UK Newswire Archive
Sacked workers demonstrate against Electra Lil-lets in Birmingham
15-07-2007 16:47
Sacked workers, their families and fellow trade unionists held a demonstration on Thursday, 12 July, outside the Boots store in High Street, Birmingham city centre, to protest over reduced pensions following the closure of the Lil-Lets tampon-making plant in Alum Rock last June. The protest was the second in a series of protests outside Lil-Lets major customers, organised by the UK's largest union, Unite. The first one took place outside Tesco and Boots at the Beggars Bush on the Princess Alice Retail Park, Birmingham, on 7 July. Seven other protests across the Midlands are planned in July and August, while women across the Midlands are being urged to boycott Lil-Lets products.
Ancient heritage site destroyed by Irish government - in the middle of the night
15-07-2007 14:55
German TV: Kurds Used to Attack Iran
15-07-2007 13:03
Last month, as the corporate media mulched over renewed Pentagon claims Iran is providing deadly IEDs to Iraqi “insurgents,” German television reported the Maoist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or Partiya Karkaren Kurdistan (PKK), has “killed over 200 Iranians,” a handful by way of IED, according to a PKK terrorist quoted by German ARD television (original in German).PJAK enjoys full neocon support, as should be expected, never mind PKK’s supposed lunatic Maoist persuasion.
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Activists invade Agrexco Carmel
15-07-2007 12:54
At 1.10 p.m. this afternoon, human rights protesters occupied the depot of Israel import company Agrexco Carmel. Ten people went into the depot and replaced the company's flags, changing it's Israeli flag with a Palestinian flag and switching the Union Jack with a red and black flag.Agrexco Carmel are half-owned by Israel. Their produce is illegally produced in the occupied territories by Settlers. Agrexco Carmel is the main distributor of settlement produce.
Police Bombing of MOVE HQ (New Profile)
15-07-2007 12:51
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Fortress Carmel Agrexco breached by Peace Activists
15-07-2007 12:20
Sunday the 15th of July, ten activists entered Carmel Agrexco depot in Hayes Middlesex. The Israeli flag that usually flies was replaced with a Palestinian flag and the black flag of anarchy took the place of the Union Jack.
Carmel Agrexco import illegal produce from Israeli settlements in the West Bank.
These settlements, exist in serious breach of international law, are guarded by the Israeli army using numerous check points and the Apartheid wall, as a result of land theft from the Arab population in breach of international peace agreements
Manchester NO2ID Film Nights
15-07-2007 11:29
Tesco Blockade
15-07-2007 08:30
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Actions reports from the International Day of Solidarity with John Bowden
14-07-2007 20:23
Falsifying May 1968 in France
14-07-2007 17:47
translation of a book that falsifies the May 1968 movement in France.Hug The Odeon
14-07-2007 17:24
Hundreds of people today gathered to hug the Odeon buildingShell & County Mayo: Don't Mention The Water Part 3
14-07-2007 15:43
Since Oscar Beard’s month in Mayo from mid February 2007, and the Indymedia UK investigation exposing the poisoning of the Erris drinking water supply from the Corrib Gas Project, a return trip in May revealed the extent to which Mayo County Council (MCC) and Shell E & P Ireland (SEPIL) would go to hide the problem rather than deal with it.Full article | 1 addition | 7 comments
NETCU to hassle Climate Change Protesters
14-07-2007 15:16
NETCU to shift focus onto Climate Change and will use same underhand and possibly illegal tactics they have used against animal rightsFirst Directions to The Camp for Climate Action 2007.....
14-07-2007 09:58
The camp dates are drawing nearer and nearer and we're all desperate to know where it will be... but we'll just have to wait a little longer!But what we do know is that if you get yourself to Staines railway station in West London by 10am on Tuesday 14th August, you will be greeted by our friendly welcome team and promptly transported via a magical mystery tour, to the camp! (There will also be lifts to the camp later in the day and throughout the week.)
Love Thy Neighbor
14-07-2007 02:24
In New York City, Afrocentric blacks and liberal whites fight over the image of Africa.Policing FIT for "serious and sustained" terror?
13-07-2007 23:41
"[But]our services and police do a heroic job for our country day in day out and I can say that over the past years, as this particular type of new and awful terrorist threat has grown, they have done their utmost to keep this country and its people safe.As I saw again from the meeting of COBR this morning, their determination to get those responsible is total." Tony Blair 11 July 2005
The Media on ‘Global Terror’
13-07-2007 22:17
Y‘know it’s amazing really, considering that for centuries Europeans have been invading other countries, enslaving their peoples, ripping off their resources and in the process impoverishing much of the planet. And what is more, moving in and taking up residence without so much as a ‘by your leave’ let alone being put through an intensive examination upon their arrival.
How Terror Has Lost Its Meaning
13-07-2007 21:26
War can no longer be distinguished from terrorSOCPA movie hits the west end!!!
13-07-2007 19:40
