UK Globalisation Newswire Archive
Discover David Morrill, Yorkshire Painter Debuts
28-03-2005 19:49
The Hutson Street World Café is privileged and excited to launch the debut exhibition of Bradford artist David Morrill. One of the paintings on exhibit will be one he did in response to the tsunami this past December.Gangs of America: Book Review
26-03-2005 15:13
Ted Nace's "Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy" explores the bizarre intrigues that resulted in the infamous `corporations are persons' ruling of 1866 and how that ruling affected the subsequent development of Supreme Court doctrine.Diaz Trial goes to European Court of Human Rights
26-03-2005 01:21
Diaz Trial goes to European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.The Diaz trial of 28 policemen has been recommended to the European Court of Human Rights by the Italian prosecutor, Dr Enrico Zucca, following meetings with Mark Covell, the indymedia victim and primary witness in the Diaz trial.
World Bank: An army doesn't march on an empty stomach...
25-03-2005 17:39
Fact is that the financial help given by the world's international loan shark banks, like Wolfowitz's World Bank or the IMF, often is referred to as "Development AIDS", or USAIDS...US/EU coup in Kyrgyzstan
25-03-2005 13:49
Continuing the process of "regime change" against countries with governments not fully subservient to the US/EU, a coup was launched yesterday in the former Soviet Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan. It is believed that the president was about to evict the US "anti-terror" military base there.Unions to strike over BBC job cuts
25-03-2005 13:15
New Action Resource Centre in Oxford Opens
25-03-2005 12:32
The OXFORD ACTION RESOURCE CENTRE (OARC) is now open for campaigning, meetings, alternative media, and other uses.It is located in Room One upstairs in the East Oxford Community Centre, Princes St and Cowley Rd.
The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/25/05 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!
25-03-2005 00:15
A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.Eastbourne's torture state investor in trouble with Greenpeace as well
24-03-2005 18:04
Lister Lutyens, the Eastbourne company engaged in timber imports and the manufacture of garden furniture, reveals that as well as drawing flak from the Burma Campaign UK by investing in the world's worst torture state, it is also under strong environmental pressure from Greenpeace.Global Week of Action 10-16 April
24-03-2005 17:16
Wake up the governmentSounds tempting, doesn’t it? Well, we now all have the chance to do it at the end of what promises to be a night to remember. In the run up to the national election, the attempt to instill a (seemingly long lost) sense of principle into the political elite and challenge the notion that our welfare is only advanced at the expense of others could not be more timely.
Mayday 2001 Protest Detention Case Fails : Event pictures
24-03-2005 14:49
The concequences of all this, might be a bit grim !!
Genoa G8 Trials: Seizure And Punishment
24-03-2005 12:14
Fresh intimidation from prosecutors trying Genoa G8 protestors, as laptops belonging to defense lawyers are seized following unrelated libel claimsThe World's Water: should it be privatised?
23-03-2005 22:28
The World's Water: should it be privatised? - PUBLIC MEETING - 7.30pm -Wednesday 13 April
Oxford Town Hall
Every year over two million people die because of the unclean water they are forced to drink. Many more - particularly women and children - have their lives disrupted by the need to walk miles to collect water.
more photos from bruxelles, 19th march actionday
23-03-2005 16:52
NUS delegates enter discourse of oppression by Coca-Cola at NUSSL conference
23-03-2005 15:25
Given partial information regarding the activities of Coca-Cola in India and Colombia, the National Union of Students' buying consortium met in Liverpool this week and renewed a contract with Coca-Cola. However, the topic hot on everyone's lips was Coca-Cola; the ground work is prepared for continued work to tell the truth about Coke.Mayday 2001 Protest Detention Damages Case Fails
23-03-2005 14:27
Nearly four years later, the High Court has rejected compensation claims by Lois Austin and Geoffrey Saxby who claimed they had been ilegally imprisoned and that their "right to liberty" under the European Convention on Human Rights had been breached when they were held for over seven hours along with thousands of other people.
There are around 150 other claims by people held by the police operation which are depending on the test case outcome.
The pair have been given leave to appeal and say they will do so.
The full judgement will soon be available here:
http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/QB/2005/ 03/TLQ/0350 Austin v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis
03/TLQ/0411 Saxby v Same
UK Election: a vote for peace
23-03-2005 11:42
This is one of the most important UK elctions ever this coming May. And much more difficult to fix than the US ones were. Lets make sure it's not a Blair / Howerd Punch and Judy show and that we use our votes - and access to voting record of our MP's - intelligently for promoting peace and sending the gullible and warmongering MP's down into the dustbin of history. If you agree with my three point voting plan please promote it amongst your UK friends and neighbours. The hopes and fears of countless millions around the world are riding on this one.Prol-Position-News #1 out now!
23-03-2005 08:17
newsletter on recent class struggles from perpective of auto-organisationEditorial: Why such a project now?
Wildcat strike at GM/Opel in Bochum, Germany
GM/Saab policies in Sweden
New wage-model at VW, Germany
Last note on VW
Protests against welfare-reform in Germany
Update on Hartz IV/welfare-reform
Struggles of migrant workers in Paris, France
Travel report: More struggles in France
Aviation: Two struggles in Britain and Belgium
Construction: Struggle at Laing O’Rourke/Britain
Judgement due for Mayday 2001 Oxford Circus mass-containment
22-03-2005 21:25
During Mayday 2001, police trapped protestors in Oxford Circus for 7 hours without access toilets, food or water. Nearly four years later, we have a finally got a High Court judgement.Anti-Detention Center Filmscreening and Talk
22-03-2005 12:01
Filmscreening and discussion on Detention Centres in Sheffield, Tuesday 29th of March.
Part of the mobilisation against the European detention center regime and for April 2nd European wide Day of Action for Migrants and Refugees Rights.
For the freedom of movement and the right to stay.