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Global news.IMC UKOpen Content License, http://www.opencontent.org2017-05-02T00:55:41+00:00UK Indymedia : 1999 - 2016
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2017/04/525966.html
<p>Open publishing was disabled on this site in mid-July 2016 as there was a very low volume of original grass roots news reports from activists being posted and the collective running the site was dwindling as people were working on other things. From 1st May 2017 this site is a static archive and will no longer be updated.</p><p>The history of UK Indymedia is somewhat documented under the <a href="/en/topics/indymedia/">Indymedia topic</a> but the full history is yet to be written and perhaps never will be... but this archive will remain available.</p><p>See you in the streets!</p>2017-04-28T20:19+02:002017-04-28T20:19:00+00:00BirminghamCambridgeIndymediaLiverpoolLondonOxfordSheffieldSouth CoastUKWalesWorldIMC UKenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Police serve Bytemark with production order for Bristol Indymedia information
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2014/09/517868.html
<p><a href="http://bristol.indymedia.org/">Bristol Indymedia</a> has been hosted on a <a href="http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://bristol.indymedia.org">Bytemark Debian virtual server</a> since the last server seizure in 2005 [ <a href="/en/2005/06/314820.html">1</a> | <a href="/en/2005/07/317688.html">2</a> ], during the run up to <a href="/en/actions/2005/g8/">the G8</a>. From then up until <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131104044740/http://bristol.indymedia.org/">November 2013</a> the site was running <a href="http://www.indymedia.ie/oscailt/">Oscailt</a>, in <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140327135034/http://www.bristol.indymedia.org/">March 2014</a> it was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140831172948/http://bristol.indymedia.org/2014/03/21/welcome-to-the-new-indymedia-site/">re-launched as a WordPress site</a> <em>"using the software <a href="https://code.autistici.org/trac/privacy/browser/trunk/libapache-mod-removeip/upstream/trunk/README">modremoveip</a>"</em>. On <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140831200841/http://bristol.indymedia.org/2014/08/14/we-are-taking-a-summer-break/">14th August 2014</a> Bristol Indymedia switched off open publishing on the site for a summer break with the intention in September to <em>"review whether we have the time and inclination to turn publishing back on"</em>.</p><p>On 27th August 2014 <a href="/en/2014/08/517810.html">Bristol Indymedia reported that</a>, <em>"the police had a court order to access the Bristol Indymedia server. We don’t know for sure, but assume that our web hosts have complied with the order and given the police this access"</em>. Bristol Indymedia disabled open publishing on the server and said <em>"it is unlikely that open publishing of news items will ever be re-enabled as it would require complete re-installation of the server"</em>.</p><p>Since then the only source of further information has been from <a href="/en/2014/08/517810.html?c=on#c301096">an article in The Times</a> which reported that the PACE special procedure production order obtained by Avon and Somerset Police and served on Bytemark on 15th August 2014 <em>"demands access to the details of administrators and bill-payers, login credentials, information on those who posted articles and the IP addresses of everyone who visited the site over an unspecified period"</em>. The court order served on Bytemark hasn't been published. The Times has reported that the Police have said that, <em>"No arrests have been made in connection with this incident"</em>.</p><p><strong>Corporate Coverage: [ The Times: <a href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/article4189888.ece">Activist website Indymedia shuts down after police raid</a> (<a href="/en/2014/08/517810.html?c=on#c301096">repost</a>) | The Bristol Post: <a href="http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/Anarchist-website-Bristol-Indymedia-close/story-22848036-detail/story.html">Anarchist website Bristol Indymedia to close following police raid</a> (<a href="/en/2014/08/517810.html?c=on#c301088">repost</a>) | Bristol24-7: <a href="http://www.bristol247.com/2014/09/01/bristol-indymedia-offline-good-police-raid-24251/">Bristol Indymedia offline for good after police raid</a> ]</strong></p><p><strong>Activist Coverage: [ Urban75: <a href="http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/indymedia-bristol-raided-by-plod-servers-accessed.326921/">Indymedia Bristol raided by plod, servers accessed!</a> | LibCom: <a href="https://libcom.org/blog/sources-police-raid-bristol-indymedia-29082014">Sources and the police raid on Bristol Indymedia</a> ]</strong></p>2014-09-01T20:58+02:002014-09-01T20:58:00+00:00BristolIndymediaRepressionTechnologyUKWorldUK IndymediaenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Police action against Bristol Indymedia
