London Newswire Archive

06-07-2007 14:24 | 1 comment

Mental Hill Bill

The debate in the House of Lords earlier this week on the highly contested Mental Hill Bill lacked vital information from the CRE, but ended with a call for a legal challenge to be mounted, on account of the Bill’s failure to meet the legal requirements of Race Relations laws. Read more >>

06-07-2007 13:37 | 1 comment

Saving Iceland conference and protest camp

Between the 7th and 8th of July a conference is taking place followed by a protest camp and a 'summer of dissent' in Reykjavik, Iceland. The country's pristine, and often protected, wilderness is being systematically destroyed by the aluminum industry and national power company in their hunger for cheap energy and increased profits. The environmental impact is vast, both globally and locally. We struggle against these crimes, and if you wish to support us, visit our website and join the fight to save Europe's last remaining wilderness.

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06-07-2007 13:06

Do You Want Journalists at the Camp for Climate Action?

The Camp for Climate Action media team are putting together a proposal for the media and cameras on site policy, to be discussed at the July gathering.

Here is a questionnaire which looks at some of the possible concerns and solutions about media on site, and gives you a chance to say what you thought was good or bad about last year's strategy. Read more >>

06-07-2007 12:31

Power Up! Benefit Party

POWER UP!

A BENEFIT PARTY TO CREATE ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY BASED DIY ENERGY Read more >>

06-07-2007 12:12

SOCPA - The Movie at the Prince Charles Cinema 15/07

SOCPA - THE MOVIE
1pm Sunday 15th July
Plus Q&A with Director Rikki and SOCPA activists.

The Prince Charles Cinema

http://www.princecharlescinema.com Read more >>

06-07-2007 09:23

Gatwick No Border Camp 2nd Meeting

We invite all people who want to get involved in organising the
No Border Camp at Gatwick Airport (September 19th-24th 2007)
to a second public meeting Sunday 22nd July. Read more >>

06-07-2007 01:49 | 1 comment

Pride 2007. Pitiful counter demos.

As always, this years Pride demo attracted the unwelcome attention of society's more unpleasant elements. The protests were so pathetic they would hardly be worth mentioning had they not been so fucking comical.

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06-07-2007 00:28 | 1 addition | 6 comments

Nafeez Ahmed: Whose Bombs?

How to understand the attempted but largely failed terrorist plots uncovered since last Friday? Police officers on June 29 dismantled two car bombs made from gas canisters, gasoline and nails, parked in central London’s major theatre and shopping districts. A day later, two men rammed a Jeep Cherokee, filled with flammable material, into a terminal entrance at Glasgow airport. The series of attempted attacks follows hot on the heels of an attempted al-Qaeda attack in the United States earlier in June.

The chronology requires further probing, and indeed, preliminary analysis raises some unresolved questions.

06-07-2007 00:07

Pride 2007 photos and report.

This years Gay Pride saw one of the biggest turnouts ever despite two factors that would have all but destroyed other events.

Firstly the less than efficient al-Quaida wannabe bombers planted two ‘devices’ on the route of the march two days before. This could have led the Police to cancel the procession or a least reroute it through a less glamorous part of town. Then there was the rain that tipped down by the bucket full from beginning to end. Fortunately the LGBT community and their supporters are not so easily put off proving yet again that by comparison heterosexuals just don’t know how to party.
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05-07-2007 22:15

UK`s Shame of Elderly Living in Poverty

Only the bitter tones of vinegar from the whole community, young & old will put an end to this genocide, a social struggle worthy of only the Biggest of Rebellions. Where is the Million strong March against the war on the Old?
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05-07-2007 21:38

25/06/07: Monday Love at Parliament Square Peace Camp

On Monday 25 June 2007, the Monday Love crew descended on Parliament Square to give out tunes and good vibes to the Peace Camp. Read more >>

05-07-2007 21:24

Jammin Film screening 24/7 with Groove Armada

JAMMIN FILM LAUNCH PARTY
Groove Armada Soundsystem, Doc Brown, and The Jammincrew
feature at the first public screening of the ‘Jammin’ film.
The Launch of monthly jam sessions @ The Lodge.
www.myspace.com/jammincrew Read more >>

05-07-2007 17:09 | 3 comments

Namibian Seal Cull/Harvest - Killing baby seals for profit

80 000 seal pups to be killed for their pelts, 6000 bulls for their genitalia. Namibia systematically exterminating the Cape Fur Seal species. Read more >>

05-07-2007 16:25 | 1 comment

Urgent Call-out - Stop the deportation this evening of Christine Mulumba!

This is a last minute call-out for anyone in London and available to go to Heathrow airport today to try to prevent the deportation of Christine Mulumba to the DR Congo on Ethiopian Airlines flight ET711 (due to leave from Terminal 3 at 21.35) by asking passengers and/or airline staff to refuse to have an asylum seeker being deported on their flight... Read more >>

05-07-2007 15:09

British Airways Shame London Pride

A very wet Saturday and security concerns after the failed car bombs failed to damped the spirits of London Pride 2007, and neither did the pathetic little protests by the National Front and their brethren from the Christian Right. Beer and broll'ies were the order of the day, with the pink pound ensuring plenty of both flowed through the damp streets of London.

(Content and photos may be used freely under the Creative Commons, non commercial, share-alike license. Copyright remains with the author) Read more >>

05-07-2007 15:08

Keep your local rights alive -government plans to stop you stopping plans!

The Government wants to fast track new power stations, runways and other major developments – whether people want them or not. Read more >>

05-07-2007 13:02 | 1 addition

Urgent Action for British resident in Guantánamo Jamil El-Banna

Time is running out for North London resident Jamil El-Banna: the Americans have found him innocent and are prepared to release him BUT if the British government does not act fast and allow him to return to his family in the UK, he will be returned to almost certain detention and inhumane treatment in Jordan, his country of origin. Read more >>

05-07-2007 11:36

No Border organising camp meetings report

A really constructive weekend of meetings was held on 30th June and 1st July to plan the No Border camp near Gatwick in September. Around 30 activists from around Britain came to London to discuss and share ideas and skills to figure out how we are actually going to do this!

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