UK Indymedia - UK Palestine Newswire Archive

Bath Bomb #18 Out Now!

16-01-2009 00:29

Yet anther issue of Bath's monthly radical tabloid beckons...

LSE-Palestine Solidarity Initiative Supports University Occupation

15-01-2009 23:54

The LSE-Palestine Solidarity Initiative supports the dozens of students who have undertaken an occupation of the Old Theatre at LSE in protest at the School's refusal to support the right to education for Palestinians.

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Israeli War on the Gaza Strip: "The Birth Pangs of a New Palestine/Middle East"

15-01-2009 23:24

What is taking place in the Palestinian Territories is related to what is taking place across the Middle East and Central Asia, from Lebanon to Iraq and NATO-garrisoned Afghanistan, as part of a broader geo-strategic objective.

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Israel's San Francisco Consulate Closed for War Crimes by Protestors

15-01-2009 23:04

A group of nine anti-Zionist activists – Palestinian, Jewish, immigrant rights and prison abolitionists chained themselves to the Israeli Consulate today to protest Israeli apartheid and its current attacks on Gaza.

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LSE students occupy university

15-01-2009 22:42

Over forty pro Palestine students have occupied a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics to demand that the university releases a statement condemning the attack on Gaza and divests from arms companies that supply the Israeli military.

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Newcastle BBC Protest - The place to have been on Thursday evening!!!

15-01-2009 21:59

This evening over 50 people gathered outside the BBC in Newcastle to demonstration against the BBC's coverage of the Gaza conflict and to an end to the Israeli onslaught in Gaza.

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Small good news: WEAPONS TO ISRAEL STOPPED

15-01-2009 17:56

The Guardian is reporting that thanks to Amnesty International, Greek and maybe some other EU officials, the weapons shipment that was due to leave Greece for Israel this week has been stopped and for now, "no EU member state will allow their ports or other facilities to be used to transit these or any other weapons to any of the parties to this conflict."

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Inauguration Day: Ceasefire for Gaza at Menwith Hill

15-01-2009 16:53

CALL FOR A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA: peace-building for the Palestinians and Israelis.

CAAB and York Palestinian Solidarity Committee are planning a gathering - at Menwith Hill at 1pm on TUESDAY 20 JANUARY, the day of the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the US.

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SOAS occupation - update. LSE Students occupy Old Theatre

15-01-2009 16:33

Discussions with SOAS University management.

Breaking news....40 LSE students occupy the stage of the Old Theatre...

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Brighton vs Bias Broadcasting Corporation

15-01-2009 16:31

Throughout the Israel’s War of Terror on Gaza, the BBC has remained a faithful and loyal lapdog of the British Foreign Office. It has never ceased to echo the argument of the pathetic and widely reviled David Miliband that it was Hamas that started the war.

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Brum Gaza Demo 17th Jan

15-01-2009 16:17

South Asian Alliance with Palestine Solidarity Campaign calls on all progressive people to join the demonstration against the ongoing zionist massacre in Gaza this Saturday 12pm in Victoria Sqaure, Birmingham.

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Palestine Today 011509

15-01-2009 15:47

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org, for Thursday, January 15th 2009.

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Last Saturday's Gaza march

15-01-2009 13:51

Photographs and a short written piece on the march

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Israeli forces shell the main UN relief compound in Gaza City.

15-01-2009 12:43

Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon expressed outrage to top Israeli officials on Thursday after Israeli forces shelled the main UN relief compound in Gaza City.
"I conveyed my strong protest and outrage to the defense minister and the foreign minister and demanded a full explanation," Ban said, adding that he had demanded an investigation into the shelling.

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The army at the door…

15-01-2009 12:31

Short texts & updates from the blogger -
9:45 am GMT/11:45 Gaza time:
Families from neighbouring buildings trying to run to safety to hospital from fire & gunfire. Most staff wearing masks due to fear of phosphorous gas attack.

9:04 am GMT/11:04 Gaza time:
fire out window 10 yards from babies in incubators, putting out fire with pots and pans as hose does not reach.

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Newcastle Gaza More Demos Announced

15-01-2009 12:10

Hands off Gaza – Stop the Bombing – Free Palestine: TWO PROTESTS THIS WEEK!!!!!

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Blueprint for Gaza attack was long planned

15-01-2009 11:41

The Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak said he and the army had been planning the attack for at least six months. In fact, indications are that the invasion’s blueprint was drawn up much earlier, probably 18 months ago.

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Al-Quds hospital under attack

15-01-2009 11:04

Latest text from tales to tell blogger - rockets at back of Al-Quds hospital, hospital staff putting out fires

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Goldsmith's Palestine Twinning Campaign - Concert tonight

15-01-2009 10:59

On Thursday Jan 15th @ Goldsmiths Student Union the GSCU Palestine Twinning Campaign invite the mighty MIGHTY E.O.Dub [End Of the Weak /

http://www.eodub.com] & the Speakers Corner movement to host a full night of Conscious Hip Hop & Live Dance fusions!

Come and support the musicians making conscious music!!!

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Ehud Olmert's dreams (by Latuff)

15-01-2009 10:11

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their resistance against U.S. backed IsraeHell's state terror.