UK Newswire Archive
Video of Bikes Alive protest.
10-01-2012 16:55
Pedestrians on foot and people in wheelchairs joined with cyclists to protest against the polices of Transport for London, which prioritises motor vehicles over vulnerable road users. This could become a regular event.
Bikes Alive say, "Transport for London (TfL) is quite clear that it is deliberately putting cyclists’ lives at risk (not only passively, but actively by designing dangerous “cycle superhighways”), in preference to re-balancing road usage to prioritise people over machines. TfL says that nothing must be done to slow down motor vehicles."
http://bikesalive.wordpress.com/
The Green Desert: The Libyan People’s Support For The Jamahiriya
10-01-2012 16:11
The NATO imposed NTC has no legitimacy in LibyaGuantánamo Prisoners Stage Peaceful Protest and Hunger Strike to mark 10 years
10-01-2012 14:34
Today, prisoners at Guantánamo will embark on a peaceful protest, involving sit-ins and hunger strikes, to protest about their continued detention, and the continued existence of the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three years after President Obama came to office promising to close it within a year, and to show their appreciation of the protests being mounted on their behalf by US citizens, who are gathering in Washington D.C. on Wednesday to stage a rally and march to urge the President to fulfill his broken promise.Defend Occupy London Stock exchange from eviction
10-01-2012 13:38
Tomorrow on the 11th of January, the High Court in the Strand is likely to service an injunction to the Occupy London Stock Exchange camp on behalf of the Corporation of London ordering it to move from the site outside St Paul's Cathedral. We want as many people as possible to come down and help defend the site from eviction.Letter to General Practitioners
10-01-2012 12:55
Send letters to GP's asking for their views on the Health and Social Care Bill
LETTER TO GENERAL PRACTITIONERS
The more pressure that is put on personnel involved in changes in the National Health Service the more likely it is that we can obstruct the Government's privatization plan. Please find below a model letter for patients who are concerned about the Government's proposed changes to the NHS. We urge you to post or email this letter to the doctors at the general practice at which you are registered. You may wish to alter the text to express your particular concerns. Also please forward this letter on to other people who may wish to use it. It would be useful if you would inform KOHSP of any responses you receive.
Nottingham and Notts Branch of Keep Our Health Service Public
Contact: info@notts-kohsp.org.uk
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Dear Dr./Drs. ... .
I am very concerned about the changes to Primary Health Care that the Government is trying to bring about by means of its Health and Social Care Bill.
The Government intends that the provision of much health care will be brought about by means of Clinical Commissioning Groups purchasing appropriate services. We have been led to believe that it will be general practitioners in CCG's who will actively choose the suppliers of services. However, close scrutiny of the proposed legislation reveals that most GP's will not be deemed to be suitably qualified and experienced to make such decisions. In practice it will be representatives of private health care companies who will effectively decide how the money will be spent. As you are probably aware, the British Medical Association has expressed serious concerns about this and other aspects of the proposed changes to the NHS.
In general it seems to me that the Government's proposed changes to the NHS do not have the aim of creating a more effective health care service. Rather the real aim is to provide opportunities for private companies to make profits. Such a change could well result in a decline in standards of health care. There is some very useful briefing information on the website of Allyson Pollock - http://allysonpollock.co.uk and more campaign information on www.keepournhspublic.com
As one of your patients I would like to know what are your views on the Government's plans for change in the NHS. I suggest a discussion of these matters at the next meeting of your patient participations group.
Yours sincerely,
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What is "money"? Is it the same as "currency"? What about gold?
10-01-2012 09:52
What is money? Everyone talks about it, but what is it exactly? Why did we created it the first place? A lot of people seem to blame money for all the problems in the world, and yet "money makes the world go round".In order to truly understand what is happening today, we must first explore how money came to be, and the purpose it serves.
Arms Fair Protestor Faces Trial
10-01-2012 08:33
DSEi protestor to go on trial next week - solidarity vigil outside court before trialClimate May Force Human Evolution
10-01-2012 07:47
Ten protesters killed in Occupy Nigeria uprising
10-01-2012 07:37
POLICE have killed 10 protesters as the Occupy Nigeria uprising gathers force.'Spartacus' Report
10-01-2012 04:55
A new report has been released exposing the government's spin over it's attempts to 'reform' (i.e. cut) Disability Living Allowance.
