UK Newswire Archive
Palestine Today 090108
01-09-2008 18:49
Up-to-minute newsfeed from Republican Convention blockades
01-09-2008 18:49
Riot Police Defend the Mall of America from workers
01-09-2008 18:07
Starbucks workers and their supporters, 50 to 70 of them, converge for a rallytoday at the rail station at Lake and Hiawatha in downtown Minneapolis. The
crowd comes to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers in their fight to
organize a union, the Starbucks Workers Union (SWU), with the Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW)*, and to escort Erik Forman back to work at the Mall of
America.
Minnesota cops bust ‘criminal’ RNC/FNB protesters
01-09-2008 17:56
A series of police raids that took place in the Twin Cities over the weekend, in which FBI agents and local law enforcement detained six people on suspicion of conspiracy to riot at the Republican National Convention. The detainees have not been formally charged with any crime and their lawyers are in court today seeking their release. There were no such pre-emptive arrests of protesters at the Democratic Convention in Denver last weekRadical Response to Hurricane Gustav and the RNC: Statement
01-09-2008 17:45
Here in the Twin Cities, activists have been experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights through intolerable pre-emptive raids, and members and friends of the RNC Welcoming Committee have been on the run, seeking sanctuary from police terrorism. Now, residents of the Gulf Coast are will continue to be experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights on an even more massive scale, and seeking sanctuary not only from the weather but from a military invasion of their cities - the same kind which 3 years ago proved an even bigger calamity than Hurricane Katrina itself.Question 9/11 ... 2008
01-09-2008 17:03
An Evening of Interactive Information and Discussion
Hosted by Calum Douglas - Researcher, Pilots For 911 Truth
7:30 pm, Thursday 11th September
Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates. FREE ENTRY
The Road to 90% and the Role of the State
01-09-2008 17:03
Deportation and arrests ahead of Labour Party Conference
01-09-2008 16:48
A Manchester-based man has been deported and three more people arrested under immigration law already as part of the police operation to protect Brown and Co during their annual party conference in Manchester later this month.
http://www.gmp.police.uk/mainsite/gmpsearch2?readform=res&cx=003232868029190777086%3Auabclie4ziw&cof=FORID%3A11&q=labour+party+conference&sa.x=0&sa.y=0&sa=Search Also, the GMP's new chief constable has been sworn in today. Peter Fahy replaces Peter Todd who was found dead in Snowdonia earlier this year in the £168,000 a year job, and will oversee the policing of the Conference.
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1064959_top_cop_sworn_in?rss=yes
Incendiary attack against bank in Greece
01-09-2008 16:39
http://www.taxydromos.gr/ArticleDetail.aspx?nodeSerial=001001&nodeId=2&articleId=12277#), "an explosion of an improvised device caused large damages to the subsidiary of Ethniki bank on Larissis and Neapoleos street corner, set there by unknown persons...
London Free School 1st to 7th of September
01-09-2008 16:35
A week of free workshops, discussions and skill-shares open to all is happening this week (1st to 7th september) at the Rampart social center.Rushmoor defends crass half-size wheelie bin policy
01-09-2008 15:11
Support Lewis - imprisioned in Sweden
01-09-2008 15:01
Lewis is a dedicated activist imprisioned in Sweden for minor offences.Basque Regional Government to sue Spanish state for Referendum.
01-09-2008 14:45
June this year "Members of the Basque regional parliament have approved plans for a referendum on more autonomy from Spain." reported the BBC. "They voted narrowly, by 34 votes to 33, to hold a public vote on 25 October."Today the Basque regional first minister or "Lehandakari" announced that all the parites in his ruling coalition are asking Basques to sue the Spanish state through the EU if it disallows their consultation or what I call "the referendum on a referendum".
Austrian Prisoner Martin Balluch Runs as Green Candidate
01-09-2008 14:33
Austrian Imprisoned Animal Rights Campaigner runs as Green Candidate in September ElectionDemonstration / Hands off Kurdish asylum seekers!
01-09-2008 14:11
Thursday 11th September 2008 - 12:30pm - 14:30pmLobby of the Home Office
2 Marsham St
London
SW1P
We Are Change UK - Notting Hill Carnival 2008
01-09-2008 14:10
Amadeu Casellas, 72 days hungerstrike - a "more political" prisoner now.
01-09-2008 13:01
In the last 6 days Amadeu Casellas has eaten no food as his protest, the ultimate protest any prisoner may undertake continues. But in contrast to the last report which noted the lack of international mobilisation and political pressure to highlight his case.He's still in prison. So the political pressure must be sustained and increased. & it is.
A short article on what's happened in the last 6 days since the article "Amadeu Casellas, 64 days hungerstrike - a "not political enough" prisoner." was published.
"Amadeu says that he will exit on his own legs, or with his feet forward"
Dear Lady Warnock: about this word 'bollocks'...
01-09-2008 12:54
Do I have the right to say Bollocks in public?Senior Nepali Maoist leader to address London public meeting
01-09-2008 11:05
C P Gajurel, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will be speaking about recent developments and the current situation in Nepal in central London on Tuesday 16 September. The meeting has been organised by the Britain-South Asia Solidarity Forum.The Art of the Ban and the Five year Repression of Wajeha Al Huwaider.
01-09-2008 09:31
'The Vital Pathfinding Arab Elite is Persecuted and Cannot Advance Arab Society'Wajeha is banned from writing for five years, interestingly, the issue of artist
repression In Saudi and specifically of this woman does not consider the notion
that a Writer can never be stopped from writing. But they may be persecuted and
have modes and methods of disemination removed. The title of her piece (above)
explains the 5% in societies that attempt to advance and evolve. She includes
the animal and microscopic world too.
