UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Reading Joins The Resistance
03-10-2010 21:57
As stormy winds lashed rain against the windows, people from across Reading and beyond gathered in the Town Hall last week with one shared aim: to join the growing movement against cuts to public services.40 Animal Rights Activists Invade Brick Lane
03-10-2010 18:28
40 Animal rights activists yesterday spontaniously invaded Brick Lane, London, to send out a clear and strong message that the sale of real fur will not be tollerated.Communique S26
03-10-2010 15:23
COMMUNIQUE S26
Welcome to the resistance,
On Sunday the 26th of September 2010, the Officer Training Corps’ (OTC) stall at the St Andrews Student Association’s Fresher’s Fayre was completely disrupted at around 13:00 and for at least an hour.
Israeli Settlement Company Ahava Blockaded
03-10-2010 14:22
Israeli West Bank settlement company Ahava's Covent Garden store was blockaded from 11.30 until after 3pm today by pro-Palestine activists who had locked their arms inside a concrete block. Police chipped through the lock on and arrested both activists for aggravated trespass. Read more ...
See also report and pics in IMC-UK, and reports of previous protests and blockades of Ahava's store in Covent Garden.
The blockade began at 11.30pm when the activists and supporters entered the store and managed to establish the blockade despite resistance from the shop assistant, who attempted to push the activists out of the shop. Once the lock on was in place the mood became calmer and after 15 minutes the police arrived and removed all supporters from the shop. Supporters then documented the action, engaged with members of the public and held a banner on display by the shop.
At around 2pm the police began to dismantle the lock on with a hammer themselves instead of calling on support from the cutting team, by 2.30pm they had smashed through the lock on and arrested the activists for aggravated trespass. The store remained closed until after 3pm when all supporters left the scene.
Today's action was part of a wider campaign against the company, both in London and internationally. The prosecution against activists involved in two earlier similar actions collapsed in August when the shops manager failied to turn up for the court case.
A regular picket of the shop takes place every other Saturday, the next will take place again next Saturday (9th October) between 12 and 2 pm.
Send-off for Bristol vehicles joining the “Roads to Hope” convoy to Gaza
03-10-2010 12:22
From the car park at the front of BDA, Russell Town Ave (opp City Academy School), Lawrence Hill,Bristol BS5 9LT
We will be loading aid from about 10.00am onwards and the vehicles move out at 12.00 noon
Medical aid, children's toys and clothes, stationery (paper pencils etc), school textbooks and messages of support.
We are inviting local politicians and the media
Please be there to give a good send-off, bring whistles, musical instruments, flags and banners.
Bristol Convoy to Gaza
In the hope that we can do everything in our power to alleviate the suffering of the ordinary people of Gaza, Bristol Gaza Link will join The Road to Hope convoy to Gaza.
Dr. Judith Brown, Jade Lemon, Ebrahim Musaji and Mohamed Elhaddad will be driving aid vehicles from London on 10.10.10 through southern Europe and crossing over by ferry to Tripoli in Libya. This land convoy will be among several different convoys, arriving by land, air and sea to Tripoli. In addition the Libyan Convoy Al Quds 5 will also join Road To Hope and we will all depart from Tripoli on 17th October via Egypt to arrive in Gaza at the end of October 2010.
We will be honoured by your support for this humanitarian mission. All funds will be used to purchase the vehicles that will be filled by educational donations to people in Gaza.
You can support the Convoy of Hope by
• donating online : http://bglink.ning.com/page/donate-1
• Text message: Text VIVA to 84424 to donate £3
• by sending a cheque to: Bristol Gaza Link. 5 Russell Town Avenue, BS5 9LT
• by Bank transfer: Coop Bank. Account name “Bristol-Gaza-Link”. Account number 65360523, Sort code 08-92-99.
Ahava shut down by Lock-On
02-10-2010 12:44
The Ahava store in Covent Garden's Monmouth Street has been shut down since 11.30 this morning after BDS campaigners entered the store and locked onto a concrete block. As this report is being written police are attempting to chip away at the block with a hammer. It lloks likely to take them some some time
Riots in Amsterdam against the squatting ban
02-10-2010 12:43
Notttingham mobilises to save services
02-10-2010 10:24
As cuts in services begin to bite, resistance is springing up across the country and Nottingham is no exception. Locally there are a number of campaigns around a number of issues. A well attended meeting organised by the Trades Council was the catalyst for the emergence of a new anti-cuts coalition called Notts Save Our Services.
On the newswire: Notts Save Our Services is launched | Budget cuts: There has to be a better way | Report on Broxtowe anti-academy meeting | Notts anti-cuts meeting report & anarchist leaflet | Nottingham Students Unite to Fight Education Cuts | Resistance to new academy in Broxtowe
Notts SOS launched on September 29 as millions of workers take to the streets across Europe in a Day of Action to protest against government-imposed austerity measures. In Spain, trade unionists held the first general strike in eight years, while in Brussels up to 100,000 demonstrators marched against austerity, while a small group clashed with police.
