London Newswire Archive

30-09-2005 19:14 | 4 comment(s)

Shoot-to-Kill & the deadbeat press

Some newspapers have carried strongly worded articles on the Met's shoot-to-kill policy since the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes at Stockwell station, but a review of their reporting prior to his death reveals a lazy attitude to police pronouncements, with the press happy to sell the public a fantasy of heroic policemen pitted against superhuman terrorists poised to strike at any moment. Read more >>

30-09-2005 15:38 | 5 comment(s)

shell hell solidarity action today in london (pics and report)

an environmental protest comprising sand dump and banner drop with megaphone and samba band went without hitch at the shell centre on the south bank at midday today highlighting the shell development in rossport, county mayo in the north west of ireland. Read more >>

30-09-2005 15:35 | 5 comment(s)

New Iranian Protest - Stop killing gays

OutRage! and axm magazine call for mass protest against the homophobic atrocities in Iran outside the Iranian Embassy, London from 1pm on Tuesday 4th October. Read more >>

30-09-2005 15:10 | 0 comment(s)

DSEi Official Visitor Survey

The post-DSEi survey thingermajigger can be found here:

https://www.smartregister.co.uk/survey/?sid=13&pid=0

please mess with it in cunning and ingenius ways which we cannot afford to miss. Read more >>

30-09-2005 13:13 | 2 comment(s)

Who authorisedd Michael Keith to lie about Tower Hamlets to MPs?

“The Author / CAAL, 2005...The collection of independently verifiable evidence on the incidents and the frequency of lying by persons whether as current councillors or as senior employees of Tower Hamlets Council as well as the conduct of MPs, MEPs and GLA members covering the same area as the LBTH Council area, with the object of stopping these persosn from lying FULL STOP” Read more >>

30-09-2005 08:46 | 4 comment(s)

Stop The War photos

Some slightly belated shots of the Socialist Workers Party (sorry, Stop The War) demo last Saturday. Read more >>

30-09-2005 01:56 | 9 comment(s)

Azelle Rodney murdered by Police (his murderer is still on a paid holiday)

Mother asks why was her son shot dead in the street by Police?
"My son, Azelle Rodney, was tragically killed on Saturday 30 April 2005 outside a pub in Hale Lane, Edgeware by an armed officer of the Metropolitan Police. Azelle, who had just celebrated his 24th birthday and was looking forward to the birth of his first baby, had been busy making plans to build a life for him and his new family."

Officer who shot and killed Azelle Rodney still on holiday as letters to Sir Ian Blair ignored (30/09/2005)
Members of the Azelle Rodney campaign are incensed that the officer who shot and killed him on 30 April has yet to be interviewed although he remains on holiday. Blair's orders to "shoot to kill" have murdered innocents, and Blair has not responded to Azelle's family.

The police must obey the same laws as everyone. Ignorant racist police should go to jail when they commit a crime such as the murder of Azelle Rodney. If bad police are allowed to go unpunished, they will continue to commit crimes. It is because we have a Prime Minister like Tony Blair that murderers are allowed to walk free. New Labour have caused the high crime rate. Read more >>

30-09-2005 00:03 | 2 comment(s)

Italy need passport to internet /PH/FX

Anyone visiting Italy and wanting to use an internet point, or cafe, will need to take along their passport – and be prepared for a major invasion of their privacy.

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29-09-2005 18:20 | 0 comment(s)

Reed Elsevier in Oxford targeted again

Oxford activists demo Reed Elsevier management site in Kidlington over their connections with the notorious DSEi arms fair. Read more >>

29-09-2005 13:15 | 3 comment(s)

Don't dare to object to New Labour

The days of dissent are limited it seems. No protests (or perhaps evening lobbying) allowed outside the House of Commons, and no dissent in the party conference... Read more >>

29-09-2005 00:50 | 3 comment(s)

Historical Materialism Annual Conference 2005, 4-6 NOV - LONDON

Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’ CONF IN LONDON Read more >>

28-09-2005 23:44 | 0 comment(s)

israeli anarchist speak in london tommorow

tomorrow, 29th september a talk with an israeli activist from anarchists against the wall in london 8 pm Read more >>

28-09-2005 22:01 | 2 comment(s)

URGENT ACTION against Blair U-turn on climate !!!

URGENT ACTION against Blair U-turn on climate !!!

DEMO OUTSIDE DOWNING STREET, 6.00 pm Thursday 29th Read more >>

28-09-2005 21:56 | 0 comment(s)

VIVA CUBA!

Events in solidarity with socialist Cuba and the Miami 5. Read more >>

28-09-2005 19:50 | 0 comment(s)

A week of news

This text pulls together a bunch of this weeks stories. It was prepared for the Indymedia London Radio show on Resonance this week but not used... Read more >>

28-09-2005 17:39 | 0 comment(s)

Audio - Interview re George Fox 6 trial

Audio taken from a phone interview made live during the 24th Sept 2005 Indymedia Newswire Show on Resonance FM....

CLICK HERE >>

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2005/09/7004.php << Read more >>

27-09-2005 11:54 | 4 comment(s)

Former MI5 Shayler Speaks out at peace demo

Giulio Sica speaks to former MI5 officer David Shayler at the London peace and liberty demonstration, 24 September, 2005. Read more >>

27-09-2005 02:55 | 6 comment(s)

Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same

‘LONDON (Reuters): - A London underground train station was evacuated and part of a main east-west line closed in a security alert on Thursday, three weeks after suicide bombers killed 52 people on the transport network, police said. A Transport Police spokeswoman said Southwark station was closed and Jubilee Line services suspended between Waterloo and Canary Wharf in the east London business district.’

This Reuters story was written while the police were detaining me in Southwark tube station and the bomb squad was checking my rucksack. When they were through, the two explosive specialists walked out of the tube station smiling and commenting ‘nice laptop’. The officers offered apologies on behalf of the Metropolitan Police. Then they arrested me.

Sari Horwitz writes, a few days after my arrest, in the Washington Post:

‘After the July 7 attacks on the London transit system by suicide bombers, the international police chiefs organization produced a detailed training guide for dealing with suicide bombers [that] recommends [...] an officer needs to use lethal force to stop someone who fits a certain behavioral profile.’ Read more >>

27-09-2005 01:59 | 5 comment(s)

Don't hate the media, blog the media

Over the space of a few years the culture of blogging has spread rapidly to such a degree that the new media form appears to enjoy a readership to compete with the traditional media forms such as the daily paper... Read more >>