UK Newswire Archive
Come to Cologne! - Eviction soon! - Demonstration on Saturday!
30-03-2011 15:52
Saturday 2n of April, 18:00, Cologne, in front of the Dome of Cologne (near the central station, station Köln Hbf)
Further informations at de.indymedia.org, unsersquat.blogsport.de and selbermachen.blogsport.de
Arrested at the Anti Cuts demo March 26th? Defendents Meeting
30-03-2011 15:47
Defendants' meeting - Saturday 2nd April - 2pm - University of London Student Union, Malet Street, WC1E 7HYWere you either charged with an offence or bailed to return to a police station soon? We know it's a worrying time and information can be difficult to come by. We also know from previous experience that it can be isolating and intimidating. The best way to deal with this is to meet others in the same position as yourself and stick together.
26/4 01:23 25 years on - a visual shocker
30-03-2011 15:36
Nato’s fascist war
30-03-2011 13:39
4 Actions against Shell in their first day of work in Rossport, Ireland
30-03-2011 13:32
EGYPT: Egyptian pacifist Maikel Nabil Sanad arrested for insulting the military
30-03-2011 12:33
You’re talking a lot, but you’re not saying anything – more thoughts on March 26
30-03-2011 12:18
A few thoughts on the condemnation (no pun intended) of the "violent minority" and the idea that the black bloc damaged our image.Inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson
30-03-2011 11:19
Just a reminder that the inquest into the killing of Ian Tomlinson has started and is on-going over the next few weeks.Counter Terror Expo 2011: 19-20 April 2011
30-03-2011 10:45
Arms dealers are gearing up for another festival of weapons and repression, "Counter Terror Expo 2011", at Olympia during 19-20 April 2011.National Day of Protest Against Benefit Cuts - 14th April - latest info
30-03-2011 10:44
Millions are set to be affected by savage cuts to housing, disability, sickness and welfare benefits. People with disabilities, illness, the unemployed, single parents, carers the low waged, part time students, volunteers, homeless people and college students are all likely to see a devastating drop in disposable income with many slipping even further below the poverty line.
Gadhafi, Libya, counter-revolution, and the imperialist pack of hyenas
30-03-2011 10:32
The Western and US imperialisms that dominate the UN, have launched yet another military assault on another energy-rich Muslim country, Libya. The UN has again acted as their puppet. The complex and contradictory Libyan politico-economic and policy changes in the post-Soviet era are examined and related to the current crisis.From Nuclear to Solar
30-03-2011 10:24
Northern England has very different interactions between nuclear energy and geology than the Japanese archipelago. Here, we have expert opinion being ignored by politicians looking for waste disposal sites. There, they had expert opinion being ignored in the siting of reactors. Similar propaganda methods were used in both.
In this piece, Ozaki describes his personal experience of the Japanese earthquake, and looks at some of the warnings that were ignored about regional geological hazards.
He quotes from Hirose Takashi's book "Time Bomb Reactor" (published in August 2010), not available elsewhere in English, "While I was working on this final manuscript on June 17, 2010, a power blackout just occurred at the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) operated Rector 2 of the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant, leading to a major accident that almost ended in a meltdown. [...] The accident was caused by four external power transmission lines, all of which were cut off at the same time. The emergency stop systems of the generators and reactors did of course work, but as water continued to boil inside the reactors, the cooling water level sank dramatically, and a core melt could only be avoided at the very last minute. [...] The fact that something as severe as this could happen even though there was no earthquake on the day of the accident led me to think about what the scenery could look like if the plant was visited by a major quake."
Although Ozaki hasn't bottomed-out the pholtovoltaic ideal, he is doing significantly better than George Monbiot. His first-hand account gives a window on how the recent events are effecting the Japanese psyche, and what we could learn from their experience.
London Critical Mass March ride.
30-03-2011 09:22
A large turnout with good weather. I saw the result of three deliberate rammings by drivers, which resulted in angry confrontations. Its great to see cyclists supporting each other. Despite this the mood of the ride was exuberant. This time we were accompanied by a friendly motorcycle cop who helped with the corking and had words with several drivers. Judging by the accents there were plenty of foreign visitors joining in the ride which seems to be becoming something of a tourist attraction. There were also several impressive and powerful sound systems.
