UK Newswire Archive
report back: Oxford WDM meeting - Our World is Not for Sale
23-11-2006 11:17
Oxford World Development Movement (WDM) hosted a talk on Wednesday 22nd November at the Town Hall entitled, 'The World Bank and International Monetary Fund: Reform or Abolition?' Turn-out was really good and people heard three top speakers talk on the future of the World Bank and IMF: Dr. Stephen Hurt, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Oxford Brookes, Patrick Watt, Senior Policy Officer at ActionAid, and Peter Hardstaff, Head of Policy at WDM.First victory for Trebanos protestors at LNG pipeline
23-11-2006 10:50
In the face of concerted opposition from local people, the government has reversed its decision to allow the pipeline constructors to use explosives close to the village of Trebanos in South Wales.Buy Nothing Day this Saturday 25th November
23-11-2006 10:27
This year our message is simple, shop less - live more! The challenge is to try simple living for a day, spend time with family and friends, rather than spend money on them.
Polish youth needs your help!
23-11-2006 09:46
Polish minister of education, Roman Giertych, a leader of fascist party League of Polish Families (LPR), takes up a general assault on youth rights and liberties.Economic Values and Impending Collapse
23-11-2006 04:43
Foreboding has hit the ranks of private equity firms; try as they might to unload vast amounts of funds (monetary value is inextricably linked to the movement of those funds) they have been unable to spend/invest at a rate that would sustain value let alone increase real profits! The ‘healthy figures’ reflecting increased acquisitions/investments are on paper only – it ‘looks good’ at the moment!Behind the Governments Veil of Deceit
23-11-2006 00:37
News feature in response to the veil (niqāb) issue raging in Europe.Janitors' Victory in Houston - Thank You!
23-11-2006 00:22
Compas!!!After 4 weeks of janitors in Houston, USA, striking and a heavy escalation last week (88 arrested in civil disobediences, local, national and international coordinated actions and a heavy corporate campaign against Chevron and Hines) janitors won a big victory!
SOAS Apologises to Nasser Amin
22-11-2006 23:59
Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) Statement on Nasser Amin's victory against SOAS over the right to free speech for Muslim studentsStudent Sit-In Halts LSE Oil Baron Peter Sutherland's Lecture
22-11-2006 23:00
a medication called televisionol (a whimsical witticism)
22-11-2006 21:23
Based on the frustrating experiences of sharing my house with 3 television servantsUNNOTICE BANNER AT THE MEXICAN EMBASSY
22-11-2006 21:00
so many people with video cameras and cameras and they did'n't notice the bannerfingerprinting - the future is already here
22-11-2006 17:33
apologies for linking mainstream media stuff here, but i thought it may be of interest to see these two recent bbc website articles and their comments section on fingerprinting technology and the argument over rights.The strange disappearance of CIA's prisoners
22-11-2006 17:23
On 20 Nov 2006, The New Statesman led a cover story by Stephen Grey, the author of "Ghost Plane: the inside story of the CIA's secret rendition programme". Under the title "Missing Presumed Tortured", the article wondered whatever happened to the 7,000 or so prisoners captured in America's 'war on terror', when just 700 of them ended up in Guantanamo Bay. "Between extraordinary rendition to foreign jails and disappearance into the CIA's 'black sites'," Grey asks, "what happened to the rest?"
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Related articles on Indymedia: Stop Torture Flights | Europe Knew | List of CIA Torture Planes | CIA's Secret Jails | CIA Aircraft Flying into Scotland
Urgent Action: Help save the life of brave journalist
22-11-2006 16:54
Colombian journalist FREDY MUÑOZ ALTAMIRANDA has been arrested by Colombia's notorious secret police after participating in a workshop organised by one of the BBC's US correspondents.Asylum Statistics: Q3 2006
22-11-2006 16:22
The Home Office has released its "asylum statistics" for the 3rd quarter of 2006 (July, August and September). Below is a summary of the main points.SOCPA - biran haw is 2000 tomorrow
22-11-2006 16:14
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SOCPA - violent arrests in parliament square this morning
22-11-2006 15:50
Corporations Profiting from Death and Repression in Oaxaca
22-11-2006 15:35
A List of US, Canadian and European Corporations Profiting from Death and Repression in OaxacaAnarchist Roberto Catrino Lopez in Prison Hospital
22-11-2006 14:47
On Wednesday 25th of October the anarchist prisoner Roberto Catrino Lopez started a hunger and thirst strike at the PI Lelystad (Dutch Prison), where he is kept, as a protest against his medical treatment.