London Repression Newswire Archive

25-05-2006 13:09

OutRage!:Tatchell defies Moscow gay ban...

OutRage! and Human Rights campaigner Peter Tatchell goes to Russia to defy the ban on Moscow gay Pride event and IDAHO conference.
Religious and far right groups threaten violent reponses... Read more >>

25-05-2006 01:36

Democracy’s Last Stand – Dawn Raid

3am phone calls, crazed rants of cops and oppression and Oscar Beard jumps a taxi into democracy's last stand. Read more >>

24-05-2006 18:42

HELP STOP ILLEGAL EVICTION THURS 25thMAY URGENT

HACKNEY LANDLORD HIRE PRIVATE SECURITY FOR ILLEGAL: EVICTION. 25/05/06 HELP, PHOTOGRAPHERS, ACTIVISTS. By Law they must wait for court bailiffs. When they were told they laughed saying they did'nt care. The case was in court today (24/5/06). Over 15 people will be homeless. Read more >>

24-05-2006 15:42

London Critical Mass in Court

article from the bbc

A London cyclist is to launch a high court challenge against police claims that a long-running monthly cycle ride through London is unlawful.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5011380.stm Read more >>

24-05-2006 09:27

Labour attacks right to protest. Activist arrested violently on Palestine march.

Britain’s Labour government is clamping down on the right to protest. Under the guise of ‘fighting terrorism’ the government it is creating the legal framework to stop demonstrations against war, racism and poverty. Read more >>

23-05-2006 01:56 | 1 addition

Brain Haw demo police moving in NOW!

20 police and FIT squads arrived. Vans, lorries blocking Parliament Square. Read more >>

21-05-2006 10:20

March for Palestine: Pictures

March for Palestine, London May 20, 2006. Read more >>

21-05-2006 01:42

Stop starving the Palestinians demo

As the decades old Israeli occupation of Palestine relentlessly continues, the march for Palestinian justice through London this year was more poignant than ever. Palestinians are literally starving because vital aid has been cut by other countries that refuse to recognise the newly elected Hamas led government.
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20-05-2006 18:39

freedom required: young protesting palestinians & anti zionist orthodox jews un

Today it was business as usual for Israeli apartheid in Palestine; assassinations, killings and now starvation as they try to force 8 million Palestinians into submission by denying them food. Read more >>

20-05-2006 10:20

REPRESSION IN ATENCO INFONIGHT

Infonight at "The Square" social centre from 7p.m
we will show recent video of the repression suffered by the people in San Salvador Atenco and Texcoco on May 3rd and 4th in. followed by open discussion.
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19-05-2006 08:33

demostration mexican embassy

JUSTICE FOR ATENCO Read more >>

18-05-2006 23:21

Benefit night for Boomchucka Circus (aka circus2iraq)

Roll up, roll up, roll up!!! For one night only you can run away with the circus! Read more >>

18-05-2006 02:17

On the ground at Parliament Square: democracy’s last stand

As Brian Haw’s demonstration faces it’s second week of opposing the High Court ruling, the police and political pressure, Oscar Beard finally gets time to recount the first week of the final stand of democracy. Read more >>

17-05-2006 14:51

Justice For Atenco, Mexico

Last week residents of San Salvador Atenco (Atenco), a municipality near Mexico City, suffered massive police brutality and repression after local organisations helped 60 flower vendors, at Texcoco local market in the State of Mexico, to resist a state police blockade for setting up their stands. Read more >>

17-05-2006 08:42

Indymedia Radio London Newswire Show a special discussion from Palestine

Listen to a series of discussions about the current situation in Palestine: with Dr Jadah IsHak the director of the Jerusalem Research Institute, Ghassan Adonis the co founder of ISM ( The International Solidarity Movement) Fida Ghareeb the co-ordinator of the IMEMC Youth Advocacy Service and Ghassan Bannora IMEMC reporter.
This debate was recorded especially for the Resonance FM Indymedia Radio London News Wire wednesday Slot and aims to present back ground of the current crisis in Palestine that is not generally explored in the Western Media. Read more >>

16-05-2006 12:36

LONDON: MEET PRESIDENT CHAVEZ - He calls Bush 'Hitler' and Blair 'the pawn'.

The US 'PNAC pack' versus Venezuela: ''But the sanctions may not make much difference. Last year, on Chavez's orders, Venezuela's military began shifting arms-purchasing to non-US sources, including Brazil, China, Russia, and Spain.'' Read more >>

16-05-2006 11:44

Under Fives Fingerprinted in Liverpool and Croydon

At an age when many kids are fingerpainting, children under five are being fingerprinted in Liverpool and Croydon asylum detention centres. Read more >>

15-05-2006 12:37

Cross-party briefing on the Armed Forces Bill 17 May 2006, 6.30-8pm

Boothroyd Room, Portcullis House (above Westminster tube, entrance on Victoria Embankment, wheelchair accessible)

The Armed Forces Bill 2006, a major redrafting of military law, will be in the Commons on 22 May. Yet it has gone through committee stage with hardly a whisper in the media and a deafening silence even from politicians who opposed the Iraq war. Read more >>

15-05-2006 07:45

Chavez - Beware of Ken Livingstone

The Mayor of Livingstone is courting the Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez for the Corporation of London, which is an unaccountable local authority that has business links with unsavoury PFI.The interest in Venezuela is for little other reason than its oil reserves and its desire to prevent the US and UK occupy its land to exploits its resources like insurgent countries that the US and UK are. Who is Ken

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14-05-2006 16:23

Beep if U luv Brian

Almost a week has passed since the courts found the Brian Haw protest to be illegal after all; yet Brian and- today - forty or fifty supporters are still very present in Parliament Square.

Add the constant beeping of passing motorists, responding to the new "Beep for Brian" sign, and it's pretty clear that the level of support and the focus of publicity is making it difficult for police to enforce the judgement. Read more >>