UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Zapatista Comandantes Arrive at Mexico-US Border
14-04-2007 00:46
Marcos: “We Will Come and Stay With You, Without Guns, Only With Our Words”By Brenda Norrell
Special to The Narco News Bulletin
http://www.narconews.com/Issue45/article2623.html
The Battle over Zimbabwe's Future
13-04-2007 23:59
A good analysis by Greg Elich of the situation in Zimbabwe...where US/UK neocolonials are using the old Nixon strategy of making the economy scream, to destroy Zimbabwe.Hampshire housing associations merge
13-04-2007 15:27
Two Hampshire housing associations, First Wessex and Portsmouth Housing have merged to form a conglomerate covering the whole of Hampshire.Council to be referred to Ombudsman for failing to collect rubbish
13-04-2007 15:25
The Rotten Borough of Rushmoor is to be referred to the Local Authority Ombudsman for its failure to collect rubbish.Faslane naval base fully blockaded for over two hours
13-04-2007 11:39
Activists from Trident Ploughshares this morning blockaded all three entrances to the Faslane naval base, home of the United Kingdom's nuclear weapons. The base was completely shut for over two hours and 24 people were arrested.
Block G8 2007 Germany- new English Flier
13-04-2007 10:25
Singo furious over Broadcast Regulator’s ruling on Alan Jones
13-04-2007 03:39
One could almost feel sorry for highflying, right wing, media types who derive a living from exploiting the lowest aspects of human nature. But there is ‘no love lost’ around here and I imagine anywhere else. Media moguls are getting a taste of life at the receiving end, perhaps they may think twice before making IRRESPONSIBLE racist, vilifying comments at the expense of those in the least position to defend themselves. The results of negative media hype and racist remarks include foul abuse levelled at you, your wife and kids in public; being spat on for no reason other than your skin colour or religion, and the ugly culmination of all racist behaviour, the race riot (Cronulla, 2005). Are we sorry the purveyors of social division and slur are experiencing frustration at the lack of recourse and remedial action available to them – not on your life?Over 250 DR Congolese on Anti-Deportation demo in Birmingham
13-04-2007 00:13
Asylum Rights: national day of action in defence of asylum rights on 19th May!
12-04-2007 23:13
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) calls on all those opposed to the current attacks on asylum seekers to join us in a national day of action in defence of asylum rights on Saturday 19th May.Carbon Die Oxide II
12-04-2007 22:58
MNPF Trails 2007Maximizing non pollutant fuels
Reducing world poverty
Arresting mental distress
19th May - National Day of Action to Defend Asylum Rights
12-04-2007 21:58
Together we are stronger! Join us in a national day of action in defence of asylum rights on 19th May!DRC Deportations Demo (April 12)
12-04-2007 20:55
Seaside food
12-04-2007 13:22
Why is seaside food and fast food so bad in Britain? Does it have to be bad? Does fast food have to be synonymous with junk food?Reith Lectures 2007
12-04-2007 13:20
This year's Reith Lectures are being given by the leading economist Jeffrey Sachs.Home Office frivolous attitude to Article 8 'the right to family life' can be ch
12-04-2007 05:12
Dayschool on class, capitalism and women's liberation, 21 April
11-04-2007 15:04
Come and discuss the politics of socialist feminism at this dayschool on Saturday 21 April.Oaxaca film night on Thursday 12th April 7.30pm
11-04-2007 12:51
@RampART creative centre15 Rampart St London E1
(off Commercial Road, nearest tube Whitechapel)
http://rampart.xploiting.org/wiki/doku.php/how_to_find_us Screening of two documentaries to be followed by a discussion.
Anti-fascists - Counter National Front Demo This Sunday in Newcastle
11-04-2007 10:10
This Sunday the 15th of April - 10.30 AMWho really ended slavery?
11-04-2007 08:34
200 years since the abolition of the slave tradeWho really ended slavery?
Speakers Paul Gilroy, Weyman Bennett
The 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade has rightly initiated a discussion not simply about the wrongs that slavery brought on millions of Black people, but also about its economic role and how it was abolished.
Birmingham, like many other cities, has both its heroes and villains. The supply of the manacles to the trade is a horrific memory, while those who campaigned against it are to be celebrated.
This public meeting will look at 2 critical elements.
Firstly the role that the slave trade played in financing, and providing the stimulus for, the industrial revolution. Many of the great industrialists of the time were financed by money coming directly from the slave trade.
Secondly, and an element that is far too often forgotten, the role of the slaves themselves in destroying slavery. The rebellion of the slaves in Haiti was the beginning of the end for slavery. The British dominion of Jamaica saw its own uprising by slaves. In Britain freed slaves played an important part in the campaign to abolish the trade, alongside the likes of William Wilberforce MP.
Meeting details:
Wednesday 11th April 7pm
Afro-Caribbean Millennium Centre, 339 Dudley Rd , Winson Green