UK Newswire Archive
Y'all cover me
06-02-2009 20:03
Colonel Owen McNally has been returned from Afghanistan for the alleged crime of releasing Afghan civilian casualities to a human rights group. Like that is a crime.The Betrayal of British Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed
06-02-2009 18:28
There was a time, as two senior judges in the British High court reported yesterday (PDF), when "The suppression of reports of wrongdoing by officials (in circumstances which cannot in any way affect national security) would be inimical to the rule of law and the proper functioning of a democracy." As the judges -- Lord Justice Thomas and Mr. Justice Lloyd Jones -- noted, correctly, "Championing the rule of law, not suppressing it, is the cornerstone of a democracy."
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Support IMC UK!
06-02-2009 18:24
You have probably already heard this, but just in case here it is again:
"The Independent Media Center UK is a grassroots network of individuals, groups, and independent and alternative media activists committed to using media production and distribution as a tool for promoting social, economic justice. Unlike the corporate media, Indymedia UK is not owned by anyone, or funded by big commercial conglomorates and advertisers."
National Squat Meetup. 14/15 March. Bristol Area
06-02-2009 18:23
This Week in Palestine -Week 06 2009
06-02-2009 18:05
This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for January 31st through to February 6th 2009.
F.I.T Team outside EF! Winter Moot
06-02-2009 17:59
Four members of the F.I.T team (Chris Pig, the fat one from Yorkshire and a couple of other also-rans) are hovering outside the Cowley Club on London RD in Brighton photographing everyone who enters and leaves.
Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day!
06-02-2009 17:09
Climate Camp hits the City of London on April Fools Day, the eve of the G20 leaders' London Summit. Join us!Climate camp 2009 /// Stopping carbon markets /// Because nature doesn't do bailouts.
Dissident Island Radio tonight - The Arty Special
06-02-2009 16:27
Photographers snap into action over new law
06-02-2009 15:29
Comedian Mark Thomas is to join with NUJ members in an event to highlight the threat of a new UK law that could be used against press photographers taking pictures of the police.Photography Exhibition on Abandoned Spaces
06-02-2009 14:31
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Sea Shepherd blames acoustic weapon attack for Ramming Whaling ship
06-02-2009 14:06
RBS dole scroungers
06-02-2009 13:10
In yesterdays blog entry BBC journalist, Robert Peston, went to great lengths to try to "impartially" make the point that taxpayers should bite the bullet and fork out at least a billion quid to pay bonuses to bosses at RBS- the popular bank now owned by you.Jail for photographing police?
06-02-2009 12:58
The relationship between photographers and police could worsen next month when new laws are introduced that allow for the arrest - and imprisonment - of anyone who takes pictures of officers 'likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism'.Obama v. Cognitive Bias
06-02-2009 12:11
A study was recently published "showing that a performance gap between African-Americans and whites on a 20-question test administered before Mr. Obama’s nomination all but disappeared when the exam was administered after his acceptance speech and again after the presidential election." Earlier researchers had "assembled university students with identical SAT scores and administered tests to them, discovering that blacks performed significantly poorer when asked at the start to fill out a form identifying themselves by race. The researchers attributed those results to anxiety that caused them to tighten up during exams in which they risked confirming a racial stereotype."Roads blocked by giant snowballs
06-02-2009 11:43
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7872626.stm Gritting teams in the Black Country were called away from the main routes to clear road blocks made out of giant snowballs by pranksters.
Around the Campaigns Friday 6th February 2009
06-02-2009 11:38
Leila, Soorena and Danoushm, on plane, off plane, back in Yarl's WoodI can't believe what I'm writing here, but at 25 to six, twenty minutes after the plane should have gone, I had a phone call from Sourena on his phone. I couldn't hear a word he was saying, so asked if I could speak to someone with him. An officer said they were being removed from the plane and taken back to Yarl's Wood, and that's where they are today.
Having just spoken to Leila’s legal representative this morning he says the Home Office are ‘livid’ at what happened and want the flight rescheduling asap. It’s all still hanging on a thread…. He has spoken to Sourena. Evidently, all three of them were separated either in transit, for the flight or both, we are not sure – including 18 month old Sourena being separated from his mother! That is absolutely outrageous! Danoushm is still traumatized this morning, we hear. Sourena has scratches on his face. This is completely inhumane! Thanks to all who faxed/phoned on family's behalf.
Phil Townend
Leila, Soorena and Danoushm belong to Halifax
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine103/Leila.html
No Borders Gaza! - an urgent call to No Borders Networks from Gaza
06-02-2009 10:57
We call on social movements, particularly No Borders networks, and people of conscience to target Israeli and Egyptian embassies, institutions, and corporations. Particularly in the coming days of intensified border closure, we must work to pressure both governments to abide by international law and open Gaza for the free movement of aid, goods and people.Conscientious Duty
06-02-2009 09:58
"Bankrupt Bailed Out Banks Rewarding Staff for the Destruction of their Financial Institutions"Tax Payers Alliance - helping the rich on your behalf
06-02-2009 09:58
When the Tax Payers Alliance refuse to condemn tax dodging by rich people and corporations, they're acting in the interests of the super-rich. This is strange since, it is because the wealthy dodge tax that ordinary taxpayers have to pay more taxes than they otherwise would do.