UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

GREENPEACE RESPONSE TO GM MAIZE APPROVAL

16-01-2004 23:06

A government advisory body just said GM Maize was fine for commercialisation now. Greenpeace explains why thats bollocks here...

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Venezuela Hails Latin American 'Axis' Against US

16-01-2004 15:27

Venezuela Hails Latin American 'Axis' Against US
16.01.2004 [07:46]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Thursday his country was forging an alliance with Argentina and Brazil to lead Latin America's opposition to U.S. free trade plans for the region.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/16/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

16-01-2004 01:17

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, China, Russia, and Cuba.

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Appeal for resistance against the meeting of the World-War-Elite in Munich

15-01-2004 20:20

from 6 to 8 February, 2004

Against EC military power and German war politics:
Stop Nato Countries’ global war!
Keep on moving – come to Munich. Against the Nato War Conference from 6 to 8 February, 2004

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26 finalist entries in anti-bush tv ad competition

15-01-2004 14:52

Some fantastic entries here - check them out at:

http://www.bushin30seconds.org/finalists.html

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New Independent Alt Media Website from Znet folks

15-01-2004 10:14

“An exciting initiative by people with great experience and impressive achievements. It offers real promise of meeting needs that are widely and rightly felt: for regular news about important issues, truly independent, not constrained by concentrated power.”
—Noam Chomsky, author and renowned social critic

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World Social Forum 2004- Mumbai

14-01-2004 10:02

The 3rd world social forum is due commence in Mumbai on the 16th of Jan 2004

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APC Special Round-Up Report on WSIS

13-01-2004 17:15

APC Special Round-Up on WSIS
December 03

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ILPS CALL TO ACTION FOR MARCH 20, 2004

13-01-2004 01:47

Please sign the Online Pledge at

http://www.ilps-news.com/contact/sign-the-pledge/

The International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS) hereby announces its participation in the Global Day of Action and calls on all its more than 250 member-organizations throughout the world and all other organizations and people within their reach to initiate or join protest mass actions on March 20, 2004, the first anniversary of the US-UK invasion of Iraq.

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over a week before WEF, riot police out using plastic bullets already!

12-01-2004 21:40

its only january 12th, the WEF begins on the 20th, but already anti-capitalists and alter-globalists are confronting the mechanisms of this elitist, towering monstrosity. they stand at its foot, hacking with axes at its supports now, and in a week, they will bring it crashing down, and at this moment everyone will be at the same level, all forced to stare into each others eyes.

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World Summit on the Information Society - Report back + discussion (jan 30th)

12-01-2004 11:59

WSIS - World Summit on the Information Society - Who Seized?

An evening to report back from the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva and the We Seize initiative - and to discuss further participation / interventions / activities in the field of communication rights.

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Que viva Chavez! Que viva Venezuela!

11-01-2004 18:06

Venezuela's Chavez Hits Back at U.S. Before Summit
11.01.2004 [12:47]

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez told the United States on Saturday to stop "sticking its nose" in his country's affairs in a scathing rebuttal of U.S. criticism days before a regional summit.
Venezuela's Chavez Hits Back at U.S. Before Summit
11.01.2004 [12:47]

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Empire strikes out

10-01-2004 18:50

First publicated on the trotskyist review Marxism Alive 6

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"Unprecedented" to be screened in Oxford

10-01-2004 13:17

"Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election" which tells the story of how the election was stolen by Bush, has been in 60 film festivals and is currently airing on the Sundance Channel in the U.S., will be screened on 17 January in Oxford.

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Politic Capacity

09-01-2004 22:02

Politic Capacity

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movement of the imagination at the ESF 2003

09-01-2004 15:33

tape fun 'ceci n'est pas le capitalisme' at the European Social Forum
who's space? our space...the world is not for sale

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what kind of life can there be AFTER THE OIL CRASH?!

09-01-2004 13:39

IF YOU’RE LIKE 99% OF THE POPULATION, YOU’VE NEVER HEARD THE TERM "PEAK OIL". I HAD’T HEARD IT UNTIL A FEW MONTHS AGO. SINCE THEN, HOWEVER, MY WORLDVIEW AND BASIC ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT MY OWN INDIVIDUAL FUTURE HAVE BEEN TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.
WHETHER YOUR'E 25 OR 75, A LAWYER OR AN AUTO MECHANIC, WHAT YOU ARE ABOUT TO READ WILL SHAKE THE FOUNDATIONS OF YOUR LIFE.

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EZLN 10 Years After, The Struggle Continues

08-01-2004 22:01

1st January 2004 marks 10 Years since the EZLN's uprising in Chiapas (Mexico's south east), and 20 years of modern Zapatismo.

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Licenses for German nuclear waste transports to Sellafield

08-01-2004 14:54

The anti-nuclear transports group Aktionsbuendnis CASTOR-Widerstand Neckarwestheim reports that the “Federal Radiation Protection Agency” (BfS) has licensed another nuclear waste consignment from the Neckarwestheim power station (about 45 km north of Stuttgart) to the plutonium factory at Sellafield in northwest England. The group says the licence is for two Castor caskets containing a total of 14 spent fuel rods and is valid until 15 March. Also valid to that date is the transportation from the Krümmel nuke in northern Germany of eight caskets to Sellafield.

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EU targets "anarchist terror"

08-01-2004 12:10

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