UK Newswire Archive
UFree Network: 5 Palestinian Prisoners are at risk, Urgent Action Required
14-12-2012 15:31
petition in support of Palestinian detaineesRoad Protestors Take To Trees To Stop Chainsaws
14-12-2012 12:17
Work on the Bexhill Hastings Link Road started this morning (Fri Dec 14), with contractors arriving to fell trees only hours after the county council had confirmed the compulsory purchase order on the land. Protesters arrived before they did and took to the trees, leading to a standoffThe Conservation ‘Volunteers’ Who Are Forced To Work Unpaid
14-12-2012 11:35
The Conservation Volunteers (formally BTCV) have been revealed as one of the UK's largest exploiters of forced labour. Tell them what you think today as part of the National Week of Action Against WorkfareHIV-Negative AIDS: CFS, ME, or AIDS?
14-12-2012 05:13
Allied NATO Government is hiding millions of NON HIV AIDS cases (like mine) under the "Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS)" ICD-code.Urgent Action: tree-felling to begin tomorrow for Bexhill-Hastings Link Road
14-12-2012 00:40
This is an urgent call for support by campaigners against the Bexhill-Hastings Link Road. There is very strong evidence that contractors will attempt to begin tree felling on Friday December 14th. Please join us in the Combe Valley to resist this!Caged in the USA: Torture in America’s many prisons (report from London event)
13-12-2012 21:45
Won't Get Fooled Again? Hyping Syria's WMD 'Threat'
13-12-2012 09:42
Reading about crimes of state over many years, it is tempting to try to fathom the mind-set of political leaders. What actually is going on in their heads when they order sanctions that kill hundreds of thousands of children? What is in their hearts when they wage needless wars that shatter literally millions of lives? Are they desperately cruel, mindlessly stupid? Do they imagine they are living in a kind of hell where monstrous acts have to be committed to avoid even worse outcomes? Are they indifferent, focused on what will bring them short-term political and economic gain? Are they morally resigned, perceiving themselves as essentially powerless in the face of invincible political and economic forces ('If I didn't do it, someone else would.')?
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ELF Activist Daniel McGowan Free After 7 Years in “Little Guantanamo”
12-12-2012 21:43
Brazil: Structural changes on the way.
12-12-2012 18:31
Winter in Parliament Square
12-12-2012 12:45
Drone info stall in Wrexham 11 Dec: report and photos
12-12-2012 11:32
We held another drone information stall yesterday in Wrexham.
See also this indymedia report and photos from a previous stall and this recent protest at RAF Waddington from where British armed Reaper drones will be controlled.
Travellers celebrate “step in the right direction” as Basildon approve planning application for a 15 pitch Traveller site
12-12-2012 08:05
Yesterday evening Basildon Borough Council’s planning committee finally passed a planning application for 15 pitches to accommodate some of the most vulnerable homeless Gypsy and Traveller families in Basildon. This is the first site approved by the Council since official planning needs assessments in 2006 stated the need for between 157 and 163 pitches for Gypsy and Traveller families in Basildon by 2011.[1]Are you equal in a democracy?
12-12-2012 01:59
In a remarkably inspiring book (A History of Democracy) Prof. Dunn (Cambridge) has called attention to two problems in democracy: it seems that one "equality" is that all ideas and arguments are equally doubtful and that equality of voting needs to be supplemented by regular referenda. But there are mathematical problems.