UK Newswire Archive
Palestine Today 01 25 2011
25-01-2011 16:24
Atos Mobbed - Poverty Pimps Shut Down By Benefit Claimants
25-01-2011 14:10
La société du futur
25-01-2011 13:54
Absence de la relation , relation de l ' absence ...Do you recognise this female rebel clown as a police officer?
25-01-2011 13:33
We are investigating and pulling the info together on how far the police infiltrated our movement so any and all personally known info is welcomed
A National 500m Buffer Zone Campaign?
25-01-2011 13:02
See how you can in three to five easy steps help to start a national campaign in support of Andrew Bridgen's 500m Buffer Zone Bill to stop any future English opencast mining from happening near where people live. Scotland and Wales already have such protection, we in England, do not.Careers Group defends inclusion of arms company BAE Systems in careers events
25-01-2011 11:54
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/12/470099.html). We have received a vague response from the Careers Group defending the inclusion of the arms company at the event and we have responded with another letter, both of which are available to read here.
Barclays Shut All Day After Lively Protest.
25-01-2011 11:22
Protestors clashed with police and security guards during a picket of banks in Broadmead and Cabot Circus. About 80 people, many wearing guy fawkes masks and others dressed as clowns, joined the rolling demonstration to highlight the banks’ involvement in the arms trade. They gathered in Castle Park before marching down Union Street and into Broadmead, at first followed by two patrolling police officers.
But police reinforcements were brought in, together with security guards, after the protesters got into their first target, Barclays in Broadmead. Barclays were targetted as the have been before for there involvement in weapons that are illegal by international law, including depleted uranium, cluster munitions and Israeli F16 bomb release mechanisms.
The incident became heated when efforts were made to push the demonstrators out of the bank and force the doors shut, leading to some scuffles. Barclays chose to shut for the rest of the day.
Full Story | Bristol Against Arms Demo Shuts Down Barclays (with photos) | Cut The War Not The Poor: Target Barclays
Once they had been ejected, the protesters moved on to the nearby Lloyds TSB premises, where police and security staff were already waiting for them, lined up across the door. Opposite was NatWest, another target for more chanting and messages left chalked on the pavement. The slogans referred to bankers’ bonuses as well as the arms trade. As the police helicopter hovered overhead and bemused shoppers looked on, the gathering then headed into Cabot Circus. For a time they switched their attention to Vodafone – one of the companies accused of tax avoidance – where several protesters ended up on the floor blocking the doorway. HSBC was the final target before the group, by then breaking up, headed back to safer ground near stokes croft. No arrest’s were made.
SHIFT MAGAZINE: From the Defence of the Present to the Control of the Future
25-01-2011 11:03
The recent student unrest has massively expanded political possibilities in the UK and Europe. The game is afoot and the next move is to generalise the struggle beyond the education sector. For many an ‘anti-cuts’ message is the way to do this. There is a danger, however, that the logic of this position contains the mechanism of its own failure. We urgently need to foment a shift away from a politics that defends our own powerlessness, to one where we can become the collective authors of our own histories.Undercover Police Officer A photograph- M11 Link road
25-01-2011 09:52
Do you have any video of any of the cops who have been exposed.
Please get in touch with us at undercurrents and we will make a film
Call 01792 455900 or email
info@undercurrents.org
Send a Solidarity Letter or Postcard to Anti-WarResister ChrisCole in Wandsworth
25-01-2011 06:50
Chris Cole Prisoner Number: A81 47 AZHMP Wandsworth
Heathfield Rd.
London
SW18 3HS
Censorship amid controversy over police on indymedia
25-01-2011 01:41
Last week the respected alternative news project SchNEWS published a story revealing long term malicious use of indymedia by elements within the states police apparatus. The piece was base on the so-called 303 Gateway article written collaboratively by a number of indymedia admins and proposed in secret as a feature for the UK site over six months ago. The proposal was blocked by London and Northern IMC. They claim they failed to get agreement on amendments aimed at distancing themselves from admissions within the article that indymedia admins had in fact had access to IP logs despite having repeatedly said the opposite in the past. Both London and Northern said that they would have no objection to the article being published as a feature on Indymedia UK if it was made clear within the article that the IP logging was a feature found within the MIR content management system used by IMC UK and its regional sites Birmingham, Cambridge, Liverpool, Oxford, Sheffield and South Coast, not those using alternative CMS such as Bristol, London, Northern, Nottingham and Scotland. However it seem tonight that their claim has be proven a lie...The draft article stated, "what has never been openly stated before is that the CMS system we use has a number of anti-abuse measures which include the ability to monitor for particular IP addresses and log their behaviour." The draft goes on to say, "site admins believed that they would never be able to gain the trust of posters, if the range of anti-abuse measures were made public. As is often the case, once a body has failed to be completely open about something, it becomes 'the elephant in the room' and so a situation was created where the new and current admins were actively blocked from bringing these measures into the open. The stalemate continued until now, with site admins proposing a new approach of coming clean about the measures that are in place, and others in the collective blocking this."
