London Indymedia Newswire Archive

09-05-2004 14:48

Call for volunteer Interpreters and translators at ESF 2004 London

Appeal for volunteer Interpreters and translators: Read more >>

08-05-2004 08:56

Hackney Stop the War film show at the Rio

TODAY: Hackney Stop the War screening at the Rio Cinema, Dalston. Read more >>

04-05-2004 11:57

REEL CHANGE film screening

REEL CHANGE is back on the 4th of May for a night of radical films and inspiration for independent film-makers, die-hard idealists and love making revolutionaries.
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03-05-2004 23:38

European Creative Forum - Visions of Another World - Sat May 8th

ECF + UK-ESF Culture Working Group call a Joint Culture & Creatives Assembly to discuss "How can Culture activate the ESF and interest in it?"
This is an ESF awareness and benefit event with an array of stimulating, awakening and creative activities from music and mime; painting and poetry; dance and debate; theatre, talk and cinema; seminars and workshops. Read more >>

29-04-2004 08:30

Opposition to Mandatory ID cards

David Blunket proposes that by 2012 everybody in the UK should be forced to carry an ID card which carries biomentric data about the owner. Read more >>

23-04-2004 14:11

ISM in Biddu get Shot at!

ISM'ers get shot at during non violent protest Read more >>

23-04-2004 03:08

Happy May Day from Savannah, GA / USA

May Day greetings from Savannah, GA / USA
Home of the the G8 2004 Actions Read more >>

21-04-2004 19:37

IWCA Mayoral Campaign Update

Thanks to the generosity of IWCA supporters we are delighted to announce the £20,000 needed for the IWCA to stand Lorna Reid as our candidate for London Mayor has recently been secured. Read more >>

20-04-2004 19:36

Dublin Mayday - Freelance Article on Press Propaganda (unpublished)

Mark Paul, a freelance journo in Ireland, pitched an article about the media bias in the run up to the EU Mayday in Dublin. In the end it wasn't run, so he published it on Irish Indymedia:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=64470 Read more >>

18-04-2004 13:10

a small people power victory at downing street anti-occupation demo yesterday

common sense and people power won through yesterday when police gave up their attempts to move a small breakaway demo outside downing street at the MAB/STWC organised protest on sat 17th april at noon Read more >>

15-04-2004 21:32

BP AGM - pics, report and press release

police intimidation, surveillance and misuse of stop and search powers characterised today's BP AGM at the oil festival hall in london. in an unprecedented and probably illegal move, BP stopped legitimate shareholders from entering their AGM on the suspicion that they 'might' cause trouble. Read more >>

15-04-2004 14:49

Is this why Indycymru was removed from the list of IMCs?

I have been doing a little research in the Indymedia e-mail list archives to find out why Indycymru was removed from the list of IMCs without explanation.

Read on. Read more >>

13-04-2004 22:48

Cowboy-booted bailiff slips and hurts his fat head during eviction.

Cowboy-booted bailiff slips and hurts his fat head during eviction of Cannon Wharf, Norwich. Read more >>

13-04-2004 10:29

Weapons of Mass Destruction being shipped into Iraq

Various reports suggest that the missing weapons of mass destruction are likely to be 'found' in the near future as shipments arrive been unloaded in Iraq by US forces. Read more >>

13-04-2004 00:40

What happened to Wales Indymedia

What has happend to Indymedia Wales? It has disappeared from the list of Indymedia sites without explanation.

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11-04-2004 19:43

pics form anti-occupation demo outside downing street this afternoon

around 50/60 people gathered outside downing street in a show of solidarity with the people of falluja in iraq Read more >>

11-04-2004 06:44

Vietnam All Over Again

Like so much of humankind, our government will send the poor to kill the poor. Read more >>

10-04-2004 18:11

a few pics from aldermarston march start at trafalgar square 9/4/4

a few small pics from the aldermarston march launch on good friday in london Read more >>

09-04-2004 22:57

Indymedia cinema in Brixton

As part of an ongoing showcase of contemporary filmmakers who are finding new forms of cinema to show resistance to globalization throughout the world, distributing and screening grassroots videos covering issues ignored or distorted by the corporate media, Indymedia Cinema presents:

‘Life in the Fast Lane – The NO M11 Story’
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08-04-2004 11:30

The problem of consensuses and use of video as an outreach tool in the ESF

The is a problem with videoing in the alternative as the is always a small number of "conspiracy" minded people who feel that "they are out to get them" and in the majority of alt-meetings the are no clear guide lines to allow a consensus on the subject of openness/closeness, thus videoing is often band. At the ESF the are clear principals that every one involved agrees with thus a real consensuses is possible if people are interested in achieving one. At the beginning of the meeting I put to the chars a good workable proposal about filming the meetings that would have clearly respected peoples need not to be filmed for whatever reason real or imagined. Read more >>