[Onthebarricades] Fw: On the Barricades - UK, Ireland

[Andy]

IRELAND: Pickets, blockades and direct action target Shell and Statoil over Rossport Five

Fascist judge indefinitely detains resisters for thinking for themselves instead of uncritically obeying dikkktats

"Meanwhile, continuing protests back in Mayo have insured that Shell isn't getting any work done on its terminal or its pipeline.  The message is getting across to the public, as the Rossport Five draw on a long Irish tradition of jailed resisters to imperial power. Ó Seighin tapped straight into that tradition and threw in some class consciousness when he cited the support they're getting from their "ordinary" fellow prisoners in Cloverhill Jail: "They have a tremendous, very accurate sense of right and wrong that is slightly missing in more exalted society." (Counterpunch)

Shell stations are shut down as direct action spreads, and work on the pipeline is halted by protests

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=149675530&p=y49676z36

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148842450&p=y48843y56

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1530695,00.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/index.php?region=mayo

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/aug/ainfos00086.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00116.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00197.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00309.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70762&results_offset=30

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00367.html

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00374.html

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=986

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/08/02ireland.html

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050820164645159

http://www.counterpunch.org/browne07162005.html

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=1870

Sinn Fein activists occupy terminals in gas protest solidarity actions

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148111740&p=y48yyz446

 

Protest against visit of Chinese ambassador

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69857

Strike planned at Rye Valley food factory

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0601/ryevalley.html

Polish builders protest over union-busting pressure

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0601/porttunnel.html

French dockers blockade Irish ferries in protests over low pay to staff

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0530/irishferries.html

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4593359

http://www.rmt.org.uk/C2B/PressOffice/display.asp?ID=1437&Type=2

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0523/irishferries.html

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=143937868&p=y43938574

http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=60605&pt=n

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1536

Demonstration for living wage for ferry workers

http://www.itfglobal.org/news-online/index.cfm/newsdetail/439

Farmers protest over sheep prices

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0420/farmers.html

Protests over deportation of mothers

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=59925256&p=599z5558

Asylum seekers stage hunger strike

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69440&type=feature

Mass anti-deportation protest grips Irish town

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4426635.stm

Rally against deportation at Irish party office

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=139120830&p=y39yzy536

Waterford students protest over underfunding

http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=17609

Construction workers protest over pensions

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=142710840&p=y4z7yy546

More deportation protests

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=59217&pt=n

http://www.businessworld.ie/livenews.htm?a=1149224;s=rollingnews.htm

Reclaim the Streets in Dublin

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=141638426&p=y4y639y3z

Protests as Ireland play Israeli football team; fans wave Palestinian flags as Israeli national anthem played

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article3909.shtml

Protest over wages at retirement village

http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0711/tullybeg.html

Artists withdraw from Galway exhibit in protest over cuts

http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/dws/story.tpl?inc=2005/07/14/news/19807.html

Asylum seekers on hunger strike as opposition to statist racism grows

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/jul/ainfos00314.html

Solidarity protest over Mayday shooting in Colombia; protesters arrested

http://www.ainfos.ca/05/may/ainfos00307.html

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69905

Mayday festival in Waterford
http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=17866
Dublin Mayday march supports migrant workers
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=141497226&p=y4y49793z
Sacked airport workers stage hunger strike
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=633786
Protests against mistreatment of Turkish migrant
workers by Gama company
http://www.siptu.ie/news/pr.php?id=1403
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0412/gama.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0411/gama.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0405/gama.html
http://www.examiner.ie/pport/web/Full_Story/did-sgISAp26mvYaQsglO-LCk0lQvU.asp
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0404/GAMA.html
Nurses protest over A&E conditions
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0414/health.html
http://www.rte.ie/news/2005/0412/health.html

Temp workers' struggle at Tesco, Ireland

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1077

Successful anti-deportation campaign secures return of Nigerian child

http://www.socialistworld.net/eng/2005/04/24irelandb.html

Dublin activists stage anti-precarity unionising effort at end of Mayday march

http://www.infoshop.org/inews/article.php?story=20050506083950106

Gama dispute continues

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/05/16/9489889

Polish workers at Dublin tunnel stage wildcat strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/wkrs-j03.shtml

Store staff in north Dublin strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a12.shtml