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2014/08/517810.html
<p>Bristol Indymedia <a href="http://bristol.indymedia.org/2014/08/27/the-police-have-physically-accessed-the-bristol-indymedia-server/">reported on 27th August 2014</a> that:</p><blockquote><p><strong>The Police have physically accessed the Bristol Indymedia server.</strong></p><p>Last week we heard from our web hosts that the police had a court order to access the Bristol Indymedia server. We don’t know for sure, but assume that our web hosts have complied with the order and given the police this access.</p><p>We consider this server to be compromised, users should assume that from this point on the Police have access to the IP address of anyone accessing this site.</p><p>In light of this it is unlikely that open publishing of news items will ever be re-enabled as it would require complete re-installation of the server.</p><p>We are going to leave the calendar on for now, but note that it is likely that IP addresses are now being recorded and accessed by the Police.</p></blockquote>2014-08-28T18:27+02:002014-08-28T18:27:00+00:00BristolIndymediaRepressionUKWorldUK IndymediaenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Stop NATO Cymru Week of Action / Wythnos o Weithredu Stop NATO
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2014/07/517414.html
<p>A week of action against the NATO summit. / Wythos o weithredu yn erbyn Uwchgynhadledd NATO.</p><p>This year NATO will have their next summit at Celtic Manor Resort, in Newport, south Wales. In early September 2014, “world leaders” – all directly responsible for untold death, illegal torture flights, and wars fought purely to protect Western business interests and resource supply routes – will gather on the edge of this historic Welsh city. Many people from Newport, Cardiff, Bristol and beyond, will oppose the summit and use a diversity of tactics against it. We, an anti-capitalist, anti-militarist network in South Wales, plan to facilitate mobilisations and provide space for workshops, skill-shares and social events. We are organising without leaders as we do not agree with bosses or bombs.</p><p>For timetable, see the full article.</p><p><strong>On the newswire:</strong> <a href="/en/2014/08/517790.html">No Borders/Stop NATO day of action</a> | <a href="/en/2014/08/517780.html">Round up of Week of Action events</a> | <a href="/en/2014/08/517785.html">Stop NATO action against securitisation & policing</a> | <a href="/en/2014/08/517713.html">AFIACH benefit compilation</a> | <a href="/en/2014/08/517711.html">NATO CopWatch</a> | <a href="/en/2014/07/517412.html">Day of Action Against Militarism</a> | <a href="/en/2014/07/517357.html">16-17 Aug, National Convergence, Blackpool</a> | <a href="/en/2014/07/517272.html">Police Harassment in Merthyr</a></p><p><strong>Other links:</strong> <a href="http://www.network23.org/stopnatocymru">Stop Nato Cymru</a> | <a href="http://www.anarchistaction.net">Anarchist Action Network</a></p>2014-07-31T18:04+02:002014-07-31T18:04:00+00:00Anti-militarismGlobalisationNATO 2014UKWalesWorldStop NATO Cymru and Anarchist Action NetworkenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Newport Rising: Festival of Radical Change
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2014/05/516786.html
<p><strong>26 May - 1 June, Newport.</strong></p><p>Organised by Anarchist Action Network, Stop NATO Cymru and South Wales Anarchists, the festival runs all week at 95-96 Commercial Street, Newport NP20 1LU. <em>Sharing ideas and skills, celebrating resistance & organising to win.</em> All welcome. Workshops and skill shares all week, free cafe all day and free meal every evening.</p><p>The NATO Summit comes to Newport at the beginning of September. Come along this week and prepare for the Stop NATO week of action 30 August - 5 September and take part in some of the many talks, sessions and workshops. Something for everyone! All welcome (except cops and mainstream journalists, who will be asked to stay outside). The venue is an alcohol & drug free space.</p><p>If you can only manage one day and want to get clued up on NATO and what's planned for August & September, come along on Sunday:<br/><strong>Sunday 1 June. 4pm: Talk - Resisting the NATO Summit. 6.30pm: Meeting to build resistance against the NATO Summit.