London Newswire Archive

22-02-2005 02:05 | 0 comment(s)

SPEAK Launches Big Dress against Trade Injustice

SPEAK (the Student Christian Justice Network, not the Oxford folk) today launched their "Big Dress", the largest garment in the world, to a crowd of 400 students, ministers, mps and corpo-journo's. Doubling as a creative petition, with individual squares painted at festivals and freshers fairs nationwide, it is designed to draw attention to the horrors of the modern garment industry. Read more >>

22-02-2005 00:37 | 2 comment(s)

radical folksingers from U.S. looking for places to play!

Evan Greer, Ryan Harvey, and Mark Gunnery three anarchist folk/punk artists well known in the United States, and members of the newly formed Riot-Folk! Records Collective are planning to come to the UK for a short tour before the G8 Protests in July. They are looking for contacts and venues to play, be they squats, infoshops, bars, houses, streets, or at riots. Read more >>

21-02-2005 21:18 | 2 comment(s)

prada fashion show target of pracarity action in Milan

Monday 21st, Milan Italy

Milans fashion week looks set to be plagued by protests this week. Today, animal rights activists targeted Pradas store in Milan to highlight the cruelty of the fur industry. In the evening Prada was again targetted, this time by protesters drawing attention to the issue of chainworkers and parcarity within the fashion industry...
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21-02-2005 15:08 | 4 comment(s)

London Demos against the Bid.

Friday night ride and Saturday march. Read more >>

21-02-2005 15:06 | 0 comment(s)

Anti-Bush Protests in Belgium (20th jan sunday reports)

Yesterday, 20th Feb, between 500 and 1000 people protested against Bush in front of the Brussels Stock Exchange at the start of his European visit. A big banner saying "The world holds you accountable", made clear that many hold him responsible for the death and pain of thousands of people. Posters with the names of countries that were bombed by the US illustrated this statement.

For more reports over the next two days see:

http://belgium.indymedia.org
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21-02-2005 12:59 | 1 comment(s)

G8 Detention Centres, Anti-Terror Stop and Searches and Special Court Sittings!

Several press reports over the weekend and today (21st Feb) have indicated the following: Read more >>

21-02-2005 12:11 | 10 comment(s)

Iran attack imminent!

Scott Ritter Says US Attack on Iran Planned for June.

How can we stop these mass-murdering neocon maniacs?

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20-02-2005 22:13 | 2 comment(s)

UNISON General Secretary election nearly over - vote Jon Rogers in a big hurry

There is urgency about the whole thing now, people: the postal vote for the UNISON General Secretary election closes on 28 February, which is just a week away. Read more >>

20-02-2005 12:38 | 3 comment(s)

London Animal Action’s bank account frozen

On 21 January 2005, London Animal Action (LAA) had its bank account frozen by a High Court order. The reason given was that LAA is liable for £197,000 of court costs from an injunction taken out by Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) under the Protection from Harassment Act. LAA’s bank account contained several thousand pounds that had been raised to buy a minibus. Read more >>

20-02-2005 08:33 | 0 comment(s)

G8 and OILWATCH interview on Climate Summit Cop10

The Convention on Climate Change is the platform where the world decides what to do about "the Climate". Every year the climate big wigs give birth to pretty horrible things in the name of "sustainable" development. Kyoto was one of those. With russia about to ratify the Kyoto climate change agreement... Read more >>

20-02-2005 01:46 | 0 comment(s)

no human patents pls

no not to human patenting

humane rights for all species

..a timely article in the steading fight against slavery
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20-02-2005 00:57 | 16 comment(s)

"Stuff London - Back Paris instead!"

Paris 2012 a much better, cleaner city to hold the Olympics Read more >>

19-02-2005 19:47 | 15 comment(s)

Reports from the TUC Pensions Day of Action - a day which hit the right note!

Undeterred by cold winds and an endlessly predicatable, last-minute, anti-union mainstream press campaign (yawn), public-sector workers around the country attended rallies and lobbies on Friday to protest at government plans to downgrade public-sector pensions schemes. Read more >>

19-02-2005 14:53 | 1 comment(s)

Pictures of Cambridge TUC Pensions March and Rally

Yesterday (February 18th, 2005) several hundred UNISON members, assembled in Cambridge Market Square to defend their pension rights. Read more >>

19-02-2005 08:57 | 3 comment(s)

Art of War : Black History Month

Black History Month Read more >>

18-02-2005 19:18 | 3 comment(s)

THE LEEDS UNIVERSITY COKE BOYCOTT CONFERENCE.

The International Campaign against Coca-Cola

Building the Network and Mobilising the Boycott

1-6.30pm, Saturday 26 February 2005

Leeds University Union.
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18-02-2005 17:00 | 5 comment(s)

international women's day - iraqi women's speaker tour

NUS Women's Campaign and No Sweat are organising a speaker tour around International Women's Day to promote solidarity with the new women's movement in Iraq. The main speaker will be Houzan Mahmoud, UK representative of the Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq. Read more >>

18-02-2005 15:59 | 0 comment(s)

Victory to the Intifada

Report of the Victory to the Intifada picket of M&S Oxford Street London 17 February 2005 Read more >>

18-02-2005 15:17 | 0 comment(s)

VTI picket of M&S London 17 February 2005

Report of the Victory to the Intifada picket of M&S in London 17 February 2005. Read more >>

18-02-2005 15:16 | 0 comment(s)

Israeli Interpol Fugitives Feted in Washington

Russian billionaires known as "Oligarchs" who have taken up residence in Israel, wanted by Interpol for bilking millions of Russians out of their life savings, were recently at the national prayer breakfast in Washington DC, attended by George Bush. American media covered this up -- and far more Read more >>