UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
People of Color Face Historic Wealth Loss
23-01-2008 11:57
Now standing at about ten-to-one, the wealth gap between African American and white median households cannot but grow bigger in the wake of the subprime lending catastrophe. The Boston-based United for a Fair Economy recently released a report, detailing the carnage wreaked on people of color by predatory lenders - and it is mind-boggling.U.K. 'Sleaze Committee' Infiltrated By 'Friends Of Israel' Refused To Investigate
23-01-2008 10:51
Parliamentary sleaze watchdog the Committee on Standards in Public Life initially turned down a request by a group of 20 top academics, surgeons and others to investigate the influence of Israel lobby groups like Friends of Israel at the heart of British government.Italy Reported to the United Nations for racis crimes
23-01-2008 09:02
CERD will have to ascertain the violations of articles 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the “International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.” Italy, in fact, is accused of carrying out a series of measures, both on a national level and on a local level, aimed at hitting the Rrom and Sinti communities on Italian territory - from the 14 security packages to the emergency expulsion decree for EU citizens put forward by Giuliano Amato. The International Criminal Court of the Hague will evaluate the actions carried out by the Italian institutions against the Rroma to determine whether – and to what extent – any crimes against humanity were committed.Demand action to end the Gaza blockade!
23-01-2008 04:23
Dear friends,The people of Gaza are being squeezed to death. This week's blackouts have finally reached the attention of the world -- and the international community could help end the blockade. Our obligation is clear. This isn't about Israel vs Palestine or Hamas vs Fatah: this is about 1.5 million human beings locked up in the biggest prison on earth. The siege of Gaza is a collective punishment violating international law, and far from ensuring Israel's security, it is only stoking rage and desperation.
International Outcry Grows for End to Israeli Blockade of Gaza Strip
23-01-2008 01:09
Great to see that protests are planned.Shameful, though, that the Government wouldn't take action on its own ...
Support The Harmondsworth 4! Demonstrate 28 January and every Monday
22-01-2008 15:32
The second demonstration to highlight the trial of four me n who were in Harmondsworth IRC at the time of the protest there on 28 November 2006 took place on Monday 21 January 2008 at Southwark Crown Court.
Int'l Condemnation of Gaza Collective Punishment Grows
22-01-2008 02:12
Collective Punishment is a War Crime.This has little to do with rockets, except that when Israel first imposed Collective Punishment, in order to "suffocate Hamas", its own defence staff warned that it would provoke a violent response.
Israel is directly responsible for provoking the violence it now uses to justify aggression it planned long before Annapolis. Sadly, much of the media is so cowed that they're getting away with it.
In directing the failed coup attempt in Gaza, Israel is also responsible for the crisis which it now says it is "reacting to" ...
FRFI report of TCAR Northern March Against Racism 19th Jan
21-01-2008 18:19
Stop the BNP in Brinsley gains ground
20-01-2008 22:58
Anti-fascist campaigners from Brinsley and Notts successfully leafletted Brinsley today. We showed that we will not be intimidated by fascist thugs, and will continue to be active in the area.The Gaza Strip's People are dying, Help us!
20-01-2008 22:58
The Gaza Strip's power plant has completely shut down on Sunday because it no longer has the fuel needed to keep running. One of the plant's two electricity-generating turbines had already shut down by noon.PDC fact sheet: Mumia is Innocent! Free Him Now!
20-01-2008 22:28
Partisan Defence Committee Fact SheetMurdered by Mumia: Big Lies in the Service of Legal Lynching
Mumia is Innocent! Free Him Now!
Read the PDC factsheet that debunks the renewed lies of the prosecution and those who want to see Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row class-war political prisoner, revolutionary black journalist, the "Voice of the Voiceless" silenced by legal lynching.
