UK Indymedia FeaturesUK Indymedia FeaturesRiot at Campsfield Detention Centre- June 14, 2008 Reports are emerging of what appears to have been a riot at Campsfield House, an immigration detention centre in Oxfordshire. Details at this point are sketchy, but it appears that small fires were started and that detainees were returned to their cells by prison officers in riot gear. According to corporate media accounts, there was a heavy police presence with some 50 officers in attendance and a helicopter overhead. A cordon was set up and dog handlers patrolled the perimeter.This is the...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401100.html Binyam Mohamed the last UK resident in Guantnamo Bay threatened with death penalty- June 14, 2008 The 11th June Sheffield Guantnamo protest highlighted the case of Binyam Mohamed who, after years of torture is facing the threat of the death penalty. On 31 May over 100 people attended a public meeting concerning his plight and Reprieve organised a protest in Trafalgar Square which took place on Sunday 15th June to highlight the suffering of Binyam Mohamed. The London Guantnamo Campaign are asking for urgent action to be taken for Binyam Mohamed.Articles: Urgent appeal for British resident...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401098.html Leave it in the Ground: Drax Coal Train Halted- June 13, 2008 On 13th June 2008 protestors halted a coal train carrying fuel for Drax power station in Yorkshire, the single biggest source of CO2 in the UK. Dressed in white overalls and canary outfits, the protestors used safety signals to stop the train on a bridge overlooking the power station, before climbing on board and dumping coal off onto the tracks.The train was stopped on a branch line used exclusively for delivering coal to Drax. Protestors used a network of climbing ropes to suspend themselves..http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/401022.html BNP Withdraw Festival Licence Application in the Face of Protests- June 12, 2008 On Tuesday June 10, Amber Valley Borough Council met at the Town Hall, Market Place, Ripley to hear the premises licence application for the BNP's Red, White and Blue Festival, scheduled to take place on land owned by party member and former Tory-councillor Alan Warner at Denby, Derbyshire from the 15th to the 17th August 2008.Security at the meeting was tight. Protesters gathering outside were greeted by several van loads of Derbyshire's finest, evidence gatherers and a FIT Team. Inside, the...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400923.html Day of Action on Food and Climate Change- June 10, 2008 Climate activists took action across the country and beyond to coincide with the start of the UN Conference on World Food Security, Climate Change & Bio-energy in Rome. "As world leaders and corporations come together to talk more hot air, people across the UK are taking real action on food and climate change.In Girton, Cambridge, Earth First! activists visited the laboratory and offices of the National Institute for Agricultural Botany (NIAB), others came together for a protest outside Newham..http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400740.html Marie Vesco RIP- June 8, 2008 Marie Vesco was killed by a car on Wednesday 4th June while cycling to Brighton. Active in various London social centres, Whitechapel and Brixton Food Not Bombs, she now had plans to open a new social centre.Marie was part of a group of twelve cyclists who left Brixton in the early hours of the morning to join the Smash EDO demo. They were on the A23 by Burgess Hill when an impatient gas guzzling imbecile swerved across two lanes straight into Marie, then another car hit her. She died...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400604.html Nottingham Student Banned from Travelling by Israel- June 6, 2008 Wissam Abuajwa risks losing a place at Nottingham University because Israel will not allow him to leave Gaza. He has a place, a scholarship (from the London-based charity Karim Rida Said Foundation, and a British visa to study for an MSc in Environment and Research Engineering at the University of Nottingham's School of Chemical and Environment Engineering, beginning in September.However, his place could at risk because the Israeli authorities have prevented him from leaving Gaza to travel to...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400446.html Timeline - SmashEDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade- June 4, 2008 The SmashEDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade was held in Brighton on Wednesday 4th June. Over 500 people marched from The Level to the EDOITT factory in Moulescombe. Police plans to contain everyone in a pen outside a neighbouring unit were foiled, and protestors managed to get to the factory. The factory gates were mysteriously opened, and a police van attempted to block the entrance to the EDOITT car park but protestors seized the opportunity to enter the car park and vent their rage against..http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400163.html Nottingham Protests in Support of Detained Resident- June 2, 2008 The detention and imminent deportation of Amdani Juma, a well-known and widely liked local activist, has generated considerable anger in Nottingham. There have been two well attended demonstrations in the Market Square, one on Saturday 31 May and a second on Monday 2 June. The latter was particularly successful at generating media interest, going out live on Central News.The anger felt by many at Amdani's detention was only compounded by police intimidation of participants in the first...http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/06/400067.html |