UK Indymedia - UK Health Newswire Archive

December 15 2003

12-08-2007 23:17

Nuclear downwinder hearings St. George Utah

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Public health issue as police blockade climate camp site

12-08-2007 17:59

For the last couple of hours police have been obstructing access to the climate camp site near Heathrow airport and have refused to allow even water or toilets to be taken onto the legally occupied site.

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drug use and Barry Bonds

10-08-2007 07:40

Bonds records need to be suspended as he used steroids to cheat the game, his team and his fans. this is what should go down in history.

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Foot in Mouth : Porton Down - as biosecure as Pirbright

09-08-2007 10:26

News-Medical.Net reports that the two Pirbright labs have the same level of security as the germ warfare defence establishment at Porton Down on Salisbury Plain, Wiltshire.

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Another Inspiring Food Not Bombs

08-08-2007 13:44

Last chance for Brum Food Not Bombs to participate in the promotion and mobilisation for this years Camp for Climate Action.
Another great action involving reclaimed and grown food, best curry yet, and broad-based campaigning work.

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Using wi-fi has cost me my life:

08-08-2007 09:54

Sunday Express August 5th 2007 pp50-51

FAISAL KHAWAJA, 28, above, trained in photography and had been assisting a professional advertising photographer -working for clients such as Mercedes, BT and Starbucks -for only a year when he says he began to feel III using mobiles and wireless laptops

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Help needed to distribute public sector workers pay struggles bulletin

06-08-2007 18:43

We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers. We need your help getting it out to postal workers.

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War on Terror - Solidarity against poverty needed

06-08-2007 14:16

It is a slide show broadcast then banned by the US government, depicting graphically the horrors of HIV/AIDs, poverty, homelessness etc. While the twin towers were hit and the US pushes the "War on terror",it reminds us of the many more people who have been killed or affected by poverty, HIV/AIDS, homelessness etc and reminds us that solidarity with these p0eple is vital.

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FREE FELIX, Demo report + Banner drop pictures

06-08-2007 11:19

Gloucestershire animal action FREE FELIX day of solidarity.

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The expression of the subversive love of the Cuban revolution

02-08-2007 21:01

Not only have you graduated as medical doctors, but also as humanists. You have learned what it means to practice international solidarity and have understood the reality of preventive and healing medicine in a socio-political context. This brings to reality the much celebrated phrase of Jose Marti: Homeland is humanity.

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Britain: Recruiting Kids to Kill

02-08-2007 18:31

In the UK children of sixteen can be recruited, an age too young to legally drive a car, drink a pint, or have a credit card. School Students Against the War

http://www.ssaw.co.uk/ are a vibrant, informed organisation, growing across the U.K.. and have launched a campaign in response: 'Troops Out of Our Schools - Troops Out of Iraq'.

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The Bottled Water Lie (it's just tap water)

01-08-2007 20:48

As Soft Drink Giant Admits Product is Tap Water, New Scrutiny Falls on the Economic and Environmental Costs of a Billion Dollar Industry

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Iraq “Violence has destroyed my family”

01-08-2007 19:40

"People in Iraq are living in constant fear of violence, unemployment, hunger and displacement."

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Asbestos campaigners support call for investigation into PPG Group

01-08-2007 12:45

Rochdale asbestos campaigners are backing calls for an inquiry into allegations of “bribing, bullying and bugging” regarding residential planning applications. The claims have just been made by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme “Britain’s Bad Housing”.

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Patient choices: not if you're poor

01-08-2007 09:22

New research from the University of Bristol shows that wealthier people are likely to travel further than poorer people do for elective care - surgery or treatment in hospital which can wait..

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'Keep Your Blood Service Local' Birmingham Banner Drop

31-07-2007 11:04

Early this morning a banner was hoisted between two trees opposite the entrance to Birmingham's National Blood Service on Vincent Drive, Edgbaston. The banner proclaims 'Keep Your Blood Centre Local' and was positioned in full view of staff working at the Blood Service. This is in response to the National Blood Service (NBS) Directors plans to centralise our blood service by closing blood processing and testing labs at 10 local centres in favour of just 3 supercentres in Bristol, Manchester and London. 100s of technical staff, about half the lab workforce, face redundancy. If these plans are implemented then they will effectively rip the heart out of our National Blood Service. The proposed cuts will seriously undermine the services provided and emergencies, such as rushing washed blood platelets to patients, will be compromised.

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Chem-trails NOT Contrails!

31-07-2007 10:08

This image shows that it is not from the exaust of the engine but from the wings that the spray lines are being sprayed from. look closely and you can see the lines from the wings:

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Gloria Arroyo's Economy: Not Working

28-07-2007 00:22

Today, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo will again address the Congress to give a report on the achievements of her government, and at the same time express her primary focus for the next year. As she did during her previous State of the Nation Address (SONA) speeches, she may yet again boast the economic feats of her administration, including the strengthening of the peso and the recent booming of the stock market.

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UK State Pension = two thirds poverty level: Report

27-07-2007 08:53

University of London team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has just published a report in the International Journal of Epidemiology defining the minimum income required by older people to live healthy and decent lives.

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TV coverage of Philippines 'brave breast' action against formula companies

26-07-2007 06:06

You can watch footage of mothers in the Philippines protesting to defend their rights on Chinese Television. Yup.