London Newswire Archive

20-01-2007 13:37

Fifth Welfare Reform Newsletter from the Coalition Againat Welfare Bill (CAWRB)

Please find enclosed below for your urgent attention the fifth Welfare Reform Newsletter from the Coalition Againat Welfare Bill (CAWRB) which all of you are free to share and distribute and put into all your own newsletters and forums and within your own networks.

Yours

Colin Revell.... Read more >>

20-01-2007 00:36

18/01/07: Video , photos and report on Kalyx - “Making everyday a better day.”

Video of the protest outside Kalyx-Sodexho headquarters. photographs of Kalyx-run HMP Peterborough and a report on Kalyx and the Sodexho Alliance - listed as one of the companies profiteering from Guantanamo Bay. Read more >>

19-01-2007 17:21 | 1 comment

remember MLK day, etc

numerous events happening, includes afternoon do at the friends meeting house, euston rd, 4pm saturday.
despite seeming incorporation into media "sainthood", plenty is in the actual history to cause new thinking - so - in the spirit of the "remember the eleventh" campaign - 2 extra facts to remember . . . .
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19-01-2007 03:01 | 4 comments

New London Social Centre

New Occupied Social Centre
139-141 Stoke Newington Church Street
N16
(old Vortex Jazz bar) Read more >>

19-01-2007 01:31 | 1 comment

Spirit of Broadway Market benefit, 3rd FEB, Homerton, E9

Solution Sounds allnighter benefit, Whispers nightclub, 3rd Feb, Homerton, E9 Read more >>

18-01-2007 21:55 | 1 addition

11-01-07: Photos from Catholic Workers Guantanamo protest, US Embassy

Several photographs of the Catholic Workers Guantanamo Bay protest on the evening of 11/01/07. Read more >>

18-01-2007 21:47

Video: Guantanamo Vogue and Disco Dance outside Lockheed-Martin

11-01-2007: A break away group of protestors target Lockheed-Martin for profiteering from Guantanamo Bay. Read more >>

18-01-2007 06:11

Families in Immigration Detention - November 2006

Freedom of Information Act 2000. NCADC asked: In November 2006 how many families were in Immigration Detention in Dungavel, Tinsley House and Yarl's Wood? How many adults
and how many children? Read more >>

18-01-2007 06:08

Self-harm in Immigration Detention - November 2006

Freedom of Information Act 2000. NCADC asked for figures on self-harm in immigration detention for November 2006 under the following headings: 1) Number of individuals on formal self-harm at risk; 2) Number on incidents of self-harm requiring medical treatment; 3) Number of deaths if any. Read more >>

17-01-2007 23:56 | 1 addition

London buses recruitment ads

Something must be done about the part recruitment ads on our buses play in the war effort Read more >>

17-01-2007 12:30

Intl Day Against Homophobia-2007-Make some noise !

Press Release from IDAHO UK concerning the yearly event on May 17th...(Given the news about the EU far right MEP's we need more than a day, we need everyday.... Read more >>

17-01-2007 11:24

REMINDER! Demo at 4.30pm today, Kalyx / Harmondsworth

Demo against Kalyx/Sodexho who run Harmondsworth immigration detention centre Read more >>

17-01-2007 02:04 | 1 comment

Video - Amnesty action at US Embassy - Close Guantanamo

Late. Read more >>

16-01-2007 16:49

Organising the Unorganisable?

Migrant and casual labour reside on the front lines of capitalism, and the IWW has a strong history of militant organising amongst these groups. They remain the two of the most exploited and vulnerable groups of workers today.

What can be done? How can casual and migrant workers help themselves? What are their connections and differences? How can other workers support them?
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16-01-2007 15:49

New Wave of Arrests Against Iraqi Kurds

A number of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers have been detained across the UK this month. No removal dates seemed to have been set as yet. Read more >>

16-01-2007 15:12 | 1 addition

Chief Inspector of Prisons publishes reports on immigration short-term prisons

Today Anne Owers, Chief Inspector of Prisons, publishes reports of unannounced inspections on four immigration short-term holding facilities (STHF) at Colnbrook near Heathrow Airport, Reliance House and John Lennon Airport, Liverpool and Sandford House, Solihull.

Below are quotes and extracts NCADC has taken from the reports. Read more >>

16-01-2007 13:28

Pictures from Guantanimo action at US embassy.

Some late images of the action organised at the US Embassy in London by Amnesty international. Over 300 people took part. Read more >>

15-01-2007 17:21

Indy Global Report on Resonance FM104.4

Listen to the 8th of jan's Indy Global Report which broadcasts on Resonance FM104.4 every Monday between 22.30 and 23.30.
Also listen out for tonight's show which will be bringing reports about the recent US bombing of Somalia, This week in Palestine, the weekly update produced by IMEMC, as well as radical tunes and grooves. Read more >>

15-01-2007 16:56

Tate in a State over "sensitive" photographs

As Blair bangs on about how the media spoil his war, showing the wrong sort of pictures, confusion broke out this morning at Mark Wallinger's opening at the Tate.

Using extensive reference photographs Wallinger has has managed in his work 'State Britain' to re-create an exact copy of Brian Haw's protest camp as it was prior to 23rd May's police raid. Today's press call was to encourage us to photograph the art made from the photographs, so to speak.

Except that some art, including horrific birth defects as a result of depleted uranium armaments was off limits. Admission to the launch was dependent on agreeing not to photograph it. Read more >>

15-01-2007 15:00 | 1 addition

info night on G8 2007 in London

WHAT YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW
ABOUT THE G8 2007
BUT WERE AFRAID
TO ASK

What is this all about? Is Rostock a drink and where do I find it?
Where do those riot kids come from? Why should you go to such a place?
Are those "german activists" really as well organised as people think?
Who are "they" and what support is needed? Read more >>