London Health Newswire Archive

06-09-2005 22:53

Action Medics Training Dates

The UK Action Medics are organising two weekend trainings in November, and a one day training before the DSEi protests. Read more >>

05-09-2005 15:46

Health Discrimination in the NHS

NHS whistleblower fired. Two years ago 55-year-old Jamaican specialist nurse Milton Hanson was fired by his employers, Kings College NHS Trust after he spoke on Power Jam radio and told listeners that black men at the sexual health clinic where he worked had their penises probed by white nurses until they bled and howled in pain. Read more >>

14-08-2005 22:33

NHS doomed, while arms trade is subsidised to the tune of 1 billion a year

Acording to Britain's most senior doctor, a tax funed National Health Service which is free for everyone to use is unsustainable and should be scrapped. Meanwhile, the British Arms Industry enjoys a cool £1 billion in handouts from the tax payer.

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03-08-2005 13:08

BBC bias on vivisection - join the protest

Recent BBC programmes and reporting re the campaign against guinea pig breeders for vivisection - Newchurch Farm, have been totally biased in favour of the animal abusers. The BBC pride themselves on their 'impartial, educational & honest' broadcasting, yet their coverage of this campaign has been anything but. On Saturday 6th August, campaigners in Birmingham, London & Manchester will demonstrate outside BBC studios and hand in a statement from the Newchurch Campaign, which asks the BBC for some justification for this unashamed abuse of its own public policy. Read more >>

23-07-2005 14:39

Has Southend on Sea Borough Council Lost the Plot???

Southend Borough Council are considering destroying a statutory allotment site to make way for for school development plans Read more >>

21-07-2005 06:13

Killer-cola linked to London Bomber [update]

In interviews widely reported in the mainstream media last week, links between the men thought to behind the London bomb attacks and the Coca-cola company were exposed.... Read more >>

16-07-2005 06:55

Crest Plc - Corporate Social Responsibility – Family Petition HRH Prince Charles

The Shalom Family Campaign for Justice Wales, have recently petitioned HRH Prince Charles, President of Business In The Community (BITC). BITC advocates the inclusive practice of 'Corporate Social Responsibility' and 'Responsible Business Practice' among its members,but. Read more >>

16-07-2005 02:09

Time to get mentally ill out of jails

In the two decades since the influential Richmond Report recommended deinstitutionalising mental healthcare, the number of patients in psychiatric institutions has more than halved, from about 15,000 to 6000. The prison population more than doubled between 1986 and 2001 to more than 24,000 and now includes a high proportion of mentally ill prisoners. Read more >>

14-07-2005 01:40

The Ancient Wisdom of the Breath

This may be the beginning of the most fascinating journey you have ever undertaken because it begins inside yourself. Read more >>

12-07-2005 23:58

Some people want to remain anonymous

"She actually did provide her full name, Vivian Solon, to independent witnesses who tried to pass this information on to DIMIAA [Immigration Department] officers, and they weren't interested," he said. Read more >>

11-07-2005 22:43

Back to kill the innocent

Labor's well paid losers have backed in principle a deployment to kill what party leader Kim Beazley has called "terrorism central". But who are the terrorists? Who's going where? To do what? And what is war? TERRORISM!

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10-07-2005 00:34

G8Bikeriders return to London, Offer Cycling Lessons to George W. Bush.

A reponse to the most recent calamity to afflict the Leader of the Free World from the tired but beautiful folk of the G8 Bikeride Read more >>

30-06-2005 18:05

First Aid Training in Edinburgh

Friday 1 July
Learn: How to be safe at an action
How to prepare yourself and your friends
How to treat commonly seen injuries and illnesses
How to decontaminate from crowd-control chemical weapons
How to care for yourself and your friends after the protest
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30-06-2005 16:55

Diabolical antics from Diageo - tactical drinking...

Tactical drinking... Read more >>

27-06-2005 09:03

Outcome of the European Parliament Disability Employment Petition

Adding to the lengthy British Human Rights case put in 2003 (re. British Labour Court decision,involving my dismissal at home in England on disability by the British Home Hospital ),I filed a petition re.disability,which was found admissible on the 24.3.2004. It has now been replied to. Read more >>

21-06-2005 00:27

Qasim's possible release a 'worrying precedent': Labor

Too right he's been there too long and now he has a mental problem. I guess that's one way to get to the truth aye laurie? Read more >>

20-06-2005 15:55

The Monster of Suburbia

They are creatures of the suburbs. They don’t know about sickness, death, or old age not so much because they have never been exposed to it, but more because they have become detached from the side of reality that is icky. Read more >>

17-06-2005 15:26

Sainsburys demo- moosletter from parents

Text for the leaflet distributed to Sainsbury's staff outside their HQ this morning. Over 400 were handed out by parents and kids. Read more >>

17-06-2005 12:12

Mums against Sainsbury's PHOTOS

These photos were taken during a week long series of demonstrations 12th - 17th June 2005 outside Sainsbury's Supermarkets London head office at 33 Holborn.

These photos are licenced under a Creative Commons Licence.

If you wish to use any of these images in a commercial pubication or require hi-res or uncropped versions, please contact gringoben[at]indiemail[dot]com.

16-06-2005 11:37

Meacher joins Sainsburys demo