UK Newswire Archive
Naxalites hold cops hostage
28-09-2010 06:36
NAXALITE rebels in India have killed three policemen and are holding another four hostage in the impoverished Bastar region of the Chhattisgarh state.More police violence in Philadelphia: Justice for Askia Sabur!
28-09-2010 03:30
Manchester Anarchist Bookfair - Full List of Talks
27-09-2010 21:33
Set Brum City Centre alight...with fun and frolics!
27-09-2010 20:44
This is OUR city and these are OUR streets. We WILL march, we WILL party (as we did years ago, see poster from 1999) and we want YOU to be there too!
Another day, another twitter virus...
27-09-2010 19:54
Another malicious worm hit Twitter over the weekend, days after the micro-blogging site reached near-meltdown from a technically similar attack.
This time around the danger came from clicking links contained in micro-blogging messages beginning "WTF [URL]". Last week's more serious onMouseOver problem struck when users moved their mouse cursor over an infected tweet. These messages contained hidden JavaScript code that exploited a cross-site scripting problem - in the case of the WTF worm a CSRF (cross-site request forgery) technique is in play.
Mayall Road is gone, long live Mayall Road!
27-09-2010 19:53
This morning the famous squatters of 144 Mayall road had their second eviction notice. The first eviction date saw friends and neighbours turn out en masse to a lovely street breakfast with no bailiffs even trying to show their faces. This time they did show up, supported by the cops. While the first attempt at repossessing the council property was again unsuccessful, they did make a couple of arrests. And left...
Find out what happened next...
Again neighbours as well as other supporters were on site, but any attempt at dialogue remained fruitless. After the defenders of the right of private ownership (uh, rather council ownership of empty properties) left, people dispersed, some setting up an impromptu rally at Brixton police station, trying to find out where the arrested had been taken.
But alas, the knights in their not so shining armour returned, furnished with a ram and power tools. It took them around an hour to get in, and they only did get in after taking out the door frame from the outside. At least one more person was arrested and then the house finally returned to its rightful state of emptiness and neglect.
Though the number of homeless people has risen again today, after council, bailiffs and cops took peoples' homes away, the day did feel like a little victory. The neighbours and local kids were amazing, and it was obvious that evictions can indeed be prevented. As long as people stand together.
National Eviction Team & Scottish Coal Visit Happendon Wood Action Camp For Nose
27-09-2010 18:37
National March for Farmed Animals (W.Mids coach transport)
27-09-2010 18:17
On Saturday 2nd October, we are going to march in London to make it clear that it is not acceptable to farm animals, and hope you can join us.
http://www.veganmidlands.org.uk http://www.farmedanimals.org.uk
BNP offer watches for membership!
27-09-2010 17:59
This is a mass email sent out today by the BNP encouraging people to sign up for lifetime membership for a one of fee of £500. Not only do you get the peace of mind of knowing you are helping to reclaim Britain, but you also get a shiny new watch!Palestine Today 09 27 2010
27-09-2010 17:54
Native Spirit Film Festival
27-09-2010 17:21
Ahmadinejad’s UN 9-11 Speech
27-09-2010 17:20
President Ahmadinejad’s 9-11 speech at the UN merely advances 3 logical, testable, scientific hypotheses about 9-11 but has immediately elicited hysterical, egregiously dishonest, anti-science and anti-truth responses from Western leaders and Mainstream media.
Dust a problem if Minorca goes ahead
27-09-2010 17:13
This Press Release describes why MOPG believe that visible black coal dust will affect the daily life of local people as MOPG publish its 3rd objection.
PR 81 27/9/10
Visible dust will be a problem for local residents if the Minoca plan goes ahead says MOPG.
If the Minorca Application goes ahead local residents can expect ‘nuisance dust’ to affect their daily lives. This is the conclusion from a professional assessment of both submissions by Wardle Armstrong / UK Coal on their application for an opencast mine on the Minorca site between Swepstone and Measham.
In the third objection to the plan published by the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) today which deals with Air Quality and Dust, MOPG state
“The general quality of the addendum (UK Coal’s July 2010 submission) is highly disappointing”
“In the supplementary report there has been no change to the initial concerns raised about dust and air quality. No further monitoring has taken place.”
In the first set of papers submitted in July 2009 Wardle Armstrong admitted that ‘short term daily levels (of visible dust emissions) could be experienced ‘.