</strong></p><p><strong>On the newswire</strong>: <a href="/en/2014/05/516832.html">Protest & Street Theatre</a> | <a href="/en/2014/05/516816.html">Banner drops</a> | <a href="/en/2014/05/516793.html">Photos from Newport Rising</a> | <a href="/en/2014/05/516547.html">Anarchists Shut Cardiff Barclays</a> | <a href="/en/2014/04/516285.html">Anarchist Travelling Circus Presents Newport Rising</a> | <a href="/en/2014/04/516249.html">Protest the NATO Summit</a> | <a href="/en/2014/03/515973.html">Antimilitarists Block NATO Conference</a> | <a href="/en/2014/03/515700.html">NATO Uncut Call-out</a> | <a href="/en/2014/01/514865.html">Stop NATO Cymru Statement</a></p><p><strong>Other links</strong>: <a href="https://network23.org/stopnatocymru/">Stop Nato Cymru</a> | <a href="https://www.anarchistaction.net/">anarchistaction.net</a> | <a href="http://www.nonatonewport.org/">No Nato Newport</a> | <a href="http://notonatowalk.org.uk/">The Long March on Newport</a></p>2014-05-28T10:53+02:002014-05-28T10:53:00+00:00Anti-militarismFree SpacesNATO 2014PromotedSocial StrugglesUKWalesWorldimc in walesenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Attack on The Casa
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2013/11/513614.html
<p>On Saturday 2nd November 2013 a <a href="/en/2013/11/513518.html">fundraising benefit gig</a> for the family of imprisoned whistleblower Chelsea Manning, organised by <a href="http://wiseupaction.info/">WISE Up Action</a>, at <a href="http://www.initiativefactory.org/index.php/casa-bar">The Casa in Liverpool</a>, a pub set up by <a href="http://www.initiativefactory.org/history">sacked Liverpool Dockers</a>, suffered <a href="/en/2013/11/513484.html">multiple violent attacks</a>.</p><p>The day before the physical and verbal attacks on the anti-war activist organisers and The Casa staff, <a href="http://infantile-disorder.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/we-support-chelsea-manning.html">a statement on Adam Ford's blog</a>, <em>"from a group of activists who will be supporting Chelsea Manning but opposing Ciaron O'Reilly at an event in Liverpool tomorrow"</em> claimed that <em>"Ciaron O'Reilly - a main organiser of tonight's event - does not support Chelsea Manning in the same way that we do"</em> and said that they <em>"intend to protest against that"</em>. Ten days before the attack <a href="https://anarchobastard.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/ciaron-oreilly-julian-assange-chelsea-manning-and-making-a-choice/">an article opposing the event</a>, published on the blog of a member of the <a href="http://www.solfed.org.uk/local/liverpool">Liverpool Solidarity Federation</a> and reproduced the next day <a href="http://www.libcom.org/blog/ciaron-o%E2%80%99reilly-julian-assange-chelsea-manning-making-choice-25102013">on Libcom</a>, claimed that <a href="https://twitter.com/CiaronOReilly">Ciaron O’Reilly</a> was a <em>"vile misogynist and transphobic shitbag"</em> and that <em>"O’Reilly’s fundraiser in Liverpool will be challenged on the basis of his behaviour towards women and on the basis of his support for Julian Assange."</em> Ciaron O’Reilly <a href="/en/2013/11/513484.html?c=on#c297574">refutes the allegations against him</a>, in response to the accusation that he made some sexist remarks he has said <em>"I am not sure I have"</em> and in response to the charge that that he refers to Chelsea Manning using her previous name of Bradley, he has made it clear that he does <em>"not refuse to use the name Chelsea"</em>.</p><p>On 19th October 2013, outside the <a href="http://www.anarchistbookfair.org.uk/">Anarchist bookfair</a> in London <a href="/en/2013/10/513250.html">Ciaron O’Reilly was physically and verbally assaulted</a> because of his ongoing support and solidarity work for Julian Assange of <a href="https://wikileaks.org/">WikiLeaks</a> who has been sheltering from persecution in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for <a href="http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-after,249.html">over a year</a>.</p><p><strong>Links: <a href="/en/2013/10/513250.html">Catholic among the Pigeons</a> | <a href="/en/2013/10/513262.html">Solidarity gigs/events for US prisoner of conscience Private Manning</a> | <a href="/en/2013/11/513484.html">Drunk Attack on Chelsea Manning's Family Fundraiser in Liverpool</a> | <a href="/en/2013/11/513518.html">Weekend of Solidarity with Chelsea Manning's Family - the good news!</a> | <a href="/en/2013/11/513662.html">Photos and audio from Chelsea Manning's Family Fundraiser in Liverpool</a></strong></p>2013-11-08T18:32+02:002013-11-08T18:32:00+00:00Free SpacesGenderLiverpoolSocial StrugglesUKWorldUK IndymediaenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Stop the Murder, Stop the Hate, Close Down the Group of Eight!
