London Newswire Archive

18-03-2004 17:19 | 0 comment(s)

Blunkett loses anti-terror appeal

Britain's most senior judge has ruled Home Secretary David Blunkett must release a Libyan man detained by police under anti-terror laws.

Lord Chief Justice Woolf upheld a previous ruling that the man's 15-month detention at Belmarsh prison in south-east London is unjustified.

The Special Immigration Appeals Commission refused Mr Blunkett the right to appeal against the decision.
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18-03-2004 15:55 | 1 comment(s)

ACT TODAY! We need your help to REACH for a toxics-free future!

Please tell your MEPs that you want hazardous chemicals to be substituted and
replaced with safer alternatives and that you want a right to know what
chemicals are in products you buy. Read more >>

18-03-2004 14:08 | 3 comment(s)

Stop Canada's Seal Hunt

The Canadian government has already announced plans to kill nearly ONE MILLION seal pups in the next three years despite evidence of widespread cruelty and grave threats to the population. This is the largest slaughter of marine mammals in the world, and it will not end unless caring people like you take action now!
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18-03-2004 12:29 | 4 comment(s)

CODEPINK meet-up points for March 20th

This is just a quick reminder about the 'CODEPINK clean-up' at the London demo on March 20th. Read more >>

17-03-2004 22:39 | 3 comment(s)

Give Tony Blair a hot welcome in Enfield tomorrow morning

spoil Tony Blair's stage managed Big Con(versation) at a school in Enfield in the morning. Read more >>

17-03-2004 21:43 | 0 comment(s)

Memorial service for Tom Hurndall in Westminster Cathedral - an invitation

Tom's family and friends would like you to join them in paying tribute to Tom at a special interdenominational memorial service celebrating Tom's commitment to truth and humanity. Read more >>

17-03-2004 20:22 | 2 comment(s)

The UK Budget

The art of the political con.The soft sell of austerity by your friendly labour party.Buy it quickly from your media. Read more >>

17-03-2004 19:07 | 1 comment(s)

WARNING TO WHISTLE-BLOWERS

TINTINITUS Read more >>

17-03-2004 14:03 | 0 comment(s)

ESF Video Clips from Euro Assembly 6-7 March

The videos are in realmedia format at modem quality if you need a good media play for windows download media player classic - do a googol search with the correct spelling (: Read more >>

17-03-2004 11:55 | 6 comment(s)

HUNGER STRIKE IN COCACOLA

COMMUNIQUE No 2: HUNGER STRIKE IN COCA COLA - COLOMBIA
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17-03-2004 10:25 | 0 comment(s)

Theatre of War: Whitehall protest against occupation of Iraq

A theatrical protest and tour of Whitehall to mark one year since the US/UK invasion of Iraq Read more >>

17-03-2004 08:41 | 2 comment(s)

US Provocation in Madrid?

Who Profits from the Bombings? Read more >>

17-03-2004 05:23 | 0 comment(s)

The Murder of Democracy

Democracy is only for the tyrants. For the normal person it has been consistently tormenting him and plundering his happiness. The democracy in Russia that started with a green bud perished before its bloom. Read more >>

17-03-2004 01:44 | 1 comment(s)

M20: Why demonstrate on March 20 ?

Why it is important to participate in the global day against the war :
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16-03-2004 22:03 | 1 comment(s)

Clearly Racist And Bigoted Skits On Clear Channel

In the March 10 Bill Handel show on KFI AM 640, a pretend "Muslim" allegedly reading from the new Iraqi constitution refers to "hairy Iraqi women," "lovely Japanese schoolgirls," the "infidel custom of bathing on a regular basis," and "civil unions" between Iraqis and "loving camels and goats." Read more >>

16-03-2004 18:30 | 5 comment(s)

Anti-capitalist bloc on March 20th demo - Meet up point

Meet-up for Libertarian, anti-capitalist, pro-direct action bloc on the 20th March No More Lies demonstration will be at 12noon and before by Marble Arch itself on one of the two traffic islands next to Hyde Park - whichever one has the most space on the day.

Take exit 10 on the Hyde Park/Marble Arch subway and you'll see us. A map is included below. Bring your own flags, banners, placards, drums etc. and hope to see you there! Read more >>

16-03-2004 16:33 | 1 comment(s)

MORE REASONS TO SAVE BLACKWOOD

The corporations behind the road. Read more >>

16-03-2004 14:37 | 2 comment(s)

Tariq Ali meeting 17/3

Tariq Ali & chris nineham anti-war meeting 17/3 Read more >>

16-03-2004 14:37 | 1 comment(s)

The ESF soap opera continues

The London organising process has been a battle ground of different world views and organising techniques. The ESF process was brought to the UK by a small un-representative group, who then finding that they couldn’t, contradictable, keep control of the ESF in line with the principals that underline it closed the process to all but this small group by traditional authoritarian hard left strategies. In doing this they nearly destroyed the London ESF, it was only saved at the Europe wide meeting when they completely backed down and let lose all the techniques of exclusion that they had built up on paper. Though this paper change has not yet grown into an open cultural change. Read more >>

16-03-2004 09:00 | 4 comment(s)

Blunkett to charge wrongfully convicted for time spent at her majestys pleasure

What do you give someone who's been proved innocent after spending the best part of their life behind bars, wrongfully convicted of a crime they didn't commit?

An apology, maybe? Counselling? Champagne? Compensation? Well, if you're David Blunkett, the Labour Home Secretary, the choice is simple: you give them a big, fat bill for the cost of board and lodgings Read more >>