UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
BNP candidate: 'The Asians are rubbish...'
04-04-2008 20:13
Beacon's back!Totalitarian Fossil Fools Day report
04-04-2008 17:47
http://www.fossilfoolsday.org the 5 protesters demonstrated against the French oil company's fossil foolishness causing climate change and pollution as well as the usual protest against Total's support of the brutal Burma junta. Total funds the evil junta with 500 million dollars a year and its gas pipeline in Burma was built with slave labour (see http://www.totaldenialfilm.com). Brown's Cannabis Ourtage
04-04-2008 11:43
MP hurts cyclist whilst driving out of parliament - was he breathalised?
04-04-2008 08:38
A crazed war monger, who had probably just left the commons bar, mows down a cyclist trying to save the planet he is intent on destroying.Whilst it is standard procedure to breathalise drivers involved in accidents no mention has been made of whether this was done.
ASBO Squat: Destroyed & Now Evicted
03-04-2008 22:57
Demand for Justice in the Tax Credit System
03-04-2008 20:54
After years of bullying by HMRC a group of mothers fight back. Tax Credit Casualties formed by Paula Dean from Rotherham holds its first packed public meeting.Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
Scientology Cult Lands in Moseley, Birmingham
03-04-2008 19:33
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Birmingham City Council Endorses Sinister Scientology Cult
03-04-2008 17:56
Birmingham City Council is endorsing the 'L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future contest', a science fiction competition run by the dangerous cult, the Church of Scientology. http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/GenerateContent?CONTENT_ITEM_ID=5418&CONTENT_ITEM_TYPE=5&MENU_ID=147 Birmingham City Council also link to the competition site
http://www.writersofthefuture.com/ where you can win "The L. Ron Hubbard Gold Award, a magnificent trophy with a god [sic] quill and star set in red-based lucite". The site's 'shop' links to http://www.galaxypress.com/ 'a publisher of the fiction works of L. Ron Hubbard' the deceased founder of the cult.
Direct action gets the goods once again, this time in London
03-04-2008 13:10
An underpaying, exploitative restuarant boss in London was forced to pay a foreign kitchen porter his owed wages and also holiday pay when a picket arrived outside his restaurant, backed up by threats of legal action.EuroMayDay Promo Video
03-04-2008 11:27
A EuroMayDay promo video has been made and is on YouTube. Check it out! Link it. Add it to your blog/MySpace, etc...Kosovo constitution needs to provide more guarantees for Roma, NGOs say
03-04-2008 07:56
In a letter sent to the Constitutional Commission and representatives of the international civilian administration in Kosovo, Roma NGOs ask for substantial improvements of the draft constitution which has been prepared by the Constitutional Commission.Full article | 2 additions | 2 comments
Oxford Activists Hit Welsh Power Station: Press Release
03-04-2008 07:30
At 7.30am this morning, activists successfully blockaded all entrances to Aberthaw Power Station in Barry, South Wales.Nottingham’s Zimbabwean Community stand together
02-04-2008 22:06
Urban conricerca 2008: inside the Culture of Capital
02-04-2008 21:39
Starting this Friday, 4th April, a 'conricerca' or workers' inquiry into the class composition of Liverpool will begin. More details will be posted on Indymedia, but here is a short analysis from one of the founding members of the group, who has recently moved to the UK from Slovakia.Fossil Fools Blockade E.On Offices Surveillance and Specialist Equipment
02-04-2008 20:59
28 Million Americans On Food Stamps $25 a Week ($1 per meal)
02-04-2008 19:56
Democracy Now reports on poverty in the USAasbo evicted
02-04-2008 18:29
the asbo was this afternoon evictedand about bloody time
i wonder where the violent residents will lay their shame now
its just a shame its not winter
FFD - Norwich Union withdraw £6.1 billion from Fossil Fuel Industry
02-04-2008 15:26
Operation Happy Shopper
02-04-2008 11:35
A short summary of Opperation Happy Shopper, a Protest against the CCHR exhibit "Psychiatry - An Industry Of Death" For more infomation on the the exhibit itself, please read the following link; http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2008/03/393916.html
Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, March 2008
02-04-2008 10:19
Eight actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in March 2008, and four improved, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch
