UK Indymedia - UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

Stop 'Double Punishment' of Foreign nationals

16-03-2009 12:24

There are approximately 12,000 foreign nationals in the UK prison system

It is a fundamental principle of UK law that a person cannot be punished twice for the same offence. If you have committed an offence that society deems a crime and sentenced to a term of imprisonment by a magistrate, judge or judge and jury, once you have completed your sentence, you are released from prison as it is deemed you have repaid your debt to society and that is the end of the matter - and for the great majority of people in the UK, it is: you can only get punished once.

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callout Anarchist Movement Conference 2009 // London 6/7 June

15-03-2009 07:57

Anarchist Movement Conference 2009
June 6th/7th 2009, Queen Mary & Westfield College , Mile End, London

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What Recession Means for Us - economic crisis dayschool - Manchester, 28th March

14-03-2009 18:29

Anarchist & libertarian socialist day of discussion and ideas.

Saturday 28th March, 1.00 - 5.30 pm

The Yard theatre, Work for Change, Old Birley Street, Hulme

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IWW Blood Service Valentine's Day of Action

13-03-2009 16:15

On Saturday 14th February 2009 West Midlands IWW held a cavalcade to raise awareness of cuts taking place at the Birmingham blood centre this March

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Stop The War g20 Demo April 1st - lame picket of US Embassy

13-03-2009 13:27

"The leaders of the world’s big powers will meet at the G20 summit in London on 2 April.
It is Barack Obama’s first visit to Britain. It is our chance to demand a change from Bush’s war policies."

Hence a lame picket of the US Embassy in Grosvenor Sq on April 1st. Talk about not really taking the opportunity for something better.

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NCADC News Service Friday 13th March 2009

13-03-2009 09:08

New Statesman: Should there be an amnesty for illegal immigrants?

Online Poll @ 09:00 Friday 13th March 2009

* 33 % are saying yes

* 67 % are saying no

Cast your vote

http://newstatesman.com/community

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PHILIPPINES: Thousands of Women Marched to Demand Full Employment

13-03-2009 00:28

Amidst a deepening economic crisis engendered by the global financial meltdown, thousands of women workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) poured out into the streets of key Manila, Cebu, Davao, General Santos and Cotabato, on the occasion of the International Women’s Day to demand full employment and equality between women and men.

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Council workers protest job cuts

12-03-2009 22:05

On Monday 9th March a several hundred strong protest was held in Nottingham's Market Square calling on the city council not to follow through on threats to cut jobs in its budget that evening.

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Nottingham City Council job cuts demo

12-03-2009 19:59

On Monday March 9th, workers at Nottingham City Council held a rally in protest against proposed job cuts.

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Closure of landless movement's autonomous schools!

12-03-2009 18:57

A couple of weeks ago the state governor of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil forcefully closed schools which attended to 600 kids from the encampments of the landless peoples movment in Brazil. The movement runs its own autonomous schools, providing an education specifically tailored to the needs of it's students. Now Landless children are forced to go without an education or travel miles to study in schools where they are subject to discrimination and a curriculum irrelevant to their lives and needs.

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Safe From Who? Issue #5 The Fargate Speaker

11-03-2009 19:02

The Fargate Speaker - Sheffield's antidote to crappy local news rags.

In this Issue: The Economic Crisis for Dummies, Bus Fare Hikes, Identi-kit stores, Starbucks, Fargate poses the question..., Sport

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Justice for the Shrewsbury 24 building workers! Support EDM 1002

11-03-2009 14:49

1972 was a year of successful industrial action in Britain. The miners had won over pay, the Tory Government had been forced to release five imprisoned dockers. 1972 also saw Britain's first National Building Workers' strike. The strike committees of North Wales building workers would go on to be the victims of one of the worst miscarriages of justice since the days of the Toll Puddle Martyrs. They would be vilified and hounded by parts of the press, convicted by a court as a deterrent to strikers, and abandoned by their own union leaders and the TUC. Six of them would go to prison and one of these would die later as a result of the treatment he received while there. See

http://www.catalystmedia.org.uk/issues/nerve10/shrewsbury_pickets.php

37 years later, an Early Day Motion (EDM) has been tabled demanding a public inquiry into the gross miscarriages of justice and disclosure of all Government and security papers relating to the case.

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G20 London Summit costs £6 million to stage

11-03-2009 10:55

The up and coming G20 financial summit to be held in London's Excel Centre, Docklands on April 2nd is costing the taxpayer £6 million to stage.

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SouthAm Defense Ministers for Dialog

10-03-2009 19:17

Santiago, Chile, Mar 10 (Prensa Latina) Defense ministers from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are to foster in private sessions here on Tuesday mutual confidence in the region through dialogue and integration.

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Dundee packaging factory occupied

10-03-2009 17:19

A small group of workers in a Dundee packing case factory have taken an important stand in defence of their living standards. Twelve workers have occupied Prisme Packaging's industrial unit near central Dundee in order to force their employer into paying legally required redundancy payments, following the company's decision to dispense with its entire workforce.

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Kingston University Files Action to Silence Whistleblower

10-03-2009 12:28

Kingston University has filed action with the World Intellectual Property Organisation on behalf of its Vice-Chancellor, Sir Peter Scott to wrest control of the domain name, sirpeterscott.com from a former whistleblower employee.

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Glasgow: Come and protest outside the Home Office

10-03-2009 09:52

Wednesday 11th March 12:00 pm
UKBA Public Enquiry Office
Festival Court
200 Brand Street
Glasgow
G51 1DH

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009

10-03-2009 09:49

*************** is back in the UK and back in his community
The Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)

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A Not-So-Secret Blacklist of Employers

09-03-2009 21:34

It is about time that a blacklist of employers be created in order to warn potential employees against working for companies that degrade and undermine the dignity and self-respect of people. ABU has started one.

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Recent media coverage of 1984 miners strike

09-03-2009 12:32

Former Euro-communist Martin Jacques, with an article in The Guardian,

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/06/miners-strike-1984-85-margaretthatcher , has joined a long line of media commentators who have used the 25th anniversary of the start of the 1984 miners strike to pour excreta over Arthur Scargill. With their demonization of Scargill it is difficult not to conclude the media’s main aim is to re-write the history of the strike. Reading these articles you will need to look hard to find a condemnation of Thatcher, or the then LP leader Neil Kinnock's disgraceful betrayal of trade unionists in struggle.