UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

The 300-350 Show: Forests & Copenhagen pt.2

01-11-2009 14:47

As Europe stands accused of blocking the protection of intact natural forests and introducing logging-friendly language into the UN draft climate deal, we take a look at some of the key components that should be in an effective deal for saving the world’s forests. As Nathaniel Dyer of the Rainforest Foundation UK explains, saving forests is about a lot more than simply throwing money at the problem. Land rights, governance and demand management are also critical. And payment for forest protection should come from public funds rather than carbon markets.

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Families and Friends at Downing St

01-11-2009 12:45

Families and Friends of those who have died in suspicious circumstances in custody held a demonstration opposite Downing St in London calling for justice and for properly independent investigations into deaths of people in the care of police and prison offers. Saturday 31 October 2009.

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Stop Deportation Day

31-10-2009 11:36

International blockade in Brugge and Vottem, Belgium. Translation from Dutch Indymedia.

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Brian Haw Arrested

30-10-2009 23:28

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SchNEWS 697 - A Liberal Helping

30-10-2009 19:45

SchNEWS looks critically at the Guardian's expose of a police spotter card for so-called 'domestic extremists'... plus, it's been another hot week for climate protesters in Britain as high-emissions coal power is targeted, a round-up of Halloween direct action protests in Britain against the arms industry and animal testing, Britain is deporting refugees back into the dangerous warzones they fled - and a group sent back to Iraq have found themselves being sent back to Britain, and more....

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This Week in Palestine -Week 44 2009

30-10-2009 17:24

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 24th to October 30th, 2009

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Another night on the Royal Mail picketline...

30-10-2009 15:51

Another night on the picketline...

Another week of broken promises and recriminations over the negotiating table for the UK postal service and it's workers on the frontline.

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Proof of the impact of the SHAC campaign

30-10-2009 15:12

For anyone who doubts the validity of the "SHAC method", this page of the Plymouth report should cast away any uncertainty.

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Palestine Today 102909

29-10-2009 17:00

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday October 29th, 2009.

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Palestine Today 102809

28-10-2009 17:38

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday October 28th, 2009.

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Report and 20 photos of Stop the War march and rally on Saturday 24th October

28-10-2009 11:15

Here is my report with 20 photos of the anti-war march in London on Saturday 24th October 2009. More photos from the rally and from the subsequent march to Downing Street will follow shortly.

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Didcot protest over - 20 arrested

28-10-2009 09:44

At 4.30 am, the nine occupiers of the chimney stack at Didcot power station came down and were immediately arrested. That brings the total arrests to 20, after the 11 locked on to the coal conveyors were arrested in the first 24 hours.

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Palestine Today 102709

27-10-2009 18:17

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday October 27th, 2009.

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York Students Disrupt BAE Recruitment

27-10-2009 17:18

A group of nearly 20 students took part in a non-violent intervention against the arms company BAE at today's University-wide careers fair, by staging a die in and handing out leaflets to passers by. The group, members of University of York's DISARM campaign, used the action to highlight BAE's impending trial for corruption.

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Machines locked-on to at Mainshill again in two days of continuous action

27-10-2009 10:25

At 7.30am this morning, two people locked-on to harvesting machinery attempting to make its way into Mainshill Wood, in an ongoing struggle to stop work at the site and stop Scottish Coal's attempts to turn the site into an opencast coal mine.

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LSE Students Disrupt Israeli Foreign Minister Lecture

26-10-2009 21:40

Students and activists protested and disrupted a lecture tonight at the London School of Economics (LSE) by Daniel Ayalon, the controversial Deputy Foreign Minister of Israel.

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Campaigners protest outside the Home Office against Iraq deportations

26-10-2009 21:32

About 50 people gathered outside the Home Office in central London demanding the immediate release of Iraqi detainees who were deported to Baghdad two weeks ago but were returned to detention after the Iraqi authorities refused to admit them. A number of them have been on hunger strike since Monday, 19th October, in protest at their continued detention and inhumane treatment. One of the hunger strikers addressed the crowd from detention via a phone-loud speaker link and read out a statement by the hunger strikers.

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Unlock the Camps- demonstration for Sri Lanka

26-10-2009 19:14

Cambridge calls for the release of a quarter of a million people from de facto detention camps in Sri Lanka.

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Palestine Today 261009

26-10-2009 17:45

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday October 26th, 2009.

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Two big barricades, two lock-ons and work stopped again at Mainshill Wood

26-10-2009 12:16

This morning at around 7am the access road being used by loggers and other contractors to gain access to Mainshill Wood was blockaded by residents at the Mainshill Solidarity Camp.