UK Newswire Archive
Mass Deportation to DRC tomorrow - press release from the Bishop of Durham
25-02-2007 19:47
The Government has just set back the date for a review of the 'Country Guidance' given in relation to the Congo, i.e. the guidance on the advisability of sending people back there. The case was to have been heard on March 7, but it has now been postponed. It is strange that almost at once the Home Office has begun rounding up Congolese in order to deport them. Are these two events perhaps connected? Is the government keen to get rid of Congolese people while it still can?The ‘war on terror’ and the terror of war
25-02-2007 19:10
The casting of the ‘‘war on terrorism’’ as a war fought on behalf of or for civilization against some less-than-civilized other -- terrorists and their cohorts -- is a significant point that cannot be allowed to pass unexamined.East Oxford Social Club Threatened With Immediate Termination
25-02-2007 19:04
A small minority of Council members have acted unethically to terminate the East Oxford Social Club sometime this week.[AR] Stop Sequani Animal Testing (SSAT) Notification
25-02-2007 18:18
Please be advised that over the next few days the Stop Sequani AnimalTesting website at
http://www.vivisection.info/ssat will terminate as will the SSAT web mailing list and the alternate contact email address
worcestershireai@airpost.net.
Leeds demo against DR Congo deportations
25-02-2007 17:57
People from across the Yorkshire region came to protest outside the Home Office in Leeds on Friday. Protestors were demanding that all deportations to the DR Congo must be stopped immediately.Media Alert: Iran in Iraq
25-02-2007 17:49
Media corporations have an awesome ability to fail to learn even the most obvious lessons from the recent past. In discussing allegations made against Iran in 2007, for example, it is often as though Iraq 2002-2003 never happened. The same journalists receiving the same propaganda from the same government sources respond with the same credulity and the same indifference to the human consequences.Killers in the Classroom
25-02-2007 17:37
During a heated debate in a class I teach on social justice, several US Marines who had done tours in Iraq told me that they had "sacrificed" by “serving” in Iraq so that I could enjoy the freedom to teach in the USA. Parroting their master’s slogan about “fighting over there so we don’t have to fight over here”, these students proudly proclaimed that they terrorized and killed defenseless Iraqis. They intimated that their Arab victims are nothing more to them than collateral damage, incidental to their receipt of some money and an education.Rospuda Protest Camp - Films for viewing
25-02-2007 16:43
Use the links below to watch the most recent films from the Rospuda Protest Camp. This will give you an idea of the conditions and temperatures being endured by the activists. Dialogue is in Polish language, but the images speak for themselves:Evidence of US coercion of IAEA members against Iran revealed
25-02-2007 16:22
Demands for an investigation into coercion of nations by the US during the vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been growing following the revelations by a former ranking official of the Bush administration acknowledging that India's votes at the IAEA in 2005 and 2006 had been "coerced."Coal and Wayuu in Venezuela
25-02-2007 16:21
– Jorge Montiel, Wayuu leader, Venezuela
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Troops Out/No Trident/Dont Attack Iran demo pix
25-02-2007 16:03
Reminder: Emergency demo against deportations to DRC Mon. 26th 1-3pm
25-02-2007 13:11
STOP DEPORTATIONS TO DRC - CONGO IS NOT SAFEEmergency protest Monday 26 February 1-3pm.
Home Office
2 Marsham Street
London SW1P 4DF
(nearest tubes St James Park and Westminster)
GP ship impounded during anti-Trident action
25-02-2007 11:28
23 March: Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise impounded during floating blockade of Faslane naval base. Snippets below from GP press releases.Will America Face the Truth About 9/11?
25-02-2007 11:06
If we have the courage to face the fact that our nation has descended into a swamp of corruption and evil, perhaps we can still salvage the future for ourselves and our children. We should draw strength from the knowledge that the 9/11 nightmare, bad as it was, might have been even worse.Community cinema celebrates a courageous life
25-02-2007 10:53
The daughter and sister of a renowned Sri Lankan human rights activist will attend the screening of a powerful film about there mother/sister's life at Haringey Independent Cinema, a monthly cinema night in the borough which is now into its second successful year.Colombia: Petition To Stop Fumigations
25-02-2007 09:04
We have never sent out mails for signatures but this is an extreme situation and we need as many signatures as possible to demand a halt aerial fumigation with chemical mixtures being applied against Colombian peasants and indigenous communities. This request will be sent to the OAS Inter American Human Rights Court and the Colombian State Council, among others.
The Muslim BNP
25-02-2007 00:37
A breakdown of the views held by local Birmingham resident Gina Khan, who claims to be challenging radical islam, but instead seems to have been giving the media all the irresponsible scapegoating they could want. Her views mirror those of the BNP and were she not Muslim herself, you would think they were the words of the far-right! I have below The Times' article with her quotes and my response."Camp Howard" - Australia's very own Guantanamo Bay on Christmas Island - Feb 20
25-02-2007 00:35
