UK Indymedia - UK Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

Tortures of pakistan army to pakistan people

05-10-2009 08:33

The Pakistan army tortures whoever founds on the road, with the excuse that may these people are Taliban...
The Pakistan government answers that they will examine the cases and then will act..

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Citizen weapons inspectors visit Manchester factory

05-10-2009 08:26

At just before 8 o'clock on MOnday 5th October 2009, several citizen weapons inspectors from the Target Brimar campaign visited the Chadderton premises of military component manufacturer Brimar. They were seeking information on possible connections between Brimar's products and human rights abuses committed in Gaza and the West Bank, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

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Honduras: Cracks in the ranks of the coup-makers

04-10-2009 22:12

The Soldiers and police of the coup regime in Honduras continue to attack demonstrators

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A little challenge

04-10-2009 17:28

This is a challenge to all groups, weather it be anti-facists, animal rights or enviromental.

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Obama Makes Up IAEA Rules for Iran

04-10-2009 10:15

The occasion of Tehran's report to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on September 21, 2009 that it is in the process of building a low-capacity second uranium enrichment plant near the holy city of Qom provided President Barack Obama with a new opportunity to backtrack on one of his outstanding presidential campaign promises of engagement and normalization of diplomatic relations with Iran.

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Reports from the Brighton Tubas Solidarity Group... The Zoba Community

04-10-2009 09:37

wo activists from Brighton are in Palestine and will spend the next month in the Jordan Valley, along with other Brighton-tubas solidarity Group members who will join them over the next few weeks. They will be reporting on the numberous resistance projects in the Jordan Valley, where local Bedouins and other Palestinians are coming together to challenge the occupation by constucting schools, health clinics, homes, playgrounds, roads and water pipes. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

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Reports from the Brighton Tubas Group - Jordan Valley Solidarity

03-10-2009 16:34

Two activists from Brighton are in Palestine and will spend the next month in the Jordan Valley, along with other Brighton-tubas solidarity Group members who will join them over the next few weeks. They will be reporting on the numberous resistance projects in the Jordan Valley, where local Bedouins and other Palestinians are coming together to challenge the occupation by constucting schools, health clinics, homes, playgrounds, roads and water pipes. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

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Qalqilya: Prison City

03-10-2009 11:52

No town in the West Bank suffers more restrictions than Qalqilya. The population is surrounded on all four sides by the wall, which separates them from their farmland and source of income. Nearby a large Israeli settlement plunders more essential resources. Worse still is the security which accompanies these structures, with dozens of checkpoints policing the town and nearby villages.

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Honduras' freedom of speech under attack! (by Latuff)

03-10-2009 10:33

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Veggies 25th Anniversary Weekend!

02-10-2009 23:58

For 25 years Veggies Catering Campaign has been the field kitchen of the British activist scene. This month they invite you to celebrate their vibrant history.

Friday 17th to Sunday 18th October

Join us for a weekend of campaigning, practical and fun activities.

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SMASH EDO: News and Events

02-10-2009 21:11

THE DECOMMISSIONER'S COURT CASE HAS BEEN DELAYED: It will now start on the 17th of May 2010. Although this is good in some ways it is extra important that support for Elijah Smith, who is still on remand in prison, continues. He has recently been moved back to Bristol again. Please take a minute to write to him (note that his prisoner number has changed slightly)

Elijah Smith XP7551, HMP Bristol, 19 Cambridge Road, Horfield, BS7 8PS

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Campaign Launched To Free LSE Student Trapped In Gaza

02-10-2009 17:10

Students and alumni of the London School of Economics have started a campaign to allow a student, Othman Sakallah, to be able to leave Gaza and continue his studies at the university.

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Nottingham Dealers at World’s Biggest Arms Fair

02-10-2009 15:05

Once every two years, in the London Docklands, the world's biggest arms fair takes place. It's spelt DSEi, it's pronounced "Dicey", and this year it took place from 8th-11th September. Joining over 1,000 arms companies from around the world were a couple of outfits from Nottingham, catering to opposite ends of the small arms market.

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Honduras coup and Brazilian mainstream media (by Latuff)

02-10-2009 11:43

Editorial cartoon, to be published in the bulletin of Associacao dos Servidores do PRODERJ (ASCPDERJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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Venezuela: murderers can not make justice. On the exhumations of the Caracazo

01-10-2009 22:05

* Different organizations and individuals from Venezuela with tradition in the social struggles linked to different anti-authoritarian and critical leftist approaches, with whom we have converged at the space called INSURGENTES, set position before the exhumations of the Caracazo.

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British intelligence services accuse Iran of designing nuclear warhead

01-10-2009 15:09

Following a joint ultimatum to Iran by the US, UK and France at the last Friday’s G-20 Summit and on the eve of the nuclear “negotiations” between Iran and the world’s five leading nuclear-weapon states, the Financial Times reports UK intelligence services’ claim over the resumption of “Iran's clandestine weapons programme” in early 2005.

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The lying game: How we are prepared for another war of agression

01-10-2009 14:37

Iran’s crime is its independence. Having thrown out America’s favourite tyrant, Shah Reza Pahlavi, Iran remains the only resource-rich Muslim state beyond US control. As only Israel has a “right to exist”in the Middle East, the US goal is to cripple the Islamic Republic. This will allow Israel to divide and dominate the region on Washington’s behalf, undeterred by a confident neighbour.

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“End the illegal occupation of Western Sahara” Labour Party Conference urged

01-10-2009 13:59

Free Western Sahara campaigners descended on Brighton for the Labour Party Conference and made sure that this forgotten conflict was at the forefront of people's minds

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Iran - The War Dance

01-10-2009 13:51

On September 19, the Irish Times reported:

“Israel has rejected the call by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to join the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and open up its atomic sites to international inspection.” (Mark Weiss, ‘Israel spurns nuclear watchdog's call to open atomic sites to inspection,’ Irish Times, September 19, 2009;

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0919/1224254860406.html)

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Eye-Witness: State of Siege in Honduras

01-10-2009 07:48

The coup government of Micheletti has declared a state of emergency - but the resistance is still out on the streets