UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
police do dawn raid to evict squatters
23-06-2004 16:47
at 6 this morning police turned out in force evict the squatted flats on kentish town high streetCommunity Theatre: Burning Issues - The Miners 1984-2004
23-06-2004 16:24
Date: Monday 5th JulyAddress: The Bedford, 77 Bedford Hill, Balham SW12 9HD
Doors: 7.30pm for 8pm
Tickets: ₤10/₤6 from Isobel 020 8675 4744 or mcmillan28 (at) tiscali.co.uk
Open Letter from Western Shoshone
23-06-2004 15:06
June 22, 2004 Message from Hugh Stevens, Chairman Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone. Formore information call Te-Moak Tribal Office at 775-738-9251.
Cops Evict Kentish Town Squat
23-06-2004 14:33
At 6 this morning riot cops evicted the Kentish Town Squat which has been resisting eviction for 3 monthsIsrael is working in Kurdistan
23-06-2004 13:10
Current and former intelligence officials in the United States, the Middle East, and Europe confirm that "Israeli intelligence and militaryoperatives are now quietly at work in Kurdistan," in Iraq,
SURVIVAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS RELEASE
23-06-2004 12:47
BOTSWANA PRESIDENT PERSONALLY GIVES BLANKETS TOBUSHMEN AND TELLS THEM NOT TO GO HOME
In a surprising move, last week the president of
Botswana personally visited New Xade, one of the
government sites where the 'Bushmen' were taken
after being expelled from their ancestral land.
Although it was only 3 weeks before the Bushmen
take his government to court for the right to
return to their land, President Festus Mogae was
accompanied by Sidney Pilane, the lawyer acting
for the government in the case.
Livingstone back gay Jamaica vigil
22-06-2004 15:39
Mayor of London backs the vigil for murdered Jamaican activist Brian Williamson.More postal chaos for Oxford
22-06-2004 00:28
Mail backlogs growing thanks to bad managementLondonrisingtide shuts down National Portrait Gallery
21-06-2004 21:28
Today (21/05/04) protesters gathered outside the National Portrait Gallery as it prepared to unveil this year�s winner of the BP sponsored National Portrait Awards. Four London Rising Tide activists chained themselves across the front door denying access to the exclusive event to the country�s richest & most influential culture vultures and forcing them to question their compliance to BP's actions around the world.Local singer publishes on the web
21-06-2004 12:26
A local political singer-songwriter has published his lyrics on the web for everyone to see and comment on.Vigil for murdered Jamaican gay leader
21-06-2004 09:56
Outrage is urging lesbians and gay men and their friends to join a vigil for slain Jamaican gay rights activist Brian Williamson outside the Jamican High Commission (1 Prince Consort Rd, London SW7) from 7 - 9PM, Wednesday 23 June.
Nek Mohammad: Shalid - The Man Bush Feared the Most
18-06-2004 23:57
Class War NorthEast Update.
18-06-2004 13:50
Picket Disney's Corporate Party - Winter Gardens, Sunday 7pm
18-06-2004 13:43
Disney's record of employing sweatshop labour in countries like Haiti and China is extreme and brutal. This is your opportunity to put pressure on Disney to give their workers decent rights, decent working conditions and decent pay. In 1996, Disney's CEO Michael Eisner paid himself $200 million in salary and share options - over 300,000 times what he paid workers in Honduras for making Pocahontas t-shirts.Photos of 'Greenwash or Us' Street Party
17-06-2004 19:55
Indian Land rights march in Orissa
17-06-2004 15:59
In Feb 2004 a group of European social activists joined the Indian campaigning group Ekta Parishad in a month long padyatra (foot-march) for land rights in the state of Orissa. What follows is a short account of what happened on the march and the successes that were achievedPhotos of Squatted Exhibition Space "Greenwash or Us"
17-06-2004 15:09
Portrait Award & Big Oil protest & gallery report, 16.6.04
17-06-2004 12:38
'Exhibition of Resistance to Big Oil and the Corporate Hijacking of 'the Arts': street protest & gallery report, Wednesday June 16th 2004