UK Newswire Archive
Fundraising Benefit for a newspaper for migrant voices
05-11-2007 18:16
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Academic Capitalism
05-11-2007 18:09
The academic world changes fundamentally when universities are understood as businesses. Rectors become CEOs and researchers and teachers become point-chasers through conditioning. A process of closure follows on the heels of the knowledge revolution.Taking Liberties
05-11-2007 17:49
Manchester Projectile Films presents a screening of acclaimed documentary "Taking Liberties", which details ten years of loss of civil liberties under Tony Blair and New Labour.Barry George Appeal Judges Codemn Informing the Public
05-11-2007 17:13
Today, the judges in Barry George's appeal described two recent documentaries on the case as "irresponsible".Day Care Workers Strike in Glasgow
05-11-2007 16:05
Don't Back the Bid, back the Kids!Full article | 3 additions | 2 comments
Class War - Bash The Rich - FIT Watch
05-11-2007 15:18
Palestine Today 110507
05-11-2007 14:43
Fall out from Bush/Blairs respect war against Islam: "'Thousands' pose UK....
05-11-2007 14:16
....terror threat."Class War Video
05-11-2007 12:30
Have you ever been stop and searched by the FIT?
05-11-2007 12:29
Have you been stopped and searched by the FIT? Do you still have a record of your search?Full article | 2 additions | 1 comment
Anti-Trident Protest in Edinburgh looses direction but continues to sing along
05-11-2007 12:20
Fit for what purpose?
05-11-2007 12:11
Bail conditions imposed on a FIT Watch activist for allegedly causing £1 of criminal damage.Maya Anne Evans, SOCPA protestor, faces prison
05-11-2007 11:37
Maya Anne Evans, the first person to be convicted of noncompliance with the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (2005) - for reading the names of the Iraq war dead opposite Downing Street in October 2005, is in court on Tuesday 6 November for her refusal to pay two fines imposed for SOCPA convictions. She explains the reasons behind her refusal.Campaign against the “11th European Police Congress“
05-11-2007 10:52
Against a “Global Security Architecture”, for more security-critical behaviour!
In the recent months more information about the investigation methods of security forces has been revealed: data storage, online searches, so-called “textual analysis of political pamphlets“ (used in the paragrpah 129a investigations against anti-G8 activists in Germany) and so forth. Police and intelligence services want to attain unrestricted access to personal data and internet user profiles. Internet providers are now forced to save their data traffic long-term in order to relieve the police databases.
The debate around the introduction of biometrical passports has called into attention the fact that the industry has already developed complex surveillance systems: Iris-scanning, RFID chips (e.g. for supermarkets or on ID cards) or automatic facial recognition. In the context of border control “privileged travellers” are supposed to be able to cross borders “automatically”. The new “European Agency for the operative cooperation in the field of management of external borders” (FRONTEX) is in charge of assessing permanently the risks and dangers at the borders of the EU, and to provide more coordination and control. Technological armament is at the centre of the agency’s policies.
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Israel's Collective Punishment (by Latuff)
05-11-2007 09:06
Please help Zola - Threatened with deportation after 16 years in the UK
05-11-2007 06:50
Keep Constance and Andreas in Cardiff
05-11-2007 06:34
Christian Rodrigue Mbianga / Needs Your Urgent Help
05-11-2007 06:30
Channel 4 Dispatches plays safe on corruption
05-11-2007 02:11
Last Monday Channel 4's Dispatches broadcast a tired old story about corruption in Africa. In contrast, it has refused to make a program about fraud on UK government arms contracts, and the extraordinary favours government ministers and civil servants have done for companies accused of such fraud.
