UK Newswire Archive
Cesare Battisti
31-12-2010 19:06
Italy has been desperate to get its hands on Cesare Battisti, who has become something of a scapegoat for the country's years of political violence - someone to blame for the period known as the "Years of Lead"#532 - Hearing the Inner Calling (Green Gone Wrong and Independent Diplomat)
31-12-2010 18:40
Roma Marquez Santo, miliciano of the Lenin Column
31-12-2010 15:43
Vigil For World Peace
31-12-2010 15:23
World Peace!
A vigil happenred today outside Nottingham Council House for World Peace.
Obama and Clinton, the evil twins
31-12-2010 14:09
The two corporate political twins, Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, held forth at a joint White House press conference – so tightly matched that no light could be seen to shine between them. Obama soon ceded the room to his comrade in collaboration with Republicans, the senior triangulator. Although competitors, Obama and Clinton “emerged from the same political system, and fed at the trough of the same wealthy individuals and corporate campaign check bundlers.”
New Homes Bonus Risk To Countryside
31-12-2010 13:22
North Somerset Council could receive £49 million in Government payments if it gives the green light to the South West Bristol Urban Extension warned local campaigners today.North Somerset Council could receive £49 million in Government payments if it gives the green light to the South West Bristol Urban Extension warned local campaigners today.
"The coalition Government's new Localism Bill includes a cash payout to councils, called the New Homes Bonus, of around £4,600 for every home built in their area according to the Home Builders Federation" reported Anthony Butcher, an independent council candidate for Wraxall and Long Ashton. "With our councils facing massive cuts in their budgets, they will come under intense pressure to accept such huge payments, to the detriment of our countryside and villages."
There are 9,500 houses planned for the Bristol Urban Extension, a new town the size of Clevedon, to be called Ashton Park, and a further 1200 houses could be built on the adjacent Fenswood Farm, owned by the University. These two developments are to be built on the Green Belt land between Bishopsworth and Long Ashton. North Somerset Council would receive payments of £43.6 million and £5.5 million if they approve these applications.
"The Government is effectively bribing councils to allow massive housing developments in a way that private developers can only dream of. They are slashing their budgets and then offering an easy way out; building on the Green Belt" added Mr Butcher, a former hospital campaigner. "We need to send a clear message to our politicians that we want our countryside, villages and communities saved for future generations."
National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts
31-12-2010 10:23
http://anticuts.com/ Great Video on this homepage of Student protests
The National Campaign Against Fees & Cuts is a network of student and education
We are the media
30-12-2010 21:24
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In the run up to Christmas the East Midlands cities like all other cities around the UK were a maelstrom of last minute shoppers buying pointless crap out of love and duty.
Almost all were totally unaware that not too far away another torture lab is being built (for more information see http://www.noleicesterlab.co.uk/).
Not if this guy has anything to do with it, though.
Ignorance is the only significant enemy.
Information is only significant weapon.
Be the media.
Catholic Worker Anti-War Resistance at Northwood
30-12-2010 21:22
Catholic Workers from St Francis House/ Oxford, Farmhouse/ Rickmansworth http://www.thecatholicworkerfarm.org / and Giuseppe Conlon House/ London communities www.londoncatholicworker.org were joined by 20 anti-war activists, in solidarity with the imprisoned Pfc Bradley Manning, http://www.bradleymanning.org/
and in resistance to the continued war on Afghanistan, at the gates of Northwood HQ/ London on Wednesday morning Dec 29th.
The participants marked the Catholic "Feast of the Holy Innocents" while seeing the contemporary victims of imperial power as those marked for death as "collateral damage" in wars on Iraq and Afghanistan. The British components of these wars are directed from Northwood HQ, located in leafy London suburbia!
More details plus photos here:
https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/471359.html
Palestine Today 12 30 2010
30-12-2010 16:52
Iran, a victim of state-sponsored terrorism
30-12-2010 15:50
The Nation joins the campaign against Julian Assange
30-12-2010 15:31
“Feminist opinion—as the Assange case and the Polanski affair before it have demonstrated—has become one of the means of legitimizing the suppression of nonconformists and political dissidents, and of changing the subject from the great social issues, above all, class oppression and social inequality, to stale and self-pitying concerns.Those supervising the attack against Assange are no doubt congratulating themselves on its clever design. Mounting it in the guise of a campaign against the sexual molestation of women… how else could such a filthy operation, with its threat of a sweeping assault on democratic rights, be mounted and even legitimized today?
The powers that be know the Pollitts of this world, and the Nation. The magazine’s editor, Katrina vanden Heuvel, is, after all, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a leading ruling class think tank whose membership has included numerous CIA directors, along with dozens of US generals and admirals.”
Strong Bomb today outside Athens Court
30-12-2010 14:39
Video & Fotos
http://garizo.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post_489.html
Inquest into death of weapons inspector: David Kelly probe case 'unanswerable'
30-12-2010 12:38
A lawyer for the group of doctors behind the demand for an inquest said they "hope and expect" that Mr Grieve will make his decision on legal grounds only, and will resist any political pressure to reject their application.
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Catholic Worker Anti-War Resistance at Northwood HQ on"Feast of Holy Innocents"
30-12-2010 11:30
NORTHWOOD PERMANENT JOINT HEADQUARTERS (British Military) http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/AboutDefence/WhatWeDo...s.htm 2005: How Quebec Students Forced the Govt to Back Down
29-12-2010 23:16
Canada: Students blockade the Port of Montréal, 2005 - Article about blockade by students in Canada striking against cuts in education.Lessons to be thought about and learned from for the 2011 student protests.
South Lanarkshire Council shuts Community out of its own liaison meeting with Scottish Coal
29-12-2010 19:22
In what is becoming an all too familiar story in the Douglas Valley, South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) made a determined effort to exclude community members from the Mainshill open cast coal mine liaison meeting earlier this month.
Anti Nuclear Campaigners In Court In Lowestoft
29-12-2010 19:18
4 January 2011, 10am (plus 5, 10, and 11 January)Two anti nuclear campaigners, Andreas Speck (46) from London and Ian Mills (45) from Chippenham, will be tried at Lowestoft Magistrates Court from 4 January on, for "failing to leave land" (S69(3)(a) CJPOA 1994) when they blockaded Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk on 22 February 2010 [1].
National Health Service "could collapse"
29-12-2010 18:46
Senior figures in the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) have warned that the government proposals to reform health care, as laid out in the white paper, “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS”, could lead it to “implode” or face a “train crash”.