UK Newswire Archive
Climate Emergency ! Public Meeting Thurs March16th at 7 pm
13-03-2006 20:02
Is nuclear power the solution? Public Meeting to be addressed by Michael Meacher writer, MP and Peter Bunyard One of the founders of “The Ecologist” magazine, writer and campaigner on environmental issues. THURSDAY, MARCH 16th, at 7 pm prompt, Chaucer Lecture Theatre 1, Nottingham Trent University, Goldsmith Street.Continuing protests against Condoleezza Rice visit
13-03-2006 19:41
Lobby Liverpool Town Hall 4pm Wednesday 15th MarchLet’s lobby our elected representatives asking them to say no to the visit to Liverpool by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
See letter below. THERE IS A FULL COUNCIL MEETING ON THIS DATE & THE PRESS WILL BE THERE!
Changing Course: No New Nuclear Power Plants!
13-03-2006 18:54
Offensive wars, normalization of war, militarization of foreign policy, exploding inequality, privatization, political corruption and nuclear power plants as panaceas bring us to the brink of ruin. Changing course and accepting new priorities could help create a human-friendly future beyond short-term capital gainsIndymedia film night in west London
13-03-2006 18:26
an 'introduction to Indymedia' from about 6:30pm
including an eye-witness report from Palestine.
Films start around 7pm
TAG submit revised application to double weekend flights at Farnborough
13-03-2006 17:52
TAG submit revised application to double weekend and bank holiday flights at Farnborough.Basque political prisoner found dead in his cell
13-03-2006 17:28
José Angel Altzuguren, alias Kotto, aged 39, from Bera (Navarre), was found dead in his prison cell in Soria (Castille), three days after his transfer there from Iruñea (Pamplona) prison. According to prison authorities, Kotto used the sheets from his bed to hang himself. The political prisoner was under medical treatment for depression, despite which he had been moved into an isolation cell in the Spanish prison. The Basque pro-amnesty movement called it an 'induced suicide'.Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
Milosevic - murder or suicide
13-03-2006 16:13
Preliminary results from an autopsy on Milosevic have so far indicated the former Yugoslav leader died of a heart attack in his cell at a UN detention centre in The Hague. There has been speculation he committed suicide or was poisoned.Can UK Edu Secretary Ruth Kelly save Xrail-hole-plan Christine Gilbert?
13-03-2006 16:11
The sinking of the cabinet career of Blairist UK Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is being given an extra push today with the announcement that Home Office minister Tony McNulty's wife, Christine Gilbert is to be given huge publicity via the Tessa-Jowell-compliant BBC [and to be paid related bonuses from the public purse] as a way out for Gilbert from the East End Council [Tower Hamlets] which she [Gilbert] has helped to get embroiled in the Crossrail hole mess over the past 3 years. Just how competent is Gilbert to delivery even a fraction of the goodies on education that Kelly is claiming she will be able to do? One organisation, CBRUK which foudned Khoodeelaar! in 2004 to defend the Brick Lane London E1 area against Christine’s Crossrail assault plan knows a few things about the disaster on the ground that Tower Hamlets Council ahs been causing to ordinary people. And to standards and ethics in public life. Here are extracts from CBRUK Chair Muhammad Haque’s comments on Christine Gilbert, first published on the internet on Sunday 25 July 2004WORLD DAY FOR LAB ANIMALS - Sat 22nd April
13-03-2006 15:05
George Fox Six Case Moved to PRESTON - Solidarity needed
13-03-2006 14:22
Sorbonne University Eviction Video + Pics and more background to CPE resistance (france)
13-03-2006 13:30
Much international publicity has come from the occupation and violent eviction of the Sorbonne university in Paris (video below). With the media making the obvious 1968 comparisons, riot police stormed the university building firing tear gas at around 4am on Saturday after hours of resistance from the occupiers and their supporters outside. There were around 30 arrests. The university had been occupied since Tuesday night with tensions increasing. On Friday police batton charged students who were blocking a road near to the university.
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Pants To Poverty
13-03-2006 13:12
In Inspiration.
13-03-2006 12:32
Tom Fox, 54. American. Peacemaker. In inspiration.Ian Blair resign!
13-03-2006 12:09
to restore the morale of the metropolitan police force, and to acknowledge the serious disquiet in the police force, and the international outrage and accompanying alienation within many of London's ethnic minorities, Sir Ian Blair QPM MA commissioner of the Metropolitan Police should offer his resignation to the "Rt Hon Tony Blair PM of HMG".
Not one iota has changed. Having marked 2 years this weekend since Madrid 11, and the weekend which followed and the Elections of March 14th 2004. I wish to link the behaviours of the securocracies of Spain and the UK.
wasteland - squatting documentary now online
13-03-2006 12:01
wasteland, a documentary exploring the lifestyle of squatting, by filmmaker Will Wright, is now available for viewing and download from Google Video.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5006979090478328075
UK companies in Iraq: new report from Corporate Watch
13-03-2006 11:23
Corporate Watch is a small independent research organisation, based in Oxford. We publish research to help those resisting corporate power -- check out www.corporatewatch.org.ukWe also bring out a newsletter every two months, and a news update on web and email every two weeks. To subscribe to either of these, please see our website, or give us a call on 01865 791 391
So Far and Yet So Near - 4 March
13-03-2006 10:58
- We get the lowdown on the National and Local Campaign Against the Arms Trade
- The director of the global fund to fight HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria talks about Product Red, a new fundraising campaign that brings in money from commerce
- The Chinese author Xinran talks about images of China, and the reality
- And how does Islam encourage its followers to care for the environment?
Unrest in France - blog launched
13-03-2006 10:14
http://libcom.org/blog has been set up to provide in-depth English language coverage of the riots, occupations, strikes and marches across the country.
Why the Israeli Labor is about to fail?
13-03-2006 10:04
The elections in Israel are about to come and the Israeli Labor launched a campaign in which it started to discuss the possibility of allying to the Kadima (Forward) party. A few weeks ago, Labor chairperson, Amir Peretz MP, promised to win the elections or to serve as militant opposition to OlmertAWE Aldermaston: Block the Builders Strike Again!
13-03-2006 09:33
Despite a massive police presence, including mounted police, around the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Block the Builders [1 have again managed to interrupt the morning traffic entering the nuclear weapons factory in Berkshire