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2013/06/510317.html
<p>StopG8 have organised a week of action in London from 8th to 15th June, ahead of the UK G8 summit. Tuesday June 11th will be the big day, The #J11 Carnival Against Capitalism mass action will start at 12 noon on Tuesday June 11th, the meet-up points will be:</p><ul class="noindent"><li>North: Oxford Circus.</li><li>South: Piccadilly Circus.</li></ul><p>The action will finish with a ‘street party’ at 5:30pm, the location will be announced on the day.</p><h3>Other links:</h3><p><a href="https://network23.org/stopg8/">Stop G8</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Resist-the-2013-UK-G8-Summit/380692651991802">Resist 2013 UK G8 Summit</a> |<a href="https://twitter.com/stopG8UK">Stop G8 on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://theyoweus.org.uk/">They Owe Us</a></p>2013-06-09T20:39+02:002013-06-09T20:39:00+00:00Anti-militarismFree SpacesG8 2013Social StrugglesUKWorldIndymedia ukenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Bradley Manning's Trial begins 3 June. Call-out for solidarity everywhere
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2013/05/509722.html
<p>The trial in the Court Martial of Welsh-American WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning is finally scheduled to begin on Monday 3 June 2013 at Fort Meade, Maryland, US after an unprecedented three years of pre-trial detention. The <a href="/en/2012/12/504187.html">mistreatment of Bradley Manning</a> in prison including almost a year of torture by the US authorities that was <a href="https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/03/12-1">condemned</a> by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture has to be seen in the context of the vast, 'secret' <a href="http://notes.rjgallagher.co.uk/2013/03/wikileaks-grand-jury-timetable-doj-obama-administration.html">Grand Jury</a> conspiracy and espionage investigation into WikiLeaks and the <a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=8806">pressure</a> that must have been exerted on Brad in a sustained but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to persuade him to testify against Julian Assange, who the US authorities very badly want to get their hands on.</p><p>Read or listen to Bradley Manning's <a href="http://wiseupaction.info/bradley-manning-in-his-own-words-2/">statement to the court</a> (extracts below) and his <a href="http://wiseupaction.info/bradley-manning-in-his-own-words/">chat logs</a> to see why he felt that the information he found himself in possession of should be shared with the world and what he hoped might happen as a result of risking his life and liberty to do this.</p><p>There are 22 charges against Brad including 'Aiding the Enemy' that potentially carries the death penalty although the prosecution has said it will not seek this sentence. Brad has already pled guilty to 10 lesser charges that could themselves result in a 20 year jail term and the government has <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/21/government-accepts-bradley-mannings-plea-to-lesser-offense-related-to-disclosure-of-diplomatic-cable/">accepted his lesser plea on just one count</a> but not on any of the other lesser charges, for which it will still bring evidence. During the final pre-trial hearing on 21 May, Judge Lind announced that portions of the trial dealing with 24 witnesses, including US Ambassadors, will be <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2013/05/21/bradley-mannings-final-pretrial-hearing-day-1/">held in closed session</a>, with redacted transcripts provided afterwards.</p><p>The US, aided and abetted by Britain, is pursuing a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/17/endless-war-on-terror-obama">permanent 'War on Terror'</a> and continues its project of creating and escalating conflict around the globe at terrible cost to human life. The significance of the anti-war actions of Bradley Manning and Julian Assange can be judged by reference to the zeal with which both are being persecuted by the US authorities and the extent to which they have been variously misrepresented, vilified, smeared, ridiculed or ignored in the mainstream media. As anti-war activists or war resisters, they deserve our support and solidarity.</p><p>Join existing or create your own solidarity actions on <strong>Saturday 1 June</strong> and throughout Brad's trial, expected to last into August unless there's an early plea deal. 1 June solidarity is currently planned for <a href="http://wiseupaction.info/2012/05/31/for-the-usinternational-campaign-for-bradley-manning/">London</a> and <a href="/en/2013/05/509709.html">Cardiff</a>.