London Anti-militarism Newswire Archive

26-05-2008 19:39

Southfields Get Total Oil Out of Burma Protest

Six protesters demonstrated at the Southfields Total Station, 262 Wimbledon Park Road on 21st May 2008. They were protesting against the French oil and gas giant's 500 million dollar a year funding for the brutal military regime in Burma. The money just goes to the evil junta not the poor people of Burma. The regime has allocated just 5 million dollars to cyclone relief, whilst it earned 2 billion dollars in gas exports in 2007. Read more >>

23-05-2008 14:02

Smash EDO Fundraiser tonight

smashEDO fundraiser @ the Cowley Club Friday 23rd May 8pm till 2am
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23-05-2008 11:48

London hosts Dalai Lama- China handshake

Yesterday London hosted an incredible event in the form of a 'human chain handshake' from the hand of the Dalai Lama himself, via 2,000 people in a human chain, all the way to the Chinese embassy in Mayfair.
It was an attempt to create some sort of dialogue between the two parties, and went off smoothly. Read more >>

22-05-2008 07:45

Sussex Students Union supports Smash EDO activists denied legal aid

University of Sussex Student Union has backed the five Sussex students that have been denied legal aid by Brighton magistrates court. The five, part of a group of seven on trial, were denied legal aid on the basis that as students they are "intelligent enough to represent themselves". Read more >>

21-05-2008 21:52

Mobilise for Bush visit!

GEORGE W Bush, the well known war criminal, is heading our way next month - let's give him a warm welcome! Read more >>

21-05-2008 14:33

Public Meeting in London about the Carnival against the Arms Trade

Public Meeting about the Carnival against the Arms Trade Read more >>

20-05-2008 20:05

Burma Cyclone Global Day of Actiion London Report

Over 100 campaigners, mostly Burmese took part in a protest at the French and US Embassies and the British Foreign Office in London, for the May 17th Global Day of Action for Burma Cyclone Victims. More than 30 events took place worldwide, including in UK, USA, France, Spain, Hong Kong, Thailand, Chile, Australia, Canada, Belgium and Czech Republic. The official death toll has exceeded 140,000 with aid agencies saying 2.5 million people are at further risk.
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20-05-2008 15:06

International Conscientious Objectors' Day, May 15, London

Last Thursday, May 15, was International Conscientious Objectors' Day. A short ceremony commemorating Conscientious objectors around the world was held at Tavistock Square in London at noon.
Pictures (C) Peter Marshall, 2008. All rights reserved. Read more >>

19-05-2008 22:34

Call for actions! Don't let Israel celebrate 60 years of occupation

SUNDAY 29th JUNE -LONDON & MANCHESTER
Calling all individuals, clowns, groups, journalists, first aiders, legal support, cameras & filmmakers: come along and show your disgust at 'celebrating' a nation built on war, terror and ethnic cleansing. Let's see the thousands who supported the people of Tibet also show their solidarity with the people of Palestine. End all occupations! Read more >>

19-05-2008 13:57

Public Meeting: Smashing the Arms Trade: Smash EDO Carnival (London bloc)

Smashing the Arms Trade: Smash EDO Carnival
London Public meeting: London School of Economics Room A379 (Old
Building), Aldwych, Sunday 25th May, 4-6pm

Map:

http://www.lse.ac.uk/resources/mapsAndDirections/findingYourWayAroundLSE.htm
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18-05-2008 15:31

Brighton EDO Demo

Anyone from London going down to Brighton on June 4th to the Smash EDO demo... Read more >>

16-05-2008 10:45

US Star Wars Create Uproar In Europe

As part of the campaign against the Missile Defence Shield (Son of Ronald Regan's Star Wars) that the US is developing, leading to a new arms race and a new Cold War, breaking the Non Proliferation Treaty and against the wishes of the majority of people in Europe, Humanist activists in Czech Republic and other European countries are starting hunger strikes and other actions to prevent the Czech installation of an US Radar base. Read more >>

15-05-2008 21:28 | 3 additions

May 11th 2008 - International Day of Truth Action - Video and Photos

Video from the London protest on Oxford Street and at Speakers' Corner and photos from protests around the world from the autonomous grassroots campaign for International Days of Truth Action on the Eleventh Day of Every Month until Justice. Read more >>

14-05-2008 16:31

US confession: Weapons were not made in Iran after all

In a sharp reversal of its longstanding accusations against Iran arming militants in Iraq , the US military has made an unprecedented albeit quiet confession: the weapons they had recently found in Iraq were not made in Iran at all. Read more >>

13-05-2008 23:51 | 2 additions

Mobile Protest "Let Aid Experts into Burma" for Cyclone Relief

On May 10th, 10 protesters dressed in black in mourning formed a mobile protest around various London landmarks. They were protesting against the Burma junta's refusal to allow aid experts into Burma for Cyclone relief and also at the junta's disgraceful preoccupation with continuing the rigged referendum [1] on the military biased constitution on May 10th, rather than cyclone relief. See below for Global Day of Action for Cyclone Nargis victims. Read more >>

11-05-2008 19:46

War criminal placed under citizen's arrest

Sir Richard Dearlove, Master, Pembroke College, Cambridge University and Chief, Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) (1999-2004), and author of the infamous Dearlove Memo [2]had his lecture at Chatham House in London[3], interrupted by members of We Are Change UK. After disrupting the talk through a window with a megaphone, the activists attempted to effect a Citizen's arrest on Dearlove.

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10-05-2008 02:25

Burmese Cyclone protest at Burma Embassy "Let Aid Experts In"

Appalled yet hardly surprised at the junta's callous indifference to the deaths of up to 100,000 citizens and 1.5 million more destitute, the Burmese community protested passionately at their embassy on May 9th for aid experts and aid to be allowed into Burma. Whilst getting away as always with giving the international community the run-around, this time playing games over frustrating aid shipments - the brutal junta has been more preoccupied with rigging its military biased constitution referendum for May 10th. Read more >>

09-05-2008 19:59

Did the SO19 marksmen kill an "Iraq veteran" or a "top barrister"?

Here are the two editions of the London tabloid 'Evening Standards' on May 7th, 2008. Read more >>

05-05-2008 12:27

London mayoral elections: Labour’s neo-cons and the left apologists for Livingst

Writing in the Guardian, Seumas Milne argued, “A defeat for Livingstone would not just be a blow to the broadly defined left, working-class Londoners, women, ethnic minorities and greens. It would represent a wider defeat for progressive politics, in Britain and beyond.” Read more >>

03-05-2008 16:25

UN suspends aid to Gaza for lack of fuel (by Latuff)

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's state terror.

High resolution version for printing purposes here:

http://www.fileflyer.com/view/0TNJLCw Read more >>