Protests over military planes at Galway airshow

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=147440334&p=y4744yx4x

Protests over excavation of Tara valley

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=150577092&p=y5x577798

Protest at Czech embassy over CzechTek repression

http://www.anarkismo.net/newswire.php?story_id=1089

Rossport Five supporters target Fianna Fail meeting

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154915462&p=y549y6y68

School students and parents protest over school bus service

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=154682482&p=y54683y88

Children stage parliament protest over bus dispute

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=158052220&p=y58x5z9z6

Protest against building of "super-prison" in Dublin

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=157305978&p=y573x6684

Limerick parents stage school bus protests

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=66269&pt=n

Farmers hold protest against Mandelson at British embassy

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=161740364&p=y6y74yx7x

 

1,000 farmers protest at milk price cut 

Thursday, April 14 06:23:53 

More than 1,000 farmers have protested outside Glanbia's head office in Kilkenny against an 4c a gallon cut in milk prices imposed by the company.   They claimed that the price cut will mean an unacceptable cut in their incomes.  Addressing the demonstration, IFA leader John Dillon claimed that farmers were being used to subsidise Glanbia's share price.  The price cut had been followed by a 7c rise in the Glanbia share price, he said.  Mr Dillon said that Glanbia had now reduced prices by 18c over the past four years, cutting farmers' incomes by 40pc.  The latest 4c price cut would reduce the income of a 60,000 gallon dairy farmers by 12pc, he said.  He said that the dairy industry would have no future if companies in the sector continued to make such cuts.  The industry could not survive without viable farmers, he warned.  Mr Dillon urged milk processors should be improving efficiency instead of cutting their prices to farmers.

 

BRITISH-OCCUPIED IRELAND:  Blunkett booted!  Blunkett cancels visit to job centre as republicans protest demanding release of POW

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=148787382&p=y48788x88

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=122229200&p=yzzzz978x

Postal workers stage wildcat strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml

Clashes as police support Orange Order march

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/cgi-bin/news/newsbrief.plx?id=2238231572&fa=1

Sectarian clashes in Derry city centre

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northwest_edition/story.jsp?story=662317

Polish workers stage walkout over alleged sectarian abuse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4431759.stm

Hospital protest over acute services

28 July 2005 

Altnagelvin Hospital in Londonderry will suffer if acute services are axed in Omagh, protesters said today.

 

WALES: Aviation workers stags job cuts protest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/4658181.stm

Swansea bus drivers strike over pay
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4433571.stm
Cardiff steelworkers continue protests
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/4384493.stm

 

SCOTLAND: Eviction resisted

http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/1524/index.php

Council forced to back down on pay imposition after worker resistance

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1635632005

Jeff Luers solidarity protest - US flag burnt

http://resist.ca/story/2005/6/20/0438/87313

Two-day bus walkout over pay in Scotland

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6932/693262.html

Glasgow tube dispute continues

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20215.htm

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20217.htm

First Minister stumped by schoolchild

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20218.htm

Cyclists protest motorway building

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20219.htm

Environmentalists stage naked protest over planning carve-up

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20220.htm

Bridge toll workers strike over pay

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20221.htm

Anti-bypass protest site grows

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm

Dundee council housing defence campaign hails partial victory

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20222.htm

SSP protests target Royal Bank of Scotland profiteering

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6812

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20226.htm

Large Pride march in Scotland

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20226.htm

Phone mast protest in East Kilbride

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6820

School students launch anti-deportation campaigns

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/46038-print.shtml

 

UK:  Union protest against privatised rail

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4409211

Families protest closure of Rover factory

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/04/13/mg.rover/

Warrington Fujitsu staff protest against management imposition of pay award

http://www.mysan.de/article80498.html

Journalists target executives in piggy pay protest

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/article/190505/pigsick_journalists_target

St Helier refuse collectors strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/jersey/4549377.stm

Erskine Bridge strike continues - but boss goes on holiday!

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5039601.html

Rubbish collectors threaten strike over snooping

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4604783.stm

HSBC workers strike

http://www.thisissouthwales.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=161629&command=displayContent&sourceNode=161359&contentPK=12541691

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4585219.stm

Train guards strike over working hours

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/4589319.stm

Workers at BBC strike

http://www.freelanceuk.com/news/1141.shtml

http://media.guardian.co.uk/site/story/0,14173,1490109,00.html

http://www.bectu.org.uk/news/bbc/nb0258.html

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8571730

http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=8571310

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1625268,00.html

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15270422-1702,00.html

Coventry council workers strike

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/4574421.stm

Week-long strike at London Metropolitan University

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4567825.stm

Strike at West Sussex post office over restructuring

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/southern_counties/4565129.stm

