UK Newswire Archive
The Student Climate Project prepares for summer tour of action ’08!
03-12-2007 10:57
The Student Climate Project’s Launch Gathering leads to exciting plans for action.RINF: Depleted Uranium – Far Worse Than 9/11
03-12-2007 10:50
A wake up call to 9/11 'troofers'UK film of olive harvest wins plaudits in Palestine
03-12-2007 09:34
'Bad Karaoke' outside Brighton Town Hall to protest against Council Byelaws
03-12-2007 09:31
FREEDOM TO PROTEST CALL TO ACTION - Thursday 6th - 'Bad Karaoke' outside Brighton Town Hall to protest Council Byelaws being used against Legitimate protestThe Amis-Eagleton controversy: The British literary elite and the war on terror
03-12-2007 08:20
The novelist Martin Amis appeared in the Guardian on Saturday to rebut the charge of racism that novelist and screen writer Ronan Bennett levelled against him the previous week in the same paper. Amis denied being a racist, professed himself disgusted by Islamophobia and praised the “beautiful reality” of Britain’s multi-racial society.Chilean Government Gives 7 Million Dollars to Political Campaign
02-12-2007 23:40
The socialist chilean government gives more than 7 million dollars to former presidents to political campaigns,Ten Reasons to Suspect "Save Darfur" is a PR Scam to Justify US Military Interve
02-12-2007 22:54
The star-studded hue and cry to "Save Darfur" and "stop the genocide" has gained enormous traction in U.S. media along with bipartisan support in Congress and the White House. But the Congo, with ten to twenty times as many African dead over the same period is not called a "genocide" and passes almost unnoticed. Sudan sits atop lakes of oil. It has large supplies of uranium, and other minerals, significant water resources, and a strategic location near still more African oil and resources. The unasked question is whether the nation's Republican and Democratic foreign policy elite are using claims of genocide, and appeals for "humanitarian intervention" to grease the way for the next oil and resource wars on the African continent.Wor Diary 2008 - radical local history
02-12-2007 22:14
Deriving from the Anglo-Saxon word 'oor', 'Wor' is the Geordie word for 'OUR'. Wor Diary 2008 is a practical, radical diary to cover your everyday needs and connect you to the North East's radical history!Washing Machine Misery
02-12-2007 21:43
To do a wash, their machines have to be filled by hand with water. Glasgow Housing Association know about the problem, and know how to fix it. But shockingly, GHA are stalling with the fixes.
School children are being fingerprinted without parental knowledge!
02-12-2007 21:30
2 Fur Farms raids in Spain - Mink Freed
02-12-2007 19:15
Video released from lab raid, Italy
02-12-2007 19:04
Video has been released from the October 10 raid on a reseach center during which rabbits, ducks, rats, mice and over 200 chickens were liberated.7 UK ALF Actions: 28th-31st
02-12-2007 18:59
ALF HIT OXFORD UNI SUPPLIER / BILLBOARD PAINTED, AGAIN / FUN WITH PAINTSTRIPPER / TIRESLASHING AT CIRCUS HOST / FOIE GRAS RESTAURANT GETS ATTENTION / L'OREAL ADVERTS PAINTED / SLOGANS PAINTED AGAINST FISHING / WAR KILLS ANIMALS TOO.
Chavez Policy a Threat to US Imperialism.
02-12-2007 18:30
The Dollar has been the pillar of the USA´s financial Imperial age, and has enabled them to build the most powerful military force in history. This hugely powerful military machine has been steadily spread around the world promoting US financial domination for more than half a century. However, the Democratic Republic Of Venezuela has already had a significant impact on reversing the malign effects of the foreign policy of it and its allies, by promoting liberation from financial oppression.Olmert: No Timetable for Peace Talks
02-12-2007 18:29
ALERT: Annapolis a Charade: Olmert Plotting Massive AggressionIn Germany, according to historian Richard Evans, in 1931-1932, if enough Germans of conscience had begun to say No -- history would have had an entirely diferent outcome.
If we go any further down this road the tears will be those of conservatives as well as progressives. They will be (Israeli) tears.
