Liverpool Newswire Archive

21-08-2006 11:04

Transport to climate camp

Transport is being organised to the climate camp in Leeds (lasting 10 days, starting next weekend). Read more >>

20-08-2006 23:36 | 4 comments

Tasers ? / Or Deadly Electronic Weapons

Deadly Electronic Weapons
All news to me. Read more >>

20-08-2006 18:35 | 3 comments

Merseyside Worker Killed by Fall

A workman has died after falling from a cherry-picker, police have said. Read more >>

18-08-2006 13:49 | 3 comments

Liverpool Remembers the Hunger Strikers

Saturday 2nd September 2006
Assemble 12 pm, Mount Pleasant, Liverpool
Prominent speakers and Republican bands in attendance
Read more >>

18-08-2006 11:55

Breathtaking Hypocrisy of Mersey Fire Authority

In a despicable and transparent political move, councillors from Merseyside Fire and Rescue Authority have called on firefighters to strike 'reponsibly', should they vote for industrial action on Monday. Read more >>

17-08-2006 09:36

Callout to Join Manchester/Liverpool Neighbourhood at Climate Camp

The Camp for Climate Action is scheduled for Aug 26 - Sept 4 near Leeds. People from Manchester and Liverpool will form a neighbourhood at the Camp. This is a callout to join the neighbourhood now. Read more >>

16-08-2006 13:15 | 1 comment

Liverpool Asylum 'Victims' Start Campaign

Formation of a campaign against the New Asylum Model which has already claimed one life

Organising meeting to start the campaign
6.30pm Thursday 17th August
Asylum Link, 7 Overbury Street, Liverpool, L7 3HJ Read more >>

15-08-2006 14:34

Depression, Deprivation and Death in Asylum Prisons

A few months ago I was taking the bus into town. An old man in front of me nudged his bored wife and pointed to some workmen building some new flats. “The government are giving them to those bloody asylum seekers” he told her. A rumour or even lie had been passed on as truth, presumably because the man himself felt hard done by. I cringed, but it seemed easiest to keep silent, even though a sign clearly said the flats were for students. Today, I present the truth as told by some asylum seekers in Liverpool, to the one decent Daily Post/Liverpool Echo reporter. It is far, far worse than that old man could probably imagine. No-one should be illegal, and good housing should be available for everyone, wherever they come from. Read more >>

14-08-2006 17:08 | 2 comments

'Evil Cabal' Blog Closes...For Now

A website containing allegations against senior council bosses has closed...for now. Read more >>

14-08-2006 16:26

Three Day Strike For Merseyside Ambulance Workers

Merseyside ambulance workers are piling the pressure on their scheming bosses by announcing the longest strike yet in the six week dispute. Read more >>

11-08-2006 16:32 | 19 comments

Is anyone going to the Northern Green?

The Northern Green Gathering and the British Nationalist Party Read more >>

10-08-2006 17:03

Bosses Adopt Bullying Tactics Against Striking Ambulance Workers

The chief executive of the North West Ambulance Service resorted to bullying tactics last night, in an attempt to weaken solidarity between striking ambulance workers, ahead of this weekend's scheduled fifth stoppage. Read more >>

10-08-2006 16:34

Anti Israel protest at Liverpool V Haifa

A group of anti-war protesters made their point at the Liverpool V Maccabi Haifa Champions League match last night. Despite the Liverpool Echo's scaremongering (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2006/08/347320.html), the protesters did not attempt to 'ruin' the match, leaving that to Rafael Benitez's unadventurous tactics. Read more >>

09-08-2006 19:51 | 1 comment

Red Card For Israel

Opponents of Israel's war in Lebanon and Gaza will demonstrate before the match
between Liverpool FC and Maccabi Haifa at Anfield on Wednesday 9 August. Read more >>

09-08-2006 08:18

Robbing all of Liverpool's Culture to make money

They are trying to sell everything - Colomendy now
The whole of Liverpool workign class history is being destroyed bit by bit. Read more >>

08-08-2006 16:39

Fifth Strike for Mersey Ambulance Workers

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire are preparing for 48 hour stoppage this weekend, in a dispute over pay. Technicians - who assist paramedics in ambulances - began a series of walkouts a month ago, after the collapse of talks with their bosses. Read more >>

08-08-2006 16:21

Liverpool Echo In Red Scare

Tonight's Liverpool Echo article - 'Cops on Red Alert' - is whipping up controversy where there was none before, over plans by Merseyside TUC, Stop The War Coalition and Liverpool Friends of Palestine to protest at Liverpool FC's Champions League match with Israeli side Maccabi Haifa. Read more >>

08-08-2006 10:34 | 3 comments

Lebanon: Full Color Pictures of the Atrocities

In the last few weeks, an increasing number of horrible, very upsetting photos of the massacres committed by Israel have been coming out of Lebanon.

The alternative media are doing everything possible to break the censorship of images that was enforced by the Corporate and authoritarian State media which only show a sanitized war, disinfected images of material destruction.

The smuggling and widespread dissemination of images from The Realm of The Real that are coming out out of Lebanon and Gaza now make all of us uncomfortable. For those of us who do editing and publishing work, they bring up the awful worry of "is this appropriate?" Read more >>

05-08-2006 22:22 | 3 comments

Sacked Liverpool Dockers Call For Sanctions Against Israel

On behalf of Merseyside trade unionists the Sacked Liverpool
Dockworkers have been asked to circulate, coordinate and collate all
responses to this message. Read more >>

05-08-2006 22:17 | 1 addition | 9 comments

Picket/Demo at Liverpool V Maccabi Haifa - 9th August

Merseyside TUC, Liverpool TUC, Wirral TUC and Sefton TUC and the
Merseyside Coalition Against the War are supporting the Friends of
Palestine Picket / demonstration at the Liverpool versus Maccabi
Haifa football match on Wednesday 9th August at Anfield and call on
trade unionists to show Israelis that we are totally opposed to
their murderous activities in Lebanon. The football game will be
shown live on Israeli television and the key may well be to bring
banners / placards to show Israeli people exactly what the views of
trade unionists and anti war campaigners are. Read more >>