UK Anti-racism Newswire Archive
Crossrail dumping on taxpayers and the East End of London
06-11-2005 11:27
Crossrail is one of a range of unjust and financially flawed schemes that are likely to benefit developers and result in displacing local communities are being promoted by the Labour Government. Cross London Rail Links (CLRL), the publicly funded Crossrail is 'a 50/50 joint venture company formed by Transport for London (TfL) and the Department for Transport (DfT)... tasked with promoting and developing two new routes through London... Crossrail was allocated a budget of £154m in 2001...' (
http://www.crossrail.co.uk/pages/whatiscrossrail.html) Crossrail has already spent £150 million. According to Business Online, Crossrail has since been forced to admit that the scheme is more likely to cost £17bn (cost of 34 new state-of-the-art hospitals or 340 new schools) by 2007 instead of previous projections of £10bn. But even the funding gap for the £10bn cannot be met. In the North of England, the Government's Housing Renewal Pathfinder schemes involves demolishing 400,000 houses to build more expensive homes, which displaces one community for a wealthier version through exploitation.
Thousands flood streets to protest draconian laws
05-11-2005 19:34
Protest against the fascist BNP in Leeds
04-11-2005 23:39
Muslim Graves Destroyed by Black Vandalists
04-11-2005 15:14
In what seems to be a continuation of last month's violent events in Lozells, Birmingham, between 35 and 45 Muslim grave stones have been smashed and pushed over in nearby Handsworth Cemetery.
BNP morons hold 'national demo'.
03-11-2005 22:53
Unite against Fascism and Yorkshire and Humber TUC called a counter demo outside the court.
Conference on Chechnya, London, 25th Nov
03-11-2005 11:25
The UK-based charity MARCCH (Medical Aid and Relief for Children of Chechnya) in association Centre of Contemporary Central Asia & the Caucasus (SOAS) are organising their second Conference on Chechnya on Friday 25th November at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS.Haifa Zangana talk at Edinburgh University Wednesday 2nd November
03-11-2005 00:01
IWW Centenary Celebration – Ramparts, London – this Saturday
02-11-2005 22:24
THE WOBBLIES ARE BACK!Working with the Media: guide for anti-racist and refugee rights activists
02-11-2005 10:25
A new twenty page pdf advice guide published by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR) - October 2005Arbitrary Detention and Magna Carta
01-11-2005 23:05
Petition to the Birmingham Council Meeting Nov 1st 2005
31-10-2005 14:27
A group of concerned and affected citizens of Birmingham met on Monday the 24th October 2005, to discuss the events of the prior weekend where at least two people lost their lives, many were injured, several seriously and residents and traders' properties were damaged or destroyed, some of which still remain vulnerable to future damage or destruction. All this occurred in response to the alleged rape of a young woman. The meeting started with a minute's silence for those who lost their lives in the weekend's events.The Peace & Unity initiative: Birmingham Unity Posters
31-10-2005 14:21
Please support this peace and unity initiative by printing the attached posters and displaying them in your local community/youth centres, shops, on the streets and forwarding them onto your email lists
We thank you for your co-operation in these difficult times.
Killing Each Other
31-10-2005 14:12
I was reminded this week at a film showing of ‘Handsworth Songs’ by a colleague, ‘Oppressed people internalize their oppressor’s contempt for them, acting on it first by killing each other,’ quoting Franz Fanon. Immigrant communities have always felt segregations amongst each other since their arrival into the ghettos of major European cities. Whether it is the streets of Birmingham or Paris, the children of immigrants feel unrepresented, isolated and generally ignored by mainstream society. They are often dealing with poverty, unemployment and racism.Die-in at Edinburgh Consulate Saturday 29th October 2005
30-10-2005 22:16
Remembrance procession UFFC and Jean Charles de Menezes: Saturday 29 October
28-10-2005 18:28
Fascists and Agitators Try To Turn Up The Heat in Lozells
28-10-2005 15:55
Dale Farm Eviction Racist says Commission
28-10-2005 11:43
The UK Commission for Racial Equality willtell the High Court in London next month that
Basildon council's decision to bulldoze Dale
Farm, Britain's largest Gypsy settlement,
is racially motivated.
Save Angela Maria Patterson
27-10-2005 22:33
Angela was born on 13th July 1966 in Jamaica. A number of years ago she was attacked in Kingston when some acid was thrown in her face. This blinded her left eye. She reported the attack to the police, and the police told a gang that she was an informer. She was forced to leave her children and go into hiding because of the threats to her life being made by the gang. Even whilst in hiding the gang found her and shot her, fortunately only wounding her in her leg, however her nephew was killed.WMA Statement On Birmingham Riots
27-10-2005 09:01
West Midlands Anarchists condemn the violence metered out in the name of racism on our streets of Birmingham. Those who attack people because of their race are a cancer on the working class, no good can ever come from the splitting of a vibrant working class community like that of Handsworth down fictitious race lines.Fasting in London as the media continue to lie for the wrongdoers
26-10-2005 15:31
Fasting in London on the day when Geoff Hoon [The warmonger on Iraq] stood in the House of Commons for Tony Blair to field 'the Prime Minister's Questions' and in a week of ‘mainstream’ media promoting the profiteers and slotting GW Bush as claiming any identity with the struggles of Rosa Parks !