UK UK Newswire Archive
The arms trade treaty is weak and legitimises arms sales
03-04-2014 16:02
Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) believes that the arms trade treaty, ratified yesterday by 19 countries, including the UK, will prove to be ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. The treaty will not reduce the arms trade or prevent exports to human rights abusers.Migrant English Project Benefit @ Cowley Club April 6
03-04-2014 14:20
12 london road, brighton, BN1 4JA
More details on attached flyer. MEP takes place every Monday at the Cowley Club in Brighton -
http://cowleyclub.org.uk/
A Budding Alliance: Vietnam And The Philippines Confront China
03-04-2014 09:40
Veggies On The Road (March Edition)
02-04-2014 18:55
It's full steam ahead for Nottingham's all-vegan and volunteer-led catering campaign Veggies as their 2014 tour is in full swing, with more events being added all the time. Most recently they have taken part in Leicester's annual environmental event, the Greenlight Festival, and also travelled down to Milton Keynes to bring vegan food to activists taking part in an anti-vivisection demo.
Supporting the Environment
Greenlight Festival is an annual showcase of all things green and sustainable in Leicester, with environmental community projects and local green businesses taking part. Veggies were invited to come along as you can't get any greener than vegan, and also Veggies is award-winning for its strong environmental ethics!
The Veggies team had some really positive conversations with members of the public and gave out lots of information about the reality of animal agriculture for the animals, the environment and people. After trying some delicious cruelty-free vegan food and milk alternatives, several people filled in veg pledges to make the compassionate lifestyle choice and go vegan to help stop animal suffering and safeguard the planet.
Opposing Animal Testing
A few days ago some of the Veggies team went down to Milton Keynes to bring vegan food to animal rights campaigners taking part in an anti-vivisection demo. The demo was organised by AVC (Anti-Vivisection Coalition) against MSD Laboratories, who were recently exposed in undercover footage killing puppies and kittens for the animal testing industry. The morale of campaigners was boosted by having Veggies along with their food, provided by donation. Veggies has been supporting grassroots campaigners with important work for animals, the environment and human rights for thirty years (they celebrate their 30th birthday this year!)
** Some websites of interest **
AVC - http://www.stopvivisection.org.uk/
Greenlight Festival - http://greenlightfestival.org/
Find out about adopting a plant-based diet on the Vegan Society website - www.vegansociety.com
And of course, see what other campaigning adventures Veggies is going on this year over on their website: www.veggies.org.uk
Nonces, Abusers, Rapists and rape-apologists in the Far-Right
02-04-2014 18:21
100th Anniversary WW1: Critique Conference on Imperialism & War London 11/12 Apr
02-04-2014 12:12
Fri. - Sat.11 & 12 April, Thai Theatre, New Academic Building, London School of Economics, WC2A 3LJ (Holborn tube)The Philippines-Bangsamoro Agreement
02-04-2014 07:56
Vegan And Vegetarian Champions Ask LeBron James To Join Them
01-04-2014 21:41
BBC says sorry over lax Data Protection for sources - another own goal!
01-04-2014 16:29
The BBC itself has admitted during today (Tuesday 01 April 2014) to being sorry over the disclosure in the last 48 hours that the BBC'sd own lax management had allowed sources' data to be disclsoed to the supposed subject of last night's Panaroma episide abouut London's Tower Hamlets Borough Council.Day of Protest against ATOS & DWP. Report from Wrexham
01-04-2014 12:33
Today, 1 April, has been called as a further day of action against ATOS and the Department for Work and Pensions. I decided to lend my support to the call for an end to the notorious work capability assessments that force disabled people to seek jobs that don't exist, and to the genocidal government policy of cutting off benefits and leaving claimants without the means of survival.
Colombian government denounced for violation of human rights
31-03-2014 22:49
The continuing serious violations of human rights, the lack of guarantees to political and social opposition and the lack of international standards of the Colombian government were denounced yet again and continued to generate great concern among international NGOs and the participants who made up the 25th session of the Human Rights Council UN in Geneva, SwitzerlandWaking up to Fracking and Associated Evils in Wrexham and Everywhere
31-03-2014 15:24
Fracking and its associated evils hadn't exactly escaped my attention, but it's only these past two weeks - with test drilling for coal bed methane happening 10 miles from my home - that I've made time to find out more and join in the resistance. This article is a summary of a few things I've learned, plus links, hopefully useful for anyone else in a similar position. I know it's not comprehensive - use it as a starting point. There are numerous extreme energy sites and potential sites around the country that all need our attention and resistance.
Calais : Defend the Squats, Defend Ourselves, Defend the 62
31-03-2014 13:20
This is a text about the fascist demo organized in Calais the 13th of April 2014, and in the same time the call out for the antidemo.North East EDL, Infidels and anti-fascist demonstrate in Millfield, Sunderland
30-03-2014 23:14
Pushing Toward The Final War
30-03-2014 17:36
Does Obama realize that he is leading the US and its puppet states to war with Russia and China, or is Obama being manipulated into this disaster by his neoconservative speech writers and government officials? World War 1 (and World War 2) was the result of the ambitions and mistakes of a very small number of people. Only one head of state was actually involved–the President of France. In The genesis Of The World War, Harry Elmer Barnes shows that World War 1 was the product of 4 or 5 people. Three stand out: Raymond Poincare`, President of France, Sergei Sazonov, Russian Foreign Minister, and Alexander Izvolski, Russian Ambassador to France.Eco-Warriors Accuse Enfield Council of Corruption at Middlesex University
30-03-2014 17:16
As if to symbolise the destruction of the earth itself, day by day the 400-year-old oak trees in the ancient woodlands at Middlesex university at Cat Hill Cockfosters Enfield north London, have been cut down while the eco-warriors support the blockade at the front gates by elderly local residents to protest against the blatant theft of their educational and environmental heritage by the crooked property developers London and Quadrant and the equally corrupt Enfield council.
UG#678 - The New Pearl Harbor 2 (Amerithrax, The Pentagon and Shanksville)
29-03-2014 13:48
Demonstrators Storm Spanish Embassy in London in Solidarity with Sub-saharan Migrants
28-03-2014 18:35
