UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Mental Health Resistance Network Statement
04-03-2015 20:26
FoI hearing re Huntingdon Life Sciences
02-03-2015 17:32
The fight for transparency over the government's decision to provide banking and insurance services to failing animal testing company Huntingdon Life Science continues on Friday 27th March in Manchester. Rhonda Moorhouse will again be appealing for a positive response to her request for full disclosure regarding this matter. Her last appeal was dismissed by a tribunal last May.Wrexham joins National Day of Protest Against WCA & Maximus
02-03-2015 16:35
A national day of action was called for Monday 2 March to protest the ongoing use of the discredited Work Capability Assessments to determine fitness for work or otherwise and to leave Maximus, the company that has taken over from Atos to carry these out, in no doubt that resistance will be ongoing.
2 March is the first working day of Maximus' new contract and protests were held in 30 UK towns and cities including here in Wrexham and at Maximus HQ in central London. A solidarity demo was also organised in Toronto at the offices of Maximus Canada. In Wrexham, there was a small but highly visible protest outside the DWP and Medical Examination Centre on Grosvenor Road.
Audio: #RealMedia launch new UK network of independent media
01-03-2015 21:04
Operation GRhone and the Badger hunt
20-02-2015 19:39
Repost of our article about police repression in Bristol, and our response...Original:
https://bristolabc.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/operation-grhone-and-the-badger-hunt/
Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday
18-02-2015 16:10
Second UK-based Israeli drone factory shut down by occupation
17-02-2015 09:59
Job Centre Protest in Cambridge Disrupted by Job Centre Security.
06-02-2015 23:17
Protest against top sponsor of live hare coursing in Ireland
31-01-2015 19:48
Dale Farm - What we could have done differently
24-01-2015 17:25
Repost from: http://rabble.org.uk/how-i-think-we-should-have-resisted-the-eviction-at-dale-farm/
ANTIFA GATHER TO STOP EDL, FEB 7th, DUDLEY
21-01-2015 00:57
Call out to all anti-fascists in the UK to make it down to DUDLEY TOWN CENTRE, 1pm, FEB 7th.Real Media Gathering – 28th Feb – Manchester
20-01-2015 21:36
Join us in Manchester for a massive independent media fair including big speakers, discussions, networking and media training workshops.
Kevan Thakrar Urgently Needs Your Support!
20-01-2015 00:05
Despite being found not guilty of attacking three prison officers, but instead that he acted in self-defence after months of racial, physical and psychological abuse (a ruling that goes against prison officers is VERY unusual in a court) Kevan Thakrar continues to be held in the prison services 'Close Supervision Centres' more than five years later.Campaign In Support Of Kevan Thakrar – by John Bowden
19-01-2015 23:48
The abuse of psychiatry in pathologizing and punishing “difficult” prisoners has a long and disturbing history in the British prison system and is probably the worst example of human rights abuse suffered by some prisoners labelled “challenging” and “unmanageable”.Southern Health NHS Trust, a Drowning and a Call for Better Care Everywhere
19-01-2015 15:59
A young man is left in a bath to drown while in the care of Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, led by Chief Executive Katrina Percy, who sees no reason to resign in spite of ongoing failings at facilities she is ultimately responsible for.
A recent inspection report at the only remaining in-patient service on the same site has identified problems that include extremely stressed and exhausted staff on duty and on call for unacceptably long hours because of under-staffing. This is not a problem confined to Southern Health, but what are we going to do about it?
Calais news and anti-fascist demos 25/01
17-01-2015 20:59
The anti-racists network in UK and France have called for counter-demonstrations on both sides of the Channel, in Calais and Dover nest Sunday 25th January.Please come numerous! . Many thanks in advance to all those who will attend.
Je ne suis pas Charlie!
13-01-2015 20:59
“Je ne suis pas Charlie – I am not Charlie!” That is the defiant note being sounded by anarchists in France in the face of the sickening wave of nationalistic reaction sparked by the Charlie Hebdo killings.23/24 January: 2nd Manning Truthfest in west Wales
09-01-2015 21:24
Remember the Manning Truthfest in January 2014? Well, it's back!
A troupe of Irish musicians, actors and activists supported by Afri will travel across the Irish sea to Pembrokeshire on 23rd January for a solidarity weekend for Chelsea Manning and her Welsh-Irish family.
Solidarity demonstration Brixton Prison New Year’s Eve 2014-15
03-01-2015 12:31
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/embed/c8Vuk2w2OVs