Our Professional’s Assessment is that
“As the distances between the site boundary and the eight nearest receptors (houses) identified in the assessment is between 14 and 190 metres this impact is a realistic supposition”.
Much is made in UK Coal’s submission of how the Air Quality and Dust issues have been handled at the recent Long Moor site by UK Coal and that this therefore provides a yardstick on which to base predictions about the affect of working the Minorca site. We consider, in the light of the evidence presented to MOPG by our Professional Assessor, that such data is misleading for two reasons.
The monitoring done to assess the impact of dust generated by working the Long Moor site was undertaken at 100m and 200m away from the site because no houses were closer to the site than 200m. At Minorca eight houses are within 200m. Secondly our Assessor maintains that there is a degree of confusion over where the actual Air Monitoring took place at Long Moor with Wardle Armstrong’s documentation stating that it occurred West of the Long Moor site and other evidence suggesting that it occurred East and North East of the site. If the latter is correct then our Professional Assessor passes this judgement on the quality of the submissions
“If this is the case then the statement remains incorrect and further undermines the poor quality of the technical information presented”
In conclusion, on the issues to do with Air and Dust Quality MOPG state
“……it is our opinion that the dust and air quality impacts have been assessed very poorly. The contrast of the material, likely deposition rates, incorrect information regarding PM10 monitoring locations, and therefore inconclusive impacts on sensitive receptors mean that the application should be refused until a period of at least 3 months of PM10 monitoring has been undertaken at an operative site similar to Minorca with receptors similar to those at Minorca, before any sensible conclusions can be drawn.”
Steve Leary speaking for the Minorca Opencast Protest Group said
“This all sounds highly technical stuff, which it is, but it contains important information on how this plan to mine coal will, in our opinion, affect the daily lives of too many local residents. According to this Professional Assessment, the likelihood is that local people will have to deal with deposits of visible black coal dust – that this is a ‘realistic supposition’. In practice this means that local people will have to make a judgements on possibly a daily basis based on the strength of the wind and the wind direction whether it will be safe to put the washing out, do outside painting or enjoy a Bar B Q. In addition, car washing and cleaning windscreens will be a regular occurrence. This would be an intolerable imposition on peoples’ normal quality of life.
Much is made of the Long Moor experience, but Minorca and Long Moor are not comparable sites as we MOPG has already explained “
(See our Press Release “It will have twice the impact at half the distance” (PR 13, 2/6/09 and the full article in Issue 16 of the Minorca Protest News both available from
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/information-about-the-minorca-op.html)
“There the nearest house Long Moor Farm was 200m away from the site and we believe that as this property was owned by UK Coal it was left vacant whilst the work was underway. Here the situation is entirely different with numerous house owners living close to the site boundary. Because of the risk of Nuisance Dust being so great, this application should be rejected on these grounds alone.“
This is the third of MOPG’s objections published so far. You can read the rest at:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/mopgs-2010-set-of-objections-to.html
The Minorca Surface Mine Application is due to be heard at a meeting of Leicestershire County Council’s Development Control and Regulatory Board on Friday October 15th .
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FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PRESS RELEASE CONTACT:
STEVE LEARY, SPOKESPERSON, MOPG
tel 05601 767981,
email steve46leary@googlemail.com
FOR MORE INFORMATION ON MOPG PLEASE GO TO:
http://www.leicestershirevillages.com/measham/minorca-protest.htmlHow do we connect activism in Leeds and grow?
27-09-2010 17:11
How do we connect all this great activism in Leeds together? How do we grow as a movement so that we can demand, not ask, for change? How do we build our power? And how do we get from A to B?
Callout: Anarchists Against The Cuts [1]
27-09-2010 17:10
It's Not Business, It's PersonalThis is a call-out to the Anarchist community in the UK to get involved with the building anti-cuts movement. We call for anarchists and other more militant/radical members of the left to start a campaign of direct action, demonstrations, outreach and civil disobedience against the cuts and the state as a whole.
The foundations of a major anti-cuts movement are already in place with campaigns, groups and alliances forming across the country with particular activity in the south west and north east of England.
In Bristol and Bath the unions and the mainstream left have formed anti-cuts alliances. As stated in previous articles on this site we should not seek to create a separate parallel campaign to these groups, on the contrary we encourage the Anarchist and radical community to have a visible (and vocal) presence at all their meetings and demos.