Norfolk train drivers strike over new ticket system

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/4562855.stm

Land registry workers stage work-to-rule

http://www.pcs.org.uk/Templates/Internal.asp?NodeID=897159

P&O workers protest job losses

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/4680861.stm

Suffolk firefighters strike against cuts

http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=843&ArticleID=1096309

AA staff demonstrate against ableist targeting by management, and cutbacks

http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=92085

http://www.gmb.org.uk/Templates/PressItems.asp?NodeID=92084

Rolls-Royce staff stage walkout over dismissal of union convenor

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/4697081.stm

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1665572005

BT stockholders face protests over outsourcing

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1528053,00.html

http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=2349

Protests over state of hospital in Bridlington

http://www.amicustheunion.org/Default.aspx?page=2307

Asda distribution staff in northeast England strike over pay

http://www.checkoutmagazine.co.uk/market_update/market_update_story.ehtml?o=1279

http://www.politics.co.uk/press-releases/gmb-three-day-strike-at-asda-distribution-depot-washington-as-acas-fail-avert-disruption-$15011524.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/4718365.stm

Guardian staff strike

http://www.nuj.org.uk/

Pay strike starts at Asda distribution depot

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/28/4346477

Strike against Rentokil staff agency at Aintree hospital, Liverpool

http://www.libcom.org/newswire/stories.php?story=05/07/04/2668228

Gate Gourmet workers sacked - campaign launched, other workers walk out

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6933/693301.html

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/405/index.html?id=np1.htm

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7180

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7178

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm

Ambala Foods workers strike over pay

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6922/692212.html

http://www.themilitant.com/2005/6918/691853.html

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6957

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6667

Migrant workers stage sit-in to highlight exploitation

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7209

Chubb security staff strike

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7261

Council workers strike over victimisation of activists

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7264

Workers protest at O2 meeting

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7058

Rolls Royce strike over sacking of union rep

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6982

Northampton postal workers strike over anti-union manoeuvres

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6931

Tesco picketed in solidarity with Polish workers in the UK

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4693

Ansa Logistics strike thwarts bosses

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4696

School strikes in Coventry

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4354

Dewsbury lecturers strike

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4244

Strike at London Metropolitan University

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6540

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6565

University of Westminster students protest over course changes

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6477

Norgren strike

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6472

Merseyside hospital workers strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/lab-j17.shtml

Train strike near London

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/euro-j10.shtml

Merseyside train guards strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/may2005/wkrs-m27.shtml

Coventry journalists, Suffolk firefighters strike

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/aug2005/wkrs-a05.shtml

Rail workers on nationwide protest march against privatisation
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWA12523041114780089A00?source=PA%20Feed
Strike at Brunel University
http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1205
http://www.aut.org.uk/index.cfm?articleid=1199
Rover workers demand answers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4441063.stm
Demos continue against fire service "reform"
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4427401.stm
ITV workers strike
http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=143601
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4416855.stm
Easter strike at paint firm in wage dispute
http://www.batleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=372&articleid=985714

 

The Truth Behind the Tube "Strike" (Saturday23 July) 

Radio phone in's were united in their condemnation. "Cowards" was one of the more emotive words used, to the reports that tube drivers had refused to work following the second attempt to carry out suicide bombings on the London transport network. 

The truth, as sheepishly revealed in The Sun on 23 July, was that drivers had refused to work in disgust at the fact that the day after the second bombings, armed police put a gun to the head of a tube driver at Stockwell station, who had run down the tunnel after police had shot a suspect five times on his train. 

Bob Crow commented on the RMT website: 

"No apology could ever be enough ever take away the trauma that that driver has suffered and there should be a full inquiry into the handling of the incident,"

http://www.londonclasswar.org/news.htm

Drivers walk-out, call for instant closures when bombings happen, and oppose armed cops on stations

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/403/index.html?id=np4.htm

 

Angry mothers occupy school roof in cuts protest

http://www.leedstoday.net/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=39&ArticleID=1028494

Parents protest over axing of school crossing patrol

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/4334702.stm

Parents blockade gates in Stourbridge school closure protest

http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=16220403&method=full&siteid=50002&headline=angry-parents-protest-at-school-closure--name_page.html

Protest in Coventry over cancelled pensioners' centre plan

http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100localnews/tm_objectid=15731684&method=full&siteid=50003&headline=pensioners-protest-in-row-over-centre--name_page.html

Sit-in for unspecified reasons at Norfolk voting station

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/england/4518893.stm

Protest in Peterborough demands drop-in shelter

http://www.peterboroughthisweek.com/ka/news/peterborough/story/3119134p-3618196c.html

