UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
University lecturer branded `racist' for weblink
27-08-2003 13:01
The two leading Jewish newspapers in the UK last weekend kicked off a potential firestorm over the views held by university academics.Dr Nat Queen, lecturer in mathematics and statistics at the University of Birmingham, has been lambasted for a link on his homepage to a website which accuses the US government of being satanic, criticises Israeli policy and questions what involvement Israel may have had in the September 11th attacks in the US.
Update from Palestine
27-08-2003 11:16
This is an update that was sent to the Cambridge IMC from a friend regarding the current situation in Palestine.Letter from a friend in Hebron
27-08-2003 11:09
This letter was sent to us by a friend in Palestine.Call for support - refugees sleeping on Brixton streets
25-08-2003 08:32
We are 35 refugees, women and men, from many countries - We were evicted from our rooms on 7 August because Home Office said that we didn't apply for asylum in a "reasonable and practical time" but many of us applied within one or two days of arriving yet we were evicted.Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East asked to Condemn Racism
24-08-2003 12:40
Andrew Smith is the MP for East Oxford and a cabinet minister. I have just sent him the letter below asking him to condemn the racism that is being expressed about asylum seekers in relation to the new asylum centre in Bicester.National Front in Oxfordshire
23-08-2003 12:22
Below is a worrying article about the increased activity of national front in Oxfordshire, that I found in this weeks oxford times.Burundi's forgotten victims - online petition for an end to impunity
22-08-2003 06:56
My sister Charlotte was one of more than 300,000 civilians killed in Burundi's vicious civil war. Her death was exceptional only for the fact that it was noticed by the international media (ie.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/1093135.stm). By and large, the world ignores Burundi. By and large, Burundi's elite is content to allow the killers to kill with impunity. My family is campaigning for justice for all of Burundi's forgotten victims. http://www.petitiononline.com/Burundi/
Boy,12, 'Manhandled' for Speaking Irish
21-08-2003 20:49
Boy harassed by Northern Irish police for speaking in Irish Gaelic.Sign The Petition To Stop The Apartheid Wall Here!
20-08-2003 20:54
Petition to stop the Apartheid wall.Block the Blok!
20-08-2003 15:35
Campaign to Gaelicise Scottish Football
19-08-2003 15:50
Iomairt son aithneachadh air a' Ghaidhlig leis CBACampaign for recognition of Gaelic by the SFA
ISM book previewed on the radio innit
19-08-2003 12:55
fascist belgian to be welcomed by Scottish politicians
19-08-2003 12:47
Efforts are being made to prevent a leading member of the far-right Belgian party Vlaams Blok visiting the Scottish parliament.MSPs say they are horrified that Dominiek Lootens-Stael, the party's leader on the Brussels regional parliament and a member of the Flemish parliament, will be in a Flemish delegation making a four-day visit to Holyrood next month.
UK Government Kicks Torture Victims Onto the Streets
18-08-2003 09:15
Defend the defenceless - protest the petty bureaucrats' scapegoating of refugees - and remember that it was the penpushers who oiled the wheels of the Nazism.ISM Reports: Action Alert: Support The Balata Two
18-08-2003 02:50
The Latest ISM Action Alert, 17th August, 2003 UpdateYarl's Wood Trial ends - 7 acquittals
15-08-2003 16:47
Yarl's Wood Trial ends - 7 acquittals
nacad release
Video - Close Campsfield
14-08-2003 12:18
There are 200 detainees in Campsfield House. Most are political refugees fleeing danger, torture and even death from countries such as Nigeria, Algeria, Ghana, Turkey, India and Zaire. They are held without charge, without time limit, without proper reasons given, and without proper access to legal representation. Amnesty International report that these are breaches of internationally recognised human rights. The former Chief Inspector of HM Inspectorate of Prisons (Judge Stephen Tumim) and The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture have condemned conditions at Campsfield House.
Indian Fascist Minister Responsible 3000 Dead Seeking UK Corporate Investment
13-08-2003 12:10
Chief Minister Modi of Gujurat in India is visiting the UK 17/8 to seek British corporate investment. Member of the Hindu far-right party which admires Hitler, in February 2002 he told police chiefs not to intervene to save the lives of Muslims being massacred by Hindus in communal riots - or 'pogroms' as they were called in the 1930s. The result - 3000 died. He is also the Minister responsible for the infamous Narmada dam project. Asian groups will be protesting at his visit to Wembley, London, 17 August THIS SUNDAY!!!! PLEASE JOIN THEM.ESCAPE FROM OAKINGTON!
12-08-2003 16:08
Twelve asylum seekers escaped from the government's flagship refugee centre after scaling the perimeter fence
