UK Indymedia - UK Gender Newswire Archive

Hypocrisy of the left

29-05-2009 16:32

A call to arms for the left against the pornography business world.

I've just come across the following piece on the BBC site. A slightly different take on the usual reporting of a dragged up Pride. An interesting read, I agree Pride is becoming too commercial and a calendar date like music festivals, there isn't much left about lgbt struggles. This idea that we should brush the political element of Pride aside because 'times have changed' is absurd. We still have battles to fight all over the world. Gay marriage in America, persecution in Iran and Zimbabwe. Pride needs to be reclaimed or an alternative created but would the 'gay clubbing' generation of today even attend such an event?

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A film about using VHS video tape wins top fashion film festival

21-05-2009 12:30

Undercurrents won a film festival by stating our independence from consumerism

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Rare documentary about masonic corruption in the plannning process

19-05-2009 18:12

Never seen since its one and only showing in 2000 this took some tracking down I can tell you. Please note the processes by which freemasons keep their mutual interests hidden in official government positions.

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Another attempt to remove Sima Valand

19-05-2009 16:24

Sima Valand is desperately fighting to stop the Home Office sending her to India where she is at risk of murder at the hands of her in-laws. She was not flown on Fri 8th May for reasons that are still unknown but a new removal date has been set for this Wednesday (20th May). She remains in an immigration prison.

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Update: Sima is still here

08-05-2009 21:54

Thank you to all those who had time to support the campaign to stop Sima Valand's deportation. We are pleased to report that Sima was not deported today for reasons that are still unclear to us. Obviously this is great news but she will still need to fight future deportations and for the right to remain. Please look out for further callouts for support.

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URGENT: Stop Sima's deportation

07-05-2009 20:51

Sima Valand is facing deportation to India this Friday. She has already been subject to horrific abuse from her husband and his family and is faced with the threat of murder if she is returned. Please fax or email Virgin Atlantic airlines to demand that she is not put on the plane.

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There is only so much sexism an anarchist can take

03-05-2009 21:09

When I saw that the Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 is being promoted with the image of a woman, I couldn’t help thinking of the irony. As with national states, the female body is again used as the symbol of some desired unity. However, what that image has made me think of is the persistence and entrenchment of sexist practices among anarchists, an important contributing factor to their actual lack of unity.

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GLBT Rights. Everyone Group Offers A Gift To The Ambassador Of Iraq In Italy

29-04-2009 23:55

“We will soon be meeting His Excellency”, say the activists, “to discuss the situation of homosexuals in Iraq, the need to work towards peace in his tormented country, and the anti-Islamic sentiments rife in the West”.

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Yorkshire Post: 'If anyone ever deserved a good slap, this woman..did'

18-04-2009 13:20

A columnist writing in the Yorkshire Post yesterday had this, somewhat controversial view published on the attack by a policeman on a woman demonstrating against police brutality.

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G20 Convergence - Kidspace

05-04-2009 21:14

Here are some photos of the kidspace and childcare cooperative that was organised to facilitate the protest and activism of parents and carers around the G20 summit in London on the 1st and 2nd of April 2009.

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GLBT Rights. Save the lifes of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

04-04-2009 21:59

According to the judicial and religious authorities, the prisoners will be murdered in groups of about 20 people. The first series of executions is imminent.

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Petition to save the lives of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

04-04-2009 19:21

EveryOne Group and civil society in democratic countries have taken up the appeal from the IRAQI LGBT association, based in London, which calls on activists and democratic citizens to take part in an international campaign to save the lives of 128 prisoners sentenced to death because they are homosexual.

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Day of action against Subway for firing of pregnant worker

01-04-2009 09:48

Trade unionists and activists are taking part in the National Day of Action against the Subway sandwich chain on Saturday 4th April, in protest with their firing of pregnant worker Natalia Szymanska.

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Gay Refugees. Save John Bosco Nyombi

31-03-2009 14:19

REFUGEES/UNITED KINGDOM: EUROPE MUST SAVE JOHN BOSCO NYOMBI, A UGANDAN GAY MAN PERSECUTED

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Refugees Rights: Save ** * ****

31-03-2009 08:18

A BRITISH COURT JUDGE HAS FORBIDDEN THE CIRCULATION OF HIS NAME, TO AVOID FURTHER PUBLICITY ON THE CASE. “EVERYONE GROUP’ PROTESTS: “ONLY TOTALITARIAN REGIMES CANCEL OUT THE IDENTITIES OF PERSECUTED PEOPLE. TO ACT AGAINST ABUSE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT INTERNATIONAL OPINION KNOWS THE REFUGEES’ NAMES”

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Lynn Breedlove/Trans Workshop/Queer Film Night/Vegan Kaffe

26-03-2009 23:10

Lynn Breedlove (queer feminist trans activist and lead yeller of punk band Tribe 8), brings her performance-lecture-activism workshop to Manchester on 28th March, followed by Queer Film Night presented by local LGBTQ groups and social media activists with Vegan Kaffe on 29th March. Everyone welcome, donations for food,
Yard Theatre show £5.

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Dissident Island Radio tonight - March 20th

20-03-2009 17:08

Larry Lohmann // FITwatch // legal defence and monitoring group // Smash Miss Contest // Feminist Fightback // Mr Braincell

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PHILIPPINES: Thousands of Women Marched to Demand Full Employment

13-03-2009 00:28

Amidst a deepening economic crisis engendered by the global financial meltdown, thousands of women workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) poured out into the streets of key Manila, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Cotabato, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day to demand full employment and equality between women and men.

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Miss University London Pageant Infiltrated and Disrupted

11-03-2009 13:17

Protestors infiltrate Beauty Pageant, disrupting it from the inside. To complement the different protests against this event, one group braved the inside of the club. They used a variety of means to disturb it, halt it and show why its not okay to do this.