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IMC UK Open Content License, http://www.opencontent.org 2010-03-13T15:10:38+00:00 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447439.html Just over 30 Kurds demonstrated opposite the Syrian Embassy in Belgrave Square, London this afternoon, Friday 12 March 2010 on the sixth anniversary of the start of the Qamlishi Uprising in Northern Syria on 12 March 2004. 2010-03-12T22:30+02:00 2010-03-12T22:30:53+00:00 Promoted Repression Social Struggles UK Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447432.html Around a hundred people protested this afternoon (12 March) outside the Turkish Embassy in London against the 8 year sentence for 15 year old Berivan Sayaca for allegedly throwing stones at police vehicles during a demonstration. Photos (C) 2010 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved. 2010-03-12T22:03+02:00 2010-03-12T22:03:40+00:00 Promoted Repression Social Struggles UK Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447387.html Dateline: Westminster Magistrates Court, Horseferry Road, London, UK, 10:30-15:00, Thu 11 Mar 10 – Nearly 400 MPs swindle over £1,000,000 in false expenses claims over several years, and how many scapegoats are put up for criminal charges? Just three Labour MPs, and a token Tory Lord too. The 'public' were appalled, angry, and up in arms about this scandal – so how come when the four Parliamentarian criminals first face charges in court, only SEVEN protesters turned up? <br/> 2010-03-12T06:40+02:00 2010-03-12T06:40:00+00:00 Climate Chaos Promoted Social Struggles UK Workers' Movements Tim Dalinian Jones en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447336.html Some feminist subvertising of gym billboards 2010-03-11T00:10+02:00 2010-03-11T00:10:51+00:00 Cambridge Culture Gender Promoted UK happyinternationalwomen'sday en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447286.html Corporate sleaze-merchants trying to recruit graduates in Oxford got another rough ride at the hands of local activists. 2010-03-09T20:24+02:00 2010-03-09T20:24:00+00:00 Climate Chaos Ecology Oxford Promoted Social Struggles UK sqwuark attack en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447279.html The Turkmenistan regime is "as repressive as ever" - so why now does the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development - based next to Liverpool St stn. and tasked with democratisation and sustainable development - appear to be getting ready for a softer approach to the oppressive regime in Turkmenistan? <br/> 2010-03-09T17:45+02:00 2010-03-09T17:45:00+00:00 Energy Crisis Globalisation Promoted Repression UK World Bankwatch en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447274.html Following last Wednesday's occupation of Sussex House (Sussex University's senior management HQ) 6 students have been arbitrarily suspended and excluded. <br/><br/>Additionally, the university has been granted a High Court injunction banning people from “entering” or “remaining” on campus without the university’s prior written consent. 2010-03-09T15:27+02:00 2010-03-09T15:27:00+00:00 Education Promoted Repression South Coast UK Workers' Movements unisux en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447263.html A message from Jester's Comedy Squat resisting yet another TECOS in Bristol. 2010-03-09T13:34+02:00 2010-03-09T13:34:00+00:00 Bio-technology Globalisation Promoted Social Struggles UK jester en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447253.html DWP Civil Servants striking at Jobcentre Plus, Inland Revenue and Valuation Offices in Wrexham, N. Wales. 2010-03-09T13:09+02:00 2010-03-09T13:09:00+00:00 Analysis Liverpool Promoted Social Struggles UK Workers' Movements World Still-shooter en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447247.html A former comedy club, Cheltenham Rd, Bristol, proposed to be yet another tesco metro, buit now turned into a temporary social center - at which there has been an event on for the last fortnight, withstood an eviction attempt this morning. 2010-03-09T11:41+02:00 2010-03-09T11:41:00+00:00 Free Spaces Globalisation Promoted Repression UK no tescos en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447224.html More than 50 men and women, mainly Iranians, took part in a protest organised by the 8 March Women's Organsiation (Iran-Afghanistan) to mark International Women's Day. They protested at the Iranian Embassy against the 31 years of anti-women Islamic laws and repression and calling for an end to the Islamic regime in Iran before marching to Trafalgar Square for a rally. London 07/03/2010 2010-03-08T22:42+02:00 2010-03-08T22:42:00+00:00 Gender Promoted Repression Social Struggles UK World Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447215.html Several thousand women marched through London on Saturday 6 March, taking over the street as they passed as an all-women area and calling for an end to male violence against women. The march started along London's major shopping street, Oxford Street, before going through Piccadilly Circus and on to a rally in Trafalgar Square. Photos (C) Copyright Peter Marshall, 2010, all rights reserved. 2010-03-08T22:18+02:00 2010-03-08T22:18:00+00:00 Gender Promoted UK Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447197.html The UAF opposed the EDL march in Westminster in support of in support of Geert Wilders on Friday 5 March 2010. Police largely kept the two groups apart and ensured the march could take place. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall 2010, all rights reserved. 