Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

UK Globalisation Newswire Archive

Full article

2 Zapatistas assassinated in Simojovel

23-02-2004 18:13

The assassination of two zapatista supporters in Simojovel - the Assembly of Good Government "Centric Heart of the Zapatistas In front of the World" denounces this double murder and the system of impunity which allows such crimes.

Full article

Report back on Anti Wall demonstation at the Hague.

23-02-2004 17:55

Report back on this afternoon's demonstration called by Pengon/Anti Apartheid Wall campaign and the Dutch Coalition against the Wall.

Full article

Boycott BP's Baku-Ceyhan Pipeline Greenwash Meeting, Feb 24th, London

23-02-2004 11:53

Here below is the text of the leaflet we'll be handing out at tomorrow's BP-organised meeting on the Baku Cyehan pipeline, to which they have invited compliant/complicit NGOs and investors. Feel free to come along and join us from 9.30-10.30 outside the Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Stratton Street, London. Bring confetti.
It's followed by 'Can BP Keep NGOs Talking?', written by Strategic Forecasting Inc.,. in which LRT is mentioned.

Full article | 4 comments

Argentinian film screening

23-02-2004 09:40

Sheffield Indymedia is showing a series of short films about the struggles at the Argentinian Brukman textiles factory in Abbeyfield Park House, Burngreave at 1930, Wednesday 25 February. One of the film-makers will also be attending.

Full article

Nicaragua to claim US money

23-02-2004 03:26

Never were Nicaraguans' chances better to get what the International Court ruled the US owed to them. A new initiative at the United Nations Security Council may be worthwhile given the current member situation.

Full article

*Call for Solidarity from GE FREE VERMONT CAMPAIGN!*

22-02-2004 18:28

We write from the little green mountain state of Vermont (pop. 600,000) in the northeastern USA, and we greet you in the spirit of our state motto: "Freedom and Unity."

We write to you to share our story, and to ask you to join us at 10 AM EST on Thursday, February 26th 2004, with seeds of solidarity for a GE Free future.

Here in Vermont, we are very strong. On Thursday, there is a likelihood that our STATE SENATE WILL PASS THE FIRST BILL in the USA TO PROHIBIT THE PLANTING OF GENETICALLY ENGINEERED SEEDS, INCLUDING THOSE ALREADY ON THE MARKET. We are gearing up for a big moment, and this moment will be only the beginning of our struggle.

Full article

Argentinean films on labour struggles in Oxford

22-02-2004 17:05

Monday 23 February, 8 pm
Merton graduate complex TV Room (entrance on Holywell Street, opposite New College)

Ana Fraile, Argentinean filmmaker, will be showing a series of short films on
the Struggles at the Brukman Textile factory in Argentina.

Full article | 7 comments

Info about resisting the 2005 G8 Summit in the UK

21-02-2004 15:08

Dissent! - A Network of Resistance Against the G8 has recently formed to help coordintate resistance to the G8 Summit in 2005, with the aim of helping build a lasting anti-capitalist movement in the UK.

Full article | 1 comment

EU's new IP Law: "You just have to trust us".

21-02-2004 14:25

The EU Parliament's Legal Affairs committee is set to rubber stamp a new text on Monday for the controversial EU Directive on the Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, despite serious unanswered concerns from across the EU -- including the UK House of Lords. It will have been only six days since the final text, drafted in secret without any public analysis of its detailed national implications, was finally released to the European public.

Full article

g8 03 music video.

21-02-2004 01:46

Video
Music video from G8 03 protests from Geneva and Lausanne cut to storming track called shit list.

Full article | 2 comments

Greenwash and The NGO-friendly Corporation

20-02-2004 14:42

The following gives an interesting insight into how Corporations view the movement that opposes them and how they hope to gain credibility by co-opting the less radical elements by forming partnerships with them. It's long, but worth a read I think...

Full article

Fair Trade Fortnight event in Bradford

19-02-2004 08:33

6th March: Fair Trade Fortnight event in Bradford

Full article

Call to boycott and/or take action at BP Baku-Ceyhan pipeline greenwash meeting

18-02-2004 23:44


On February 24th 2004, BP has invited NGOs and 'socially responsible' investors to a meeting on the highly controversial Baku Ceyhan oil pipeline. It's set to take place at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Stratton Street, London.

Full article

This is the first lawsuit in Japan to bring justice to Japanese ODA.

18-02-2004 14:49

Let's Support the victims of Japanese funded dam in Indonesia's Sumatra island.
8,396 residents and natural ecosystem filed
Koto Panjang Dam lawsuit in Tokyo.

Full article | 4 comments

Protest planned at Coca-Cola launch, 19-2-04

18-02-2004 12:44

Coca-Cola are planning a stunt to launch Dasani a new bottled water. The Columbian Solidarity Campaign, are planning a protest at 12 noon on Thursday at the Peace Gardens to coincide with the launch on behalf of eight assasinated trade unioun workers and their families. They accuse Coca Cola of impeding the progress of programmes to clean up drinking water forcing millions to drink soft drinks.

Full article

Occupation, Inc.

18-02-2004 09:43

The giant steam turbine at the Najibiya power plant is quiet. If the Russian engineers who built the original equipment over 30 years ago stopped by to take a look, they might have a hard time recognizing the machinery: over the years Iraqi engineers have replaced many of the original blue parts with a patchwork of white and grey makeshift materials.

Full article | 1 comment

Photo's of York PSC Sainsburys Demo

18-02-2004 00:32

The trolley
These pictures should have accompanied an earlier post on an action which took place at York Central Sainsburys. Posted on 15-Feb-2004.

Full article

Heads up for Nine Ladies - bailiffs blagging onsite

17-02-2004 15:02

Message from today below.

More on Nine Ladies - IMC Feature:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/01/284233.html

Full article | 2 comments

DISSENT - Anti G8 Day

17-02-2004 14:51

An invitation to a day event (& evening social) to discuss the forthcoming G8 Summit in the UK in 2005.

SATURDAY 21ST FEB. 2pm onwards.

Full article | 2 comments

Sainsburys - another brick in the wall?

17-02-2004 11:19

Is Sainsbury's the most unethical supermarket in Britain?
Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.