UK Newswire Archive
U’wa tribal magic repels oil giant
12-08-2001 11:53
Better late than never - This is tremendous news and a huge slap in the face for OXY but let's not forget that people, including some very young children, lost their lives passively defending their land against these wretched oily predators...THE TUBE IS FREE
12-08-2001 06:16
Old tickets work on the London Underground!!!
squat accions in barcelona
12-08-2001 02:00
SmokeyBears Cannabis website hacked
12-08-2001 00:51
Smokey Bears Website hacked and photo of undercover police deleted.GOLDMAN SACHS are scared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
11-08-2001 16:53
This is surely cause for celebration. :-) (but NOT complacency).Here's an article by John Pilger, taken from New Statesman.
Pilger is like a friendlier (to antiglobalisation protesters) version of Monbiot. This man is a hero!
Genoa-video on filmfestival in Locarno
11-08-2001 15:06
organisators of the filfestival in Locarno surprises with the decision to show the Genoa-videoIMF and World Bank shorten meetings over protests
11-08-2001 13:48
By Mark EganWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The IMF and World Bank have said they will cut their annual meetings in Washington next month to just two days in the face of expected protests and violence by thousands of anti-globalisation activists.
Berlusconi's bullets bounce back
11-08-2001 13:34
Berlusconi announces the arrival of a packet containinga bullet, before it has official arrived at the post office.
40-Day Fast Launced to Protest 11 Years of Iraq Sanctions
11-08-2001 13:03
Between The Lines' Scott Harris spoke with former U.N. Under-Secretary General Denis Halliday, who had been in charge of Iraq's oil for food program until he resigned his post in protest of the sanctions in 1998. Halliday explains why he and others continue to work for an end to the economic sanctions against Iraq.FRUSTRATION + INTOLERANCE + TERRORISM = FEAR.
11-08-2001 07:30
Racism in the (good ole) USAI can see like a bullet
right through the heart
of the USA
like an accident in slow motion
raise the rent
Anarchism: Its time has come again
11-08-2001 06:45
This is new. A mainstream newspaper discussing anarchism!"Anarchism isn't about disorder but about the absence of authority. You could say it's taking the notion that power corrupts, really seriously"
British minister hitting the wrong targets
11-08-2001 06:34
Britain's Development Secretary Clare Short is hardly a stranger to controversy but her condemnation of international aid agencies for the protests at the G8 summit in Genoa is far more serious and revealing than any past gaffes.
AMONG THE THUGS: Genoa and the new language of protest.
11-08-2001 06:19
The threat of 'real global democracy' is probably the ruling elite's greatest fear, and the unprecedented growth of the movement--Seattle was considered huge at 50,000 protesters; Genoa, a year and a half later, drew perhaps 200,000--must seem utterly terrifying.
FREEBIES PROMISED AT POT PICNIC
11-08-2001 00:59
Media pressure to be on Hampshire Police at this Sunday's Annual Smokey Bears Picnic in Portsmouth.another try: a20 - banner
10-08-2001 23:19
http://g8solidarity.protest.net/upcomming.htm
a20 - banner
10-08-2001 23:17
here is a banner to coordinate the protests worlwide in the net. do this on your websites to show your solidatity with the people who are missed or in jail in genova. AND: do actions on a20 - global action day. here is the link to protest.net: http://g8solidarity.protest.net/upcomming.htm
Actions during Belgiums EU presidency
10-08-2001 22:06
Since july until the end of december Belgium is president of the European Union. Until the huge summit at the end of the presidency in Laken near Brussels on 14 th and 15 th of december, there will be a number of smaller and more informal summits in various Belgian cities.
