23/07/2009   Musical Protest Against the Arms Fair at ExCel - 1st August

Taxpayers’ money is being used to help private companies sell arms to repressive regimes and conflict zones. Long standing GreenNet member CAAT is campaigning to end government support for this deadly work. The ExCeL centre in East London and Clarion Events have invited arms dealers from all over the world to another ARMS FAIR

 23/06/2009   Hi-tech helps Iranian monitoring

As protests continue in Iran, details are emerging of the technology used to monitor its citizens. Iran is well known for filtering the net, but the government has moved to do the same for mobile phones. Nokia Siemens Network has confirmed it supplied Iran with the technology needed to monitor, control, and read local telephone calls.

 19/06/2009   Happy Birthday Aung San Suu Kyi!

June 19th was Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday, it is her 14th birthday in detention. As you know we set up 64ForSuu.org to allow people from all over the world to leave message of support for Burma’s democracy leader.
18/06/2009   High Court challenge to UK's foreign policy in Israel

Al-Haq is pleased to announce that on 18 and 19 June 2009, the UK Divisional Court in London will be hearing the preliminary motions of the case brought by Al-Haq, in cooperation with solicitor Phil Shiner of Public Interest Lawyers (PIL), challenging the UK government over its failure to fulfil its obligations under international law with respect to Israel’s activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

 15/06/2009   A full blown Coup in Iran?

Dismay and sadness around the world as stories about a huge turnout and the greatest challenge to the status quo for years turn to reports of fraud. Iran’s protesters are being beaten in the streets, and communications have been blocked.

 11/06/2009   Who will pay price for EU data-retention plans?

People have never been more aware of incursions into their privacy than they are today. From the growth of CCTV cameras on Britain’s streets, to the numerous accounts of mislaid personal data or hacks into central databases, the security of our personal information is a growing concern.
09/06/2009   The Tone and the Music

While Obama proclaims the 21st century, the government of Israel is returning to the 19th.

 28/05/2009   UK broadband 'notspots' revealed

About three million homes in the UK have broadband speeds of less than two megabits per second (2Mbps) according to research commissioned by the BBC. The government has promised to provide all homes in the UK with speeds of at least 2Mbps by 2012.

 28/05/2009   Launch of 64ForSuu.org, show your support

A coalition of celebrities, NGOs and trade unions have launched a new website http://www.64ForSuu.org calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, and all of Burma’s political prisoners.