Wales Newswire Archive

Open publishing was disabled on this site in mid-July 2016 as there was a very low volume of original grass roots news reports from activists being posted and the collective running the site was dwindling as people were working on other things.

Banner drop in Wrexham yesterday in the wake of Chilcot and in solidarity with
- imprisoned WikiLeaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning serving 35 years in a US military prison
- WikiLeaks Editor in Chief Julian Assange, now beginning his 5th year denied safe passage from his refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, in what the UN has ruled to be arbitrary and unlawful detention.
FREE MANNING! FREE ASSANGE! END THE WARS!

It 's really difficult to summarize in a few words who is Piera Ghirardi and all its merits.

The action at AWE Burghfield is a June-long continuous protest organised by campaign group Trident Ploughshares (www.tridentploughshares.org), which is dedicated to ending the UK's nuclear weapons programme.The action by Welsh activists from Gwent, Newport, Swansea, West Wales and Powys continued the blockade of the nuclear weapons plant by anti-war activists from around the UK and the world that has closed the Construction Gate and protested at the North Gate at the plant since 6th June.

The "Merthyr Rising" festival in Merthyr is an annual pseudo-left wing cultural event sponsored by a number of corporations including Hoover.

New 18 min film about Lucy Allan's doctoring of constituent's e mail with an apparent death threat.

The 8th Bristol Anarchist Bookfair – 30th April 2016, 11am to 6pm, at Trinity Centre.

The Radical History Zone is just 5 minutes down the road at Hydra Bookshop, from 12noon to 6.30pm.
You are all invited!

One of the UK’s biggest arms fairs (DPRTE) met resistance on 16th March in Cardiff town centre.

Full report with pictures and original formatting (via StCAF blog).

 http://www.prisonabolition.org/women-trans-week-action-prison-industrial-complex/
Registration form at the bottom of the call out. Please note if you have any spesipic needs.

Welsh translation below.

Yorkley Court Farm NOW under UNLAWFUL eviction-- spread the word!

Police and county court bailiffs stormed the farm early this morning.

No eviction order was served - which means its entirely illegal!

Arrests have been made, people have been snatched and dumped
away from site in the woods... no-one is allowed on-site to collect
their sleeping gear and other equipment! They need hands ASAP.

Lift from ruardinn to yorkley leaving in 30-40 mins.

Email/pm back anyone that want a lift.

RESISTANCE IS FERTILE!

RESPECT EXISTENCE!
or EXPECT RESISTANCE!

The 8th Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is on Saturday 30th April 2016, 11am to 6pm.
At Trinity Centre, Trinity Rd, Bristol BS2 0NW, with the Radical History Zone just 5 minutes down the road at Hydra Bookshop.

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CCTV from Cardiff mayday demonstration 2015 -  https://vimeo.com/152097015

Tommy "Tit" Robinson like so many demifuhrers on the far right likes to think of himself as a tough guy, but when it comes to a one-to-one fist fight, the convicted wifebeater runs off crying like a baby whenever trouble heads his way. In other words, Tommy is soft as shite. Getting others to do the bidding and yet claiming the credit once the fighting's over, Stephen Yaxley Lennon is the archetypal coward, and always has been ever since his overplayed "hooligan" days. Being a supposed football hooligan has been used to his advantage as a professional moneymaker, cashing in on every commercial opportunity since day one. Even his pseudonym was borrowed without permission from a real football hooligan, the real Tommy Robinson six feet under and unable to express disgust at Lennon's unauthorised misappropriation of his name. As for Luton's firm "Men In Gear", Tommy registered the MIG tag as his own "intellectual property" for the fashion label he self-promoted on his "New Era" Twitter account, rubbing salt in the wounds of genuine footie hooligans, stealing credit for a street culture he opportunistically latched onto, just to make money.

The first full year of Shropshire Badger Group's TB vaccination scheme - offered completely free of charge to local farmers and landowners - has been a big success, but more volunteer manpower and funding are needed.

In response to a call for a week of actions against the North Wales mega prison, some anarchists in Sydney made some small actions.

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A week of action has been called to encourage people all of the UK & the world to take action against the construction of the North Wales Prison in Wrexham.

Dozens of hares have been secretly filmed in captivity at the Edenderry coursing venue in County Offaly, Ireland... this in defiance of the ban on "unauthorized photography" that coursing clubs enforce with threats and beatings.

Just have a look at the footage...amazing to see so many of these ordinarily solitary creatures bunched together like this.

Campaigners inspired by a Reclaim the Fields action camp demonstrated their opposition to the building of a new mega-prison near Wrexham with a visit to a company involved.

From Reclaim the Fields Bulletin 10

A full programme of workshops & activities has now been released for the
first three days of the Reclaim the Fields International Action Camp, Wales.

"The Curo Group suggested you might want to pursue a legal claim through its insurers, rather than identify liability through its complaints procedure, If you are of the view that the Curo Group was liable for exposing your family to asbestos."...

In the following interview the Anarchist Radio Berlin (aradio.blogsport.de) made with an UK-based organizer from the Reclaim the fields initiative, we talk about the planned international camp in North-Wales, the relationship of food sovereignty and the prison system, and the topic of prison abolition as such.