UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
British American Tobacco AGM targetted by ASH protest
03-05-2008 08:44
Green Taxes: A Hard Lesson For Environmental Lightweights
02-05-2008 10:15
So, as I suspected all along; according to an article in todays Independent, the public don’t support “green” taxes."More than seven in 10 voters insist that they would not be willing to pay higher taxes in order to fund projects to combat climate change, according to a new poll. "
Threatening phone call from Ex Home Secretary & US lacky John Reid MP
01-05-2008 20:35
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BT staff protest against anti-Irish discrimination
29-04-2008 19:06
Global Famine: The Lords of Capital Decree Mass Death by Starvation
29-04-2008 14:42
The men who profit from such mass murder use terms like "structural adjustment" and "economic fundamentals" to attach a veneer of rationality to a chaotic system they have created on the fly for the sole purpose of mega-theft.NYC's 'Movement for Justice in El Barrio' - 1st UK Speaking Tour Details!
28-04-2008 23:03
// 1st UK Speaking Tour of New Yorks 'Movement for Justice in El Barrio' Taking Place in May 2008!
Making a killing from the food crisis
28-04-2008 10:25
The world food crisis is hurting a lot of people, but global agribusiness firms, traders and speculators are raking in huge profits. The fundamental cause of today's food crisis is neoliberal globalisation itself, which has transformed food from a source of livelihood security into a mere commodity to be gambled away, even at the cost of widespread hunger among the world’s poorest people.Grangemouth UK oil strike & bosses tactical AGM in USA details
27-04-2008 12:40
they will be discussing tactics about grange mouth & most will be pressing Brown to crackdown www.trilateral.orgWe must all support workers at Grangemouth leading fight for better pensions &safety, it is making people think about conserving fuel.
Renationalise, cooperativise& start drilling geothermal shafts rather than oil boreholes. Most rich corporations & billionaires pay little or no tax, in fact they are often subsidised, whilst most tax dosh comes from people & cooperatives.
Fuel should be rationed at pumps & at terminals by worker cooperatives for those that need it & not gas guzzlers.
This is uncopyrighted at the moment, to those in the BBC & ITV do a good job with this information & you will get our support too.
Trilateral Commission, G8 meeting now in Washington
25-04-2008 22:31
"French leader Valerie destaing after setting up G8 &"retiring" became a Trilateral attendee, but was never part of the corporate politburo with Kissinger & Rockefeller" Robin LuddMessage to Trilateral Dragons Den come on,
cooperate, before our planet dies!,
Untested unsafe "magic bullets" will only make things worse!
Starbucks v cowboy developers
25-04-2008 16:43
Not on the Label
24-04-2008 17:11
Not on the Label, an excellent book by Felicity Lawrence, exposes how big business destroys small business. When a small business tries to order ten copies to sell in their shop, they are told by the big business publisher Penguin their order is too small!Anti-Hunger Protests Rock Haiti
24-04-2008 11:31
"We Will Not Be Moved"
23-04-2008 20:18
El Barrio Fights Back Against Globalized GentrificationBy Michael Gould-Wartofsky
CounterPunch
Why DID they "remember St George" . . . . then try to recuperate him ????
23-04-2008 14:31
seeing as its "St Georges Day" today, as current debates discuss if we should call it as a Holiday, a few bits of the backstory you mightnt hear about in most placesFull article | 1 addition | 13 comments
1 may Day of Climate Action
22-04-2008 20:52
1 MAY: DAY OF CLIMATE ACTIONInvasion of the climate snatchers!
Only one week to go!
Contacts, resources and ideas for action, and public actions.
Call for participation in the Radio and Public Media Forum, EA3, Peru
22-04-2008 15:30
Between May 10 and 16 in Lima, the Alternative Media Forum will be carried out with the support of Enlazando Alternativas 3 and a number of independent media of Peru, Latin America and Europe. These neetings will be parallel to the Fifth Summit of European Union-Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) Heads of State, held in Lima.Talk on the Global Blood Trade and its Victims
22-04-2008 09:05
On Mon 28 April (5.15pm in School of Geography, Leeds), Carol Grayson will give a seminar on the ‘Global Blood Trade and its Victims’. She will talk about how blood has become a lucrative globalised commodity, the dire implications for patients’ welfare, and the campaigns fighting for justice.Global Food Crisis: Hunger Plagues Haiti and the World
22-04-2008 00:11
Consumers in rich countries feel it in supermarkets but in the world's poorest ones people are starving. The reason - soaring food prices, and it's triggered riots around the world in places like Mexico, Indonesia, Yemen, the Philippines, Cambodia, Morocco, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Guinea, Mauritania, Egypt, Cameroon, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Peru, Bolivia and Haiti that was once nearly food self-sufficient but now relies on imports for most of its supply and (like other food-importing countries) is at the mercy of agribusiness.Film Screening tomorrow on Brad Will by Brazilian film maker and activist
21-04-2008 18:52
Latin Night will host activist from Brazil to screen new documentary on Brad WillMarch Against St Athan Military Academy, April 26
21-04-2008 10:17
On Saturday 26 April (1.30pm) people from all over the UK will be coming to Cardiff for the first national UK march against the proposed military academy at St Athan - a huge PFI project involving, among others, arms manufacturers Raytheon: if we do not act now, our taxes will fund their profits and the preparation of future Iraqs.