This report is a comprehensive presentation of the most relevant evidence available on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) and the proposals to replace it with a new benefit, Personal Independence Payments (PIP). It gathers together existing information and analyses over 500 group responses to the Government's Response to Disability Living Allowance reform.
Unsurprisingly, the report finds that the government's consultation on the issue was flawed and failed to meet the Government's code of practice for consultations. Also, the fact that 74% of respondents were opposed to the plans (incuding Boris Johnson for pity's sake) seems to have been brushed aside.
You can read it via this link.
If you are on Twitter search #spartacusreport for more info and comment.
report & pics from tonight's 'bikes alive' protest
10-01-2012 00:55
'bikes alive' is a new direct action campaigning group to counter the lethargy of transport for london, and its prioritising of london traffic flow over the safety of pedestrians and cyclists. tonight saw the first of a series of direct action traffic calming gatherings at king's cross designed to pressure TfL into more urgent action over the deadly junction.
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at the 6pm start numbers looked a little thin, with no more than a few dozen cyclists gathered on the corner of euston road and york way in front of king's cross station. they were observed by several police cyclists and a few others on foot.
numbers did gradually build up, and by about twenty past, the action began with probably a little over a hundred cyclists making their way up york way at a snail's pace, forming an effective blockade against the rush hour traffic.
they looped round and back via the scala before completely blocking the busy junction between euston and pentonville roads with york way.
here - next to the white ghost bicycle left as a memorial to 'deep' lee, the young cyclist who was the 16th cycle fatality of 2011 - they chanted slogans against boris, and reclaimed the streets. police began re-directing traffic up york way and round, and traffic tailed back along euston road a long way.
for the next half an hour, the cycle blockade, accompanied by quite a few people on foot, made slow progress back and forth along both sides of euston road outside the station. near the front of the procession were des kay, the bicycle activist who won landmark court battles against police attempts to restrict the monthly critical mass rides, and jenny jones, the green campaigner on the london assembly and the metropolitan police authority.
police response remained (i suspect partly because of jenny jones' presence) reasonably low key, although inspector mcdonald kept asking people to 'keep moving' and he was accompanied by an over-eager community support officer who liked shouting at and grabbing people in an offensive manner.
finally at just after 7pm, after holding the start of pentonville road for several minutes while traffic was once again directed up york way, cyclists agreed to leave en masse rather than dwindle in numbers, des kay recited one of his infamous cycle activist poems, and the cyclists went off into the night.
the plan is to hold regular, possibly weekly, blockades until TfL promise to act. check the www.bikesalive.wordpress.com site for details of next week's ride at king's cross.
see also previous report at http://london.indymedia.org/articles/11402
Benefit cuts to make 800,000 more UK homes unaffordable
09-01-2012 23:06
Welfare cuts will put a further 800,000 homes out of reach of those claiming housing benefit, according to study by the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH)
http://www.cih.org/news-article/display/vpathDCR/templatedata/cih/news-article/data/Housing_benefit_cuts_will_put_800000_homes_out_of_reach .
Witnessing the Ron Paul Campaign Humanise the Face of White Supremacist Politics
09-01-2012 21:20
'White domination is so complete that even American Indian children want to be cowboys. It's as if Jewish children wanted to play Nazis.'
-- Ward Churchill
Notts-KONP - NHS Cameron Postcards Stall
09-01-2012 20:55
Saturday 7 January 2012
Nottingham Keep Our NHS Public held a stall in the Market Square and attracted quite a lot of interest from passers-by.
Their Events Listing said:
Nottm & Notts Keep Our NHS Public
Following our branch meeting last night and an urgent notice from the KONP office on Wednesday we agreed to have a stall in the Market Sq THIS SATURDAY to get as many Cameron Postcards signed up so that we can contribute to the delivery to David Cameron on Sunday 15th January around 2pm ..ish. This is timed to co-incide with two runners from Bevan's statue in Cardiff (see: http://bevansrun.blogspot.com).
We will be running our stall from 11:00am - 3:00pm and would welcome Notts-KONPers to join us. The stall will be adjacent to the left lion in front of the Council House - look out for the Notts-KONP banner and well worn pasting board. We have approx 650 KONP post cards (thanks to to UNITE 713M branch) and will need to get as many as possible signed and posted off to the London office at the start of next week in order for them to be part of the bundle presented to David Cameron next Sunday.
