UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Amnesty Protest in Nottingham City Centre - Close Guantanamo Bay

11-03-2008 21:22

Still open six years on, The University of Nottingham's Amnesty International Society's held a protest against the continuing human rights abuses at Guantanamo Bay. From 12-2pm in the Market Square On Sunday 9th March.

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11-03-2008 15:49

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday March 11th, 2008.

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Nottingham Library Assistant Speaks Out About Uniforms And Bully Tactics

11-03-2008 14:37

Last week we spoke with Barbara, who has worked in Nottingham's libraries for many years. In this interview she voices her anger over the decision by the City Council to introduce uniforms for library staff. More so, she talks about the ever degrading library service and the bully tactics deployed by City Council managers to keep its staff in line..

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Mother with children violently deported on Virgin flight

11-03-2008 13:11

No Borders London has learnt that a young mother with two children, one aged about two and the other about 3 months old, were violently deported on Virgin Atlantic flight VS651 on 18/01/08 from London Heathrow to Lagos.

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March 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Photos

11-03-2008 09:26

Photos from protests from around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice. Updates will be posted to this article as the reports come in.

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Peace activist challenges Trident nuclear weapons in court

10-03-2008 21:51

The legality of Britain’s Trident nuclear weapons was challenged in court last Friday in the trial of a peace activist from London.

PEACE campaigner Daniel Viesnik, 33, from north London questioned the legality of Trident nuclear weapons before Newbury Magistrates’ Court on Friday 7 March as he faced trial on the minor charge of obstructing the highway. The alleged offence involved a peaceful sit-down protest that took place on 27 July 2007 at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston [1] in Berkshire, in the southeast of England, where Britain’s nuclear warheads are manufactured. According to Mr Viesnik, the protest was a statement of his passionate opposition to nuclear weapons in general and to the British Government’s plans to replace or renew Trident.

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Defendants in Newcastle win right to take their case to a District Judge

10-03-2008 18:23

The four activists charged with participating in an unlicensed street collection at an anti-deportation event on 7th May 2007 won the right today, Monday 10th March, to have their case heard before a district judge.

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Mideast LGBT - Group reaffirms global justice

10-03-2008 18:15

Despite daunting problems, a new organisation is working for sexual and gender diversity in Palestinian society

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10-03-2008 15:48

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday March 10th, 2008.

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thieving parasitic squat leeches trash rampART social centre

10-03-2008 15:14

Over the weekend one of the rampART collective caught friends of the neighboring squatters stealing the lead of the roof. Confronted, they justified their action by saying that the place was going to be evicted in a week anyway. Of course that's not actually true, there is no date yet for an eviction and who's is to say that an eviction attempt would succeed. It could have been months before the rampART was finally closed.

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Indy Global Report from Nablus on 10th March 2008 for Resonance FM104.4

10-03-2008 14:16

"This weeks Indy Global Report was edited in a 600 year old Turkish bath in the West bank city of Nablus. Amidst shisha pipes and steam,and men watching football, awaiting massage, concentration proved tough but not as tough as the guests on this week's Indy Global Reports.

Camera man Carlos Handal describes about covering Thursday's house demolition In Bethlehem, from under the green lazer sights of Israeli Snipers, he still managed to come away with the footage.

Reuters camera man, Nablus-ite, Hassan Teeti, talks about his work as a war camera man in Palestine and Baghdad.

This week in Palestine from IMEMC.org, brings you a general round up of news from across the West Bank and Gaza.

Indy Global Reports on Resonance fm104.4 from 23.00 until midnight, every Monday, inshallah!"

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Bristol Shelter Workers Strike

10-03-2008 10:03

Today, Monday 10th March 2008, workers from Bristol and South Gloucestershire Housing Aid Centre’s, and their supporters, will be holding a picket line/protest 12pm-2pm outside Shelter’s regional office – 1 York Court, Wilder Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2.

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March 8th:Newcastle Women make shoppers think twice about buying beauty products

09-03-2008 23:00

A woman's collective caused confusion in make-up counters in department stores and pharmacists in city centre Newcastle on 8th March, International Women's Day. Stickers with slogans such as, 'You're beautiful without make-up' were placed on mirrors and beauty products. Leaflets offering 'free beauty tips', with some of the costs of using beauty products, were inserted into women's magazines in city-centre newsagents.

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Prosecution stamps feet and refuses to admit defeat in Fitwatch trial

09-03-2008 22:43

The Fitwatch climate camp trial came to an abrupt halt on Thursday after the senior CPS lawyer sulked about losing an application to an unrepresented defendant and decided to take the District Judge's decision to Judicial Review.

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Truth Revolution Radio: Indymedia and 9/11 truth

09-03-2008 21:43

The Truth Revolution Radio show from 1st March 2008 (adverts edited out) is attached. Guests include Indymedia activists Chris Burnett from Los Angeles and Chris from Sheffield Indymedia.

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Flash mob reclaim space in Birmingham's Bull Ring (article & video)

09-03-2008 21:38

At 1.30pm on Saturday 8th March, upwards of 80 people took part in a flash mob in the Bull Ring (TM) in Birmingham city centre, where people froze in 'suspended animation' for 5 minutes.

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Gaza Emergency Demo, London March 8

09-03-2008 18:53

After events in Gaza in recent days in which Israeli attacks have killed 115 Palestinians and wounded 350, the British Muslim initiative, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Palestine Return Centre called for an emergency demonstration opposite Downing St on Saturday afternoon.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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SERCO picket, London March 8, 2008

09-03-2008 17:44

As a part of the International Women's Day, Feminist Fightback, All African Women’s Group and Black Women’s Rape Action Project picketed the SERCO
Research Institute in central London, demanding the immediate closure of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Million Women Rise 2008 - London, March 8, 2008

09-03-2008 17:35

The London march of this International Women’s Day event saw several thousand in an all-woman march from near Marble Arch to Trafalgar Square for a rally. The march was aimed against all forms of male violence against women, and supported by women from a very wide range of groups.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Tibetan Uprising Day: London 8 March 2008

09-03-2008 17:07

Around a thousand marched from the Chinese Embassy to a Whitehall rally to remember the Tibetan uprising 49 years ago and to demand that Gordon Brown meet the Dalai Lama and end British silence over Chinese human rights abuses in Tibet.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.