Press Release For Immediate Release 22 Days of Waging Peace: Targeting Brimar, Targeting Bloodshed, Remembering Gaza The Target Brimar (1) campaign will be organising a 22 day rolling demonstration beginning on Sunday 27th December. Affinity groups from around the North of England will be protesting against the Manchester based weapons components manufacturer Brimar (2). The demonstrations will be commemorating the one... »
I know your thoughts are likely on the coming holiday, but we need your help now. Four of our activists face Christmas in jail over charges relating to a peaceful protest at the Heads of State dinner at the Copenhagen climate summit. We’re calling for the immediate release of the activists – please help us by... »
A group of French farmers have dumped piles of hay in front of the French presidential palace in protest of falling food prices and demanded more help from the government. Police used tear gas to push back about 100 demonstrators from the Young Farmers union who unfurled a large banner saying “angry farmers.” The protesters say... »
Wednesday, December 16, 2009, 13:48 NEWFATHERS4JUSTICE OXFORD PROTEST NOV 2009 The burning issue for fathers’ group http://www.newfathers4justice.info/ A SELECTION of superheroes yesterday staged two protests in Oxfordshire in a bid to gain more rights for fathers. The New Fathers for Justice campaigners demonstrated in Oxford and Witney. The group began protesting at Oxford Combined Court Centre at about 8am. At... »
In response to a Dail question by Caoimhghin O Caolain (9/12/09) of Sinn Fein, Noel Dempsey, Minister of Transport said 243,000 US soldiers had used Shannon Airport to date. Roger Cole, Chair of PANA said: “PANA held the first demonstration at Shannon Airport in May 2002 in protest against the use of Shannon Airport by US... »
Sylvia Boyes regards her jail sentences as ‘reading holidays’. She is a truly remarkable woman…..but it does seem unfortunate that her ‘reading holidays’ are so often arranged for her at Christmas! For anyone who’d like to send Sylvia a Christmas card any post sent to the address at the end of this post will... »
Protesters brought Indian-administered Kashmir to a standstill on Tuesday amid claims that a federal inquiry into the deaths of two women is a cover-up. Locals allege the women, who died in the town of Shopian in May, were raped and murdered by security forces. But on Monday India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) told the high... »
Steelworkers have held a protest at Middlesbrough’s match against Cardiff City in a bid to prevent the closure of Redcar’s Corus plant. More than 100 workers marched around the Riverside Stadium’s pitch before kick off, calling for the government to intervene and save the factory. Club chairman Steve Gibson and the town’s mayor Ray Mallon held... »
Sincerely sorry this wasn’t Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Jack Straw, David Blunkett, John Prescott, Alan Johnson or any of the other political scum in the UK who’ve murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people along with Berlusconi……..but Berlusconi’s a good start. Well done to Massimo Tartaglia whatever his reasons may have been, and here’s hoping Berlusconi is... »
