UK Indymedia - UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Defence Export Services Organisation Visited on Day of Action

31-07-2007 09:30

DESO promotes the sales of British arms around the world. Although the government has announced that it will be shut, this work will simply be moved to the DTI.

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Anti-DSEi stall on Brick Lane

31-07-2007 09:11

The Space Hijackers and several anti-DSEi activists ran a stall on Brick Lane Market in East London this Sunday. The aim of the stall was to raise awareness of the worlds largest arms fair, raise funds to help us buy a tank, and invite people along to the protests on September 11th.

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Raytheon and Erinys visited on day of action against the arms trade

31-07-2007 00:01

A small group of about ten protestors visited Raytheon Systems, manufacturer of bombs and other ordnance, before moving onto protest at Erinys a private security firm (mercenary company) working in Iraq

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Anti-arms fair leafleting in Canning Town

30-07-2007 23:11

On Sunday, 29th July, about 1,000 fliers were handed out to local people in Canning Town advertising the fact that the world's largest arms fair is coming to their area of town in September

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Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group Call to Action

29-07-2007 23:35

Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity is network aiming to foster links between grassroots groups in Tubas, Palestine, and Brighton, UK.

more details at tubas.brightonpalestine.org

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The Nuclear Weapons Lab Bombing Range

29-07-2007 22:10

Massive Radioactive Explosions are routinely conducted at Site 300

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Venezuela: Interview with El Libertario

29-07-2007 21:46

* Interview with indonesian anarchist journal EMPTY HEAVEN - May 2007 (

http://otonomis.org/ <-- EMPTY HEAVEN collective website;

http://pustaka.otonomis.org/ <- indonesian anarchist/autonomist archive). More info in english & spanish about El Libertario: www.nodo50.org/ellibertario

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The Importance of being Iraqi

29-07-2007 18:29

The opposition to such incidents have been few and far between inside of the West, with deathly silences from both the anti-war movement and governments, echoing as loudly as a thousand screaming voices.

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National Intelligence Estimate Lacks Supporting Evidence

29-07-2007 14:37

Again the Bush/PNAC Regime has been caught LYING to the public in order to manipulate them on foreign affairs, in which they plan to widen their illegal wars to include Iran, Syria, and Lebanon.

Can we just get rid of these criminals already? Everybody knows who's responsible.

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8 Young people arrested campaigning for an anti-nuclear future

28-07-2007 15:37

Faslane, 28th July 2007 - eight young people from Wales, Germany and Belgium have been arrested this morning, blockading the gate at Faslane Nuclear Base in a protest against the renewal of the British Trident Nuclear weapons system. The blockade came amongst lively and colourful actions carried out by young people from many countries, from Wales and Germany to Japan and the US. The action takes the number of arrests during the “Faslane 365” year long blockade of Faslane naval base to over 900.

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Urgent Call for Support - Anarchists Against the Wall

28-07-2007 11:08

The following call is from the Anarchists Against the Wall email list.

The Israeli anarchists are well known and respected by all Palestinian non-violence leaders. They are the only Israeli group that consistently and regularly turns up at Palestinian demonstrations and one of (very) few anti-Zionist groups in Israel today.

As such, the state is of course persecuting them and they are regularly detained, questioned or even sent to jail. They have a LOT of legal costs. Gaby Lasky is a tireless and committed human rights lawyer who has represented many Palestinian, Israeli and international anti-occupation activists.

Please support them!

Asa
ISM London member

p.s. for translations of the call in: Italiano, Castellano, Ελληνικά, Français and Português visit:

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=6029

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Tales Of Angst, Alienation And Martial Law

26-07-2007 18:31

Those who have been paying attention are aware that the outward mechanisms of martial law are in place.

In addition, the knowledge nettles us that a vast network of internment camps bristle across the length of the U.S., standing at wait for those who might raise objections to the fascistic fury unloosed by the American empire's version of the Reichstag fire.

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Saving Iceland Blockades Hellisheidi Power Station

26-07-2007 09:56

Saving Iceland blockaded two roads to Hellisheidi Power Station in Iceland at 7am this morning.

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A blogger's criticism of Robert Fisk

25-07-2007 23:58

Robert Fisk is one of the greatest reporters of all time. He has written some of the most insightful, biting criticisms about U.S./Israeli/British foreign policy and provided readers, in vivid detail, a vision of of the plight of people living in war torn areas of the Middle East. I have nothing but sincere gratitude to him for putting his life on the line to give us these excellent stories. But, having said this, I think he is doing a disservice to his readers by claiming his contempt for the Internet and also by his refusal to look critically into the events of 9/11.

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Brown Announces Closure of DESO

25-07-2007 20:10

Gordon Brown announced today that the government arms promotion unit, DESO, is to close by the end of the year. BAE Systems and Defence Manufacturers Association pretty pissed off!

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5 detained after peaceful ‘Bamboo Blockade’ as Japanese A-bomb survivors appeal

25-07-2007 17:40

At around 2.30 pm today (July 25), Strathclyde police arrested 10 people, including atomic bomb survivors (‘Hibakusha’) from Nagasaki during a nonviolent blockade of the main gates of the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland, where the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons are deployed.

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Commander Guy Delivers Another Scary “al-Qaeda in Iraq” Campfire Story

25-07-2007 16:51

The “war on terrorism” rests on the creation of one or more evil bogeymen, the terror leaders, Osama bin Laden, Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi, et al, whose names and photos are presented ad nauseam in daily news reports. Without Zarqawi and bin Laden, the “war on terrorism” would lose its raison d’être. The main casus belli is to wage a ” war on terrorism”.

Indeed, the latest neocon effort to frighten the public with yet another fallacious “advertising campaign” is a half-baked effort riddled with obvious holes.

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Lebanon War Blockaders Plan Appeal against Guilty Verdict

25-07-2007 14:19

Smash EDO Press Release - 25th July 2007
Lebanon War Blockaders Plan Appeal against Guilty Verdict
Tel. 07875708873 or email

smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk for further details

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13 arrested at Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter blockade

25-07-2007 01:01

ICELAND: Today about 20 protesters climbed cranes and blocked access to the Rio Tinto-Alcan smelter in Hafnarfjordur. 13 were arrested and one is still being held hostage by the police in Reykjavik. Saving Iceland has organized a 'summer of dissent' as a part of a campaign against the war-mongering aluminum industry and their subservient pets in Government. Beyond protesting against the devastating exploitation of Iceland's rivers and wilderness for cheap energy, the network is linked to groups with the same corporate enemies in Brazil, Trinidad, South Africa, and India. The struggle continues with Iceland's second Critical Mass this Friday.

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Protest at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham : Pictures

24-07-2007 22:20

About 30-40 people gathered at the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, the world's second-largest manufacturer of handguns, assault rifles, submachine guns, machine guns and grenade launchers.