2010-03-08T21:22+02:00 2010-03-08T21:22:35+00:00 Anti-racism Promoted UK Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447194.html On March 8th, Nottingham City Council met to approve the 2010/11 budget. Like many council budgets this included a series of cuts to services, in this case amounting to £18.8 million. Nottingham City Unison called a lunchtime protest outside the Council House to show their opposition. 2010-03-08T19:09+02:00 2010-03-08T19:09:00+00:00 Health Nottinghamshire Promoted Social Struggles Workers' Movements Working Class Heroine en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447092.html Members of No Borders North East unfurled a banner from a rooftop in Newcastle city center this morning. They were showing their support for the women from Yarl's Wood detention center, who have been on hunger strike for several weeks, and demanding an end to immigration detention. 2010-03-06T17:53+02:00 2010-03-06T17:53:00+00:00 Anti-racism Gender Migration Promoted UK No Borders North East en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447081.html On March 5th, Nottingham Radical History Group organised an event to look back on the struggle against the Poll Tax. 2010-03-06T12:55+02:00 2010-03-06T12:55:00+00:00 History Nottinghamshire Promoted Social Struggles People's Histreh en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447076.html CAMPAIGNERS AGAINST UK COALS HUNTINGTON LANE SURFACE MINE were out on the bridges of Telford this morning, equipped with a large banner broadcasting their message of 'No New Coal'. The opencast coal site near New Works in Telford is due to commence operations in the near future. 2010-03-06T11:44+02:00 2010-03-06T11:44:00+00:00 Birmingham Climate Chaos Ecology Energy Crisis Promoted UK Telford Against New Coal en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447043.html Southern Ocean, February 2010 2010-03-05T22:07+02:00 2010-03-05T22:07:00+00:00 Animal Liberation Education Ocean Defence Promoted UK World reposting from Wietse's email update en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447029.html Why is it that neoliberal banks and corporations are bailed out while students are squeezed of every last penny by predatory student loans amidst this current financial feeding frenzy? 2010-03-05T20:30+02:00 2010-03-05T20:30:41+00:00 Education Globalisation Promoted Social Struggles UK World feats of on the streets en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447023.html In what must be the prime site in the UK, outside the British Parliament building, under the bell of Westminster clock-tower, now sits a stencil of infamous crime syndicate twosome, Ronald and Reginald Kray...aka The Kray Twins. 2010-03-05T17:25+02:00 2010-03-05T17:25:00+00:00 Free Spaces Globalisation Promoted SOCPA Terror War UK World Terence Bunch en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447015.html Lappersfort Forest, which has been occupied on and off since 2001, has finally lost it's battle and was evicted and cut down yesterday. 2010-03-05T15:31+02:00 2010-03-05T15:31:00+00:00 Ecology Free Spaces Other Press Promoted UK PomPom en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/447014.html Of the 114 people arrested last Easter during the police raid on the Iona school, Nottingham, 26 have been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe on Soar power station. Over 10 months after their arrest, all 26 entered a plea of NOT GUILTY at Nottingham crown court on February 19th. 2010-03-05T15:02+02:00 2010-03-05T15:02:00+00:00 Nottinghamshire Promoted UK Some of the defendants en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446990.html Yesterday Sussex Students occupied the Vice Chancellor's office against cuts. 2010-03-04T22:00+02:00 2010-03-04T22:00:00+00:00 Education Promoted UK annon en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446973.html The day before Lance Corporal Joe Glenton of the Royal Logistic Corp appears before a military court to be sentenced for speaking out against the legitimacy of the continuing occupation of Afghanistan... 2010-03-04T19:54+02:00 2010-03-04T19:54:26+00:00 Globalisation Promoted Social Struggles Terror War UK World Terence Bunch en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446969.html To read more of our Palestine Research blogs visit corporateoccupation.wordpress.com 2010-03-04T19:08+02:00 2010-03-04T19:08:00+00:00 Anti-militarism Palestine Promoted Repression South Coast UK World Corporate Watch en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446956.html Banners were displayed over the Central Motorway in Newcastle during rush hour yesterday morning in support of the women on hungerstrike at Yarl's Wood immigration prison. 2010-03-04T13:32+02:00 2010-03-04T13:32:22+00:00 Migration Promoted Repression UK t en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446947.html More than 50 people protested at Holloway Prison on Wednesday evening against the holding of five women from Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre without trial or charge and to support the women at Yarl's Wood in the fourth week of their hunger strike against the degrading conditions and inhumane treatment there. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall, 2010. All rights reserved. 2010-03-04T10:34+02:00 2010-03-04T10:34:43+00:00 Anti-racism Migration Promoted Repression UK Peter Marshall en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446935.html Welsh Refugee Council today called on UKBA and Cardiff Council to act quickly to release Mashal Jabari, 14 years of age, from Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, and to suspend removal directions until a full assessment of his age can be made. Welsh Refugee Council does not normally comment on individual cases, but in this instance believes that there are compelling compassionate grounds why this boy should be allowed to remain in the UK. 2010-03-04T07:54+02:00 2010-03-04T07:54:08+00:00 Migration Promoted Social Struggles UK Workers' Movements John O en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446931.html Attached is a recording of a Sheffield Humanist Society meeting held on 3rd March 2010 in Sheffield, titled Is Clean Coal An Act Of Faith? 