UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
Mindwalk 23: The Fight Within the Right
12-12-2005 20:38
We start off with this Anti-Walmart TV ad being badmouthed by some smarmy news anchors. Followed by a poem by David Wilcox about this hypocracy. David Rovics up next and Norman Finklestein speaks of a similar irony regarding The Wall that was once in Warsaw and is now surrounding Palestine.ACT NOW TO SAVE ROMANIAN SOCIAL CENTRE!
12-12-2005 19:51
Amendment. Venezuela; bolivarian revolution, coal and indigenous resistance
12-12-2005 19:39
CHANGES TO THE ADVERTISED PROGRAM
Six years after Chavez was voted into power indigenous people are still fighting for their lives and for the environment.
FILMS, FOOD AND DEBATE
Manchester, Sunday 18th 3pm, The basement, 24 Lever St
What if you had 16 hours, 29 minutes to live?
12-12-2005 16:20
What would you be thinking — what would you be feeling — if you had but 16 hours and 29 minutes left to live, knowing that you were not going to die of natural causes at some unspecified date and time, but knew that you were scheduled — that's right, scheduled — to die one minute after midnight, tonight, in California's San Quentin prison?Note: This article is available with integrated web links via the iNoodle.com blog at the following URL:
http://inoodle.com/2005/12/what-if-you-had-16-hours-29-minutes-to.html
Axis of Evil? How about Axis of Assholes?
12-12-2005 16:15
Venezuela Film Showing tomorrow evening at the MAC (Tuesday 13th)
12-12-2005 13:24
The film 'The Revolution will not be Televised' will be showing on Tuesday at 7.00pm at the Midlands Arts Centre. It is about the failed coup in Venezuela in 2002 with apparent US support.Jack Straw lies on Radio Four (again)
12-12-2005 08:53
More lies on "extraordinary rendition"ITALY, NO-TAV protests: 50.000 fight against the police!
12-12-2005 01:46
- the protesters managed to re-occupie the valley -Paramilitaries murder 22 peasant farmers in Cesar, northern Colombia
12-12-2005 00:45
MINGA, the Association for the Promotion of Social Alternatives informs national and international public opinion, that paramilitaries currently engaged in so called “peace negotiations” with the Colombian government, detained, tortured and then executed 22 peasant farmers in the villages of La Mas Verde and Nuevo Horizonte, in the municipality of Curumani, Cesar.Midnight Mass (a poem for the homeless)
11-12-2005 23:58
Below is a poem that I've written to try to make people a little more aware of the plight of the homeless at this time of year, why, is it only at this time of year thar we feel we should do something to help those less fortunate than ourselves and not for the rest of the year? Guilt or what? You tell me?Calais activist sentenced for crimes of giving shelter and food to refugees
11-12-2005 21:45
Two Calais activists have been sentenced . The 'crime' they have committed handing out food and sheltering undocumented people in this case, homeless refugees, which is against the law in France.This is what Borders really mean !
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Big demonstration to protect NHS in Huddersfield
11-12-2005 20:09
Protection of the National Health Service, in Huddersfield and nationally. Opposal to closures, privatisation, redundancies.Oodles of people marched in Huddersfield on Saturday 11th December, so many I couldn't see the end of the column, and everyone cheered us on.
SHUT DOWN GUANTANAMO - SUPPORT THE HUNGER STRIKERS - VIGIL 17/12/05
11-12-2005 18:51
Vigil for Omar & all British residents illegally detained in GuantanamoSaturday 17th December, 3pm
Churchill Square, Brighton
Call for solidarity action in support of striking gate gourmet workers in german
11-12-2005 17:53
Global Capitalism Requires Global Resistance - Call for SolidarityAction on the 17th of December at all Gate Gourmet Locations World-Wide
Interview with Mark Ballard, Green MSP, about Dalkeith Park Bypass
11-12-2005 13:49
Recorded at the Climate Change Demonstration in Edinburgh, 3rd of December 2005.
Interview with Mark Ballard, Green Party, constituency Lothians, Member of Scottish Parliament, about history of Dalkeith Park Bypass Plans, Scottish Executive, Climate Change, Grassroots Resistance.
International Human Rights Day
11-12-2005 06:40
Party to Celebrate the release of the Edo rooftop 3. Brighton
09-12-2005 22:49
A fun packed evening of entertainment.Nottingham theatre production in aid of Pakistan earthquake victims
09-12-2005 15:15
December 17th - 18th, Sandfield College Theatre, Sandfield Centre (opposite Savoy Cinema on Derby Road), Lenton, Nottingham.
We have had a great response from local artists, community members and organisations all from multi cultural backgrounds, who, have volunteered their services and worked tirelessly over the last four weeks to make this production possible and bring you a great new performane piece. We are working collaboratively with Nottingham City Council; all money raised from ticket sales will go directly to the ‘Lord Mayors Earthquake Appeal’.
