UK Newswire Archive
Carnival Against Vivisection - Program/Newsletter
16-07-2008 23:08
A tragic brief personal account from a refugee camp in South Africa
16-07-2008 19:58
I have just returned from a five months study internship in South Africa. During this period I was affiliated to a local NGO’s as a part of my studies as an International Social Worker. In May 2008, media around the world briefly reflected the extreme xenophobic violence waged against foreigners and immigrants in South Africa by impoverished South Africans. Innocent people became victims of assault in their homes and their properties looted. To rescue their lives, most sought refuge and protection at nearest local police stations.Wembley Tent City Occupation Resistance Continues, Wednesday 16th
16-07-2008 19:53
This afternoon we got a sms calling for urgent support as it was expected that bailiffs with specialised equipment and police would be arriving on site by 4pm. We set off to Wembley to show our support to one of the few examples of grass roots autonomous organising and resistance we've seen in London that escapes the usual (and expected) 'activist' scenes. As soon as we got there we realised that today's alleged eviction was yet another bluff in the 'threats and wait' game the bailiffs are playing. An earlier eviction had been set for yesterday afternoon, when around 50 local people turned up to show support. That one didn't materialise neither, and so now the protestors are expecting it at any time. They have therefore now taken permanent positions on the roofs of the building next to the sports grounds, with at least one protestor already locking on to the main mast. The protestor's claims that the sports grounds are a vital resource to the local community, was reinforced whilst we were there when a local football team turned up for their usual training.
The general feeling is that most probably the eviction will happen 'by surprise' in the early morning, and quite possibly tomorrow thursday morning, and so they maintain their call for urgent solidarity and for people to go up there and show their support.
See below some pics of the occupation today:
Victim of torture faces deportation: Jean Pierre Gueutchue Must Stay
16-07-2008 19:38
Teachers against Wembley Academy prepare to resist eviction
16-07-2008 19:35
Photographs (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.
Fannie, Freddie, Food and Fuel
16-07-2008 18:40
The financial crisis deepens with the nationalization of IndyMac and the likely bailout of Freddie Mac and Fannie May by the US taxpayer. The financial crisis has company as inflation, and in particular huge increases in global food and energy prices, enters the fray.The American economic model has been discredited and the American century has lasted but a few decades. These developments have and will further open up a new period in the struggle between capital and labor on the world stage and the US working class will have a major role to play as it re-connects with its militant traditions.
Boris Johnson may yet take a morally fatal fall - if Wheatcroft is his guide!!!
16-07-2008 18:20
Boris Johnson's DAILY TELEGRAPH newspaper group and Conservative Party colleague Patience Wheatcroft's so-called forensic audit report into Ken Livingstone's London Development Agency [=’LDA’] is the subject of a lot of 'mainstream media' reporting and commentary today [Wednesday 16 July 2008]. I have been warning Johnson against getting involved in a lower moral standard than that I had associated with Livingstone. It is clear that Johnson is heading for a big fall on grounds of lack of morality and ethics...film showing of "Rendition" followed by a talk on Extraordinary Rendition
16-07-2008 17:35
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Local Government Strike: Day One
16-07-2008 16:08
London Bombings - tube security fugitive dodges another bullet
16-07-2008 15:44
UNISON Local Government Members Strike Over Pay
16-07-2008 15:31
Operation Stop The Monkey Business: Day 3
16-07-2008 15:28
Day 3 of the action alerts for the week of action against Nepal's exports of monkeys for vivisection!Sumac Garden Party this sunday!
16-07-2008 15:01
Call out for help at Shipley Bodge Site
16-07-2008 14:45
The people on site at the squatted farm at the Shipley Lodge Open Cast Coal mining site have put a call out for help!They are in court on Friday (10 am Derby), and it is possible that they may be evicted at anytime after that.
Antispe North March Against Covance & Escada in Germany
16-07-2008 14:19
A Complete Miscarriage of Justice in Austria
16-07-2008 14:02
A Complete Miscarriage of Justice — OLG Upholds Pre-trial Confinement for Animal Rights Activists!Raymond James Protest after SHAC march
16-07-2008 13:38
Email Against The Fur Trade
16-07-2008 13:32