</p><p><strong>Previous features:</strong> <a href="/en/2012/12/504187.html">December 2012</a> (Torture hearing) | <a href="/en/2011/04/477983.html">April 2011</a> (Call-out for solidarity)<br/><strong>On the newswires (recent):</strong> <a href="https://www.indymedia.ie/article/103703">Thanking Bradley Manning in Kabul</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509735.html">Bradley Manning's in jail for us, We're on the streets for him</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509709.html">1 June call-out for Cardiff</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509298.html">Vivienne Westwood supports Brad</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509251.html">London solidarity in run-up to trial</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509179.html">Solidarity at Chester May Day</a> | <a href="/en/2013/05/509128.html">Downloadable flyers for 1 June</a> | <a href="/en/2013/04/508452.html">London solidarity/Report from Fort Meade</a> | <a href="/en/2013/03/507864.html">Brad nominated for Nobel Peace Prize (again)</a> | <a href="/en/2013/02/506792.html">Wrexham solidarity on 1000th day of detention</a></p><p><strong>Other links:</strong> <a href="http://bradleymanning.org">bradleymanning.org</a> | <a href="http://wiseupaction.info">wiseupaction.info</a> | <a href="http://veteransforpeace.org.uk/news/">veteransforpeace.org.uk</a> | <a href="http://www.refusingtokill.net/">refusingtokill.net</a> | <a href="http://www.alexaobrien.com/secondsight/wikileaks/bradley_manning/appellate_exhib/united_states_versus_private_first_class_bradley_manning_searchable_legal_filings_and_rulings.html">Alexa O'Brien's searchable database of all available legal documents</a> | <a href="http://iam.bradleymanning.org/">iam.bradleymanning.org</a></p>2013-05-27T11:22+02:002013-05-27T11:22:00+00:00AfghanistanAnti-militarismIraqRepressionTerror WarUKWorldWISE UpenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Anti-capitalists gear up for G8 protests
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2013/05/509293.html
<p>Anti-capitalists have been gearing up for the protests against the G8 Summit with Mayday actions across the country. The focus was on Primark and other businesses profiting from the global slave labour system which led to the death of 700 people in Bangladesh. There were angry protests in central London, Hackney, Lewisham, Birmingham, Brighton and Bristol, with the clear message going out that the disaster was not an accident but the inevitable consequence of the callous capitalist system. <a href="http://network23.org/stopg8">Stop G8</a> is holding another organising meeting in London on May 25 and May 26, before the big week of action in the capital from June 10 to June 14, featuring the #J11 Carnival Against Capitalism.</p>On the Newswire: <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/04/508998.html">Mayday protest in central London</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/05/509223.html">Mayday protest in Glasgow</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/05/509189.html">Mayday protests in Birmingham, Hackney and Lewisham</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/05/509222.html">Mayday protest in Bristol</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/04/509037.html">Mayday protest in Brighton</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/05/509150.html">Squatted social centre in Lewes</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/05/509250.html">Guillotine in Worthing</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/04/508961.html">Oxford Stop G8 meeting</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/03/507627.html">Call-out for J11</a> | <a href="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2013/02/506726.html">Call-out for week of action</a> <p>Other links: <a href="http://network23.org/stopg8">Stop G8</a> | <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Resist-the-2013-UK-G8-Summit/380692651991802">Resist 2013 UK G8 Summit</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/stopG8UK">Stop G8 on Twitter</a> | <a href="http://theyoweus.org.uk/">They Owe Us</a></p>2013-05-08T12:33+02:002013-05-08T12:33:00+00:00Anti-militarismG8 2013GlobalisationLondonSocial StrugglesSouth CoastUKWorldAnti-capitalistaenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Bradley Manning Takes the Stand: 11 days of Testimony on Abuse at Quantico
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2012/12/504187.html
<p>Accused WikiLeaks whistleblower <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more/bradley-manning">Bradley Manning</a>, the young American military intelligence analyst with <a href="http://wiseupaction.info/about/">Welsh and Irish roots</a>, gave evidence in person for the first time at Fort Meade, Maryland in a hearing on the Defence's Article 13 <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_zC44SBaZPoQ2hLa21jNlM0WmM/edit?pli=1">unlawful pretrial punishment motion</a>. The court sat for eleven days between 27 November and 11 December to hear the case that Brad was subject to unlawful pretrial punishment at Quantico brig where he was held for nine months before being transferred to less punitive conditions at Fort Leavenworth in April 2011. Brad's mistreatment at Quantico has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/12/bradley-manning-cruel-inhuman-treatment-un">already been condemned</a> by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, Juan Mendez. On the strength of evidence of mistreatment, the Defence is calling for all 22 charges Bradley Manning faces in connection with the biggest anti-war whistleblowing act in history to be dropped or, failing that, for any sentence imposed if he is convicted to be substantially reduced. Judgment has been reserved and the ruling of military judge Denise Lind is unlikely before January.