London Newswire Archive

07-04-2008 10:33

Tibet Protest Great, But . . . .

Are there lessons to be learned for the wider activist scene in London?
or questions to be asked about these Free Tibet Protests that seemed so successful in saturating the media? Read more >>

07-04-2008 09:19

Israeli Army Tries to Close Schools and Orphanages - Please HELP !!

The Israeli Army has decided to close down the Islamic Charitable Society in
Hebron, Palestine. They claim that the society is linked to Hamas and channels
money to terrorism but this is not true. The army has stolen a large amount of
food and equipment from the Society including computers and 2 school buses.
Food and bread for the orphans has been stolen also. Read more >>

07-04-2008 09:10

"Freedom wins" says the Sun

It is deeply saddening that so many fellow activists fall for this Whitehall-orchestrated stunt on Tibet...

They seem to forget all too easily that for five hundred years, hundreds of millions of indigenous peoples were slaughtered, decimated, deported, enslaved, starved, exterminated, impoverished, and forcibly assimilated into an emerging world system dominated by Western Europe. Read more >>

07-04-2008 04:30

Police compete in olympic farce

The police were today acting in a blatantly political manner to try and sideline Tibetan protesters as well as making themselves and the olympic procession look quite absurd.

Read more >>

06-04-2008 23:37 | 2 additions

Days of Action For Squats and Autonomous Spaces

Towards the end of last year an international call out was made for decentralised days of action for squats and autonomous spaces. Following the call out there was a preparatory meeting at Les Tanneries in Dijon and later still a National Squatters Meeting in Leeds to discuss UK actions and events in response to the call out... Read more >>

06-04-2008 23:11

Cordial Council of Resistance | 1012 - 2012 | Humanity in the UK

12th & 19th April | UK Civil Liberties Mobilisation for 2012 | Meetings & Workshops!
Read more >>

06-04-2008 21:42

Tibetan Freedom Torch Rally

Peaceful protests at Whitehall as the Olympic Torch comes to London,. followed by an account of the Tibetan Freedom Torch Rally, held at King's Cross. Read more >>

06-04-2008 20:34

Harmodsworth repression

It is official: some detainees have been assaulted and injuried when the riot police intervened to break the hunger strike and took 30 detainees out Harmondsworth IRC.
Read more >>

06-04-2008 19:30

Olympic Torch Chased off the Streets, pics from Fleet Street

Thousands of people decended on the Olympic Torch Procession today leaving bungling coppers forced to bundle the torch (which had gone out) onto a bus. Read more >>

06-04-2008 18:48 | 1 addition

36 people arrested so far during the Olympic torch relay in London

36 people arrested so far during the Olympic torch relay in London Read more >>

06-04-2008 18:42 | 3 additions

Police Manhandle Press at Tibet Demonstration

The Metropolitan Police today used physical force against photographers during the Olympic Torch protest along Whitehall. Read more >>

06-04-2008 17:32

Reclaim NUS! Reclaim the campus!

Following the defeat of the NUS bureaucracy's anti-democratic Governance Review, which would have consolidated the conversion of NUS from a union into a bureaucratic NGO/lobbying organisation, Education Not for Sale and other activists have called a conference at LSE on 17 May in order to discuss how we can reclaim our unions, our education and our society. Read more >>

06-04-2008 16:47

Torch Protest hits Whitechapel

There were a few scuffles with police near the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, at the cross roads of Mile End Road, Cambridge Heath Road and Whitechapel Road. Otherwise a fantastic turnout by the locals with some colourful banners.
Read more >>

05-04-2008 18:44

Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street) Read more >>

05-04-2008 16:18

Campaign For Free Assembly Demo.

The demo went from Trafalgar Square via Parliament Square to the Home Office and back to Parliament Square then along Whitehall to the pub.

Read more >>

05-04-2008 13:33

Harmondsworth press release

This was send around to the mainstream press. Read more >>

05-04-2008 13:11

Repression of the Harmondsworth detainees' protest

Riot police intervene to break the hunger strike Read more >>

05-04-2008 13:08 | 1 addition

Codename 'Two Point Two'

On the run up to the decentralised days of action for squats and autonomous spaces (

http://april2008.squat.net), a new squat has been opened to provide yet another autonomous social centre in London. Read more >>

05-04-2008 12:33

Stop Lib Dembs padlocking Paddick who wants to say NO to Crossrail

In January 2008, the Lib Dems' 'candidate' for 'mayor' at the London elections scheduled for 1 May 2008, said that Crossrail was not about benefiting ordinary commuters Read more >>

04-04-2008 22:54

MRC etc plan a public display and interaction mid April. Contact MRC.

The MRC are planning a public display and interaction with the people of Camden / London in mid April in order to convince the people that live there that a virus containment facility / animal torture lab instead of the homes needed there {Gordon Brown promises} are a "good idea". This will be built on a Camden council estate - somers Town. The MRC plans have also been criticised recently at government level.

We are looking forward to it.

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