UK Indymedia - UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Putin Shoots Down South Korean Cellphone Giant

12-10-2015 12:49

The Russian government has declined a major business application by a Seoul-based electronics corporation. A Kremlin spokesman said on state television a plan to open duty-free shops along the Russian borders to allow neighbouring customers to benefit from exchange rate shake-ups was not feasible to foster sustainable investment. The plan had been developed on a background of increased economic instability resulting from intensified trade sanctions. The speaker also declined permits for two projected deep-water drilling sites in the Arctic Sea.

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Witness Venezuela’s Elections This December-6, 2015‏‎‏‎

06-10-2015 22:34

This December, witness one of the most important elections in the history of Venezuela, and of the hemisphere. On December 6, the people of Venezuela will exercise their right to vote in elections for deputies to the country’s National Assembly. Voters will decide whether to carry forward the Bolivarian Revolution by retaining a Chavista majority in the National Assembly or return the political intitative to the traditional elites represented by most of the Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD).

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Protesters Enact Symbolic "Die In" to Unwelcome Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley

28-09-2015 23:08

Over 2000 vibrant protesters from many different Indian American communities joined together outside the SAP Center in San Jose to counter Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of "Digital India" and Hindutva. They raised many issues with Modi's leadership, ranging from forced conversions to Hinduism, Internet surveillance, arrest of political bloggers, harassment of human rights activists, blind eye to rapes, dispossession of small farmers, rewriting of Indian history, and the 2002 Gujarat massacre.

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Indian Prime Minister Modi to Face Mounting Protests in Silicon Valley Visit

27-09-2015 04:37

Opposition to Narendra Modi's visit to San Jose mounts as Indian-American groups and human rights organizations announce more protests and joint action. Modi's failure to address burning social issues, blind eye to attacks on minorities and women, and shielding of corruption is called into question. Scores of buses from across California are set to converge on SAP Center in San Jose.

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Down With Murder Inc [update]

18-09-2015 08:10

a rewrite of the original article posted on here in 2003

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2003/05/68223.html

feels more relevant than ever.

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New Installation - 'Activist Investor by Rupert James Baker Ltd.'

16-09-2015 16:53

The artist is inviting you, the audience, to control one ordinary share in 'Activist Investor by Rupert James Baker Ltd.'
Baker sees his role as artist and facilitator of this perpetually evolving installation with the future direction now relinquished to you, the active audience.

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Witness Venezuela’s Elections This December-6, 2015

25-08-2015 08:44

This December, witness one of the most important elections in the history of Venezuela, and of the hemisphere. On December 6, the people of Venezuela will exercise their right to vote in elections for deputies to the country’s National Assembly.

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Greece after five years in recession. Accelerated poverty in Greece

30-07-2015 11:18

10 January 2015 (the date that this article was written): Greece’s problem is more complicated than austerity, is mainly about poverty, more poverty, accelerated poverty, and then SHAME . 30 July 2015: Greece’s problem is mainly about poverty. A third Greek bailout can help, but the question will stay the same / SHAME: Has Grexit been avoided?

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New front line video from the fierce austerity riots (Athens 15 July)

20-07-2015 15:24

New front line video from the fierce riots that took place in Athens on 15 July 2015, during a protest outside the greek parliament against the new austerity measures.

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Protest: Ble Mae'r Gymraeg yn ein Prifddinas? / Where is the Welsh?

19-07-2015 13:07

Gwybodaeth am brotest yng Nghaerdydd - Upcoming language rights demo in Cardiff

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UG#710 - Facing The Failing Culture Of Control-3 (The Simple Model of Singapore)

18-07-2015 03:16

We have another program in our series on the failing culture of control. Last time we looked at the development of nuclear technology as a result of competition between nation states, this time we look instead at the 21st development of social technology to divide and conquer the world's population. Faced with the organized efforts to misdirect their altruistic impulses of the public at large by terrorizing them and implanting false beliefs, 3 speakers voice their iconoclastic and unwavering dissent.

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International Art and Social Consciousness: Rejecting ‘Endless Lines and Squares

28-06-2015 12:11

Despite all the contemporary global interconnectedness, the lack of an international social consciousness among artists (whose work is linked only by its sameness and market-ready designs and styles) evokes frustration in the politically conscious critic and commentator.

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World Bank and IMF Announce $1.1 Billion in Debt Relief for Chad

30-04-2015 16:14

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank announced $1.1 billion in debt relief for Chad. The money comes through the IMF and World Bank's two major debt relief programs: the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Initiative (HIPC) and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI). Chad is the 36th country to receive HIPC relief and the first since 2012. Chad is the fourth-least developed country in the world. More than half its population lives in poverty.

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The BBC, Ricky Dearman And Mind Control Agenda

26-04-2015 18:27

Without doubt the BBC and Disney are pure evil. The latest cover up by them to discredit the credibility of ricky dearman being involved in a satanic ring is unacceptable

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The origins of the Green Party – Eugenics and Euthanasia

18-04-2015 00:31

The Green Party's origins lie with the document 'Blue Print for Survival'; signatory (amongst others) Julian Huxley, eugenicist (selective human breeding), member of the British Eugenics Society, Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Danny Schechter 1942-2015 - an appreciation.

28-03-2015 00:16

Danny Schechter, surely one of the greatest, if not the greatest, American journalist of the twentieth century sadly passed away on Thursday 19th March 2015 after a brave battle with cancer. His prolific output, commitment to truth, justice and humanity should be a beacon of light to young journalists everywhere. Here is my tribute to the News Dissector with whom I corresponded for 14 years.

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New anti-establishment party on the rise in the UK

27-03-2015 13:46

How millions who have turned off the political system have the chance to finally vote in the 2015 May general elections thanks to The Above and Beyond Party

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Firsthand account of Frankfurt resistance against the ECB

23-03-2015 21:31

On March 18th 2015 thousands of anti-capitalists from across Europe converged on Frankfurt to disrupt the opening ceremony of the European Central Bank (ECB). A morning of intense rioting, followed by a 25,000 strong anti-capitalist demonstration, caused severe disruption to the ECB. Rabble received this account from someone who participated in some of the day’s events:

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Requisites for Building the Socialist Future

22-03-2015 03:29

There are five general requisites for building the socialist future. First, learn from the historical experience of the revolutionary proletariat in building socialism in the 20th century.

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Frankfurt and the flames of resistance

19-03-2015 14:37

Issue 5 of online anarchist bulletin The Acorn has just been published and focuses on Blockupy in Frankfurt: