UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Facebook uses implication IDs to track link sources
02-05-2011 13:00
The following link will not work as I have altered my implication ID to the number 666 and so facebook rejects the forward. Apart from me changing the ID, this is right click copy address.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fblogs.telegraph.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fwillheaven%2F100085835%2Fwhy-that-photo-of-a-dead-osama-bin-laden-is-almost-certainly-a-photoshopped-fake%2F&h=666
Osama Bin Laden dead...and other political matchsticks!
02-05-2011 09:37
The US President Barack Obama has last night issued a statement claiming US special forces have found and killed the so-called leader of a group the US has long claimed to be called Al Qaida. Al Qaida are claimed by the US to be responsible for the atrocity carried out in New York on September 11th 2001.How Our Money Goes to Support the Slave Trade (pt. 1)
01-05-2011 11:16
Right now conservatives and progressives across my country, America, are considering ways to cut government spending. One of the options tossed about concerns cuts to military spending. Within this area there are so many things to consider. There are so many things to discuss and ways to break each of them down.Britain’s royal wedding: A big day for the global oligarchy
29-04-2011 14:34
Meanwhile, the spectacles of gore and bloodlust – admittedly despite much public opposition – are located thousands of kilometers away in the Middle East, Iraq, Central Asia, Afghanistan, where over a million civilians have been killed in British-backed “wars against terror” that have yet to be sated even after eight and 10 years of butchery, respectively; and now the latest spectacle opens in North Africa, Libya, where over the past six weeks Royal Air Force warplanes have been bombing and killing civilians in the name of “peace” and “humanitarian concern”
Press Release - Mayday Mass Party and Protest in Brighton - Saturday 30th April
29-04-2011 12:13
While bankers are rewarding themselves with taxpayer funded bonuses and the royals are forcing us to pay for their weddings, ordinary people are facing an attack on their lives, massive cuts to jobs, benefits and the services they rely on. In response to this, on Saturday 30th April, people will gather at an undisclosed Brighton location to celebrate May Day, a day to stand up for workers' rights and resist oppression, capitalism and the elites who benefit from them.A critical mass bike ride will be held at 10.30am at The Level.
2 Days til Brighton Mayday
28-04-2011 13:47
fuck the royal wedding... come down to Brighton...Our lives are under attack.
Our future is being sacrificed to increase the power of an elite.
The bankers’ crisis is being used as an excuse to push through a far-right agenda of vicious cuts – cuts which will hurt the poorest and line the pockets of the rich. The NHS, Education and Welfare systems are being stripped back while the bankers are being paid million pound bonuses.
Their only answer to the disaster is more of the same, capitalism with the gloves off. More wars, more ecological devastation and we’re being asked to pay for it.
We are being robbed blind – it’s time to reclaim what is ours.
Mass party & protest. 30th April 2011. Central Brighton.
Poster/flyer for next OARC film screening.
28-04-2011 10:52
Police fail to start a riot - Stokescroft Riot - Ashley Road FRONTLINE 21 Apr 20
22-04-2011 15:16
FOOTAGE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omytLxiA-cE Chill in the Amitabha buddhist centre in the morning and meet some crystal kids, join them for the midday meditation. Followed by sharing natural clarity in St Andrews park. Buddha blessed incense. In the park one of my new friends predicts riot vibes for the evening, no reason, just an ominous feeling.
Link antarma and craig in the evening. They go out for Falafells, and come back telling me they just help stop a riot on Picton Street by getting the street chanting "Ohm". They come back to get me and my camera. Ooookay. I'm not a frontline activist, I learned I do not resonate with angry people when I was in Tasmania . Half an hour later the 3 of us help stop a riot on Ashley Road.
We go back to chill out and chant the thousand names of Shakti. Wake up the next day, while we were chanting Tesco's was getting mullered.
According to the BBC -
Eyewitnesses said police fought running battles with hundreds of protesters, who dug up cobbles from the road to throw at them.
