UK UK Newswire Archive
Disney Owned Feld Entertainment And Ringling Brothers Continue Reign Of Terror
17-01-2013 17:57
Disney owns Feld Entertainment which through Disney's hundreds of billions of dollars has
squeezed a 9.3 million dollar settlement from the ASPCA
Another Hunger Strike at Morton Hall
17-01-2013 16:55
A number of detainees have been on hunger strike inside Morton Hall IRC for as many as 9 days. Abbas Ayub, a Pakistani national said 3 men were protesting because they want to be returned to their countries of birth but the UK Borders Agency continues to detain them. Abbas said he had been refusing food since last Monday because he has been detained since May, even though he has agreed to return to Pakistan voluntarily. He said that no one from UKBA had spoken to him about his protest. “I just want to go back” he told No Borders Nottingham.
Indefinite detention is a deeply controversial part of the UK’s immigration detention system. According to Nick Hardwick, the chief inspector of prisons, speaking last month, some immigration detainees have “simply been forgotten”. One Somali migrant has been held for 9 years after he completed his prison sentence.
The hunger strike is the most recent in a series of protests by Morton Hall prisoners regarding their treatment over the last twelve months. On Wednesday 9th Jan, a Sudanese detainee attempted suicide by slitting his wrists. Friends of the man said that he was frustrated and angry at his long period of detention. Prior to this, a peaceful protest involving between 30 and 40 detainees took place on Christmas Eve. Prisoners had been left without running water, working toilets or cooked food for a number of days.
This is not the first hunger strike inside Morton Hall. In July 2011 an estimated 100 detainees went on hunger strike due to their treatment by the authorities. Two detainees scaled the centre’s rooftops and threatened to jump within less than 24 hours of each other. The detainees, originally from Palestine and Malaysia, were protesting at the ‘disrespectful’ and ‘inhumane’ treatment they experienced, including being detained for prolonged periods.
No Borders Nottingham activist Geoff Bates said “This hunger strike is only the most recent manifestation of ongoing resistance to this country’s inhuman migration control system. The indefinite detention of migrant detainees is an act of violence by the state on vulnerable members of our community and it must end.”
On the emergence of Property Guardianship company Ad Hoc in Cardiff
17-01-2013 16:33
Squatters Network, just a handful of individuals who are part of it and
squat in Cardiff.
Solidarity action with the recent wave of attacks on squats in Greece.
17-01-2013 13:58
Anarchists graffiti bank in solidarity with greek squattersMark Kennedy, James Bond, and the Secret State.
17-01-2013 13:18
"The High Court has today granted an application by the Metropolitan Police for a secret hearing over the claims brought against them under the Human Rights Act, arising from undercover officers engaging in intimate long term relationships with women whilst undercover."Report from J16 Bradley Manning solidarity at U.S.embassy.Updates from Ft. Meade
17-01-2013 10:25
On January 16th Bradley Manning's 964th day of imprisonment without trial anti-war activists, including veterans of the wars in Afghanistan & Iraq, held a solidarity vigil outside the U.S. embassy in London. Meanwhile at Ft. Meade Maryland/ USA Bradley's defense was arguing for a dismissal of charges on the bases of a lack of a "speedy trial".
I am worried for Babs Tucker
16-01-2013 19:00
Babs Tucker - Hunger Strike Day 21 - 366 Days Without Shelter
War taxes paid under protest
16-01-2013 16:41
On Thursday 17th January, War Resisters' International, a global network of pacifist organisations based in London, will pay taxes that have been withheld for five years, under protest to HM Revenue and Customs.Save French Woodland from Destructive New Airport!
16-01-2013 16:23
Occupation camp website:
https://zad.nadir.org/ You can show some solidarity by mailing, or coming!
Please sign:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/268/029/343/save-french-woodland-from-destructive-new-airport/
Say NO to the arms trade in 2013!
16-01-2013 15:49
With the threat of the 2013 DSEi arms fair in September, Stop the Arms Fair can support you to host a direct action against the arms trade workshop in your area, or come to one of our own.Katy Bourne Sussex Police Crime Commissioner
16-01-2013 15:14
Katy Bourne Sussex Crime Commissioner are you covering up for Sussex Paedophile ringGreece, Athens: Video from march in solidarity to evicted squats 12/1/2013
16-01-2013 11:49
Greece, Athens: Video from march in solidarity to evicted squats 12/1/2013UG#610 - From Enclosure to Privatization (Luddism, Magna Carta & Debt)
16-01-2013 10:52
Bexhill/Hastings anti-road camp eviction started!
16-01-2013 09:33
Baliffs and security arrived in force 8am this morning to start eviction.You are seeing the rise of a new Fascist State here in the US
16-01-2013 09:32
You are seeing the rise of a new Fascist State here in the US