Farmers launch milk strike over low prices

http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=107428

 

Caterpillar workers surprised by Palestine protest

http://www.socialistunitynetwork.co.uk/reports/caterpillarprotest.htm

Protesters target Uzbek embassy - sit-in blockades embassy, paint thrown on walls

http://www.muslimuzbekistan.com/eng/ennews/2005/05/ennews18052005_1.html

Iraq war protest at Downing Street (Quicktime video)

http://homepage.mac.com/bhughes2/iMovieTheater138.html

London demonstration over killing of Colombian Mayday protester

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1381

Solidarity protest in London supports gay man jailed in Turkey

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/07/071205turkeyDemo.htm

Zimbabwean hunger strikers temporarily end action over deportations

http://www.sciencedaily.com/upi/?feed=TopNews&article=UPI-1-20050711-08190700-bc-britain-zimbabweanrefugees.xml

http://news.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=95923&cat=World

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/633/633p16c.htm

Thousands join London Palestine demo

http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/923.shtml

Protest at BBC over Iraq coverage bias

http://www.uruknet.info/?s1=1&p=13893&s2=20

Protests and direct action outside Uzbek embassy over Andijan crackdown

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1616890,00.html

http://1924.org/uzbekistan/press_releases/index.php?id=17052005a.html

OutRage take protest over gay rights and women's rights to Palestine event

http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/578/letters.htm

Solidarity protest over murders of activists in Turkey

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6830

York No Sweat pickets Disney

http://www.nosweat.org.uk/article.php?sid=1320

Protest in Tesco targets Coke

http://www.scottishsocialistvoice.net/back%20issues%2005/issue%20216.htm

Brighton Caterpillar protest

http://stopthewall.org/worldwideactivism/952.shtml

Hunger strike by Zimbabwean refugees

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/2748

Protesters target Chinese leader's visit

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3188

 

Greenpeace occupy Prescott's roof

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/27/npresc27.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/27/ixportaltop.html

Activists chain themselves to cars in protest over gas-guzzlers

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/0605-04.htm

Greenpeace blockade Land Rover production line
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4565829
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15524871&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=4x4-chain-gang-name_page.html

Pagans enact ritual to protest building near henge

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/north_yorkshire/4505191.stm

Greenpeace occupy Rangerover plant

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1485493,00.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000102&sid=a8QwVUhunml4&refer=uk

Artist wastes water in protest against water waste

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/1949

Protesters scale trees at BP HQ

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news495.htm

Road campaigners occupy transport ministry

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm

VICTORY!  In spite of vicious state repression, Newchurch torture farm closes

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news509.htm

 

Greenpeace blockades British ministry in PNG timber protest

Posted at 01:33 on 20 October, 2005 UTC

The campaign group Greenpeace has dumped a tonne of Papua New Guinea plywood outside the headquarters of the British ministry for the environment in London.  Greenpeace says the timber was logged illegally in Papua New Guinea, turned into plywood in China, and was being used on British building sites.  It says illegally logged timber from Rimbunan Hijau, and other companies, can be found as plywood at Wolseley Build Centres and other builders' merchants throughout Britain.  Volunteers used a crane to place over a tonne of plywood - secured with large chains - right outside the door of the Department for Environment in London.  Campaigners chained themselves to the timber, but police used boltcutters to remove the two activists, and they were released without charge.

http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=20025

 

 

PRESS RELEASE:
 
ACTIVISTS OCCUPY PLYMOUTH ISLAND IN NUCLEAR WEAPONS PROTEST.
Friday 13th May 2005
16.00pm
 
Twelve Trident Ploughshares activists have landed on Drakes Island in the  
River Tamar today  close to Devonport Dockyard in Plymouth which is  used to 
refit Trident, the UK's illegal nuclear weapons system.
 
The occupation of Drakes Island takes place at the same time as the NPT  
Review Conference in New York, where the UK delegation is coming under  increasing 
diplomatic pressure to honour disarmament commitments made in 2000.  The 
Island occupation will highlight the hypocrisy of the UK's  position on nuclear 
weapons.
 
 At the last NPT Review Conference in 2000, the UK, as a  nuclear-weapons 
state, made a series of commitments, including, "An unequivocal  undertaking [by 
the nuclear-weapon States] to accomplish the total elimination  of their 
nuclear arsenals leading to nuclear disarmament to which all States  parties are 
committed under Article VI"
 
Despite commitments to disarm, and a recent unsolicited attack on Iraq who  
it accused of trying to develop nuclear weapons the  UK  government is 
currently upgrading its nuclear weapons factory, AWE  at Aldermaston with development 
of facilities for the manufacture of the  next generation of nuclear weapons 
already underway.
 