The congestion caused by drivers on Friday evening in London is atrocious. What are they all doing there? I'll say one thing though,all the red traffic lights are extremely frustrating, even to a cyclist. Maybe this accounts for the fact that so many drivers are enraged when they encounter CM.
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/index.html
London Critical Mass March ride.
30-03-2011 01:24
A large turnout with good weather. I saw the result of three deliberate rammings by drivers, which resulted in angry confrontations. Its great to see cyclists supporting each other. Despite this the mood of the ride was exuberant. This time we were accompanied by a friendly motorcycle cop who helped with the corking and had words with several drivers. Judging by the accents there were plenty of foreign visitors joining in the ride which seems to be becoming something of a tourist attraction. There were also several impressive and powerful sound systems.
The congestion caused by drivers on Friday evening in London is atrocious. What are they all doing there? I'll say one thing though,all the red traffic lights are extremely frustrating, even to a cyclist. Maybe this accounts for the fact that so many drivers are enraged when they encounter CM.
http://www.criticalmasslondon.org.uk/index.html
M26: Latin American bloc - photos and report
29-03-2011 23:22
British Workers, migrant workers, one class, one fight!
The Latin American Coalition Against Cuts (COLACOR) came together to form a Latin American bloc on the south London feeder march leaving from Kennington park. We were joined by activists from the IWW to demonstrate against the worst attack on the working class in living memory.
We marched to show the rest of the trade union movement that these cuts are affecting immigrants as well as British people.
We don’t want to be made scapegoats for a crises that we did not cause. The crisis was caused by bankers who get paid millions whilst we who clean their offices survive on poverty pay. “Unemployment and inflation are not caused by immigration, Bullshit! Come off it! The enemy is profit!”
We took to the streets to show that we will not be intimidated by attempts to use immigration controls as an anti-union tool. In Colombia, one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a trade unionist, people are often disappeared for unionising. Now those that have fled Colombia find that in Britain too immigrant workers are disappeared for organising; they are not killed but deported, snatched and bundled out of the county where they will no longer be a nuisance. “We´re workers, not criminals, NO ONE IS ILEGAL!”
We have seen in our own countries the affects of austerity, extreme capitalism, privatisation, exploitation, enforced poverty, but we have also seen how popular uprising can bring down governments, defeat corporations and restore power to the people.
This is only the beginning! We know that this war cannot be won by a simple A to B march; we must organize, resist, unite, and fight. We have to throw everything we have at this government of the rich, including a general strike. We need to build a wide and inclusive movement that not only opposes cuts but STOPS them. We will fight hasta la victoria siempre!
COLACOR are:
Latin American Workers Association (LAWAS), Latin American Women’s Rights Service (Lawrs), Golden Years (Años Dorados) Day Centre, Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, Colombia Solidarity Campaign, The Prisma, IWW IU 640 (Cleaners & Allied Trades), Hands off Venezuela, Quinto Suyo (Perú), Latin American Disabled Peoples Project (Ladpp), LARC Latin Americans Recognition Campaign UK and Latinos in London.
We were also joined on the day by around a dozen teenagers and children who were the loadest and proudest protesters. ¡Arriba la juventud!
Media disinformation: The protest movement in Syria
29-03-2011 22:54
Spot the difference.
March for the Alternative
29-03-2011 21:23
Huge numbers attended the March for an alternative in London. 32 carriages full, left Glasgow at 05:00 hrs from all walks of life, to attend this munumentous occasion.
Giveet
29-03-2011 21:22
Hello,
(First of all, I am not a native speaker, so sorry if there are couple mistakes...)
I want to communicate about the peer to peer donation website GIVEET : www.giveet.org.
It's a french project from the association e-cosystems and it has some specifications such as :
-Done under Free License
Syria - "Breaking News: the conspiracy has failed!"
29-03-2011 21:08
Bobby Roberts: The Show Will Not Go On!
29-03-2011 21:06
