UK Indymedia - UK Culture Newswire Archive

Please show clemency

02-11-2005 05:52

Drug trafficking cannot be condoned, but neither can the death penalty. The death penalty violates the most basic of human rights - the right to life - and is a cruel and inhumane form of punishment.

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The Revolution will be televised: 10 days of films at Leeds Common Place

01-11-2005 18:57

Ever wondered who on earth Hugo Chavez is and the incredible Bolivarian Revolution sweeping Venezuela? Worried about climate change? Curious to know more about the global anti-capitalist movement, the Zapatistas and what really happened to Africa at this year’s G8 summit? Then head to the radical fringe of this year’s Leeds International Film Festival for the ultimate political cinema experience.

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Brian Eno and Rachid Taha at Astoria for Stop the War

01-11-2005 16:39

Brian Eno and Stop the War Coalition are organising a gig at the Astoria, Charing X Road, London on Sunday 27 November, featuring Rachid Taha, Brian himself, Nitin Sawhney and Imogen Heap. See www.stopwar.org.uk for further details.

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small WORLD interview with Carly Milne, Naked Ambition

01-11-2005 10:24

Interview with Carly Milne, author and editor of Naked Ambition, a collection of personal essays by Jenna Jameson, Theresa Flynt, Violet Blue, Holly Randall, Tristan Taormino, Tera Patrick, Danni Ashe, Nina Hartley, Jane Duvall and Rachel Kramer Bussel.

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Guy Debord's letters 1957-1972

31-10-2005 15:32

never-before-translated into English: the best parts of four books of letters by Guy Debord

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UK's Heritage Watchdog performs u-turn for the corporate profit.

31-10-2005 13:04

As suggested in IndyMedia last month, Tarmac Northern Ltd have been able to persuade English Heritage that corporate profit is more important that Britain's heritage. English Heritage have caved in on their insistence for a proper investigation and now only wish to see minimal investigation to avoid a total loss of face.

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Saorsa Open Day Pictures and Report

30-10-2005 17:37

The Saorsa Open Day was a full success. The G42 Collective provided t-shirt printing facilities, film screenings, internet access, a rebel cafe and a friendly welcoming atmosphere on the first floor of 674 Pollockshaws Road in the south of Glasgow.

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SOS Allington Road - Residents made homeless next weekend

30-10-2005 15:40

The office Of The Deputy Prime Minister (ODMP) laid down the Decent Homes Standards to improve social housing by 2010, therefore directly benefiting communities. The flip side to this is the destruction of communities in Co-op run social housing. Council’s are repossessing all their properties, effectively making Co-op tenants homeless. Traditional social housing stock is disappearing, Co-ops are facing critical times.

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Critical Massive

30-10-2005 15:28

The police tried to ban Critical Mass

We showed them who runs London

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Filthy Radical Show part 1

30-10-2005 12:44

lacking leftie zing? Feeling in need of a radical enema? Got nothing better to do for an hour than listen to a bunch of pillocks vicariously live the revolution through the medium of sound?

Then get yer aural tubes round the first installment of the Filthy Radical Show.

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Critical Mass 28 Oct video

29-10-2005 23:09

Short film of the Critical Mass cycle ride, 28 October, 2005.

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Goodbye Mappin Street Hello Matilda

29-10-2005 18:16

The Blind Institute on Mappin Street, like many buildings it seems these days in Sheffield, is being taken over by Sheffield University, and in partnership with the Blind Institute is being rebuilt as a centre for the blind and student accommodation.

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Press Release: Class War Bonfire Night at London Fields, E8

29-10-2005 18:13

Burn Thatcher & Blair in effigy on 5 November in Hackney's London Fields

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Pope's Misconceptions about conception and science history

29-10-2005 05:40

The pope's apparent ignorance of science history and modern agricultural technology obscures from his vision the disastrous effects of his policy of unchecked population growth on future generations who will find "no food on the table" nor the resources with which to grow it. This ignorance also shows that the pope has no more expertise in the fields of agricultural science, population planning, or resoure management than the pope in Galileo's time did in the area of astronomy.

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The race that doesn't stop the nation

28-10-2005 07:14

The race that doesn't stop the nation

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Psy-Ops organisation

27-10-2005 17:07

An interesting website

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The News Cafe

27-10-2005 14:27

Come along from 11.00 till 5.00 ish to enjoy a chilled out space and tasty breakfast. Some newspapers provide, bring some more (:

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Alternative Culture

27-10-2005 09:39

Remember the last time Liverpool was city of culture?

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THURSDAY 27th OCTOBER ART05 OPEN EVENING

25-10-2005 20:53

Be at MATILDA For our usual Social Thursday and Join the Artists Celebrations

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When The Levee Breaks…

25-10-2005 18:29

A full account of the Katrina/New Orleans crisis. From police murders, to the National Gaurd, to the flooded Ninth Ward, to Whiskey in the French Quarter.