Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile Version | Editorial Guidelines | Mission Statement | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support Us

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

UK Newswire Archive

Full article | 1 comment

Pictures from Critical Mass Section 60 - Mayday 2001

04-05-2001 20:07

Pictures from Critical Mass Section 60 - Mayday 2001
Pictures from the section 60 of the critical mass crowd at Euston - here people were lied to about having to surrender their names and addresses - I know one person who will be taking legal action, as well as requesting all video footage taken of them.

Full article

Cops moving in at kings cross - mayday

04-05-2001 19:26

Video
10.20am and the cops start to bring their troops in

Full article | 6 comments

Channel 4 "Mayday, Mayday!"

04-05-2001 19:22

The tissue of lies surrounding media reports of 'violent anarchists' at Mayday continues to fall apart.

Full article

View around mayday section 60 oxford circus

04-05-2001 19:08

Video
Short video clip looking around oxford circus - gives u an ideas of how many people there were - later in the afternoon more people were added and the police kept reducing the space - crowded!

Full article | 2 comments

Penned in tactics

04-05-2001 18:28

Penned in tactics
The Tactics used by the police were clear for each action, keep them in then stop them going to Oxford Circus.

Full article

May 5. 130 cities worldwide protest for cannabis and against drug war. MMM 2001

04-05-2001 17:48

May 5th has been designated a universal protest day for those who have had enough of this DRUG WAR and the insidious assault on the international cannabis culture. It is time to end the racism and the hypocrisy. It is time for sanity and reason. It is time to come together. Listed below are the 130 cities and their respective contacts.

Full article

Mayday Report: iDEFENSE Intelligence Services

04-05-2001 17:42

Cyber Activism, May Day 2001 Special Report v1.0 . 14:30 GMT
April
27, 2001
iDEFENSE Intelligence Services

SPECIAL REPORT
by iDEFENSE.UK
Cyber Activism,
May Day 2001
April 27, 2001

Full article

Oxford Circus2

04-05-2001 17:09

Oxford Circus2
Police were quick to respond

Full article

Oxford Circus

04-05-2001 17:06

Oxford Circus
Police were quick to respond

Full article

mayday music at king's cross

04-05-2001 17:05

mayday music at king's cross
.

Full article

police intervention @ mayaday critical mass(pic2)

04-05-2001 17:02

police intervention @ mayaday critical mass(pic2)
Police overlooking critical mass at bank

Full article

police intervention @ mayaday critical mass (pic1)

04-05-2001 16:59

police intervention @ mayaday critical mass (pic1)
First Arrests are made from the Critical Mass Bike ride @ Bank

Full article | 1 comment

First Trouble at Bank 9am Mayday

04-05-2001 16:55

First Trouble at Bank 9am Mayday
First Arrests are made from the Critical Mass Bike ride @ Bank

Full article | 7 comments

"Protocols of God"

04-05-2001 15:27

In keeping with the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion you have allowed the powers-that-be to make Indy Media into a farce, to make arsenic into a more or less excusable manifestation of "wormwood"; and to make communication glitches into an excusable reason to get rid of anyone.

Full article

A Wombling May Day

04-05-2001 14:35

WE WON

Full article | 4 comments

Noise Making Time - Why Did No One Say Anything About Bush?

04-05-2001 14:33

Did the Mayday protests miss the point? Should we be more scared of capitalism, or what Bush is doing with diplomacy and nuclear weapons?

Full article | 4 comments

Pics on escape from Oxford circus detention

04-05-2001 14:28

Pics on escape from Oxford circus detention
Scenes from escaping the oxford street 7 hour detention - cops everywhere - surrounding streets like some militarised zone - Mayday 2001

Full article | 1 comment

Bristol Evening Post on Nobody victory

04-05-2001 14:20

Evening Post acknowledges council defeat in Nobody election sensation

Full article | 1 comment

The Columbia Deception

04-05-2001 13:34

Paramilitary death squads are terrorizing the Columbian countryside. Texaco and BP are hiring paramilitary troops to defend oil pipelines. In the Putamayo region, Monsanto herbicide is being sprayed from the air, sickening thousands and destroying food crops. President Bush is aksing for an increase in U.S. funding for the war, up from 1.3 billion dollars last year.

Full article | 5 comments

injury

04-05-2001 13:21

injury
The telescopic batons used by police during the mayday protests inflicted countless minor injuries and cuts to protestors. Injuries were also caused by missiles thrown by protestors, falling short and inflicting injuries to fellow protestors.
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
May 1st to July 31st, Brighton: Smash EDO: Summer of Resistance
27th May, Rothamsted, Harpenden, Herts: Take the Flour Back! Mass action against GM wheat
30th May, London: Solidarity Vigil at Supreme Court for Assange Verdict
4th June, Brighton: Stop the Arms trade, Don't attack Iran
9th June for 30 days, Faslane: 30 Days of Action at Faslane Naval Base
17th-24th June, Stockholm, Sweden: No Borders Camp, Sweden
12th-18th July, Douglas Valley, Scotland: Take Back the Land!
14th July, Bristol: Oppose the EDL
15th July, Brighton: Gathering to Plan Resistance to the G8
16th-30th July, various: Making Nonviolent Revolution Speaking tour with George Lakey.
26th-30th July, Shropshire: Peace News Summer Camp 2012
1st-6th August, Shropshire: Earth First Summer Gathering 2012

Ongoing UK
Every Wednesday, Brighton: noise demos at EDO MBM
Ongoing, Lincs: RAF Waddington Peace Camp. Protesting against Drone Warfare. More info.
Ongoing, London: Occupy London Stock Exchange
Ongoing, London Occupy Finsbury Square
Ongoing, Sheffield Occupy Sheffield
Ongoing, Cardiff Occupy Cardiff
Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Climate Change: Climate Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
London
Northern England
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Unencrypted Page
We suggest you use an encrypted connection for browsing this site.
Please install the CAcert root certificate to verify the authenticity of the site, for more information see the security page.