UK UK Newswire Archive
Urgent 5weeks to go on squat consultation next squatters meets
30-08-2011 13:45
Squatters housing action group meeting this weds 31st aug 6-8pm at passing clouds1 Richmond rd hackney e8 4aa. 5weeks left of govt consultation to criminalise squatting,rights to protest.Next Squattastic.blogspot.com sun 4th sept
EGYPT: Update: Imprisoned pacifist blogger on hunger and thirst strike
30-08-2011 13:18
Maikel Nabil Sanad, the imprisoned pacifist blogger and conscientious objector sentenced to three years' imprisonment for "insulting the military" on 10 April 2011 (see co-alert, 11 April 2011), began a hunger strike in protest against his continued imprisonment on Tuesday, 23 August 2011 (see co-alert, 24 August 2011). He was moved to solitary confinement on 25 August 2011, but the prison authorities refuse to transfer him to the prison hospital (see co-alert, 25 August 2011). Since today, 30 August, he is also refusing to drink, therefore escalating the hunger strike to a hunger and thirst strike.Trouble at Wrexham NGO. What next - Reform or Revolution?
30-08-2011 08:45
The ongoing bombing and shelling of Kurdistan region
29-08-2011 23:10
http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurds/3886.html LIBYA: NATO massacre at Sirte
29-08-2011 22:38
Dale Farm in Court to stop Eviction
29-08-2011 19:55
Dale Farm residents are going to attend a high court hearing on Wednesday (31 August) in a final bid to stop the bulldozing of their homes.
Dale Farm residents are going to attend a high court hearing on Wednesday (31 August) in a final bid to stop the bulldozing of their homes.
They are calling on supporters join them outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in the Strand, London, at 12 noon.
"This is our last chance to appeal to a judge to stop the eviction", said Kathleen McCarthy. "We hope British justice will see fit to save us from this act of ethnic-cleansing."
Final notice to quit their land at Dale Farm, Basildon,Essex, expires at midnight on Wednesday.
15 Websites Now Defying Atos Legal Threats - please help!
29-08-2011 15:19
Please join in and support these sites!
A few quick clarifications on the recent riots
29-08-2011 10:47
In light of these conflicting interests it is puzzling to see so many - among them Anarchists - defending "communities" and denouncing attacks on them. These communities are not communes, no free associations of producers and consumers, not groups with common interests, but ensembles of conflicting ones. Shop owners, workers, estate kids, council workers, small and large scale capitalists, they do not have the same interests, many of them have directly conflicting ones. The call for community spirit in disregard of what these communities are is, in essence, the same as a nationalist call for unity: a call to subject ones' own interests to that of the "common good". A common good that asks for subordination and restriction. This appreciation of the moralistic collective is what appeals to right-wing, left-wing and some radical writers alike.The British left spreads misinformation about Libya
29-08-2011 07:20
Can we trust the left over Libya?Bankrupt Agrexco face possible criminal prosecution
28-08-2011 21:22
Agrexco, the Israeli part-state owned agricultural export company that supports illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, and has been the target of an international boycott campaign as a result, now faces possible criminal prosecution in Israel.Auditors of the bankrupt firm have uncovered accountancy fraud apparently intended to cover up Agrexco's intimate relationship with the Israeli governments agricultural policies.
Although not expressly stated in this report, the report suggests that Agrexco was propping up illegal settlements in the OPTs with financial payments in order to support Israeli Govt settlement colonisation policies at the expense of their own profitability. If this is so, the case against Agrexco put by BDS campaigners over the past 7 years, of the company's complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity, has just been strengthened substantially.
NATO's rape of Libya: Never forgive, never forget
28-08-2011 18:50
Call for a database of vicitms of Police violence.
28-08-2011 15:32
Given the numbers of people becoming victims of Police violence, from the beating in the Police station to cold blooded execution, we need to keep records of all the cases that occur. There is no independent database, or details of victims at present.Post-riot repression hits Nottingham
28-08-2011 11:55
In the aftermath of the riots that swept the UK earlier this month, local courts and authorities have been swift to crackdown. Notts Police have charged 75 people with offences relating to the disorder, including 18-year old Amed Pelle who was sent to prison for 2 years and 9 months for comments made on Facebook. Nottingham City Council have also jumped at the opportunity to look tough and Leader Jon Collins has said he ‘will seek to evict anyone who is directly involved, or whose sons or daughters have been involved in disturbances.’ In response a group has formed to resist any evictions.