</p><p><strong>*NEW*<br/> 12 Jan:</strong> <a href="/en/2012/12/504187">This feature</a> (below) now finalised<br/><strong>12 Jan:</strong> <a href="/en/2013/01/505491.html">Verdict from this hearing</a> Judge declines to dismiss all charges; finds some unlawful pretrial punishment but ignores most; only 112 days sentencing credit awarded.</p><p><strong>On the newswire - Notes from the courtroom:</strong> <a href="/en/2013/01/505491.html">Verdict</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/504079.html">11 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/504048.html">10 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503859.html">7 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503799.html">6 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503784.html">5 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503630.html">1-2 Dec</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503527.html">30 Nov</a> | <a href="/en/2012/12/503661.html">29 Nov</a> | <a href="/en/2012/11/503432.html">27-29 Nov</a> | <strong>London vigil:</strong> 27 Nov <a href="/en/2012/11/503365.html">Report</a> | <a href="/en/2012/11/503176.html">Call-out</a> | <strong>Previous feature:</strong> <a href="/en/2011/04/477983.html">April 2011</a></p><p>This feature has been compiled from the sources listed in the posts above. Read the <a href="/en/2012/12/504187">full article</a> for a summary of the hearing and links to articles by independent journalists and supporters of Bradley Manning</p>.2012-12-13T11:58+02:002012-12-13T11:58:00+00:00Anti-militarismRepressionTerror WarUKWorldWISE UpenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Gaza solidarity
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/world/2012/11/503149.html
<p>Israel launched a new offensive on the people of Gaza last week which claimed the lives of 162 Palestinians. Four Israeli civilians and one soldier have also died as a result of retaliatory rocket attacks.</p><p><a href="http://www.dci-palestine.org/documents/children make-approximately-23-percent-fatalities-gaza">As of 20th November 23% of Palestinian casualties were children.</a> The youngest victim of the recent Israeli aggression is 11-month-old Omar Al Mashharrawi.</p><p><a href=" https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Iq4XZx9Vj0BDIiWzlHi2mUS0VUOn_t-prgtGGCzatQw/mobilebasic?pli=1">Hundreds of solidarity demonstrations have been held globally</a> and a <a href=" http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=99&Content_ID=2892">national demonstration is planned in London on Saturday 24th November</a>. On Friday 16th November <a href="/en/regions/birmingham/2012/11/502930.html">a demonstration was held in Birmingham</a> and another is planned for Thursday 22nd <a href="https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2012/11/503102.html">outside the BBC offices</a> to protest biased reporting. In Brighton on Saturday 17th November activists <a href="/en/2012/11/502916.html?c=on#c289499">locked on to the Ecostream store</a>, a shop owned by an Israeli company that has its main manufacturing facility in the West Bank settlement of Mishor Adumim. Later on a hundred strong crowd marched to the store and held a noisy demonstration outside the shop. On Monday 19th a <a href="/en/2012/11/502929.html">phone and twitter blockade</a> of the company was held.</p><p>The same day in Wrexham activists <a href="/en/2012/11/502946.html">picketed Barclays Bank</a> in protest at Barclays investments in companies supplying weapons to Israel.</p><p>On Tuesday 20th a group of solidarity activists <a href="/en/2012/11/503087.html">occupied G4S</a> headquarters over the company's contracts with the Israeli prison service as well as providing equipment and services to Israeli military checkpoints and maintaining contracts with businesses working in Israel's settlements.</p><p>The 'Don't Dance with Israeli Apartheid' campaign held <a href=" http://www.boycottisraelnetwork.net/?p=1837">demonstrations against London performances of the Israeli state sponsored Batsheva dance troupe at Sadlers Wells</a> on the 19th-21st November as part of a coordinated international campaign. There were also protests <a href="https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2012/11/502808.html">both inside and outside of the Birmingham performances at the Hippodrome</a> on the 14-15th November coinciding with the start of the latest Gaza massacre.