London Newswire Archive

17-09-2007 13:48

Syria's Smoking Gun

Brief update from Syria concerning Israel's attack on North Korean nuclear stockpiles Read more >>

17-09-2007 11:57 | 1 addition

NUJ photographer challenges police

Solicitors Hickman & Rose have served papers on Sir Ian Blair the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis for "Battery" (assault) and breaches of the Human Rights Act, relating to freedom of expression and assembly, on behalf of the photojournalist and NUJ member Marc Vallée. Read more >>

17-09-2007 09:53

Red Saunders remembers the battle of lewisham

Red Saunders, a founder member of Rock against Racism recounts his experiences of "The Battle of Lewisham" Thirty years ago this year Read more >>

15-09-2007 19:34

This Was Forever, a film about the Allotments in the Olympic Games pathway.

On September 23, Manor Garden Allotments will be bulldozed to make way for a pathway for the Olympic Games in 2012. The site in Hackney Wick, next to the River Lee, has been there for 100 years and was originally bequeathed as a gift to local people to grow their own food. The local community is now scattered and has lost a great resource. Over the past year, film maker Mark Aitken and a group of teenagers have produced a film in tribute to the plot-holders and this special place. Read more >>

15-09-2007 18:34

Israel neonazis and museum

Israel es un estado neonazi. Ya se que esto les escandaliza pero es que a los judíos-sionistas no les gustan los espejos para comprobar en lo que se han convertido. (Sorry for spanish) Read more >>

15-09-2007 13:52

Monopoly game hits wood green

cinema mergers get nasty Read more >>

15-09-2007 11:14

DSEi protest: Downing Street blockaded, pensioner and legal observer arrested

More police misbehaviour as a female pensioner and her legal observer were arrested during a lone silent vigil and blockade of Downing Street in protest at the DSEi arms fair. Read more >>

14-09-2007 23:31 | 1 addition

SOCPA Court report - Case dismissed

The SOCPA case against five activists who took part in the No More Fallujahs Weekend of action last October collapsed today at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court when judge Quentin Purdy found no case to answer and dismissed all charges against the five at the end of a protracted and at times farcical hearing which lasted almost four hours.

Previous court reports for cases related to the No More Fallujahs weekend here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371878.html
Read more >>

14-09-2007 17:18

Threats against alternative media

The “Ké Huelga Radio” is an free radio project, broadcasting in Mexico City at
102.9 FM which began in 1999, during the early weeks of the student strike of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico Read more >>

14-09-2007 14:16

Prison-death demonstration: HMP Send, Surrey - 20 September 2007

A prison-death demonstration will be held outside HMP Send, Surrey
on Thursday 20 September 2007, at 1.30 pm, for the duration of the afternoon
to protest against the death of a young mother (Lisa Doe, aged 25)
who died in the care of the jail on 11 September 2007
Reporters and photographers are welcome to attend
Read more >>

14-09-2007 13:42

DSEI pix from Tuesday.

The saga of the Space Hijackers and those tanks.

In Pictures. Read more >>

14-09-2007 12:30 | 1 addition

Jon Snow: "Iran, Iran, Iran"

The eyes of the world are pointed at Ahmadinejad; it is Iran in the dock, not the country that has invaded the two countries to the left and right of Iran. All of Jon Snow's questions were straight from White House press releases. Read more >>

14-09-2007 05:17

What Is Podemos In Bolivia?

The United States is not going to invade Bolivia like it did with Iraq. PODEMOS and Jorge Quiroga make this option unnecesary. They will do the job of selling off the country Read more >>

14-09-2007 00:22 | 3 additions

Disrupting the DSEi Dinner at the Dorchester Hotel

The arms dealers went ahead with their celebration of death but they indeed noticed the presence of a couple of hundred concerned citizens. Read more >>

13-09-2007 18:05

DSEi: Princess of Wales fountain dyed blood red for victims of cluster bombs

Anti-arms trade protesters have today dyed the Diana Princess of Wales memorial fountain blood red in outrage at the continuing sale and use of cluster bombs, and the presence of cluster bomb manufacturers at the Defence Systems & Equipment International (DSEi) arms fair, currently taking place at the ExCel centre in East London. Read more >>

13-09-2007 17:39

DSEi related arrest in Rampart Street, London

Several people were searched in the street. One had their vehicle searched and was arrested on the basis of tools found. Read more >>

13-09-2007 15:31

Mori will be in town to hold a "drug chat"

I think we should all leave our comments for Jacqui Smith , she wants our opinion . Read more >>

13-09-2007 15:07

Parliament Square Peace Camp Protestors in Court

On Friday 14th September at Horseferry Road Magistrates Court, five peace protesters will stand trial for attending an ‘unauthorised’ peace camp in Parliament Square]. Read more >>

13-09-2007 14:47

Fires burn During APEC Summit 2007.

The APEC summit achieves nothing for Indigenous Australia. Millions of dollars have been spent for World leaders to purchase uranium in style, at precisely the same time that Australian Army and Police are sent to invade and occupy indigenous communities in the outback. Outback Communities are forced to sign mining leases under duress from a tyrannical Government refusing to legislate against Genocide, in direct violation of The United Nations convention on Genocide. Read more >>

13-09-2007 13:43

September 11: The empire and its lies

Cuban President Fidel Castro on Wednesday reflected on the six long years since the painful September 11 episode in the US, about which it is known there has been deliberate disinformation... Read more >>