UK Culture Newswire Archive
Nottingham Asian Mela, Forest Fields : Pictures 2
16-08-2006 15:44
Nottingham Asian Mela, Forest Fields : Pictures 1
16-08-2006 15:39
TO STOP NEW WARS - remember the "big" peace - remember the "bigger" peace
16-08-2006 15:04
Nameless "old hacks"s brief gist of a "what the papers aint saying" - accenting the "key background info missing" - that asks why - with a "spin" towards practical "peace process / ceasefire enacting " that asks why THAT isnt already happening _( terms : - "big" peace = israeli/lebanese peace + palestine,syria, iran. A "bigger" peace = end the manufactured "clash of cultures"("war of errorism") + !Live indymedia coverage of 'terror rap' debate this thursday
15-08-2006 23:44
STREAMED LIVE THIS THURSDAYThis thursday, 17th August, Aki Nawaz lead singer of the radical rap band Fun-da-mental, will be at the rampART social centre in East London to debate Islamophobia, racisim and the health of freespeech and democracy in the UK. Joining him on the platform will be renowned human rights lawyer Louise Christian, Natacha Atlas, Ken Fero of Injustice Films, Shahrar Ali of the Green Party and John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation.
The event starts at 6.45pm but if you can't make it you can catch it live online via indymedia.
G-Had In the UK
15-08-2006 13:38
I’m strapped up ’cross my chest, bomb belt attachedDeeply satisfied with the plan I hatched
Electrodes connected to a gas cooker lighter
Aki Nawaz from Fun-Da-Mental talks Angela Saini about the All is War (The Benefits of G-Had) album....
Climate Camp Meeting Number 3
14-08-2006 14:39
There will be a third meeting Friday 18th August at The Occupied Social Centre in Sparkbrook at 7.00pm ( The Cottage of Content Occupied Social Centre, 147 Kyrwicks Lane, Sparkbrook, B11 1SS:[url]
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=B11+1SS&ie=UTF8&om=1&ll=52.463011,-1.881216&spn=0.003059,0.010729[/url]) for anyone interested in coming to climate camp from the West Midlands/Birmingham.
Islamophobia and censorship in Britain
14-08-2006 10:29
The Sun calls him the suicide bomb rapper, MPs want him arrested and his record company refuses to support his latest album. But would his treatment be the same if he were white?Aki Nawaz says Exposing the inherent colonial mentality of the British
State is an honour and worth any consequence in any shape or form.
Everything can change through art
14-08-2006 10:24
"HASBARA" CYBERWAR:CALL TO 100 000 ZIONISTS
14-08-2006 06:59
***********************************************CYBER WAR
A ISRAELI PROGRAM TO POLLUTE THE INTERNET WITH ISRAELI PROPAGANDA
JULY 22 : A call to 100 000Jews IN THE WORLD
Israel's Foreign Ministry provides Free Internet Tool to online activists
(Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 26 July 2006)
Screen image of the giyus.org website from which the Megaphone desktop tool can be downloaded.
The following letter was sent by Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs to a variety of pro-Israel organisations, so-called 'hasbara'-groups and other supporters of Israel.
Dear friends,
Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.
Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.
We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.
Do it now. For Israel.
Amir Gissin
Director Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem
Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs understands that today's conflicts are won by public opinion. They mobilize pro-Israel activists to be active and voice "Israel's side to the world." The Megaphone desktop tool, built by Giyus, which means "mobilization", sends desktop alerts on key articles on Israel and surveys, online polls where activists could click on the button to support Israel and click alerts to easily voice pro-Israel opinions.
The tool tracks down online articles and polls that members should act upon. After installing the tool, members receive alerts on those articles. With this tool Israel's Foreign Ministry obviously thought it would help Israel's fight in cyberspace. However, having used this tool, for others, it is quit useful as well. There is also a weblog and a forum.
To download Megaphone Desktop Tool click here [*.exe file for Windows].
For non Windows users and others who would like to to track the alerts being posted via RSS or the Web, visit this page.
Amir Gissin's letter was posted on July 22 on the website of www.standwithus.com -- an pro-Israel advocacy organization.
Related Links
Giyus.org - Give Israel [or Palestine and Lebanon] Your United Support
A very Heavy Load
09-08-2006 19:49
http://www.brink.com/content/1237
London benefit for Ernesto Leal, 17th August
09-08-2006 17:59
'Ernesto is as Scottish as a deep-fried Mars bar supper'Irvine Welsh
Liverpool Echo In Red Scare
08-08-2006 16:21
Tonight's Liverpool Echo article - 'Cops on Red Alert' - is whipping up controversy where there was none before, over plans by Merseyside TUC, Stop The War Coalition and Liverpool Friends of Palestine to protest at Liverpool FC's Champions League match with Israeli side Maccabi Haifa.Pride (Bono's Game of Blood)
07-08-2006 22:53
A parody of a U2 song--about Bono's involvement with the company behind Mercenaries 2--a video game about overthrowing the democratically elected government of Venezuela.Longshot @ Manchester Carnival
06-08-2006 14:27
Msnchester sound system crews link-up to perfrom at Manchester International Caribbean Carnival 2006. Integrating with the Afro Caribbean community to spread positive vbes through reggae music. A beautiful and fun day had by all. Read on...Colombian and the Paramilitaries or How to Rebuild a Nation
05-08-2006 13:05
The paramilitaries in Colombia sewpt with any possibility of institutionality that could have been on the Colombian Soceity. How to regain that beacuse it is vilta to the future of the country.Farc and the Uribe Administration: Or Different Strategies for Not Talking
04-08-2006 18:32
Why the attempts of negotiation between the Colombian Governement and FARC haven' been able to produce any result.In Defence of Mel Gibson
04-08-2006 12:52
The major communication mediums of the world continue to bombard the public with images and descriptions of the Israeli-Lebanon conflict. The media works tirelessly to deliver our social consciousness. Today’s mass media maintains its status as the principal means of creating and sustaining social realities. The internet-based ‘independents’ lack real independent front-line resources and continue to rely on the mainstream for most of their information (much to their chagrin).