Archive - Jul 2007

July 27th

Elbit Acquires Ferranti Technologies

On July 26/07, Elbit Systems Ltd. announced that it has acquired the entire share capital of the UK company Ferranti Technologies (Group) Limited ("FTL") for £15 million (about $31 Million).

July 26th

The Silent Victims of the London Bombing

Burning mosques and assaulting Muslim women will not bring back the victims of those horrendous terrorist attacks”, Elaasar, the foremost authority on hate crimes, said.

5 detained after peaceful ‘Bamboo Blockade’ as Japanese A-bomb survivors appeal to Britian to get rid of Trident

At around 2.30 pm today (July 25), Strathclyde police arrested 10 people, including atomic bomb survivors (‘Hibakusha’) from Nagasaki during a nonviolent blockade of the main gates of the Faslane nuclear base in Scotland, where the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons are deployed.

July 24th

Filipino workers slam Arroyo for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis

A dismal failure! This is the verdict of workers belonging to the Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) as they slammed the Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) administration ahead of her State of the Nation Address (SONA) for its consistent failure to clip the jobs crisis.

Save the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh Campaign Reaches the Evening News

This article appeared in yesterdays evening news illustrating by its presence how far this campaign is spreading and how much support it is receiving.

Cornton Vale Peaceful Demo Aug 4th @12.30pm

Peaceful demo on Saturday 4th August @12.30pm outside Cornton Vale women's prison. Highlighting the appalling conditions of the women incarcerated there.

Green Consumerism Only For the Rich

George Monbiot turns class warrior.

July 23rd

Petition to end military recruitment in schools and colleges

Philippines: On Mrs. Arroyo’s 7th State of the Nation Address

"Gloria's economy is not working." This is what the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) said of Mrs. Arroyo's flamboyant and rosy economic claims; two days shy from the Executive's 7th State of the Nation Address (SONA) this 23rd of July.

July 22nd

Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic, workers' and trade union rights

The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) hereby raises to your office as Chief Executive of the land our concerns about the reports that at the International Labor Organization Conference Committee on Standards meeting held in Geneva, the Philippine representative rejected said committee's recommendation for the ILO to send a high-level mission to the Philippines to look into the case of involuntarily disappeared and murdered trade union activists and leaders.

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