UK Indymedia - UK Culture Newswire Archive

Indonesia - The time for being polite is over !

30-04-2015 04:44

Amid corruption allegations and political posturing, Indonesia has executed the Bali Nine pair and six others. In our reaction, we do not need to hold back for fear of being seen as arrogant westerners.

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FCUM Bans Workfare

29-04-2015 08:19

FC United of Manchester members vote means the club will not work with organnsiations or businesses that operate the government's Workfare scheme

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Manchester radical book fair and workshops, all welcome

22-04-2015 13:01

A group unhappy with the gentrification of Manchester and the decline in people who are awkward to the status quo have got together to start the first of what we hope will be an annual event.

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700-strong Massed Voices Choir will gather to "Sing for Water" in Cardiff Bay

16-04-2015 22:36

An unprecedented gathering of community Choirs, Choruses and singers will come together in the capital of Wales - the ‘Land of Song’ to help transform lives in Ghana by singing for water at an event at Roald Dahl Plas (the Oval Basin, Cardiff Bay) on Sunday 31st May 2015. Individual choir performances start at 1pm at venues around the Oval Basin, and the massed choir performance is at 3pm.

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Social Centre Gathering This Weekend

16-04-2015 15:21

A gathering open to all social centre users and facilitators in Britain is being held this weekend at the Liverpool Social Centre, Next To Nowhere.

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USA — 152 Death Penalty Mistakes, and counting!

15-04-2015 00:25

In the USA, people end up on death row after being convicted of horrific crimes they did not commit. The lucky ones are exonerated while they are still alive — a macabre club that has grown to include 152 members since 1973.

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Mayday! Reclaim the Beats!! - Join the Fuck Parade!

11-04-2015 17:33

Fuck the Poor Doors, fuck social segregation, fuck Taylor McWilliams, fuck Redrow, fuck the City, fuck luxury flats, fuck the 1%, fuck royalty, fuck the upper class, fuck upper class raves, fuck yuppies it's not the fucking 80s, fuck hipsters, fuck paying to party, fuck £5 a pint, fuck capitalism, fuck racism, fuck borders, fuck Theresa May, fuck the criminal justice act, fuck homophobia, fuck transphobia, fuck patriarchy, fuck fascists, fuck the police, fuck G4S, fuck bailiffs, fuck UKIP, fuck Nigel fucking Farage, fuck his toady face, fuck bourgeois parliamentarianism, fuck the tories, fuck the Liberals, fuck Labour, fuck the DWP, fuck IDS, fuck sanctions, fuck ATOS, fuck MI5, fuck surveillance, fuck GCHQ, fuck the arms industry, fuck environmental destruction, fuck big oil, fuck cars, fuck animal exploitation, fuck the rich, fuck bankers, fuck bosses, fuck landlords, fuck public schools, fuck Oxbridge, fuck the Bullingdon Boys, fuck Boris.................Fuck them all

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How Australia Abolished Death Penalty

11-04-2015 09:01

The death penalty was not abolished in Australia because political leaders were civilised or morally superior. Determined mass public protests backed up by strikes put an end to the brutality - (aka people power).

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Runnymede needs You! Eviction Resistance ॐ

06-04-2015 19:36

To one & all, an invitation and call out to activists and lovely people across the gamma for talks and discussion on thoughts feelings and strategy leading up to the court hearing on the 9th of April at the County Court at Guildford. We would like to invite anybody with experience or advice in our situation to join us in solidarity with our views for freedom, justice and equality for all.
All species and subspecies alike.

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International Callout

26-03-2015 14:47

We are currently resisting a large scale eviction attempt in Dublin. Grangegorman is a large complex of occupied warehouses, converted offices, residential houses and community gardens. We have occupied the site for over a year and a half and are asking for people to help us resist eviction in any way they can

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Letter from Lerwick

17-03-2015 22:12

As we enter the cut and thrust and ruthlessness of the coming election campaign perhaps it is useful to look at a gentler pace of life in a small community which is friendly, tolerant and welcoming.

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The three Tower Hamlets schoolgirls and Azmal Alam (Poplar schoolboy murdered )

24-02-2015 15:23

The Guardian website is running a piece by a female name that calls for more of the same - ‘support’.
It is a very odd plea as it leaves out the local Tower Hamlets Council from any
expectation that it must discharge the duty to provide support to the local population with the £Billion plus budget that the public already allows the Council to claim from a variety of established sources

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/24/muslim-girls-isis-teenage-east-london

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INDONESIA: Shamed by Lack of Gratitude

23-02-2015 00:02

What the Indonesians lack in the areas of humanity, equality and judicial fairness, they more than make up for in sheer audacity. This is not a country short on chutzpah.

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Brazil LGBT

19-02-2015 13:06

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Cardiff Anarchist Bookfair this Saturday

18-02-2015 16:10

There will be three rooms of talks, workshop meetings (see below), and a main hall of stalls, plus creche, bar, cafe and more. In the evening there will be a benefit gig and social.

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When will the ITUC investigate one of its "own"?

10-02-2015 12:17

ITUC’s Sharan Burrow criticises FIFA.

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Melanie Shaw - Shocking story of child abuse whistleblower being victimised

08-02-2015 13:51

Harrowing case of how Nottingham police and Nottingham council abuse and harass an innocent person in attempts to silence her from speaking out about institutional child abuse rings.

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INDONESIA - Death By Firing Squad

08-02-2015 08:43

Execution by firing squad is the common capital punishment method used in Indonesia for a number of crimes including drug trafficking. The barbaric and cruel method has remained unchanged since 1964.

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