The time for weeping has to stop; the time for confronting must begin.
Adapted from "American Tears"
www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/american-tears_b_68141.html
The timing is interesting, given the "Annapolis Conference", which serves to be about PR alone, as Olmert has already ruled out any Negotiations or Compromise in the name of peace.
If you follow the events surrounding Israel's "Disengagement" from Gaza, you will quickly understand that this was the plan all along. While Israel was making a public spectacle of "forcing Jews to leave their homes", it was quietly surrounding the Strip with artillery emplacements, in an operation ominously named "First Rain".
Under this operation, Gaza basically became a "Free-Fire Zone", and several artillery and gunship strikes killed a high number of civilians. Finally, when one of these batteries fired upon and murdered a Palestinian family - picnicking on a beach that had been Segregated "Jews Only" only weeks before, Hamas finally decided to call an end to its unilateral, two-year cease-fire.
(In essence, they took Israel's bait. After all, you can't excuse your Aggression and label it "defense" if you're not being intermittently attacked. Never mind the hypocrisy underlying the entire media's framing of that whole debate ...)
When the Palestinians responded by electing Hamas to power (yes, elected), Israeli Extremists and their Ideological, bought foreign co-conspirators imposed unilateral sanctions on Gaza, a bit of Collective Punishment which increased the hardship of those stuck in the world's largest Concentration Camp.
When they felt Gaza had been substantially weakened, the US and Israel undertook a Coup attempt, using corrupt elements within the Fatah Party, provoking a violent response by Hamas, which expelled the group. Most of the world's media ignored the events leading to this "crisis", and instead only repeated the Propaganda emanating from the US and Israel, which used this to further increase sanctions against Gaza.
Most recently, Israel stepped up its Collective Punishment, except that human rights groups and legal advisors to the Government halted some of its approved measures, because they run contrary to International Humanitarian Law.
This was sold as another "response to rocket attacks" (again highlighting the hypocrisy of the debate's Framing - are the Palestinians allowed to defend themselves from strikes which actually KILL people ... ?), even though high-ranking officials said that this was NOT, in fact, a response to these attacks, but a way to "distance Israel from Gaza's infrastructure".
The real reason for this whole episode, of course, has been to "soften up" the Gaza Strip for a long-planned military attack, a way to undermine the resolve, and hopefully rid this territory of Palestinians altogether.
Olmert signalled long ago that he would not entertain any serious discussions at this summit, essentially selling out the Israeli public's desire for peace.
Now, Israel appears to be preparing to issue the usual 'justifications' for an Act of Aggression they planned long ago, by calling it a response to violence their own behaviour has provoked. The media's silence on these issues in past months signals their readiness to help in this regard.
Seeing the pattern yet?
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/386082.html South African Movements Continue Their Struggle Against NGO Authoritarianism
02-12-2007 18:13
The Western Cape Anti-Eviction Campaign, the oldest of the militant popular movements to emerge after apartheid, the key force behind the many vigorous struggles in Cape Town and probably the most engaged movement at the moment has written an open letter excoriating the Social Movements Indaba (SMI) and its European funders for attempting to take over popular struggles. The SMI began as a networking forum for popular movements a few years ago but soon degenerated into an extremely authoritarian project of a network of NGOs. Last year the Anti-Eviction Campaign and other movements that rejected NGO control of their struggles were publicly accused of being criminal and irrational by the NGOs. In this respect their paranoid response to democratic counter power has been indistinguishable from that of the state... But it is clear that even though the donors continue to support NGOs that assume a right to speak for movements the movements, largely unfunded and suffering serious state repression, will continue to reject NGO authoritarianism no matter how well funded and no matter how much these NGOs continue to be welcomed in spaces like the WSF at the expense of the movements on the ground.
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Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report
02-12-2007 16:13
What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say250+ march against fur in London
02-12-2007 16:04
Peace, Propaganda, and the Promised Land
02-12-2007 16:00
An analysis of the Israeli Government and the media's (mainly American) role in misrepresenting (and therefore, perpetuating) Israel's war to wipe Palestine off the map.