UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Round up on recent anti-Shell Resistance in Mayo

13-03-2006 23:03

Details of various events which have taken place in the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland in January, February and early March of this year.

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Shepton Mallet 2nd eviction coming!!!!

13-03-2006 21:05

The second Shepton Mallet, anti tescos, anti corperations, pro trees protest site is still going strong! But the word about town is the eviction will take place if not Tuesday 14th then definatly Wednesday 15th. We need people!!!!!!!

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George Fox Six Case Moved to PRESTON - Solidarity needed

13-03-2006 14:22

In a move to attempt to limit the impact of local solidarity protests, the authorities moved the George Fox Six case away from from Lancaster and to Preston this morning.

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Sorbonne University Eviction Video + Pics and more background to CPE resistance (france)

13-03-2006 13:30

For the last week protests, occupations and direct action against the CPE in France has been increasing. Hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in hundreds of demonstrations. Railways have been blockaded, airports disrupted, and around half of France's universities have seen occupations. Clashes with police have occured throughout the country.

Much international publicity has come from the occupation and violent eviction of the Sorbonne university in Paris (video below). With the media making the obvious 1968 comparisons, riot police stormed the university building firing tear gas at around 4am on Saturday after hours of resistance from the occupiers and their supporters outside. There were around 30 arrests. The university had been occupied since Tuesday night with tensions increasing. On Friday police batton charged students who were blocking a road near to the university.

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Pants To Poverty

13-03-2006 13:12

Saturday 11 March, 2006. Volunteers strip to their underwear outside the London Royal Exchange to launch Pants To Poverty underwear.

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UK companies in Iraq: new report from Corporate Watch

13-03-2006 11:23

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AWE Aldermaston: Block the Builders Strike Again!

13-03-2006 09:33

Despite a massive police presence, including mounted police, around the Atomic Weapons Establishment at Aldermaston, Block the Builders [1 have again managed to interrupt the morning traffic entering the nuclear weapons factory in Berkshire

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FBI Charles Rasner names Austin Indymedia, Food Not Bombs Terrorist

13-03-2006 04:48

And then a perpetrator or bunglar on the side of militaristic over reaction in the Waco tragedy has the nerve to call indymedia free speech supporters and a group 'food not bombs' that gives away vegetarian meals 'terrorists' ! ? Truly when the Bush Regime confines 'free speech' to a cage or 'corral' what more does Mr. Rasner want in his rage to gut the Constitution and the First Amendent ?

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Last chance to save 100 year old copper beech tree

13-03-2006 00:30

Oxford City Council will meet on 20th March to decide the fate of a historic copper beech tree which has stood in Oxford University's science area for well over one hundred years. The meeting comes after a long battle to save the tree from being felled to make way for a new biochemistry building.

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"We're not here for benefits. Let us work!"

12-03-2006 16:48

Over 50 protesters gathered in the snow around Grey’s Monument in Newcastle last Saturday to demand the right to legal work for asylum seekers.

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Latest News on the Struggle Against Shell in Mayo, plus details of contractors

12-03-2006 11:22

Regular readers of Indymedia UK and certainly of Indymedia Ireland will be aware of the staunch resistance meeting Shell in the West of Ireland.
This article is an update on recent events. A backgrounder on what is going on can be found here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/02/333920.html

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Anarchist and Conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan is free!

12-03-2006 01:38

Anarchist gay conscientious objector Mehmet Tarhan has been released (March 9th, 2006) following the decision of the Military Criminal Court of Cassation located in Ankara. Mehmet has been in Sivas military prison since April 2005 and was sentenced to four years of imprisonment by the local military court.

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Autonomous Spaces at Athens ESF 2006 -open public ephemeral zone

12-03-2006 00:53

During the first week of May 2006 the European Social Forum will take place in Athens. At the same time the open assembly for the creation of the “Autonomous Spaces” / Open Public Ephemeral Zone will use a university space in the centre of Athens and will produce an ephemeral autonomous zone that will try to bring together all the grassroots anticapitalist, autonomous and antiauthoritarian collectives, groups and movements.

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Freedom to skate protest (pics and report)

11-03-2006 20:54

Following a proposal by police to outlaw skateboarding in Swindon town centre, a group of teenagers today held a protest to show their objection to the ban.

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Nottingham opposition to the M1 widening

11-03-2006 14:40

Nottingham No Widening M1 group went out to Kegworth to spread the campaign message.

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Saving Iceland Activists visit Rossport; report, interview & photos

11-03-2006 14:27

Four activists from the Saving Iceland campaign visited Rossport this week meet with Shell to Sea campaigners from the area and the solidarity camp.

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Ukrainian noborder activists call for solidarity actions

11-03-2006 02:29

10 or 11 refugees from Uzbekistan applied for asylum in Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities arrested them and handed them over to Uzbekistan's government infamous for its use of tortures and death penalty. It's the latest, but not a unique, case of such a deportation. Ukrainian activists ask comrades from other countries for help.

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Little London PFI scandal - how Leeds City Council blackmailed a community

10-03-2006 20:47

Leeds City Council's announcement yesterday that nearly two-thirds of tenants have backed their proposed £35m PFI regeneration scheme in Little London is both expected and misleading. Here is the full story of how it happened.

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Youth Against Heavy Industry invade offices of Icelandic National Power Compnay

10-03-2006 14:23

The Reykjavík offices of the much loathed Landsvirkjun, the Icelandic National Power Company, were gatecrashed yesterday by over thirty angry young people who banged drums, shouted and blew whistles in defiance against Landsvirkjun, heavy industry and ecocidal dams in the Icelandic highlands.

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EDO cases collapse

10-03-2006 13:52

Charges against eight activists (charged with a range
of public order offences) were dropped by the Crown
Prosecution Service yesterday afternoon (THURS 10th
Mar). The eight were arrested on May 31st during a
demonstration outside Brighton arms dealers EDO MBM.