[Imc-london-audio] Audio called: Surviving the Gaza Beach Bombing

[devlishmay at aktivix.org]

Here is the audio for the show it is 13.5 minutes long and starts with a music
track so you do not need to play music before it. 
Here is the link : http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/06/10354.php
Enjoy 
Have a lovely show 
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Quoting "planet-mail at aktivix.org" <planet-mail at aktivix.org>:

> Hello...
> 
> some stories below - re signing off comments - i have put in a START / END
> bit
> below which would appreciarte being used - combine with whatever u deciede
> to
> go with ;)
> 
> good luck :)
> 
> end of a bloody era...
> 
> =======================================
> 
> 
> 
> START:
> 
> Well after a few years of indymedia radio london news on resonance fm every
> week....this is the last show...  (for now...)
> 
> we're taking a break for the summer, and take this opportunity to thank
> everyone
> who's worked on the show over the years, making music, contributing stories
> and
> audio, presenting, all the guests and people we've interviewed, the
> engineers
> and general mad folks here at resonance fm...
> 
> anyway... on with the show..... 
> 
> 
> ==============
> 
> Faslane Peace Camp, situated outside the gates of the Faslane Naval Base and
> its
> Trident nuclear submarines, has been a permanent protest camp since 1982,
> but
> now... according to schnews, it's due to close down. 
> 
> The decision was made during the recent 24th birthday gathering, with
> closure
> planned for 25th birthday in June 2007. 
> 
> Activists reckon that the static camp is no longer the best tactic – mainly
> because of police surveillance and problems with residents - with plans to
> move
> towards a range of actions, some open, some not, linking up with the broader
> movement of other anti-authoritarian and peace groups. 
> 
> For updates see www.faslane.co.nr
> 
> =====================
> 
> 
> At Primrose Hill primary school in north London they’ve been taking pupils’
> fingerprints - without parents consent - for a security system used in the
> school library. The Micro Librarian Systems’ "Junior Librarian" has been
> marketed in the UK since 2002 and is estimated to have fingerprinted
> hundreds
> of thousands of British children.
> 
> Meanwhile an addition to the national curriculum from Scottish Special
> Branch
> will see officers encouraging teachers to grass on pupils who they think may
> be
> bunking off for a bit of crafty jihad behind the bike sheds... 
> 
> Christian and far right organisations need not fear though, because the
> newly
> established unit will only focus on ‘ethnic religious groupings’. 
> Teachers are being asked to help cops “identify any activities that could be
> considered to be extremist”, which might include “a kid who has gone back to
> their parents’ home in Pakistan and has returned with anti-Western feeling
> or
> stronger religious faith than they had shown before”.
> 
> Where better than school to brain-wash the most impressionable part of the
> population into seeing political supervision and bio-metric identity
> verification as just another everyday feature of life in the UK?
> 
> 
> ======================
> 
> Coming up on the weekend of the 7th and 8th of july is Romsey Beggars
> fair...
> 
> Back in the dim and distant past when begging was an honourable occupation,
> the
> beggars of Romsey were given a license to go about their trade in the town
> in
> an effort to regulate them.
> 
> The modern beggars fair is a one day celebration of street entertainment
> with
> people coming from all over the country to take part.
> 
> Its free of course, but you're enrouraged to make a donation...
> 
> =======================
> 
> 
> On Saturday 24th of June, at 10.30 AM more than one hundred people from
> different European cities, congregated at the doors of the future Migrant
> Detention Center, which is in the course of being constructed in Zona Franca
> in
> Barcelona.
> 
> This new Migrant Detention Center, the biggest in Spain, will replace the
> current center, which is in 'La Verneda' area. 
> 
> The protest was violently broken up by police who arrested and detained all
> the
> participants, including two journalists, one from Europe Press and the other
> from TVE.
> 
> Around 57 people were kept in jail over the weekend and many are still being
> detained.
> 
> Reports speak of the detained campaigners being made to stand handcuffed for
> several hours and many have been subject to police violence.
> 
> for more see www.communia.org/caravana
> 
> =======================================
> 
> Commenting on the announcement by Tony Blair of a panel to examine progress
> on
> the pledges made at the G8 summit in Gleneagles last year, Peter Hardstaff,
> head of policy at the World Development Movement said:
> 
> “Tony Blair is picking his own panel to hold himself accountable for his own
> promises. Why not just keep the promises instead?