The cards contain the following message: see
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/campaignresources.php
Please join us on Saturday - if possible where a white lab coat - the weather forecast is blowy and fairly cold but hopefully dry.
Apologies for the short notice but we thought that we needed to put the new Nottm & Notts KONP branch on the map and raise the profile of the NHS campaign locally. Please contact us by return if you require further information to info@Notts-KONP.org.uk.
Contact email: info@Notts-KONP.org.uk
Previous events reports:
Save Our NHS Demo, Standard Court
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1085
Picket of NHS 'Listening Exercise' evening
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1782
Notts 'Save Our NHS' campaigning stall
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1788
NHS Anniversary Event: BBC roundabout, Nottingham
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/1907
Save our NHS Protest in the Market Square
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2029
Public Meeting opposes Andrew Lansley's NHS Bill
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2048
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Keep Our NHS Public
http://www.keepournhspublic.com
Keep Our NHS Public - Collected Links
http://www.keepournhspublic.com/links.php
Notts Save Our Services
http://www.nottssos.org.uk
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Kurdish people protest killing civilians in Turkey
09-01-2012 20:55
Saturday 7 January 2012
Supporters of the Kurdish people gathered together in the Market Square. Leafleting and listening to speeches.
They then marched across Nottingham to protest outside the BBC building in London Road.
They say that the coverage they get from the BBC on these issues is biased towards the Turkish goverment view of evnts. They were interviewed by duty reporters there, when they asked for a more balanced coverage of their cause.
Turkish air strike kills 35 Kurds near Iraqi Kurdistan
http://www.ekurd.net/mismas/articles/misc2011/12/turkey3640.htm
Turkish air strikes kill dozens of villagers near Iraq border
Turkey's government forced to admit victims of bombing were not Kurdish separatist fighters
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/29/turkish-air-strikes-iraq-border
earlier report:
Nottingham Protest against Deportations to Northern Iraq (Kurdistan)
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/08/321695.html
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Nottingham Occupation Camp now at day 86
09-01-2012 20:55
Sunday 8 January 2012
Now at day 86. Gosh!!
New structure has kept many warm since being erected before christmas.
Thought I would show you a series of piccys from inside, just after campers had done a bit housework and it is polished and well displayed :-).
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I think those holding out against the elements for these issues, need to be congratulated for their commitments and deserve help and support from us.
Please drop by and offer your time, help, donations of food, bedding, waterproofing, warm clothing ...... oh, a bit of love.
Loads of earlier postings ...... but, here are the main features
Nottingham is occupied [1st Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2079
Nottingham Occupation Continues [2nd Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2100
Occupy Notttingham: Moved but still in occupation [3rd Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2116
Occupy Notttingham: Still there [4th Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2147
Nottingham Occupy Nottingham: No plans for eviction. Yet. [5th Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2193
Occupy Notttingham: Two months in [6th Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2266
Occupy Nottingham: Xmas and New Year in Market Sq [7th Feature]
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2287
and ......
Characters I've met during Cuts & Occupy Campaigns
http://nottingham.indymedia.org/articles/2124
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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Huntsman Arrested for Racially Abusing Hunt Saboteur
09-01-2012 20:22
Hunt Saboteurs Association Press Release January 7th 2012Eviction - Press Release: 9/1/12 from Occupy Lancaster!
09-01-2012 19:21
There are over 1 million empty properties in the UK, 350,000 of these have been vacant for over a year. Money is being spent on keeping these places empty with no benefit to communities and with negative devaluation of properties in the surrounding area. Criminalising squatting in the middle of a housing crisis, as the Con-Dem government plan to do, is only going to make matters worse.Legal help required
09-01-2012 16:48
Can anyone suggest competent solicitors/barristers to take police to court?Police Harass Occupy Liverpool at Legal Squat
09-01-2012 14:34
URGENT CALL OUT FOR HELP! POLICE HAVE SURROUNDED THE NEW LOCATION! THE NEW LOCATION IS THE OLD CHURCH IN PRESTON STREET (OFF DALE STREET BY MUNICIPAL BUILDINGS LIVERPOO[L] CITY CENTRE). WE URGENTLY NEED AS MANY PEOPLE TO GET DOWN THERE ASAP! PLEASE HELP IF YOU CAN
- Occupy Liverpool
https://www.facebook.com/OccupyLiverpool/posts/249099251830522
