UK Newswire Archive
Lifting the Lid on NSA Menwith Hill
22-03-2012 00:14
report on ukuncut budget protest at downing st
21-03-2012 22:55
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Please write to peace pisoner Gabriel Carlyle -sentenced today/HMP Lewes tonight
21-03-2012 18:36
Gabriel Carlyle, HMP Lewes, Brighton Road, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1EABoycott Good Energy
21-03-2012 16:55
Greenwash electricity provider Good Energy have stated that their subcontractor, G4S, who murdered Jimmy Mubenga, fir their "Corporate Social Responsibility".
Dear (),
Thank you for writing to us and raising the issue of G4S's (Group 4 Security's) ethics.
You may know that we worked with AccuRead for many years before they were acquired by G4S in 2008 and became G4S Utility Services. AccuRead provided our customers with an effective and efficient meter reading service for a long time, and in fact many of the same team are in place supporting Good Energy now.
We continually review our options for our metering service needs, however there are real restrictions on smaller suppliers like us. For example there are only a small number of independent metering service companies
available in the UK and it is proving difficult to identify a metering agent that would be able to provide a national data collection service in the same way that G4S Utility Services does at the moment. And while many
of the independent agencies will not offer a national service, many others are price prohibitive.
Over the next few years there will be a gradual transition to smart metering which will reduce the need for meter readers in person. Within this process Good Energy will be re-tendering for all metering services
and it is possible that we will have a full change of the metering partners we work with. Throughout this process Good Energy will take into account the ethical and environmental performance of the companies we
choose to work with.
Overall, we believe that the transition to smart metering and the changes we'll go through as part of that process will address our customers' concerns regarding G4S, and your views will be part of the final decision
making of who our smart metering partners will be.
For your information, we believe that G4S Utilities take the concerns raised by our customers seriously. We have already raised these concerns with G4S and requested that they send us a copy of their Corporate Social Responsibility report, which they have done. They have also sent a letter to us addressing these concerns in detail which says: "We are totally committed to the welfare and safety of those in our care and have won many
awards for the quality of that care".
I hope that this goes some way towards explaining our current position regarding the use of G4S Utility Services. We would hope that you would be able to bear with Good Energy and continue to support us as we work
towards providing you with the best ethically responsible service possible.
Ed Coate
Junior Sales Executive
Direct 01249 765545 / Main 0845 6011410
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www.goodenergy.co.uk
Dear Good Energy,
I and my housemates are your customers, and we have been very glad to get our electricity from a company that supports sustainability and upholds ethical values on energy supply.
I am very concerned though to discover that you have employed G4S to read meters, as I recently found out when a man wearing a G4S badge came to the door of the house of some friends (also Good Energy customers) whilst I was visiting. G4S is the very opposite of an organisation based on ethical values. It is a global multinational that is active in the war machines in Palestine, Iraq and Afghanistan. In Palestine, it provides "security" services and equipment to settlements in the occupied territories as well as being a contractor in Israeli prisons (http://www.whoprofits.org/content/case-g4s-private-security-companies-and-israeli-occupation).
Closer to home, G4S is involved in the private prison industry, and in the indefinite detention of migrants (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13802163). G4S is also responsible for running the Government's "Cedars" detention centre for families and children (http://ecdn.org/). In October 2010 G4S guards killed Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan man whom they were forcibly deporting (http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/mar/16/jimmy-mubenga-decision-due) A number of my own personal friends and other people I have met whilst doing
suport work for refugees have been attacked and beaten by G4S detention guards whilst in their custody in immigration "removal centres".
I would be really grateful if you could explain the involvement of G4S in working with Good Energy so that I can discuss this further with my housemates and with other friends who are Good Energy customers.
Spring in Parliament Square
21-03-2012 16:41
Anti-Prison Gathering
21-03-2012 15:59
We are organising this gathering not with the intention of forming another organisation which will stagger and fall almost immediately. But in order for those of us of an anti-state and anti-capitalist position towards the prison society may for share our experiences and understandings of the current situation.