Prophetically, that stalemate over coming clean about the IP logging meant that no consensus was possible on publishing the article. There was no way that the information about the governments disinfo campaign could be published without revealing that indymedia had been lying about IP logs. Apparently some suggested it could be published via a different alt media outlet while leaving out the info about indymedia but the story would have been weak without the evidence gathered by indymedia admins.
The impasse remained but then the draft article was leaked by a disgruntled admin using the name 'indyleaks'. The posts were repeatedly hidden from the indymedia sites it was posted to and a filter set up on IMC UK to automatically hide it whenever posted.
There remains no consensus about publishing the article which includes a frank admission that indymedia has misled its user since 2003. However the lack of consensus is now a moot point since SchNEWS has ran the story and Birmingham IMC has published the 303 gateway article as a feature on it's own site.
https://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/2011/01/472622.html Both the story about the government running a disinfo campaign via indymedia, and the story that indymedia UK has been hiding the truth about IP logging for all these years, that is big news for activists at a time when trust is already in short supply.
As the article says "continuing to gloss over the reality in a misleading way was detrimental to Indymedia UK, and that there was no small likelihood that at some stage we could be outed." Now that the truth is out, lets hope indymedia can recover from the damage to its credibility and move on to become more open and honest with its users.
Fisher
Stop the racist EDL in Luton on 5th February
25-01-2011 01:24
Stop the racist EDL in Luton on February 5th, join the Unite Against Fascism protest.
The English Defence League, a violent racist organisation with links to the British National Party and other fascist groups has called a protest in Luton on Saturday February 5th.
The EDL, a violent racist organisation with links to the British National Party and other fascist groups, has called a ‘protest' on that day - they describe it as going ‘back where it all began'
It is clear what they mean: the EDL was formed after masked racist thugs went on the rampage hrough Luton last year, attacking Asian residents and spreading fear and intimidation. They are refusing to cooperate with police and EDL divisions are planning to split up and roam around the town in groups to threaten and intimidate local residents, especially Muslims.
Unite Against Fascism have called for a peaceful counter-protest that makes it clear racists aren't welcome in Luton. We are urging people to gather in Luton town centre at 12pm.
A coach will be going from Nottingham to join the Unite Against Fascism demonstration. It will be leaving at 8.45am outside Nottingham Royal Centre, Theatre Square. Tickets £7 unwaged/ £15 waged. To book a coach place, please call Nottingham UAF on 07816 041548. Or email: nottingham@uaf.org.uk
Campaigners demand action about enriched uranium at Hinkley
25-01-2011 00:59
Protest at Atos Origin against Benefit Cuts
25-01-2011 00:22
About 100+ people demonstrated today at Atos Origin's HQ in London as part of the second national day of protest against benefit cuts.
About 100 people gathered at Atos Origin's HQ today to protest Atos Origin, the company responsible for the punitive medical testing of disability and sickness benefits. People, many of them in wheelchairs, blockaded the entrance to the office building despite a rough handed police trying to clear the area.
for other actions from today see: http://benefitclaimantsfightback.wordpress.com
Barclays Shut All Day, After Lively Protest.
24-01-2011 22:57
About 80 people, many wearing guy fawkes masks and others dressed as clowns, joined the rolling demonstration to highlight the banks’ involvement in the arms trade.
They gathered in Castle Park before marching down Union Street and into Broadmead, at first followed by two patrolling police officers.
Iran's islami regime hanged Two Political activist
24-01-2011 22:54
The executions of two activists from the Iranian exiled opposition group, People's Mujahedeen of Iran (PMOI) came despite a plea by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that they be freed.
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'Peter Black' undercover 1993 to 1997
24-01-2011 22:21
According to this article 'Peter Black' was deployed against environmental activists from 1993 to 1997, including at the M11 link road protests.I'm So Bored with the JSA - Cardiff Unemployed Daytime Disco #3
24-01-2011 21:46
Friday, February 18 · 2:00pm - 8:00pmThe Rockin' Chair
Lower Cathedral Road
Cardiff, Wales
