UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
G8 Action planning meeting
18-03-2005 12:18
Meeting this sunday, March 20th to discuss proposals for action in Edinburgh on July 7th.Derby arrested released on bail
18-03-2005 10:11
10 cyclists arrested on the Critical Mass bike ride yesterday morning were released on bail last night, pending further investigation and consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service.Guatemala massacres in the 1980s: My soul will not die!
18-03-2005 01:13
Guatemala has seen over 36 years of military dictatorship, initiated and supported by the US with technical advisors, equipment and funding, and 250 000 civilians, particularly children and women, were massacred by the paramilitaries during the civil war. Thousands of clandestine mass graves are still all over the country.1996 the peace accords were signed, before only the armed struggle was an alternative to oppose the military dictatorship.
Today atrocities are still not talked about, the paramilitary forces and the intellectual authors of massacres not convicted nor do they stand in court, and many mass graves have not yet been exhuminated.
Jesus Tecu Osorio is one of the few human rights activists in Guatemala who has been able to give evidence against and the only one to thereby convict three paramilitary perpetrators of some of their crimes - linking them directly to at least one of the five massacres occuring to his community during 1981 and 1982.
He spoke at an event hosted by Amnesty International in Edinburgh, on Thursday, 17th of march 2005.
Wolfowitz at the World Bank: An Empire without a Global Economic Policy?
18-03-2005 00:30
A momentum to break open debtors' prisons that the Washington Consensus built in the global south has been building up, demonstrated by Argentina's ability to compel 75% of its creditors to accept 35 cents on the dollar. The nomination of Paul Wolfowitz for WB presidency can only invigorate the global justice movement, which will have an inviting target at the IMF and the WB's 2005 Spring Meetings on April 16-17 and their 2005 Annual Meetings on September 26-27 -- both in Washington D.C. At the same time, the Wolfowitz nomination, like John Snow's performance, underscores the empire's lack of global economic policy. To be sure, there is no lack of clarity in the domestic business agenda, but all elements of the domestic agenda (the class action "reform," the bankruptcy "reform," the medical malpractice liability "reform," tax cuts, Social Security privatization, etc.) either do nothing to defuse or make bigger ticking economic time bombs -- the ballooning housing bubble, mounting consumer debts, the credit bubble, the widening current account deficit, rising oil prices, the falling dollar, and so on -- that may go off any time.Friends of The Earth Interview at Derby M17 Protests
17-03-2005 20:33
Another kind of “creationism”
17-03-2005 19:20
ANOTHER KIND OF “CREATIONISM” IS TAKING PLACE IN THE WORLD TODAY AND NOBODY CARE ABOUT IT.M17 Derby - Bush and Blair get pied
17-03-2005 18:28
CIA JACKALS & WORLD BANK WOLFOWITZ
17-03-2005 18:01
Video: 'Jackals' are C.I.A.-sanctioned people that come in and try to foment a coup or revolution. If that doesn't work, they perform assassinations. or try to.Confessions of an economic 'hit man'.
Derby M17 Section 13 and 14 Notices
17-03-2005 17:54
Ex Brit Ambassador joins fight against NWO - stands against Straw man
17-03-2005 11:19
Ex Ambassador to Uzbekistan uncovers lies by Straw and MI6 - intends to defeat him on his own patch at election time (yeah, right!)Colombian Vice President Gets A Bristol Welcome
16-03-2005 23:02
SOS: Trade unions in Colombia
16-03-2005 22:58
The director of the department for human rights of the Colombian trade union federation CUT informs the national and international public about the existence of a strange plan. This plan is to murder trade unionists who are critical towards the current negotiations between government and paramilitaries in Colombia.18th of march: Day of the political prisoners 2005 (in Germany)
16-03-2005 21:53
Scotsman Reports Bans Requested For G8 Protest in Derby on 17th March
16-03-2005 07:43
The Scotsman in a PA news article has reported that police and councillors in Derbyshire have requested bans on G8 demonstrations which are planned for tomorrow - thursday 17th march - alongside G8 Environment and Development Ministers meeting. Home Secretary Charles Clarke will today consider meansures to be imposed.Below the article is reproduced for note:
Protest Party Sussex University (Report from Sussex Uni)
16-03-2005 01:58
A report of some actions that have taken place at Sussex University since October 2004. Please note that this is **not** an official communique from any particular society, and is partial in scope. In addition to what is outlined below, many other actions, meetings, etc, on other issues have taken place on a number of different issues and for a range of different causes.
POLICE CRACK DOWN ON CLIMATE PROTESTERS
15-03-2005 17:49
International Anti-G8 Meeting Minutes: Tuebingen, Germany 26-27 Feb 2005
15-03-2005 11:15
The following are the minutes of a two day international meeting to co-ordinate radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit to be held in the UK. The meeting took place in Tuebingen, Germany and was hosted by the Tuebingen Infoladen. The meeting was organised by the Dissent! International Networking Group.
To contact the Dissent! International Networking Group for comments upon, or corrections to, these minutes, email:
info-g82005@riseup.net For more information about Dissent! see: www.dissent.org.uk or email the above address.
Shakedown ‘05 - Nottingham G8 :: The Pictures
14-03-2005 22:10
Biggest Opposition Demo Swears to Break Syria's Stranglehold and Lahoud's Regime
14-03-2005 16:55
Between 1.5 and 2 million opposition activists converged on Beirut's downtown Martyrs Square and surrounding neighborhoods to mark the lapse of one month on Hariri's assassination. They shouted slogans demanding the resignation of all security commanders in Lebanon because of dereliction of duty in stopping the assassination.