> 
> “We are tired of world leaders heaping praise on Make Poverty History while
> simultaneously stabbing us in the back by breaking their promises."
> 
> WDM and other NGOs recently released their own assessments of the G8's
> progress
> on the pledges made at Gleneagles - made almost one year ago now - and
> surprise
> surprise... they reckon it was all bluff, with little progress having been
> made...
> 
> Well so much for all the celebrity led Make Poverty History campaign...
> 
> Peter Hardstaff said: "The panel announced by tony blair is designed to
> distract
> attention from the fact that Tony Blair is already breaking the promises he
> made last year and that those pledges were themselves inadequate. Yet even
> if
> all the pledges are kept they will still fall well short of the measures
> necessary to meet the Millennium Development Goals.
> 
> “We have seen numerous panels and monitoring bodies in the past. None of
> them
> have made the G8 any more likely to keep their promises. Just an endless
> cycle
> of commission, pledge, failure and back to commission again. Only massive
> public pressure will ensure that rich countries are held to account for
> their
> actions.
> 
> “For the past 30 years the G8 has played a fundamental role in directing the
> global economy - pushing free trade, deregulation and privatisation on the
> world's poor. This has created massive poverty. Nothing in either the
> Gleneagles declaration or the remit of this new panel does anything to
> change
> this agenda.”
> 
> ====================================
> 
> Saturday 24th June saw a day of protest at 5 British airports (Glasgow,
> Prestwick, Edinburgh, Gatwick and Birmingham International) against the
> so-called `rendition flights`. The protests were supported by the national
> Stop
> the War and by a variety of local campaigns.
> 
> The process of what is euphemistically called `extraordinary rendition`
> amounts
> to secretly and illegally shuttling people around the world for
> interrogation,
> very often to countries where torture is practiced.
> 
> In Edinburgh banners and placards read `Stop the torture flights`  - 
> `Scotland
> against criminalising communities` and ` Kidnap and torture called rendition
> flights by the media`. 
> 
> One activist dressed up in an orange jump suit worn by detainees in
> Guantanamo
> and was also shackled and handcuffed.
> 
> Afterwards there was a public meeting in St John?s church in the West end of
> Edinburgh. The event was chaired by Rosemary Burnett of Amnesty
> International
> Scotland and featured former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan Craig Murray.
> 
> Craig Murray questioned the value of much of the intelligence used in the
> infamous `dodgy dossier` used to justify the attack on Iraq, saying most off
> it
> was simply bought. He described how when in Uzbekistan, he had come across
> evidence of `industrial scale` torture including the boiling of one man, yet
> he
> was disciplined for speaking out against it. 
> 
> Murray spoke of the ten thousand or more prisoners of conscience in
> Uzbekistan
> and of a massacre of around 700 people in the Andijan area there in May
> 2005.
> This killing led to the imposition of EU sanctions on Uzbekistan:
> 
> He went on to remind people about the Ricin plot, which was one of the many
> scare stories put out in the run up to war on Iraq. The truth is there was
> no
> Ricin and there was no plot. In the recent police raid on a house in Forest
> gate, east London all sorts of absurd stories were reported without question
> by
> the media in their, let's face it, eager attempts to sensationalise
> everything
> and maximise profits.
> 
> ====================
> 
> Terrorists invade Parliament Square! ran the headline of one recent posting
> on
> indymedia...
> 
> The incident happened when a protest was recently granted permission under
> the
> SOCPA parliament no-protest zone legislation, to support the PKK’s demands
> for
> human rights in Kurdistan. 
> 
> Bungling plods failed to notice that the PKK are classed as a banned
> terrorist
> organisation under recent terror legislation.
> 
> On a serious note, the human rights abuses in Kurdistan continue to this day.
> 
> 
> Recently Kurds wanting to protest outside the Turkish Embassy were
> threatened
> with arrest under anti terror-legislation for having placards saying “The
> PKK
> is not terrorist”. 
> 
> The reporter of the story said: "This just goes to show how a shit law can
> be
> used by anyone wanting to stifle dissent. The only way to get rid of a law
> is
> to make it unworkable and one of doing that is to make it look ridiculous.
> The
> fact that the MET police are happy to license what is technically speaking
> an
> illegal demo, while spending everyone else’s money arresting and prosecuting
> someone for reading out the names of dead British Soldiers outside of
> Parliament, makes the point very well.
