UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
EU fines likely for Bayer and Chemtura
19-12-2005 14:11
Brilliant Fools - Harold Pinter, John Le Carré And The Media
19-12-2005 13:50
The media are, and always have been, the supreme obstacle to change. But you would not know it because all media corporations apply the same potent label to such a thought: ''Unthinkable''.Police brutality and inhumane treatment of prisoners at WTO summit in Hong Kong
19-12-2005 10:22
The brutality and inhuman treatment of the protestors against theWorld Trade Organisation (WTO) by the Hong Kong police comes as a shock and must immediately be stopped.
AMMAD HAQUE POLITICAL POETRY on the seasonal shows of 'piety' and 'compassion
19-12-2005 10:22
On the day when the mainstream UK news outlets are running the alleged story about alleged class division between John Prescott and his boss Tony Blair - and on the alleged rift between Gordon Brown and Tony Blair over the British EU rebate...in contrast with the absence from the main news media in the UK of anything like decent reporting on how BOTH Prescott and Brown are as much responsible as Blair for continuing with the policy of impoverishment of huge parts of the world’s populations...
WTO soli demo in Berlin
19-12-2005 02:11
WTO soli demo in Berlin:
http://germany.indymedia.org/2005/12/135264.shtml
NO-WTO! REPORT OF READING SOLIDARITY DEMO:
18-12-2005 16:54
In Reading last night, around 20-30 anti-capitalists, environmentalists, students and others marched from the Reading International Solidarity Centre, to make a free cafe and anti-World Trade Organisation demonstration outside Starbucks in the town centre. Protesters moved quickly into the Oracle Riverside - busy private land on both sides of the canal which is lined with posh restaurants, bars and the cinema between the huge Oracle shopping center and it's multi-story carpark.Protest against the Jewish National Fund and Colin Powell.
18-12-2005 16:10
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign would like to announce a protest against the Jewish National Fund and Colin Powell to be held outside the JNF charity dinner at the Glasgow Hilton on 16th January 2006 from 5pm onwards. After the demonstration outside the Hilton there will be a public meeting where two Palestinians will speak by telephone to people attending and will discuss how the JNF have affected, and often destroyed, their lives and property.Learning from the World Trade Organisation
18-12-2005 13:45
WTO may be promoting global injustice and exacerbating poverty, but is there anything positive we can learn from it, particlarly if we are Simultaneous Policy (SP) Adopters?Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Sheffield Top Shop No Sweat Protest
17-12-2005 18:30
HONGKONG: WTO protesters crash gates !
17-12-2005 16:38
- SOUTH KOREAN FARMERS STAND TALL AND BREAK INTO CONVENTION CENTER WHERE THE WTO-TRADE-TALKS ARE HAPPENING -Migrant Workers Strike against Poverty Wages and WTO
17-12-2005 05:55
SuperSizeMyPay.Com campaign co-ordinator, Simon Oosterman said that the strike was a part of international protests against the meeting of the World Trade Organisation in Hong Kong and the global fight for economic justice.
Inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong
16-12-2005 23:30
Opposition leader jailed in Venezuela
16-12-2005 13:25
Carlos Ortega, one of the top opposition leaders in Venezuela, has been sentenced to 15 years in jail for inciting civil unrest during a strike. Following a military coup d'etat in 2002, the two-month strike battered the country's oil industry in a effort ot oust the elected president Hugo Chavez.Global Food Trade & the New Slave Labour
16-12-2005 10:19
See http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GFTNSL.php for How globalisation links UK’s Tesco supermarket chain to colonial-style farming in South Africa that exploits farm-workers especially women and perpetrates poverty.
The Plague Upon Eden
16-12-2005 04:25
A thorough analysis of humanity's role in the destruction of the environment and acceleration of global warming"Peak Oil" - the global crisis?' LSE Debate Review
15-12-2005 23:59
news from the streets of Hong Kong
15-12-2005 23:02
Fisherfolks Murdered By Drowning, Suspect 6th WTO
15-12-2005 15:38
HONGKONG-- A proposal of rich countries to open the markets of less developed nations to their non-agricultural products like fish, the Philippines' 1.8 million small fishermen-and Southeast Asia's 12 million-could drown in a sea of imports from the likes of China and Japan.How is your high street?
15-12-2005 13:57
More and more independent retailers are disappearing from Britain’s high streets every year. ITV news recently reported that 1700 shops were lost last year, but other surveys put it at much higher.