UK Newswire Archive
Still Breathing - Gaza repost
16-01-2009 17:07
Caoimhe (pronounced "Cueeva") Butterly is an Irish human rights activist presently in Gaza working in Jabaliya and Gaza city as a volunteer with ambulance services and as co-coordinator for the Free Gaza Movement.Full article | 1 addition | 1 comment
Phosphorus denial outweighed by evidence: Uncomparable pain and horror for the
16-01-2009 16:20
"There are many ways to “light” a battle field. In Gaza, no such area exists anyway. There are just people’s hovels, holes and “homes.” Such as they are after years of blockade and bombardment by Israeli forces. The White phorpous is a terror weapon perfect for driving people away, “never to return.” The Zionist dream is and has always been for many, at least, to remove the native Arab population and posses all of “Greater Israel.” This inhuman weapon nicknamed “Willie Pete.” is perfect for the effort. When it comes into contact with human flesh it moves down toward the bone, tissues evaporate. Victims may survive for some time before vital organs are compromised, effecting death. Parents may be forced to end their children’s wild sufferings by shortening their lives in “other ways.”Climate Camp Heathrow Action Pledge
16-01-2009 15:39
Camp for Climate Action may shut down Heathrow to obstruct construction of third runway...Following Gordon Brown's announcement, the next Camp for Climate Action national meeting will discuss a number of different proposals for future actions, including some which involve shutting the airport down completely.
"We will be the spanner in the works of 3rd runway construction" said one climate activist.
From friends of freedom and justice, Bilin, occupied West Bank
16-01-2009 15:06
With the death toll in Gaza growing hourly, silence is complicity. It is imperative for concerned citizens to demand that their governments take immediate action in order to stop Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity.City's £16bn taxpaying con Crossrail kills Astoria and harms residensts
16-01-2009 14:59
Crossrail will lead to the closure of historic music venues such as the Astoria and threaten social housing areas while developers cash in on a railway that will cost UK taxpayers £15bn+ but benefits the City and Canary Wharf. Former slaver family Howard De Waldens who have a major stake in the developer Great Portland Estates, a company, which has somehow negotiated the ability to buy it back land for a discount while poor taxpayers subsidise it all through the help of Adrian Montague and friends. The £16bn+ Crossrail scheme was scrutinised by the MPs and Lords in the same way as the Hutton Enquiry, ie a whitewash! As a result, the Crossrail Act, given Royal Assent last summer, gives the company the right to make noise and create pollution outside existing laws. Various parts of Londoners in Hackney, Islington, Tower Hamlets, Camden and Westminster will be adversely affected by the appalling rail scheme Crossrail.Citizen Video Journalist Training in 2009
16-01-2009 14:42
Use your video skills for activismGraffiti on billbaords in Swansea for Gaza
16-01-2009 14:29
Look Ma I'm on top of the world!
16-01-2009 14:20
Gaza Protest London: Police violence and media under-reporting
Dissident Island Radio tonight - Mobilising '09
16-01-2009 14:02
SOCIALIST CANDIDATES CHALLENGE LAMBETH UNISON BUREAUCRACY
16-01-2009 13:31
A group of socialist activists in Lambeth have produced a manifesto which they hope will politicise UNISON members and provide the platform on which to build a "fighting, member-led branch" based on clear socialist politics. The manifesto was the basis for candidates to contest elections at the Lambeth UNISON AGM on a "Lambeth Activists" platform.Anarchists force tory politician to resign!
16-01-2009 13:19
Background info:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418374.html First blood in the pension scandal!
Remembering Revolutionary Anarchist Harold H. Thompson, 1942-2008
16-01-2009 12:56
The following was forwarded to us by Jerome White-Bey, who asked us to publicise this joint tribute to Harold H. Thompson and appeal for Jerome's legal fund.Full article | 2 additions | 4 comments
Tree occupation for peace on Whitehall
16-01-2009 12:37
Breaking news, more details to followNo to Taxpayer guarantees of BAE Systems/ BA debt
16-01-2009 12:02
According to Robert Peston many of Europes largest companies are approaching the time when they have to renew their loans. But banks and pension funds are reluctant to lend and so it would appear that the Government is preparing to offer guarantees on the debt to 350 of the UKs largest companies including BA and BAE Systems.SHAC sentencing and festering hypocrisy
16-01-2009 11:59
It is one thing to condemn direct action which may be illegal. It is quite another to cherry pick certain causes, condone direct action whilst condemning others or using the same tactics.Around the Campaigns Friday 16th January 2009
16-01-2009 11:54
Raphael 5 still in the Lions mouth, now 43 days in detention
Spoke to Raphael and Oluseye his Mum this morning, Raphael was very subdued according to mum after spending close to seven hours at Bedford General Hospital. Mum said that she was called at about 3:00pm yesterday and told that Raphael had his finger closed in the door, he had to go to the hospital for stitches. Mum said it was not made clear to her how the accident actually happened.
Oluseye told me that a report was written about her having lots of people coming to her room and one of the male officers said to her; "I am watching you Oluseye", she then asked me if she was doing anything wrong or breaking the law by having friends and their children in her room, she feels that this is intimidation. She also said for those of us who are locked up in Yarl's Wood, "we are sitting in the lion's mouth and anytime the lion can close its' jaws". Nellie de jongh
Please send urgent faxes/emails immediately to Rt. Hon Jacqui Smith, MP, Secretary of State for the Home Office, requesting that Raphael and his mother are released. Please use the updated 'model letter' RaphaelShaubaJS.doc attached or write your own version. If you do so, please remember to include HO ref: S/38066/3
Fax: 020 8760 3132 / + 44 20 8760 3132 if you are faxing from outside UK)
Emails:
UKBApublicenquiries@UKBA.gsi.gov.uk "CIT - Treat Official"
http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine102/Raphael.html
Bristol Jan Queer Cafe
16-01-2009 10:46
Thursday 29th January at Kebele Social Centre
14 Robertson Road, Easton
Free entry
Bush's Last Days (by Latuff)
16-01-2009 10:24
Israeli forces bomb three hospitals and UN headquarters in Gaza City on Thursday
16-01-2009 09:28
