London Newswire Archive

15-07-2005 19:10 | 0 comment(s)

Reviewing Pre-1950 Iraqi History: Part 1

Part 1 of a short summary of pre-1950 Iraqi history for US & UK anti-war movement activists. Read more >>

15-07-2005 13:37 | 4 comment(s)

News Junkie Blog Items (7/15/2005)

From across the pond, news items which appeared in today's News Junkie blog.
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15-07-2005 11:56 | 2 comment(s)

Salma Yaqoob on foreign policy and london bombs

Although Respect is not something i support, Yaqoob and Galloway have recently been brave enough to be open about their views in a time when not many people seem to be criticising Blair's lack of political analysis of the london bombs. Read more >>

14-07-2005 23:40 | 0 comment(s)

Aust-Gov't Failure Card: Community

The controversial plan was yesterday raised by Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who suggested a national ID card to prevent unlawful detention similar to that suffered by Cornelia Rau and Vivian Alvarez. Read more >>

14-07-2005 19:21 | 6 comment(s)

PEACE CAMPAIGNERS ATTACKED BY PRIVATE POLICE FORCE

Jaya Sacca, a long term peace activist was remanded in Lewes Prison this afternoon (JJULY 14TH) by District Judge Arnold. On Wednesday 13th July he was ‘arrested’ and handcuffed by members of Guardian Security hired by arms dealers EDO MBM. He was ‘detained’ by the security firm for allegedly stepping onto the road which constitutes the ‘no protest zone’. At the time no police were at the scene. Mr Sacca is also alleged to have assaulted one of the security guards when four of them ‘arrested’ him as attempted to leave the area. Read more >>

14-07-2005 15:42 | 6 comment(s)

DISARM DSEi public meeting - 30th July 2005

Feeling lost after the g8? Need a new direction, a new focus? Looking to fill the void? Don’t fear, dsei is near!

PUBLIC MEETING 2pm Saturday 30th July 2005 Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube Holborn) Read more >>

14-07-2005 13:31 | 0 comment(s)

Ambassadors express sympathy to all those affected by the blasts in London

American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca of the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) expresses its deepest sympathy to all those whose lives have been touched, directly or indirectly, by the explosions.
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14-07-2005 08:56 | 0 comment(s)

The London Bombings: Vigil - George Square, Glasgow 4pm Sunday 17 July 2005

Called by: Stop the War Coalition, Scottish CND, Muslim Association of Britian Read more >>

14-07-2005 06:00 | 1 comment(s)

IS KARL ROVE A TRAITOR?

He blew CIA agent Valerie Plame's cover. Here's how he's going to cover that: HE WILL SAY: "ALL I TOLD REPORTERS IS THAT JOE WILSON'S WIFE RECOMMENDED HIM" (to check on the phony Saddam-Nigeria-uranium connection).

We are at war, declared by the president. Karl Rove, if he makes the above admission, caused the deaths of CIA operatives and compromised their expressed mission in the defense of the nation in that war. That would make him not just a felon but liable to prosecution for T-R-E-A-S-O-N (imagine Tammy Wynette or Aretha Franklin singing that out). Read more >>

14-07-2005 04:04 | 2 comment(s)

Isolation at prisons should be eliminated

"The pressure and insults the inmates and their families are faced with at the F-type prisons are unacceptable and cannot be kept in the dark anymore. They virtually have no rights. It is clear that hiding this problem would only lead to the creation of a cruel political regime and would have no contribution to the democratization of our country." (KO/EA/YE) Read more >>

14-07-2005 02:40 | 2 comment(s)

The Ancient Wisdom of the Breath

This may be the beginning of the most fascinating journey you have ever undertaken because it begins inside yourself. Read more >>

14-07-2005 01:42 | 6 comment(s)

Friday 6pm London vigil, 'London, Fallujah, no more bombs'.

'Their war, our dead', Read more >>

14-07-2005 00:18 | 2 comment(s)

Suicide bombers may target PM: UK

But it just underlines criminal acts by fascist governments invading other countries. How can HoWARd claim not to be complacent on the one hand but on the other exploiting the possibility by sending more guerrillas and militants off to war in Afghanistan?

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13-07-2005 15:08 | 1 comment(s)

East Enders Petition Ken Livingstone: No Arms Dealing in East London

A 'people's delegation' of East Londoners opposed to the DSEi arms fair today presented a petition to Ken Livingstone and the London Assembly. Read more >>

13-07-2005 14:44 | 3 comment(s)

London bombs community discussion - your help needed

The rampART social centre is planning on hosting some kind of discussion event for people to talk about their concerns, fears, proposals etc in relation to the London bomb attacks.

It is particually hoped that it would enable a dialogue between different elements of the community in order to avoid or mitigate against ill-placed retribution and revenege attacks and to combat attempts to fuel hate and distrust by the some elements of society and the media.

It is also hoped that together we can identify and be aware of moves by the state to capitalise on the fear being generated in the wake of the attacks to clamp down even further on civil libities and introduce new draconian legislation and ID cards etc. Read more >>

13-07-2005 12:36 | 0 comment(s)

Legal Support Group Statement on the Policing of the G8 Protests

During the protests against the G8 over 700 people were detained or arrested by the police, often overnight, and around 366 people have been arrested and charged. Read more >>

13-07-2005 11:56 | 2 comment(s)

Media Alert: The mysterious case of the vanishing World Tribunal on Iraq

A blanket of almost total media silence covers Bush and Blair’s crimes in Iraq, and their support for relentless corporate exploitation around the globe. These war criminals continue to be presented as world-straddling father figures who could "solve" poverty in Africa and so become the beloved figureheads of a "great generation".
Virtually the entire British media ignored the deliberations of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul from June 24-27. Read more >>

13-07-2005 10:48 | 2 comment(s)

STOP British Airways Flight BA302 at 6:20am Thursday 14 July

re-posted from NCADC News Service

Charles Pouaha must stay!

Urgent: Please help stop the removal of Charles Beaudelaire Pouaha On British Airways Flight BA302 at 6:20am Thursday 14 July "I escaped Cameroon and came to England on the 26th of November 2002, but instead of finding refuge here I have been drowning in problems; since I came to this country and presented myself to immigration as an asylum-seeker, I have suffered the evils that I was trying to forget yet again. I have been held in detention since the 29th August 2003. Because I know my situation is very dangerous in Cameroon, and I know how failed asylum seekers who are deported to Cameroon are treated, I resisted deportation." Charles Pouaha

This will be the sixth attempt to remove Charles.
Charles has been fighting for two and half years for the right to asylum in Britain. Charles survived detention & torture in Cameroon only to have his case for asylum refused at every turn, despite all the evidence he has provided of what happened to him and how much he is at risk if he is returned. Read more >>

13-07-2005 10:32 | 3 comment(s)

There Are Flowers At The Station

This short poem is dedicated to those who died or were injured and those who lost or had loved ones injured in the London bombings. The poem suggests that we try to grieve for our loved ones, the injured and our city without resorting to the terrible witchhunts of the past to relieve our anger. Peace Read more >>

13-07-2005 09:50 | 2 comment(s)

Interview on Terror Drills still on BBC 5 drive til Thursday

Conventionally blinkered minds have been trying to rationalize away the eerie fact of the terror drills at the same time and places as the real explosions. They even cast doubt on the authenticity of the audio clip on Alex Jones website. Read more >>