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ICAN PARIS FORUM – Day 1: Light in Dark Times
Photos : Brigitte Cano ICAN PARIS FORUM – How to ban bombs and influence people. “The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) and ICAN France invite activists, students, campaigners and anyone interested in changing the world to come together in…
Screening of “The Beginning of the End of Nuclear Weapons” in Liverpool
Tuesday, 18 February 2020, 17:00 – 19:00 GMT Rendall Building Lecture Theatre 7 Rendall Building Liverpool Organized by Europe and The World Centre – University of Liverpool On the 7th of July 2017, 122 countries voted in favour of the Treaty…
Macron proposes European role for French nuclear weapons, won’t meet with Hiroshima Survivor
In a speech outlining his vision for France’s nuclear deterrence strategy, President Macron touted the role of nuclear weapons in European security policy and dismissed calls for their global abolition as an ‘ethical debate’ that lacked ‘realism in the strategic context.’…
Climate activists bring Trojan Horse to the British Museum to protest BP sponsorship
“The installation – based on the wooden horse in the ancient Greek myth of the siege of Troy – was timed to coincide with the museum’s latest exhibition, Troy: Myth and Reality, which is described as “supported by BP”.[British Petroleum]…
Hundreds of Greenpeace Climate Activists Shut Down BP Headquarters in London
In Britain, climate activists forced oil and gas giant BP to temporarily shut down its headquarters in London Wednesday. More than 100 activists with the environmental group Greenpeace attempted to install some 500 solar panels in front of the BP…
UK: School children hand in 75,000-strong petition to reunite refugee families
A Families Together demonstration urging the Government to reunite child refugees with their parents took place at Westminster yesterday. Campaigners, school children from Oaklands Secondary School in London’s Bethnal Green, young refugees from the VOICES Network and Angus MacNeil MP held up large multi-coloured letters…
Italy: Revoke Abusive Anti-Asylum Decrees
Draconian Migration Measures Put Lives, Rights at Risk Italy’s Democratic Party-Five Star Movement coalition government should revoke anti-asylum and anti-rescue measures held over from the previous government, Human Rights Watch said today. The government is expected to propose modifications to two…
The East-Side Gallery, CNN and Fairytales
Similar to the narrative of the “victor”, where it is claimed that the reunification of Germany was due to the USA and not to Gorbachev, CNN is trying to equate the creation of the East Side Gallery in Berlin to…
Who knew what, when, why? “Terror police list’ was shared across Government, NHS, Ofsted and 20 councils
We are deeply disturbed by what clearly goes way beyond the realm of an ‘unfortunate oversight’. Our planet is literally burning and some of the police and government seem desperate to silence the fire alarm. We need to find out…
Split Hearings: The Assange Extradition Case Drags On
By Dr Binoy Kampmark It is being increasingly larded with heavy twists and turns, a form of state oppression in slow motion, but the Julian Assange extradition case now looks like it may well move into the middle of the…
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