UK Indymedia - UK Other Press Newswire Archive

Correcting the media narrative of the G20 protests on April 1, 2009

07-04-2009 22:27

The media coverage of the G20 protests has been systematically biased, writes Musab Younis - ignoring the violent policing, the tactic of open-air imprisonment of demonstrators, and the real chronology of events. “It has taken remarkable obedience by the press,” writes Musab, “to refuse to ask some simple and obvious questions.”

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Visteon Occupation News and Website.

05-04-2009 11:35

A website for the Visteon occupations (www.visteonoccupation.org) is now up and running. The dispute continues and the support and organisation behind the worker's action is gathering pace.

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Enfield Occupation Supporters - Dates for your Diary

04-04-2009 20:34

For supporters of the Enfield Occupations - Important dates for your diary in the coming week.

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Enfield Eviction and Media Centre

04-04-2009 16:42

The Visteon workers are taking steps to ensure their struggle reaches a wider audience - to build the support and solidarity they need.

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Dialect - Moves to stop arms sales to Israel - Palestinian journo. Iqbal Tamimi

04-04-2009 01:22

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733. Listen on air: 93.2 FM (BCFM), Saturdays 7 or 8PM. Sundays 7 or 8AM

http://www.bcfm.org.uk/

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Libcom.org joins International Communist Current

01-04-2009 10:41

Today, as the international bourgeoisie comes together at the G20 conference, we can inform our readers with happiness of a great coming together of the international proletariat, because as a result of deep discussions held with patience over the past two years the libcom group have been integrated into the International Communist Current and formed the online editorial section of the ICC internationally.

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Roger Scruton claims that as long as Poland exists, freedom exists

31-03-2009 23:09

Roger Scruton, British conservatove philosopher, claims that as long as Poland exists, freedom exists. But it seems that his concept of freedom is rather limited, for liberal-thinking people do not face freedom of speech in Poland.

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Coverage of 'We Won't Pay for Your Crisis' demos in Berlin and Frankfurt

30-03-2009 17:56

Turbulence have compiled a collection to links to German and English language coverage of the 'We Won't Pay for Your Crisis' demonstrations, held in Berlin and Frankfurt last Saturday.

http://turbulence.org.uk/events/we-wont-pay-for-your-crisis/

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2009 Bilderberg Conference in Athens, Greece?

27-03-2009 20:00

hazardous gave me that a few minutes ago

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FT2020

27-03-2009 17:19

10,000 copies of a spoof version of the Financial Times were distributed today, with a 'Yes Men' style website to back it up at FT2020.com. It was the brainchild of a former journalist who has contributed a lot of good advice to various activist groups. I'm going to include the PDF here as the website keeps crashing presumably due to unexpectedly great demand.

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Jacqui Smith: The threat of a chemical or nuclear attack is now more real

26-03-2009 19:04

Contrary to the endless media brainwashing about “change” towards a far more peaceful and just world, what we are actually being offered is more of the same thing: More racist propaganda, more repression at home and more genocides abroad…

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Did Iran reject Obama's overture?

25-03-2009 18:31

Iran's response to a supposedly conciliatory address March 20 by U.S. President Barack Obama has been met with a torrent of “we-told-you-sos” by the U.S. media. The Los Angeles Times reported that Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had simply “dismissed President Obama's extraordinary Persian New Year greeting ...” The Christian Science Monitor said the president's gesture had been “greeted coolly” by Khamenei.

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The anarchist and anti-authoritarian fanzinotheque

25-03-2009 12:24

Here is the on-line fanzinotheque. You can download zines in several languages which we put here at disposal in PDF format.

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Why We Must Take Action To Protect Our Bus Drivers From Assaults

24-03-2009 09:26

Having asked the GMB to write to attached article the local paper refused to publish it in full.

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G20 Nigel Rosser exposed

23-03-2009 18:00

Nigel Rosser is a tabloid journalist who recycles Met police press releases as scare stories in the run up to major demonstrations. He has previously written stories about Mayday and Climate camp.

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European countries get infected by the "Greek revolutionary virus".

22-03-2009 23:35

the european union is afraid that this"virus of revolution"that started here in Greece,can "infect"other european countries.Already in France few days ago a group attacked with a shotgun against a police station.Massive demonstrations in Spain,Germany,France,ect

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wikid welsh vegetables?

21-03-2009 09:19

Internal bank memos about alleged tax avoidance were withdrawn from Guardian website after lawyers obtained emergency temporary injunction

BUT (hush hush) they ARE available on Wikileaks (secure.wikileaks.org)

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20-03-2009 11:10

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Police are lying bastards (non news)

19-03-2009 11:59

As if to prove what lying self serving bastards the cops are, the assistant chief constable of Kent Police wrote the following letter which was published in the Guardian. In the face of this kind of blatant spin it is not hard to understand why trust in the police is at such a low ebb. It barely contains a single word of a truth...

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Shell end investment in renewables

19-03-2009 10:55

Royal Dutch Shell have ended their investment in renewable energy in favour of fossil and biofuels