UK Indymedia Newswire Archive
UK ELECTION IMMIGRATION AUDIO SATIRE
14-04-2005 21:21
Here's my version of the utopian immigrant-free Britain that Blair and Howard would love us to inhabit... enjoy : )
KmB Pro-People Youth USA Website Operational
14-04-2005 09:03
New IMC collective meeting in Nottingham !
13-04-2005 20:49
Nottingham IMC meeting will be on the 18th of April at 7.30pm at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX, 0845 458 9595.Video ramPARTY this saturday 16th
13-04-2005 14:18
http://www.real2reel.co.nr). As well as screenings of Real2Reel shorts and film making workshop - the musical highlighs of the evening include; Duncan McPherson, Corneilius Lookwood. Lower Depths (punk - 2nd time at the rampART), DavidCronenberg'sWife, Surge, DJane Sexyrubbersole (much loved d&b set), DJane Mondstrom and DJ Milo (rampART radio regular)..
Suggested donation at the entrance £3.
See
http://rampart.omxtra.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=90 for full info. Police target journalists
13-04-2005 12:59
Police are increasingly using various 'legal devices' and violence, to remove independent journalists from the scene of actions were the police feel that their actions may be portrayed in a less flattering light. Arrests are often spurious 'holding' charges and those arrested are normally either later released without charge or have charges dropped before they reach court. Such arrests mean missed deadlines and also mean that the police are able to act safe in the knowledge that with no cameras around it will be their word against the protestors...The following is a list of just some of the people arrested while covering issues of political interest:
Indypendent video evidence saves the day
13-04-2005 12:49
Video evidence collected by on the streets by independent journalists is being used more and more to challange in the courts the lies of the police. In the USA court cases have begun for the 1,806 people arrested in New York last summer while the Republican National Convention was taking place. In the first case the prosecutor abruptly dropped all charges when video evidence provided proved that the officer who had just testified had not even been present at the arrest! Similar stories can be found around the world and while the footage taken by grassroots videographers rarely making it onto the corporate controlled mainstream media, the footage may often prove vital in protecting people against the worst abuses of power by the police.The police clearly don't like their actions being recorded and are scared of the power of the photos and video footage taken by independent journalist (and don't forget with indymedia we can all be journalists). This fear is demonstrated by this quote by Cheif Supt Davies of the Mets Public Order Branch published in the Police Review in 1997:
"Like all forms of modern protest, experience has shown environmentalist to be highly organised and media friendly. It is almost standard now that the media will give protesters cameras, both video and still, to record a protester's eye view. This would almost certainly result in a significant propaganda victory for the protesters as they are selective about what they release".
However it is the police who are selective, selecting where and what can be filmed. During protests to save greenbelt land from contruction projects in Manchester and Birmingham the police erected fences around the sites and banned all journalists. An observation platform well away from the action was erected with views of only a tiny section of the forest was constructed by officers leaving the actions of balliffs and police unobserved during the evictions.
Obviously the power of the alt media is recognised by the police and frequently those with cameras will be the first targetted for arrest or harrasment.
Ex undercurrents journalist Roddy Mansfield (who now works or Sky News) was arrested for forgetting his press card PIN while covering a protest in London. While reporting on the Manchester Airport, HTV producer John Fraser Williams, sustained two broken ribs after being beaten by police.
Photographer Nick Cobbing was arrested in Oxford merely for leaving a demonstration. The animal rights protest he was covering was covered by a section 12 order and when it came time to leave he told a senior police officer him his NUJ press card. However, shortly after he was arrested.
There is an almost endless list of such stories: David Sims freelance photographer detained for 11 hours, being arrested for breach of the peace at Greenpeace demo against arrival of genetically modified soya beans into Liverpool Docks. Was arrested in spite of repeatedly showing his NUJ card. Police returned camera, but kept roll of film.
In a more recent case in the UK, a freelance journalist was arrested just minutes after filming an arrest that occured during a protest outside a meeting of G8 environment ministers taking place in London. It was reported afterwards that the police kept the camera and footage but have since dropped charges.
