UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Urgent Help needed for victim of trafficking and child prostitution

11-04-2007 08:19

Harriet Mutoni is the victim of trafficking and child prostitution. She was trafficked into the UK in January 2005. In March 2007 she was assessed by the Poppy Project who confirmed that her experiences are consistent with those of other victims of trafficking. If Harriet is returned to Uganda she would have no support network and would face severe circumstances, including the likelihood of being forced to return to prostitution.

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Immigrants: 50,000 March for Immigration Reform

10-04-2007 19:07

More than 50,000 immigrants and immigrant rights advocates filled the streets of Downtown Los Angeles on Saturday, April 7, 2007, to rally support for fair legislation for immigrants; and to protest against the recent White House plan that will further restrict the rights of immigrants across America. The March and rally was one of the largest in recent months and it further demonstrated the growing momentum of the immigration rights movement.

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Urgent response needed for [name removed as requested by subject]

10-04-2007 16:49

[Name removed as requested by subject] a national of Kenya and her husband were forced to leave Kenya in 1990 as her husband was Ugandan and at the time Ugandans were being persecuted in Kenya. [Name removed] and her husband fled to Swaziland. Unfortunately [name removed]'s husband passed away. The Swaziland Authorities started making life very difficult for [Name removed] to carry on working there. She left for the UK in 2003 hoping to be able to work and provide for herself.

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Ismet Hyseni - Back in the Wars

09-04-2007 12:39

Ismet Hyseni went to report at the Home Office in Brand Street on Wednesday the 4th April 2007 and was detained (second time) and served with a removal notice for Thursday 12th April

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Announcing: FARE STRIKE! San Francisco 2005: First-Hand Accounts

09-04-2007 07:27

Finally, a collection of first-hand accounts of the Fare Strike, in which thousands of San Franciscans openly and spontaneously united along class lines and rode mass transit for free. Popular anger over service cuts, fare hikes and threatened driver layoffs on Muni (SF Municipal Railway that runs a system of buses, streetcars and cable cars) set this action in motion. The working-class was being saddled with increasing costs for declining service in a system that was already very poor. Anger at this was transformed into the joy of refusal as many people rode mass transit like any other day, yet withheld their money from the fare box. The alienated space of public transportation was briefly transformed into an arena of solidarity and radical possibilities.

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Stagecoach: Take customers money & their health!!!!!!!!!!

06-04-2007 19:21

dodgy nano feul additives, described by many scientists as the most dangerous way to use nanotech, an experiment on us all, but one international trade union stands up in the food sector

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African Reparations Tribunal Pledge Drive Halfway to Goal

06-04-2007 18:06

On April 1, the Uhuru African Liberation Solidarity Campaign (Uhuru ALSC) announced a pledge drive to raise €10,000 Euro (or about 7,600 GBP) by April 9th in support of the International Tribunal on Reparations for Afrikan People (ITRAP).

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Important upoming rally: Free Mumia now!

02-04-2007 14:09

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man!
Free Mumia Now!
Abolish the racist death penalty!

Rally, sponsored by the Partisan Defence Committee

Saturday 5 May, 1 pm
University of London Union, Room 3C&D,
Malet Street, London WC1

Speakers include Rachel Wolkenstein, Partisan Defense Committee (US) counsel and former member of Mumia's legal team; trade union and other speakers to be announced

Mumia's life is in danger - mobilise now!

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African reparations tribunal launches pledge drive

31-03-2007 19:40

Uhuru African Liberation Solidarity Campaign launches pledge drive to support the International Tribunal on Reparations for Afrikan People

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'Save Coventry Mail Centre' March and Rally

31-03-2007 15:04

A march and rally, organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU), were held in Coventry city centre today to protest against the planned closure of Coventry's postal sorting office. The Royal Mail management are proposing to combine Coventry's and Northampton's sorting offices at a new site near Milton Keynes (Ml corridor), causing over 500 staff in Coventry to be made redundant. Northampton's sorting office had burned down in 2003 and staff are working from temporary accommodation.

According to Des Arthur from the Coventry Mail Centre Campaign, the Royal Mail management had admitted that the closure had nothing to do with the levels of efficiency and productivity at Coventry, which were excellent. Further, the proposed closure of Coventry, Gloucester and Beading sorting offices were in breach of the National Agreement and no immediate opportunity had been given to the UCW to offer a case for keeping them open.

The UCW has now drawn up a 26-page plan for keeping the Coventry office open and has collected more than 60,000 signatures on its petition. The union has vowed to ballot for industrial action if the management opts for compulsory redundancies.

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EXCLUSIVE: MMC Leader resigns!

29-03-2007 21:35

Yes, it's true, the clinical lead of Modernising Medical Careers has today handed in his resignation to the PMETB

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Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets Campaign Update

27-03-2007 21:29

Here is the March 2007 update from Justice For Shrewsbury Pickets, campaigning for an inquiry into the 1972 imprisonment of Ricky Tomlinson and Des Warren, as described on tonight's BBC documentary with Tomlinson.

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Kirklees Unity Day of Action

22-03-2007 19:57

Kirklees Unity Day of Action

Saturday April 7th 2007

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Welfare Reform: The ‘unthinkable’ may be about to happen!

22-03-2007 16:41

biggest changes in welfare for over 60 years about to come...

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Lobby to keep English lessons free

21-03-2007 12:54

While constituents of Siôn Simon MP talked to him in his surgery, supporters of a campaign to keep English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) classes free of charge were outside collecting a petition in Erdington High St. They had a warm welcome from many local residents.

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Sheffield on t’ up

18-03-2007 15:47

A few questions for the residents of our fair city about the rejuvenation of Sheffield. In your opinion, what do you think is the best feature of Sheffield? Tell me what excites you about Sheffield old and new.

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Video and photos from doctors march yesterday

18-03-2007 10:35

Short video and a couple of photos from the demonstration yesterday in London which had about 12,000 doctors and their supporters marching from the Royal College of Physicians next to Regents Park to the Royal College of Surgeons in Holborn.

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Interview with Nepal Communist Leader Sunday

17-03-2007 18:43

Comrade Gaurav of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will talk with African People's Socialist Party host Nyabinga Dzimbahwe about the revolutionary process taking place in Nepal.

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London MMC demo pix (2)

17-03-2007 17:11

Second set of photos

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London MMC demo pix (1)

17-03-2007 17:02

First set of photos