UK UK Newswire Archive
Australia to dump boat people in horrific Malaysian camps
08-05-2011 23:07
Refugee support groups are horrified by a deal the Australian government has made to dump 800 boat people in Malaysia, where they face detention in camps under horrific conditions. Under the deal 800 asylum seekers who make their way to Australia by boat could be immediately taken to Malaysia to have their claims processed. In return Australia will take 4,000 people already living in Malaysia as genuine refugees.Eco-Warriors Plan World's Greatest Environmental Project in London Area
08-05-2011 22:35
Some of the original road protesters from the 1990s have already moved into Hounslow near Heathrow Airport in preparation for working with local residents to help them transform their derelict run-down Dickensian neighbourhood into the world's first fully sustainable eco-town as the earth faces unprecedented ecological cataclysm.
Public meeting on drugs
08-05-2011 21:55
Professor David Nutt - the government adviser who was sacked a couple of years back - is in Bristol on Friday evening. He's a thought-provoking speaker. 6.30pm for tea / coffee, 7.00 for talks then discussion, on Friday 13th at Cotham School Dance Studio, Cotham Lawn Road, BS6 6DT. Should be de-criminalise drugs? How would it work in practice? Come and have your say.Controversial scientist, Professor David Nutt, is addressing a meeting in Bristol next Friday about the laws on drugs. Professor Nutt hit the headlines when he was sacked from a committee advising the government about drug classification. But he hasn’t gone away. He set up the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs so he can continue examining scientific research on drugs, without the constraints of a statutory body. Professor Nutt argues for a drugs policy based on how much harm each drug does, both to the individual and society.
The public meeting, which takes place at 7.00pm on Friday 13 May at Cotham School, will also hear from Danny Kushlick. Danny is the founder of the Transform Drugs Policy Foundation, a Bristol-based policy think tank which campaigns for an effective system to regulate and control drugs at national and international levels.
For many people, this sounds like weakening our drugs laws; giving up on the ‘war on drugs’. But how successful is our current law at deterring people from misusing drugs and minimising the harm caused if they do? For all the money spent on police and prisons, drugs are still a serious problem. Bristol currently has an estimated 8,000 problematic drug users. That’s a lot of wasted lives, suffering families and victims of crime. Danny Kushlick has studied the approaches of other countries and thinks that we may be able to learn from some of them.
Picnic and Party Against Atos - part 2 - Monday May 9th
08-05-2011 21:16
Monday, May 9 · 2:00pm – 6:00pmAtos Origin HQ, Triton Square, London, NW1
UK: We will continue to fight against terrorism wherever it rears its head
08-05-2011 18:28
Unemployed Daytime Disco #5
08-05-2011 17:52
UNEMPLOYED DAYTIME DISCO #5 - 'THE MERRY MONTH OF MAY'Monday 16 May, 2 - 8 pm, The Rockin Chair, Lower Cathedral Road, Riverside, Cardiff
Hollman Morris to edge in a new era for journalism in Latin America
08-05-2011 17:45
Award-winning Colombian journalist Hollman Morris is using social networking sites such as 'Twitter', 'Facebook' and 'YouTube' in an attempt to self-finance his investigative reporting program 'Contravia'.
IMHRO: 9 people executed in Ahwaz: 2 died under torture: Western English Media s
08-05-2011 16:11
Following recent peaceful demonstration in Ahwaz death toll rise to more than 60 people, 9 young men executed in city of Ahwaz and 2 died under torture by Iranian intelligence service. Sources inside al- Ahwaz told the names of those who killed as following:
Nottingham Animal Rights Campaigning
08-05-2011 14:55
Two more weeks and more of active campaigning in Nottingham and beyond.
Monday 9th May 2011
Foston Pig Farm Demo
Join the demo against the planning application at 12noon at Bank Road, Matlock, Derbyshire DE4 3NN (pick-up at 10:30 at sumac).
Midland Pig Producers plans Britain's largest pig factory farm to subject around 25,000 animals to a life of permanent confinement, suffering and boredom. The farm intends to produce one thousand pigs a week who will be transported off site to slaughter. Object before 13th May.
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1869
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Tuesday 10th May 2011 to Sunday 22nd May
Protest the 'Great' British Circus
The Japanese Water Gardens, near Nottingham, plays host to Martin Lacey's Lincolnshire-based circus, one of just three in Britain to still use wild animals. Animals used in the circus include tigers, zebra, camels, llamas, horses, ponies, dogs, goats and reindeer.
