UK UK Newswire Archive
Nestlé, Good Grief! - The Musical
11-05-2011 07:01
The annual demonstration over Nestlé's pushing of baby milk will take place on Saturday 21 May, 11:00 - 12:00 in Croydon. If you can't attend, you can still send us your 'Nestlé, Good Grief!' jingle.Stokes Croft Tesco about to reopen in Bristol with Chief Constable's support
11-05-2011 00:22
Birmingham cops and 'community types' behind racist, illegal 'Project Champion'
10-05-2011 22:38
Here are the names of those responsible for implementing one of the most racist uses of public money in British history. The multi-million pound 'project champion' in which CCTV cameras were erected in Muslim areas where there was zero evidence that anybody in the area was a terrorist. The residents were being targeted simply for their colour and for their Muslim faith.Paul Lewis wrote about 6 articles for the Guardian.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-spy-cameras-project
Anti Arms-Traders 'breach' parameter for Heckler and Koch picket
10-05-2011 19:57
Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp Blockade Faslane
10-05-2011 19:55
Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp Blockade Trident Base
Tuesday 10 May, 2011
Take Control – this weekend!
10-05-2011 19:22
Taking Control West Midlands gathering, this weekend in Birmingham.Iranian refugees suspend Hunger Strike after 37 days -- "the fight goes on"
10-05-2011 18:54
Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair
10-05-2011 18:50
***Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty***8:00 til 2:00, Saturday 21st May
@ the Redhouse, 168 Solly Street
Interview with David Edwards from Media Lens
10-05-2011 18:18
Media Lens is a media analysis organisation set up by David Edwards and David Cromwell in 2001 to highlight the shortcomings of mainstream media reporting in Britain. Sending out regular email alerts to its subscribers, it questions the coverage of key topics by ‘impartial’ sources like the BBC, as well as traditionally liberal publications like the Independent. Ultimately, it hopes to encourage members of the public to challenge journalists and editors over the way they report. After publishing a couple of Media Lens alerts in Now Then in the past few months, we spoke to David Edwards about the venture and how it got off the ground on the month of its 10th anniversary.Refugee services being cut
10-05-2011 17:49
Public sector cuts being introduced by the coalition government are having an overwhelmingly negative impact on public and voluntary sector organisations providing services for refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire.Lips are sealed NIL by mouth
10-05-2011 16:25
Iranian Hunger Strikers and Petition submission by Peacestrike to 10 Downing StreetIt is now 35 days since they started their action.
Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on the Death of Osama Bin Laden
10-05-2011 16:10
New Bin Laden tapes appear fake like earlier ones
10-05-2011 16:04
Despite poll data showing opposition, they continue because people focus more on bread and circuses than activism, the only way to achieve constructive change. It's high time opinions became anger enough to significantly make a difference. It better because the alternative is too dire to imagine.
Back on the Map Baby !!
10-05-2011 15:54
PEACE CAMPS FIRST ACTION IN THE YEAR OF THE GRAND RE-OPENING
Palestine Today 05 10 2011
10-05-2011 15:18
Stokes Croft Riots - £250,000 In Compensation To G20 Protestors
10-05-2011 14:55
Police have so far paid out £250,000 in damages to people arrested over the G20 protests, "the bulk of it to 66 activists held during a controversial raid on a squatted building." Sound a little familiar?"Police paid £250,000 in compensation to people arrested over G20 protests"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/09/police-pay-dam...rests
From the footage I've seen of the Stokes Croft riots it looks like there's plenty of scope for people to begin claiming damages against the Police, and to turn the tables back on them.
These damages, plus the 'unlawful killing' of Ian Tomlinson hardly put the Police in a position to be given any benefit of the doubt regarding events on a more local level.
In the longer term any funds the Police manage to secure from central government to pay for their provocative and brutal policing in Bristol, may well end up being diverted back into the hands of local residents.
"Extra funds could pay for tackling Bristol riots"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13339388
This money, depending on the inclinations of each claimant, could then be ploughed back into compensating local businesses for lost custom, and even to start new ones, securing our own redevelopement of the area along non-corporate lines.
So, I would suggest it's time to now start turning the tables on the Police, to bring them to book, and to turn the screws on any funding they may receive, and to divert those funds back into the community.
To reuse some of the language the Police have used against protestors in Bristol...
It's time Police were now "hunted down relentlessly" while "leaving no stone unturned" in pursuit of this.
Legally speaking of course!