UK Newswire Archive
Greece, Athens: General strike 07.11.2012 - riots (photos)
08-11-2012 16:36
Pompey Palestine Benefit TONIGHT!!
08-11-2012 13:07
Portsmouth Benefit for Palestine TONIGHT!!MP's & Bardem support demo for jailed Western Sahara activists
08-11-2012 12:06
As demonstrators in London mark the 2nd anniversary of the Gdiem Izik protest camp in Western Sahara, MP's and Javier Bardem express their supportReminder: join the action against Barnardo's today!
08-11-2012 00:06
Blog on the biodiversity crisis
07-11-2012 20:40
Have a look at this new blog, "Into the Eremozoic", about the biodiversity crisis and the sixth mass extinction...
CURO Housing renting its homes as holiday lets to wealthy tourists
07-11-2012 17:03
CURO Housing proposes to privatise 600 affordable homes in Bath and re-let them on the private market and for holiday letsCandidate hustings for Police & Crime Commissioner
07-11-2012 16:55
Monday 5th November 2012
At 5.30pm the 4 Candidates attended hustings for the Police & Crime Commissioners job.
A Couple of hundred members of the public, student and academics gathered in the Social Science Department of Nottingham Trent University
Tony Roberts, Conservative candidate
Paddy Tipping, Labour's candidate
and independents:
Dr Raj Chandran, retired GP and Mayor of Gedling
Malcolm Spencer, a former police officer
They each made an opening presentation before they were chanlenged on their policies by the audience.
Personally, I didn't find any of them attractive [hold the front page !!!].
The attached audio gives you an idea of what i mean. But, as of thursday 15th November, one of them will be in post, replacing the current arrangement of oversight from the Nottinghamshire Police Authority.
The facilitator of the meeting, the political editor of the Nottingham Post, asked the audience for thier opinion on the likely turnout. A few hands went up over 80% [amazing eh?] Most put their hands up for varios figures between 20 - 40%. I and many others though somewhere around the 10-15% mark. Some predicting as few as one in ten people in Notts would vote next Thursday. But Mr Tipping said: "There are about 800,000 voters in Notts and if you get 10 per cent that's 80,000 people – that's a bigger mandate than any other politician in Notts."
God god!! as ever ..... that sound like some pretty weak democracy to me.
One of their main jobs will be administer £42m in cuts in the police budget. .... so, there you have it.
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ALAN LODGE
Photographer - Media: One Eye on the Road. Nottingham. UK
Email: tash@indymedia.org
Web: http://digitaljournalist.eu
Member of the National Union of Journalists [NUJ]
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"It is not enough to curse the darkness.
It is also necessary to light a lamp!!"
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National Anti-Fur Demonstration
07-11-2012 16:32
Sussex University The Badger Newspaper Lies To Readers
07-11-2012 15:51
Picardie, First World War, a mother’s grief.
07-11-2012 13:46
Solidarity across prison walls: Harmondsworth demo for Prince
07-11-2012 12:58
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/11/502181.html), No Borders and other groups held a noise demo outside the detention centres.
Don't Dance with Israeli Apartheid - Boycott Batsheva Dance in Birmingham
07-11-2012 11:27
Protest outside Birmingham Hippodrome on Tuesday 13th November and Wednesday 14 November at 18:00'Sworn Enemies'? A Response To George Monbiot from Media Lens
07-11-2012 11:04
Hi George
It's good to know that your email is intended in a 'friendly and constructive spirit'. We hope you will post a link to this response on your home page and via Twitter.
You write that Media Lens is a 'project whose purpose is to engage and persuade progressive journalists by critiquing their work and encouraging people to write to them'.
We do, of course, encourage readers to send polite emails to journalists. But our primary purpose is to raise public awareness by highlighting examples of corporate media bias. What people do with that awareness is really up to them. Our hope is that it feeds into activism, campaigning and the creation of non-corporate media like MediaBite, News Unspun and BS News.
Above all, we're trying to stimulate debate and participation. Engaging with journalists is certainly part of that, but we have few illusions about influencing media employees who often have little room for manoeuvre and who are deeply dependent on the corporate system. We do hope for marginal improvements as a direct result of our work - they do happen and do matter - but it's not a primary concern.
Film Night & Talk - Justice For The Shrewsbury 24
07-11-2012 10:58
Anti-Eviction Guide Hambach Forest
07-11-2012 10:57
South African Shack Dwellers Talk
07-11-2012 09:42
At the Sumac Centre, 245 Gladstone Street, Nottingham
Real clothes for the Emperor: Facing the challenges of climate change
06-11-2012 20:40
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/events/2012/194.html and a recording of it is attached. The slides are here http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/documents/anderson-ppt.pdf Following is an transcript of a skype interview that Rob Hopkins conducted with Kevin Anderson prior to his talk, which has been reposted from
http://transitionculture.org/2012/11/02/an-interview-with-kevin-anderson-rapid-and-deep-emissions-reductions-may-not-be-easy-but-4c-to-6c-will-be-much-worse/