UN Condemns 'Cowardly Israeli War Crime'
20-01-2008 22:14
The media's virtual reversal of the facts was also predicted ...Midlands and South Yorks Activists Organise Against Racist BNP
20-01-2008 19:12
Today, activists from across the Midlands and South Yorkshire met in Nottingham to co-ordinate activities against the British National Party (BNP). Around 100 campaigners met at the Queen's Walk Community Centre in the city for a conference organised by Nottinghamshire Stop the BNP.Gruppo EveryOne: persecution of the gypsies in Italy on BBC Radio Rokker
20-01-2008 11:29
Sunday from 7 to 9 p.m. On Sunday December 13th, Rokker Radio spoke about the situation of the gypsies in Italy, the European Parliament Resolution of November 15, 2007 – denouncing the racial persecution being carried out against them by the Italian institutions – and the tragedy of the Rrom families after the camp clearances.UN Condemns Collective Punishment of Gaza
19-01-2008 22:15
ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Israel Plots Massive AggressionIt's interesting to note that, while the Plant Spammed the site again, pretending to be someone else reposting old articles, he glaringly eliminates certain stories.
The timing is interesting, given the upcoming "Annapolis Conference", which serves to be about PR alone, as Olmert has already ruled out any Negotiations or Compromise in the name of peace.
If you follow the events surrounding Israel's "Disengagement" from Gaza, you will quickly understand that this was the plan all along. While Israel was making a public spectacle of "forcing Jews to leave their homes", it was quietly surrounding the Strip with artillery emplacements, in an operation ominously named "First Rain".
Under this operation, Gaza basically became a "Free-Fire Zone", and several artillery and gunship strikes killed a high number of civilians. Finally, when one of these batteries fired upon and murdered a Palestinian family - picnicking on a beach that had been Segregated "Jews Only" only weeks before, Hamas finally decided to call an end to its unilateral, two-year cease-fire.
(In essence, they took Israel's bait. After all, you can't excuse your Aggression and label it "defense" if you're not being intermittently attacked. Never mind the hypocrisy underlying the entire media's framing of that whole debate ...)
When the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to power (yes, elected), Israeli Extremists and their Ideological, bought foreign co-conspirators imposed unilateral sanctions on Gaza, a bit of Collective Punishment which increased the hardship of those stuck in the world's largest Concentration Camp.
When they felt Gaza had been substantially weakened, the US and Israel undertook a Coup attempt, using corrupt elements within the Fatah Party, provoking a violent response by Hamas, which expelled the group. Most of the world's media ignored the events leading to this "crisis", and instead only repeated the Propaganda emanating from the US and Israel, which used this to further increase sanctions against Gaza.
Most recently, Israel stepped up its Collective Punishment, except that human rights groups and legal advisors to the Government halted some of its approved measures, because they run contrary to International Humanitarian Law.
This was sold as another "response to rocket attacks" (again highlighting the hypocrisy of the debate's Framing - are the Palestinians allowed to defend themselves from strikes which actually KILL people ... ?), even though high-ranking officials said that this was NOT, in fact, a response to these attacks, but a way to "distance Israel from Gaza's infrastructure".
The real reason for this whole episode, of course, has been to "soften up" the Gaza Strip for a long-planned military attack, a way to undermine the resolve, and hopefully rid this territory of Palestinians altogether.
http://www.winnipeg.indymedia.org/item.php?8076S Bringing Death and Destruction to Muslims
19-01-2008 21:56
How is it that here, in the 21st century, in the "information age", public perception can be so inversed from reality? Where is the outrage?Home Office intimidation of voluntary asylum workers
19-01-2008 20:12
The Border and Immigration Agency is now threatening 'unqualified' people who write letters on behalf of asylum seekers with prosecution, as part of their latest campaign to deprive them of any form of representation.Full article | 1 addition | 34 comments
Iranian Press: Gilad Atzmon is a Holocaust Denier
19-01-2008 14:25
Atzmon: the written history of the Second World War and the Holocaust are a 'complete forgery, initiated by Americans and Zionists.'Support The Harmondsworth 4! Demonstrate 21 January and every Monday
18-01-2008 11:54
The trial of four men who were in Harmondsworth IRC at the time of the protest there on 28 November 2006 opened on Monday 14th January 2008 at Southwark Crown Court.