UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Birmingham Ramallah Twinning Initiative (BRTI)
16-11-2006 16:57
As part of the grassroots initiative to twin Birmingham with Ramallah on the West Bank of the Occupied Palestinian Territories, four Palestinians from Ramallah will visit Birmingham from the 20th to the 29th of NovemberInverted Values
16-11-2006 15:31
An Australian corporate director who FAILED to perform was recently relieved of his position; he nevertheless was able to walk with a $30 million severance package. This case is not uncommon, directors who fail to perform ensure they win regardless of other factors. Public companies are milk cows for these unscrupulous types.Organising for Fighting Unions: turning anger into workplace activism
16-11-2006 15:25
Activists gathered in London last Saturday to discuss the kind of trade unions we need todayRupert Murdock clarifies Rulership
15-11-2006 04:24
Not too long ago Rupert Murdock would have trounced anyone in his media group for letting the ‘cat out of the bag’ (stating plain truth). It was therefore with jaw-dropping amazement that a local Australian audience listened to Murdock plainly state that we should not allow a particular administration to affect our attitude to the United States. “Administrations come and go”, he said, inferring REAL POWER, which Murdock represents, continues unaffected by the whims of democratic process!Global Warming: There’s Reason To Be Optimistic
13-11-2006 18:34
The resources to reverse the environmental damage ravishing the planet and threatening life of earth as we know it, are there. It is the social system that prevents these resources beign applied.Capitalism cannot prevent environmental catastrophe. That is why replacing it with an integrated world plan of production based on the democratic collective ownership and control and management of the world’s resources for and by the working class is our most pressing task.
Governed by an unelected superstate: EU and the end of British democracy
12-11-2006 19:10
British governance is being handed over, and its 'control' is increasingly in the hands of unelected bureaucrats within the EU. It is up to the people of the day, to say no before Britian is swallowed up by a pan-European Constitution, which will mean being "stripped of our remaining independence; losing control of our foreign policy and armed forces; the HANDING OVER OF OUR LEGAL SYSTEM AND LAW ENFORCEMENT TO THE EU... the handing over of our remaining currency and gold reserves to the European Central Bank; and the total regulation of British domestic and international trade, by the European Union". Please, view this documentary by Phillip Day.25TH NOVEMBER – BUY NOTHING DAY
11-11-2006 23:09
Open meeting for all interested in doing positive, imaginative actions for Buy Nothing DayMancunians against the G8
11-11-2006 13:57
Manchester folks are in Rostock this weekend. Meeting at Arch Bar on Wednesday to include report back of the talks being held by anti-capitalists in Germany.Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments
Meeting on World Bank & IMF in Oxford
10-11-2006 19:21
‘They no longer use bullets and ropes. They use the World Bank and the IMF’
Jesse Jackson
Emergency Call Out Nottingham Shell action
10-11-2006 11:35
A protester was run down by a car at a Shell petrol station in Nottingham just an hour ago. We think this story should get out there to national press and activists around the country. Any witnesses please contact us so we can get the details to the press.CUBA y el mundo contra el bloqueo
09-11-2006 14:49
contra Cuba califica como un acto de genocidio...
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Asylum Seekers - The long walk
09-11-2006 14:32
Destitute asylum seekers in Nottingham now have to travel to Loughborough to report -under threat of arrest if they don't.Would you support a campaign to highlight (and hopefully overturn) this policy?
Urgent action to stop massive shopping centre in Oxford!
08-11-2006 22:57
Do you want a shopping centre the size of Reading’s Oracle shopping centre in the middle of Oxford?Do you think Oxford needs to compete with Birmingham for shoppers.
Do you want traffic in the City Centre to be like just before Christmas all year round?
Do you want to see vulnerable, disabled residents moved from the Council housing to make ways for a car park?
Do you want to see the City Council doing it's bit to stop climate change?
Leeds Film fringe to remember Ken Saro-Wiwa 11 years after his execution
08-11-2006 08:18
Ogoni writer and political activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, will be remembered with films and talks this Saturday at the radical fringe of this year’s Leeds International Film Festival at the Common Place Social Centre in Wharf Street. The final programme has been announced.Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments
Day of Resistance to the War: March 19th, 2007
07-11-2006 23:32
On March 19th 2007, we call for a worldwide day of resistance to the imperialist, racist and senseless war in Iraq. We propose occupations, acts of civil disobedience, and direct action. We propose that these acts of resistance be directed towards governments, military recruitment centres, corporations, and other institutions that perpetuate empire and war.Plans to reinstate Iraq's Baathists
07-11-2006 19:59
AFP have reported today that Iraqi leaders have agreed a draft law to allow former members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party back into government jobs, a top official said on Monday.Wolfowitz in London next Monday morning
07-11-2006 17:23
Paul Wolfowitz, neo-con co-architect of the Iraq invasion and presidenbt of the World Bank will be in London next Monday, and the Bank's European office has requested a meeting with UK development NGOs for 10.30 am. Venue not known as yet....Berlin Humboldt University Bans 9/11 Film
07-11-2006 16:08
Travel agents disrupted in Reading!
07-11-2006 14:12
As part of yesterdays day-of-action against short-haul flights, called for by Plane Stupid, there were direct-actions and protest against travel agents in Reading.