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UK Workers' Movements Newswire Archive

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Innocent Prisoners / The Scandal of Britain's Child Detainees

04-09-2008 11:44

No place for children
Throughout its years in government - from Tony Blair's famous "Education, education, education" speech to the more recent "Every Child Matters" programme - Labour has claimed to champion the needs of the younger generation. For the 2,000 children who are sent to UK immigration detention centres every year, however, these claims ring hollow.

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SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER: RALLY FOR THE CUBAN 5

03-09-2008 18:24

Marking ten years since their unjust imprisonment

12-3pm, Trafalgar Square (north pavement)

September 2008 marks 10 years since the arrest and incarceration of the Cuban
5, five men wrongly convicted in the US after peacefully defending Cuba from
terrorist attacks planned in the United States.

Come and show your solidarity for the Five and spread the word. Bring placards, stalls, whistles, drums and banners for a lively
demonstration, including street theatre and speeches to inform the British
public about the case.

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Reinstate Chris Lockwood!

03-09-2008 13:32

IWW member fired in Sheffield for union activity. Support picket's on the 12th September to fight for his reinstatement.

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Don’t let Unite leaders jail Gordon McNeill

02-09-2008 17:16

Senior officials of the Unite trade union are continuing in their attempt to have sacked Belfast Airport Shop Steward, Gordon McNeill jailed for the “crime” of protesting outside an empty building.

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MJB Support Group Meeting London 10/09/2008

02-09-2008 09:47

Meeting to set up a UK support group for MJB and Harlem tenants in their fight against London based landlords Dawnay Day Group ..

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees - August 2008

02-09-2008 06:36

Twelve actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in August 2008 and only one improved.

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London Food Not Bombs feeds Wobblies

01-09-2008 21:30

Feeding hungry syndicalists
This weekend saw the first general meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World outside of the US ; London Food Not Bombs provided the lunch-time food

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Up-to-minute newsfeed from Republican Convention blockades

01-09-2008 18:49

Cops gas up for it protestors
All the latest news on the streets of todays huge anti-Republican Convention from the streets of Minneapolis. Lots of stuff going on now from a 10,000 people demo, a breakaway Funk The War march, a block block roaming and breaking stuff and various sectors blockaded to prevent delegates moving around the City. Cops going in hard. Some arrests. Pepper spray and rubber bullets now being used on protestors.

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Riot Police Defend the Mall of America from workers

01-09-2008 18:07

Starbucks workers and their supporters, 50 to 70 of them, converge for a rally
today at the rail station at Lake and Hiawatha in downtown Minneapolis. The
crowd comes to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers in their fight to
organize a union, the Starbucks Workers Union (SWU), with the Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW)*, and to escort Erik Forman back to work at the Mall of
America.

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Radical Response to Hurricane Gustav and the RNC: Statement

01-09-2008 17:45

Here in the Twin Cities, activists have been experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights through intolerable pre-emptive raids, and members and friends of the RNC Welcoming Committee have been on the run, seeking sanctuary from police terrorism. Now, residents of the Gulf Coast are will continue to be experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights on an even more massive scale, and seeking sanctuary not only from the weather but from a military invasion of their cities - the same kind which 3 years ago proved an even bigger calamity than Hurricane Katrina itself.

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Demonstration / Hands off Kurdish asylum seekers!

01-09-2008 14:11

Thursday 11th September 2008 - 12:30pm - 14:30pm
Lobby of the Home Office
2 Marsham St
London
SW1P

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Senior Nepali Maoist leader to address London public meeting

01-09-2008 11:05

C P Gajurel, head of the International Department of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) will be speaking about recent developments and the current situation in Nepal in central London on Tuesday 16 September. The meeting has been organised by the Britain-South Asia Solidarity Forum.

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United Nations highly Critical of UK's treatment of women

01-09-2008 08:31

Extracts from the concluding observations of the United Nations Committee on the 'Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women' (CEDAW) of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland at its' 41st session held from 30 June to 18 July

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metamute.org climate change and class

01-09-2008 00:43

climate change and class. strategy...

there is also discussion on august aut-op-sy list

 http://www.delicious.com/dr.woooo

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Global Action Against Enforced Disappearances

29-08-2008 08:52

Disappearances No / Convention Now

Saturday August 30th marks the 25th anniversary of the International Day of the Disappeared. On this day human rights organisations and family members of the disappeared from all over the world call on their Heads of State to ratify the International Convention for the Protection of all Persons from Enforced Disappearances.

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party sat night with the wobs, e. london

28-08-2008 14:52

this took many hours to draw
Open invitation to the IWW’s Saturday night social from 7pm onwards.

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A Climate Of Mistrust: The Working Class & The Climate Camp

28-08-2008 11:20

Below is a response by an 'anarchist group' in Telford, to the recent debate regarding Dave Douglas and the National Union of Miners, critique of the climate camp movement that came up prior
and during this years camp.

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The Recession - London Public Mtg with Paul Mason and Graham Turner

26-08-2008 13:14

Paul Mason, Economics editor of Newsnight & Author of Live Fighting or Die Working - How the Working Class went Global and Graham Turner, author of "The Credit Crunch" will be discussing the recession and what it means for us. The meeting is hosted by the People Before Profit Charter. All welcome

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FREE Monday Love Carnival After Party with Movimientos

23-08-2008 17:48

Monday Love 7
After Carnival Party, Monday 25th August, 7pm-2am at The Good Ship 289 Kilburn High Road, London

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Bath Bomb #13 out now

22-08-2008 21:18

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