London Social Struggles Newswire Archive

17-02-2006 09:40

Moscow Gay Pride banned as Religious groups threaten violence

The Mayor of Moscow has banned Gay Pride from the city and religious leaders have denounced gays, including Moscow's Chief Mufti who called for violent attacks on gays while Chief Rabbi says gays have no right to exist. Read more >>

17-02-2006 00:11 | 3 additions

Brazilian Embassy Visit

Braving the bitter cold, rain and even a brief hail storm, a dozen or so people turned up at the Brazilian Embassy in London on Thursday to show solidarity with the residents of Prestes Maia in Sao Paulo, Brazil.... Read more >>

15-02-2006 17:42 | 1 addition

Celebrate for Prestes Maia!

PRESTES MAIA STAYS ! CELEBRATE TOMORROW 1PM Read more >>

15-02-2006 09:27

Crossrail hole minister Alistair Darling in brazen secret trip to Brick Lane Lon

Crossrail fanatic spender of public cash for big business benefit, Alistair darling mp was in a secret meeting in the east end of London. That was yards away from the Greatorex Street, scene of anti-crossrail hole demo in Oct 2004 and one of the routes through which heavy polluting dust and spoil from the planned crossrail hole in brick lane will be
Transported in Lorries for years if the crossrail hole bill is not scrapped. darling was in the secret visit as part of a diversionary ploy to further aid the corrupt tower hamlets council that has been used by crossrail touts to bring the crossrail hole problems to the east end.
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14-02-2006 22:43

Bolivian Solidarity interview edited for Resonance FM show wednesday

This is a 17min audio piece put together as the outro for the wednesday Indymedia London Newswire Show that goes out on Resonance FM every week. The first 11 minutes include an edited version of an interview made with one of the delegates from the Bolivian Solidarity Campaign who was at last weekends benefit gig. The first section also includes one track recorded live during the gig. The final six minutes are throw away filler design to coincide with the end of the hour long show. Read more >>

14-02-2006 22:25 | 1 addition

'FUNERAL DEMO' OF ICELANDIC NATURE AT LONDON EMBASSY

Icelandic London Embassy is targeted by environmentalists protesting against the Karahnjukar dams and the multinational aluminium invasion of the last great pristine wilderness of Europe. Read more >>

14-02-2006 18:15 | 1 addition

Anti-fascists fete Sacranie

The UAF would not invite as a speaker someone who said that black people are immoral, harmful and spread disease, or who vilified Jewish people as offensive, immoral and repugnant. Why, then, are they giving a platform to Sir Iqbal Sacranie, a bigot who says these things about gays and lesbians?" Read more >>

14-02-2006 10:02

Tower Hamlets Council exposed as party to plot for a Crossrail hole

Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway has said that there is no need fort a Crossrail station at Whitechapel. Why? Because Transport for London already have a scheduled refurbishment programme for Whitechapel in a couple of years time. This exposed that the local Tower Hamlets council has been involved in secret Crossrail -Whitechapel station plot against The East End! Read more >>

14-02-2006 02:48

Solidarity for Prestes Maia

Gentrification by greedy developers and corrupt local officials isn't just a problem in Hackney...

'PRESTES MAIA MUST STAY' - squatter, social centres and samba solidarity demo, Thursday 16th Feb 1pm outside Brazilian Embassy, 32 Green St, London, W1 (bring drums, carnival costumes and cardboard boxes to erect shanty town)

http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&lr=&q=brazilian+embassy&near=London,+UK&radius=0.0&cid=51500197,-126197,5716811906749722123&li=lmd&z=14&t=m Read more >>

13-02-2006 05:03

George Galloway MP challenges Crossrail promoters over Tower Hamlets Council

At the weekend Bethnal Green and Bow MP George Galloway issued a clearest possible challenge to that Council: that it is that Council that has created the Crossrail attack on the propel of the East End borough and if at the May 2006 elections the RESPECT coalition gain control of that Council, they will create the most difficult obstruction to defeat the Crossrail programme of attacks on the people. Read more >>

13-02-2006 00:44 | 2 additions

Your right to watch the police

Armed thugs are running riot in the streets, maiming and killing without being held accountable... Read more >>

11-02-2006 18:18

"The Greatest Battles are yet to be Won"

At last the truth behind the endless stream of 1984-type propaganda against Iran has finally emerged on the fringes of the British mainstream media (MSM). Read more >>

11-02-2006 16:40

The Battle for Queen’s Market

Newham Council are trying to sell off a thriving hundred year old market to developers St Modwens, who will sub-let to supermarket chain Asda. local campainers "friends of queens Market" have been fighting the plans, and have a lot of local support. Read more >>

11-02-2006 11:57

Only official dissent allowed - this is a democracy!

Protests against the publication of so-called blasphemous cartoons will take place in London today. For some the issue is about responsibility and for others it is about free speech....
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10-02-2006 18:23

BLAIR brazenly out of steam in pushing for Crossrail hole on Brick Lane, E1

Tony Blair’s terrifying fantasy in Blackpool today [after the Scottish by-election disaster at Dumfrimline, Friday 10 February 2006] echoing the equally chilling Margaret Hilda Roberts’s diabolically hypocritical invocation of Francis of Assisi cannot conceal the emptiness immorality and soullessness that dominate Blair’s agenda of piling deprivation on the already deprived and adding violations on the already violated. Nowhere can that agenda be found to be as wantonly on display as in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, which is being politically decimated by an overly Blarite cabal of sub-democratic touts bent on selling the East End to Big Business and their co-looters travelling in the Crossrail bandwagon towards looting the public purse of £20 billion as their class, coterie and kind had been allowed to do on a smaller scale of a mere £1 billion over the Millennium Dome. The East End is agog with anger against this Blairing Crossrail hole attack.
KHOODEELAAR! is the grassroots voice of that anger that the people of the East End feel at the prospect of the Crossrail planned hole right through the moist deprioved part of the inner city London. Transport Secretary Alistair Darling ahs been told today to stop the Crossrail hole plan altogether without delay.

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09-02-2006 13:13 | 1 addition

GALLOWAY AT RAMPART

Wow, what a privilege for those scruffy anarchist types, gorgeous George is bringing his Big Brother TV experience to the rampART social centre tonight (thursday 9th).... Read more >>

08-02-2006 22:48

Get Human and Bug me Not

Ever get annoyed when you're stuck in a phone tree? Read more >>

08-02-2006 02:21

The QUICKTIME REPORT 8/2/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! Read more >>

07-02-2006 17:37

Kashmir Earthquake Benefit

solidarity night for KASHMIR EARTHQUAKE DISASTER
Friday 10th Feb 7pm-2am
@Occupied Social Centre 21 Russel square
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07-02-2006 16:53

No to Crossrail hole Bill Demo against Tower Hamlets Council Weds

The ill-conceived and seriously flawed Crossrail Bill, now before a UK House of Commons Select committee, has been exposed as a sham by the chief executive of Canary Wharf, no less. No wonder the Crossrail Bill is not popular with the rest of the community in Tower Hamlets. They are demonstrating outside the Council building AM Wed 8 Feb 2006. The Council has been shown to have colluded with the hype for Crossrail plan without telling the community which now faces devastation unless the Bill is fundamentally altered or even scrapped in its present form. Read more >>