London Newswire Archive

27-02-2014 00:30

Homes Not Jails!

I was at city hall at 09.30 and met with some of the overnight sleepers from a group from Beat On the Streets. They are concerned that homeless people are in danger of being criminalised.
They had camped on the grass area outside the City Hall, home of the London Assembly and London Mayor Boris Johnson. They were removed early this morning. There was one tent on the pavement when I arrived. Some of the group had left but those that remained were in good spirits. Read more >>

26-02-2014 23:17

Homes not Jails!

I was at city hall at 09.30 and met with some of the overnight sleepers from a group calling themselves Beat On the Streets. They are concerned that homeless people are in danger of being criminalised. Read more >>

26-02-2014 08:03

A BLOG ABOUT EXILES IN CALAIS

A new blog to inform about the situation of exiles in Calais, at the English Border, has been launched since the beginning of January, Passeurs d'hopitalités

http://passeursdhospitalites.wordpress.com/

Read more >>

25-02-2014 15:44

Campaigners support pensioner fined £440 for putting London arms fair 'on trial'

Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) has voiced its support for pensioner Sylvia Boyes, 71, who was fined £100, plus £340 in costs, by Stratford Magistrates Court. Sylvia was convicted for obstructing the highway as part of the mass demonstrations against the DSEi arms fair in 2014. Read more >>

25-02-2014 14:53

Children Are Screaming To Be Heard

The Children Screaming To Be Heard Conference The Annual Conference to find solutions in the legal field to give children parents and grandparents their rights back. Read more >>

25-02-2014 11:46

Biomess Awards: Vote and Alternative Awards Ceremony

On 9th/10th April, the biggest corporates in the European biomass industry will be meeting for a conference in London. On the evening of the 9th, they will be treating themselves to a gala dinner and awards ceremony. Join us in showing contempt for this celebration of the profits of a few at the expense of many, by participating in our Alternative Awards Ceremony - and vote for the Biggest Biomass Baddie beforehand. Read more >>

24-02-2014 13:56

Just back from Kiev, Gabriel Levy will be speak on the 'revolution' in Ukraine

Just back from Kiev, Gabriel Levy will be speaking about the 'revolution' in Ukraine Read more >>

23-02-2014 18:41

A Background of Ukraine Politics

analysis of the Ukraine unrest Read more >>

21-02-2014 12:37

Water Cannon “Consultation” at London City Hall 17th Feb 2014

On Monday evening, more than 200 people packed a City Hall meeting room to take part in a consultation event over Met Police plans to purchase three German water cannons costing £200,000 to be ready for use on the streets this summer. Read more >>

21-02-2014 10:09

Charges dropped against DSEi protestors

On Tuesday 18 February 2014, the CPS dropped its charges against the activists arrested during the day of action against the DSEI Arms Fair on 8 September 2013. Different activists had been charged with different offences including obstruction of the highway and obstructing a police officer.

20-02-2014 13:39

Atos Kills - Archway Demo

There were 140 actions across the country on February 19th 2014.
This is my account of the one I attended at Archway, North London. Read more >>

18-02-2014 22:54

Launch of Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS): 27 February 2014

We invite you to the launch meeting of the Campaign Opposing Police Surveillance (COPS).

Thursday 27 February 2014, 6.30pm

Diskus Conference Centre, Unite House, 128 Theobald's Road, Holborn, London, WC1X 8TN Read more >>

18-02-2014 16:19

Genocide Of 165,000 Geese And Mute Swans Planned In New York

Please help stop New York from slaughtering 165,000 geese and mute swans. Read more >>

18-02-2014 15:41

Waterways 'Charity' Evicts Vulnerable Pensioners : 28 days notice, for simply co

The Canal & River Trust has outraged a boating community in East London, after its commercial subsidiary, BWML, issued a 28 day eviction notice to a vulnerable elderly couple who had simply followed the company's prescribed complaints procedure. Read more >>

18-02-2014 11:25

Boycott Workfare Welfare Action Gathering

Boycott Workfare’s welfare action gathering on Saturday was a massive success. 80 people from groups across the country came to participate in the day of workshops based around info and skill sharing on the various welfare issues we face. The programme was packed, with sessions on JSA, ESA, housing, fuel poverty, and more, with people remarking on the difficulty of deciding which workshop to attend when there were clashes. We organised the gathering because supporting claimants to know and enforce their so-called rights, and claimants organising together and shaping the campaign, has always been a major part of what we do. For this to happen effectively local mutual support groups are key (it was from a London Coalition Against Poverty group that Boycott Workfare came out of) – we’ve distributed thousands of ‘How to Avoid Workfare’ leaflets but along with these, we really need a buddy or a group of people when challenging Job Centre Plus. The gathering was called to support the growing number of local groups so that we can build on the impressive work of challenging workfare and sanctions across the country through mutual support and direct action, like the examples shared with us early on in the day of the occupation of the £3 million council house and a blockade of the workfare exploiters Salvation Army.

18-02-2014 00:25

Dissident Island Radio - Episode 133 - Subversions of justice...

Featuring 3Cosas, Drax29 and so much more... Read more >>

17-02-2014 21:34

Billionaires Profiteering From Slaughterhouse Suffering, Earth Destruction

Whether or not you believe that billionaires have a right to wage war, profiteer from war and weapons, pricegouge, exploit the poor, kill animals and mother earth, bribe legislators, eliminate competitors through unethical means to amass fortune, may all who care contact these billionaires to ask that they begin supporting Tesla and other electric cars, mass transit systems, solar energy, vegan products and restaurants, etc. Read more >>

17-02-2014 14:09 | 1 addition

All New look for UK PROTEST & DEMOS

Bringing us together as one for freedom and to end the Government corruption against the people.

More @

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

17-02-2014 13:55

Frackers being offered drilling licences on flooded Somerset Levels

Was the deliberate flooding of the Somerset Levels by EU Policy partly a way of letting the frackers in?
Read more >>

16-02-2014 22:36

‘Why Have You Gone to Russia Three Times in Two Months?’—Heathrow Customs Agent Interrogates Snowden Lawyer

Edward Snowden's lawyer Jesselyn Radack, herself a whistleblower, was harassed by a Border Force Agent at Heathrow Airport today. Radack is here to meet with Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy, to attend the launch of The Whistler

http://www.thewhistler.org/content/whistler-international-launch
and the Sam Adams Award for Integrity in Intelligence that will be presented to Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning in absentia this week in Oxford

http://rt.com/news/manning-sam-adams-award-697/.

Kevin Gosztola, who reported extensively on the pretrial hearings and trial in the case of USA vs Manning, explains what happened. Read more >>