UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive
NPOIU Pops Up In Brighton Mags Court Hearing
19-05-2009 23:10
4 defendants on trial this week for alleged offences connected to the June 2008 Brighton Carnival against the Arms Trade were blessed with a court visit by the secretive National Public Order Intelligence Unit (NPOIU).Saturday 23 May - Stop Police Violence, Kettle New Scotland Yard!
19-05-2009 15:26
March via Downing Street to New Scotland Yard.
The United Campaign Against Police Violence has called a national demonstration to highlight the issues of police violence and demand justice for those who have died in police custody.
The police tactic of "kettling" demonstrators - essentially detaining protestors and bystanders without charge - will be turned on its head on the protest, when we kettle New Scotland Yard.
Obama: I understand why Israel considers Iran an existential threat
19-05-2009 13:02
So, we are led to believe that President Obama, who was elected as “the peace candidate”, will restrain the nakedly belligerent Israeli government.
In his Newsweek interview published online the same day, whilst reiterating the same old propaganda, Obama’s tone was more blunt than usual…
London Tamil Protest Policing Questioned/ video and blog
19-05-2009 12:32
Video of Monday 15 May, includes assaults and threats of arrest to journalists, and catches spurious comments by a police officer about the press "parasites".Burma Protest - First Day of Aung San Suu Kyi Show Trial
19-05-2009 03:58
AMN Action Roundup #1
19-05-2009 00:38
http://www.antimilitaristnetwork.org.uk/actionroundup Welcome to the first Action Roundup from for Anti-Militarist Network. To have your events or actions covered either add them to Indymedia UK under the anti-militarism tag, or email us.
police attacking tamils tonight
18-05-2009 23:53
eye-witnesses claim many injured as police push tamils from two sides, leaving them with nowhere to go. there is panic among the peaceful protestors, and people are being crushed against barriers. police are not in riot gear because they have experienced over and over that the tamils are completely non-violent.Obama’s Animal Farm: Bigger, Bloodier Wars Equal Peace and Justice
18-05-2009 20:27
Tamils in Parliament Square need tents
18-05-2009 18:10
Call-out from supporters in the Square. Please come into the crowd with tents.tamils just broken police lines again
18-05-2009 15:30
monday 4pm tamils at parliament square have once more flooded the roads and brought the area to a standstillObama and Brown complicit in Abu Ghraib abuse
18-05-2009 11:08
The Daily Telegraph today links both Barak Obama and Gordon Brown to the torture, abuse, rapes and murders at Abu Ghraib and other US black prisons [1]. The supposedly liberal, anti-war, anti-torture President has just appointed General Stanley MacChrystal as his new army chief in Afghanistan. It links him to the Human Rights Watch report into that abuse 'No Blood, No Foul' [2].Tamil solidarity call-out - US embassy protest on Monday morning
17-05-2009 22:37
with news of more than 1000 new deaths and thousands injured in just a few hours today in Vanni, tamils in london are calling for a solidarity protest outside the US embassy, grosvenor square on monday morning to urge barack obama to intervene.activist groups in derby need support on different projects
17-05-2009 21:20
peace camp raynesway derby anti nuclear against trident
17-05-2009 20:57
Af-Pak is Obama's War
16-05-2009 09:28
Bath Bomb #22 Out Now
16-05-2009 01:41
This month's issue of Bath's radical newsletter, now outHeckler & Koch Campaign :: Demo & Picket in Nottingham
15-05-2009 13:01
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Heckler & Koch Campaign :: Mark Thomas in Nottingham
15-05-2009 12:54
Undercover peace activists invade arms fair
15-05-2009 10:41
A videoreport with undercover images is now online:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj0_keejtDo Estimate 1700 Tamil civilians killed 3000 injuried in 48 hrs in Sri Lanka
15-05-2009 09:53
''The local aid workers in Vanni Region estimated 1700 civilians have been killed and over 3000 injured in the last 48 hours due to the persistent use of heavy artillery and mortars by the Sri Lankan armed forces. The catastrophic situation has been made worse by the acute shortage of food and medicine.''''The ICRC ship carrying emergency supply of food provided by the World Food Organization (WFO) has been prevented from delivering its consignments due to refusal of the Sri Lankan Government to provide security guarantees, even though LTTE has given all clearance and guarantees . And another ship working on medical evacuations also prevented from reaching shores with the same reason''.