UK Indymedia - UK Other Press Newswire Archive

New thought crime - "Dangerous Writing"

04-07-2009 23:35

Here's another threat to our Civil Liberties, Baroness O'Cathain (Tory) has proposed an amendment to the Coronors and Justice Bill to outlaw "Extreme Writings"!

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld200809/ldbills/033/amend/su033-ivb.htm

It starts "(1) It is an offence for a person to be in possession of extreme pornographic writing."

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Home Office Neglects Immigrants

02-07-2009 21:04

An example of how the Home Office treats the immigrants who TRY their best in order to be legal in the United Kigdom.

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Obama: The clock is ticking

30-06-2009 19:27

After having argued for five months that he would expect US-Iran negotiations to begin shortly after Iran’s elections, US President Obama is now saying that “any direct dialogue with Iran is going to be affected by the events of the last several weeks”, adding “the clock is ticking” on “Iran’s nuclear capacity”.

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Nomade 1, 2 & 3 - Calais NoBorder Newspaper

27-06-2009 23:12

Newspaper Nomade written, layoutted and distributed in Calais during the NoBorder Camp

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What's body fascism doing in a nice riot like this?

27-06-2009 23:02

Imagine the following scenario: a reporter from a mainstream magazine goes to a Climate Camp event, and asks for someone to do an interview with. The media team sends a camper to do the interview, and this camper happens to be Asian, or black. The reporter says: "Sorry, our readers prefer to look at pictures of white people. Do you have anyone white we could interview?" How would the Climate Campers react? Hopefully they would tell this reporter to fuck the hell off, at the very least.

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Latest No Borders scare story

26-06-2009 07:38

Read below for the latest crap slung out by the Daily Mail (faithfully reproduced in the Metro) about the NoBorder camp.
This is a huge debate to be had, but I am pretty sick of them saying what they want with no reprisals - one of the better aspects of climate camp is their willingness to attack media lies, forcing many retractions/apologies etc - maybe the same is needed here. If the press knew they would be challenged on every ridiculous lie printed about the anarchist movement, they may be a little more hesitant to print them. Anyways, the article is re-posted below -

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Palestine Today 062509

25-06-2009 14:31

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday June 25th 2009.

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Selective Sympathy for Iran

24-06-2009 19:13

Concerned human rights activists find themselves in a difficult situation. While they have justifiable concerns about the treatment of anti-government protesters, they must always keep in mind that warfare is the worst human rights abuse of all. The greatest risk to the Iranian people comes from the American president, who had already proclaimed that military action against Iran should not be “taken off the table.”

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Palestine Today 062409

24-06-2009 16:10

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday June 24th 2009.

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Bradford Zine Fayre 2009

23-06-2009 11:12

Sunday 21st June saw a hoard of zinesters descend on the Treehouse Cafe, Bradford for a full day of zine trades, workshops and live poetry performance. Plus the compulsory vegan feast of culinary delights. Here's some photos and more details of what went down...

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Nokia Siemens 'lawful intercept' monitoring centre in Iran

22-06-2009 20:14

After press reports of Nokia Siemens providing the Iranian government with 'deep packet inspection' equipment, the company issued a very odd denial today, while retrospectively announcing the sale of their Intelligence Solutions business to a German investment firm in March.

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Kingsnorth protest arrest video

22-06-2009 16:57

Arrested for asking a policeman for his badge number.

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Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax

22-06-2009 09:06

What is astonishing about the West’s universal condemnation of the electoral outcome as fraudulent is that not a single shred of evidence in either written or observational form has been presented either before or a week after the vote count. During the entire electoral campaign, no credible (or even dubious) charge of voter tampering was raised. As long as the Western media believed their own propaganda of an immanent victory for their candidate, the electoral process was described as highly competitive, with heated public debates and unprecedented levels of public activity and unhindered by public proselytizing. The belief in a free and open election was so strong that the Western leaders and mass media believed that their favored candidate would win.

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BBC Caught In Mass Public Deception With Iran Propaganda

22-06-2009 08:26

The BBC has again been caught engaging in mass public deception by using photographs of pro-Ahmadinejad rallies in Iran and claiming they represent anti-government protests in favor of Hossein Mousavi.

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REMINDER: Police Accountablility Demo

21-06-2009 14:05

A Demonstration to Demend that the Notts Police are Accountable for their recent misdeeds, especially Spending £700,000 to pre-empt an alleged demonstration.

On Wednesday

At County Hall, Trent Bridge

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Film Maker Raided

20-06-2009 12:23

Brighton film maker raided bt Sussex Police

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Red Ramblers

20-06-2009 11:33

Sunday Walks with the Red Ramblers

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Sri Lanka tops list of nations driving journalists to exile

18-06-2009 23:54

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a New York based media watchdog, in a special reported published Wednesday, said Sri Lanka topped the list of countries that drove the largest number of journalists into exile. "At least 11 Sri Lankan journalists were driven into exile in the past 12 months amid an intensive government crackdown on critical reporters and editors," the report said...

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Sustained Media Campaign Against The Calais No Border Camp

18-06-2009 14:01

The location for the Calais No Border Camp and the Camp programme have both been released. This is against the backdrop of a concerted media campaign to demonise No Borders activists as baby-eating monsters who, as one Daily Mail journalist fantasied, have "pledged to help illegal migrants 'tear down border controls and make for Britain'."

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WORLD LEADERS THANK ARRESTEES, AVERT CLIMATE DISASTER

18-06-2009 13:54

WORLD LEADERS SIGN PACT TO AVERT CLIMATE DISASTER
Newspaper Ignites Hope, Announces "Civil Disobedience Database"

In a front-page ad in today's International Herald Tribune, the leaders
of the European Union thank the European public for having engaged in
months of civil disobedience leading up to the Copenhagen climate
conference that will be held this December. "It was only thanks to your
massive pressure over the past six months that we could so dramatically
shift our climate-change policies.... To those who were arrested, we
thank you."