This Week in Palestine Week 39 2010
02-10-2010 10:03
Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for 25th, September through October 1st, 2010
Solidarity Against the EDL in Leicester
30-09-2010 21:24
The EDL are planning to hold a demonstration in Leicester on Sat 9th Oct. We are confident that the people of Leicester will be able to defend our community against this racist provocation. However, we call on antifascists to come to Leicester and show solidarity. The EDL's recent Bradford shindig may have shown just what a joke they are but they are not finished yet. Come to Leicester and make sure the EDL are even more demoralised.
The wheels have really come off the EDL wagon in recent times. Their "big one" in Bradford turned out to be all talk, with only a few hundred turning up and many having to flee from the local youth. The previous softly, softly approach of the police and some sections of the public has hardened against them after their many violent drinking sprees. It seems that Leicestershire police are following this approach, calling for a ban of their march.
Not even the most gullible people believe the EDL's "peaceful protesters" line any more. Leicestershire police say they have had intelligence that the EDL intend to attack a mosque in Leicester before marching into Highfields, one of the city's biggest Muslim communities. We have to be sceptical about "police intelligence", and this is almost certainly some wanker mouthing off on the internet, but it gives you an idea of what some of the EDL want to achieve. It would certainly be amusing to watch the EDL try to invade Highfields but I don't think they would survive.
The other laughable myth that the EDL have invented about themselves is that they aren't racist. The evidence for this is that they have two (yes - two!) Asian members (a racist Sikh and a sectarian Glaswegian) and a handful of black members. The reality is that they are founded on racist ideas about Muslims and, as a result, attract large numbers of racists as well as neo Nazis. In Leicester they think that they will be able to divide and conquer by stirring up tension between Muslims and other Asians. Most Sikhs and Hindus understand that the EDL are their enemies, as shown by the EDL attack on a Hindu temple in Dudley. Leicester has good relations between communities and the EDL will fail yet again.
This is a call out for people in the Leicester area and beyond to come on the 9th and make sure there is an overwhelming presence of people opposed to the EDL. They suffered a big defeat in Bradford, and are almost universally hated, but they are still crawling on. Let's make sure they never come to Leicester again.
Palestine Today 09 30 2010
30-09-2010 17:37
Palestine Today 09 29 2010
29-09-2010 18:13
Activists from The Black Fish cut nets to free dolphins in Japan
29-09-2010 11:04
Palestine Today 09 28 2010
28-09-2010 16:47
Coach company will not carry EDL 'scumbags' again
28-09-2010 15:44
A coach company that transported English Defence League supporters to a rally in Bradford last month has expressed its deep regret and promised it will not do that again in the future.In an email to Corporate Watch, which exposed the affair earlier this month, Ausden Clark's operations manager Adam Frost said: “We are deeply sorry we got involved in the transportation of such narrow-minded individuals […] and we are NEVER going to transport this group again.”
Palestine Today 09 27 2010
27-09-2010 17:54
Urgent support to stay removals to DR Congo
27-09-2010 16:46
These 3 DR Congolese nationals are due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.
All three are currently detained and have built their lives over the past several years in their local communities since applying for asylum.
Please support the campaigns for Papy Munona, Ruddy Lelo-Masiala and Wanda Tete, Model letters to the Home Secretary are available from their campaign pages, for direct links see end of message.
Kenya Airways flight KQ101 is their notorious daily flight to doom for Africans refused asylum in the UK.
I Tete Wanda-Mizolo, Home Office reference T1104204 nationality Congolese of DR Congo has been living in the UK since January 2005. I'm at the moment detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday 28th September at 20.00 on flight KQ 101/KQ554, I need people in the UK to help me by campaigning to 'Stay' my removal from the UK because it is not safe for me tp return to DR Congo. I'm worried to rape and the suffering for tortures which I have been before. I have a right to live and I feel save and protected in the UK which is the country that knows Human Rights and in the UK it says ladies first.
I am asking you all to Email/fax Kenya Airways for Pappy, Ruddy and myself, the attached model letter is for all three of us.
Tete Wanda, , Yarl's Wood, Monday afternoon,
mizowanda@yahoo.fr What you can do to help / take urgent action NOW!
1. Email, fax and phone, Sam Okwulehie, Group Area Manager Kenya Airways. Urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala, and to consider the airline's reputation. A model letter letter ThreeDR Congolese.docKA.doc is attached. You can copy, amend or write your own version - if you do please quote Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.
Put as much pressure on this airline as you can, to make them consider if it's worth the damage to their reputation to continue as one of UKBA's deportation airlines.
E-mail:
contact@kenya-airways.com Fax: 020 8745 5027 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8745 5027)
Phone: 020 8759 7366 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8759 7366)
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Wrexham: Young people tell the BNP where to go
25-09-2010 17:36
This Week In Palestine Week 38 September 15-21
24-09-2010 17:28
This past week between 174 and 253 trucks entered the Gaza Strip daily.This past week nine mortar shells were fired into Israeli territory, eight on one day. Some of them contained phosphorus. In response, the Israeli Air Force attacked terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip.
An aid convoy organized by Viva Palestina left for the Gaza Strip. It is currently in France and from expects go to Italy, Turkey, Greece and Syria. From the Syrian port of Latakia it expects to sail to the port of El Arish. It expects to be joined by convoys from Middle East countries. The convoy will drive overland from El Arish and enter the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing.
This Week in Palestine week 38 2010
24-09-2010 17:27