August 12, 2011 : News in Brief – Watching

 [responsivevoice_button]   – Olympic village sold to property developers – Pfizer

Serco dismisses self-harm in immigration prisons as ‘bargaining tool’

[responsivevoice_button] Two people have died from suspected heart attacks and a

Unemployed people ‘bullied’ into unpaid work at Tesco, Primark and other multinationals

[responsivevoice_button] Unemployed people are being sent to work without pay in

‘I was a volunteer for six months and wasn’t given a job or paid any money’

[responsivevoice_button] “Karina” is 24 years old and lives in East London.

Barnardo’s: We believe in (locking up) children

[responsivevoice_button] Britain’s largest children charity has become the latest target for

Riots in Bristol against Tesco and police repression

[responsivevoice_button] An attack on the radical community of Stokes Croft in

New detention phone system to keep detainees under control

[responsivevoice_button] A new phone system run by a private company will

April 6, 2011: News in brief – Watching the Corporations

 [responsivevoice_button] -G4S wins £100m Olympics security contract -BP to resume drilling

The countdown to the Olympic con continues

[responsivevoice_button] As the London Olympics approaches, and more and more corporations

The biomedical scientist: Interview with Frank Wood

[responsivevoice_button] Frank Wood is a biomedical scientist at King’s College Hospital

Air Europa

Air Europa reluctant to talk about the ‘delicate subject’ of forcible

New harmful pathogen found in Roundup Ready GM crops

[responsivevoice_button] In February, a senior scientist at the United States Department

The true cost of tickets for the Olympics: community and workplace organising?

[responsivevoice_button] Official prestige tickets for the 2012 Olympics, which include food

New business opportunities: Deportation hostels

[responsivevoice_button] In May 2010, the new coalition government committed to ending

Update on the GM industry in the UK and beyond

[responsivevoice_button] Controversial GM plans that will allow genetically modified crops to