UK Culture Newswire Archive
2008 election charade, part 2: White House bought by big money
15-01-2008 16:05
What is clear is the fact that major corporations are collectively hedging their bets, financing both sides. For example, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley have money behind every leading candidate. Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, and UBS are also prominent players, in virtually all of the camps.Photo Exhibitition at the Cowley
15-01-2008 14:03
Including pics of anti war actions.
Images from occupied Iraq.
Pictures from the Justice for Jean campaign.
The Seduction of Capitalism is a Brain Function?
15-01-2008 10:44
Previous research has examined how advertising and marketing affects behaviour, but this is the first study to demonstrate the direct effect on the brain.Power To The People? Or A Tale Of Two Phils?
13-01-2008 20:51
'POWER TO THE PEOPLE' was the Lennon song which closed the Arena show on Saturday night.Capital of Culture Launch: Is That It.....?
12-01-2008 00:49
WE went with high hopes - but left with huge disappointment.Tonight's opening was typical of the Culture Company's top down approach.
A massive crowd turned up expecting a great show.
But none of us were engaged.
Contact Cllrs about Camden Lab
11-01-2008 23:17
Many of you will remember the news before Christmas that the government had apparently given the go ahead for a new massive research complex to be built at St Pancras. Despite what the story claims, planning permission has not yet been granted by Camden Council for this project, let alone architects or builders engaged.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
LARC's monthly film night kicks off with 'Bamako', 8pm, Wed Jan 1
09-01-2008 22:49
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To inaugurate LARC’s new monthly film night, we’ll be showing ‘Bamako’ at 8pm, with tea and cake available from 7.30. Entrance free, though donations always appreciated.
Prisoner support benefit
09-01-2008 20:08
£5 advance, £6 on the door
Musical attack on Bush and his "war on terror"
09-01-2008 16:44
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Greenwash Guerillas Invade BP Sponsored Tate Britain
07-01-2008 16:25
"In the State of Israel the Jewish mother is disappearing"
07-01-2008 10:06
The action of The Women in Black is in itself the rejection of racist education and the routine systematic poisoning of minds that sustains the schools, the media and the speeches of the nation's elected representatives.
Squatters Needed!
07-01-2008 09:03
A new Social Centre in Wiltshire requires volounteers. Accommodation is of course free.Can we pursue conflict resolution without fully engaging the cultural aspect of
05-01-2008 23:22
In the field of conflict resolution, the legitimacy of this statement is one of the major conflictual arguments of the current academic debate. Can we acheive a meaningful peace without engaging the grassroots level and if we can't, does engaging in conflict represent any major step forward?Update on struggle to keep the rampART social centre
05-01-2008 14:16
On the 3rd of January, a possession order was granted to the alleged owners of the squatted properties in Rampart Street however the occupiers have not left and have submitted an appeal against the possession ruling that was made in the county court on the 20th of December. A date has not yet been set for the appeal hearing and the appeal application also contained a request to postpone any warrant for possession which would allow the owners call the bailiffs in.Shadows of a gloomy future for the elite caste
05-01-2008 13:43
The Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell, 27th November 2007 has given a speech on Academic Freedom and extremism in British Higher Education.Since then he is looking for allies; for people who want to reinterpret freedoms "in the context of the new challenges and threats that face our society". In reality, with just this sentence he narrows down the scope for debate, framing it as a mere reinterpretation of the word freedom in the context of external threats and imagined dangers from an hypothetical external environment.
Local Songwriters make CD to support Sheffield Charity
05-01-2008 11:41
On the Right to Demonstrate.
05-01-2008 01:40
A look at our right to demonstrate, the importance of dissenting voices and the cornered animal of the government attacks.London Rising Tide activists 'die' in the Tate Britain (4 January 2008)
04-01-2008 17:55
South Wales January Diary
04-01-2008 15:37
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Expand your Vegan Network!
04-01-2008 02:33
A new online community has born...At VeganForce.com you get the chance to browse to profiles of other vegans, send messages to each other, write a blog or chat in the forums or chatroom.