UK Indymedia - UK Newswire Archive

Somers Town Residents Protest Corporate Land Sell-Off

24-11-2007 19:00

Today Somers Town Residents came out and protested government plans to sell off one of the few remaining undeveloped plots of land left in Euston / Kings Cross area.

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Activists target Boar restaurants and farms - South Lakeland

24-11-2007 18:21

A spokesman at Sillfield farm, which is famous for its stocks of wild boar, said that a number of vehicles had their tyres slashed and were daubed with slogans relating to animal rights such as "No Boar."

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Help needed for this family

24-11-2007 18:11

Please help Humaira Qudoos HO Ref Q1043430 - Due to be forcibly removed at 5pm on Sunday evening.
URGENT!
At 5.15pm on Friday evening Humaira Qudoos' old lawyer received a fax from the Home Office informing him that fresh removal directions had been set for 5pm on Sunday evening.
Humaira and her three daughters are due to be taken from Heathrow to Karachi in Pakistan on Pakistan International Airlines flight PK788 at 17.00 hours on Sunday 25 November.

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Rioters ransacked the mayor's office - Dakar, Senegal

24-11-2007 18:01

Rioters ransacked the mayor's office, overturned and burned cars, blocked off streets and clashed with police as authorities attempted to remove all the sidewalk vendors, blamed for causing traffic congestion, from the streets early yesterday morning.

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The Indians of the Concrete Jungle sabotage 1'000 SUV's in Sweden

24-11-2007 17:54

A new group calling itself The Indians of the Concrete Jungle has claimed credit for vandalizing more than one-thousand SUVs in order to draw attention to climate change and discourage motorists from driving vehicles that create such a high impact on the environment

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Golf course in Sydney dug in with warning

24-11-2007 17:48

The anonymous visitors were clear about why they caused the damage they did. "Warning!: you bastards kill one bird and we will destroy all your greens at our leisure. We will be watching and waiting" read a note on a piece of cardboard that was stuffed into one of the holes.

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Mill Road march against Tescos photos

24-11-2007 17:04

Photos from the very well attended march to keep Tesco's out of Mill Road, Cambridge.

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Building Worker newsletter - Autumn 2007

24-11-2007 17:02

The Autumn 2007 issue of the newsletter of the UK Rank & File Building Workers' Committee. Articles on organising site workers ahead of the olympics, making sure holiday pay is claimed, a recent strike against racism and the dangers of trusting union officials.

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Buy Nothing Day Rat Race

24-11-2007 16:33

To mark Buy Nothing Day, 12 people from Norwich Rising Tide held a Rat Race in the city centre.

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News of the strike movements in Grenoble

24-11-2007 16:10

Renewed blocking at the occupied Stendhal university. The next AGs will be: Monday 26 for the personnel of the university, Wednesday 28 for the coeds. Every evening at 18h, Agora: the committee of mobilization.

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March against Tesco - Mill Road Cambridge

24-11-2007 15:40

Several hundred people (I've heard estimate ranging from 250 to 800) marched down Mill Road in Cambridge today to show their opposition to Tesco's plans to open an "Express" store.

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Decision on new Copenhagen Social Centre this year

24-11-2007 15:39

A council decision on the guidelines for running a new social centre is to be taken on December 13th. A common set of guidelines have been agreed between the Monday meeting negotiation delegates and the Mayor and her legal staff. Central to the agreement is the foundation named Jagtvej 69, which will be responsible for ensuring the new social centre complies with council health and safety standards and making financial reports to the council.

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Antifa Infoshop Attacked Again, Copenhagen

24-11-2007 15:35

Antifa infoshop Demos has been attacked for the third time this year, on 11/11/2007

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First news from TOTAL out of Burma day of action London protests

24-11-2007 15:26

The TOTAL out of Burma day of action is in full swing - first news from some of the protests, plus pics from blockade York Way in Camden, London

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Police taser diabetic in a fit,when they should be arresting terror oil corprats

24-11-2007 15:09

police are increasingly using a growing arsenal of "safe weapons"that kill from tasers to toys & state terror.
We are being daily fed a diet of bullshit by the corporate state, so it comes as no suprise, 2 paranoid android officers twice tasered a diabetic on a empty bus despite being ordered not to if he did not respond

Dont the officers in this case need publicly reprimanding at the least.
If the authorities dont do it themselves the communities they police may feel forced to.
But shouldnt we all be reprimanding people like the Bush Family & other corporate oligarchs whoes powerhungry cultivation of terrorist groups & regimes has led to this situation & get true democracy

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Germany: Neo-Nazis carved swastika into girl's leg

24-11-2007 14:26

Four grown neo-Nazi men wrestled a 17-year-old girl to the ground and carved a swastika into her thigh when she stopped them bullying a six-year old foreign girl in a small east German town. This is reported on the German IndyMedia site at

http://de.indymedia.org/2007/11/200381.shtml and confirmed by mainstream media.

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Meltem Avcil, 14, released from detention

24-11-2007 14:10

Thanks to a very energetic campign from SOAS detainee support group and Positive Action in Housing. And especially thanks to the courage and determination of Meltem herself, who resisted deportation by every mean at her disposal.

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Janipher Maseko, yet another asylum horror story

24-11-2007 14:03

Janipher Maseko fled Uganda after her mother died and she was raped by armed rebels. She was 13 when she arrived in the UK. She was looking for a place of safety. This is what she found.

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Canada Probes Taser After Another Death

24-11-2007 13:23

A Canadian parliamentary committee and a provincial government each launched a review into the use of hand-held stun guns amid reports of another death following a shock from one of the devices.

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The Campaign Against Primate Change..

24-11-2007 12:36

Today we launch The Campaign Against Primate Change.. As working class (high-primates)we are tired of hearing about Climate Change (the over consumption of the priviledged classes). From the evolution of human kind and the moment of enlightenment our Earth, our Mother, has been exploited by the caretakers of her earth.