Tuesday 10th: Demo 6pm @ Japanese water gardens, Stapleford/ pick-up 5:20 @ sumac
Weds 11th - 6:30 @ Japanese water gardens
Sunday 15th - 2pm.
Demos continue to Sunday 22nd May - to be kept informed join the Nottingham Animal Rights mailing list at http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/nar
or call 07709 231267 / 07508 521066.
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=86
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Thursday 12th May 2011
Brinsley Animal Rescue Workday, transport from Bramcote 6:30
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1562
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Friday 13th May 2011
Nottingham Greyhound Stadium Demo
Starts 18:30 - Approx fortnightly
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1535
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Saturday 14th May 2011
Global Boycott Procter & Gamble Day XV
Nottingham stall: Old Market Square 12:00
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=77
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Sunday 15th Great british circus demo 2pm @ JWG pickup 1:30 canning circus
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Wednesday 18th May 2011
Derby Animal Rights meeting
Venue to be confirmed - call 07951 304652
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1777
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Thursday 19th May 2011
Nottingham Animal Rights Networking
7:30 @ Broadway
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=112
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Saturday 21st May 2011
Veggies catering @ National Vegetarian Week Launch Event in Manchester
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1854
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Sunday 22nd May 2011
Nottingham Green Festival
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1870
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Sunday 22nd May 2011
Veggies also catering at Hope Pastures Sanctuary Open Day
Details from http://www.veggies.org.uk/event.php?ref=1490
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Tuesday 24th - Free food give-away in Derby for National Vegetarian Week
Nottingham Free food give-away date to be announced.
Osama bin Laden mainstream media Twitter campaign
08-05-2011 14:54
Why is the mainstream media just repeating what the White House tells them about the"death" of Osama bin Laden? Are these news stories driving you mad?
6th trafalgar sq occupation against cuts
08-05-2011 13:55
the trafalgar sq occupation is in its 6th week and is going strong
for the sixth weekend in a row, the 'occupation against the cuts' camped at 6.30 last night for another 24 hour protest in trafalgar square.
a dozen tents and a gazebo make up the camp and they welcome supporters until 6.30 this afternoon.
Zimbabweans “mourning death of democracy” Event
08-05-2011 12:55
Saturday 7th May
Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network hosted 'Zimbabwean Day' in Nottingham.
The event was held at the : Goshen Community Centre, 164 Alfreton Road, Nottingham.
In a statement to The Zim Diaspora Regis Manyanya, Chairman of Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network [NZCN], said that Zimbabwe Day would be celebrated under the theme “mourning the death of democracy”.
Mr Manyanya said the theme was influenced by the tragic events in Zimbabwe which have seen thousands of Zimbabwe people murdered and persecuted by the Mugabe regime.
He said Zimbabwean day, popularly known as the Independence day, is supposed to be celebrated but in Nottingham the mood will be different as many Zimbabweans believe we are still living in bondage.
Taking you back to 1980 the then new Zimbabwean prime minister, Robert Mugabe, told us that "peace and stability was only going to be achieved when all of us, first as individuals and secondly as part of the whole Zimbabwean national community, feel a definite sense of individual security on the one hand and have an assurance of national peace and security on the other."
Mugabe went on to say "whether be it your social, colour line or political beliefs black or white join me in a new pledge to forget our grim past, forgive others and forget, join hands in a new amity, and together, as Zimbabweans, trample upon racialism, tribalism and regionalism and work hard to reconstruct and rehabilitate our society as we reinvigorate our economic machinery."
Barely three years after this speech the army was unleashed in Matabeleland and ever since then the people of Zimbabwe have not experienced any meaningful peace.
Regis Manyanya asks, "what peace? Is there justice in this world? Will some dictators be brought to justice one day, we wonder? There are still stories of Zimbabweans being subjected into slavery in some neighboring countries, some Zimbabweans are still languishing in detention for having had used a Malawian or South African passports to flee the regime in Zimbabwe."
“We have put up the show and invited distinguished speakers drawn from various professionals and politicians among Zimbabweans in the diaspora,” said Manyanya.
He said speakers were expected to explore various socio-economic and political challenges the country was facing. “The mood among Zimbabweans is that they don’t believe they are really free because of their situation back home."
