UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Manufacturing takes a hit
17-01-2006 03:21
Rising global energy prices are hitting UK manufactures, but the costs have yet to be passed down to the consumer...Global dockers riot for victory
17-01-2006 01:55
Today so running battles between dock workers from around the world and cops in StrasbourgRise of the women
16-01-2006 21:46
Wow, women of the world see new hoped as two continents get their first elected heads of state...First student anti-sweatshop week of action
16-01-2006 18:46
The first national student anti-sweatshop week of action will take place 11-18 February 2006.Resisting the G8 2005 - Book Out Now!
16-01-2006 17:25
Out now at a book shop near you, or order copies via: www.shutthemdown.org where the full text of the book is also available online!Gunboat attack forces Shell retreat from Nigeria - oil prices rise again.
16-01-2006 15:53
Shell oil has been forced to evacuate facilities in the niger delta after further attacks on it's facilities...Lydd Airpt arrogantly flys in 737 jet
16-01-2006 13:37
Apparently as part of its 'expansion' plans Lydd Airport (Romney Marsh Kent) bosses (Saudi owners!) allowed a 737 jet to fly in over the weekend. The Keep The Marsh Special Alliance is trying to highlight the arrogance of this with local media....Shell, Bayer, GAP: An "Award" Corporations Don't Want to Win
16-01-2006 13:05
Cambridge Forum on Corporate Accountability (Tues 17th)
14-01-2006 02:12
Next Tuesday - Jan 17th - is the first Cambridge Forum meeting of 2006.This meeting is being organised by Shilpa Shah, who has persuaded Craig Bennett, Senior Corporates Campaigner for Friends of the Earth, to come and talk to us. The Corporate Accountability Campaign is seeking to change the legal and political framework in which corporations operate, so that they work in the interests of people and the environment, not just private vested interests.
Chavez threatens to cut off US oil supplies
14-01-2006 01:32
On top of disruption to oil supplies this week from Nigeria after sabotage and kidnapping, and on top of concerns over stability of supplies from Iran should the UN initiate sanctions, now the 5th largest oil producer in the world has asked the question 'what would happen if we were to stop exports to the US'?Should this implied threat be taken seriously it could spell further increases in oil prices in an already jumpy market. It could also fuel speculation that the US will taken action to remove Chavez from power in the coming months....
Stop UN's plan for a new massacre in Haiti
13-01-2006 23:40
Dear friends and allies,I hope you are all well. I have been in the Dominican Republic the
last
few days, visiting Haitian migrant workers and human rights
organizations
working with migrants here. I will be returning to Haiti tomorrow
morning, and meanwhile, quite a storm seems to be brewing there.
Please have a look at this announcement. It is quite shocking, but I
think urgent action might be needed over the next few days:
http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HAC/1_11_6/1_11_6.html Wildlife Area Handed Over To Oil Industry
13-01-2006 21:27
Bush is really scraping the barrel now. Having failed to convince the congress last month to hand over the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to his buddies in the oil business, he has had to satisfy the countries growing thirst by sacrificing the Teshekpuk Lake Special Area instead. The move sweeps aside decades of environmental protection and is just one more sign of the desperation of a dying empire in the face of a global peak of oil production.China and India form power block
13-01-2006 18:00
Today we consume around 4 times as much oil as we discover. Approximately half of all know oil reserves have already been recovered, and oil production will peak in the near future, or perhaps already has. Demand for oil by the world growing economies will soon outstrip supply.Oil prices will continue to rise, as will the cost of transportation, industrial production, consumer goods, and food...
Saving Iceland Gathering Sheffield
13-01-2006 17:09
Sheffield 21-22nd January 2006
Matilda Social Centre, Matilda Street Sheffield
Out-thinking, not out-fighting them (with art)
13-01-2006 14:17
VENEZUELA'S BOLIVARIAN MOMENT - ITS PROMISE AND PERILS
12-01-2006 18:12
A review of the Bolivarian Revolution achievements and the threat against Hugo Chavez by the U.S.Venezuela - Bolivarian Revolution, Coal Mining and Indigenous Resistance
12-01-2006 12:52
•Tuesday 24th Jan, 6pm The Cowley Club, 12 London Rd, Brighton* Report back from a recent trip to Venezuela
•* FILM: Bolivarian Venezuela; people and struggle
•* Short film from a new libertarian social centre in Caracas
•* Information on indigenous struggles in the rural North West
Speech by Iraqi oil union president now translated
12-01-2006 10:21
The IFOU is an anti-occupation, anti-privatisation and politically independent federation of Iraqi oil workers, who are fighting to resist both the corporations and the US/UK occupation forces. It is a non-sectarian federation that aims to unite all oil workers in Iraq, and has also worked to expel oil company bosses who were supporters of Saddam Hussein.14th January Benefit Gig in Matilda: Independent Beats
11-01-2006 12:49
Benefit for an Independent Media Centre at the World Social Forum in BamakoIn January 2006 activists from all over Africa and Europe will get together in Bamako for the first World Social Forum (WSF) to be held on African Soil.
