UK Culture Newswire Archive
New London Social Centres for the new year
03-01-2008 13:35
There is a meeting on the 6th of Jan to breath new life into maintaining radical autonomous social centres in London. The aim will be to set up a London wide social centres collective which will open and help run squatted spaces as well as publish listings of events and activites taking place in these spaces. The meeting will probably take place at rampART at 2pm unless is needs to be moved in which case it will be at LARC.How independent was the BBC Persian Service in the period 1941-79 ?
02-01-2008 09:01
It will in turn ask whether the Persian Service has -- as part of the BBC’s editorial whole – managed to keep its independence intact in reporting events in a balanced and objective way.
open letter to Fabio Mussi, the new Italian communist of the banana party
30-12-2007 20:28
Fabio Mussi, Minister of University and Research and leader of the Sinistra Democratica party in Italy has proposed in the Decreto Milleproroghe a reform of Italian universities and research. This is an open letter to Ministro Mussi which questions the likely detrimental consequences of such a reform based on the neoliberal British HE system. In particular the letter challenges the harm to academic freedom and research suggested by a system that encourages competitiveness and looks after capital interests. Vergogna!Fuck The Bailiffs! Smash The Borders!
28-12-2007 20:57
Last chance to visit the rampART in 2007 and perhaps the last big event to be held at the rampART full stop...Sombre Christmas in Iraq
25-12-2007 21:46
The Farid family is one of the relatively few Iraqi Armenian families remaining in the predominantly Shia area of Karrada. They moved from Basra to Baghdad during the Iran-Iraq war in the mid-1980s due to heavy bombing in southern Iraq.Lakota Sioux - The Bravest Americans
25-12-2007 16:28
On Wednesday of this week, Russell Means led a delegation of the Lakota Sioux people to the U.S. State Department and the embassies of Bolivia, Chile, South Africa and Venezuela, declaring their secession from the United States of America.
Lies, Injustice and the Capitalist Way: We’re on the Highway to Hell—Don’t Stop
24-12-2007 17:29
Holiday Season Hypocrisy
23-12-2007 19:47
Christmas is also the time when the national obsession to shop and consume reaches its zenith. It traditionally begins the day after Thanksgiving, runs through Christmas eve, and after the holiday continues into January with plenty of extra buying power from holiday gift cards, year-end bonuses and other resources gotten or borrowed. It's for everything people never knew they wanted until creative advertising wizardry made their lives incomplete without them.'Father Christmas' beaten in West Bank
23-12-2007 12:51
An Israeli army spokesman said there had been disorder at the protest and that several demonstrators who were briefly detained were subsequently released.Liberalism To Murdochracy
20-12-2007 22:31
The former Murdoch retainer Andrew Neil has described James Murdoch, the heir apparent, as a "social liberal". What strikes me is his casual use of "liberal" for the new ruler of an empire devoted to the promotion of war, conquest and human division.2nd Screening of Videoactivism and Independent Documentaries, Caracas 2008
18-12-2007 21:48
Letter from US Artists and Scholars in support of Cultural Relations with CUBA
17-12-2007 23:06
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Santas of Excessive Consumption on Oxford Street
15-12-2007 22:02
Santas singing alternative carols on Oxford street in London today (15 December).Bristol podcast - Stop Hinkley Nukes & Merry Christmas All
15-12-2007 21:19
Mars Attacks! The corporatisation of Birmingham's community space
14-12-2007 14:23
Mars Pension Trustees, owners of Fiveways Centre in Birmingham, are threatening to shut it down in the New Year regardless of no planning application having been submitted and no firm proposals for development in place. This will mean the closure of some independent businesses that add great diversity to the corporate landscape of Birmingham City Centre including Cafe One, Fairtrade music venue and meeting space for student and campaign groups inc. Amnesty, Green Party, Respect and Oxfam. No offer of relocation or settlement has been forthcoming as social enterprise is not considered acceptable in the corporatisation of this lively community space.
WM IWW Xmas benefit for union courier killed at work - 20/12/07
14-12-2007 13:58
Xmas Benefit Gig for the Ryan Boudreau Memorial Fund - Union cycle courier killed on the job. An injury to one is an injury to all.
Blair: The Money Raker
14-12-2007 10:26
Blair, having served wealthy elites and Washington, while in office, continues his service but is also making a killing for himself.GAGGED! #21 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter
13-12-2007 14:48
Reality Celebrities?
13-12-2007 02:57
the article is a light hearted look at the new phenomenon of internet celebrities, people who have become famous through mediums such as You Tube etc