Police carried out the raid because they feared a nearby Tesco store was to be attacked with petrol bombs.
However, the raid led to trouble in nearby streets with bins and skips being set alight.
Assistant Chief Constable Rod Hansen said: "This was not an eviction but positive action to protect the store."
According to Bristol 24-7
People using Twitter to report on the events told of their fear as they tried to make their way back home own Cheltenham Road. Others wrote how only Tesco had been targeted and that one person who threw a brick at the window of the Bristol Credit Union was hauled away by the protesters themselves.... QUOTE “I was on the junction of Stokes Croft high street when the police charged what was only at that point a crowd (of about 100 but which quickly grew) down Ashley Road pretty much all the way to the end of it over the course of a couple of hours. Due to the absolute confusion a number of people had emerged from their houses only to shortly find they were the wrong side of a road block and got roped in to what became a three-hour running battle through pretty much all of the back streets coming off Ashley Road and in to St Pauls, numerous burning barracades were erected and a huge amount of people were battered and bloodied by police for attempting to approach police lines to get home to find friends. By this point there was devastation everywhere. All junctions were blocked by overturned glass bottle dumpsters and makeshift neighbourhood roadblocks blocks.
According to the website of the Avon and Somerset Constabularly
"Assistant Chief Constable Rod Hansen said:" Residents have called us to several incidents in the property over the past few days. Yesterday there was a very real threat to the local community from the petrol bombs that were being made and we needed to take positive action. If this was really a threat why were the bars not evacuated and if this was a quick response where did the Welsh police vans come from? This seemed pre-planned. I'm not accusing the police of lying yet, but I'm accusing Tescos of lying from the start.
"The safety of the public is paramount in any situation of this kind and we took the decision to carry out a swift arrest operation, following intelligence received about the criminal intentions of those who were occupying the building,"
Knocking local residents over with riot shields is not "The safety of the public is paramount"
"The fact that we seized petrol bombs illustrates the seriousness of this situation and the reason why we took this positive action." If this was really a threat why were the bars not evacuated and if this was a quick response where did the Welsh police vans come f rom? This seemed pre-planned.
"When 300 people congregated and a small minority from that group started small fires and throwing bottles, stones and other items at officers, we used well-rehearsed plans, which involved the use of officers from neighbouring forces to control what had become a volatile situation," said ACC Hansen.?
It was more than 300 people, it was everyone that was drinking on Stokescroft and all the residents who were woken up by the police helicopter. That's about a thousand at a guess with a small minority of maybe 300 angry people. The Thing is Stokescroft is anti-establishment. That's just the vibe. If Chris Chalkley wasn't making graffiti legitmate it would still be there, it is a de facto autonomous zone with a history of anarchy and activism. Police vans do not belong. "We used well-rehearsed plans" which resulted in the police retreating twice, Tesco's getting smashed and a clear sign to whatever authority said yes to Tescos and said yes to riot police - the power's that used to be are obsolete, your presence is neither requested nor permitted, good-bye.
Stokescroft to Gloucester Road is an obviously tangible ley line, necessary to maintain a one love vibe regardless of babylon on our doorstep, ESPECIALLY with them on our doorstep :-) x
Mercury is back on track. When does Mars conjunct with Uranus? :-)
FOOTAGE -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omytLxiA-cE Tesco Value Spraypaint
To Farm or to Die, Resist the Iron Mine! Indonesian Embassy Visit.
21-04-2011 16:35
Tata Noah chief of Indigenous communities
17-04-2011 03:44
Effective Direct Action against Barclays
14-04-2011 19:39
A true story. A brief reminder for all anarchists with Barclays Bank accounts ("I would change it but it's all too difficult").French .. hands off Cote d'Ivoire
10-04-2011 20:59
From Ivory Coast to Libya and beyond: The conquest of Africa
10-04-2011 10:56
Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:12
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:08
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22
09-04-2011 16:06
You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.Obama's Terror War on Libya
07-04-2011 21:11