On the newswire: 2 yrs 9 mths for chatting shit on Facebook | Stop Jon Collins’ vindictive evictions
Previous feature: Riots spread to Nottingham
With the Tories calling for exceptionally tough sentencing for those involved in the disturbances, a number of high profile cases have made headlines including a mother jailed for 5 months for handling stolen shorts (who was later freed on appeal), a man jailed for 6 months for stealing a bottle of water and a man jailed for 16 months for taking a lick of an ice cream.
There have also been sentences of several years for posting material on the internet that supposedly incited rioting. Two men from the North West were sentenced to 4 years in prison for ’inciting riots’ on 16th August. Jordan Blackshaw organised an event that only himself and the police turned up to, whereas Perry Sutcliffe-Keenan made a joke page called the Warrington Riots whilst drunk and then removed it the next morning. In Nottingham, 18-year old Amed Pelle was sentenced to 2 years 9 months in jail after making a number of pro-riot comments on his Facebook page.
Soon after the riots began the Government considered banning people from accessing social networking sites in order to quell the riots and met with the heads of Facebook, Twitter and Research in Motion (the company behind the Blackberry Messenger service) to ‘discuss their responsibilities in this area’. David Cameron asked the police whether they needed new powers to shut off social networking sites. Although the Government has since backtracked it is worth noting that the move received praise from the Chinese state. It is also worth noting that only months before, during the Arab Spring, the UK was commending the social networking of rioters who overthrew governments in Tunisia and Egypt.
Various central government and local authorities have also called for other punishments for those linked to rioting and their families, including stripping them of welfare benefits and evicting them from their council houses. Proceedings have already begun in the London Boroughs of Wandsworth and Southwark to evict tenants who have been charged along with their families. Campaigners against the evictions call the moves double punishment and collective punishment and have demonstrated outside the home of Ravi Govindia, the leader of Wandsworth Council. Nottingham City Council is also threatening to evict tenants from Nottingham City Homes properties. NCCLOLs has examined the tenancy agreement and recommends that those who might be affected seek legal advice soon.
Atos Macht Frei – That Censored Carer Watch Post Revealed!
28-08-2011 11:42
The offending piece was not written by a Carer Watch forum member, but was a repost with a clear link to the site on which it originally appeared. Please republish.
Sexual and physical abuse of domestic worker must be stopped
28-08-2011 10:17
While the Arab spring is bringing democracy to Libya and Egypt Saudi Arabia continues to abuse millions of domestic workers. Hundreds and maybe thousands of working class women working as virtual slave labourers in their employers houses in middle-eastern countries have been killed without. Nothing is done as working class women from poor countries are seen as expendable.Lies on Libya
28-08-2011 10:02
Are we living in an Orwellian world in regard to Libya. Below is an extract from a UN human rights report on Libya that was published on January 2011. If Gaddafi was a brutal dictator, you'd have though they would have noticed it.URGENT call out against Evictions
27-08-2011 17:16
Southwark Council has written to 35 tenants where they or a member of their household have been charged over the disorder earlier this month. This is another opportunity for us to fight back against these draconian measures.
EVICT THE RICH! NOT THE POOR!
Let's send a clear message that we will not accept this spiteful attitude.
Southwark - not in our name - not with our money.
INVITE YOUR FRIENDS
Follow us on twitter: @EndEvictions
BBC Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14643349
Solidarity Action for a comrade detained in Norway - !Acción Solidaria
27-08-2011 15:42
Greetings friends and comrades ! Solidarity needed against Scandinavian fascism, hate and homophobia, I have been executed social/Psych. by the community of Tromsø, and UNN TROMSØ, please read carefully, the situation is horrible -.-bins set alite in Newton, Tameside
27-08-2011 10:04
fires keep on burning...