(
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/04/308413.html) Iain Hook's Murder COVERED UP: Dr. Jack Shepard &The Socialist Worker New agree
13-04-2005 11:12
THE TARGETED ASSASSINATION OF IAIN HOOK A TOP BRITISH UN OFFICIAL BY THE ISRAELI DEFENSE FORCE UNCOVERED UP!
by Dr. Jack Shepard
London groups forms to help Craig Murray defeat Jack Straw
12-04-2005 15:28
Get involved in Nottingham IMC !
12-04-2005 09:28
Nottingham IMC meeting will be on the 18th of April at 7.30pm at the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone St, Forest Fields, Nottingham, NG7 6HX, 0845 458 9595."Hit The Road Jack Straw" - Craig Murray's campaign song
12-04-2005 08:20
Craig Murray's campaign song, recorded and produced by The Rub, is now online.Poll Tax riot 15th anniversary pix from that glorious day
11-04-2005 20:24
Sorry almose two weeks late with these, totally passed me by!Enjoy them!
Comments welcome!
DISILLUSIONED VOTER URGES OTHERS TO CAST NON-VOTE
08-04-2005 12:02
A disillusioned voter from the North West of England is encouraging people who feel similarly disconnected from the UK political system to not waste their vote in the forthcoming general elections, but instead cast what he terms as a 'none vote.'Sat 9th - hackfun and patents @rampART
08-04-2005 11:35
From midday on saturday 9th, you are invited to a day of workshops and discission followed by an evening of film, music and booze..@rampart street, london E1 2LA (see www.rampart.co.nr)
This is the Hacklabs, 'no patents' event with workshops all afternoon covering various creative open source computer packages (see programme summary elow), hardware skills, liveCD linux demos, stuff to take home, thing to build etc.
From 6pm there will be films and discussion about threat of software patents, it will includ a slide show about patents on seeds and life itself and draw comparrisons with the threat of control over food, technology, communication and freespeach that these patents bring. There will also be somebody to talk about the threat of survalance technologies employeed by the state, national databases and biometric ID.
From 9pm things get seriously unserious with DJ's and drinks till 2am as a fund raiser for the London Hacklabs Collective which maintains two open computer spaces in London and will soon be helping to set up additonal spaces.
This event is for everyone that cares about freedom and uses computers as a tool for positive social change. You can learn which formats to use to make your work most accesible, what alternatives exist to the monopolies of microsoft, the insecurity of windows and the expense of commercial software. You can learn about the best ways to utilise or recycle old unwanted lowspec machines and give them a new productive life. You can learn about getting on the internet for free via open wifi nodes, producing radio or making video. Every one welcome regardless of your level of skill with computers and other geeky stuff ;-)
It's a day to learn and share.
Martin Bell helps Reg Keys Launch Sedgefield Election Campaign
06-04-2005 00:10
Reg Keys, father of a solider killed in Iraq, launched his election campaign today in Sedgefield confident that he can unseat Tony Blair.The Indymedia writing workshop is back!
05-04-2005 23:29
6 to 8pm
Sheffield Live
(in the old National Centre for Popular Music)
... and every second and fourth Tuesday ...
Press Statement- Diaz victims group
05-04-2005 22:51
Genoa Legal SupportDiaz victims group.
April 6th marks the first official trial day of the Diaz raid and the subsequent torture and abuse at the Bolzaneto detention camp which occurred during the G8 summit, July 21/22nd 2001. It is very important that these proceedings have placed on trial a total of 75 police and five doctors, 47 at Bolzaneto and 28 police from Diaz.
BBC to show previously censored McLibel documentary...
05-04-2005 16:58
BBC have bought McLibel!(better late than never?)
it'll be screened on Weds 13th April - two days before McD's 50th b'day - on BBC4 at 9pm.
press release below to any journos/mailing lists.
Cases dropped against G8 arrestees
05-04-2005 11:55
The charges against two people arrested during a demonstration outside a meeting of the International Energy and Environment ministers last month have now been dropped due to lack of evidence [read as, no legitimate grounds for arrest in the first place].One of the two arrested was a journalist who had been filming the protest for a collaborative film about the G8. Here is his statement about the events surrounding his arrest.