UK Newswire Archive
An 89-year-old Prestwich woman arrested at Faslane
12-06-2007 15:50
An 89-year-old Prestwich woman has been arrested while demonstrating outside of Faslane Naval Base near Glasgow. Betty Tebbs, of Ostrich Lane Prestwich, was among 10 activists from Greater Manchester to be held by police following a successful blockade of two of the base’s entrances at 3pm this afternoon.The USA trying to ban child erotica in Japan
12-06-2007 15:29
The USA government now is trying to get Japan to make illegal downloading child erotica by Japanese citizens. Many people will probably agree with making child erotica illegal, but that is not the point, the point is that Japan is an independent democratic country.Aberystwyth Activists Arrested at G8
12-06-2007 15:27
Spontaneous street party breaks out after Stokefest in Highbury
12-06-2007 14:43
2nd International Day of Solidarity With John Bowden
12-06-2007 14:35
The Tyrant Visits Tirana
12-06-2007 13:44
Post G8 protest debrief meeting
12-06-2007 13:33
Come to debrief about the G8 protests with others who were involved, either in the UK or Germany.THURSDAY 14th JUNE from 7pm
@ RAMPARTS SOCIAL CENTRE - EAST LONDON
Interview with Greg Palast on Karl Rove emails and 9/11
12-06-2007 13:31
Weekly internet radio link to interview with Greg Palast on the Rove emails he has and Greg's opinion about 9/11 controlled demolitionGreenpeace Bio Fuel Campaign
12-06-2007 13:31
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G8 protester blinded by police
12-06-2007 13:18
During blockades of the West Gate during the G8 summit police used water canons mixed with pepper spray excessively. A number of serious eye and ear injuries were reported including Matt from Liverpool. The force of the jet of water was so serve that his eye came out of its socket. Matt has been left blinded in one eye.
Matt was discharged from hospital in Rostock but faces months of operations and discomfort from his injury. A CAT scan has revealed that he had sustained internal bleeding, extensive damage to his Iris and possible damage to his retina.He faces future operations, cataracts, and glaucoma.
Renowned Kenyan dissident Ngugi wa Thiong'o in Leeds 29-30 June
12-06-2007 13:01
Two hundred years on from the parliamentary abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, the celebrated Kenyan writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o will headline two major public events on today’s struggles in Africa and beyond for global social justice in late June being organised by the University of Leeds and the World Development Movement.Should Indymedia organise a whip round for the Blairs?
12-06-2007 12:36
How is the poor chap to survive? Perhaps Indymedia readers should orgranise a whip round?
Venezuela's Withdrawal from the IMF and the World Bank
12-06-2007 11:38
With their emancipation from the Bretton Woods institutions, the states of latin America now try to lessen their dependence. A Bank of the South could assume the role of structural creditor in the future.Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
Mark Thomas: Laws have chilling effect on activism
12-06-2007 11:25
British comedian and political activist, Mark Thomas, made stark a warning at the annual conference of the GMB union in Brighton, last week, about a draconian British law prohibiting protests outside Parliament without prior police permission.Reflections on Rostok
12-06-2007 10:25
Future generations of propagandists will be offered the anti-G8 demonstrations this month as a text-book example how globalization crudely manipulated public opinion by demonizing demonstrators and labeling opponents terrorists.On the other side future protesters will see Rostock as a symbol of civil disobedience, of determined resistance to the few power brokers who have usurped the democratic rights of the many and make decisions for all behind closed doors.
Public meeting to organise Gatwick Area No Border Camp
12-06-2007 09:18
Invitation for a public meeting to organise the Gatwick area No Border camp.DAWN RAID in Glasgow this morning
12-06-2007 08:42
This morning at 7.00am the Home Office Immigration Enforcement Team and Strathclyde Police arrested a family at 10 Red Road Court in what was the first dawn raid in Glasgow since the Waku family were taken in March earlier this year.Europe’s carbon-trading scheme
12-06-2007 00:50
Conflict over global warming took centre stage at the G8 summit with the European countries Britain, France and Germany taking the moral high ground in pressuring the United States to make a commitment to cuts in emissions.mass eviction threat for ancient african tribe
12-06-2007 00:20
The Hadzabe, a hunter gather tribe in Tanzinia, Africa, are believed to be the second-oldest people on Earth - but of course that is not saving them from being threatened with eviction and extinction.