London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

07-02-2006 10:20

Free Iran's 800 jailed union activists

Support the Tehran bus workers strike. Defend the right of Iranian workers to form labour unions. Read more >>

06-02-2006 17:03

KHOODEELAAR the Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against Crossrail hole Bi

KHOODEELAAR is backing a new community mobilisation next weekend against Crossrail hole attack in the East End. This follows Tower Hamlets Council's failure to implement the community demand of 22 January 2006 to pass a simple resolution saying No to Crossrail hole Bill. Read more >>

06-02-2006 13:45

London May Day

On May Day this year "I will form part of a human chain around the Westminster no protest zone but only if 6,000 other people will join in." Read more >>

05-02-2006 20:32

GREENWASH GUERILLAS TO GREET BP CHAIRMAN, CHATHAM HOUSE, LONDON, 7.2.06

There is rising concern about the flood-threatening levels of greenwash that will be seeping from The Royal Institute of International Affairs (RIIA), also known as Chatham House (1), this coming Tuesday February 7th 2006, when BP Chairman Peter Sutherland will be speaking there on 'The future of the World Trade Organisation in addressing sustainable development’ (2). (What we like about these guys is their bone dry sense of humour.) With delicious yet appalling irony, February 7th is also likely to see BP announce record quarterly profits. Read more >>

05-02-2006 00:00

KHOODEELAAR! THE BRICK LANE LONDON E1 against Xrail hole deamnds to cllrs

The KHOODEELAAR campaign in defence of the Brick Lane E1 area and against the Crossrail hole has created the hottest political debate in the East End of London and beyond. The result is that sitting councillors on Tower Hamlets are now running desperate to keep their careers. They are now under pressure to tell the truth on how they let the Crossrail hole to be brought to attack the community Read more >>

04-02-2006 23:21

The QUICKTIME REPORT 5/2/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! Read more >>

04-02-2006 19:18

Reflections on a deportation [from Israel]

David is a human rights observer who is to be deported from Israel. He was with ana in various places in Palestine.

There will be a talk on the subject of Palestine by ana on the 14th of March in RampArts social centre, Whitechapel. Read more >>

04-02-2006 13:25

KHOODEELAAR defence of the Brick Lane London E1 against Crossrail hole - events

Over 1000 people turned up to attend the KHOODEELAAR campaign meeting on 22 January 2006 against the Crossrail hole in the Brick Lane London E1 Area. The meeting demanded the local Council pass a single resolution saying no to Crossrail hole Bill. The controlling clique on the Blarite Tower Hamlets Council which has been plugging for the Big Business Crossrail plan has refused to do get the Council to pass the resolution as demanded by the community. The ultimatum issued by the community to Tower Hamlets Council on 22 January 2006 runs out tomorrow. The KHOODEELAAR campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill continues. KHOODEELAAR IS STARTING a series of local events including protest demonstrations against the Crossrail hole Bill in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets starting on Monday 6 February 2006. Read more >>

03-02-2006 22:23

St Agnes Place (Update 3rd Feb 2006)

Today at Lambeth County Court, Honourable Judge Gibson struck out the defence for adverse possesion of no 93 Read more >>

02-02-2006 14:22 | 1 addition

KHOODEELAAR! The Brick Lane London E1 Area Question to LibDems

KHOODEELAAR! The Brick Lane London E1 Area campaign against the Crossrail hole plan/scheme Bill is waiting for a clear straightforward answer to the question they have put to a Liberal Democrat Councillor on the London Borough of Tower Hamlets about that Party’s position on the Community’s demand against the Crossrail hole. Read more >>

02-02-2006 08:14

Welfare Reform Web Chat 10:30am today

Welfare reform webchat with minister today Read more >>

01-02-2006 20:47 | 2 additions

Bolivia is Not for Sale

bennifit for Bolivia
featuring ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER, THE ROSINATORS, NAKED RUBY,
LARRY LOVE and leading Bolivian folk band EXPRESION BOLIVIA Read more >>

31-01-2006 15:56

KHOODEELAAR demands Tower Hamets chief executive resignation

In the legal communication sent earlier today to Tower Hamlets Council chief executive Christine Gilbert, the KHOODEELAAR legal affairs unit tells her : "your failure to comply with your legal duties and because of your disregard for the upholding of standard on the Council and because of your disappointing collusion with the illegitimate interests who now hold control on the Tower Hamlets Council, the KHOODEELAAR campaign must give expression to the legitimate and democratic imperative and need and necessity to call for your immediate resignation and [in the event that you refuse or fail to resign] for your being democratically and constitutionally removed from your office as your continued holding of that position is in contravention of your legal duties and as it is jeopardising the operation of the lbth council as the democratic representer of the local community in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets" Read more >>

31-01-2006 11:32

Bolivia Benefit Party In London

An all night party in solidarity with the people of Bolivia. Read more >>

30-01-2006 18:04

Crossrail hole Bill will cause DEGENERATION, not 'regeneration'

Degeneration - NOT 'REGENERATION' will result in the East End of London if the present Crossrail Bill is not stopped. The Crossrail hole plan in the Brick Lane London E1 area will devastate the East End and undermine the community, the economy, the health and the stability that now exists. Yet the Govt QC David Elvin has failed to tell the truth Read more >>

29-01-2006 15:09

AGAINST BECHTEL AND CROSSRAIL - PLEA TO SHARE INFORMATION

Bechtel will use a money making transport scheme Crossrail causing social, financial and environmental harm to communities in the East End of London. Please share information on Bechtel and Crossrail. Original story on

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/01/332456.html?c=on#c140623 Read more >>

29-01-2006 12:37

Respect backs Brick Lane campaign against Crossrail hole

George Galloway's RESPECT coalitioin has today confirmed its backing to the campaign against the Crossrail hole Bill. They also vow to scrap any agreement the Tower Hamlets Council may have made for the Crossrail assault on the local community if RESPECT win control of Tower Hamlets Council at the scheduled May 2006 local election Read more >>

29-01-2006 06:18

British Waterways A Meet of Hearts and Minds or a Place to Escape?

Following their most recent one-man picket at the London International Boat Show 2006, at Excel in the heart of London’s docklands, the Shalom Family Campaign for Social Justice have written an Open Letter to British Waterways, a stakeholder with the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Read more >>

26-01-2006 22:40

Sainsburys GM protests strike again

The cows were back in town today when Sainsburys tried to have an uneventful champagne launch of a new store in North West London. Read more >>

26-01-2006 10:42 | 1 addition

Uxbridge 7 acquitted

The Uxbridge 7, on trial for blockading the UK distribution centre of Israeli agricultural exporter Carmel/Agrexco have been acquitted at Uxbridge magistrates court. A more detail report will follow. Read more >>