London Newswire Archive

05-10-2007 16:05

7th Annual Claudia Jones Lecture by Theologian and BroadcasteDr. Robert Beckford

Seventh Annual Claudia Jones Memorial Lecture dedicated to the memory of the pioneer of Black journalism in Britain. This year's lecture will be delivered by Dr Robert Beckford, Reader in Black Theology and Popular Culture at Oxford Brookes University. An award-winning broadcaster for Channel Four, Dr. Beckford's lecture will explore how understanding "whiteness" offers an important strategy for community cohesion and democratic inclusion.
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05-10-2007 13:02

London Total Oil's offices targeted again this morning

Total Oil's London HQ was targeted again this morning as workers made their way into the building in order to highlight the company's involvement in financially supporting the Burmese military junta. Read more >>

05-10-2007 12:15 | 2 additions

Burma: Pressure Shows Results : (Keep It Up: Sat :Tate 11am to T Sq)

last night the burmese "junta" agree to open talks with the democratically elected burmese peoples representation, after a meeting with the UN rep . . . .
The media spin of "doom doom" in the west, with the odd "deprioritisation" of this sort of mould-breaking news - with its echoes of the end of apartheid in south africa, or the irish peace processes "key moments" - is suspicious, but . . . . breaking news???? MUCH TO DO, keep up pressure, but FIGHT THE HYPE too! Read more >>

05-10-2007 11:24

Prisons await a judgment

A report by the Forum for Preventing Deaths in Custody found that there were 600 deaths in prisons, police cells, secure hospitals and young offender institutions last year, 200 of which were self-inflicted. While the numbers of suicides in prisons fell marginally (from 78 in 2005 to 67 last year), more could still be done to protect prisoners. Read more >>

05-10-2007 09:31

Chalk4Peace - bring chalk with you

THE STREETS are OUR MEDIA
- WE have TOTAL access -
YOU CAN Make a difference

The pavements are an untapped media resource through which we ordinary peace loving folk can share our messages, hopes, dreams, ideas and create a new momentum towards peace - at a certain point there is critical mass in the cultural conversation which transforms into ACTION
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05-10-2007 09:24

Burma solidarity: Total Oil HQ protest ongoing

Burma solidarity protesters are picketing Total oil's HQ in Cavendish Square, London to highlight the company's complicity in the brutal regime's bloody hold on the Burmese population. Read more >>

05-10-2007 09:08

Crassness at the core of the CROSSRAIL scam exposed!

The ECONOMIST website has 'let slip' in the last 20 hours that Gordon Brown's now trumpeted decision to 'give the go-ahead' to the CRASSrail scam was, indeed, a scam. Read more >>

04-10-2007 21:52

Secret work on new nuclear warhead at Aldermaston

Insiders report that the Atomic Weapons Establishment has already commenced work on a successor warhead to Trident, despite there having been no parliamentary debate or vote on the matter.
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04-10-2007 14:26

The Atmosphere Is Not For Sale

I feel like an eco-fraud. There’s me thinking that we should be protecting the land, the sea and the atmosphere from the profit motives of large corporations, and then a big group of like-minded people come along with a signed document saying the opposite and repeatedly hit you round the face with it.
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04-10-2007 14:20

Hackers: Unite For Burmese Freedom!

One very effective way of removing power from a despotic regime is by taking over the tools of control. You can bring down the 'master' using the master's tools - you just have to be clever about it - and persistent.
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04-10-2007 13:51

Solidarity with housing rights activsits in FRANCE

Impressive police operation target an action planned on the 3r of October ,
International Day for the Right to Housing and against property speculation
in Paris.

http://www.globenet.org/dal/
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04-10-2007 10:03

The Grateful Slave by Paines Torch

This posted article should be mandatory reading in all schools in the common wealth.
Beginning in pre-school. Read more >>

04-10-2007 09:46 | 1 addition

Government sits on damning Heathrow noise report

Biggest study for 25 years shows numbers affected by noise could be 10 times higher than admitted

Campaign groups urge Aviation Minister to ‘end the lies and the deceit and publish the report Read more >>

04-10-2007 03:10

Run on the bank @rampART

With the run on the Northern Rock bank still creating major ripples in the banking world (

http://news.google.co.uk/news?hl=en&q=run%20on%20the%20bank%20northern%20rock&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wn) we thought it was a good excuse to show the film 'Money as Debt' - an animated explanation of the history of money and banking... Read more >>

04-10-2007 00:51

Update on Smash EDO Action - EDO Workers forced to break window to get to work

At 5am Wednesday morning a barricade was built across Home Farm Road, EDO's security fence was breached, superglue was inserted into the keyholes of the factory doors and two activists locked on to the front doors of the factory... Read more >>

03-10-2007 23:36

SOCPA - Gordon Brown's 100 days promises in tatters

when gordon brown seized power in june, he issued statements promising that in his first 100 days he would review the laws controlling protest in parliament square.
mainstream media widely reported the lifting of bans on protest.
tomorrow is his 100th day - his promises have turned out to be stonking great lies Read more >>

03-10-2007 22:59

camden market development plans - government e-petition response

more than 36,000 people e-petitioned the government about plans to 'improve' camden market

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/camdenmarket/
the government has just announced its response
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03-10-2007 17:52

We Will Defy Government Ban on Anti-War March

Stop the War President Tony Benn has delivered a letter to the
Home Secretary Jacqui Smith to make clear why our Troops Out
demonstration at Parliament on Monday 8 October will take place,
despite the ban by the government and police. It is essential
that the voice of the antiwar majority in this country is present
at Parliament when Gordon Brown makes his long awaited statement
on Iraq. Read more >>

03-10-2007 11:54

Protest Total Oil this Friday in London

CALL TO ACTION: 'Die-in' and demo at London TOTAL Oil HQ over Burma links
FRIDAY 5 OCTOBER
8:30 - 10:30 am
33 Cavendish Square, London, WC1
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02-10-2007 22:02

Brown's Britain: 'Mother of Hypocrocies'

So Britain lectures Burma on the right of people to protest, the U.N., sends an envoy there and the U.S. - whilst behaving in Iraq and Afghanistan as Burma's Junta, shooting, beating, torturing, imprisoning without trial - go in to broken record mode about the right to peacefully demonstrate and 'freedom and democrocy'. Meanwhile, the British government, under the new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown (who as Chancellor of the Exchequer write the cheques for the Iraq and Afghanistan bloodbaths) has instructed the police to ban a peaceful march and Lobby of Parliament - on 8th October, the day that Parliament re-convenes after the summer break - demanding that British troops leave Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more >>