UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Colour blind cops mistake clowns for Black Bloc or something...

04-07-2005 23:43

Today acting on meticulously gathered intelligenge the Police detained and thwarted a well known violent group of extremists. They were stopped and searched under the public order act so that Daily Mail readers everywhere could sleep more peacefully in their beds knowing that they were safer from the evil forces of anarchy. Bah!

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IMC photographer gets clowned.

04-07-2005 23:31

Well it was bound to happen sooner or later.

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Party pics from carnival of full enjoyment

04-07-2005 23:19

Some people managed to have a laugh despite the repression.

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[picture report] Carnival of Full Enjoyment, Edinburgh

04-07-2005 22:20

[picture report] Carnival of Full Enjoyment, Edinburgh

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faslane

04-07-2005 20:47

photos of summit and faslane

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[Picture report] Clown Army conquers Edinburgh

04-07-2005 19:18

[Picture report] Clown Army conquers Edinburgh

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Transport to Scotland still available

04-07-2005 18:59

Seats are still available on a Midlands coach to the G8 summit protests. If you really care about the many problems caused by corporate greed, get yourself up to Scotland and let Bush & Blair know what you think of their policies!!

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When CIRCA meets the riot police....

04-07-2005 17:12

CIRCA activitst clowns meet riot police with stange results.....

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G8: How the rich world short-changes Africa

04-07-2005 16:45

The mass media hype about “a new deal between rich and poor”, in response to the powerful Group of Eight industrialised countries’ plan to cancel multilateral debts owed by 18 mainly African countries, has led many people to believe that a new era of international social justice has dawned. [.. reinforced by] uncritical endorsement [.. by Bob Geldof, Bono, and] Oxfam, the driving force behind the Make Poverty History (MPH) coalition [..].

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WATER REVOLUTION Meeting - July 6th

04-07-2005 15:57

Local Solutions for a Global Crisis

Vaults and Garden Café, Radcliffe Square, Oxford

Entry Free - complementary organic wine and nibbles

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Live 8 – the concerts

04-07-2005 15:36

This is Live 8, the greatest rock show in the history of the world.

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Jauies Amijo Arrested

04-07-2005 14:33

Evidence of plain clothes cops?

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WDM mocks Blair in G8 run-up

04-07-2005 13:46

To symbolise existing injustices, a grinning Blair fed crumbs from the rich nations' table while Bush on stilts whipped the developing nations in the run-up to the G8 meeting at Gleneagles July 2005.

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G8 will not ease Third World poverty

04-07-2005 10:47

LONDON — The front page of the June 12 Observer announced, “$55bn Africa debt deal ‘a victory for millions'”. The “victory for millions” is a quotation of Bob Geldof, who said, “Tomorrow 280 million Africans will wake up for the first time in their lives without owing you or me a penny...” The nonsense of this would be breathtaking if the reader's breath had not already been extracted by the unrelenting sophistry of Bob Geldof, Bono, Prime Minister Tony Blair, British treasurer Gordon Brown, the Observer et. al.

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G8 Carnival Timeline

04-07-2005 10:32

"Carnival for Full Enjoyment" is supposed to start at 12, but things are already happing in Edinburg. Please call in 07901-778 062 or 07050 686 844 to report from the streets.

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Report of `Make Poverty History` march in Edinburgh with 12 photos

04-07-2005 09:57

This is a 2,200 word report from the `Make Poverty History` march and rallies of Saturday 2nd July 2005. 12 labelled photos are attached.

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protest g8 in Bristol : 6 July

04-07-2005 01:11

July 6th Wedenesday, 5pm
outside the Hopoddrome, St Augustine’s parade

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IMC G8 Newsblast - Sat 2nd July - Collected Reports

03-07-2005 22:06

INDYMEDIA G8 2005 NEWSBLAST
SATURDAY 2nd JULY #v1.0

(please post any additional reports from other imc's and alternative media coverage below)

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Live8 and Africa

03-07-2005 21:47

On how Live8 understands African reality

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Irish Citizens Imprisoned on Behalf of Shell Oil

03-07-2005 21:02

The Irish Government has given Shell carte blanche with Ireland's energy resources. Shell plans to build the world's first-ever onshore gas processing plant in Mayo, and can now have the courts imprison anyone who tries to get in their way.