an investigation into our plight. Read more >>

10-02-2008 23:36

Camden goes up in flames....

Camden Canal Market AND Camden Lock Market ahve gone up in flames.

With developers wanting to move in one can ..er...speculate how the fires started and spread...... Read more >>

10-02-2008 17:56

Rally to stop eviciton of Dale Farm - Tomorrow Monday

DEMONSTRATE WITH US AGAINST
THE DESTRUCTION OF DALE FARM

HELP CALL FOR A MORATORIUM
ON ALL EVICTIOINS UNTIL 2011

Rally at 11 am to 3 pm outside the High
Court, Strand, London, on Monday,
11 February.
(Approved by Metropolitan Police)
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09-02-2008 17:01

Kilburn Get Total Out of Burma protest 7th February

Eight protesters targeted Kilburn Total petrol station on 7th February at 409 Kilburn High Rd to demonstrate against the French Oil and Gas company. Total funds the brutal regime with hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Total's gas pipeline in Burma was built with slave labour from Burmese villages that were bullied and "relocated" by the junta's army for the pipeline (See www.totaldenialfilm.com).
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06-02-2008 13:12

SAVE The Livesey Museum for Children from tory/libdem cuts -sign the petition

A free and valuable resource for local and london community families is under threat of closure by southwark's tory/lib-dem councils in needless council-cuts. Read more >>

02-02-2008 10:52

London Social Centres Support Meeting Sat 2nd Feb

Yes, really late reminder this but today (saturday) 2pm is the 2nd meeting of the relating to the London Social Centres Support Initiative (that's not the name, just an attempt at a description).

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02-02-2008 10:44

Kilburn protest against Total Oil fuelling oppression in Burma

Nine protesters demonstrated at Kilburn Total petrol station on 31st January at 409 Kilburn High Rd, calling on the French oil company to stop being an accomplice to the theft of Burma's resources by the corrupt military junta. The National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won 82 percent of the seats in Burma’s 1990 election but the corrupt regime refused to hand over power.
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31-01-2008 17:14

Campaign for Free Assembly public meeting 16th February

Campaign for Free Assembly public meeting
Saturday 16th February 2pm-4pm
London School of Economics room H103, Connaught House
Map:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/Default.htm Read more >>

30-01-2008 14:57

Indymedia screening tonight

When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn't stop recording. It continued moving from hand to hand. Brad's camera paints us a picture of what his life was about, and what so many of his friends continue to struggle for.

Tonight at the rampART there is a screening and discussion with the film maker and indymedia activist from south america. Read more >>

30-01-2008 10:40

LSE Union Divided as Students Condemn Israel's Apartheid Regime

Over 600 students turned out to debate a motion on Israeli apartheid at the London School of Economics Students' Union (LSESU) Union General Meeting (UGM) last Thursday, 24 January 2008. Students packed the Old Theatre and spilled out into the corridors for the motion, entitled 'Make Apartheid History', which condemned Israel's Apartheid regime and called for the LSESU to lobby the school and the National Union of Students (NUS) to divest from Israeli and international companies that support the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. Read more >>

29-01-2008 18:27

Monday Love Returns....

Monday Love returns with a one month residence at The InSpiral Lounge in Camden Lock.
For the valentine month of February, Monday Love will be bringing you the finest in uptown, underground, raise your spirit and blow your mind live music, film and real life grassroots media. Read more >>

28-01-2008 21:23

We are bad.

In the past week there has been an upsurge in resistance to the olympics in east London. A new collective calling itself WE ARE BAD has emerged to spearhead an intensive campaign against the games and it's corporate sponsors. Read more >>

28-01-2008 17:55

Wed 30th, 12pm: Mapuche Solidarity Demo at Chilean Embassy for hunger strike

Due to the critical situation of the hunger striker Patricia Troncoso, who various sources say is nearing the very end of her life, Mapuche International Link are calling urgently for a demonstration outside the Chilean Embassy in London with other groups on Wednesday 30th, between 12-2pm. Read more >>

27-01-2008 22:57

Respect the right to protest - Don't harmonise its criminalisation

Response to the Home Office consultation on managing protest around Parliament Read more >>

26-01-2008 19:40

The war on scientology.

You may have heard in some of the news outlets that a group of "Hackers" have declared war on Scientology. Firstly, we're not hackers. We are an autonomus group of individuals who have come together to fight a common cause. It is our aim to make people aware of the wrongdoings and cult-like nature of this organisation, and ultimately reduce their ability to take and destroy lives. We are known as Anonymous. Read more >>

26-01-2008 19:08

Haiti: Vanessa Redgrave Joins Appeal For Kidnapped Human Rights Activist

Acclaimed actress Vanessa Redgrave joins a growing list of prominent people worldwide who have expressed concerned with the safe return of Lovinsky Pierre-Antoine, the missing human rights activist kidnapped in Haiti on 12 August 2007 after meeting with a visiting US human rights delegation. Read more >>

26-01-2008 09:34

London Critical Mass January ride.

A subdued start to a good ride, held up by a massive traffic jam in the Strand, but it livened up later with a bike high in Piccadilly Circus and taunts to impatient car horns. Joyful chants of 'More bikes less cars' and 'Whose streets? Our streets'.
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25-01-2008 22:30 | 1 addition

Chiswick protest against Total Oil support for Burma dictatorship

Twelve protesters held a demonstration at the West Four Total Oil petrol station at 137 Chiswick High Road on January 24th, calling on the company to stop giving the brutal military junta hundreds of millions of dollars a year, as the largest western supporter of the military regime.
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24-01-2008 21:59 | 3 additions

New Social Centre under Siege

A new autonomous space in Hackney sustained two violent attacks this week as representatives of both Howen Estates Ltd., and the Hackney Metropolitan Police attempted to forcibly and illegally gain entry to the newly opened social centre. Read more >>

24-01-2008 17:42 | 2 additions

"Over 250 BNP activists" on the streets of London last week

..and where was the opposition ( i.e. us!!) Read more >>