UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

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Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video

07-08-2007 15:14

Four internationals were arrested on the evening of the election, 5 August, by Federal Police for the crime of watching a video of last year's riots on a television screen set up in the in Zocalo.

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GOOD NEWS - Britain seeks release of British residents in Guantanamo!!!

07-08-2007 09:52

Britain to seek release of British residents in Guantanamo after 5 1/2 years!!

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Post election day in Oaxaca

06-08-2007 21:42

Monday 6 August 2007: The election is over and the result found Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) back in power, but only through a coalition with la Alianza con el Verde Ecologista. But those who refused to vote across Oaxaca were nearly 80 percent.

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Rossport Solidarity Camp eviction latest

06-08-2007 12:21

Update on eviction threat to Rossport Solidarity Camp

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FREE FELIX, Demo report + Banner drop pictures

06-08-2007 11:19

Gloucestershire animal action FREE FELIX day of solidarity.

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'Be the Media' at the Big Green Gathering

06-08-2007 11:17

As the Big Green Gathering (BGG) 2007 programme explained, the 'Be the Media' tent in the Campaigns field hosted "a series of presentations, discussions and practical workshops around DIY media in all its forms: from print publications, radical radio and video activism, to the 'new' media of internet websites, blogging, podcasts and streaming" and also covered "less conventional media such as street art, graffiti, stencilling..."

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BAA injunction a hollow victory

06-08-2007 10:33

High Court judge Mrs Justice Swift has been reported to have found in favour of BAA. However as the details emerge it appears BAA have gained very little and Climate Camp itself is unaffected.

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Immigration detention: unworkable (after Campsfield's latest riots)

05-08-2007 21:26

Locking up innocent people in detention centres - or immigration removal centres (IRCs) as they are now called, is not only cruel, inhumane and degrading: it is unworkable.
Hunger strikes and uprisings have been part of life in detention centres since these monstrous institutions first opened, but have dramatically escalated in the past few years as the UK government are detaining increasing numbers of increasingly desperate people.

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Royal Mail wildcats spread to north of England

05-08-2007 15:39

The wildcat strikes at Royal Mail which began in Glasgow, spread across Scotland, and ended today also reached Newcastle, Liverpool and Chester on Thursday. And Hartlepool on Friday.

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Shut Down Guantánamo! Weekly Demo, London

05-08-2007 11:40

The London Guantánamo Campaign has been protesting outside the US Embassy in Mayfair every Friday evening at 6-7pm since February 2007. Come and join us!

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"Between 20 and 50" escape from Campsfield Immigration Prison

05-08-2007 07:24

After another week of strikes and protests, the GEO-managed centre explodes - for the
2nd time in 6 months.

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German activists arrested under terrorist suspicion

05-08-2007 07:01

Last Tuesday, the German police arrested 4 activists in Berlin under the suspicion of being members or supporters of a terrorist group.

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Solidarity On Birkenhead Posties Picket Line

04-08-2007 18:12

On Thursday, 02.08.07 along with other posties throughout the country Birkenhead sorting office mounted a picket some 20 strong from 05.30 to 09.00. At approx 07.30 a lorry full of mail from the Chester hub came to deliver.(this would mean that mail would be waiting to be sorted from 5.30 the next day) After consultation with the picket and to the furious dismay of a manager the driver turned his truck around, unloaded back to the hub at Chester.

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Polish Posties Show Solidarity In Liverpool

04-08-2007 17:22

For some weeks we have had Polish casual workers in Liverpool m/c, the mail centre manager has been trying to beat us over the head with them, threatening to train them to operate the machines and such, if we go on strike.

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Call for International Day of Action Against Immigration Prisons

04-08-2007 14:25

Call for International Day of Action Against Immigration Prisons
on 22 September, 2007

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Nottingham City Council fires threats in welfare advice row

04-08-2007 08:30

It was one of those things that the City Council wouldn't want to kick up a fuss about. After all, it was a bit of a controversial decision to merge the city's welfare rights department into the management of the housing benefit service back in September 2006. Employees were only told about the decision 2 or 3 days before it was implemented and were told in an email to 'keep quiet' about the issue. You can imagine people getting concerned over 'conflicts of interest' when you're supposed to get impartial and independent advice on welfare rights from people in the very same office as those authorizing the actual applications.

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This Week In Palestine – Week 31 2007

03-08-2007 19:12

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for July 27 through August 3, 2007.

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Bacton, Norfolk. Locals show solidarity with Shell to Sea

03-08-2007 12:45

A small gesture of solidarity from the North Norfolk Coast

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BAA Injunction: Second Day In Court

03-08-2007 10:43

Just a short update from a second day at the BAA injunction hearing at the High Court in London.

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Australian Film Crew questioned by Chinese Military in Tibet

03-08-2007 09:46

Independent Adelaide filmmakers, Lara Damiani and Alex Alexander, have overcome many obstacles since first deciding to make a documentary about Tibet in November last year. The latest involved questioning by Chinese military while filming in Tibet.