UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Meeting tomorrow at Somers Town community Centre midday. Sunday 20th April
19-04-2008 21:48
Candidates for London Mayor & the London Assemblty will be meeting the people of Somers Town & St Pancras. One of the topics on the agenda will be the lab. {World's largest ever, highest level, virus containment facility & animal testing lab" due to be built on a Camden council house estate.Organised by Somers Town Peoples Forum.
Hackney Social Centre Under Threat of Eviction!
19-04-2008 17:59
100,000 civil servants to strike on April 24
19-04-2008 17:43
Workers in ten government departments and agencies will join thousands of other public and voluntary sector workers in a strike over pay.
Chiswick protest to get Total Oil Out of Burma
19-04-2008 08:47
Free Mumia now! All out today at 1pm, US Embassy, London!
19-04-2008 08:22
Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!
Abolish the racist
death penalty!
Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)
Contact the Partisan Defence Committee on 020 7281 5504 or at
partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk. Visit www.partisandefense.org for details of international protests taking place today and in the coming week and for a list of the organisations and individuals, representing thousands upon thousands of trade unionists and anti-racists, who have endorsed the international mobilisations.
Sponsor Amdani Juma, Walking for Leicestershire AIDS Support
18-04-2008 23:08
Nottingham Zimbabwe demo calling for release of election results
18-04-2008 21:53
Scientology, the Metropolitan Police, and Number 10
18-04-2008 19:37
A cult is trying to influence the British police. Why is the government ignoring it?Around the Campaigns Friday 18th April 2008
18-04-2008 09:27
- In this period every 2.3 days a detainee self-harmed requiring medical treatment. Last year 157 detainees were hospitalized after self-harming, 1,517 were put on 'Formal Self-Harm at Risk'
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/resources/self-harm2006.html
Biofuels protesters disable fuel pumps
18-04-2008 09:13
Agro-fuels protesters disabled the fuel pumps of two BP filling stations early Tuesday morning in opposition to mandatory blending of biofuels into petrol and diesel. Protesters argue that biofuels will worsen climate change, and cause food shortages.Protesters have taken this action in Edinburgh as part of a national day of action against biofuels - April Biofools day - coinciding with the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation's (RTFO) coming into force, making it a legal requirement to mix 2.5% biofuels into all petrol and diesel.
Project 2012 Meeting Report
18-04-2008 07:36
New Project: Inaugural Meeting Report
Anarchism in Venezuela, past and present
17-04-2008 22:55
Success for DAN at the DWP
17-04-2008 22:34
D.A.N Action Report - 17th April 2008.Today more than twenty disabled activists occupied the foyer of Adelphi
House, where the Department of Work and Pensions is based. At 1.30 p.m.
campaigners breezed in, taking over the foyer, leafleting and asking to hand
deliver a letter to James Purnell, Secretary of State for the Department of
Work and Pensions. Members of D.A.N. the Disabled people's Direct Action
Network refused to leave until a meeting was arranged with James Purnell to
discuss Incapacity Benefit and the changes which are forcing one million
disabled people into poverty and unpaid work placements. James Purnell was
out of the country, so D.A.N. activists met with representatives from the
DWP and Sally Witcher from the Office for Disability Issues and held long
discussions.
The result of these discussions is, D.A.N. have been promised a meeting
with James Purnell, the date of which is to be confirmed. We are very
confident that the meeting will happen as we have promised to come back for
another visit if it doesn't.
Best Wishes.
Mike Higgins
(On behalf of the DAN Press Team)
E-mail:
danpress@blueyonder.co.uk Tel: +44 (0)114 225 8676
Mob: +44 (0)7956 856060
World Food Crisis Threatens Rich Nations (That's Us), Too
17-04-2008 21:53
Unless we act fast for a global consensus on the price spiral, the social unrest induced by food prices in several countries will conflagrate into a price contagion, leavingno country-developed or otherwise-unscathed, India's foreign minister warned.BBC1 ITN CNN Ken Livingstone homes promises but at Camden Death Lab Zone refuses
17-04-2008 19:14
Ken Livinstone has promised, as has Gordon Brown to make building new homes a "priority".However he refuses to intervene so that the most deprived & disadvantaged council estate in the country can have more council homes & community facilitites in place of the "World's largest ever, highest level, virus containment facility & animal testing lab" can be built there instead. Why? ...You know you're doing something wrong when...
17-04-2008 17:05
Pavilion facing bankruptcy?
17-04-2008 15:43
The Housing Corporation has admitted that at least ten housing associations are facing bankruptcy in the growing credit crisis. Is Pavilion Housing Association one of this select group?Film and debate on violence/non-violence this sunday
17-04-2008 14:33
This Sunday (the 20th of April) Bath Activist Network will be showing the film 'Breaking the Spell' as part of the monthy 'Bubbling Under' radical film showings.Action: Disabled Campaigners are planning to protest against the DWP
17-04-2008 13:30
DISABLED PEOPLES' DIRECT ACTION NETWORK - PRESS RELEASEDISABLED CAMPAIGNERS - RESISTING POLITICAL INCAPACITY AND DEMANDING AN END
TO HARASSMENT
ACTION: Disabled Campaigners are planning to protest against the DWP
(Adelphi House, 1 to 10 John Adams Street, WC2) at lunchtime today (17th
April).
We will be delivering a letter for James Purnell (Work and Pensions
Secretary) and will be requesting a meeting with him.
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Protests to UK Prime Minister - Scrap Biofuel Targets / Scrap RTFO
17-04-2008 12:07
