UK Indymedia - UK Promoted Newswire Archive

Happy 14th Birthday Meltem Avcil: A Dark Day for a Young Girl

26-11-2007 01:33

This is how, after mass media interest into the story of 14-year-old Meltem Avcil, the UK authorities tried to make this young girl and her mother disappear in a pure case of washing your hands of the problem.

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Police station attacked in France

26-11-2007 00:43

A police station in Paris has been attacked by angry youths with petrol bombs after two teenagers will killed when hit by a police car. Guns were used in the attack against the Sarcelles police station in the suburbs in northern part of Paris and at least one senior police officer seriously injured. Cars were also torched and police had to call in reinforcements from other parts of the city to secure the police station.

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Turkish Military Base Sabotaged

26-11-2007 00:00

November 20, 2007 (by Lieven Dewitte) -

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Totally Immoral - A Day of Action against Total Oil

25-11-2007 15:41

The Total out of Burma Day of Action took place on Saturday 24 November. Protests were held at 36 Total petrol stations across the UK. Some stations were blockaded and all the protests received great support from the motoring and pedestrian public.

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Anti-Fascist Memorial Rally.

25-11-2007 10:41

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – 24.11.07. Anti-fascist protesters congregate for a Memorial Rally at the International Brigade Memorial Statue in Jubilee Gardens on the South Bank. Carlos Javier Palomino, a 16-year old anti-racism campaigner was stabbed to death during violent clashes with neo-Nazis in the Spanish capital Madrid two weeks ago and protesters gathered to mark his death. (Photos by Marc Vallée/marcvallee.co.uk) (c) Marc Vallée, 2007.)

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Total Oil: Pull Out of Burma Now - Pictures

25-11-2007 10:22

Actions were taking place at Total Oil garages around the country on Saturday 24 Nov, demanding that TOTAL Oil, the fourth largest oil company of the world, described by Aung San Suu Kyi as "the biggest supporter of the military regime in Burma," pull out of Burma.

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Carlos Presente Memorial Rally pictures

25-11-2007 10:12

Pictures from the London Memorial Rally in Jubilee Gardens, 24 Nov 2007, organised by Antifa Britain with the Anarchist Federation - IFA.

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No Tesco on Mill Road-Photos

25-11-2007 08:58

No Tesco on Mill Road - Photos

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In defence of the diverse: Mill road residents take to the streets.

25-11-2007 00:30

On Saturday November 24th, 2007, the people of Mill Road, Cambridge united upon the tarmac of the very street they treasure so much in it's current form, and sent out a resolute message of defiance against the ongoing corporate project by the likes of Tesco, who, if they could, would have us believe that there is only their way of doing things.

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Dialect - Today's Stop The War Rally in Bristol and Northern Rock

24-11-2007 21:00

Today's show is ten minutes longer than usual to accommodate live interviews with Stop the War rally speakers at the rally.

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Total out of Burma Protest in Surrey

24-11-2007 20:14

Students contribute to national protest against total

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Free Stall in Leeds for Buy Nothing Day

24-11-2007 20:00

The truth is out - buying stuff doesn't make you happy! Central Leeds today saw a free shop sprout from the pavement to drive the message home.

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Campsfield IRC Anniversary demonstration / Saturday 24 November 2007

24-11-2007 19:58

Fourteen years too long! Close Campsfield!
Close all detention centres! Stop all detentions and deportations!
For freedom of movement and the right to stay!

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Somers Town Residents Protest Corporate Land Sell-Off

24-11-2007 19:00

Today Somers Town Residents came out and protested government plans to sell off one of the few remaining undeveloped plots of land left in Euston / Kings Cross area.

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Mill Road march against Tescos photos

24-11-2007 17:04

Photos from the very well attended march to keep Tesco's out of Mill Road, Cambridge.

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Buy Nothing Day Rat Race

24-11-2007 16:33

To mark Buy Nothing Day, 12 people from Norwich Rising Tide held a Rat Race in the city centre.

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News of the strike movements in Grenoble

24-11-2007 16:10

Renewed blocking at the occupied Stendhal university. The next AGs will be: Monday 26 for the personnel of the university, Wednesday 28 for the coeds. Every evening at 18h, Agora: the committee of mobilization.

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March against Tesco - Mill Road Cambridge

24-11-2007 15:40

Several hundred people (I've heard estimate ranging from 250 to 800) marched down Mill Road in Cambridge today to show their opposition to Tesco's plans to open an "Express" store.

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