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Remember, remember Parihaka: Non-violent resistance invented

On the morning of Nov 5, 1881, 644 armed constabulary and 945 volunteers attacked Parihaka in Aotearoa New Zealand. Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi, two highly regarded chiefs, had been among those to have had their people's land confiscated by ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  5 Nov 2008

BNP FESTIVAL HOST NOW PLANNING MUSIC EVENT

Warner has already vowed to hold the BNP's annual festival, Red, White and Blue, on his land in Codnor-Denby Lane, Denby, for a second year. Now, he wants to hold a music festival with overnight camping a month later in September. Warner told the ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  21 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Green Day,  Akon

Privatising War: NATO contractor rearms Taleban

NATO has admitted that a helicopter mistakenly dropped military supplies in the wrong place in southern Afghanistan which have subsequently disappeared. The ammunition including rocket-propelled grenades as well as food and water was probably ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  18 Apr 2008
Related Topics: NATO

Private Partner to NHS requires Monkey with own Wrench

BARRETTCLARK RESOURCE SOLUTIONS' client is the leading provider of independent health care services in the UK. The group focuses on clinical excellence, quality of service and efficiency, with a deserved reputation in the independent health care ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  8 Apr 2008

udy Finds Concerns with Biofuels' Impact on Biodiversity

Impact of Biofuels on Biodiversity Explored Corn-based ethanol is currently the most widely used biofuel in the United States, but it is also the most environmentally damaging among crop-based energy sources. A new article published in Conservation ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  2 Apr 2008

Dilawar was detained by U.S. troops...... Five days later, he was dead.

Taxi to the Dark Side, tells the story of Dilawar, an Afghan taxi driver from a small farming village. In 2002, Dilawar was detained by U.S. troops and taken to the U.S. Military's Bagram Airbase. Five days later, he was dead. CBC Radio One ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  5 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Radio One, Inc.,  Academy Awards

EARTHQUAKE = Previous Nuke Site Activity Concerns Villagers

Earthquake epicentre 53.42° North / 0.35° West Spridlington Road, Faldingworth 53.34° North / 0.42° West Co-incidence? In the early l950s its comparatively isolated position in the Lincolnshire countryside saw the airfield selected for ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  27 Feb 2008
Related Topics: Edward Leigh

NOTTINGHAM TO 'GLORIFY' VETERANS IN JUNE

National Veterans Day was launched by the Government in 2006 and an event was held in Wollaton Park last summer. [With no counterdemonstration] Wollaton Park has been chosen as the venue for a 'flagship' event for former servicemen and women across ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  18 Feb 2008

Can YOU Scupper this Unjust Deportation in Just Three Clicks ?

Now the inquest has decided his wife was killed unlawfully by the NHS hospital which employed her, Arnel Cabrera is to be deported. Naughty man, he's foreign and was only allowed to live and work in England because his wife, the one the NHS killed, ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  6 Feb 2008

Terrorist Bomb plot foiled in Grimsby

Worrell was arrested after police forced entry to his home on January 24. He was questioned for several days before being taken to City of Westminster Magistrates' Court in London by officers from the Counter Terrorism Unit in Leeds. Officers found ...

From MIKE DOBSON, UK Indymedia Newswire,  1 Feb 2008

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