Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

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 Promoted Newswire Archive

Full article

Climate activists glued to doors at airport

16-06-2007 13:37

Climate campaigners this afternoon glued themselves to the doors of the short-haul East Midlands airport to draw attention to the environmental impacts of flying as part of a European day of action on short-haul flights called by pressure group Airport Watch.

Full article

GM Victory! Hull down! One more pota't'go!

15-06-2007 14:39

Following extensive local and national resistance, BASF (the company trialing the GM potatoes), announced last month that they would not be conducting a GM potato trial in Yorkshire this year!

Full article | 2 additions | 3 comments

London G8 debrief meeting notes

15-06-2007 13:17

Yesterday there was a G8 mobilisation debrief meeting in London. Here are some of the things that were said.

We also decided to have a broader 'What next' type discussion at 4pm, Sunday 24th June – Ramparts main hall. This can turn into a bit of a social in the evening to relax and socialise. More information to come.

Full article

G8: Schwerin, Caterpillar and Snatch squads

14-06-2007 22:49

Video
What follows are 3 videos from last weeks mobilisation against the G8 in Germany:

Full article | 3 additions | 3 comments

Pictures from StWC Palestine Demo.

14-06-2007 19:59

On The Steps #1
A belatedly filed picture report from last Saturday's Stop The War Palestine Demonstration in Central London.
These images shot on good old fashioned film (hence the lateness) - digital pictures to follow soon.

Full article

Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres

14-06-2007 14:09

Britain’s Immigration Removal Centres have become notorious due to the desperate conditions facing immigrants and asylum-seekers detained there.

Full article | 2 comments

German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism”

14-06-2007 14:06

Only days after the end of the G8 summit, German police conducted new raids against left-wing and anarchist organisations in northern Germany. Early on Wednesday morning the federal prosecutor’s office and police carried out surprise searches of a total of 11 premises in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

Full article

Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL]: A Video

14-06-2007 10:13

Video
Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL]

This video shows it is a national issue, affecting many people and their communities.

There has been a large campaign, with much support over recent times. A planning application to extend the operation of the Eastcroft Incinerator in Nottingham was denied. WRG, the operators of the plant, appealed. This process has now been stopped and a new application has been lodged.

Now, folks have to go round again.

The film explains the background and dangers.

Full article

Reflections on Rostock

13-06-2007 20:36

Rostock showed us the system is rotten, the planet is ailing, neo-liberalism is struggling to survive, alternatives have taken a toehold in Latin America but still have to metamorphose from the pages of philosophers into real life elsewhere.

Full article | 2 additions

Again: German Police Raids 11 Homes Of Activists

13-06-2007 17:05

In another strike against the the movement in Germany, police this morning raided 11 homes of activists in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein under suspiscion of forming a "terrorist organisation" (so called "Article 129a").

Full article

The Right to Stay/ Refugee week, London

13-06-2007 16:11

Film evening+ asylum seekers and migrants speaking about their experiences.

Full article | 1 addition | 2 comments

G8 Media Gets the Massage - good article from 'unspin the g8'

13-06-2007 12:49

Good article from dutch media activist on the 'media battle', the press centre village and the media intervention made by some clowns at Kühlungsborn:

Full article | 1 addition | 4 comments

9/11 Truth Group Protest At Parliament

13-06-2007 12:40

As part of the 11th of Every Month Action Campaign, a London 911 Truth group held a protest at Parliament Square, yesterday.

Full article | 1 comment

Reclaim The Beech Style Party at weekend

13-06-2007 12:23

Pic from last weekend, when people gathered for a party in London at the sometimes used reclaim the beech place.

Police was waiting at the location, blocking off the steps, but before they knew what was happening the crowd moved off along the river to another site where the sound system was already set up!

Full article

German G8 Police: Lies, Propaganda and Provocation (report)

13-06-2007 11:44

Below are a few examples of the lies and propaganda spun by the police during the G8 protests in Germany, as well as direct evidence that the police were at times using infiltrators to try and create conditions to justify further repression.

There are for sure many more examples of this during the last two weeks or so and civil liberties monitoring groups are investigating other incidents. It should also be said that while the media were able to report what appeared to be a tolerant attitude to the blockades at the East Gate, in other places sit down protestors were water cannoned, pepper sprayed and beaten. Also the police tried to provoke violence at various different protests and actions, arrested people for nothing more than having the wrong clothing on them, and failed to give medical assistance to injured people in a number of incidents. Police have also been criticised for using water canon at close quarters against peaceful blockaders resulting in several serious eye injuries, including a man from Liverpool who has lost the use of his eye after it was dislodged. Further criticism has come regarding the use of the military against protestors including the army on the A19 autobahn and the use of Panavia Tornado jets in low fly reconnaissance / intimidation runs over protest camp sites.

Other tactics used by the police included mass unrpovoked arrests, closure of transport systems to prevent people reaching legal assembly points and systematic feeding of misinformation to the media - details of which below:

Full article | 1 addition | 5 comments

Daily Mail G8 Blockade Reporting - Atrocious Newspaper Article Shocker!

13-06-2007 11:16

scan of article for analysis
Last night on newsnight Peter Oborne, a Daily Mail political columist said "It's the job of the press to bring to light falshoods". It's a shame the idea wasn't applied to the article below.

Published in print and on the web, it deals with the blockade protests against the G8 held on Wednesday 6th June. I saw a copy of it last night and was astounded at the shoddy quality of the journalism. I find it hard to believe that someone was actualy paid to produce such a mixed up shambles of misinformation and mistake.

It contains around 13 serious factual errors. This is a shocking number of mistakes for any article.

The Daily Mail does not have a good record when it comes to accuracy and G8 protests. This article confirms that their reporting should not be believed. Over 2.3 Million people read the Daily Mail...

Full article | 1 comment

Video of Prisoner Solidarity March, 08/06/07

12-06-2007 23:29

Video
Video Rushes of the G8 Prisoner Solidarity March

Full article | 6 additions

Whats hot and not G82007 Heiligendamm

12-06-2007 19:46

From the streets, blockades and bars- the self- elected unrepresentative group of 8 that make up the whats hot team have this report.
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
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
Fracking
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
NATO 2014
G8 2013
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
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.