UK Indymedia - UK Terror War Newswire Archive

Hasbara Strategy to Campaigns Pursuing an end to Israeli Apartheid

21-12-2011 09:25

An Anti-Israeli Apartheid campaign hit social network sites over the weekend centring around UK Dubstep Musician Joker and his planned performance at the 'Hanukkah Celebration Music Fest' in Tel Aviv last night. Interesting to see the bendy & beaten road taken by the counter hasbara campaign.

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16-19 Dec: 4 days of solidarity with Bradley Manning in Wales

21-12-2011 00:02

We marked the start of Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing and his 24th birthday in Wales with four days of solidarity action: in Wrexham on Friday morning and in Cardiff on Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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Anti-War Resister Fr. Martin Newell was released from Pentonville today.

20-12-2011 16:41

Fr. Martin Newell was released from Pentonville / London today after serving a sentence for cutting into Northwood Headquarters on the "Feast of Innocents" 2008
Northwood Headquarters in resistance to the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm

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Solidarity with Bradley Manning at NSA Menwith Hill, N Yorks.

20-12-2011 15:25

Lindis Percy, of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases (CAAB) was at the American information gathering and surveillance base at Menwith Hill on Saturday afternoon in solidarity with Bradley Manning as part of the international day of action called on the occasion of his 24th birthday and the second day of his pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland, USA.

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London - Report/Vids/Photos - Solidarity with Bradley Manning outside U.S. Embas

19-12-2011 08:41

Bradley Manning's Military Tribunal Article 32 (pre-military trial hearing) began a Ft. Meade Maryland on Friday Dec 18th.,continued through the weekend and continues into this week. A callout for solidarity action on Bradley' 24th. birthday - Saturday Dec 17th. was answered in 40+ locations throughout the United States and around the world. In London 60 folks gathered in solidarity with Bradley outside the U.S. embassy.

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Bradley Manning, Wikileaks, and Judicial Farce

18-12-2011 20:38

After 19 long months of detention, including solitary confinement, Private Bradley Manning has been brought before the court – sort of. His pre-trial proceedings which began on Friday 16th December will be heard by a military ‘investigating official’, the equivalent of a civilian court judge.The hearings are supposed to continue through this weekend. The proceedings are being held in Fort Meade, in the north-eastern state of Maryland, also home to the National Security Agency.

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Free Food! Free Bradley Manning! Cardiff action

17-12-2011 20:36

Cardiff Anarchist Black Cross and WISE Up for Bradley Manning organised a Free food! Free Bradley Manning! stall in Cardiff city centre this afternoon. The banners were also hung over a busy road into Cardiff this morning.

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Live Coverage of Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Fort Meade, Maryland USA

17-12-2011 20:20

lBLOG
ive blog from the hearing:

http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2011/12/17/bradley-manning-pre-trial-live-blog-day-2/s.
OCCUPY D.C. LIVESTREAM

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/occupy-dc

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Thank you Joker for not playing with Israeli Apartheid

17-12-2011 17:35

Joker (Dubstep) was due to play in Tel Aviv for Hanukkah celebrations on 20th December 2011. He was contacted by fans on Facebook asking him to cancel his performance and not support Israeli Apartheid. Joker aksed his fans what he should do and after understanding their replies drew his own decision on the matter.

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Happy 24th.Birthday Bradley Manning! -before military tribunal for exposing war

17-12-2011 10:08

YOUTUBE (1min 41 ecs) "Lovers Electric" and friends in hometown Adelaide, South Australia celebrate Bradley Manning' 24th. birthday & his nonviolent resistance to the war and spread the word!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuIpw_ujfOs&sns=em

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Solidarity with Bradley Manning in Wrexham

16-12-2011 11:53

Today, on the first day of Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing, supporters put up two banners at the busy Plas Coch roundabout in Wrexham, Wales, during the morning rush hour: ‘FREE BRADLEY MANNING’ and ‘END THE WARS!’ Bradley Manning’s mother is from Pembrokeshire and still lives in Wales along with other of his relatives. There will be solidarity actions taking place in Cardiff over the weekend:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/12/490101.html

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Veterans for Manning –CALLOUT–Return to U.S. Embassy Saturday Dec 17th 2pm”

14-12-2011 11:47

Tuesday Dec 14th. Veterans for Peace UK and supporters held a vigil for Bradley Manning at the U.S. Embassy in London. Bradley begins a pre-trial hearing on Friday at Fort Meade, Maryland/USA. Bradley faces charges that could lead to a lifetime in prison.
We call for you to join us and others in solidarity with Bradley- Saturday 17th of December, 1400hrs at the U.S. Embassy. Please join us.

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British Veterans Gather at US Embassy to Demand Release of Bradley Manning

13-12-2011 09:35

On Tuesday December 13th at 1400hrs, Michael Lyons and British veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will gather at the U.S. Embassy in London to demand the immediate release of Bradley Manning and recognition that exposing war crimes is not a crime

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Bradley Manning Flyers for download and printing

12-12-2011 17:37

Flyers for Saturday's International Day of Solidarity with Bradley Manning.
Hand some out wherever you are.

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Pentonville Prison Solidarity Vigils&Letters for Anti-War Resister Martin Newell

12-12-2011 09:54

Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker has been jailed in HMP Pentonville for anti-war resistance at Northwood Headquarters.
BACKGROUND

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/12/490035.html

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Cardiff events for Bradley Manning: Sat 17 Dec

11-12-2011 22:13

Saturday 17 December is an international day of action for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning on his 24th birthday. Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing begins at Fort Meade, Maryland, USA on Friday 16 December and is expected to last most of the following week. Manning has Welsh family connections and we'll be marking the day in Cardiff. All welcome.

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The US Air Force’s New Mind Control Wing

10-12-2011 23:47

The use of RF Directed Energy Weapons is roughly similar to other ‘electroshock’ weapons. Just as the cattle prod-like ‘taser’ has been widely adopted in American law enforcement to temporarily disable (or permanently kill) those targeted, pulsed microwave directed energy weapons have been covertly adopted by the US military for remote incapacitation of human targets, such as political dissidents. More properly classified as weapons of electronic warfare--a type of information war--RFDEW are used for the “jamming” of “enemy information systems,” which also happen to be human brains.

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Fr. Martin Newell Catholic Worker Imprisoned for Anti-War Action at Northwood HQ

10-12-2011 09:32

Fr. Martin Newell of the London Catholic Worker community was sentenced to 24 days imprisonment Friday Dec 9th 2011 at Highbury Magistrates Court. Martin was brought before the court for refusing to pay a fine arising from cutting into the Northwood Headquarters/ London.

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Filmshow: The God Delusion, The Cowley Club, Brighton (UK), 14/12/11, 7pm

09-12-2011 14:10

Since the last national census showed Brighton to be, in the words of the clubs nearest evangelical church, the 'most godless city in Britain', we have had a rash of Christian groups missioning here - even coming en mass from London on day trips etc. One group has taken to doing so next to the club and this filmshow is partly in response.

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Once again, war is prime time and journalism's role is taboo

08-12-2011 13:57

The following article by John Pilger starts with a reference to 22nd May 2007 Guardian front page, which was the subject of the following UK Indymedia feature at the time:

Imperial Disinformation: The Guardian's Iran/Iraq Coverage

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371753.html