London Newswire Archive

09-10-2003 18:09 | 5 comment(s)

Parliament debates and votes pre/post Iraq

Sovereignty is in parliament. Its power is expressed by the votes of its members.
These members could, from September 2002 onwards, have vetoed the drive to war, but chose not to. Their votes are arguments remain in the public record. We should not forget them.
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09-10-2003 16:56 | 1 comment(s)

Thames Gateway Essex : Cutting through the glossy brochures

The Thames Gateway is a range of developments in Essex, Kent and East London that will mean an end to many of the remaining green spaces in this already damaged part of the UK. Read more >>

09-10-2003 13:26 | 0 comment(s)

Heathrow Crane Update

Heathrow Terminal 5 Occupation Read more >>

09-10-2003 11:42 | 6 comment(s)

Deciet and Manipulation in left ESF mobilisation

This article, from the Weekly Worker, provides a fascinating insight into the shadowy world of Lefty politics and highlights the deceit and manipulation going on behind the scenes in the process to build a massive European Social Forum event in the UK in 2004.
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09-10-2003 09:18 | 2 comment(s)

police tear gas police

industrial unrest in greece.....pigs gas pigs
from bbc online.......... Read more >>

08-10-2003 22:11 | 0 comment(s)

No Airport Expansion

Some l8 stills from Monday's crane-take (still on-going). Read more >>

08-10-2003 20:31 | 5 comment(s)

Socialist Strategy in California

They say a socialist could never win in California for one reason: too much sun, fun and gun. Sure, the heterogeneity of community and lifestyle tend to favour some kind of liberalism, but socialism in a place where it hardly ever rains? Forget it!

Okay, so the above is a desperate caricature, but it makes about as much sense as the arguments made by the liberal-left for voting Democrat or keeping Gray Davis in power... Read more >>

08-10-2003 16:59 | 0 comment(s)

Heathrow Crane Protest: Press Release

The following press release about the Heathrow Crane Protest was forwarded by Friends of the Earth England (Senior Regional Campaigns Coordinator) on behalf of Hounslow Against New Terminals (HANT). Read more >>

08-10-2003 15:36 | 2 comment(s)

Living on the Edge of Disaster: Being a Poor Working Mother in America

To be a borderline poverty level working mother is becoming a reality for more and more single, hard working mothers. The edge of financial disaster is becoming familiar territory for millions of women and the families they struggle to support. A desperate scramble for survival is the way a growing sector of the America that is the real backbone of our workforce has to deal with.

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08-10-2003 15:12 | 3 comment(s)

Zapatista Solidarity Demo London 31 October 2003

ZAPATISTA ACTION:
PROTEST AGAINST THE EXPULSIONS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE MONTES AZULES BIORESERVE
9 YEARS ON THE STRUGGLE IN CHIAPAS CONTINUES
OCTOBER 31ST PROTEST OUTSIDE THE MEXICAN EMBASSY IN LONDON
MEET AT 11AM OUTSIDE THE MEXICAN EMBASSY 42 HERTFORD STREET W1J 7JR JUST OFF PARK LANE Read more >>

08-10-2003 12:52 | 0 comment(s)

Were you arrested for Obstruction of the Highway at DESi?

Important Legal Information Read more >>

08-10-2003 12:49 | 1 comment(s)

Crane Protest (BBC Report and photo)

BBC Coverage of Heathrow Crane Occupation - Wot no Indymnedia feature? Read more >>

08-10-2003 12:40 | 0 comment(s)

LDMG update 5th october 2003

1. Anti-capitalist prisoners on hunger strike
2. BBC report on Simon Chapman
3. DSEI business
4. Daily Mirror article on DSEI
5. Anti-war protests
6. The future of LDMG?
7. More cops than ever
8. Subscribe Read more >>

08-10-2003 09:47 | 3 comment(s)

Terminal 5 Crane Occupation Continues

Over 48 Up a Crane Read more >>

08-10-2003 01:02 | 0 comment(s)

Second Manchester People's assembly/Social Forum

The second People's Assembly/Social Forum took place on 4th October 2003. Read more >>

07-10-2003 23:27 | 0 comment(s)

wonderful Jean Ziegler

Jean Ziegler, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, payed an official visit to Palestine in July 2003. This the first time a UN Rapporteur was allowed to investigate the situation in the occupied territories. Read more >>

07-10-2003 23:24 | 3 comment(s)

BBC article on Simon Chapman

Article on Simon Chapman and the Thessaloniki Read more >>

07-10-2003 18:06 | 1 comment(s)

Delivering testimonies to Israeli soldiers in Occupied Palestine

Today, 7th October, in Nablus Occupied Palestine international and Palestinian peace activists along with members of the medical relief committess delivered letters to Israeli soldiers at the numerous checkpoints around the city. These letters contained testimonies from refuseniks explaining why they had refused military service and calling on their Israeli countrymen/women to do the same; thoughts about the scenes they had witnessed by the internationals and messages from the children of Nablus. Read more >>

07-10-2003 14:58 | 9 comment(s)

Chat on the FORUMS! Not on the NEWSWIRE!

Why fill up the newswire with random chat when there is now a dedicated message board for comments, chat, questions and random discussion?

http://www.enrager.net/forums Read more >>

07-10-2003 11:58 | 21 comment(s)

European Social Forum London 2004 Bid: A Stitch Up?

Apparently the 'comrades' of the SWP in the U.K (strange word that, particularly in this context) have been secretely negotiating with that well known radical, Ken Livingstone and the union, Unison and other N.G.O’s to bring the European Social Forum (ESF) to London in 2004.

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