We must work together towards our shared goals while at the same time brining with us our own politics, tactics and ideas.
If we do not act not to establish ourselves as a viable part of a movement which has all the hallmarks of something not seen in the UK since the Poll Tax, then we risk being smothered by union bureaucracy and those who seek to use this opportunity to seize power for their own means.
A large proportion of Anarchist activities are based around single issue campaigns. We see Anarchists Against The Cuts as a banner these groups and individuals can unite under to form a visible and uncompromising part of the fight against the cuts. We do not have a membership, we do not have a fancy logo, we do not have formal meetings, we do not have newspapers to sell or a Facebook group to like. We are simply a campaign with one aim "No Cuts, No Compromise, By All Means Necessary!"
Full Story | Demo against cuts - Swindon, Oct 7th | Cutz: This Week in Bristol | Right to Work Demonstration at the Tory Party Conference
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We should not waste energy to duplicate efforts already made by other groups. It you want to know what is going on and what you can do please attend the meetings of your local anti-cuts alliance or IWW branch meeting. (If there is not a group near you, form one). We are encouraging as many groups as possible to post their events and meetings on Indymedia.
Anarchists against the cuts are looking however to produce some straightforward jargon free literature.
We encourage Anarchists to attend the arranged meetings and demos, get involved with the campaign, distribute your own (or other groups) literature and take autonomous actions against the cuts.
See you on the front line & see you in the meeting room.
Anarchists Against The Cuts.
Urgent support to stay removals to DR Congo
27-09-2010 16:46
These 3 DR Congolese nationals are due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.
All three are currently detained and have built their lives over the past several years in their local communities since applying for asylum.
Please support the campaigns for Papy Munona, Ruddy Lelo-Masiala and Wanda Tete, Model letters to the Home Secretary are available from their campaign pages, for direct links see end of message.
Kenya Airways flight KQ101 is their notorious daily flight to doom for Africans refused asylum in the UK.
I Tete Wanda-Mizolo, Home Office reference T1104204 nationality Congolese of DR Congo has been living in the UK since January 2005. I'm at the moment detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday 28th September at 20.00 on flight KQ 101/KQ554, I need people in the UK to help me by campaigning to 'Stay' my removal from the UK because it is not safe for me tp return to DR Congo. I'm worried to rape and the suffering for tortures which I have been before. I have a right to live and I feel save and protected in the UK which is the country that knows Human Rights and in the UK it says ladies first.
I am asking you all to Email/fax Kenya Airways for Pappy, Ruddy and myself, the attached model letter is for all three of us.
Tete Wanda, , Yarl's Wood, Monday afternoon,
mizowanda@yahoo.fr What you can do to help / take urgent action NOW!
1. Email, fax and phone, Sam Okwulehie, Group Area Manager Kenya Airways. Urge him not to carry out the forced removal of Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala, and to consider the airline's reputation. A model letter letter ThreeDR Congolese.docKA.doc is attached. You can copy, amend or write your own version - if you do please quote Wanda Mizolo Tete, Pappy Munona and Ruddy Lelo-Masiala due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 on Tuesday 28th September 2010 at 20:00 to Nairobi and then KQ554 to Kinshasa DR Congo.
Put as much pressure on this airline as you can, to make them consider if it's worth the damage to their reputation to continue as one of UKBA's deportation airlines.
E-mail:
contact@kenya-airways.com Fax: 020 8745 5027 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8745 5027)
Phone: 020 8759 7366 (Or from outside the UK + 44 20 8759 7366)
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Nick Clegg's constituency of Sheffield to make 8,500 redundant
27-09-2010 16:45
GMB CONFIRM THAT SHEFFIELD CITY COUNCIL HAS ISSUED OFFICIAL REDUNDANCY NOTICE TO 8,500 COUNCIL STAFFUG#518 - The Mendacity of Hype (Psywar and The Truth Emergency)
27-09-2010 15:48
An age of consent of 14?
27-09-2010 15:33
Peter Tatchell’s speech to the Sex and the Law conference in Sheffield, England, on 23 September 2010, organised the Centre for HIV and Sexual Health:Coal Dust will be a problem if Minorca goes ahead say Protestors
27-09-2010 15:20
This Press Release describes why the Minorca Opencast Protest Group (MOPG) believe that visible black coal dust will affect the daily life of local people as MOPG publish its 3rd objection.
