London Newswire Archive

12-10-2013 14:36

Zapatista Solidarity at the 2013 London Anarchist Bookfair

11.00am - 12 noon
The Zapatistas: Latest news and relaunch of London Group
News from the Little Schools of Freedom Read more >>

12-10-2013 10:43

Censorship and Cover up in Dublin

Graham Joe Stalin Cantwell has been exposed. This man is now a film Director in London. Read more >>

12-10-2013 09:19

Report, video, pics from 5 Oct: Marking 12 yrs of War on Afghanistan & 12 yrs of N.V. anti-war resistance of London Catholic Worker

VIDEO Giuseppe Conlon Hall Venue Oct 5th event (7 mins)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJiDPcplbaY (YouTube)

PHOTOS from the event

http://tinyurl.com/p28t5ns (Flickr)

With Joe Black, Ciaron O'Reilly, Guy Smallman, Andy Worthington, Razz & anti-war/solidarity activists at Giuseppe Conlon Hall, Sat 5 October.

End their Wars! Free our Prisoners! Read more >>

10-10-2013 14:33

KFC Boycott And Chicken Disease Cause Owner Profits To Drop 70%

Disease, boycott, health inspections are some factors in the decline in KFC sales and profits. Read more >>

08-10-2013 10:28

Harssament, illeghal eviction: what does the dpp of engalnd do?

The English DPP Kier Starmer QC is on his way out. He is often given unchallenged platform. Read more >>

07-10-2013 14:46

Builders force entry to damage 195 Mare Street – help needed

Today at approximately 10:05 a.m. as two of us were returning from scavenging fruit and vegetables a group of about a dozen builders forced entry into the social center. They then proceeded to affix a notice board to the wall declaring that the building was a construction site. We notified them that the property was legally occupied in accordance with the 1977 Criminal Law Act and that they had committed an offence by breaking into the building while it so occupied. Apparently unconcerned that their conduct was illegal, they proceeded to begin gutting the building while we were inside it. They also proceeded to disconnect the buildings water, by cutting the pipe connecting to the water main. Read more >>

06-10-2013 17:46

UKUncut Legal Aid Roadblock in Cambridge

Yesterday (Saturday 05/10/2013) UKUncut created a disruption to the usual flow of weekend consumerist reality in Cambridge by setting up a roadblock on East Road. Read more >>

06-10-2013 15:51

UK Uncut and DPAC block road in Legal Aid Cuts protest

A successful two hour long blockade of the Strand outside the London Royal Courts of Justice passed off without incident yesterday after disabled activists locked wheelchairs together with the support of UK Uncut activists. Read more >>

04-10-2013 21:45

New Social Centre in Hackney Needs Your Help

A new squatted social space has been created in Hackney - 195 Mare St. The space aims to be an active and inspiring hub for local individuals and community groups. Read more >>

02-10-2013 14:13

Yahoo Allowing AdChoices To Delete Moderator Posts And Replace Them With Ads

Yahoo Groups, part of the international Yahoo corporation, is allowing advertisers
to delete political and poetry posts and replace them with ads. Read more >>

02-10-2013 11:39

Carbon Capital Speaker Tour: London leg

Banks, hedge funds and pension funds based in Britain are bankrolling the extraction of fossil fuels all over the world. Many of these dirty energy projects are wrecking communities and fuelling climate change while doing nothing to increase energy access for local people. Join us to demand energy justice. Read more >>

30-09-2013 09:43

Colorama to become yuppie flats (you can't afford)

A photo of what was once Library Street Social Centre

http://librarystreetlondon.wordpress.com Read more >>

30-09-2013 07:35

5 Oct: London event for 12th Anniversary of War on Afghanistan. With Andy Worthington, Guy Smallman & others

LONDON Sat Oct 5th.4-6pm

On the eve of 12th anniversary of War on Afghanistan

END THEIR WARS! FREE OUR PRISONERS!

with Andy Worthington, author of 'The Guantánamo Files'

http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/

and Guy Smallman, photojournalist, Director of the film '15 Million Afghans'

http://15millionafghans.com/the-film/

*Please RSVP if you intend attending. Although not essential it helps the organisers organise the event.
Read more >>

29-09-2013 23:01

Save Rosia Montana – Romanian anti-mining protest in London

Nearly 200 activists staged a colourful and noisy solidarity protest in London today as part of world-wide actions in solidarity with protests in Romania against government corruption and plans to poison the beautiful Western Transylvanian area with a vast cyanide-mined gold extraction project. Read more >>

28-09-2013 17:32

September London Critical Mass Bike Ride - report n pics

A dry September Friday saw around 600 cyclists take to the London streets for the customary end of month ‘Critical Mass’ bicycle ride. Read more >>

25-09-2013 20:16

Many Reasons Dolphins Are Dying

nuclear waste dumping, municipal sewer dumps,
long lines fishing, ship propellers, sonar,
and other causes of dolphin deaths Read more >>

24-09-2013 19:46

25 Ingredients In McNuggets, 17 Ingredients in McDonald's Fries..

hidden toxins besides disease, animal agony, deforestation, energy waste, unionbusting,
litter, etc.
Read more >>

22-09-2013 14:12

Arrests at Greek Embassy solidarity protest yesterday

Police disrupted and moved a peaceful protest outside the London Greek embassy yesterday afternoon, leading to two arrests. The protest was over the murder of Pavlos Fyssas by a neo-Nazi Golden Dawn activist in Keratsini last week. Read more >>