"The failed promises made by Mr Mugabe when he took office in 1980, and the plunder of our rich country will be the main topics?” he said. “I am therefore inviting Zimbabweans from all different background, tribe, colour (black and white) to come and join us in this important talk by distinguished and remarkable speakers,”
Links to earlier events in Nottingham:
2008 Zimbabwean Asylum Rights Demo @ Speakers Corner, Nottingham
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/03/395015.html
2008 Zimbabwe demo calling for release of election results
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2008/04/396975.html
2008 Full Circle Demo: From weapons to wars to refugees. Market Sq. Nottingham
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/414055.html
2009 Zimbabwe ‘Death of Democracy’ Gathering in Hyson Green, Nottingham
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/04/427943.html
2009 Zimbabwe ‘Death of Democracy’ Gathering in Hyson Green [Feature]
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2009/04/428179.html
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Zimbabwe Association for information and asylum assistance:
Zimbabwe Association Ltd
Development House
56-64 Leonard Street
London EC2A 4LT
0207 549 0355
info@zimbabweassociation.org.uk
http://zimassoc.wordpress.com
Nottingham Zimbabwean Community Network
http://www.nzcn.wordpress.com
The Zim Diaspora
http://www.zimdiaspora.com
Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group. Campaigning for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe
http://www.sokwanele.com
Zimbabwe Journalists Mark Press Freedom Day With Push for Open Airwaves
http://www.cadabrapress.com/?p=9871
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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7/7: MI5 failure and doubts with official version of what happened on 7/7/2005
08-05-2011 10:55
At the conclusion of the 7/7 Inquest on Friday 6th May with the publication of the coroner's recommendations, serious major doubts remain about the official version of events we are expected to swallow.London Met Occupation Rally after Teach-In
08-05-2011 10:55
video from the rally outside the London MET Occupation after the 'Teach In' Education Not Privatisation event, 7th May 2007
found here
What's up with UK Indymedia?
08-05-2011 10:55
Many users of the UK Indymedia site will have seen some strange changes over the past week and may be confused over what is going on on the site. This is an attempt to explain what is going on behind the scenes as briefly as possible. Of course, it is our own version of events and others may dispute it.
First of all, it is important to realise that the Nottingham site isn’t going to change at all. We will still be here and our feeds will still appear on the Be the Media site. They disappeared from the UK site for a few days but appear to be working again today.
When it was set up, the UK Indymedia site was the site of a London-based collective which later split up into a network of local collectives. Over time, political disagreements and interpersonal conflicts led to a total breakdown of that network as a body that could make decisions together. This was formalised in the final meeting of the network in Bradford last year. Two competing ideas for the site existed that were not mutually compatible. Because all attempts to come to an agreement over the future of the site had failed, a decision was made to ‘fork’ the site into two separate projects. In the minutes these are referred to as Group A and Group B and which have since become known as Mayday and Be the Media. The minutes note that ‘Everything has to be done by the first of May’. After this date, neither group would be permitted to use the domains indymedia.org.uk or uk.indymedia.org or call themselves UK Indymedia. In other words, the decision lay the groundwork for the closure of not just the UK network but also the UK Indymedia site:
We accept to archive www.indymdia.org.uk, indymedia.org.uk and uk.indymedia.org and indymedia.co.uk as static html with a banner on
top of each page that says along the gist of “this a archived version of the site For a active version of this page go to a.indymedia.org, there is also the aggregator at b.indymedia.org.”
There will be splash page at / that links to the archive site, site a.indymedia.org and b.indymedia.org
We agree that henceforth noone can call themselve Indymedia UK, UK network and UK collective anymore.
- Minutes of Bradford UK network meeting, Dec 2010
Nottingham Indymedia was broadly aligned with the Be The Media collective, but we agreed to support the Mayday collective’s new Indymedia application.
In April, the Mayday collective disputed that the 1st May deadline still applied because the Mayday collective’s New IMC application did not look like it would pass before that date. All prospective Indymedia collectives have to go through the New IMC Process in order to be accepted into the network. The minutes refer to a.indymedia.org and b.indymedia.org. Since Mayday did not have an Indymedia subdomain, they claimed that the Bradford agreement did not apply. A feature explaining the implications of the fork was blocked by members of the Mayday collective because they did not agree that it was accurate. No resolution to this disagreement seemed possible and 1st May approached with Mayday aiming to continue maintaining the UK site and Be the Media aiming to implement the fork.
On 1st May, the Mayday collective did not implement the fork. Be the Media claimed that they had broken the Bradford agreement and implemented some of the changes specified in the Bradford agreement (archiving UK Indymedia and putting up a splash page to link to Mayday and Be the Media sites). Mayday called this ‘an attempt to shutdown UK Indymedia’ and undid the changes. They have also blocked administrative access to UK Indymedia to all members of Be the Media.
Those who want to know more about the ongoing events surrounding this disagreement should look at the UK Process list archives.
We hope that the situation can be resolved and that both projects can continue in independence from one another.