UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

N London Social Centre needs help now!

24-01-2007 13:51

The squatted Vortex social centre has been fending off an illegal eviction attempt this morning. There is a call out for folks to help tonight and tomorrow morning

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SOCPA - barbara tucker arrested

24-01-2007 13:38

barbara tucker, the stoic peace campaigner facing endless harrassment from charing cross police for doing no more than peacefully demonstrating near parliament and downing street, was arrested again this morning in parliament square. worried supporters and her solicitor are trying to get her out of police hands as there are grave fears for her safety.

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Radley lakes - eviction imminent

24-01-2007 10:47

Npower have been granted immediate possesion of the squatted field centre at Radley lakes.

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Female Oaxacan Student kidnapped and tortured for more than 48 hours

24-01-2007 09:18

"on the 12 of january 2007, we left my house with two students i didn't know well as recently a friend had introduced us during the march on the 10th of this month, they asked me if i could provide them with accommodation as they had limited resources. the little chance we'd had to talk they said they were coming to carry out a field study for their thesis.

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Tyneside March Against Dawn Raids-Resistance to Deportations Continues to Build

24-01-2007 01:37

On 20 January Tyneside Community Action for Refugees held a militant demonstration through the centre of Newcastle to protest against deportations of asylum seekers and to launch the pledge of resistance to snatch squads. Over 100 protesters from diverse communities marched under the banner ‘Here to Stay. Here to Fight. Defend Asylum Rights!’ and demanded an end to dawn raids, the name given to the brutal policy of snatching failed asylum seekers from their homes in the early hours of the morning.

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Green Seniors : Green Networks...Climate Change Speaker Network

23-01-2007 20:57

Climate change is arguably the most important issue of our times. Communicating that message, and making people aware of what they can do to combat climate change, is a major part of the solution.

A national UK Speaker Network has been set up by Peter Hale of Climate Concern UK. It is called the Climate Change Speaker Network.

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Save Radley Lakes at court again

23-01-2007 18:56

npower is trying to evict the campaigners at Radley Lakes again on Wednesday 24th January 10am Oxford County Court - massive call-out to protest at the court, and to defend the site at Thrupp Lake.

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Vicenza, thousands march against the enlargement of the US base

23-01-2007 18:16

Vicenza, Italy: thousands march against the enlargement of the US base after the big demo of 2th dec with 30.000 people and after the P:M: Prodi said YES to the projcet of the new base. The day before 7-8.000 marched in the night agaisntthe base.

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OAXACA: Testimony of a Oaxacan student kidnapped and interrogated

23-01-2007 16:46

English language translation of a testimony of a student who was abducted and interrogated for 2 days with 2 others. Original version in Spanish here:

http://mexico.indymedia.org/tiki-view_blog_post.php?blogId=29&postId=4349

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OAXACA – VIDEO-TAPED TESTIMONY OF VICTIM OF TORTURE

23-01-2007 10:28

OAXACA – VIDEO-TAPED TESTIMONY OF VICTIM OF TORTURE

At www.rightsaction.org/oaxaca, you can download and watch a 25-minute
interview (Spanish, with English sub-titles) with Porfirio Domínguez
Muñozcano, a Oaxacan arquitect almost beaten to death by Mexican ‘security’
forces.

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aldermaston shut down

23-01-2007 09:43

A group of eight activists from Scotland blockaded the entrance to AWE Aldermaston this morning at 6.45am.

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Activists block Aldermaston

23-01-2007 07:37

Eight activists have blockaded the road to Aldermaston using steel pipe lock-ons. They've been across the roadway since around 6.45am and there is already heavy traffic congestion.

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Major Victory for Worker Recovered Factory “Jugoremedija” in Serbia

23-01-2007 03:41

by Association of Worker-Shareholders of Serbia—AW-SA

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=11728

December 28, 2006

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Welsh pipeline protest - New tree camp set up near Brecon

22-01-2007 21:59

Following support from local people in Brecon at the weekend, a new protest camp has been set up right in the middle of the phase two route of National Grids controversial pipeline.

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ROR solidarity action:Campaign against the National Grid pipe line

22-01-2007 19:42

On Sunday 21st Jan, anti pipeline campaigners took their cause to Clydach Indoor Market to raise awareness and hand out information about the controversial National Grid Gas pipeline. They were joined by Rhythms of Resistance Samba Band, who came to play in solidarity with their campaign.

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SOCPA - Brian Haw Court Victory today

22-01-2007 19:39

When police crept down to Parliament Square in the middle of the night last May and removed most of Brian Haw's display, the were acting unlawfully. Superintendent Terry produced an undated document in Court signed by the Commissioner, delegating powers to him to impose conditions on demonstration. But Judge Purdy ruled today that the conditions were unlawful, the delegation was unlawful and so the raid must have been unlawful too.

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Chris Cole - Prisoner for Love

22-01-2007 16:09

Antiwar resister sent to prison for refusal to repay fine resulting from MoD resistance on Holy Innocents Day 28th December 2004 over Iraq

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Prodi approves US base expansion over protests

22-01-2007 11:35

Students hold a banner reading 'NO to new bases, nor at Dal Molin neither somewhere else', during a protest against the US military base in Vicenza, Italy. Italian Premier Romano Prodi announced Italy's government will not oppose the expansion of a U.S. military base in the northern city of Vicenza despite protests by area residents and some of his leftist political allies. The U.S. base in Vicenza has about 2,600 active duty military personnel. The expansion at the nearby Dal Molin airport would allow the military to move four battalions now based in Germany - adding another 1,600 active duty personnel.

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Sheffield M1 widening starts!

22-01-2007 10:39

Work to widen the M1 near Sheffield has started today. Humanity's self-destructive habits rush on.....

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2 Letters from Prisoners in the UK's Guantanamo: HMP Long Lartin

21-01-2007 21:17

The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) web site has two letters from detainees at HMP Long Lartin, "Y" and Reda Dendani (formally "Q"), "HMP Long Lartin is UK’s Guatanamo -approved and made legal by SIAC (Special Immigration Appeal Commission) - a secret court with secret evidence". Read on for these letters and an article about them.