UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Around the Campaigns Friday August 8th 2008

08-08-2008 11:51

Unity Glasgow, win First Gold Medal at Beijing Olympics

Italy 2008 - Top of the European League of Workplace Deaths

07-08-2008 22:53

CENSIS, an Italian Institute for social investment (see below) issued its latest report.
1,170 workers were killed in the workplace in 2007.
In Italy in 2007 there were twice as many workplace deaths and 8 times as many road deaths as murders.
But the government is focusing all its energy on combating crime.
Giuseppe Roma, Censis Director General said: "It is very clear the distortion between real dangers and the steps that have to be taken to combat them. Measures are not in place in workplaces and roads to ensure that Italian citizens are safe there. People often think a road death is just an accident but the figures from other European countries show this is not true”.

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Children's Revolution March From Climate Camp on Kingsnorth Day of Mass Action

07-08-2008 17:26

The Children of the Eco Warriors will lead the Children's Revolution march with children of local residents from the site of the Camp for Climate Action near the Kingsnorth power station on Saturday.

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Workers Climate Action outreach leaflet for Climate Camp

06-08-2008 16:20

Workers Control and the Climate: For a Just Transition.

The Camp for Climate Action is targeting Kingsnorth on the 3rd to 11th of August. The Camp is not trying to force everyone to live in tree-houses or shit in a hole, or to get you all sacked. What we aim to do is to encourage people to begin the fight for a just transition to a carbon neutral economy.

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Climate activists at Longannet call for closure date

06-08-2008 15:56

One-night mini Scottish camp outside UK's dirtiest power station. SNP Government urged to set early closure date for plant and guarantee green jobs for coal workers in the growing renewables revolution.

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Riot Police Continue to Attack Women and Children at the Camp for Climate Action

06-08-2008 15:22

The relentless campaign of intimidation by the police against the Camp for Climate Action continued during the night.
Around 2 am the police switched off the floodlights at the front gate and rushed in four riot vans blasting out Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries which was the theme music of the film Apocalypse Now and also Adolph Hitler's favourite music.

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Ndeh Family Must Stay! Solidarity Gathering

06-08-2008 11:37

Saturday 9th August 2008
11:00am - 1:00pm
Sheffield Peace Gardens
Sheffield

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Open letter to UAF

05-08-2008 20:42

In the build up to the June 21st Anti-Fascist demonstration in London, there were unfortunate problems with the mobilisation from Leeds. We are writing in the hope that such problems can be avoided in the future and ensure a better Leeds contingent for such protest

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Time to Crush a Union

05-08-2008 17:28

Call for global solidarity against repression in South Korea. South Korean government has issued arrest warrants against leaders of the country's union leaders for calling a general strike.

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Please help Qin Wang and Jian Qi Lin

05-08-2008 08:38

Qin & Jian were detained whilst reporting on Friday 1st August in Glasgow. They are currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Aeroflot flight SU242 at 13.30 from Heathrow on Thursday 7th August to Moscow for onward flight to China.

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Action Committee News Conference on the next step in the campaign

05-08-2008 00:21

More than 2000 mainly UK Bangladeshis were robbed of their hard earned cash via an outfit called 'First Solutions' the details of which theft became known in the end of June 2007. 14 months on, most of the people have not got their money back

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Occupation of ARK by Wembley teachers in pictures.

04-08-2008 16:29

On Friday teachers from Wembley who are militantly opposed to their local sports ground being turned into a Thatcher inspired nightmare called ‘City Academy’ occupied the offices of ARK the company who will immediately benefit from this appalling decision.

Shit that’s a long sentence, my English teacher would be disgusted…. anyway the teachers in question are just a little bit tired of not having their calls returned. So decided to make their representations in person.

Details and further hilarity below:

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ska pfhunk reggea&chillout against fascism 9th august in the city that Rockx

03-08-2008 13:09

9th August, benefit @ the newly refitted & expanded Maze-Forest Tavern nightclub Nottingham.

http://www.themazerocks.com/
Jimmy the Squirrel

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"What About the Black Community, Obama?"

03-08-2008 00:32

Uhuru Movement challenges Obama at town hall meeting in St. Petersburg, Florida (US) on unwillingness to speak to African community interests.

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Scottish council workers set strike date

02-08-2008 17:17

150,000 Scottish council employees in Unison, Unite and the GMB have set a date for their strike action over a sub-inflation pay offer which would see schools shut, rubbish uncollected and other frontline services hit.

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RATB celebrates the Cuban Revolution

31-07-2008 19:50

On 26 July 2008 RATB held a successful live music event in Brixton, south London, to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the Moncada attack, the spark of the Cuban Revolution.

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26th July Revolutionary 'Hip-Hopera' in Newcastle

31-07-2008 17:14

Members and Supporters of Rock Around the Blockade (RATB) celebrated
the 26th July with live music and street theatre at Grey's Monument in
the centre of Newcastle.

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Violence at RMT picket + RMT cleaners head for strike action.

29-07-2008 15:32

A man was arrested by plain clothes Police following an incident early on Monday morning during a strike by station attendants at Elephant and Castle Underground station. RMT members were staging a strike at the station over the sacking of Jerome Bowes a member who had been involved in a scuffle with a drunk traveller on News Years Eve. At around 6.30am a man who was described as well dressed approached the picket line and allegedly shouted “You never stick up for white people do you?”. He then punched one of the pickets in the face and attacked RMT president John Leach with a traffic cone. The incident was witnessed by two plain clothes Police officers who were driving past. They stopped and followed the man down onto the station platform where he was arrested.

RMT member Joe Thompson was left with a bloody nose and split lip said: “After what happened to Jerome I was afraid to defend myself as I have people at home depending on my wages”.

More here:

http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=109859

http://www.rmt.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=109804&int1stParentNodeID=89732

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Stalinist Spanish Civil War Artwork Vandalized on San Francisco's Embarcadero

28-07-2008 04:02

Propaganda of the deed to commemorate the beginning of the Spanish Civil War the right way...

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Students and Striking Workers Picket LSE Starbucks Event

27-07-2008 16:59

Students and striking local government workers united to picket a London School of Economics (LSE) event in Starbucks on Kingsway, Holborn last week, in opposition to the university’s and coffee chain’s support for the state of Israel's occupation of Palestine.