UK Indymedia - UK Newswire Archive

Southern Health NHS Trust, a Drowning and a Call for Better Care Everywhere

19-01-2015 15:59

A young man is left in a bath to drown while in the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, led by Chief Executive Katrina Percy, who sees no reason to resign in spite of ongoing failings at facilities she is ultimately responsible for.

A recent inspection report at the only remaining in-patient service on the same site has identified problems that include extremely stressed and exhausted staff on duty and on call for unacceptably long hours because of under-staffing. This is not a problem confined to Southern Health, but what are we going to do about it?

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On suppression of truth during Pope’s visit and challenges to the Filipino relig

19-01-2015 09:24

The Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP) joins the Filipino people in condemning the Aquino regime for suppressing the truth and covering up the realities of poverty and oppression during the course of Roman Catholic patriarch Pope Francis’ visit to the Philippines on January 15-19.

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The Business of Doing Good: Six steps for organisations to deliver on their good

18-01-2015 19:39

Delivering on good intentions: How a small microfinance organisation Cambodia built a business model for poverty outreach and impact, and what other social enterprises can learn from their experience. Join us for a book launch on Tuesday.

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NAMBY PAMBY NAZIS: TOMMY ROBINSON'S SHARIA EDL TAKEOVER @edlnews @slatedl

18-01-2015 16:54

Since being released from gaol, Tommy Robinson AKA Stephen Yaxley Lennon has trekked across to Germany to learn from anti-immigrant fascists Pegida, his intention to clean up his beloved EDL to appeal to ageing middle class Hooray Henry's who associate Henley with Regatta snobbery rather than crappy shirts and jeans.

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“World’s remotest film festival” announces dates for 2015

18-01-2015 16:47

The as FiSahara film festival will take place from 28 April until 3 May 2015 in a refugee camp deep in the Sahara desert. The dates were announced at a London launch event today in the same week as renowned Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar told an audience at the British Film Institute that he is “a great supporter of FiSahara.”

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The Southern Poverty Law Center and Its Double Standard on Free Speech

18-01-2015 00:33

There are no factual statements made at the Democracy Now form of opportunism to show that David Duke as actually engaged in advocating, say, violence or oppression against others. Rather what seems to upset Potok and his many supporters is that Duke and others are focused on excessive Jewish political and social influence on Americans, Europeans and Christians (in another words free speech as Duke is really about trying to use ideas to convince people to think differently—not advocating for slavery or Jim Crow or injustice to minorities). How does this compare with honoring the sleazy cartoons at Charlie Hebdo?

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Calais news and anti-fascist demos 25/01

17-01-2015 20:59

The anti-racists network in UK and France have called for counter-demonstrations on both sides of the Channel, in Calais and Dover nest Sunday 25th January.
Please come numerous! . Many thanks in advance to all those who will attend.

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Rep. Governor Jindal due to spread #FoxNewsFacts lies in speech in London

17-01-2015 16:22

Republican Governor and "potential presidential candidate" Bobby Jindal is due to give a 'lecture' on Monday at the House of Commons in which USA media reports that he will "reiterate the disputed claim that Muslim immigrants have created "no-go zones" in Europe".

Such statements take us back to Enoch Powell politics and are naive and ill-judged prejudice at best, and deliberately reactionary, divisive and inflammatory at worst.

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They won! Anti-Militarist Court Solidarity

16-01-2015 15:08

Via South Wales Anarchists

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Greens bigger than UKIP + on-course to overtake Lib-Dems

15-01-2015 23:21

Greens now bigger than UKIP + 700 members short of over-taking the Lib-Dems

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UG#701 - The Temptation of The Technofix (The Quest for "New Nature")

15-01-2015 10:24

We hear a group of speakers from a conference on "Techno-Utopianism & the Fate of the Earth" organized last month by the International Forum on Globalization. A range of speakers offer perspectives on humanity's efforts to improve on nature, including critical looks at GM, synthetic biology, nanotechnology and electrosmog. Geoengineering, as we hear, is setting a new precedent - a technology designed not to improve life on earth but to mitigate the effects of older technologies.

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Je ne suis pas Charlie!

13-01-2015 20:59

“Je ne suis pas Charlie – I am not Charlie!” That is the defiant note being sounded by anarchists in France in the face of the sickening wave of nationalistic reaction sparked by the Charlie Hebdo killings.

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Anti-Fascists being scammed by Casuals United?!

13-01-2015 02:19

The Facebook pages for AFA Ireland, North-East Anti-Fascists, London Anti-Fascists and possibly other groups linked to the Anti-Fascist Network, are advertising a "Cash for Anti-Fash" appeal. The advert posted on said Anti-Fascist Facebook pages uses the phrase "No Parmesan!", which is well-known as a joke Nazis use to take the piss out of the slogan "No Pasaran".

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Ronald Ryan: Did Australia Hang an Innocent Man?

13-01-2015 01:42

Ronald Ryan was the last man hanged in Australia in 1967. Today, more than four decades later, serious doubts remain whether Ronald Ryan was guilty of murder beyond all reasonable doubt.

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Shool on Fire

12-01-2015 17:28

True story

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34 countries, 17 states represented "100,000 Tweets for Oscar" Campaign Reaches

12-01-2015 15:47

Over 500,000 people were reached on January 6, 2015, Oscar's 72nd birthday, as the National Boricua Human Rights Network and La Respuesta coordinated the "Social Media Campaign for Oscar López." Using various hashtags (e.g. #freeoscarlopez, #gift4oscar, #regalopaoscar) on Twitter primarily, but also Facebook and Instagram, the campaign publicly brought together a broad spectrum of supporters, from Calle 13's René Pérez to actor Luis Guzmán; from NYC Council Speaker Melissa Mark Viverito to Congress members Nydia Velázquez and Luis Gutiérrez, from blogs like Latino Rebels to newspapers like El Nuevo Día.

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How Mao Delt with Soviet Revisionism

12-01-2015 08:29

The Cultural Revolution could not have been successfully launched without the polemics that Mao initiated against Khrushchev and the revisionist leadership of the CP of the Soviet Union.

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Golden Dawn Flag At Manchester Nazi Pegida Gathering @edlnews @slatfascists

12-01-2015 02:39

It was supposed to be a bunch of neo-nazis pretending not to be neo-nazis for the cameras, while gathering to hijack the France commemorations, but there were the usual lot of Hitler salutes reported, and guess what, somebody thought it was wise to fly the Golden Dawn flag.

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Paris Attacks Echo NATO Gladio Ops

11-01-2015 02:41

Spun as an anti-Semitic affair in light of Friday’s events at the kosher supermarket, the majority of the mayhem’s victims in fact fell on Wednesday in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, framing events rather in the light of NATO’s past Gladio false flag anti-Communist operations in Western Europe and exposing both the spin and events as the most corrupt of manipulations.

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SONY, Obama and Snowden What's been happening after Leveson on phone hacking?

10-01-2015 23:32

Are the Big Corporations being held to account? Are they still hacking the little people?