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http://www.richardallan.org.uk/index.php?p=232 Indymedia Parliamentary Question: Richard Allan, Liberal Democrat MP for Sheffield Hallam I have had a few emails over the last couple of days about the seizure of disks holding material published by Indymedia and hosted in London by Rackspace. … Continue reading →

This item, is reproduced from a Spanish Site. I think it gives a fair overview of the developments ….. http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298975.html Repression of Indymedia: largest attack to date on the alternative press on the Internet by Roberto Delgado – La Haine … Continue reading →

Story has been running on my blog, since 8th October. Look back over, for more links about it all. But, some of the fuss, was about the inclusion of these pictures, in an Indymedia article on Nantes Indymedia. Being a … Continue reading →

Rachel Shabi, Monday October 11, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/news/0,12597,1324419,00.html American authorities have shut down 20 independent media centres by seizing their British-based webservers. On Thursday a court order was issued to Rackspace, an American-owned web hosting company in Uxbridge, Middlesex, … Continue reading →

Just got back from a Nottinghamshire Police Press Conference, regarding the Shooting of Danielle Beccan in St Anns area of Nottingham, early on Saturday morning 00:35am. An arrest has been made following the death of 14-year-old Danielle Beccan in an … Continue reading →

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch editor, comments: “Rackspace may be a US company but Rackspace in London is subject to UK law not US law. If they took down and handed over Indymedia’s servers simply on the basis of a US subpoena … Continue reading →

Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is currently assisting Indymedia http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2004_10.php#001989 United Kingdom – Acting under a court order, Texas-based web hosting company Rackspace Managed Hosting handed over two UK-based servers containing Indymedia websites to government agents yesterday morning. Indymedia is a … Continue reading →

the law lords have set a dangerous precedent by backing the demands of the state over individual privacy http://www.statewatch.org/news/2004/sep/03uk-dna-database.htm The highest court in the land, in the House of Lords, ruled on 22 July that DNA samples taken from people … Continue reading →

http://indymedia.org.uk/en/2004/10/298741.html On Thursday morning, US authorities issued a federal order to Rackspace ordering them to hand over Indymedia web servers to the requesting agency. Rackspace, which provides hosting services for more that 20 Indymedia sites at its London facility, complied … Continue reading →

Weds 13 – Sat 16 October 2004 inna London squat venue. phone on the day for info: 07050 614 804 http://www.randomartists.org The whole event is open-access and you are invited to take part. Please get in touch if you would … Continue reading →

SchNEWS was born out of the movement against Michael Howard’s Criminal Justice Act of 1994, an act that sought to criminalise everyone from travellers to free partygoers to those doing direct action. It has become an internationally respected newsletter of … Continue reading →

The Government is proposing yet another extension of the law which will affect the right to dissent and protest – Modernising Police Powers to Meet Community Needs. As the Guardian article below says, the proposals ‘are extraordinary in (its) scope’. … Continue reading →

Richard Norton-Taylor Saturday September 25, 2004 The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/terrorism/story/0,12780,1312489,00.html Newspaper editors and television producers are to be asked to avoid referring to such visible installations as sewage works and power stations on the grounds they are potential targets for terrorists. … Continue reading →

I was here last week, but ran out of daylight, before I got to this area. Again, starting out from Upper Booth Farm, only this time, heading west, then north along the beginning of the Pennine Way. With a great … Continue reading →

More piccys at:http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=221272 Map of the area: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=412745&y=383635&z=3&sv=412500,383500&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=639

Oh, at last!! Whatever you think of the present Labour Government, Mr Meacher and department have done this. I can now walk on a mountain, BY RIGHT, NOT PERMISSION. I think this important. and I say thank you to them. … Continue reading →

Starting out from Upper Booth heading north up Crowden Clough, and after a great deal of ‘puff’ end up on to Kinder Scout plataeu. This is the highest point [well area really,] of the Peak District. Splendid views in all … Continue reading →

More piccys at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=216607

Weather has been splendid up to yesterday. Today, being Wales, it’s started to rain, lots. Still, rain and low cloud does makes for some atmospheric shots. http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=262315&y=355120&z=5&sv=262315,355120&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf&dn=633 More Piccys at: http://tashcamuk.fotopages.com/?entry=216544

Thought I would climb back up to the Snowdon Horseshoe, and finish a bit more of the route, I’d started on tuesday but had run out of daylight. Starting from my bunkhouse in the village of Nant Peris, I climbed … Continue reading →