UK Newswire Archive
Hey, screws, leave those kids alone
27-01-2004 12:19
"Disruptive" children who won't bow down to the screws' authority in youth prisons are put in solitary confinement - thrown naked (because apparently clothing "threatens the child's safety"!) into illegal "strip cells" with no light, ventilation, furniture or sanitation, where they are forced to use the floor as a toilet. Over the last year more than 100 children were sent to these cells for periods of up to 5 days each. The Howard League for Penal Reform is investigating an allegation that two young offenders were kept in solitary confinement for more than a year.[from Freedom, Anarchist News and Views newspaper]
Indymedia Zapatista Anniversary Cinema
27-01-2004 12:00
The Zapatista Anniversary ScreeningWorld Music Night in Edinburgh
27-01-2004 11:58
Student Action for Refugees are having a world music night in the Pleasance Cabaret Bar, Edinburgh, from 9pm onwards on Saturday the 31st of January.OPEN LETTER TO BAYER ON CHILD SLAVE LABOUR
27-01-2004 11:35
We, the Coalition against BAYER-dangers, Germanwatch and the Global March against Child Labour, are writing to express our deepest concern at the intense employment ofchildren in the planting of cottonseeds in India. Your Bayer affiliate, ProAgro, is one of the beneficiaries of this process. To prevent ongoing harm to children we urge you to
take immediate steps against this practise.
Bush's State of the Empire speech
27-01-2004 11:11
Bush's "State of the Nation" speech was not in praise of "America" as he claimed - it was about fascism at home and imperialism abroad.PLANS FOR CAMBRIDGE PRIMATE PRISON DROPPED
27-01-2004 11:03
The decision by Cambridge University to withdraw plans to build Europe’s largest primate research centre heralds a great victory for the SPEAC (Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge) campaign, but most importantly, a victory on behalf of the primates destined to suffer there.From protesting students in Germany: solidarity with Oxford occupiers
27-01-2004 10:38
Students in Germany are on strike against fees, budget cuts and the commodification of education. A solidarity for the Oxford occupiers...Cambridge Uni Primate Lab Abandoned
27-01-2004 06:48
R4 'Today' ProgrammePresenter: "The protesters have won, it's as simple as that?"
Pallab Ghosh: "Yes."
Petition to Bush for Release of 3 Anti-Nuke Nuns from Prison
27-01-2004 04:41
PETITION LAUNCHED TO PARDON AND RELEASE FROM PRISON 3 ANTI-NUKE NUNS ARDETH PLATTE, CAROL GILBERT AND JACKIE HUDSON.Oxford University Occupation Update: Tony Benn visited and more
27-01-2004 02:11
Occupation is staying over night, especially after Tony Benn visited!Students Opposing the Governments plans to impose Topup fees on higher education have Occupied Oxford University Exam Schools.
The doors are open, all solidarity would be lovely.
Help our feathered friends
27-01-2004 01:14
Cllr Simon Darby asks our members to look out for our native wildlife.Hypocrisy in the UK European Social Forum Process
27-01-2004 00:27
...“Bring ’em on,” “is” the Bush doctrine! Unlike Clinton Bush understands What
27-01-2004 00:15
their idea about what is of most fundamental importance
and may therefore ultimately be worth a war.
-- Evan Luard, author International War
NATO ministers in war crimes hearing, The Hague
26-01-2004 23:43
Former Dutch PM and Foreign Minister forced to give evidence in court on NATO bombing of Yugoslavia23 homes of zapatistas burned down in Montes Azules
26-01-2004 23:32
The Human Rights Center Bartolome de las Casas transmits this denuncia received yesterday, 22nd of January, 2004, regarding the burning of houses and the detention of the citizen Joshué Jiménez Cruz in the community Nuevo San Rafael, located in the Montes Azules Biosphere reserve.Human Rights Center Bartolome de las Casas 23rd January, 2004
"I hope that by speaking the truth I will open other people's eyes"
26-01-2004 23:26
Walid Shoebat, a former Palestinian militant, presents a side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that cold blooded killers like Arafat, Yassin and Rantissi don't want people to hear.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3430077.stm
When Occupation Isn’t Enough: Ethnic Cleasning Techniques
26-01-2004 23:11
Why some men and women refuse:The *NEXT* ESF meeting
26-01-2004 23:07
Someone (not me!) was told *at the meeting last Saturday* that the next ESF UK meeting would be this Thursday, 6.30pm at the GLA or Natfhe building - BE PREPARED!Respect Coalition launched with it's first MP.
26-01-2004 21:45
George Galloway is now the Respect MP for Glasgow Kelvin. Respect is the Unity Coalition to give electoral and mainstream expression to the overwhelming antiwar feeling in the country. It will articulate a broad, radical left agenda and seeks to include as many progressive forces as possible. I report from the meeting that began it all...