London Repression Newswire Archive

16-06-2004 23:37

UN warns Caterpillar may be implicated in human rights violations

**For immediate release**

On 28th May 2004 the Special Rapporteur on the right to food for the UN High Commissioner on Human Rights – Jean Ziegler – wrote to Jim Owens, CEO of Caterpillar Inc., to express deep concern "about the actions of the Israeli occupying forces in Rafah and in other locations in Gaza and the West Bank, using armoured bulldozers supplied by your company." (1)
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16-06-2004 17:27

The Olympics of Repression

As the August Athens Olympics are drawing closer- and with London looking to be the host city for 2012- some information needs to finally come out about the full scale repression and exploitation that is the Olympic Games. Read more >>

16-06-2004 09:33

Akha Genocide

Deportation Can't Hide Thailand's Treatment of the Akha Hill Tribe. Read more >>

14-06-2004 09:58

BNP in Epping Forest!

BNP WIN IN EPPING:
GYPSIES ATTACKED
(received by email)
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13-06-2004 11:08

Talk and Film about the Israeli Wall

5.00pm Sunday 13th: Talk & Film about the Israeli Wall @ Occupied Social Centre, Tufnell Pk, with Uri Ayalon, journalist and facilitator in the school of peace in
Neve-Shalom Wahat al-Salam.

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13-06-2004 09:45

The Nazification of Israel

Israel perpetrates the kind of crimes that the Jewish state claims as the raison d'etre of its own creation in 1948. Read more >>

11-06-2004 09:56

Our Islamic Fifth Column

Most recently, in response to a column I write for an Indian paper, in which I confessed to having met a few terrorists in my time and attempted to analyze their limited grasp of the world, I received a lot of hate mail. Read more >>

10-06-2004 09:43

Scots police in Savannah to study G8 security

Good report from The Herald

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/17765.html

Scots police travel to America to study G8 security
LUCY ADAMS, Home Affairs Correspondent
June 09 2004 Read more >>

09-06-2004 09:34

Orissa: Tribal Protest Against Displacement Faces Arrests and Intimidation

Tribal villagers in the State of Orissa, India, are fighting displacement from their villages and agricultural land. Their campaign has faced arrests, physical attacks and intimidation, and the authorities have refused to listen to their concerns. The State government has given the go-ahead for Sterlite, a mining company with links to UK business. Read more >>

08-06-2004 14:53

G8 Resistance Report - The Past, Present, and Future...

G8 Resistance: Past, Present, and Future... Read more >>

08-06-2004 13:10

On Terrorism and the State

25 years after its publication, Gianfranco Sanguinetti's "On Terrorism and the State" is finally available on-line
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04-06-2004 20:16

'Greenwash ' Or Us?

The corporate sponsorship of cultural life is taking off a storm with companies such as BP and Esso up to their old PR tricks. Buy their oil because they’re the coolest, greenest, cheapest (!), most caring guys in town. This is tosh and we all know it. Read more >>

03-06-2004 16:16

CIA Torture Training

From Private Eye No.1107

Torture Manuals amended to include preface stating that torture is illegal! Read more >>

03-06-2004 13:34

Bilderberg: The ultimate conspiracy theory

From the BBC News website:

The Bilderberg group, an elite coterie of Western thinkers and power-brokers, has been accused of fixing the fate of the world behind closed doors. As the organisation marks its 50th anniversary, rumours are more rife than ever. Read more >>

03-06-2004 13:28

Moore's 9/11 trailer goes online

From the BBC News website:

The trailer for Michael Moore's film Fahrenheit 9/11 has made its debut on the movie's official website. Read more >>

02-06-2004 14:07

Daily Mirror D-Day Cartoon - almost

With no apologies to the Daily Mirror. Read more >>

26-05-2004 21:27

Rafah Action

Massacre in Rafah - National Action on Friday 28th May Read more >>

26-05-2004 16:13

Motion to enforce filed in Peltier's lawsuit against editor Paul DeMain

In a lawsuit filed over one year ago, a motion to enforce a settlement agreement was filed today with the Eighth U.S. District Court of Claims in Minneapolis, Minnesota, between Native American activist and political prisoner Leonard Peltier and Paul DeMain, editor of News From Indian Country. Read more >>