UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Thanksgiving for Thought Crime
18-11-2007 22:32
Captain Eric H. May, the Internet intelligence writer, has written a holiday essay about what we Americans should be thankful for having, and what we should be thankful we don't have yet.Invitation to Expedition in the Napo-Ucayali Corridor: June/July 2008
17-11-2007 23:19
Contemporary developments in the global economy are very significant for the Amazon rain forest. While this might be said to be true for anywhere at any point in time there are nevertheless good reasons for paying special attention to what maybe the last battle for the survival of the largest rain forest in the world, the loss of which it should need no further justification to lament – and that is the basis upon which this invitation is written….Why I Walked Out In Richard Reed Of Innocent Drinks
17-11-2007 18:12
Ok, being uber-cool in jeans, t-shirt and Ugg boots on a stage in front of 300 environmentalists of varying shades is not, in itself, reason to have someone walk out on you, but I did give it at least 2 minutes before I left. Here’s why.Thoughts on evolving strategy
17-11-2007 13:47
While battles are fought against the police, protests raged against politicians and corporations, I want to raise the more thorny issue of what do we, as activists, do about the "common people", the general mass of "ordinary" people who make up the bulk of consumers (and producers)?In this short piece I argue that it is necessary to obtain support from people in the street for a number of reasons: first, because of the groundswell support that this group could lend to the cause(s) and second, because it then becomes that much more tenuous for the authorities to dismiss the cause(s) we fight for as radical, or reflecting fringe interests.
Remember Genoa (Guardian artilce today)
16-11-2007 15:15
The following article was posted on The Guardian's 'Comment is Free' site.See:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ben_trott_/2007/11/remember_genoa.html
INSURGENTES against Venezuela´s constitutional reform
15-11-2007 15:58
* Various organizations and individuals within Venezuela, each with a history of social struggle and each bringing with them diverse proposals from the anti-authoritarian and critical left, have assembled in the space of INSURGENTES (INSURGENTS) to forge a position against the proposed constitutional “reform” offered by the republic’s President, Hugo Chavez Frias.Venezuela: Interview with an indigenous activist
15-11-2007 15:55
* As part of the 2.300 delegates in the second Zapatista and indigenous community’s international reunion, which took place last July in Mexico, members of the wayuu community delivered a truly important message: Venezuelan indigenous community’s situation is very different than the declared by the government people in Caracas. El Libertario talked about the experience with Jorge Montiel, member of the Maikiralasa’lii.Blackbird & The Blackhole
15-11-2007 14:56
During the Northern Rock bank run, the press were blamed by banking executives for scaring depositors. Since then public criticism has been scant, despite the massive taxpayer bail-out of 'Blackbird' ( the Rocks codename) -a patient that remains catatonic. Meanwhile, the broader 'subprime lending crisis' is likely to be exposed soon as the response to global mortgage fraud.Unfettered capitalism is not the globalisation people want
15-11-2007 10:52
Expressing regret that the European Parliament's joint resolution on globalisation doesn't address the interests and concerns of the people of Europe, Czech GUE/NGL MEP Jiri Mastalka said that MEPs had "absolutely failed to recognise the negative impact of globalisation" and that they were "offering people nothing but propaganda on how to resolve the dilemmas associated with globalisation".Shell to Sea - New 10-minute film - Policing The Pollution
13-11-2007 20:59
Film: http://current.com/items/87156551_policing_the_pollutio...water Freecycle threaten to sue community group!
13-11-2007 12:32
A Slough community-arts festival, FennerFest, included a "Freecycle: bring & take!" night, to celebrate the sharing & waste reduction ethos of the Freecyle movement - little did they know Freecycle is actually a private American company with trademarks, who turn the lawyers on anyone they don't like (eg us), and are also sponsored by a large American waste company!Nandigram massacre over Special Economic Zone in West Bengal continue...
13-11-2007 02:47
This follows the article posted on the 11/11/07 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/11/385466.html Originally forwarded by Narmada Andolan campaign...
Darfurism, Uganda and the US War in Africa: The Spectre of Continental Genocide
12-11-2007 12:59
The U.S. is all over the place, with both covert and overt military programs. France, England, Canada, Belgium, Libya, Israel and China are all involved. All these conflicts are intertwined, and the targeted populations have allegiances and alliances dictated by the pre-colonial boundaries demarcated at the Berlin Conference of 1885 by the imperial doctrine of divide and conquer.Telling Starbucks to 'Buck off' at Nottingham Uni.
12-11-2007 10:01
Nottingham university students have been campaiging tirelessly over the last few weeks to get their University to get Starbucks off campus and stop them selling their unelthical beverages in our the Hallward Library.Massacre of Anti-Globalisation Demonstrators in India
11-11-2007 00:05
The Narmada Bachao Andolan campaign just sent out an urgent appeal for help.The Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPM], is currently massacring the people of the area Nandigram, where there have been rising protest against the establishments of Special Economic Zones. SEZs allow corporations the right to evict entire populations to construct heavy industrial projects. The SEZ in Nandigram would allow Indonesia's largest conglomerate, the Salim Group, to forcefully acquire 57km2 of land and affect 40,000 people to create a chemical hub. On the 4th of March this year 14 demonstrators were killed by a mixture of Police and CPM members, dressed as Police. Todays attempt to force the people of Nandigram from their land is far, far graver.
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From the ashes of despair, the seeds of solidarity might spring?
10-11-2007 12:06
Faced with the pervasive onslaught and destruction of the ecosystems, the natural ecology, the social ecology, and the psychological ecology, by the way of the world as it is today, I express my frustration and impotence with traditional forms of protest and in the naked vulnerability of my lack of ability to positively influence the flow of events, I ask for input and hope to plant the seeds of solidarity.Venezuela: Reforms take away what is gained through the struggle
09-11-2007 18:57
Stirling Primark receives a story telling
09-11-2007 13:35
Chinese commerce, entrepreneurship revolution: family business, finance, trade
08-11-2007 00:15
Is a rising China reshaping global finance, trade, wealth, peace, outsourcing, labor, politics map? Is Chinese capitalist revolution sustainable? What is really inside Chinese society, finance, government, labor, management, globalization? Talk to provocative thinker George Zhibin Gu from inside China.UK Green Party backs murderer Ian Blair
07-11-2007 15:51
UK Green Party backs murderer Ian Blair