UK Promoted Newswire Archive
film of yesterday's SOCPA arrest and assault
25-07-2006 13:46
UK Identity Card scheme - really finished? Let's make sure.
25-07-2006 11:31
Labour's ID scheme is supposedly on the rocks, but let’s not be overly comforted by this news. There are good reasons to continue to build up the pressure. In particular, passport developments in the UK Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and the European Union could result in alternative identity databases, and since the Act is on the statute books, compulsory ID could start at any future date.Coulport Nuke Base Blockaded
25-07-2006 07:41
As the Trident Replacement decision looms ever larger, activists once again disrupted the current Trident Nuclear Weapons System as they blockaded the entrance to RNAD Coulport. Five activists, calling themselves The Shrubbery, chained themselves together across the entrance way shortly after 7am this morning, stopping workers from entering the base.EDO Farnborough Fun- Kids go free
25-07-2006 07:37
EDO Corporation were there with their new Israeli-designed weapons systems, but a distinct lack of protest on the public days of the fair.
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SOCPA - a stench of lies and corruption from the met and charing cross
25-07-2006 01:07
i went to cover the gently amusing 'multiple lone demonstrations' (15 of them) organised by mark thomas in parliament square this evening (
http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/07/345974.html), but one story or action after another left me disgusted by the end of the evening.
SOCPA - mark thomas' lone demonstration with 14 others
24-07-2006 23:35
radical comedy activist mark thomas and the others notified charing cross last week of their intention to hold a range of individual demonstrations requiring authorisation to be held this evening at 5.30 in parliament square. charing cross photocopier worked overtime to process most of the applications and tie up the met in bureaucratic bollocks.7 arested in yesterdays action in front of detention center Postojna
24-07-2006 18:00
Yesterdays action in front of deportation center in Postojna (Slovenia) was stopped by serious police repression action. About 150 No Borde camp activists from Slovenia, Italy, Austria and Spain came to Postojna with demand to close this illegal institutions where the police is taking as hostages people who commited no crime, but only becouse they dont have documents.Police assault Titnore Woods camper
24-07-2006 17:10
THUGS from Sussex Police have once again forced their way onto the peaceful Camp Titnore protest site near Worthing, assaulting one of the campers in the process.Profiting from the Occupation:corporate interests fuelling conflict in Palestine
24-07-2006 12:25
What do Tesco, Waitrose, Connex and Caterpillar have in common? They are all profiting from Israel's occupation of Palestine.Invitation to the next european gathering of Peoples Global Action
24-07-2006 12:01
As you might already know, the next European PGA conference will takeplace in France this summer, from August 19th to September 3rd. It will
happen in two parts, in a decentralised fashion: the first 9 days will
take place in 5 different locations around France, each with specific
themes in focus; it will be followed by 2 days off for travelling &
chilling-out, then by 4 days in a central location, that will be the
Tanneries squatted social centre in Dijon.
In memory Ramazan Kumluca, born 1987, died 27th June 2005 in Campsfield IRC
24-07-2006 11:35
Ramazan was only 18. He was born on New Year's Day 1987 in Pazarcik, Turkey, and died in Room 41 at Campsfield House Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), Oxfordshire, some time before 3:30 am on the 27th June 2005. He had hanged himself with a fabric belt from the door-closing mechanism of his room, evidently because he was in despair at his impending removal from the country. Fellow-detainees, who knew of his fears, had tried to wake him for prayers and found the door would not open.Disused Buildings of Birmingham Have No Shortage of Occupants
24-07-2006 02:50
With apartments in the refurbished Rotunda selling for between £150,00 and half a million, many old disused and abandoned buildings are set to be sold off to the highest bidder also -- ignoring the homeless and poor who struggle to live below them, and who are most in need of them.Another Wasted Opportunity
23-07-2006 16:10
Having left the pub and rushed across town to Trafalgar Square it was disappointing to find only one person waiting around looking slightly bored. So including the person I'd been drinking with that made a dispiriting three of us.London demo in solidarity with Lebanese and Palestinians.
23-07-2006 15:48
Difficult to say how many came there were other regional mobilizations around the country. Definitely over ten thousand.
The ever popular US Embassy.
23-07-2006 15:07
jean charles de menezes - solidarity in stockwell
23-07-2006 12:53
despite 'news' on bbc radio in london that this later 'unofficial' solidarity vigil had been cancelled, about 120 people gathered at Stockwell Tube last night, with Caporeira and an open mike.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Round up of July 22nd Lebanon solidarity protests
23-07-2006 11:59
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photos and short report london lebanon demo 22/7
22-07-2006 23:02
Vigil for Jean Charles de Menezes
22-07-2006 22:26
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London erupts in mass protest against Israeli crimes.
22-07-2006 20:11
