UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Very important: ECHR Rule 39 of the Rules of Court/ Interim Relief

05-05-2010 07:40

If you are facing removal/deportation/extradition and removal directions have been set, and all legal avenues in the UK have been exhausted, and you have strong grounds as to why the removal/deportation/extradition should not take place, you can make an emergency application to the ECtHR under Rule 39 'Inerim Relief' to have the removal stayed

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Third attempt to remove Nadia Arzane and Bashir Foris

04-05-2010 15:19

Nadia and Bashir have new removal directions set for Thursday 6th May 2010, @ 13:10, on Baltic Airways Flight BT652 leaving from Gatwick Airport. This will be the third attempt to remove Nadia and Bashir in as many weeks.

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Question concerning resistance actions in the UK

04-05-2010 14:46

why?why?why?

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Euromayday Hamburg and its media production

04-05-2010 12:29

The most obvious purpose of media activism is to provide counter-information. But revealing facts doesn't exhaust the potentials of "doing media". It's also about storytelling, feelings, social relations. Radical media produces knowledge, political subjectivities, communication. In many cities, the EuroMayDay parades of the precarious engage in this kind of media making. This article attempts to tell the story of EuroMayDay in Hamburg through a collection of links to its media production.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, April 2010

04-05-2010 12:11

Five actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and none improved in April 2010, according to the International Crisis Group's monthly bulletin CrisisWatch 81, 04/05/10.

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Around the Campaigns - Tuesday 4th May 2010

04-05-2010 08:26

'in its present form, Italy's policy of intercepting migrants at sea and obliging them to return to Libya or other non-European countries, violates the principle of non-refoulement.'

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Labor Day statements from the Philippines

04-05-2010 00:10

LABOR URGED TO USE LABOR VOTE TO ADVANCE LABOR AGENDA. May 1 protest demands a stop to layoffs and contractualization.

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Election billboards subvertised

03-05-2010 23:11

Messages like “Don’t vote – take control” and “Tories = New Labour” have appeared on Conservative billboards across Manchester.

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Mayday edition of the Nottingham Sparrow

03-05-2010 20:25

There was a new edition of the local Anarchist Federation's rebel bulletin, The Nottingham Sparrow, available at Mayday. For the latest on fighting the cuts and class struggle (not to mention the gossip on Jon Collins) it's well worth a read.

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Shut Down The G4S Chambers

03-05-2010 19:56

G4S have recently won a "British Safety Council International Award" in relation to the Concentration Camp in Oakington. The company will be presented with the award on Friday 21 May during a black tie banquet at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

We urge workers to disrupt this spectacle.
We will be there to help destroy it.

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Chesterfield Mayday 2010

03-05-2010 15:44

Chesterfield Mayday is traditionally one of the largest celebrations of International Workers’ Day in the region if not the country. Although substantially smaller than at its peak, the event continues every May bank holiday weekend.

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May Day in Coventry

03-05-2010 10:19

Yesterday was the first May Day celebration in Coventry for many years, organised by Coventry Against Racism. The organisers had planned to kick off the event with a march, followed by a "Festival" in Millenium Place. The police demanded a payment of £900 to close the street: and when organisers couldn't cough up, the march was banned.

All the same, some of the assembled May Day celebrators forgot about the ban and spontaneously took to the streets, reclaiming the road and holding a colourful procession from the Council House to Millenium place. Maybe just an act of token resistance -- but was great to see Coventry town centre give way to anarchic festivity on May Day, even if just for a brief pause. The parade was led by the banners of West Midlands No Borders: "asylum is not a crime"; "freedom of movement for all"; "no one is illegal"; and "working is not a crime".

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Arthur Scargill addresses Dublin Mayday rally

02-05-2010 16:56

On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed.

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Images of Parliament Sq Demo

02-05-2010 12:01

May Day Demo at Parliament Sq London 1 May 2010.

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Nottingham Mayday 2010

02-05-2010 10:48

This year, organisers of Nottingham Mayday have faced the full force of Notttingham City Council’s bureaucratic machinery, and had to jump through any number of legal and financial hoops. Despite these obstacles, the event went ahead on Saturday May 1st with perhaps a couple of 100 people turning up to celebrate International Workers' Day.

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May Day Carnival – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 01 May 10

01-05-2010 23:35

Dateline: May Day Parade & Carnival, Parliament Square, London, UK, 14:00-17:00, Sat 01 May 10 – G20 Meltdown mobilised thousands to the Bank of England on 01 April 2009, and Election Meltdown repeated the feat on International Workers Day 2010, with four convergent May Day Parades converging outside the House of Conmens in Parliament Square for Carnival festivities. Four bosses' lackey politicians were executed in effigy, Thursday's forthcoming election was declared null-&-void, and we took the roadway for a dance-floor and held it, till heavy rain stopped play around 17:00.

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nike adverts vandalised in south london yo

30-04-2010 17:39

nike adverts got fucked with in south london.

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mayday posters !!

30-04-2010 14:55

mayday posters from germany from the last years...! (english text)

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Personal Appeal from Huseini Abubakar - Removal Monday

30-04-2010 12:33

I have lived in the UK for 18 years, I am currently in Harmondsworth IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on British Airways flight BA 81 from London Heathrow @ 14:40 Monday 3rd May 2010, to Accra, Ghana

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Nottingham Free School's May Day Discussion

30-04-2010 09:39

With Mayday coming soon the Nottingham Free School decided to arrange an open discussion on some of the issues surrounding the day. This discussion took place at the Sumac last Sunday night and is scheduled to be the first in a series which will take place on the final Sunday of each month. The hope is to create a regular space in which we can learn collectively and share our ideas and understandings of issues which strike us to have a particular relevancy. On Sunday we hoped to discuss the nature of class struggle today, as well as the different forms that resistance to capitalism can take, and this was in many ways a success.