UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Direct action campaigner faces prison

22-11-2009 21:11

Osian Jones, a full-time organiser with the radical pressure group Cymdeithas yr Iaith (Welsh Language Society), will return to court on Friday (25 Nov. 09) to answer a summons to imprison him for a month as the result of his campaigning work.

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Fifth or New International? Preliminary Food for Human Emancipation

22-11-2009 17:20

If ever we would organize a New International, and realize the above transhistoric goals, it will be the very Last International.

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Global warfare: US military operations in all major regions of the World

22-11-2009 15:21

Not only does one country account for the overwhelming plurality of world military expenditures, but that nation also has troops and bases on all six habitable continents (as well as a 54-year military mission in Antarctica, Operation Deep Freeze) and eleven aircraft carrier strike groups and six navy fleets that roam the world's oceans and seas at will. It is also expanding a global interceptor missile system on land, on sea, in the air and into space that will leave it invulnerable to retaliation.

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Philippines 'could become another Afghanistan for USA'

22-11-2009 08:44

PHILIPPINE revolutionaries are warning that their country could become another Afghanistan for the USA.

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War and Remembrance: About Patria, Pageants and Poppies

21-11-2009 22:46

Capitalism needs an enemy, real or invented and the demise of communism deprived them of a handy hook onto which they could hang the planet.

All the ‘war on terror’ has done is terrorize everybody and drag us deeper and deeper into the quagmire of the ‘new world order’.

From the former Yugoslavia to Somalia the Anglo-Saxon Empire is busy turning the planet into a graveyard.

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The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat

20-11-2009 18:29

"In an unprecedented defeat for the Federal Reserve, an amendment to audit the multi-trillion dollar institution was approved by the House Finance Committee with an overwhelming and bipartisan 43-26 vote on Thursday afternoon despite harried last-minute lobbying from top Fed officials and the surprise opposition of Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.), who had previously been a supporter."

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Dying for Crooks: US Troops in Afghanistan

20-11-2009 12:28

Transparency International reported yesterday that Afghanistan is the most corrupt nation in the world – except for Somalia. ... Heckua achievement, if the only nation on earth that is more shady is one that is full of pirates… Karzai is making Marion Barry look like Mother Teresa. ... The Washington Post reported today that one of Afghanistan’s top ministers took a $30 million bribe to give a special deal to a Chinese mining company. The New York Times reported: “Everything seems to be for sale: public offices, access to government services, even a person’s freedom.” .... So what do Army recruiters say these days? Why in Hades would any American agree to risk his neck to prop up this band of thieves?

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Free film: 56a Infoshop, London: Our Daily Bread (Sun 29th)

20-11-2009 11:01

FULL UNEMPLOYMENT CINEMA presents (once again)

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29th at 5pm
OUR DAILY BREAD, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005 (92m) + short
at 56a Infoshop, London

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Fruit of the Loom Campaign VICTORY! - Honduran Union sign historic agreement

20-11-2009 10:39

In the last few days Fruit of the Loom/Russell have agreed to meet People & Planet’s campaign demands to reopen the Honduran factory, re-hire all 1200 workers who have been without jobs for 10 months or more and make historic steps towards respecting union rights in the future. View details of the agreement

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Gary Sudborough RIP

20-11-2009 09:08

Gary Sudborough, one of my favorite writers has died suddenly from a heart attack on Tuesday, Nov. 17, 2009.

In his memory, I’m reposting an article he wrote last year that was published on several Indymedia websites.

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N30 Global Day of Climate Action / 10 yrs since Seattle!

19-11-2009 22:29

N30 - November the 30th, or the Monday after next - is 10 years since a coalition of protest and campaign groups shut down the World Trade Organisation (WTO) meeting in Seattle. It was successful coalition building, direct action and brought anti-globalisation into the mainstream. The WTO has struggled to achieve any new bollocks since (though it has managed to use it's existing bollocks to bad effect). Here's a hastily put together flyer/poster re the n30 climate day of action.

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US, China: no emissions cut (by Latuff)

18-11-2009 05:21

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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G8: Swiss stun grenade case due to conclude on Friday

17-11-2009 14:14

A six-year fight for justice by photojournalist Guy Smallman will come to a conclusion in the Swiss city of Lausanne on Friday 20 November.

At 9am the Federal Court will hear Mr Smallman’s final appeal in the case against the State of Geneva. Unusually, this will be heard in public.

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US and China free to pollute (by Latuff)

17-11-2009 02:43

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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15ft tank is next, say 25ft gun protesters!

16-11-2009 19:16

Following on from the recent good turn out against the arms sellers Heckler and Koch, based in Lenton, Nottingham, the activists and artists responsible for building a 25ft model gun and marching it through the streets, are anouncing their intention to build a 15ft tank and would like help to do so...

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25ft Gun Demo A Success

14-11-2009 11:10

On Friday the 13th November 2009 in Nottingham, Anti-Militarists and other activists marched to the gun makers Heckler and Koch in Lenton, Nottingham.

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Expansion of Farnborough Airport rejected!

12-11-2009 17:45

Expansion of Farnborough Airport was rejected last night by a seven to one majority.

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Protest against the privatisation of Edinburgh's social care

11-11-2009 22:21

About 150 people, service users and carers, protested today noisily in front of Edinburgh City Chambers against the privatisation of the care and support services. The final decision on the competitive tendering processes is planned to be made on 19th of November. The protesters called to stop the selling off of this vital service to private companies.

[Carers poverty protest at Scottish parliament | Save our homecare services | Council worker slams Council over cuts | Glasgow daycare workers on strike | Council strike sweeps Scotland ]

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Primark challenged with free clothes!

08-11-2009 17:51

Yesterday, as yet another Corporate outlet, this time by the name of Primark, colonised the streets of Cambridge, opposite its front door another world view was presented to passers by, in the form of a Free Shop.

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Zhibin Gu: is China a socialist nation: politics, economy, history and Communist

08-11-2009 06:05

What has gone wrong with China's Communist revolution? Puzzle 1: why does China have a totally corrupt government? Puzze 2: Is China's bureaucratic corruption going to ruin the nation and economy in light of global financial crisis? How should one understand the Chinese Communist bureaucracy and its wild corruptive practice? Get realistic analysis and knowledge on Chinese economy, politics, and society from provocative Chinese thinker George Zhibin Gu of World Association of International Studies at Stanford University (5 parts)