The UK government today announced a scheme to link the latest Japanese mobile phone technology with compulsory ID cards thereby allowing them to track every UK citizen at any time.The technology won't be limited to just location either as it utilises sensors, known as accelerometers, which will allow the government to determine just exactly what it is you are up to.Governmental men in white coats
The hunger strike at Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre has reached a fifth week. Solidarity demonstrations have taken place, outside the IRC itself, at Holloway Prison and around the country, now a legal challenge is being mounted. The hunger strike tactic has also spread to Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre.
There will be a protest in support of the [...]
In 1993, two year old James Bulger from Kirkby near Liverpool was abducted, tortured and murdered by two ten year olds, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables. The horrific case provoked understandable revulsion from the general public. Politicians gleefully seized on it to further their own agendas.Then Shadow Home Secretary Tony Blair promised that a Labour government would be "tough on crime,
Join a picket in support of council manual workers, this Saturday morning at Craigmillar Community Recycling Centre, old Dalkeith Road.
It's a Queer TimeIt's hard to know if you're alive or deadWhen steel and fire go roaring through your head.One moment you'll be crouching at your gunTraversing, mowing heaps down half in fun :The next, you choke and clutch at your right breastNo time to think leave all and off you go . . .To Treasure Island where the Spice winds blow,To lovely groves of mango, quince and limeBreathe no good-bye,
Feed The World or, at the very least, buy some weapons.
Mashal Jabari has been released, the emergency campaign spearheaded by the Welsh Refugee Council has managed to release a 14-year-old Afghan orphan from detention.
Staff at the Cardiff office of the UK Border Agency had insisted that he was 18 and held him in adult detention ahead of deportation next week. He was released from Campsfield House [...]
The Welsh Refugee Council is calling on the UK Border Agency to release Mashal Jabari, 14 years of age, from Campsfield detention prison, and to suspend removal directions until a full assessment of his age can be made. It is very unusual for the Welsh Refugee Council to comment on individual cases, which adds extra [...]