</p><p>Palestinians in the West Bank have also been demonstrating in solidarity with their brothers and sisters in Gaza, only to be met with typical Israeli oppression. On Saturday, 31-year-old Rushdi Tamimi was shot by an IDF soldier at a protest in the village of Nabi Saleh. He died of his wounds in hospital on Monday around the time news surfaced that Hamdi Mohammad Jawwad Al-Falah, 22, was killed after being shot four times during a demonstration in the Bir al-Mahjar neighborhood in western Hebron. A baby also died in hospital on Monday after an Israeli tear gas canister landed in his bedroom in Qalandia refugee camp.</p><p>A ceasefire was reached on Wednesday 21st of November. However, the conflict is likely to continue if Israel does not end its siege of Gaza and attempts to control the Gazan economy. The need for solidarity with the people of Palestine struggling against Israeli militarism, apartheid and occupation has never been greater.</p><p><strong>Upcoming events</strong>: Thursday 22nd November - Gaza solidarity demo in Brighton at the Old Steine at 5pm and Die In on the BBC Steps at the Mailbox in Birmingham 6pm-7pm| <a href="http://www.boycottisraelnetwork.net/?p=1882">23rd/24th November - Don't Dance with Israeli apartheid demos in Plymouth</a>| Hebden Bridge Gaza solidarity demo - meet at the Central Intersection at 5pm| <a href="http://www.palestinecampaign.org/index9b.asp?m_id=1&l1_id=4&l2_id=99&Content_ID=2892">24th November - Mass Gaza Solidarity demo in London</a>| Sunday 25th - Demo at Ecostream, Western Rd, Brighton, 1-3pm</p>2012-11-22T11:34+02:002012-11-22T11:34:00+00:00Anti-militarismBirminghamLondonPalestineSouth CoastUKWalesWorldenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Citizens' Weapons Inspectors lock-on outside EDO MBM
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<p>On Monday 16th July 2012 Smash EDO held a Citizen's Weapons Inspection' of EDO. Kent, Sussex and Hampshire Police used new Police Liaison Officers and a steel wall against demonstrators.</p>Despite this, activists dressed in white suits managed to breach the police cordon and hang banners outside the factory gates and close down the industrial estate by locking-on to the police cordon.<br/><br/> <p>On Sunday 15th July Smash EDO hosted a gathering against the G8, launching a new network. There will be a workshop to plan action against the G8 at <a href="http://earthfirstgathering.weebly.com/">Earth First</a> and the next gathering will be 22nd September in Birmingham.</p><p><strong>Links</strong>: <a href="http://www.smashedo.org.uk">Smash EDO</a>| <a href="http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/">FITwatch</a>| <a href="http://i.imgur.com/7UUhH.jpg">Mainstream media coverage</a></p><p><strong>From the Newswire</strong>: <a href="/en/2012/07/497905.html">Call to kettle the police at Smash EDO's Citizen's Weapons Inspection</a>| <a href="/en/2012/07/498015.html">Pics</a>| <a href="/en/2012/07/498006.html">Update</a>| <a href="/en/2012/07/498042.html">Future Smash EDO events</a></p>2012-07-18T10:11+02:002012-07-18T10:11:00+00:00AfghanistanAnti-militarismPalestineSmash EDOSouth CoastUKWorldenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Call to kettle the police at Smash EDO's Citizen's Weapons Inspection
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<p>At 1pm on Monday 16th July a group of concerned citizens from Brighton and beyond will be attempting to inspect the EDO MBM factory in Moulsecoomb to further highlight the factory’s complicity in the murder of innocent civilians around the world.</p><p>It has <a href="/en/actions/2008/edo/">long been known</a> that this local company has links with illegal and immoral arms deals and Smash EDO intend to hold them to account. <a href="/en/2009/01/418834.html">In January 2009 six activists broke in and successfully decommissioned the factory</a> and then waited to be arrested by the police. At their <a href="/en/2010/07/454845.html">later trial</a> a jury found that their actions were entirely legal as they were acting to prevent war crimes against civilians in Gaza.</p><p>This mass action is part of an ongoing <a href="/en/2012/04/495510.html">'Summer of Resistance'</a> which has seen almost daily actions by protesters against the factory in May and June and which will continue until the end of July.</p><p>Demonstrators will converge at the Level at 1pm.</p><p>A call has been made to FITwatchers to <a href="/en/2012/07/497774.html">kettle the police</a> and to sabotage their new tactic of using Police Liaison Officers to pacify the crowd.</p><p>The day before the demo anti-capitalists will be converging in Brighton for a day of <a href="/en/2012/07/497875.html">plotting and scheming against the 2013 G8</a>, to be held in the UK</p><p><strong>Links:</strong> <a href="www.smashedo.org.uk">Smash EDO</a> | <a href="http://www.fitwatch.org.uk/">FITwatch</a></p><p><strong>Local Contacts for the Weapons Inspection:</strong> London: hammertimelondon@dsei.org | Bristol: smashedobristol@riseup.net | Manchester: manchesteragainstmilitarism@gmail.com | Swansea: d@undercurrents.org</p>2012-07-13T09:56+02:002012-07-13T09:56:00+00:00AfghanistanAnti-militarismPalestineSouth CoastUKWorldenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8Take the flour back
