UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

URGENT: Fruit of the Loom Day of Action - 7th Aug

06-08-2009 17:37

Russell Athletic, a Fruit of the Loom subsidiary, shamelessly closed the Jerzees de Honduras factory early this year, reportedly to punish workers for forming a union.

We've already forced the company into negotiations with the union, which are taking place this Friday (7th August) in Washington DC

Students in the UK and USA are calling for a Transatlantic Day of Action to show support for workers getting their income and human rights back.

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The Obama opiate: Crisis deepens, crowds cheer

06-08-2009 08:18

Six months since taking the reins, the Barack Obama administration has met its primary objective. It has swiftly ramped up the murderous imperial agenda inherited from Bush-Cheney while the masses, pacified and deceived by the appeal of the Obama image, pay no attention to realities.

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Workers can take advantage of a serious crisis too.

03-08-2009 21:21

Capitalists aren't the only ones that should be taking advantage of a good crisis. Workers shouldn't let a crisis go to waste either.

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Censorship Struggle Underway In Iceland [0]

02-08-2009 20:55

Information from the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing has been leaked to WikiLeaks, revealing billions in insider loans, and the bank has been working day and night to censor the information [1] contained in the document [2].

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Anti-Capitalist Choir Hits Cambridge's Consumerist Temples

01-08-2009 23:15

Video of 'Buy Less, Sing More' Choir – Saturday 1st August 2009

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Council flooded with objections to Farnborough Airport expansion

31-07-2009 14:36

Plans to double the number of flights at Farnborough Airport has met strong local opposition.

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Victims of the Jamaican Madoff Face Second Scam

29-07-2009 21:19

With every disaster a new opportunity emerges. Respectable capitalists swoop in quickly– operating in complete legality but equally willing shake down as many people for as much money as possible. PwC has employed the amazing hubris and grotesque efficiency typical of capitalism. No carcass to slim; no pocket book too picked.

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El Desierto Verde - The Green Desert (Biofuels in Colombia)

27-07-2009 00:29

An account of taking part in an international mission of verification about biofuels in Colombia 1st-11th July 2009 - a week in Valle de Cauca and the north of Cauca where sugar cane is grown extensively and processed into ethanol for use as a biofuel.

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Venezuela coup d'etat rumor may herald things to come given mighty interests

26-07-2009 22:05

With all the problems, vices and malpractices existent in the current administration I still consider President Chavez as the very centerpiece for change in Venezuela and Latin America, and all those who are tirelessly working to make it happen, against all odds.

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Chavez: US plans to invade Venezuela through Colombia

26-07-2009 18:15

Veneuzelan President Hugo Chavez asserted that the U.S. “has plans to invade Venezuela,” and “wants to convert Colombia into the Israel of Latin America.”

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US Bases and Empire: Global Perspectives on the Asia Pacific

25-07-2009 11:56

The US bases deployed around the World bristle with an inventory of weapons whose worth is measured in the trillions and whose killing power could wipe out all life on earth several times over. Their presence is meant to signal, and at times demonstrate, that the US is able and willing to attempt to control events in other regions militarily.

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Cambridge Activists slow down Tesco's Building work

22-07-2009 22:55

Cambridge activists sabotage machinery in a bid to slow down the building work of a new Tescos's on Mill Road

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Swine flu is nothing short of bio-terrorism to cause genocide.

21-07-2009 17:52

Jane Bürgermeister, an Austrian investigative reporter, has filed a law suit against, among other, President Barack Obama, Dr. Margaret Chan (World Health Organisation), Robert Parkinson (CEO, Baxter), Daniel Vassella (CEO, Novartis), Chris Viehbacher (CEO Sanofi Aventis), Andrew Witty (CEO, GSK), David De Rothschild and David Rockefeller for deliberate planning of a genocide using pandemic flu against the American people.

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Camp For Climate Action 27 Aug - 2 Sept

20-07-2009 21:08

27 August - 2 September, London

With the city lights in sight, you pitch your tent alongside thousands of others. Another future emerges from the ground.
Welcome to the Climate Camp.

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Vestas Factory OCCUPIED

20-07-2009 19:58

Save Vestas - Defend Jobs, Save the Planet - Support the Occupation
Workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.

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Honduras: Zelaya llama a la insurrección

20-07-2009 09:48

Es el futuro de los trabajadores, de los pueblos de Centroamérica y América Latina el que se encuentra en juego en esta batalla decisiva en Honduras.

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Picket Indian Embassy, London - No to landgrab & state terror in Lalgarh, India

19-07-2009 02:28

Protest at the Indian High Commission, London, against the state terror unleashed on the people of Lalgarh, a village in West Bengal, India, who refused complying with a government sanctioned corporate landgrab of 5000 acres of land, uprooting them from their homes and depriving them of their livelihood.

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March of Repentence, London 18/07/2009 - pictures.

18-07-2009 20:25

A year after financial chaos spreads wildly throughout the economy and public and private institutions buckle under the weight of war, nepotism and corruption, people of faith gather in London to repent and show penitence for the transgression of remaining silent throughout.

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USA-CIA-Program: Assassinations Worldwide

18-07-2009 15:40

The Central Intelligence Agency’s secret assassination squad was allowed to operate anywhere in the world, including the United States, according to a Thursday report in The Washington Post. “The plan to deploy small teams of assassins grew out of the CIA’s early efforts to battle al-Qaeda after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks,” the paper reported. “A secret document known as a ‘presidential finding’ was signed by President George W. Bush that same month, granting the agency broad authority to use deadly force against bin Laden as well as other senior members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups.”

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Demonstrate outside the offices of Press TV - lead by G.Galloway

18-07-2009 10:50

Oppose Iranian state lies and censorship
Solidarity with Iranian political prisoners, students and workers !