UK UK Newswire Archive
Bookfair 2010 - Counter/Mapping Queen Mary Uni.
02-11-2010 14:22
To begin by asking ‘what is the university’ requires an investigation of the function of the university not only as a knowledge factory but also as a border. Our investigation of what the university produces as knowledge, hierarchies and power exposes the border/s that operate in, on and around the university. That ‘the university is a border’ is made possible by the operation of a filter mechanism. The counting of bodies, money in and money out, who can and can not enter, what are we when we leave, the limits of what is and is not knowledge and the complicity with national and global border regimes – who and what is stopped at the border?
A group of students, staff and researchers at Queen Mary University have set out to map the ways in which migration, border technologies, surveillance and monetary flows intersect with the university as our place of work and study.
Second successful night of strike action by FBU
02-11-2010 14:22
Last night was the second 8 hour strike by firefighters to defend their jobs. Strong picket lines have managed to disrupt the attempts to break the strike by Assetco, a company hired in to break the strike.
In Old Street firefighters barricaded their fire stations and chained station doors to prevent them being taken over by Assetco. In Southwark a firefighter was run down by a scab fire truck.
The London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA) has threatened to unilaterally impose new terms and conditions, specifically a new shift pattern, and has said that any of the 5,500 London fire fighters not willing to sign up to them will be sacked.
The next strike will be on Friday 5th, with the media screaming that this exposes the public to danger, a falsehood as the firefighters have stated clearly that they will still attend life threatening fires.
One striking firefighter stated: "If there's a fire, we're going to go and have a look. If it's a warehouse with no one inside, we'll let it burn down. If there's a life at risk, you'd have a job to do to stop everyone here going to sort it out. That's why we joined."
Assetco was originally proposing to run one fire engine each out of 27 stations. The strength of picketing has evidently made either the scabs or their employer feel uncomfortable, so they've changed the plan. Instead, three engines are being run out of each of nine stations: Shoreditch (Old St), Wembley, East Ham, Wandsworth, Old Kent Road, Croydon, Hillingdon and Hammersmith.
See Ian Lehair, of the London Fire Brigade Union speaking at the start of the anti-cuts march to the TUC in london, October 23rd
For more background on the strike and Assetco see: The Commune
Massive anti-Afghan war demonstration, Sat, Nov 20, central London.
02-11-2010 14:15
There will be a massive anti-Afghan war demonstration in central London on Saturday the 20th of November. The demonstration will assemble at Hyde Park near Marble Arch at 12noon and at 1pm will set off for Trafalgar Square. This demonstration is to demand the immediate return of all UK troops from Afghanistan. The government is currently spending 5 billion a year on that war while cutting services at home."Fight The Cuts" Public Meeting Stroud Thurs 4th Nov
02-11-2010 13:22
Free Public Meeting
7.30pm, Old Town Hall, The Shambles, Stroud
Radical Workers' and Students' Bloc - 10th November
02-11-2010 13:14
jimmy mubenga poster
02-11-2010 12:22
please download, copy and distributethe death of jimmy mubenga at the hands of private security guards acting as part of the deportation machine was hardly reported outside of the guardian newspaper
...so people have been taking to the streets in london and bristol to tell people about it. please download distribute copy and post.
for unmediated media !
the poster is a3
Government set for embarrassment over alcohol and tobacco control
02-11-2010 12:09
Home Secretary's refusal to control alcohol and tobacco to be judicially reviewed.Torture Orders Were Part of US Sectarian War Strategy
02-11-2010 11:35
everywhere is warBristol Indymedia Meeting
02-11-2010 11:34
Meeting for the people who coordinate Bristol Indymedia.Meeting to be held at Cafe Kino from 8pm on 15th November.
If you are interested in getting involved either come along or see: http://bristol.indymedia.org/getting_involved
PHILIPPINES: PAL labor row erupts anew as workers protest DOLE decision
02-11-2010 11:31
Mushrooms & Bad waeather for Liberty Cap
02-11-2010 11:17
Weather conditions have not been right for Liberty caps this year.First Night of Royal Parks Deer Shoots Leads to No Kills
02-11-2010 11:16
Pressure mounts against Royal Parks deer shootsBig Pharma are throwing toys out of pram again
02-11-2010 11:00
Once again Big Pharma are threatening to leave the UK unless they get their way.LCW Manor House Vigil in Solidarity with Trident Blockade
02-11-2010 11:00
nuclear dawn at rotherhams advanced manufacturing park
02-11-2010 10:47
Nuclear new dawn at the AMP
Site works have commenced on the land where the latest expansions of the University of Sheffield's AMRC will be located.
The seven acre plot at the AMP will house the new Nuclear AMRC and a revolutionary Knowledge Transfer Academy.
UK and France to cooperate over new nuclear weapons production
02-11-2010 09:23
From BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11670247
Bookfair 2010 - Interview with Michael Albert
02-11-2010 09:22
An incredibly inspiring interview at the 28th Anarchist Bookfair in London with American activist, political theorist, and writer, Michael Albert on his ideas of Participatory Economics, 'Parecon', which uses participatory decision making as an economic mechanism to guide the production, consumption and allocation of resources in a given society. Here he touches on his ideas, and how they are slowly gaining wider interest, how it is being used in for example, Venezuala, and how it could change society itself by completely flipping the current economic standard on its head.
Taunton Anti-Cuts Demonstration
02-11-2010 09:22
November 6thNovember 6th
Assemble French Weir, Taunton at 10.30 am, March through Taunton 11am
Directions
From M5 - Junction 25:
* Exit onto A358
* At roundabout take 1st exit
* Keep left onto A38/Toneway
* At roundabout, take 2nd exit onto Priory Avenue
* At roundabout, take 2nd exit onto Priory Bridge Road
* Turn left onto A3038/Station Road
For parking at Belvedere Road, turn 2nd turning on right and then 1st left.
If you have SatNav the postcode is TA1 1HE.
For parking at Wood Street - go to end of Station Road (to traffic lights), turn left into Bridge Street, take 1st turning (at traffic lights) on right. Continue past Lidl’s on left and take right into Wood Street
Friday’s terror nonsense: US Intelligence Trades On Fear
02-11-2010 08:33
We are in the grip of yet another so-called terror plot designed to terrify the wits out of everyone.