UK Indymedia - UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive

Burlusconi has almost got his immunity on corruption-not on human rights abuse

30-06-2008 10:22

Mr Burlusconi who owns Italy and thus can bend the law to suit both his vanity
and ego has before cabinet a document which will allow immunity from prosecution
during his term of office. This would also include two speakers in the house.
Given that the immunity is only for corruption , one would hope that legal
and or criminal charges for incitement to violence would be brought against him
by the Italian citizens who have suffered injury due to pogrom and racist attack.

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URGENT: Help needed for imminent removal of pregnant mother

29-06-2008 23:57

24 year old Kemi Ayinde is 5 months pregnant and yet is scheduled to be forcibly removed on Tuesday 1st July at 12:50pm

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Activists Disrupt 'Salute to Israel' Parade (press release)

29-06-2008 23:36

Autonomous actions for Palestine challenge Zionist parade

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Video of Anti BNP central london 21st June 2008: weyman bennett speaks

29-06-2008 21:28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnklvl58tZ4

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Disruptions at Salute Israel Event

29-06-2008 20:11

A number of activists disrupted the zionist salute israel parade and rally in London today.

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Petition against any ethnic filing of the Rroms

29-06-2008 07:29

We say NO to to the the ethnic filing of the Rroms - with or without fingerprints’ record, which recalls the darkest years of European and world history! Let us not forget that the Rroms were often « guinea pigs » of repression and extermination policies, as those Rromani children from Czech on which the Nazis tested the "Zyklon B" before generalizing its use it in the gas chambers.

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Imperialists slander Zimbabwe

28-06-2008 13:15

Sanctions carried out against Zimbabwe by the British, American and EU states, coupled with an internationally coordinated campaign of slander and vilification of the ruling party and the government, has isolated the country and severely crippled its economy.

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Nationwide Call-in for Justice in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

27-06-2008 18:45

The Justice for Javon Dawson Committee is calling on all honest and freedom-loving people to support the demands for justice and reparations in the St. Petersburg police murder of this 17-year-old African who was attending a high school graduation party and unarmed when he was shot twice in the back and killed. (read full story:

http://uhurunews.com)

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No Borders Public Meeting

26-06-2008 22:46

In response to poverty, persecution , war and climate change, people are on the move all around the world. In the UK the right of asylum is under constant attack, with regular dawn raids, overcrowded detention centres and increasing numbers of deportations to places the government knows are unsafe.

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Ingushetia- Chechyna-style Counterinsurgency

26-06-2008 20:08

This is a link to the Human Rights watch article:

http://www.hrw.org/english/docs/2008/06/24/russia19194.htm

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Demo at Communications House on 1 July

26-06-2008 13:31

DEMONSTRATE AGAINST BRITAIN ’S RACIST IMMIGRATION LAWS

Show solidarity with protesters at Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre and with all asylum seekers and immigrants

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The BPP’s would-be nail-bomber is a nonce – no surprise there then

25-06-2008 09:56

Convicted would-be Nazi nail-bomber Martyn Gilleard also had a sickening stockpile of child pornography. How very typical.

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Video of Anti BNP Demo

24-06-2008 05:17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dnklvl58tZ4

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Resistance in the UK 's Detention Centres meeting 24th June

23-06-2008 19:42

Asylum-seekers and migrants who had been locked up indefinitely by the British state are carrying out one of the most sustained fight-backs in the UK in recent years.

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Anti-BNP Demo, London, 21/6/08

23-06-2008 17:41

Following the election of Richard Barnbrook onto the Greater London Assembly (GLA), Unite Against Fascism and Love Music Hate Racism called a national march and parade against fascism and racism on April 21. A contingent from Nottingham were amongst those who travelled to London to show their opposition to the British National Party (BNP).

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France: immigrants burn down deportation centre

23-06-2008 14:02

Detained immigrants started a fire on Sunday at one of France's biggest deportation centres outside Paris. Two buildings burned down. 20 detainees were hospitalized for smoke inhalation. 50 escaped.

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The United States, Europe and Human Rights

23-06-2008 12:06

The discredited way in which the European Union suspended its sanctions on Cuba on June 19 has been reported in 16 international press dispatches... Such hypocrisy is made all the more evident by the brutal European measure to expel illegal immigrants from Latin American countries.

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Refugee week special from Bristol - plus more Cider With Rosie

22-06-2008 23:38

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733

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NaziRock, a film about Italian fascism, June 26, London

22-06-2008 18:28

A film by Claudio lazzaro about Italian fascism

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Young Communist seized and interrogated ahead of SOAS conference

22-06-2008 18:01

The national secretary of the South African Young Communist League (YCL), Buti Manamela, was interrogated for hours by the anti-terrorist unit of the British police last week at Heathrow Airport in London on his way to an event on Socialism at Britain's most prestigious Colonial College, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). He tells us of his experience.

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