Court proceedings against a peace activist who scrawled “arms tested on children” on a battlefield truck bound for the world’s biggest arms fair have been scrapped. Vyara Glysen, 28, was arrested in September and charged with criminal damage after she graffitied a military vehicle that was en route to the Excel Center in east […]
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‘Justice prevails’: Activist who graffitied military battlefield truck has criminal case dropped
You’ll Never Believe How These Activists Spent Thanksgiving
Michaela Whitton (AM) : While millions wore seasonal sweaters, carved the turkey, and squabbled with their families on Thursday, a group of activists set a Thanksgiving table of empty plates outside the notorious U.S. naval base, Guantánamo Bay. PHOTO: CASSANDRA MONROE/U.S. NATIONAL GUARD Fourteen members of Witness Against Torture — a group who have campaigned […]
Scotland’s voters offered a referendum on independence from the UK
Severin Carrell Guardian October 10, 2011 Alex Salmond is preparing to stage a referendum on Scottish independence that will offer voters a second option – full financial autonomy while remaining part of the United Kingdom. In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, the first minister said that allowing Scotland to have fiscal autonomy without full independence was “a very […]