UK Social Struggles Newswire Archive
British university teachers’ union votes for boycott of Israeli academics
21-06-2007 17:16
Delegates at the first conference of the newly formed University and College Union (UCU) of Britain voted May 30 to recommend a boycott of Israeli universities and academics. In a 158 to 99 vote, the delegates passed a motion condemning the “complicity of Israeli academia” in the 40-year occupation of Palestinian land and backing a call by Palestinian unions for a “comprehensive and consistent international boycott of all Israeli institutions.”Interesting Open Borders public meeting in Nottingham - short report
21-06-2007 12:16
'The Case for Open Borders' - A Refugee Week event speaker.Teresa Hayter (member of the Close Campsfield Campaign and an author of the No One is Illegal Manifesto) gave a thought provoking talk to a well-attended meeting at the Refugee Forum's Square Centre on the evening of 19th June.
A short report written by one of the people who went to the meeting, and links to more info about Open Borders, can be read on the No Borders Nottingham website.
Support the Cuban People. Help Send Them a Bookmobile! and Books!
21-06-2007 11:27
The US embargo on trade with Cuba continues. This summer Pastors for Peace will again challenge the blockade with a friendship caravan. A fully stocked bookmobile will accompany it. Before the revolution there were only 32 libraries in Cuba. In 2002 there were 400 public libraries and 6000 school libraries. Cubans are avid readers and life long learners but Cuban librarians struggle to meet their needs under the blockade. We urge you join us in sending books to Cuba!Hanging from the brush...
21-06-2007 10:41
Vilma Espín Guillois
21-06-2007 10:36
BNP's fake union Solidarity already up against the ropes
20-06-2007 21:33
Byeee.Colombia Solidarity Campaign Merseyside Event
20-06-2007 15:40
TUESDAY 26 JUNE 7PM@ BLEND, MOUNT PLEASANT, LIVERPOOL
(formerly Heart & Soul - next to YMCA)
Gagged! #17 - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter
20-06-2007 15:06
56.3% voted nobody & G8 summit Chaos
Produced by South Wales Anarchists southwalesanarchists.org
Help Send Books and a Bookmobile to Cuba!
20-06-2007 11:15
The US embargo on trade with Cuba continues. This summer Pastors for Peace will again challenge the blockade with a friendship caravan. A fully stocked bookmobile will accompany it. Before the revolution there were only 32 libraries in Cuba. In 2002 there were 400 public libraries and 6000 school libraries. Cubans are avid readers and life long learners but Cuban librarians struggle to meet their needs under the blockade. We urge you join us in sending books to Cuba!Full article | 1 addition | 3 comments
Common Ground Community Garden - EVICTION UPDATE - Resistance successful so far.
20-06-2007 10:48
Common Ground Community Garden, is a self-managed squatted community project in the heart of Reading. The land and surrounding buildings are council owned, and they have tried to obstruct this initiative every step of the way - and thanks to the spirit of the squatters and our neighbours, they have failed every step of the way.Gordon Brown should ignore the FT and scrap the Crossrail hole plot...
20-06-2007 10:18
The London FT is this week leading the lobby for globalizing conglomerates who are set to push Gordon Brown into a corner so they can extract the loot of £20 Billion which they can pocket under the guise of the Crossrail hole plot in London. But Gordon Brown must not collude with them and should in fact put a halt to Crossrail now. It has already wasted more than £500million of public money in consultants fees and promotions.BNP's Turkish Delight
20-06-2007 09:56
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Resisting the FIT teams: a proposal for action
19-06-2007 23:58
A proposal to start ending our own repression and to start resisting the actions of the Forward Intelligence Teams.Manchester No2ID Diary Dates, June - August 2007
19-06-2007 23:08
Minutes of Manchester No2ID Meeting, 13th June 2007
19-06-2007 22:58
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Pictures from StWC Palestine Demo (pt 3).
19-06-2007 22:13
More pictures from StWC Palestine March (pt 2).
19-06-2007 21:58
A time for change in Ireland
19-06-2007 18:10
Who do we blame?Is youth the key to the spiralling increase in anti-social behaviour or has the youth of today just taken example from their peers and enhanced the problem to a modern 21st century process in destabilising society. Does the problem go back further than what we are prepared to accept and have we now come to a stage where we need to re-evaluate the way we cherish freedom and human rights.
We see AIDS as being a threat to human existence. We now see ASB as a threat to the stability of our society and subsequently human existence in itself.
Unravelling
19-06-2007 16:12
As the wall approaches, or rather as we speed recklessly toward it, it serves no purpose to analyse how a nation, trillions of dollars in debt, remains in a position to offer billions to its enemies and try and buy its way out of inevitable collapse. The buy-off strategy is not new, what is new however is that the offers are rejected – no amount of money could buy Kosovo from Serbia, what are a people without a heart or national identity? Condi Rice, with Israel’s whole-hearted support, today openly offered to buy-off Palestinians in the vain hope that western influence could be maintained in the region. For numerous reasons this strategy will also fail.Filton Five charged
19-06-2007 15:09
Five Bristol residents were charged on Monday 18th June with 2 charges relating to their occupation of BAE Systems in Filton, Bristol on Thursday 26th April this year. The group occupied an office in New Filton House, the Bristol HQ of the arms firm, for one and a half hours. Hanging a banner reading 'BAE Systems: Corruption and Destruction: Business as Usual' from the office, the group were drawing attention to the dropped Serious Fraud Office investigation into corruption with the Al-Yamamah deal with Saudi Arabia.
