UK UK Newswire Archive
Anti Opencast Coal Meeting Derbyshire
13-05-2012 13:31
Anti opencast meetingStadium for Cornwall? Will Cornwall Council now fund it?
13-05-2012 12:45
Any Other Business? Shall we give £10 million to a private company?Why Are Forests Dying?
13-05-2012 05:17
Big Flop Productions..
13-05-2012 00:55
Zero tolerance on Lewes Road Brighton??
12-05-2012 23:49
This is weird - just heard today about two mates who both had (separate) overly thorough searches on Lewes Road in Brighton. Thought it's worth posting to see if anyone else had the same experience or has a view on the leaglity of the searches. Seems to go beyond the normal definition of a stop and search.World Week for the Abolition of Meat: 21-27 May
12-05-2012 22:55
The World Weeks for the Abolition of Meat (WWAMs) are intended as a means of promoting a political debate around the idea of abolishing the production and consumption of sentient beings and other animal products.
World Week for the Abolition of Meat:
21-27 May 2012
This year has seen increased participation in the January World Week for the Abolition of Meat and the demand for the abolition of meat continues to attract media interest.
Remember that 99.99% of animals exploited are exploited for meat.
The next WWAM will be held from 21 to 27 May, and we hope it will be an opportunity for a larger worldwide mobilisation.
On 2 June 2012, a large demonstration, the March for the closing down of slaughterhouses, will take place in Paris. This will be an occasion to address the public and proclaim that the production and consumption of meat (and "fish" as well as other animal products) cause immense harm to animals, are not morally defendable, and must therefore be abolished as soon as possible.
We hope that demonstrations such as these will soon be organised around the world and will foster a rapid increase in awareness: the animal question is a crucial moral and political question which must be taken into account on all levels of society.
We are delighted that monthly events for the abolition of all forms of animal exploitation -- which explicitly demand the abolition of animal farming, hunting, and fishing -- are now organised in France and Switzerland.
The Veggie Pride March that will be held in Marseille, France on 19 May 2012 will also explicitly place itself within the framework of the demand for the abolition of meat.
You can listen to interviews we have given in French and English in order to detail the reasons why we lay emphasis on this demand.
How to advance the worldwide promotion to abolish meat?
You can support meat-abolition.org which receives no government subsidies.
You can also order activist materials such as T-shirts, pins, stickers, and flyers.
And of course send us your logo and website address, join us on Facebook and remember to announce your events.
If you use some or all of this call, please cite the source.
We look forward to hearing from you!
Worldwide promotion of the demand for the abolition of the production and consumption of animal flesh;
that is to say, the prohibition of products that come from hunting, fishing and farming
because they require the exploitation, suffering and death of sentient beings.
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Short introductory texts:
For a world-wide movement for the abolition of meat
Presentation
Frequently Asked Questions
Detailed brochure:
"Meat Abolition"
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12M meet the 1% pics
12-05-2012 22:55
Meeting outside St Paul's at 1pm there were updates from what was going on in other countries today before we set of on a slightly chaotic tour of some of those responsible for the crisis. The police kept stopping the march with cordons and there were lots of attempts to break through the police lines, some successful, others beaten back - though when it came to running we tended to win... Our group got to RBS before heading back to the Bank of England.
(Later the cops gave us 35 mins to disperse under section 14 - we stayed for a lot longer before the snatch squads started coming in, brutaly pulling people sat down on the steps, using pressure points and headlocks to wrestle those who had linked arms. Supporters were pushed back, but then got around the police and there were repeated scuffles as the police kept sending in waves of the snatch squads. Don't know how many arrests but probably at least 20. The police left at around 10.30pm with about 20 occupiers remaining).
Glad to have been a part of the 12M global spring!
Smash EDO Summer of Resistance Targets Barclays
12-05-2012 18:18
Occupy Global Day of Action – Meet the 1%
12-05-2012 16:55
The Global Day of Action gets under way in London as 500 protesters gather at St Pauls, a map given out on the steps of St Pauls indicates where the Banks, hedgeFunds, lobbists and private equity firms are based around the city of London. At 1pm a teach-in started introduced by Tent City University. A tour of the financial institutions responsible for much of the crisis looks on the cards. The tour will include visits to those that; gambled with our pensions, brought the global economy to the brink of ruin and evaded billions in taxes. They are benefiting by the crisis by grabbing fat privatisation contracts of our public services, forced ordinary people to pay for their mess, and taken more than £1tn in bailouts from the taxpayer and continue to pay themselves exorbitant bonuses.
