London Newswire Archive

17-05-2005 23:09 | 0 comment(s)

June 11th Punk show benefit for American Political Prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers

This event is part of the June 10-12 Weekend of Resistance for American Political Prisoner Jeff Luers. There are events in Brighton and Edinburgh that day as well as many cities in the US and around the world. Events list at

http://www.freefreenow.org/june2005events.html Read more >>

17-05-2005 19:27 | 1 comment(s)

Attempts to shut down SWARM the Minutemen.com

A Scottsdale-based Internet company said Monday it will force one of its Web site clients to stop encouraging harassment of the Minuteman Project or face being shut down. Swarmtheminutemen.com is encouraging people to go into the desert border areas to blast their radios or bang pots and pans together in an effort to confuse and harass Minutemen volunteers. Read more >>

17-05-2005 18:04 | 0 comment(s)

Smash EDO demo tomorrow and Fundraiser this Sunday

HERE ARE THE UPCOMING EVENTS AT EDO/MBM

EDO/MBM IS A FACTORY PROVIDING WEAPONRY FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ ON THE HOME FARM IDUSTRIAL ESTATE, MOULECOOMB, BRIGHTON - THEY HAVE RECENTLY TAKEN OUT INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PROTESTERS TO SILENCE PROTEST HERE. IF PUT INTO PLACE THE INJUNCTION WOULD STOP ANYONE GOING TO THE FACTORY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTEST

contact

smashedo@hotmail.com or 07891 405923 for more details Read more >>

17-05-2005 17:24 | 3 comment(s)

Gay Saudis tortured, flogged and executed

Defend gay Muslims persecuted by fundamentalism
17 May is “International Day Against Homophobia”
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most homophobic countries. Gay people are routinely arrested, jailed, tortured, flogged and sometimes executed Read more >>

17-05-2005 17:07 | 0 comment(s)

Seething Contempt Diplomacy

It could have been worse; much worse. Bush could have been smart. Read more >>

17-05-2005 14:44 | 0 comment(s)

UK Activists Join Global Protest Against Suez

On Friday May 13th, activists from Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, and WDM joined protestors around the world, to campaign against Suez, the multinational water company focusing their attention on Lord Simon of Highbury. Read more >>

17-05-2005 14:42 | 1 comment(s)

Watch Galloway Live

Watch Galloway Live Read more >>

17-05-2005 13:29 | 0 comment(s)

Halliburton Down Under, Above and Beyond

In his 2947 "Prelude To Space" Arthur C. Clarke presumed British dominance of interplanetary activity due to it's control of the Australian Outback spaceport.
Today the Woomera facility is controlled by British Aerospace Engineering (now in scientific alliance with the Bush and Bin Laden families' Carlyle Group) while Halliburton and Mudoch lend a helping hand... Read more >>

17-05-2005 12:26 | 6 comment(s)

How they forged the case against Galloway

The central document used against George Galloway this week by the senate committee in Washington is a forgery. Investigation by Socialist Worker shows that evidence crucial to the alleged case against the Respect MP is a fake, created after the fall of Baghdad in 2003 Read more >>

17-05-2005 05:12 | 0 comment(s)

Torture okay: propaganda paper

The article - Not Enough Official Torture in the World? The Circumstances in which Torture is Morally Justifiable - is soon to be published in the University of San Francisco Law Review?

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16-05-2005 18:22 | 1 comment(s)

Selfridges Day of Action Rocks Birmingham

On Saturday 14 May 2005, Selfridges felt the full force of Midlands anti-fur protesters anger, as the biggest ever Birmingham Selfridges demo hit the city streets!! Read more >>

16-05-2005 17:47 | 0 comment(s)

Corporate Pirates Latest: Peace(s) of Cake

The latest event in an on-going campaign by the Corporate Pirates protesting the corporate invasion of Iraq, went off with a figurative Kerblam! Friday (13/05) lunchtime, as members of the group opened a “Pirates Pantry!”, selling cakes and biscuits to members of the public outside the offices of Windrush Communications. Read more >>

16-05-2005 10:28 | 2 comment(s)

YOBS IN UNIFORMS!

Louts who swear, spit or huddle together in a group with hoods, will be compelled to arrange flower baskets, wearing Camp X-Ray orange overalls, with YOB emblazoned on the back. Read more >>

16-05-2005 08:27 | 0 comment(s)

king's cross community conference

"One of ways of empowering people is to increase their level of awareness of options they have... how they can shape decisions that affect their lives."

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16-05-2005 02:09 | 5 comment(s)

9/11 and the American Empire: How Should Religious People Respond?

"I suggested earlier that seeing the true connections between 9/11 and the global domination project helps us understand how fully this project reflects “fanaticism based on a deeply perverted value system.” This is a value system that is diametrically opposed to the value systems on which all the great religious and moral traditions of the world have been based." Read more >>

15-05-2005 18:28 | 0 comment(s)

Anarchist Masquerade Ball!

A posh fundraiser for the mobilisation against the G8 summit.
Saturday June 4th, 12-9 pm
Cambridge (in the Green Area, Strawberry Fair)

Dancing, Music, Info-shop, Speakers, Frivolity
Bring masks, ball-gowns, jackets, costumes, friends Read more >>

14-05-2005 20:26 | 0 comment(s)

Demonstrate against murder of anarchist in Columbia - 18th May 2005

London Anarchist Federation are calling for a demonstration at the Columbian Consulate in London in response to the brutal slaying of 15 year old Anarchist, Nicolás David Neira Alvares, during Mayday Demonstrations in Bogotá. Columbia. Read more >>

14-05-2005 16:24 | 1 comment(s)

Drake's Island occupied - declared nuclear free state

On 13 May 12 anti-nuclear weapons protestors from the Plymouth Trident Ploughshares (Tamarians) along with supporters, squatted Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound. A peace camp has been set up and the island declared a nuclear free state. The protest highlights the UK’s breach of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which is now being reviewed at an important at the UN in New York. The refit of the UK’s nuclear armed and nuclear powered Trident submarines in Devonport Dockyard plays a large part in Britan’s violation of this international treaty. Read more >>

14-05-2005 04:16 | 7 comment(s)

Political Policing: Lothian Police Website Promoting Make Poverty History

Quite an amazing new website from Lothian and Borders Police.

Which while it deals with policing enquiries and potential road closures and announces a new G8 info telephone number, it also heavily promotes the Make Poverty History demonstration in Ediburgh the weekend before the G8 Summit.

Amazing! Read more >>

14-05-2005 00:19 | 0 comment(s)

5 anarchist arrested in italy

scum police in italy attack people fighting against detention center in the city of lecce, solidarity action will be great if anyone has got time to do stuff,and we should find this time. Read more >>