UK Promoted Newswire Archive
Fracking victory in Lancashire!
29-06-2015 16:16
"Back To Work Therapy, Is No Therapy At All"
29-06-2015 03:45
Meersbrook B&M Bargains Workfare Protest #BandMDayofAction
27-06-2015 17:36
Mass Sleepout in Solidarity with Newport's Homeless People
26-06-2015 06:52
Police are harrassing, bullying and arresting Newport's homeless people even more than usual, telling them that they will be clearing them out of Newport. They are using the 1884 Vagrancy Act and imposing impossible bail conditions. This stinks of a clean-up ready for the opening of a new shopping centre in November. A mass sleepout has been organised so that we can help these exceptionally vulnerable people.6 July: Join Smash EDO at Elbit Block the Factory mass action
26-06-2015 04:42
https://www.blockthefactory.org/ for updates and further info and follow @blockthefactory on twitter. Last summer’s assault on Gaza, which killed over 2,200 Palestinians, was one of the most brutal effects of Israel’s ongoing occupation and colonisation of historic Palestine. The massacre was carried out using drones manufactured by Israeli arms company Elbit Systems. In response, activists occupied Elbit’s factory in Shenstone, causing its operations to grind to a halt and costing Elbit over £100,000.
On 6th July, to mark the first anniversary of the assault on Gaza, groups and campaigners from across the UK are going back to Elbit’s factory to demand that the UK stops arming Israel. Join us for a day of creative action in solidarity with Palestine!
Supporting organisations have endorsed the call and will be there taking collective action to block the factory from making these weapons.
Defend Chelsea Manning & all whistleblowers!
25-06-2015 09:57
Defend Chelsea Manning & all whistleblowers!
Saturday 27 June, meet 12.15pm outside Baker St (march starts at 1pm)
Queer Strike, Payday, Compassion in Care, whistleblowers from Yarl’s Wood detention centre, women from the Julian Assange Vigil and many more...All Welcome
Ongoing weekly demo, Tuesday evenings at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill
24-06-2015 21:53
18.00-20.00 BST/GMT
Demos/vigils organised by the Campaign for the Accountability of American Bases.
Menwith Hill is the largest US spy base outside the USA. Run by the National Security Agency (National Reconnaissance Office also present), it is situated in the Yorkshire dales, approximately 8 miles from Harrogate adjacent to the A59.
Menwith Hill is the largest intelligence-gathering, interception and surveillance facility outside the USA. The base is unaccountable, secretive, and out of control of the UK government.
Independence FROM America
21-06-2015 21:33
Armed Forces Day North Wales: Report & Pics
21-06-2015 13:59
The Armed Forces Day 'family fun' extravaganza in Colwyn Bay's Parc Eirias went ahead on Saturday in intermittent drizzle and behind a prominent banner near the main gate stating what you'd have thought would be bleedin' obvious, but apparently to many punters wasn't: 'WAR IS NOT FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT'. As you'd expect of any attempt to disguise the brutal reality of war as fun and games, the event was at best conflicted and contradictory, at worst downright dishonest. With the stated aim of "recognising and honouring our armed forces and veterans" AFD is designed to leave no space open to question the legality or morality of the wars they've been off fighting in recent years, to ask whether warfare offers any real solutions for the problems we face, nor indeed to consider whether our various wars of aggression might conceivably be an aggravating factor in these problems.
In the end it was down to a handful of protesters to pitch up and create this space, right by the main entrance, and to break the illusion that everything in the military garden is rosy.
This event was held a week before official Armed Forces Day on 27 June. There's time to organise a presence at an AFD event in your area and it's well worth doing, however small. Even one person standing vigil at the gate can have a big impact.
March on Streatham Jobcentre June 26th
10-06-2015 19:06
Speaking to a BBC Journalist a DWP spokesman stated:
The government plans to place 350 psychologists in job centres by the end of the summer to help benefit claimants beat depression and get back into the jobs market.
Having learnt that Streatham Jobcentreplus is the site for a pilot of the scheme, the Mental Health Resistance Network have called a March on the Jobcentre for Friday 26th June.
Anti-G7 protests in Germany
08-06-2015 13:31
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Audio: No Platforming of Radical Feminists - @bindelj @TerrorizerMir @RadFemUK
06-06-2015 22:52
Resisting Fracking in Chester: Pics from Upton Community Protection Camp
05-06-2015 20:44
The camp is on organic farmland, Dutton's Lane, Upton, Chester CH2 2PE, the site of IGas's proposed test drill for coal bed methane. It was set up to protect the local community from IGas and, over a year later, is still going strong.
Visitors are welcome and guest accommodation is available on site, with plenty of room for camping too.
Wrong Decision - Bradley Mine Approved by Inspector
05-06-2015 13:09
Pictures from Borras anti-fracking camp
04-06-2015 15:18
Anti "Austerity" Demo in Cambridge.
02-06-2015 01:43
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No Platforming of Radical Feminists - A talk by Julie Bindel
01-06-2015 17:07
#KillBaharMustafa
24-05-2015 12:09
I didn't invent the hashtag, although I did think of it on the bus (and I don't have a smartphone). As it goes, I'm most certainly not in favour of killing Bahar, and I don't even think that she should be sacked.
This is not the first time that she has been the subject of media attention at Goldsmiths, the university where my eyes were forced wide open on a Social Anthropology course a couple of decades ago.
I can't say that I am entirely comfortable with her style of politics, whether it is the burning of Socialist Worker, or telling white people that they are not welcome at a union screening of Dear White People, a movie which I ended up watching alone in my front room, but might have got more from if I had watched it with others and there had been a discussion about it afterwards.
The Fuck Parade Strikes Back! - Reclaim Camden, Reclaim the Beats
19-05-2015 15:07
