UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Thom Yorke on the WTO [!]
08-09-2003 13:03
Losing the faithThom Yorke
Monday September 8, 2003
The Guardian
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Newcastle vs the G8 in 2005
07-09-2003 12:43
Ex-Blair minister accuses US of allowing Sept 11 attacks
06-09-2003 21:01
Former Government minister Michael Meacher has claimed that the war on terrorism is a "political smokescreen" allowing the US to dominate the world and its oil supplies.The WTO Drug Deal -- How Hope was Bargained Away
06-09-2003 02:23
There was a time when health activists thought a global trade deal onaffordable medicines would be an
achievement worth celebrating.
Now they have one. But they're not celebrating.
Last weekend, members of the World Trade Organization agreed on a plan
to offer poor countries improved
access to life-saving drugs. The deal, which ended a 21-month test of
wills between the United States and
the developing world, was hailed as a breakthrough by relieved negotiators.
Young Webmaster Heads to Prison
06-09-2003 02:19
Pirate radio -- Loud and Offensive!
06-09-2003 02:16
BBC report on DSEi
05-09-2003 14:39
Campaigners against Europe's largest international arms show say half of the countries invited to the event next week are not allowed to buy weapons under British law...Pretty pink pieces of paper
05-09-2003 14:05
5th September, 2003, NablusYesterday pretty pink pieces of paper rained from the clear blue sky above Nablus and the refugee camps of Balata and Askar. Pink leaflets delivered by an Apache. This is how the Israeli Occupation Forces communicate with the occupied – at a distance, impersonal and untouchable.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 9/5/03 ¡Listen Globally!
05-09-2003 00:24
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.British Aerospace 1Billion Hawk Jet order
04-09-2003 10:58
Order goes through for 66 'trainer'Jets to India.FREEDOM OF SPEECH STIFLED BY MINING COMPANY IN AUSTRALIA
04-09-2003 09:23
A MINING COMPANY ATTEMPTING TO MINE A RARE FOREST IN AUSTRALIA STOPPED THE AIRING OF A 14 MINUTE DOCUMENTARY BY COMMUNITY GROUP FRIENDS OF THE TUART FOREST.PLEASE SIGN ON-LINE PETITION;
http://www.petitiononline.com/bdec6280/petition.html Back to the future as North West faces service sector jobs haemorrhage
03-09-2003 05:23
Up to 200,000 UK jobs are likely to be lost in the biggest industrial collapse since manufacturing was decimated in the early 1980s. Analysts predict a total of 2 million jobs will migrate from Western Europe to India by 2008.EU Software Patent Plans Shelved Amid Massive Demonstrations
02-09-2003 09:39
On Aug 28th, the European Parliament postponed its vote on the proposed EU Software Patent Directive. The day before, approximately 500 persons had gathered for a rally beside the Parliament in Brussels, accompanied by an online demonstration involving more than 2000 websites. The events in and near the Parliament were reported extensively covered in the media, including tv and radio, all over Europe and beyond. Within a few days, the petition calling the European Parliament to reject software patentability accumulated 50,000 new signatures.WDM Director speaking in Oxford
01-09-2003 17:04
Barry Coates, Director of the World Development Movement (www.wdm.org.uk), will be speaking at a free public meeting in the Oxford Town Hall at 7pm, on Thursday 4th September.STWC are at it again!!!!
01-09-2003 13:30
Confusion by the SWP front jumping on the band wagon again.Norwich Anarchists Demo at County Hall.
01-09-2003 08:30
Demonstrators gathering