Entries from Londonist tagged with 'guantanamobay'
January 20, 2008
Photograph of the Trump Soho by Riccardo Sinti Gothamist went to the scene of the Trump Soho construction collapse, which left one construction worker dead and others injured (an indirect culprit - Manhattan's hot real estate market, causing rushed construction jobs).Shanghaiist is confused by media reports as to whether Playboy will be available in China during the year of the Olympics.LAist got fugged in an interview with the Go Fug Yourself girls.Torontoist set hearts......
Continue Reading "Week Around the -Ists"January 15, 2008
Last Thursday, Amnesty International brought Guantánamo Bay to London's American Embassy to mark 6 years since its opening and, more importantly, to raise the profile of the campaign to close the notorious detention centre. A replica prison cell was installed outside the Embassy and an all night vigil held. Kate Allen, Amnesty's Chief Executive, was one of the prisoners. The following morning, protestors joined the powerfully visual demonstration dressed in orange boiler suits and......
Continue Reading "Amnesty International Recreate Guantanamo Bay in London"November 16, 2007
This dance theatre performance based on Australian David Hicks' experiences as a detainee at Guantanamo Bay packs a lot of visual punches but doesn't speak up enough. Director Nigel Jamieson and choreographer Garry Stewart have created a powerful and breath-taking production that depicts the treatment of those kept by the US government without charge or trial through an astonishing series of aerial work and dance performed inside a huge metal cage. Projections of text......
Continue Reading "Review: Honour Bound"March 28, 2006
As Tony Blair points out the "madness" of anti American feeling in Europe, Ken Livingstone calls the U.S. ambassador to London a "chiseling little crook" And no need for anti American feelings over the "extraordinary rendition" of two UK residents to Guantanamo Bay as that was all arranged by our own MI5. Less than one in ten of us earn enough to buy an average-priced property in London according to the London Housing Federation.......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"February 21, 2006
Sorry we're late. We got held up on the Tube (one of our servers went down). 41% of all children in London are living in poverty. To try and combat this Ken Livingstone and the Association of London Government have today launched The London Child Poverty Commission. American officials at Guantanamo Bay claim that 'dozens' of the detainees there had contact with the terrorist cells responsible for the July 7 bombings. The Tower of London's......
Continue Reading "Extra, Extra"January 10, 2006
Imagine the scene. The execs over at Capital Radio are sitting round an over-sized, elaborately ornate, possibly mahogany board-room table and they discover they've LOST thirteen million listening hours! Thirteen million? Now that's sloppy by anyone's standards. Still, chances are thirteen million listening hours are going to look pretty obvious hanging about on a street corner, so if you spot them could you give the guys at Capital a call please. The problem for......
Continue Reading "Capital Not One"November 29, 2005
Foremost there was Spinal Tap - the good natured and fucking hilarious jab at rock's pomp and general ridiculousness that probably inspired as many bands as it took the piss out of. Better yet it ensured that anything of value was thereafter always turned up to 11. Actually predating the Tap by a year was The Comic Strip mob with their own version of something very metal in the form of Bad News. Vim......
Continue Reading "Londonist Listens: Against The Darkness"June 15, 2005
Well it's a delectable diversity of delicacies for your discerning palates this week; a week that's already seen Jacko walk free and brought the news that Christina Aguilera's music has been used during 'interrogations' at Guantanamo Bay. Obviously the US army has never heard of Daniel Beddingfield or they'd have had the war resolved in a few minutes. But enough of the cheap shots and on with the good stuff. What more could you......
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