UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Future of Food
24-01-2005 16:25
The Future of Food, a conference organised by Resurgence, held at the City of London Girls School at the Barbican in the City of London, Saturday 22 January 2005.Protests and Counter-Inauguration at Bush Coronation
22-01-2005 19:58
Heard about the protests at Bush’s inauguration this week? No? Little attention has been paid to the protests, but some ten thousand people gathered in Washington DC to register their opposition to the Texan tea-leaf, and smaller demonstrations occurred all over the US.Iraq: A Failure or a Success?
21-01-2005 21:46
Although the Iraq campaign in the short-term seems to be failing, ultimately it's success or failure can only be decided sometime between 2015-2045.a planetary embrace
21-01-2005 18:37
We ourselves, the "weak" are actualy stronger than the "strong". In Washington the celebration of Bush election only have been reached after using so many military ressources that demonstrate that they, the "strong" are really, really affraid; and they will be more and more afraid until they discover that this were not the way.For us, the "weak", maybe the way begin calling them what they are.
DC IMC Bush Protests Precis - "Insurgents" Delay "Second Coming"
21-01-2005 06:38
short precis from Washington - dc imc - on the counter-inaugural protests 20th jan 05- see below
(+ funniest pic of the day award - Vice President Cheney's Limo hit by Snowball :-)
http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/115005/index.php
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 1/21/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
20-01-2005 23:59
A 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Spain, Cuba, and Russia.hugo chavez nationalizes paper industry under workers control
20-01-2005 21:50
Pics from anti-bush vigil at US Embassy London
20-01-2005 21:00
There were one hundred candles - each representing one thousand Iraqi civilians killed since the invasion.
Anti-Capitalism 2005 - Day School
20-01-2005 18:01
Anti-Capitalism 2005 - Day SchoolLondon event organised by Workers Power
Send best wishes to anti-Bush protests in DC today!
20-01-2005 12:44
Today Bush thinks he rules the universe with a mandate from God!Call Goes Out to Ignore Debts
17-01-2005 22:20
A movement has started preparing itself to boycott all mortgages and credit card debts and reconsider the global economy with a clean slate.Let's Move! An Appeal to the Global Conscience
17-01-2005 12:22
To those who consider the war in Iraq a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?Birghton Anti-G8 Meetings
15-01-2005 12:55
Brighton! Dissent are a group attempting to co-ordinate radical resistance to the 2005 G8 Summit, and contribute to the building of an anti-capitalist movement in and around Brighton.Shut down Iraq.. communications blackout
14-01-2005 23:05
US encourage isolation to promote democracyPhones down, borders sealed, troops on the streets: it’s time for democracy
By Richard Beeston in Baghdad
State of alert will match the battle for Fallujah
THE plan sounds more like the preparations for war than the holding of Iraq’s first democratic elections. But such is the dire state of Iraqi security today that the authorities in Baghdad are considering a complete lockdown of the country ahead of polls in two weeks’ time.
According to Iraqi and Western sources, international borders will be sealed, movement between cities tightly controlled, mobile phone networks switched off and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi security forces and foreign troops deployed in a show of force not seen since the height of the war nearly two years ago.
(the times online extract)
Anti G8 Meeting Nottingham
14-01-2005 20:47
Wednesday 26th January, 8pm, at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Forest Fields, Nottingham, 0845 458 9595
Anti-G8 Meeting in Leeds
14-01-2005 19:05
Resisting the G8 summit 2005: meeting 7.30 pm Thursday 20th January, The Adelphi pub, 1-5 Hunslet rd, Leeds.Following the well attended meeting on the same topic in November this meeting has been called to continue discussing what people in Leeds can do to oppose the G8 Summit in Scotland this summer.
'Elections Furore': Second balatacamp.net film from Palestine:
14-01-2005 16:30
Elections Furore [2005; 6min]The Balata Film Collective have just released their second mini-documentary about the Palestinian National Authority elections.
Download it now from www.balatacamp.net
Planning for European Day of Actions for Migrant Rights
14-01-2005 11:14
January 20th - London meeting to plan for 2nd April Euro Day of Actions for Migrant Rights5. World Social Forum Brazil: Lula, ATTAC and the Crisis of the "Another World"
14-01-2005 07:32
Das 5. Weltsozialforum findet von 26. bis 31. Januar in Porto Alegre, Brasilien, statt. Er wird ein guter Moment für eine Bilanz der Vorschläge sein, die in den letzten Weltsozialforen vorherrschend waren und bis heute immer noch sind, d.h. im Wesentlichen: Die Humanisierung des Kapitalismus.