The Island occupation is the start of two weeks of protest in Plymouth  by 
local people who are joined by national and international nuclear  weapons 
protesters commited to seeing Plymouth and the UK free of nuclear  weapons.
 
A carnival and blockade will be held outside Devonport Dockyard on Friday  
20th May and a camp site is organised in Plymouth for protesters from  Thursday 
19th to Sunday 22nd May.
 
ENDS:
_www.tridentploughshares.org_ (http://www.tridentploughshares.org/)

 

Block the Builders blockade gate at Aldermaston

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4528465

EDO protests continue

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6729

Menwith Hill spybase protested

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1520532,00.html

Police attack on protest against EDO - protesters pigpenned

Actions continued - goosestepping parody of EDO chairman

Police forced back shamefaced after attack on peace camp

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news508.htm

Thousands stage peace march in London

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1155307

Anti-nuclear protesters block road at Rolls-Royce site

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/4374730.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/derbyshire/4370796.stm

Peace protesters demand inquiry in London

http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/10/20/a2.int.warbrits.1020.p1.php?section=nation_world

Relatives of soldiers killed in war hold Downing Street vigil

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12956,1595189,00.html

 

Thousands protest for trade justice

http://www.obviousnews.com/breakingnews/stories/obviousnews-559030.html

 

Fascist pig who banned Palestine picket hit with email blitz

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4500835.stm

Student protests stop deportations

http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/2005/624/624p20b.htm

Protesters defy Parliament Square demo ban

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4734665.stm

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=118461&Sn=WORL&IssueID=28135

Protest against ASBOs

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6957

Rooftop protest at youth prison

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/tm_objectid=15475019&method=full&siteid=94762&headline=10-riot-at-youth-jail-name_page.html

Protest over continued detention of Charles Bronson - still in jail 20 years after the end of his sentence!

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShowStory.asp?story=MK3012165E&news_headline=prisoner's_son_let_off_over_rooftop_protest

Hunger strike at Yarls Wood against deportations

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news511.htm

Arrests as police suppress Parliament Square picnic

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news510.htm

Lancaster Six convictions spark further protests as attack on free speech continues

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2005/09/324737.html

Cornwall residents sab parking meters as council ignores referendum

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/4286468.stm

Old man jailed for council tax refusal

http://www.channel4.com/news/content/news-storypage.jsp?id=709082

Siege as suspect refuses to go quietly

http://icberkshire.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200berkshireheadlines/tm_objectid=15767879&method=full&siteid=50102&headline=riot-police-in-four-hour-britwell-siege-name_page.html

Youth unrest in Croydon after trader throws water on boy

http://iccroydon.icnetwork.co.uk/news/croydon/tm_objectid=16136151&method=full&siteid=53340&headline=schoolboys-attack-traders-in-mini-riot-name_page.html

Charles Clarke protested over attacks on civil liberties

http://new.edp24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=News&tBrand=edponline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED30%20Oct%202005%2021%3A32%3A12%3A073

 

IHRC cuts relations with pigs over shooting

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8663

Hizb ut-Tahrir vow to defy ban - warn of community uprisings

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=8911

Muslims protest repressive laws

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7065

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7059

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7081

Protest over detention of Rachid Ramda

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7718

Babar Ahmad trial resumes amid protests

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=6824

Algerian dissident held by British statists in Ireland goes on hunger strike

http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?id=7216

Belmarsh internment protest

http://www.fourthwrite.ie/patricia7.html

Student campaign leads to judicial review for refugee

http://www.irr.org.uk/2005/august/fq000020.html

Noise demo and sit-in protest fro asylum seekers in Nottingham

http://www.veggies.org.uk/AlternativeNews/ArticlePage.php?id=255

Protest over death in custody

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7222

Anti-deportation campaigns

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6907

Hispanic carnival observes silence for police shooting victim

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7128

Campaign forces return of refugees to Teesside

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=7091

Zimbabwean refugees stage hunger strike against deportation

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6914

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4443

Protests as SWP invite alleged anti-Semite to speak

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4482

Campaigners prevent deportation of Congolese refugee beaten by guards

http://www.workersliberty.org/node/view/4227

Peace vigil at Stockwell tube station after shooting

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0725-04.htm

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/403/index.html?id=np3.htm

Protest over shooting at Downing Street

http://www.commondreams.org/news2005/0727-07.htm

Travellers march for freedom in Basildon

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php?article_id=6533

Travellers protest ethnic cleansing

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4553066

Mass protest against dawn raids on asylum seekers in Glasgow

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4300260.stm

And over mistreatment of refugees in Manchester and Bolton

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4300770.stm

 

