UK Promoted Newswire Archive
March of the Corporate Undead, Oxford St
28-02-2009 12:08
Superb turnout for SHAC City Shakedown
28-02-2009 09:30
Yesterday the HLS share price tumbled a further 10% whilst in London an estimated 350 people turned out yesterday for the SHAC City Shakedown.SHAC City Shakedown: 300 people march through London
28-02-2009 09:16
Corporate Watch: Direct Action Against Israel – Part 2
28-02-2009 08:29
Last month Corporate Watch looked at the private companies in the arms trade, agricultural produce, banks and media sectors that have been targeted by Palestine solidarity protesters and campaigns (see Part 1 here). This month we take a detailed look at supermarkets and other food chains.
Ornella Sabin, 1of 9 activists on trial for decomissioning Brighton arms factory
27-02-2009 22:58
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Willis cleaners protest grows
27-02-2009 22:30
Sacked cleaners and their supporters held their third and largest protest on Thursday, outside insurance brokers Willis in the heart of the City of London. Willis's cleaning contractors Mitie had brought in redundancies and overnight working over Christmas, just when the cleaners had achieved the 'living wage'.And a new video tells the story so far....
Northern Climate Rush visit to UK coal headquarters
27-02-2009 21:23
Keep Sheffield Station open to the public!!!
27-02-2009 21:22
A Strange Case of Double Standards
27-02-2009 20:38
Another child has died from male circumcision in England - apparently the third such death in 25 months - and boys (from babies to teenagers) are being regularly treated in hospitals for serious injuries or infections resulting from ritual genital cutting. NORM-UK, the charity concerned with the foreskin, calls on the government to implement fully the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and give both boys and girls protection against ritual wounding - in all its forms.No Losar
27-02-2009 20:35
The statement issued by the Central Tibetan Administration, the Tibetan government in exile, regarding the Tibetan new year reads as follows: "The CTA will hold only customary religious programs to mark Tibetan New Year, taking into consideration the continuing repression in Tibet and the ruthless crackdown last year (2008) which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of Tibetans and thousands imprisoned. We appeal to all the departments concerned and offices of the administration not to organize any lavish celebrations such as hosting feasts, dance parties and lighting firecrackers."Full article | 1 addition | 10 comments
Council's £50,000 attack on volunteer-run social centre
27-02-2009 19:46
Press release from The Common Place, for immediate release 7pm 27th Feb 2009This Week in Palestine -Week 09 2009
27-02-2009 16:50
Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 21st through February 27th, 2009.
Flying people to torture and death
27-02-2009 14:19
A Brighton family was forcibly deported to Algeria last week on an Air Algérie flight from Heathrow. The first attempt to deport them on a British Airways flight three days before had failed, allegedly because there was 'a problem with their tickets.' Both times campaigners from Brighton and London gathered at the airport and leafleted crew members and passengers to try and get them to protest on board, which may explain why the deportation was cancelled the first time. Earlier that week, about 50 Iraqi refugees refused asylum were not so lucky to have 'tickets with problems' or protesters leafleting at the airport. Instead, they were surreptitiously taken through the VIP entrance at Stansted airport and put on a special 'ethnic charter flight' operated by a Czech airline, which carried them to Erbil in northern Iraq. A few deportees were taken off the plane, just before it took off, after last-minute interventions by solicitors and MPs. One deportee was flown back to London after winning a High Court injunction.Campaigners to Agrexco: We don't want your bloodstained flowers
27-02-2009 14:15
As Palestine solidarity campaigners continue to hold protests and take direct action against Israeli exporter Carmel-Agrexco, the Israeli government tries to 'confuse' the boycott campaign against the company by allowing it to export flowers grown in Gaza in a Valentine-special PR exercise.Climate suffragettes rush annual coal industry awards
27-02-2009 14:09
Victory for Plymouth Occupation!
27-02-2009 13:09
The following is an extract from their blog.
Defeating Complaints, Creating Rage by John Bowden
27-02-2009 09:57
The liberal argument that internal prison justice and the equitable resolution of prisoners' grievances is a critically important factor in maintaining the equilibrium and legitimacy of prison regimes, while also preventing the widespread embitterment of a group of people already significantly in conflict with the system, is obviously true in a particular sense. In the closed and hidden world of prison where the guards and system they enforce wield an omnipotent degree of power over prisoners the manner in which prisoners' complaints and grievances are dealt with will inevitably determine whether that power is frequently abused or mediated with at least some semblance of fairness and lawfulness.Crisis is Business as Usual! - Protest the G20
27-02-2009 09:41
McDonalds Campaigner in Court on Monday – Cambridge
27-02-2009 00:33
Campaigner in court for Mclibel anniversary protest!Climate Rush Landmark Coal Industry Decision
27-02-2009 00:22
The Landmark hotel management were less than happy about the righteous fury brought down on them by the dirty coal scum and said they'd not be accepting bookings from their ilk again.
Cops managed to arrest one bloke for not dressing the part and the suffragettes kicked arse yet again. his evening at the Landmark Hotel .