London Newswire Archive

12-07-2006 15:27 | 3 additions

Is 2006 the year of peak oil? The latest figures are suggesting it could be...

World production of oil has peaked according to Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, a former executive of the National Iranian Oil Company. He predicts a fall of 32% by 2020 as wells dry up and new discoveries become rarer, smaller and harder to extract...

(c) 2006, Leamy Read more >>

12-07-2006 13:43 | 9 comments

Come to the UK Forum for Non-Violence

We are holding a festival of non-violent resistance on the weekend of July 21st in London. Read on for more details! Read more >>

12-07-2006 13:00 | 1 addition

URGENT: stop the deportation of Antony Aghayere, tomorrow, Thursday

THE HOME OFFICE INTENDS REMOVING Antony Aghayere, and "deport the evidence" of its brutality to refugees, on Thursday evening (13th July) at 22:00 aboard Virgin Atlantic Flight VS651 from Heathrow to Lagos, Nigeria. Read more >>

12-07-2006 11:20 | 1 comment

Public Meeting Tonight: Before and After 7/7

Interrogating British 'Security' Policies

Why did the 7/7 terrorist attack happen?

Like the 11 September 2001 attack, was this a 'blowback' effect of government policy?

What is being protected by British 'security' policies? What alternative policies could protect us?

6.30pm Wednesday 12 July

Committee Room 3, House of Lords, Westminster, SW1

Hosted by Lord Rea Read more >>

12-07-2006 00:26

CHERNOBYL HEART

the London Indymedia film festival '8 Days Against The G8' returns to Rampart this Wednesday 12th... Read more >>

11-07-2006 16:22

cyclist killed on country ride

Tragedy struck the fourteenth annual Dunwich Dynamo ride as the cyclists--thought to be more than 600 strong--headed over Essex' North Weald.

An off duty nurse and doctor at the scene did what they could, but when the ambulance arrived it was too late.

Two of his friends, and many other riders, rode on; some turned back at the news.

Still we rode.
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11-07-2006 15:46

Queens Market campaign is far from over

The situation of the campaign following the victory against ASDA Read more >>

11-07-2006 10:38

International Financial Institutions Film Screenings Tues 11'th Jul

Indymedia Film Screenings - 8 Days Against the G8

today 7.30 pm, Tuesday, 11 Jul,

theme: International Financial Institutions
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10-07-2006 19:52 | 1 addition

City of God Screening @ Everything4Everyone

City of God, the moving and brutally real movie depiction of favela life in Brazil, will be showing at 'Everything4Everyone' on Tuesday 11th July. Read more >>

10-07-2006 19:05

Camden Priest Spends 'Night On The Tiles' in Roof Occupation.

A North-London priest has occupied the roof of his church in Camden in order to raise enough money to fix the roof so that it can remain a shelter for Camdens homeless. Read more >>

10-07-2006 15:20

Another expert says we've reached peak oil production

Dr Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, a former executive of the National Iranian Oil Company has said this week that he believes global oil production is now at maximum production and can only decline from this point on.

(c) 2006, Leamy Read more >>

10-07-2006 14:02 | 1 comment

Outfoxed - the war on journalism

London indymedia film festival continues this evening on a 'media' theme... Read more >>

10-07-2006 03:30 | 4 additions | 11 comments

SOCPA - serious police assault once again outside downing street

i have been covering the issues around the 'serious organised crime and police act' for some time. what i saw on sunday afternoon sickened me. Read more >>

09-07-2006 18:36 | 1 addition

Demo in Solidarity with Chile's Students - Report & Pic

On Monday 3rd July, a few activists held a short demonstration outside the Chilean Embassy. This was in response to an 'urgent call' (see:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/06/342829.html) from Chile, asking for solidarity actions to take place at the embassy due to the increasing repression being handed out to striking Chilean students (see:

http://www.narconews.com/Issue41/article1882.html). Leaflets were given in to the embassy explaining why we there, and more than 200 leaflets were given out to the general public, people visiting the embassy and passing diplomats (!). The text of the leaflets distributed is copied below. Cheers! :) Read more >>

08-07-2006 19:08 | 2 comments

London Action Resource Centre (LARC): July update

Hi,

NB. LARC is looking out for help updating and maintaining its website. Let us know if you might be interested... Read more >>

08-07-2006 17:33

Solidarity Park Gig Experiment

We are a Wiltshire based anti-war band who worked with Maya Evans,we are playing a gig in London to see if a band with a specific anti-war agenda can generate an audience as established artists in the UK seem very quiet on the War in Iraq and the linked erosion of civil liberties in the Uk

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08-07-2006 14:07 | 1 addition | 2 comments

Why Close The G8?

The London Indymedia film festival continues this evening, Saturday 8th, at Rampart Creative Center...

from 7:30pm
FREE entry

Read more >>

07-07-2006 22:23

Solidariety to the hunger strikers in immigration detention

‘Please, deliver us from this racist prison of Colnbrook immigration removal centre.
We have been detained indefinitely without having committed any crime; our only one crime is to claim asylum in the UK.
1.Some of us still have appeals pending; our countries are not safe for us to go back voluntarily.
2. Some of us who want to go back, but we are hostage, SERCO (the private company that runs the centre) is making money from us.’
Colnbrook detainee Forum Read more >>

07-07-2006 19:40 | 4 comments

RIOT in Hackney

ROBOTS need people for the worlds first remotely choreographed riot. Read more >>

07-07-2006 14:59

Major UK Hemp Expo Banned

The 'highly' successful 'Hemp & Hydro Expo (2006)' organised by the cannabis magazine 'Weed World' for the newly opened Ricoh Arena in Coventry, has been banned - apparently by the local council. Read more >>