UK Indymedia - UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive

UG#622 - Resisting The Military Financial Complex(Just Say No To Debt Repayment)

08-03-2013 15:24

Our first hour is a presentation by Noam Chomsky on the emerging world order in which USA is dominating the world's remaining energy resources in the Middle East and in which this same militancy is being aggressively visited on resistance at home. In our second hour, we look at the anniversary of the occupy movement and the efforts underway to build grassroots resistance to the stranglehold of the predatory elite financiers.

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CALLOUT: National Day of Action Against the Bedroom Tax!

07-03-2013 17:09

On 16th March 2013, there will be a national day of protest against the Bedroom Tax. Protests are currently planned in over thirty towns and cities across the UK, in what needs to be the biggest wave of protest since the Poll Tax. It is time to paint those placards, dust off your megaphone and make a stand.

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EDL Manchester Protestors Making Nazi Salutes

07-03-2013 13:16

EDL Manchester protestors photographed making Nazi salutes

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Philippine Gov’t lacks political will to go after the Marcoses

07-03-2013 12:28

One can understand Andres Bautista’s deep frustration in wanting to abolish the Presidential Commission on Good Government, which he has headed since October 2010, although — or because — it has failed to accomplish its two-pronged mandate, 27 years after President Cory Aquino created the PCGG through Executive Order No. 1.

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UG#621 - US Capitalism From Start To Finish (911 As Finance Capitalist Endgame)

06-03-2013 20:46

As we return to reading David Graeber this, we look at the origins of capitalism in USA - how the system of self-sufficient slave estates and family farms gave way to one of wage labor. Then we ask, were the events of 11 years ago the cover for a massive financial fraud? We conclude by reflecting on what these angles contribute to our understanding of 'capitalism' and the importance of personally, consciously stepping away from it.

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The film industry is the way?

06-03-2013 18:43

Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project.

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Central London cafe is haven for dangerous ideas

06-03-2013 14:05

Firebox, a political cafe in Central London, needs your help to provide events and meeting space to left-wing individuals and networks.

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New Squat the cull group launched

06-03-2013 13:21

Get orn there land!

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Public Meeting: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’

06-03-2013 11:39

The Anne Frank Trust UK is proud to present its International Women’s Day 2013 public meeting in Manchester: ‘50 Shades of Resistance’.

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[Video] Anarchist intervention at the speech of the Mayor of Athens at the LSE

06-03-2013 02:12

Anarchist intervention at the speech of the Mayor of Athens at the LSE

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The eco-warriors are all legal observers engaging in police liaison

06-03-2013 01:49

The eco-warriors' guide to police liaison and legal observing at the Bexhill to Hastings link road protest where the Second Battle of Hastings at Combe Haven Valley is already attracting worldwide media attention.

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The film industry is the way?

05-03-2013 19:02

More than anything, the Brazilian Cinema Company will need to be able to conduct in mutually fertilizing and creative parallel, these two lines of distribution and exhibition here outlined and proposed, to ensure the best use of every penny invested in the film industry, reaching the best results in generation of employment opportunities, the flowering of intelligence, national identity and profitability.

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Greek Solidarity Night & Belarus ABC Infotalk this week

05-03-2013 18:18

Events at Eileen House, 80-94 Newington Causeway, Elephant & Castle, SE1 6EF. Or if we are evicted, then Library St Community Centre, 44-50 Lancaster Street (5 minutes away). Check Twitter for latest updates:

http://twitter.com/selforganiseldn.

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India: “Bayer’s Tonic“ still on the Market

05-03-2013 17:14

India: “Bayer’s Tonic“ still on the Market

The company BAYER continues to sell its disputed strengthener “Bayer’s Tonic” in India. The tonic contains a mixture of liver fraction, yeast extract, flavoured syrup and 10% alcohol.This has been proven by test purchases conducted by the Coalition against Bayer Dangers.

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Birmingham Anti-Cuts Conference – Saturday 16th March

05-03-2013 11:44

Calling all residents of Birmingham for a city wide anti-cuts conference.

4pm – 6pm
Saturday 16th March

***LOCATION TO BE ANNOUNCED***

***AGENDA FORTHCOMING***

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manchester events and articles

04-03-2013 19:59

a list of recent event reoprts and upcoming events in manchester

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The film industry is the way?

04-03-2013 19:21

Produced at millions of copies, costing pennies each, distributed throughout the country by the Brazilian Film Company and commercialized by legions of heroic fighters of the streets called Street Vendors, these copies are the biggest deterrent to piracy, will enhance the income and dignity of this micro-marketers, will take the national cinema to innumerable Brazilians and to other people, and, sold at popular prices, will make billionaire the Brazilian Film Industry and turn it in a sector able to fulfill its strategic role of consolidating a democratic and plural national identity and of compromising our population with a well-argued and well-supported national project.

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RECLAIM IT! Direct Action in London on International Women's Day.

04-03-2013 12:22

Direct Action against cuts and austerity, open to all, let's fight back!

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Coal and the Risks Faced by Planning Authorities

03-03-2013 13:59

This press release recounts the problems beseting the UK Coal Indusrty such as the fire at Daw Mill, the decline in the demand for coal for power generation purposes, lack of willingness to invest in coal, downward pressure on coal prices, pollution caused by coal being responsible fro premature deaths. Yet despite all this the Government wants to make it easier to dig it up!! See what you can do at this late stage to stop this plan it its tracks!!

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LAON's February Review of English Opencast Sites

03-03-2013 11:03

This review details the latest development on known actual and potential opencast sites in England, plus providing additional information on Air quality Issues and Opencast Mining, the Welsh Varteg Petition, Derelict and Unrestored English Sites and news affecting Hargreaves Services and UK Coal.