UK Repression Newswire Archive
Team Tibet
25-03-2008 05:08
Filmed August 2007 in McLeod Ganj and Delhi, it asks: Why did they flee Tibet? What is the situation in Tibet under Chinese occupation? What are their hopes for the future of their country, people and cultures? And What about the 2008 games?
Save Tibet! Boycott the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games
24-03-2008 21:29
http://www.everyonegroup.com) is promoting a petition and an international campaign to ask for an immediate halt to the harsh sociocultural repression underway in Tibet, a repression perpetrated by the Chinese authorities towards thousands of innocent people. The leaders of EveryOne, the authorities and people of goodwill who sign the petition below are promoting the Boycott Campaign of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and sporting and cultural events in the People’s Republic of China. They will also be supporting the “Beijing 2008 Gold Medals for Human Rights” campaign, with gold medals coined by EveryOne Group being awarded to all the athletes who decide not to take part in the Olympic Games out of solidarity with the people of Tibet.
The Role of the CIA: Behind the Dalai Lama's Holy Cloak
24-03-2008 18:53
This incisive article by Michael Backman outlines the relationship of the Dalai Lama and his organization to US intelligence.In all likelihood US intelligence was behind the protest movement, organized to occur a few months prior to the Beijing Olympic games.
Free Tibet demo in Central London
24-03-2008 18:12
Japan refuses entry to Antonio (Toni) Negri
23-03-2008 20:44
The Japanese Ministry of Justice has refused entry to the Italian political philosopher Antonio (Toni) Negri (74) for flimsy reasons. Negri planned at invitation of the International House of Japan from today a lecture tour to the working politics (among other things at the respectable universities of Kyoto and Tokyo). After the Japanese Foreign Ministry had no doubts against Negri's entry, at short notice, nevertheless, the Ministry of Justice responsible for border and immigration regulations of the country expressed doubt. Two days before his departure one demanded of Negri a recorded proof ofhis past detention as a "political prisoner".
Obama's Multiracial Coalition and the Politics of Racial Reconciliation
23-03-2008 18:47
Obama's unconditional affirmations that America is “inherently good”, that white racism is not endemic, that “radical Islam” is the enemy, that apartheid Israel is a “stalwart ally”, and that his pastor and spiritual mentor, a man who accurately reflects the views of most of Black America is an angry, divisive old uncle stuck in the fifties and sixties --- all these may restore his credentials among whites as the candidate of “racial reconciliation”. But what is being reconciled here? Aside from the color of the president's face, what is being changed?"The Film they Tried To Ban": On The Verge- Screening 23rd April
23-03-2008 16:44
Despite what has been described as a nationwide attempt by the police to stop the film being shown, renowned Brighton activist group Smash EDO, working in association with SchNEWS will be bringing 'On The Verge', a documentary about their struggle, to Nottingham Uni on April 23rd.Chinese embassies under international attack
23-03-2008 16:00
Hugo Chavez and the Obama/Clinton Twins
22-03-2008 23:44
HLS Activists Charged - Please Support!
22-03-2008 20:14
Tibet Hunger Striker Speaks Out
22-03-2008 00:59
Over the past week several Tibet supporters, many of whom were students have held a vigil and series of 24 hour hunger strikes opposite the Chinese Embassy in London. One of the hunger strikers, Terry Bettger, has spoken of the purpose of the action and the importance of a sustained protest against the Chinese crackdown on those protesting inside Tibet.Asking Wallace Art Collection not to whitewash Totalitarian Oil
21-03-2008 20:35
"Democratic Imperialism": Tibet, China, and the National Endowment for Democracy
21-03-2008 11:57
While in recent years far more information has been made available concerning the CIA’s violent linkages with Tibetan forces, to date only one article has examined the connection between Tibet’s current independence campaigners and an organization that maintains close ties with the CIA, the National Endowment for Democracy (NED).Houseless on a Hillside
20-03-2008 15:45
The Christian Peacemaker Teams, a human rights action group based in the area telephoned the office of IMEMC (the International Middle East media Centre) in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem.
“Three houses belonging to Palestinian villagers are being destroyed by the Israeli army with bull dozers”
MOVE Members Up Before The Parole Board
20-03-2008 13:14
MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, in 1972 by John Africa. MOVE was described by CNN as "a loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a 'back-to-nature' lifestyle and preached against technology."Stopping of benefits
20-03-2008 12:53
Many claimants are finding their benefits are being stopped on entirely bogus grounds. The intention being to force them off benefits. If they appeal, they usually win and get their benefits reinstated, but at what cost in terms of stress and peace of mind?Forum in support of Political Prisoners took place in Oaxaca
19-03-2008 19:37
During this forum we listened to the denunciations and testimonies of cases such as Atenco, Oaxaca, Chiapas, Tabasco where the injustice and the violence of the State manifest, whilst unjustly holding dozens of compañer@s prisoner.
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Police Censorship of Smash Edo film goes Nationwide
19-03-2008 17:27
Police have intervened across the country to censor 'On the Verge' an independent documentary about a campaign to shut down a Brighton weapons manufacturer. So far establishments in Southampton, Chichester and Bath and Oxford as well as Brighton have come under police pressure to cancel film showings. In Brighton police intervened to prevent a showing at the Duke of York's Cinema.A4e
19-03-2008 16:03
According to the boss and founder of a4e speaking on a BBC business programme last week, they are the unemployed best friend, they 'help' the unemployed back into work!Break the Silence (about the arrests in Bologne, Italy)
19-03-2008 14:29
Saturday 13th October 2007 at around 4am: a girl is sleeping in piazza Verdi in Bologna (northern Italy). Police on patrol decide that the girl's behaviour is 'abnormal' and must be corrected by compulsory sanitary treatment (TSO), which means internment in a psychiatric hospital and forced administration of psychotropic drugs. The cops call the ambulance while keeping the girl under their custody against her will.