Schoolchildren boo Blair

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,15098570-1702,00.html

Alistair Darling pied

http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news499.htm

 

Motorists protest against Birmingham crackdown

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/4455791.stm

Police station mast near school protested

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/4448107.stm

Man Utd fans protest Glazier takeover

Fascistic courts convict protester for complaining about police interference with the right to protest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4551707.stm

http://www.sportal.com.au/soccer.asp?i=news&id=65617

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/13/nmanu13.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/05/13/ixnewstop.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/4543739.stm

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050512-010019-2834r.htm

http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5038814.html

Protesters stage go-slow to protest extension of "congestion charge" (stealth tax) area

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/18193547?source=Evening%20Standard

Farmers for Action blockade oil depot in pre-election fuel price protest

Lorry drivers later join the protests at other refineries

http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2005/04/25/26903/Farmer+protest+targets+refinery.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/vote_2005/frontpage/4484331.stm

http://www.tnn.co.uk/CurrentIssues/plonearticle.2005-05-03.2654446769

Water speed limits protested in the Lake District

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4489674

Speed camera go-slow protest on motorway

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4484449

Fathers for Justice scale snooker venue

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/other_sports/snooker/4497401.stm

Southampton fans protest over suspension of manager by control freaks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_league/super_league/st_helens/4524427.stm

Manchester United fans protest

http://www.socialistparty.org.uk/2005/393/index.html?id=np4.htm

Manchester United fans disrupt UEFA meeting over Glazer takeover

http://breakingnews.iol.ie/sport/story.asp?j=146654556&p=y46655z6z&t=soccer

Fans clash with cops as Glazers visit; police attack sit-down protesters

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/4635727.stm

Safety fears end milk price protest 

Farmers demonstrating outside milk depots finished their blockades early as they claimed lorry drivers were jeopardising their safety. Members of the group Farmers For Action staged the protest outside Robert Wiseman's depots in Cambuslang and Bellshill to highlight their concerns over milk prices. Bosses at Robert Wiseman's said police were marshalling the demonstrations and insisted there was no danger. About 180 farmers gathered outside the two plants and at the Arla Food depot in Coatbridge, Lanarkshire, to try to halt milk deliveries. But Farmers For Action spokesman John Cumming said the action was called off because he feared someone could be hurt by lorries going through their picket lines. A spokesman for the dairy firm said: "There were protests at our facilities but we met our obligations to staff and to our customers. "The police were very much in control of the situation. As far as we're concerned, there was no danger." The farmers were protesting over the price they are paid for their milk. The National Farmers Union says they receive between 16p and 20p per lire, which it claims is less than 10 years ago. They are being backed by the Scottish Green Party, which is urging First Minister Jack McConnell to take urgent action to help the farmers. Shiona Baird MSP, party co-convener and a former farmer, said: "What will it take for the Labour-Lib Dem coalition to take action to support the Scottish dairy farmers? Will they wait until the industry is totally decimated and we have to import our milk?" But Mr McConnell said at First Minister's Questions on Wednesday that it was a matter for the supermarkets, not the Executive.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1915132005

Manchester United fans protest at Vodafone meeting

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/sport/football/manchesterunited/s/167/167257_fans_group_in_vodafone_protest.html

T-shirt protest planned after repression

http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/sport/football/manchesterunited/s/171/171877_glazer_protest_in_pipeline.html

Residents square off with builders over sneaky development project

http://www.thisishertfordshire.co.uk/news/newsindex/display.var.622516.0.residents_line_up_in_housing_protest.php

Hearts fans plan protest over draconian life ban for lifelong fan

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/globalresistance/message/3023

Cockler victimised for protest over dangerous practices - statists steal vehicles and property

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1949052005

Small fuel protest at refineries and on motorways

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/4244708.stm

http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/09/16/fuel.protest/

Fathers 4 Justice scale Parliament

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/28/content_3553960.htm

Naked ramble continues - as does persecution

http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=689

Man Utd fans continue Glazier takeover protests
http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/WinnipegSun/Sports/2005/05/16/1041524-sun.html
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