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<p>On 27th May at Rothamsted, Harpenden, Hertsfordshire, more than 400 growers, bakers and families from across England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France and Belgium marched against the return of open air GM field testing. Take the Flour Back linked arms with their European counterparts, notably France’s Volunteer Reapers and walked calmly towards the field of GM wheat before being stopped by police lines.</p><p><strong>From the newswire:</strong> <a href="/en/2012/05/496461.html">European activists link up to draw the line against GM</a>| <a href="/en/2012/05/496254.html">Final details</a>| <a href="/en/2012/05/496228.html">Take the Flour Back defend Direct Action on Newsnight</a>| <a href="/en/2012/05/495691.html">Open letter to Rothamsted</a>| <a href="/en/2012/04/495476.html">What is food sovereignty</a>| <a href="/en/2012/04/494780.html">Pull up the GM wheat, or we will, say growers</a>| <a href="/en/2012/04/494527.html">Meet-up point announced</a>| <a href="/en/2012/03/494236.html">Callout</a></p><p><strong><a href="https://secure.flickr.com/photos/54095609@N00/sets/72157629941549330/with/7290028206/">Photos</a>|Video<a href="http://vimeo.com/43048094">1</a><a href="http://youtu.be/u5_5dF9Fw8k">2</a></strong></p><p>From SchNEWS: <a href="http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/If-we-stay-there-will-be-stubble---updated/">If we stay there will be stubble</a>|<a href="http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/IF-I-STAY-THERE-WILL-BE-STUBBLE/">One man assault on GM crop trial in Hertfordshire</a>|<a href="http://www.schnews.org.uk/stories/FLOUR-TO-THE-PEOPLE/">Flour to the people</a></p><p><strong>Links: <a href="http://taketheflourback">Take the flour back</a></strong></p>2012-06-10T19:49+02:002012-06-10T19:49:00+00:00Bio-technologyEcologyTechnologyUKWorldtake the flour backenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8SchNEWS 818 - Serf's Up
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<p>By now the glad tidings that ninety of her majesty's most loyal subjects were happy to celebrate 60 years of her reign by kipping under a bridge before a joyful thirteen hour shift of telling union-jack-sporting buffoons the way to the big river in the middle of London without being paid has been <a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/07/jubilee-workfare-a-dickensian-tale-brought-to-life/">splashed all over the papers</a>. But it's just the tip of the iceberg.</p><p><b>Links:</b> <a href="http://www.boycottworkfare.org/">Boycott Workfare</a> | <a href="http://solfed.org.uk/?q=organising-against-workfare">Solfed (workfare page) | <a href="http://iww.org.uk/">IWW| <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/">Corporate Watch</a> | <a href="http://www.schnews.org.uk">SchNEWS</a></a></a></p><p><b>On the newswire:</b> <a href="en/2012/05/495639.html">Liverpool Workfare Walk of Shame Occupies City Centre Exploiters</a>| <a href="/en/2012/05/495595.html">Mayday workfare demo shuts Oxford Street stores</a>| <a href="/en/2012/04/494546.html">Workfare actions around Birmingham in April</a>| <a href="/en/2011/06/480493.html">Workfare conference cancelled due to protest</a> | <a href="/en/2011/06/480557.html">Workfare Unravels</a> | <a href="/en/2011/09/485235.html">'It's exploitation and it's repellent'</a> | <a href="/en/2012/02/492414.html">Tesco’s Secret Workfare Slaves</a> | <a href="/en/2012/02/492480.html">Demo shuts Westminster Tesco</a> | <a href="/en/2011/05/479517.html">GMB Union Promotes Workfare as Answer</a> | <a href="">DWP Locks Down FOI Responses</a> | <a href="/en/regions/birmingham/2011/11/488776.html">Legal Challenge to Government’s slave labour scheme</a></p><p><b>From Corporate Watch:</b> <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4365">Benefit claimant forced to accept Jubilee steward position for less than minimum wage</a> | <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4221">To pay or not to pay: Asda and Argos choose workfare over work</a> | <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4111">Regulating workfare (or not)</a>| <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4080">'It's exploitation and it's repellent': Retailers, councils and charities benefiting from workfare</a> | <a href="http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=4029">Unemployed people bullied into work</a></p>2012-06-09T11:11+02:002012-06-09T11:11:00+00:00LondonSouth CoastUKWorkers' MovementsWorkfareWorldenTexttext/html; charset=UTF-8