Pics: [ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 ] Livestream
Some background from Occupy London:
From banks and hedge funds to lobbyists and private equity firms, they’re all in the ‘Map of the 1%’ that has been produced by Occupy London and will be available on the day.
Nowhere in Europe is the unequal distribution of wealth as striking as in the UK. The richest 1,000 persons, just 0.005% of the adult population, increased their wealth by £155bn over the last three years. That is enough for themselves alone to pay off the entire budget deficit and still leave them with £30bn to spare. [1]
We’re all in this together’ never rang so hollow. Whilst the rest of the country is being crippled by war-time austerity, the very same people who caused the crisis are now sitting on wealth even greater than what they had before the crash.
The day will see citizens using peaceful, creative ways to deliver their own messages to the financial and corporate elite of the City.
We will continue to exercise our right to peacefully assemble in public spaces and develop the democratic processes to address the problems we face.
*** Stay in touch ***
- The rules of the game: From your phone text follow @occupymay to 86444 for free SMS notifications on the day.
CLT @ Blockupy Frankfurt
12-05-2012 11:15
Critical Legal Thinking is posting direct from the upcoming Blockupy protests in Frankfurt am Main's financial district.Read our posts here:
http://www.criticallegalthinking.com/ Even better, join us in Frankfurt 16-19 May 2012!
Rocky Tiger (Attack Helicopter) Ploughshares front Court in Australia
12-05-2012 07:36
YOUTUBE (4 mins) Rocky Tiger (Attack Helicopter) Ploughshares action carried out during Operation Talisman Sabre 2011 U.S./Australian joint military exercisesRockhampton, central Queensland, Australia. Law accessed the heavily guarded attack helicopter parked on the runway by employing a large tricycle!
http://tinyurl.com/ca4srky
David Harvey - Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
11-05-2012 22:55
Cities have long been the pivotal sites of political revolutions, where deeper currents of social and political change are fleshed out. Consequently, they have been the subject of much utopian thinking about alternatives. But at the same time, they are also the centres of capital accumulation, and therefore the frontline for struggles over who has the right to the city, and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the developers and financiers, or the people? David Harvey’s Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to Sao Paulo. By exploring how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways, Harvey argues that cities can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.
Location for Bicycology Car Park Occupation Coventry in Solidarity with M12
11-05-2012 22:05
The Car Park is on Fairfax / Cox street. The nearest postcode is CV1 5RY.
Empty Stomachs, Palestinian Spring
11-05-2012 21:34
The bulk of the corporate media is suppressing this story, highlighting the hypocrisy of feigning concern for Syrian "activists", because they're really militants working with the foreign radicals the media speaks for to achieve 'regime change', deemed vital to their plot to attack Iran.Wicked Work Weekend in Co. Mayo, Ireland
11-05-2012 21:04
Friday 4th May Day of Solidarity successfully stopped all Shell haulage for the day. Once folks were satisfied that Shell wasn’t going to try and do any haulage, they went to the Rossport Solidarity Camp to start taking down structures and move the camp.
Anti-Authoritarianism Today and Yesterday
11-05-2012 19:35
Meeting on the forthcoming celebration in August of the founding of the Anti-Authoritarian InternationalPesticides leak sparks fears over new homes. Hauxton
11-05-2012 18:59
“A Vaguely Useful Thing?”- An Event Report from the Big Six Energy Bash
11-05-2012 18:46
HENRY DAVIS takes a look at the recent Big Six Energy Bash and see’s whether it stands up to the aims the Climate Justice Collective set themselves.Chief executive of nuclear power company shot in Genoa - Italy
11-05-2012 18:45
The head of a nuclear power company was shot in the leg by an unidentified gunman in Italy on Monday, police said, in an incident reminiscent of politically motivated violence that raged in the country in the 1970s and 1980s.
