London Newswire Archive

19-12-2007 22:46

Foot & Mouth / Anthrax / Ebola and Plague set to be available on Camden High St

See Camden New Journal Read more >>

19-12-2007 21:42

Protest Tomorrow at DSEi Arms Fair 'Rivers of Blood' Trial

Two suited protesters who doused themselves in fake blood and lay down 'dead' outside the DSEi arms fair in east London in September are on trial at Stratford Magistrates Court tomorrow (Thursday) morning. There will be a protest outside the court, probably including a brass band. Read more >>

19-12-2007 17:50

Veg*n Climate March report

On Saturday 8th December 2007, the Campaign for Eco-Veg*nism set out to coordinate the "biggest ever mobilisation of vegetarians and vegans on environmental grounds" at the National Climate March in London. We called on veggies and vegans to join a Veg*n Climate March, which in effect would be a `veg*n block` within the main march. See report below.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for more about CEV and the shocking facts regarding meat/dairy production which reveal that our diet is critical to the survival of the planet!! Read more >>

18-12-2007 22:45 | 2 additions

Pensioner Jailed for Opposing Trident Nuclear Weapons

IRENE WILLIS, a 62-year-old peace activist from Southend, Essex was today sentenced to seven days' imprisonment by City of Westminster Magistrates’ Court for refusing to pay a fine of £50 (+ £50 court costs). The fine was for deliberately obstructing traffic around Parliament Square during an anti-nuclear protest on 14th March 2007, the day Parliament voted to replace Trident, despite a huge Labour backbench rebellion. Read more >>

18-12-2007 15:30 | 1 addition

London Home Office HQ Blockaded by Refugee Support Groups

9.45am, 18 December 2007: Five people from refugee support groups including No Borders London managed to successfully blockade the front entrance of the Home Office headquarters on Marsham Street in London. Read more >>

18-12-2007 13:52

SOCPA & New year

What will happen Read more >>

18-12-2007 06:59

Do you want to send Gordon Brown a message?

Dear Londoner

As you may know there is an election for London Mayor in the next few months. Is there a message you would like to be sent to Gordon Brown and Ken Livingstone?

Support Brian Haw for London Mayor 2008 and your message will be delivered.
Read more >>

17-12-2007 22:19

Kings Cross ~ Animal Rights and Councillors Fight Side by Side at Kings Cross

Camden Councillors and Animal rights Activists are set to fight side by side against Gordon Brown over the controversial plans to build a monstrous virus containment facility and animal testing laboratory on a Camden council estae near to Kings Cross -Broill Place / St Pancras. Read more >>

17-12-2007 13:56

A new social center for London

Things appear to be on a low ebb in terms of social centers in London and with the rampART likely to be closing within the next month or so, it is clearly time to open a new space. Read more >>

16-12-2007 16:46

CrossRail has contaminated fragile climate of legality in UK parliament

How? By the secret promoters of CrossRail hole plot [‘the CrossRail Bill’, now set to be formally 'considered' in the House of Lords following the 'Third Reading' see more below], Big Business interests and agenda-setters like the USA giant Bechtel, to dictate how the ‘sovereign’ UK and its ‘elected’ parliament and Govt should behave! This is what has been seen in the latest exhibition of ‘parliamentary sovereignty’ as displayed in the House of Commons three days ago when MPs of all parties acted openly as poodles with not a singe recorded move by a single MP against CrossRail at this finalizing procedural stage! The ‘Party’ which has been alleged to have introduced ‘Mr Bean’ into the so-called lexicon learned discourse in ‘ the mother of parliaments’, exposed its own infinite idiocy by competing fur space to show just how pathetically full of ignorance and lack of substance it was…. This is why the Khoodeelaar! Campaign has to carry on with the task that fills that gap s brazenly created by the bankruptcy of the time serving, unrepresentative and overpaid MPs… Read more >>

16-12-2007 16:06

Urgent Action: Bucaramanga Coca-Cola Workers Receive Imminent Death Threat

In the last fortnight, three Coca-Cola workers in Bucaramanga, Colombia have
been told that before the end of December they will be killed and buried in
a mass grave. The threat demands that their union cease all protest against
Coca-Cola. Join us in emergency action to defend their lives! Read more >>

15-12-2007 19:21

Totalitarian Oil get out of Burma protest in Chiswick

On Thursday 13th December, eight protesters campaigned at the Total Oil
station at 137 Chiswick High Road against Total's funding of the repressive
regime in Burma. Read more >>

15-12-2007 15:20

Brian Haw's alternative Christmas message

Check out Brian's message to the world at Christmas.
The Queen's speech.... Blah! This is the one that matters!! Read more >>

15-12-2007 01:45

Heathrow: more lies emerge

Heathrow 3rd runway consultation prospectus exposed over number of threatened homes and cost attributed to CO2 emissions Read more >>

15-12-2007 00:50 | 1 addition

Video and audio from climate change rally, London, 8 Dec 2007

Video and audio clips of most of the speeches and some of the songs performed at the Campaign Against Climate Change rally held outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, on 8th December 2007. Read more >>

14-12-2007 18:16

Call To Action:Christmas Demo for Housing 17th Dec 6pm Hackney Town Hall

Hackney “Scrooge” won’t house us: We won’t be turned away

Hackney Town Hall, Mare Street E8 [

http://www.tiny.cc/vdevt]
MONDAY THE 17TH OF DECEMBER
6 - 7:30 PM
Read more >>

14-12-2007 17:48

Hackney Party Tonight...

Resonance DJ's, Indymedia Cinema, Carol Singers and much much more...The George Pub, Glenarm Road, Hackney.
Read more >>

14-12-2007 16:39

London: Improvements for the homeless

A new campaign to improve the lot of homeless people in London has been gathering steam after it was launched by the London Coalition Against Poverty (LCAP), finds Freedom newspaper. Read more >>

14-12-2007 13:13 | 2 additions

No Christmas Cheer as Arms Giant Lockheed Gets Locked Out

“We never forget who we’re murdering and spying for”. Cornerstone of the UK military-industrial complex / Orwellian state, US-based arms firm Lockheed Martin was targeted early on Thursday morning (13th December) at its central London HQ as activists from Trident Ploughshares and London Catholic Worker delivered a seasonal message to the company, locking workers out of the building for 45 minutes.
Read more >>

14-12-2007 01:00

Gordon Brown - open letter from Camden against St Pancras Death Lab

In an open letter to Gordon Brown in today's Camden New Journal concillor Roger Robinson said he has been given "no alternative but to fight alongside anyone" to stop the "world's largest ever, highest level virus containment facility / animal testing lab" to be built within a Camden council estate on brownfield land behind St Pancras and Kings Cross stations.

Read more >>