> 
> 
> ==================================
> 
> 
> 20 local residents took over a Cambridge Pizza Hut last Friday evening with
> a
> "No Chains" party with music, dancing, balloons and playing twister to
> protest
> against the encroachment of multinationals into Mill Road - a vibrant,
> multicultural community. 
> 
> The protest party lasted over half an hour until the games were interupted
> by
> police who dispersed the crowd.
> 
> Mill road is the centre of a thriving and diverse community, and has managed
> to
> remain so whilst the city centre is becoming indistinguishable from any
> other
> town. Now, Mill Road's unique character and independent businesses are under
> threat with the arrival of Multinational Chains such as Subway, Pizza Hut
> and
> Chicken Cottage.
> 
> This No Chains party was part of an on-going campaign to prevent Mill road
> becoming another identikit street in an identikit world.
> 
> Local resident Jane, 23, said "I've always loved Mill Road because of its
> individuality. I'd hate to see it become the same as every other street."
> 
> Another resident, Alan, 46, said "I've lived here 22 years and I'm really
> worried that local businesses are being driven out by these places."
> 
> Previous actions included on May 6th a "making life taste better" day of
> action
> where free home made food was given away on Mill Road outside the chain
> stores
> and an open letter condemning the encroachment of chain stores on Mill Road
> recieved hundreds of signitures.
> 
> Indeed it's a similar story around the country, with ordinary people
> campaigning
> against supermarkets like tescos moving into their areas, or opening yet
> more
> stores and driving other shops out of business, encouraging more car use,
> the
> list goes on...
> 
> One activist said:
> 
> "Some people are having successes, but often these campaigns go unnoticed
> other
> than at a local level. Lessons need to be  learnt - people are prepared to
> protest and care passionatly about some of these issues, we need a joined up
> campaign right across the country".
> 
> for more see:
> cambridgeaction.net/nochains 
> 
> ========================================
> 
> UPCOMING EVENTS:
> 
> 1st July there's an 'unfair football match' – to commemorate a year since the
> G8
> met in Scotland, there will be a football game between people dressed as
> Blair,
> Bush & co, versus a team representing the developing world – with a
> blatantly
> biased referee. 2pm kick off, by the Peace Statue on Hove Lawns, Hove.
> Organised by Brighton & Hove World Development Movement 
> 
> 
> 4th july sees Independence from America Party outside US space communication
> base Feltwell (near USAF Lakenheath) at 6pm. There's a Peacemakers' Ball,
> cabaret and fireworks  - For more see www.lakenheathaction.org 
> 
> In London on the 8th july there's an event called  "Challenging the
> corporate
> water takeover" - A panel will debate whether privatisation can ever be the
> solution to the global water crisis or whether water supplies should remain
> in
> public hands. Keynote speakers; Bianca Jagger, Oscar Olivera (from Bolivia)
> and
> WDM’s director Benedict Southworth, set out their ideas on how the global
> water
> crisis can best be tackled, and discuss the wider issues around corporate
> globalisation. That's 2pm - 5.30pm, Friends Meeting House, Euston Road,
> London,
> and its free.
> 
> There's an  Indymedia London film festival - running on the 7, 8 & 10-15th
> july
> coinciding with the G8 summit in russia - While the eight richest countries
> continue to promote nuclear and oil-dependent 'Energy Security' and
> increasingly repressive global governance, Indymedia presents a film
> festival
> to inspire resistance to the G8 agenda. For details check out the indymedia
> london section
> 
> The actual g8 summit in russia takes place from the 15th - 18th july in st
> petersburg - there's quite a few events and protest marches planned in
> russia,
> but as you might expect the possibility of repression against campaigners is
> quite high.
> 
> The day before the G8 begins, the 14th july has been called as a Global
> Action
> Day against the G8, there's also an action call for climate related actions
> -
> for info on this check the reports on the indymedia G8 section or check out 
> 
> g8-2006.plentyfact.net 
> 
> ============================
> 
> ENDING:
> 
> So as we said this is the last indymedia radio london show for a while...
> over
> the last few years we've been reporting resistance to capitalism and war,
> from
> the frontlines across the world, from the tear gassed streets to the kitchen
> tables...
> 
> we hope you've enjoyed some of the stories, we hope you've been inspired or
> that
> you've gotten angry... we hope you keep reading and more importantly keep
> contributing to the indymedia websites...
> 
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