London Newswire Archive

15-01-2004 11:11 | 1 comment(s)

GRASSROOTS MUSIC FESTIVAL MARKS GLOBAL PEACE DAY

As part of international celebrations on the anniversary of last year’s historical global peace marches the producers of the Peace Not War Music Fesival in London will be the biggest ever grassroots peace festival in the UK. Read more >>

15-01-2004 10:14 | 0 comment(s)

New Independent Alt Media Website from Znet folks

“An exciting initiative by people with great experience and impressive achievements. It offers real promise of meeting needs that are widely and rightly felt: for regular news about important issues, truly independent, not constrained by concentrated power.”
—Noam Chomsky, author and renowned social critic Read more >>

15-01-2004 10:02 | 6 comment(s)

Tom Hurndall Vigil

Pictures from the Tom Hurndall vigil at Downing Street. Of course the Police felt it was neccesary to be a pain becasue after all protestors are terrorists too... Read more >>

15-01-2004 09:47 | 3 comment(s)

Corporate Coverage of Fairford Coach Judicial Review

Monitoring press coverage about the Judicial Review: Read more >>

15-01-2004 00:41 | 0 comment(s)

Anarchists need your help!!

Phase 1 of the revolution has been done now we need to move to da second phase!
When I came across this I thought they needed da help.

Brothers & Sisters,
Help your people achive this objective. We understand dat yo all very busy trying to understand the 20004 capitalistic box. Da box is there to to destroy you and your collectives.

Love from yuganda collective!

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14-01-2004 21:43 | 1 comment(s)

International Women's Day London Meeting - 20/01/04

A meeting for people in London to plan for IWD (march 8th), the meeting is on tues jan 20th in Whitechapel! Read more >>

14-01-2004 17:59 | 0 comment(s)

Turin Samba Player freed

Turin Sambista walked free from Horseferry Rd Magistrates Court in London on Tuesday 6th January.

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14-01-2004 12:44 | 3 comment(s)

BBC Archive

In August 2003, the BBC announced to make its archive available on the web for free. And yesterday, a draft for a Creative Commons Licence for the UK was presented at the Oxford Media Convention.

repost from

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3177479.stm Read more >>

14-01-2004 12:26 | 56 comment(s)

Make high-earners, not students, pay for our crumbling higher education system.

Parliament will be voting on the Higher Education Bill on the 27th January; if passed it will severely penalise students and put many prospective students off univeristy. There are alternatives which the government is unwilling to listen to. Great Britain is a democracy and we have a voice... let's make ourselves heard. Read more >>

14-01-2004 11:05 | 0 comment(s)

STOP A FACIST TO ADDRESS THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Alvaro Uribe Velez, the facist president of Colombia is being invited but MEPs to the European Parliament, You can stop it. Please act NOW. Read more >>

14-01-2004 09:32 | 0 comment(s)

Tom Hurndall - Press Release & Action

There is now a press release from the family and a call for action today. Read more >>

13-01-2004 23:20 | 0 comment(s)

P.R Company Burson Marsteller hired to promot a Catastrophe in Athens

P.R Company Burson Marsteller hired to promot a Catastrophe in Athens.
With the excuse of Olympic Games the greek Ministry of Culture plans to destroy the surrounding protected area of Acropolis of Athens and valuable antiquities with a construction of a giant glass and metal building in Acropolis buffer zone,area that is protected from UNESCO. Read more >>

13-01-2004 20:36 | 15 comment(s)

Tom Hurndall has Died

Tom Hurndall is dead
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13-01-2004 18:03 | 1 comment(s)

British Iraqi Goes On Trial for Protesting at Arms Fair

Mehdi El-radhi, a British Iraqi, faces trial by jury at Snaresbrook Crown Court during the week of 9th February, 2004, for taking non-violent direct action at the DSEi Arms Fair in London in September 2003.

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13-01-2004 17:52 | 0 comment(s)

They don't want you to see their stuff goin down...

New resatriction on travel to the Occupied Palestinian Territories will facilitate the speeding up of this silent genocide... Read more >>

13-01-2004 17:45 | 3 comment(s)

thessaloniki benefit - help wanted

Help! Acts needed.
we are needing various actors and performers

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13-01-2004 17:15 | 0 comment(s)

APC Special Round-Up Report on WSIS

APC Special Round-Up on WSIS
December 03
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13-01-2004 16:48 | 0 comment(s)

CHERYL SEAL REPORTS: To Win in 2004, the Democrats Must Reclaim America's Soul

Thanks to the Bush Reich and his neofascist goons in Congress, who helped pave the way for his dictatorship, America's center has been pulled so far to the right that the country is in danger of toppling over. To win in 2004, the Democratic Party must reclaim the center - and its own soul. Read more >>

13-01-2004 16:22 | 0 comment(s)

Media Hacklab work days and benefit

A new Media Hacklab is getting started in the east end of London. Based at the Freedom Press bookshop and social centre, it will be an open access computer lab with internet access. Going beyond the preponderance of internet cafes, a Hacklab is a political space used for alternative media, the use and development of free software and other emancepatory techologies, skill sharing and collective learning, community projects and anything else we can organise. The projects that happen there will depend on the commitment of those involved.
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