UK Indymedia - UK Indymedia Newswire Archive

Exhibitionism - Made Easy

11-08-2006 12:16

We have these wondrous possibilities but we don't know what we want to communicate (Brecht).. The expertocracy is losing ground and legitimacy.. The simple orientation in classical authorities breaks down. One no longer credits politicians with better knowledge.. This peculiar network knowledge replaces authority.

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Indymedia Photography from Lebanon

11-08-2006 08:31

IMC-NYC photographer Andrew Stern reports from Lebanon.

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A very Heavy Load

09-08-2006 19:49

Mixed ability Brighton band release their first album; The Queen Mother`s Dead, on their own label, Get In or Get Out, to critical acclaim. Full review here

http://www.brink.com/content/1237

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Hitting the Right Chords

09-08-2006 05:56

'Yours Emotionally!', a new gay feature from India / UK that highlights issues of South Asian sexual minorities in UK and small town India, is striking the right chords in US festivals.

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Bono buys a slab of Forbes empire

07-08-2006 19:41

Arch activist and side kick of Slob Geld Wolf (as known in Holland) Bono has bought himself a slice of the Forbes media group. maybe him and geldwolf will be able to organize their own psuedo G8 protests in future instead of hijacking the real thing. This creep should be pelted with rotten eggs and seasonal veg as often as possible.

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Also stop the City of London's social war on the local communities

07-08-2006 17:59

Thousands of people, families, individuals, are being made poorer. Many are being made destitute.

Others are being driven out of what small shops or businesses they had managed to set up to survive

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Uganda Free Trade Zone Money-Laundering 2000-2006

06-08-2006 20:32

On February 25, 2006 Uganda President Museveni "officially approved" the LAKE VICTORIA FREE TRADE ZONE (LVFTZ), but highly doubtful the President's brother General Salim Saleh (aka) Caleb Akandwanaho, co-partner in SARACEN KAMPALA LTD. and now Uganda Minister of Micro-Finance - didn't already know it was a money-laundering operation for the past 6-years.

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Huntsman guilty

04-08-2006 19:56

A Somerset man has become the first person convicted for breaking the ban on fox hunting with hounds.
Tony Wright, 52, denied breaching the Hunting Act, when he led the Exmoor Foxhounds on 29 April last year.

But he was fined £500 at Barnstaple Magistrates' Court in a case brought by the League Against Cruel Sports.

He was the first fox huntsman to be summoned to court for defying the law which came into force last year in England and Wales.

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The BBC has scared me...

04-08-2006 01:21

Panorama, a one sided view on the middle east crisis.

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AFRICA FREE TRADE ZONE CORRUPTION

02-08-2006 16:10

Uganda's LAKE VICTORIA FREE TRADE ZONE Governor Beenunula Eyenunula Nunumisa received millions of grey-market stock shares to Canadian company EQUITY RETIREMENT DISTRIBUTORS LTD. run by American executives controlled by Uganda's infamous American named Van A. Brink who was charged with 142 counts of fraud on 6,000 people who lost $105-million (USD) which U.S. authorities claim cannot be found, until this story surfaced (below).

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Defining Free Speech

01-08-2006 10:38

Why has the noun and right of free speech been removed from the 10th edition of the Oxford Dictionary? Does this have anything to do with Tony the Toad's rediculous Socpa Act? Are you old enough to remember Perry Mason, the detective? Do you like secret societies? I have a few questions in my mind...

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SOCPA - magistrate censures police

31-07-2006 10:27

last friday, the magistrate in a socpa case recommended that although she was finding the defendant gulity, he should appeal, and should make a complaint to the independent police complaints commission.

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SOCPA - crown court appeal could open doors to mass civil disobedience

28-07-2006 23:36

chris coverdale appeared in front of southwark crown court judges on thursday morning to appeal against his conviction under the new serious organised crime and police act for holding an 'unauthorised demonstration in parliament square (the designated area)'. rather than offering a human rights defence, he is challenging the legality of the Iraq war and the mass murder of 100,000 innocent Iraqis, claiming that in law the killings are an act of genocide and that he and every adult citizen has a duty in law to prevent the prime minister and members of the british government from committing such heinous crimes. the outcome of this case could have massive legal implications.

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BRITDOC 2006

27-07-2006 17:15

BRITDOC 2006 took place at Keble College, a place rightly proud of its ancient traditions, BRITDOC is called a documentary film festival, but in fact it’s a summer camp for those involved in the documentary film production industry.

http://www.oxfordprospect.co.uk/Business%20Briefing.htm

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Review of New Indymedia Film, "i"

25-07-2006 16:39

"i,” the powerful and occasionally frustrating new film by independent directors Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia, tells of one such democratic moment, the Argentinean economic collapse of 2001 and the social uprisings that accompanied it. Along the way it also functions as one of the first, if not the very first, feature length films about the Independent Media Center (IMC, or Indymedia) movement, which chronicled the Argentine struggle as it unfolded.

Anyway. Here's an advance review of the Indymedia film "i" that I did for the upcoming issue of the Indypendent.

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The Welfare Reform Bill: A move to a 21st Century version of the Workhouse?

25-07-2006 14:29

The government is targeting millions of disabled people with the threat of losing up to 30 pounds per week if the claimant does not comply with their plans. The proposed replacement to Incapacity Benefit (IB), the Employment Support Allowance (ESA), will only rise above £56 a week (JSA levels) if the claimant meets very strict requirements.

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film of yesterday's SOCPA arrest and assault

25-07-2006 13:46

despite an unidentified police officer trying to stop me filming, here is footage of the assault yesterday outside downing street. highlighted once more is the continuing metropolitan police policy of violence against people who's only crime is holding a placard peacefully. an officer also ignore repeated requests to identify herself.

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SOCPA - a stench of lies and corruption from the met and charing cross

25-07-2006 01:07

i went to cover the gently amusing 'multiple lone demonstrations' (15 of them) organised by mark thomas in parliament square this evening (

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/07/345974.html), but one story or action after another left me disgusted by the end of the evening.

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SOCPA - mark thomas' lone demonstration with 14 others

24-07-2006 23:35

radical comedy activist mark thomas and the others notified charing cross last week of their intention to hold a range of individual demonstrations requiring authorisation to be held this evening at 5.30 in parliament square. charing cross photocopier worked overtime to process most of the applications and tie up the met in bureaucratic bollocks.

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Invitation to the next european gathering of Peoples Global Action

24-07-2006 12:01

As you might already know, the next European PGA conference will take
place in France this summer, from August 19th to September 3rd. It will
happen in two parts, in a decentralised fashion: the first 9 days will
take place in 5 different locations around France, each with specific
themes in focus; it will be followed by 2 days off for travelling &
chilling-out, then by 4 days in a central location, that will be the
Tanneries squatted social centre in Dijon.