UK Indymedia - UK Newswire Archive

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FBI Stops US Peace Activists Entering Canada

05-10-2007 18:03

Friday, October 5th, 2007

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John Bowden moved

05-10-2007 17:38

John Bowden has now been transferred.

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Turkish State Terrorism Blocks Peaceful Solution to Turkey's Kurdish Question

05-10-2007 17:30

Turkey is using a political and military onslaught to anihilate anyone who is calling for a political solution to the Kurdish Question in Turkey. All democratic avenues are being shut. Military Generals rule Turkey as they rule Burma. A call for action.

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European Commission to Destroy Tibetan Charity

05-10-2007 17:16

On Monday 8th October, the European Commission is bringing a case in the
High Court against an effective and worthwhile charity that threatens to
destroy it. The case is bizarre, and the story speaks of gross
incompetence and vindictiveness at the Commission.

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I Bike MCR October 2007

05-10-2007 16:11

Some bike stuff happening in Manchester in October

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Don't be a SCAB!

05-10-2007 15:19

West Midlands IWW show solidarity with the striking postal workers.

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7th Annual Claudia Jones Lecture by Theologian and BroadcasteDr. Robert Beckford

05-10-2007 15:05

Seventh Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture dedicated to the memory of the pioneer of Black journalism in Britain. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Beckford, Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An award-winning broadcaster for Channel Four, Dr. Beckford's lecture will explore how understanding "whiteness" offers an important strategy for community cohesion and democratic inclusion.

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Bath Bomb Issue 3 released!

05-10-2007 14:39

The third monthly issue of Bath's radicalest tabloid up for your perusals

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East Anglian Social Forum website relaunches

05-10-2007 14:37

A website aiming to bring together leftists and progressives from around the East Anglian region has been relaunched in the run-up to the next meeting of the East Anglian Social Forum.

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Shell to Sea Two and half years later and still going strong!

05-10-2007 14:11

Alook back at Shell to sea, UK involvement and the future

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Straw Bale work on eco-building in St.Anns Part 22

05-10-2007 12:40

Work is continuing at EcoWorks with the Straw Bale building. The walls for the whole building are now up!! Harragh!! This post shows the building up of the walls on the end section - 'soon to be' kitchen area.

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London Total Oil's offices targeted again this morning

05-10-2007 12:02

Total Oil's London HQ was targeted again this morning as workers made their way into the building in order to highlight the company's involvement in financially supporting the Burmese military junta.

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First ever Food Not Bombs Manchester - This Sunday 7th October

05-10-2007 11:22

Free food and a hot serving of grassroots activism... 4pm, corner of Wilmslow Road/Platt Lane, next to Platt Fields Park.

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Birmingham Unite Behind Burma

05-10-2007 11:16

Please come and show your solidarity with the people of Burma

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Burma: Pressure Shows Results : (Keep It Up: Sat :Tate 11am to T Sq)

05-10-2007 11:15

last night the burmese "junta" agree to open talks with the democratically elected burmese peoples representation, after a meeting with the UN rep . . . .
The media spin of "doom doom" in the west, with the odd "deprioritisation" of this sort of mould-breaking news - with its echoes of the end of apartheid in south africa, or the irish peace processes "key moments" - is suspicious, but . . . . breaking news???? MUCH TO DO, keep up pressure, but FIGHT THE HYPE too!

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April 2008: call for decentralized squat days of action

05-10-2007 11:00

On Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of April 2008, we call for
two days of demonstration, direct action, public information,
street-party, squatting… in defence of free spaces and for an
anti-capitalist popular culture.

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Danish kids to hold mass squatting action on October 6th in Copenhagen

05-10-2007 10:58

We are going to move into our new house on Grøndalsvænge allé 13, the 6th of October. We´re not hiding that, for this action, we are, amongst others, inspired by this summers succesful protests at the G8 summit in Rostock, Gremany.

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Prisons await a judgment

05-10-2007 10:24

A report by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody found that there were 600 deaths in prisons, police cells, secure hospitals and young offender institutions last year, 200 of which were self-inflicted. While the numbers of suicides in prisons fell marginally (from 78 in 2005 to 67 last year), more could still be done to protect prisoners.

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Chalk4Peace - bring chalk with you

05-10-2007 08:31

THE STREETS are OUR MEDIA
- WE have TOTAL access -
YOU CAN Make a difference

The pavements are an untapped media resource through which we ordinary peace loving folk can share our messages, hopes, dreams, ideas and create a new momentum towards peace - at a certain point there is critical mass in the cultural conversation which transforms into ACTION

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Burma solidarity: Total Oil HQ protest ongoing

05-10-2007 08:24

Burma solidarity protesters are picketing Total oil's HQ in Cavendish Square, London to highlight the company's complicity in the brutal regime's bloody hold on the Burmese population.