UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Remember Fukushima London demo, Saturday 15 March 2014
12-03-2014 14:31
Remember Fukushima Demo, London, Sat. 15 March 2014Half-Crimean single mum in Bristol discusses Ukraine crisis
12-03-2014 00:26
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Londoners tell Boris 'Our City is Not for Sale'
11-03-2014 09:49
Week of Action : Police Spies Out of Lives
10-03-2014 19:56
Women resist police attempt to strike out undercover police abuse cases
Court Hearing has been confirmed as taking place on 18th – 19th March 2014
This is the hearing which was postponed from last November, and involves a fresh fight against secrecy.
12 March: Wandsworth - Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace speaks about Pvt Chelsea Manning
10-03-2014 15:22
The Cost of Exposing the Truth: The Case of Pvt Manning
with speaker Ben Griffin of Veterans for Peace UK.
London event highlighting plight of Afghan women.
10-03-2014 12:45
18 March
An evening in support of the Organisation Promoting Afghan Womens Capabilities (OPAWC) one of Afghanistan's longest active and radical women's groups. Food will be provided. www.opawc.org
Speakers:
Ewa Jasiewicz has recently returned from Kabul and will share what she has seen of life for Afghan women 12 years on from the overthrow of the Taliban by NATO.
Guy Smallman has been working with OPAWC since 2010 and will do a slideshow presentation of OPAWC's projects in Kabul and Farah province.
Facebook event:
https://www.facebook.com/events/216561981870950/
Five minors face long years for a crime that unlikely ever happened
10-03-2014 10:42
Tear Down The Walls: Prison Abolition Speaking Tour
10-03-2014 00:51
08.03.2014 - Newcastle Anti Badger-Cull March + video
09-03-2014 21:40
American Fukushima
09-03-2014 18:13
On 3rd anniversary of Fukushima, two authors report American reactors are unsafe at any speed. Shocking risk. Plus audio from March 2 XL Pipeline dissent protest in D.C. & letter from youth. Radio Ecoshock 140312ALF Activists Jailed in 1980s Appealing Convictions Due to Police Involvement
09-03-2014 12:16
Wave of UK protests to mark anniversary of Fukuhima disaster
09-03-2014 10:28
Letter from John Bowden about his parole application
08-03-2014 13:17
Please sign the petition to the Parole Board for England and Wales and the Scottish Prison Service to release John BowdenThe Psychological is Political
06-03-2014 10:17
Socially, the dual strategies of exalting consumerism and increasing control have been central to the neoliberal project. Consumerism and control can be viewed as opposite sides of the same coin. People are encouraged to aspire to ever greater levels of conspicuous consumption, modelled after the lifestyles of a celebrity elite that is plastered all over the media and broadcast into everyone’s living room. Shopping, which was once a means to an end, has been transformed into the UK’s favourite leisure pursuit. At the same time, however, more and more people are excluded from the workforce (sometimes forever) by the movement of industry to areas of cheaper labour, and many others are stuck in low paid work with no prospect of advancement. Large portions of the population are only able to achieve the widely advertised ‘ideal’ lifestyle through illegal means. A highly unequal, consumer-oriented society entices people to break the law, which was illustrated dramatically by the riots in London and other English cities over the summer of 2011
British Syrians & Friends in Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
05-03-2014 14:07
THREE YEARS ON … REVOLUTION MARCHES ON
On the 3rd anniversary of the Syrian revolution, join us to march for the Syrian struggle for freedom & to call for an end to Assad’s killing machine
Please join us and invite your friends to show our solidarity with innocent Syrian people being killed by Assad's regimeDate: Saturday 15 March 2014
ALERT: BRIXTON tomorrow 6 March. Massive police social cleansing operation.
05-03-2014 13:08
Stop Workfare In Its Tracks – Join The Week Of Action 29 March – 6 April 2014
05-03-2014 12:52
In April George Osborne’s mass workfare scheme will begin. Unemployed people will be sentenced to 780 hours community work simply for being unable to find a job. Not even lone parents with young children are to be exempt from the scheme which will see so-called charities like Groundwork UK and the Salvation Army paid by the tax payer to force people to work for free. Part time workers and those currently genuinely volunteering will also face being sent on unpaid work.
Vote for the Biggest Biomass Baddie! Take part in the Biomess Awards ceremony!
03-03-2014 12:37
Veggies Backs the Badgers!
03-03-2014 10:55
Nottingham's ethical, all-vegan catering campaign Veggies has been on the road twice to Birmingham in the past few days, to show support for our scapegoated badger friends who are under attack from the Tory government. The government are trying to implement an appallingly misguided and underhand policy to cull one hundred thousand badgers in an effort to eradicate Bovine TB. As well as killing an innocent, and much loved member of British wildlife, the policy also flies in the face of the best scientific advice and public opinion, both of which are overwhelmingly in opposition to a cull.
So on Saturday 22nd the Veggies team took their well-known colourful trailer and set up in Victoria Square to cater for several hundred people that were rallying there throughout the day to vocalise their dissent. Badger campaigners were very happy to see Veggies and throughout the day's events the team shifted some 200 burgers, 100 samosas, lots of cakes and pasties and were able to give a donation of £120 towards the organisational costs of the event.
The march was very well covered by various media, with both ITV and BBC reporting that over 1,000 people took to the streets to voice their peaceful objection to the misguided badger cull, as well as detailed coverage from the local Birmingham Mail.
A Veggies volunteer joined the march carrying a tray full of their 'Samosas for Social Change', a sight that has been seen many times over the years on grassroots marches and demos (Veggies celebrates their 30th anniversary later this year!)
It was a motivating day full of compassionate badger campaigners from all walks of life and different organisations. Speeches were given by members of Care for the Wild, League Against Cruel Sports and the Hunt Sabs Association, amongst others.
Then (because the Veggies crew love badgers so much!) they headed back out to Birmingham this Tuesday 25th just passed for the second anti-cull demo. This was outside the ICC where the national NFU (National Farmers' Union) conference was taking place. The NFU is a collection of individuals and companies responsible for undertaking the failed badger culls and planning to undertake more, as well as lobbying for less humane ways to kill badgers such as gassing and snaring.
This time Veggies had a more informal set-up, giving out hot drinks, pasties and cakes by donation. As ever, cold people were very happy to see the team and a great day was had networking with other groups and joining in the chanting going on outside the venue ("Shame on you, NFU" has quite a good ring to it!)
Today (Friday 28th Feb) the findings are back from the Independent Expert Panel appointed by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to help ministers evaluate the effectiveness, humaneness and safety of the Gloucestershire and Somerset pilot culls. The culls were categorically a failure in both effectiveness and humaneness.
For more information on the badger cull issue please see the 'Stop the Cull' website: http://badger-killers.co.uk/
Read about Viva's Dump Dairy' campaign: http://www.viva.org.uk/what-we-do/our-work/badgers
And of course, see what other campaigning adventures Veggies is going on this year over on their website: www.veggies.org.uk
Worldwide March Against Corruption – London pics and report
03-03-2014 09:50