If you're coming it'd be grand if you could email us so we know how many to cook for., Crash space is available on Friday and Saturday night.
Timetable to be announced in the coming weeks.
22/03/12 Soli Demo with Elba Squatters, London
21-03-2012 14:27
3pmPolish Embassy, 47 Portland Place, London W1B
Squatban to go to third reading in Lords
21-03-2012 13:22
The farce of democracy continues with the discussion of criminalisation of squatting inresidential buildings going to a third reading in the House of Lords, still without a real
discussion of what it will involve
Song of Fire
21-03-2012 12:53
It is a matter of time not only in respect to its scarcity but also to its abundance that the capitalist democratic conditions are being sung their own melody to get them into motion, and it is a matter of space both in a cosmological and a terrestrial sense that a look at the most destructive form of fire does reveal how this is already happening. For the emancipation of the Earth from these inhumane conditions, which are trying to take away its resources, its diversity and even its seasons there are many paths, and to open them all this text is going to lighten a fire whose fuel has long been put into place amidst the devastations of capitalist democracy. Like lightning in a tree at a hill, it is going to make visible how that forged dream has stabbed its own heart.Afghanistan: US-Army-Terroristen !
21-03-2012 12:18
20 US Soldaten am US Massaker in Afghanistan beteiligt .......... Karzai hat die US Besatzungstruppen bereits aufgefordert, das Land zu verlassen. Das ist der Megagau, wenn die selber durch Wahlbetrug installierte Marionette des Westens sich gegen die einstigen Verbündeten stellt. Untersuchungskommission bestätigt, dass bis zu 20 US Soldaten an dem Massaker an Freuen und Kindern in Afghanistan beteiligt waren. Zudem drohen nach dem Mord an 16 Dorfbewohnern in der vergangenen Woche afghanische Abgeordnete, die ausländischen Streitkräfte im Land zu Besatzungstruppen zu erklären und aktiv zu bekämpfen. Entgegen der bisherigen Darstellung hatte nicht ein US Soldat im Rahmen eines Amoklaufes 16 Zivilisten im Schlaf erschossen sondern es waren ungefähr 20 US Soldaten an diesem gezielten Massaker beteiligt.Free "Sack Boris" wallets given out at LiverpoolSt
21-03-2012 10:55
The official campaign period for the London elections starts on Tuesday 20th March, and we need you to help give Boris Johnson the sack.We gave out thousands of oyster card wallets saying: "Sack Boris" on.
Will you run a Sack Boris Oyster wallet give-away at your local bus, tube or rail station for an hour before or after work this coming Tuesday?
We have literally tons of beautiful new wallets and need help from people all over London to get them out. Email us with your name, phone number, the station you can cover and whether you want to do the morning or evening shift (or both!). We'll get back to you and sort out a pile of wallets for you to give away: email action@sackboris2012.com and we'll get back to you right away.
The question is simple, do we want another four years of rising fares, massive vanity projects costing millions of pounds, police cuts, inaction on London’s housing crisis and a Mayor who stayed on holiday whilst London burned during the worst riots in twenty years?
Londoners deserve better and it's time to get out on the streets and make it happen.
Bristol Indymedia T-Shirt Sale: Donate to Help Keep Our Servers Running
21-03-2012 10:55
Chile: Report on Tortuga’s prison conditions
21-03-2012 10:29
from vivalaanarquia, translated by waronsociety:Germany: Solidarity fire for Tortuga in Berlin
21-03-2012 09:48
Penny drops for local authority as IPC process begins
21-03-2012 01:19
Open Fitwatch meeting
20-03-2012 22:03
The Atos Stories Collective needs you!
20-03-2012 19:45
Looking for actors/director/theatre company interested in putting on our playLondon’s ‘Syria Global March’ - 17th March 2012
20-03-2012 19:20
http://youtu.be/ziXWXeVd9EM