UK Indymedia - UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive

Mainshill Solidarity Camp Eviction likely to happen Monday 25th

21-01-2010 00:28

Mainshill Solidarity Camp in Scotland has been occupied for the last seven months in resistence to a new open cast coal mine. Recently we recieved a reliable tip-off that the site will be evicted on Monday the 25th of January.

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Global Contributions to Charity Collections

20-01-2010 23:48

Mixet.se ® Giveaway! - Emerging earthquake in Port-au-Prince 2010

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There is no need for US military in Haiti

20-01-2010 23:44

"There is no need for US military in Haiti?: Why have they arrived w/o obviously needed supplies? Just bullets. What is their purpose?"

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Workers' Fightback - Scottish School Sit-in/Iranian Steel/Mexican Standoff

20-01-2010 19:50

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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A Quick Response to BBC’s Article, “Venezuela’s economy in further slide”

20-01-2010 18:35

"Further, the BBC, like most mainstream press today, targets Venezuela (as well as a short list of other countries like China), constantly highlighting what it perceives to be problems here in a way that it does not do for other countries. The media finds one or two mistakes or problems with the Venezuelan government, and uses it to discredit the Bolivarian revolution, and therefore, the possibility that other ways are possible. On the other hand, the 55% of Mumbai’s population living in slums, and the one billion people in the world living in slums and going without sufficient food, and so on, couldn’t possibly indicate that capitalism is the system that is failing."

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Lili and Keiran still here, but still in danger! Protest this Friday, Newcastle

20-01-2010 15:34

The deportation of Lili and Keiran did not go ahead on Monday. No explanation has been provided by the UK Border Agency for this, they simply never came to collect Lili and Keiran from their room. They have been given new removal directions for next Monday, 25th January at 6.05 am from UK on Easyjet flight U22431 Luton to Paris, for onward transit to Cameroon. There's a further protest this Friday.

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Haiti: Flawed intervention of aid distribution = slow genocide

20-01-2010 15:30

In Haiti, the western media continue to report that tens of thousands of people in Haiti continue to go without food, water and most significantly, vital medical supplies for those with undoubtably infected injuries. Aside from the undoubted logistical complexity and scale of the crisis which is franly overwhelming, the also exists overwhelming evidence that the distribution of aid has been woefully coordinated. The manner of the United States intervention with respect to distribution in combination with the ineffectiveness of the UN has hinted at an underlying sinister agenda. Has a bureacratic red-tape inertia at the top effectively caused slow genocide here?

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Support Mel Broughton

20-01-2010 03:07

Please offer your support, wage a war against the laboratory mutilators in his honor, and get involved in the ongoing SPEAK campaign. (

http://speakcampaigns.org/index.php)

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Direct Action: 12 countries

19-01-2010 03:03

23rd December - 13th January

BROKEN WINDOWS AT FUR RETAILER (Sweden)
100 HENS LIBERATED (UK)
MEAT, DAIRY TRUCKS VANDALIZED (Italy)
ROADHOUSE GRILL DAMAGED BY FIRE (Italy)
CAR FIRE AT HOME OF FORTRESS VICE PRESIDENT (Germany)
FUR SHOPS PAINTED (Croatia)
PAVING STONES THROWN THROUGH WINDOWS AT FUR SHOP (France)
HUNTING CENTER TRASHED (Italy)
LOCKS GLUED AT FUR SHOP, FOIE GRAS RESTAURANT (Canada)
ATTACK ON MEAT TRUCK AND PSYCHIATRIC CLINIC IN SANTIAGO (Chile)
ALF VS. ABATTOIR (France)
INCENDIARY DEVICES PLANTED AT MEAT COMPANY (France)
20 HENS RESCUED (DELAYED REPORT) (Italy)
OPEN RESCUE OF MOTHER SHEEP AND HER TWO LAMBS (Spain)
FIVE HENS LIBERATED (Mexico)
HENS LIBERATED FROM BATTERY CAGE (Israel)
INCENDIARY ATTACK ON MEAT MARKET (Chile)
HUNTER'S CARS ATTACKED (Italy)
BIRDS RESCUED FROM HUNTERS (Italy)

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UnaBomber on Technology vs. Freedom

18-01-2010 21:41

Whatever may be said about the 'rights and wrongs' about Ted Kaczynski's approach to 'the revolution', none can surely denie his precise analysis,( admittedly not as in depth as could be), of technology versus our freedom?
read on and discuss, please:

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Interview with Tadzio Muller- Climate Justice Action

18-01-2010 15:08

Interview with Tadzio Muller- a spokesperson for Climate Justice Action

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Council does the dirty on the Save Victoria Bath Campaign

18-01-2010 13:39

VICTORIA LEISURE CENTRE TO CLOSE IN WEEKS - AND NO PLANS TO REBUILD

Nottingham City Council is trying to close Victoria Leisure Centre on 31 March 2010, despite having no approved plans for development and no planning permission to demolish what is already there. If they succeed, the current Leisure Centre will be lost forever and the local community will have nowhere to go.

The Council must be persuaded to change their mind!

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HLS Collaborators on High Alert as Protesters Hit Cambridge

17-01-2010 23:09

Smash HLS!

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Militarization of emergency aid to Haiti: A humanitarian operation or invasion?

17-01-2010 21:23

The US military has come to the rescue of an impoverished Nation. What is its Mandate? Is it a Humanitarian Operation or an Invasion?

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"Hermaphrodites" in sports: IOC and IAAF deny responsibility

17-01-2010 20:24

Discriminating, unfair and harmful treatment of intersexed athletes ("hermaphrodites") in women's sports has a long and painful history. The "suspected" athletes' dignity and human rights keep getting violated on a regular basis by both of the ruling international sports bodies, the International Olympics Committee (IOC) and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), as well as by their subsidiaries and affiliates.

Until today, the governing bodies keep on denying their responsibilities and refusing dialogue, as well as seemingly reacting only when forced by public pressure, and if so pro forma only.

Case in point: The IOC's attitude with regards to their syposium on "'ambiguous' gender cases" ending in Miami today. demands justice!

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Free Benefit Gig for Haiti Earthquake Victims - Taunton 28/01

17-01-2010 15:11

We recently found out how Shelter spend their money and treat their staff so we're now donating the proceeds of the gig to Doctors Without Borders, to sopport their ugent work with the Haiti earthquke victims. Don't worry though we will still do a benefit for a homelessness charity sometime soon.

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United States Police Pepper Spray Children In 'clash' with Anarchists

17-01-2010 13:26

The use of inverted comma's to describe 'clash' is useful to those of us that know the police often start or incite these 'clashes' to begin with.
In Phoenix Police sprayed kids as they 'clashed' with anarchists.

Please visit here for video of child who was pepper sprayed:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2010/01/scuffles_between_anarcchists_a.php

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Beware Of Obamaton Pod People On The Net!

17-01-2010 11:49

Re: the 'Chagos Islands Marine Reserve Petition' currently circulating UK alternative net communities and message boards.

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Animal Rights Cambridge Response to the Haiti Disaster

16-01-2010 23:36

One disaster, one response. Justice for ALL!

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Cambridge Remember Gaza Vigil Pictures 16-01-2010

16-01-2010 23:30

Today at midday, despite sporadic rain showers and a chilly local climate, about forty people gathered in Cambridge Market Square to mark the one year anniversary of the last military blockade of Gaza.