London Newswire Archive

12-08-2007 18:59 | 1 addition | 3 comments

Public health issue as police blockade climate camp site

For the last couple of hours police have been obstructing access to the climate camp site near Heathrow airport and have refused to allow even water or toilets to be taken onto the legally occupied site. Read more >>

12-08-2007 17:17 | 1 addition

Independent climate camp week info line

A temporary and experimental phone service has been launched especially for the week of the Camp For Climate Action. It provides easy access to news taken from the indymedia newswire and info from the climate camp web site for people who are visually impaired or unable to read a computer display for other reasons.

0207 043 3783 Read more >>

12-08-2007 16:25 | 1 addition | 1 comment

Climate Camp police "wrong to use terrorism legislation"

We know they're not terrorists, you know they're not terrorists and the police know they're not terrorists.

That was the message being given out to journalists today as reports came in of people suspected of travelling to Climate Camp being intercepted and searched under terrorism legislation outside local railway stations. Read more >>

12-08-2007 09:28 | 6 additions | 2 comments

Climate Camp Arrests - people needed on site

Reports are coming in of a first arrest at 2.45 am this morning. Read more >>

12-08-2007 01:40 | 4 additions | 3 comments

Climate Camp Land Occupied

Climate Camp activists met at a half dozen locations around London this afternoon, moving during the evening in vans to various sites near Heathrow.

Just after eleven the groups converged on a large field opposite the airport. Within minute tripods were erected and occupied with a large banner reading "Climate Camp, No Airport Expansion" slung between the two. Read more >>

11-08-2007 20:06 | 1 comment

Global deflation

"Greed has taken hold of their hearts and senses, and, as if in a dream, they walk wild-eyed to the precipice." Read more >>

11-08-2007 17:03

Undercover Notes From Oaxaca: Cops, lies and videotape

It’s been a tough two weeks. From election coverage, police monitoring to murder for timber.

But now, as I should be on a bus out of this hellhole masquerading as a happy tourist resort, but a zone of paranoia for an undercover journalist, I am compelled to get all this down. For one thing, purely to document the situation should I not make it out of here. Read more >>

11-08-2007 09:42 | 1 comment

NUJ takes tough line on review of police powers

The NUJ has argued strongly in its submission to the current review of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) that there must be no further erosion of the position of journalists.

In its response to the consultation, the union has stressed the importance of the freedom of the press to report and to photograph in their crucial role as the eyes and ears of the public, as recognised in the European Convention on Human Rights. Read more >>

11-08-2007 05:31 | 1 comment

An Open Letter To Bertie Ahern

An open letter to the current Taoiseach of Ireland regarding the M-3 motorway scheme. Read more >>

10-08-2007 23:04 | 1 comment

Khilafah from Below, not Above

Convergence around Democratic Revolution Read more >>

09-08-2007 22:36 | 6 comments

Call for Direct Action at the Camp for Climate Action

Activists campaigning against the impact of aviation on climate change have today released a website giving the low-down on Heathrow airport and the industries which encourage its environmentally damaging business. Read more >>

09-08-2007 21:19

Day of leafleting at Heathrow: Thurs 16th August

A day of leafleting against the aviation industry - 16th August, Heathrow Read more >>

09-08-2007 18:27

The collapse of London Underground’s privatisation: Livingstone to the rescu

Metronet has been put into administration with debts of at least £2 billion. It had two of the three 30-year, £17 billion contracts under the Labour government’s hugely unpopular Public Private Partnership (PPP) programme to maintain and renew the London Underground rail network. Metronet’s owners, five international corporations, refused to put in another penny beyond their original £350 million commitment under the terms of the contract. Read more >>

09-08-2007 18:15

Anti DSEi Brick Lane Stall

Once again the Hijackers held an anti-DSEi and tank fund raiser stall on Brick Lane Read more >>

09-08-2007 17:40 | 3 comments

East End campaigner and G Galloway party activist Carole Swords arrested !

East End constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway ‘RESPECT’ party activist and well known campaigner for the protection of public sector provisions in the East End and for a democratic Tower Hamlets Council Carole Swords was arrested in the East End of London outside polling station being used for today’s council by-election for a vacant seat in the Shadwell Ward.

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09-08-2007 14:54

The ACE bank hoax - the film

An indymedia.be production

October 2006. A mysterious bank suddenly appears on the Belgian market. The bank is proud to invest in the arms industry, oil- and gas, nuclear power, agrochemicals and companies violating their workers' rights. ACE bank immediately provokes reactions. Read more >>

09-08-2007 12:36 | 1 comment

Why the AU Summit failed Afrika

The historic AU Summit in Accra failed to take the bold and radical steps that were needed to initiate the process of Afrika gaining true economic liberation and independence - this is what the grand arhitect of Afrikan Unity Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah advocated ironically in a similiar conference in Accra in 1965. Had the leaders then heeded Osagyefo's advice Afrika would now be a GLOBAL SUPER POWER able to determine its own affairs without White interference.
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09-08-2007 10:19 | 2 additions | 7 comments

Heathrow's Injunction - What it means

Everything you needed to know but didn't have a clue what to ask about Heathrow's injunction against protesters. Designed for the lay person, it is essential reading for climate campers. Read more >>