2010-03-04T00:21+02:00 2010-03-04T00:21:00+00:00 Climate Chaos Energy Crisis Promoted Sheffield UK Chris en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446924.html The prosecution led the days argument they claimed by causing over a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage to EDO/ITT we in no way could have saved lives in the occupied territories. This therefore meant we had no right to a jury trial. The judge then asked the prosecution to provide evidence to substantiate such a claim, the prosecution had nothing to show. <br/><br/>The defence then came back to say there were two linked issues that required consideration. <br/>i) The circumstances in which a judge may withdraw a defendant’s defence; <br/>ii) Whether the facts relied on by the defendants’ amounts to a defence in law. <br/><br/>The points of law up for scrutiny were from the: <br/><br/>Criminal Damage Act 1971, <br/>Criminal Law Act 1967, <br/>The Common Law Defence of Necessity. 2010-03-03T22:55+02:00 2010-03-03T22:55:00+00:00 Anti-militarism Promoted Smash Edo South Coast UK World STiG en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446863.html Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in February 2010, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch. 2010-03-02T09:17+02:00 2010-03-02T09:17:26+00:00 Migration Promoted Social Struggles UK Workers' Movements World John O en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446859.html Students at the University of Westminster today took action to oppose the proposed cuts to 10% of jobs at the university by storming the board meeting and then occupying the Vice Chancellor's office. 2010-03-01T19:43+02:00 2010-03-01T19:43:11+00:00 Education Promoted UK Workers' Movements A Student Against Cuts en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446828.html Pictures from family fun day held at the occupied Livesey Museum on the Old Kent Road 2010-03-01T13:41+02:00 2010-03-01T13:41:00+00:00 Culture Education Free Spaces Promoted UK Livesey the Photographer en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446827.html Families flock to the Livesey Museum for the re-opening of the former children's museum to mark two years since Southwark Council shut the building down 2010-03-01T13:09+02:00 2010-03-01T13:09:00+00:00 Culture Education Free Spaces Promoted UK George en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446826.html The struggle against the UK's immigration detention system is gathering pace. Inside Yarl's Wood, the women's fight continues with some inmates still refusing food. The UK Border Agency is now under pressure. You can help. 2010-03-01T11:24+02:00 2010-03-01T11:24:12+00:00 Anti-racism Migration Promoted UK NCADC en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/03/446818.html None of the women have been charged with any offences or were in any way involved in any actions at Yarl's Wood that were other than peaceful. UK citizens cannot be remanded to prison, except they have been brought before a judge and the judge orders it so. Denise, Aminata, Sheree, Shellyann, and Gladys, have not and will not be brought before a judge, they have been remanded to prison on the whim of Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State for Borders and Immigration. 2010-03-01T07:30+02:00 2010-03-01T07:30:43+00:00 Migration Promoted Social Struggles UK Workers' Movements World John O en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446803.html Climate change activists teamed up with local residents to invade the Tesco superstore in Lewes, East Sussex on Saturday in protest at plans to increase the size of the supermarket by 50%. More than 80 protesters took part, entering the store and embarking on a game of Tesco Whirl. The idea is to grab a trolley keep it empty and form up with others to create a giant conga chain. 2010-02-28T18:26+02:00 2010-02-28T18:26:00+00:00 Climate Chaos Promoted Social Struggles South Coast UK South Coast Climate Camp en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446774.html Friday’s protest outside the UK Border Agency in Cardiff was the largest one to date with over 200 people, mostly refugees. Read full report here: <img border="0" src="/img/extlink.gif"/> <a href="http://noborderswales.org.uk/2010/02/27/mass-protest-outside-ukba-the-first-of-many/">http://noborderswales.org.uk/2010/02/27/mass-protest-outside-ukba-the-first-of-many/</a> 2010-02-27T22:41+02:00 2010-02-27T22:41:00+00:00 Anti-racism Migration Promoted Social Struggles UK World No Borders South Wales en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446773.html Today 6 activists from Bristol Animal Rights Collective ( BARC ) and Bath Animal Action ( BAA ) held another protest outside Noah's Ark Zoo Farm. 2010-02-27T22:36+02:00 2010-02-27T22:36:59+00:00 Animal Liberation Promoted UK Bristol Animal Rights Collective en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/02/446766.html Derby Midlands National Front called a 'day of action' in towns across Derbyshire today. Only five 'warriors' of the 'master race' bothered to turn up in Ripley, only to have their union jack and literature taken off them by antifascists. They were then chased out of town. 2010-02-27T18:47+02:00 2010-02-27T18:47:28+00:00 Anti-racism Nottinghamshire Promoted UK Antifascists en Text text/html; charset=UTF-8