South Coast Newswire Archive

17-10-2009 15:43

Target Brimar campaign statement, Saturday 17th October 2009

Arrests at peaceful anti-arms demonstration in Chadderton

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17-10-2009 15:21

Three Decommissioning Defendants Arrested at Target Brimar

decommissioners.co.uk

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16-10-2009 19:55

Corporate Watch on Sean Kirtley's Release

from  http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/?lid=3434

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16-10-2009 14:22

Arora, the latest detention profiteer

Activists from No Borders London staged a protest last week inside the Arora International Hotel, near Heathrow airport, against the hotel owners' plans to turn one of their other hotels, at Gatwick airport, into an immigration prison. Driven by what appears to be a decline in business, Arora Management Services had applied to the Crawley Borough Council for permission to convert its four-star hotel, Mercure, into an immigration detention centre. As one of the protesters put it, "this is just another example of the cynical, profit-driven opportunism exhibited by big companies wanting a slice of the lucrative detention market."

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16-10-2009 09:54

For Immediate Release: Direct Actions this morning in solidarity with Calais migrants

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16-10-2009 09:41

Arrests Expected for Smash EDO Mayday Demonstration

see  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/05/429572.html

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16-10-2009 09:14

Support the Decommissioners Events in London, Bristol, Brighton and Manchester

EDO Decommissioners Week of Action

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16-10-2009 08:46

Press Release - Smash EDO Rally Calling for Council Motion Condemning EDO

Press Release

For immediate release: 16/10/2009

Press Release - Smash EDO to Council: We should discuss weapons factory in our city?

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16-10-2009 08:27

Anti-prison protest kicks off in France

BLACK Bloc protesters caused havoc in the French city of Poitiers in a protest against a new prison.

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15-10-2009 22:43

Gordon Brown vists Camden estate as "Police do nothing where women attacked".

Gordon Brown made an unannounced visit to a Camden council estate in Gospel Oak. A gran told Gordon how she defended herself and her granddaughter with a baseball bat when 60 male youths chased her, tried to set her on fire, sabotaged her garden and threatened her granddaughter. Gordon visited as people have complained about failed ASBOS and the CNJ reported a lack of faith in police.

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15-10-2009 08:00

Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Group - The Abu-Najeh Family

Six members of Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group are now in the West Bank. They have been visiting communities in the Jordan Valley and Bil'in, and have a lot of plans for the next few weeks. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

The Brighton Tubas Region Friendship and Solidarity Group is a network aiming at fostering links between community organisations in Tubas, occupied Palestine and Brighton. The Tubas Region, which includes the Northern Jordan Valley, is an area Israel wants to ethnically cleanse and annex. Israel is doing this by making life impossible for the people of the valley.

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15-10-2009 07:52

4-5 November: Trial of the Northwood Six

Trial of the six activists arrested at the 'Die-in for NATO's Victims in Afghanistan' outside Britain's military nerve centre in Northwood earlier this year.

From 10am, Watford Magistrates Court, The Court House, Clarendon Rd, WD17 1ST
Map:  http://tinyurl.com/ygumwt6

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14-10-2009 22:15

Direct Action; UK & Ireland

11th-14th October

TARGET: ASTRAZENECA (UK)
CIRCUS VEHICLES VANDALIZED (UK)
ASTRAZENECA DIRECTOR TRACKED DOWN (UK)
ALF NIGHT OUT IN DUBLIN (Ireland)
BLOODY BURBERRY (UK)
FURRIER'S HOME REDECORATED (Canada)

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13-10-2009 22:16

No No Third Runway

BAA is denying suggestions from the Tory part picked up by the Sunday Times and then other media that it has dropped plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport

Gloating to the Sunday Times, Ms Villiers had said ,"It seems BAA has woken up to the fact that we mean what we say on Heathrow and that there will be no third runway."

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13-10-2009 14:32

Carnival Against the Arms Trade Court Date set

Five people are on trial in Brighton Magistrates Court for several offences relating to last year's Carnival Against the Arms Trade (see -  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399714.html)

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13-10-2009 12:34

British PR Company willing to help destroy Uncontacted Tribe (covert recording)

Attached is a recording of a covert recording made with the PR company (Finsbury PR) that have successfully ensured the British company, Vedanta Resources, can go ahead and mine bauxite in the lands of the Dongria Kondh tribe.

Please pass this recording on, and ensure that the activities of PR companies are exposed.

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12-10-2009 22:01

Support the Asnar Family - Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group Appeal

URGENT: Support Ezat's right to visit his sick daughter in hospital

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12-10-2009 17:05

Vestas Wind shares decline 10/10/2009

Shares of Vestas Wind Systems A/S, the world's biggest maker of wind turbines with facilities in Colorado, dropped to the lowest since April in Copenhagen after Svenska Handelsbanken AB cut its recommendation to "reduce" from "accumulate."

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12-10-2009 13:48

UK government condemns British mining company Vedanta

In an unprecedented attack on a major British company, the government ruled that Vedanta, ‘did not respect the rights of the Dongria Kondh’; ‘did not consider the impact of the construction of the mine on the [tribe’s] rights’; and ‘failed to put in place an adequate and timely consultation mechanism’. Devastatingly, it concluded, ‘A change in the company’s behaviour’ is ‘essential’.

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12-10-2009 13:00

Is climate action at a tipping point?

We’ve seen victory after victory this week and that’s just the major iconic battles. Not only have Eon and BAA thrown in the towel on Kingsnorth and Heathrows third runway, but also the rejection of the proposed agrofuels power stations Portland, Dorset and in Southall, Ealing last month.

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