Underground Updates

Reports, updates, and bulletins

Parliament Square Protester Wins Latest Battle
Brian Haw thwarts latest attempt to rid him from outside parliament - 11th May 2005

Software Revolution
Defiance of software corporations, and the rise of Free/Open Source software - 12th Dec 2004

Police Breach The Peace
Parliament Square peace campaigner Brian Haw snatched in midnight police operation - 10th May 2004

Rebuke The Nukes
CND-led peace campaigners march from Trafalgar Square to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment - 28th April 2004

Bush Gets Bombed
President GW Bush gets 'Google bombed' - 12th Dec 2003

Big Brother Scheme Go Ahead
Trials of biometric data could be prelude to compulsory ID cards - 7th Dec 2003

Thessaloniki 7 Are Released!
Anti-capitalist activists freed after two-month hunger strike in Greek prison following EU Summit protest in June 2003 - 27th Nov 2003

Cannabis Festival Under Attack
Licensee taken to court on spurious charges in effort to stop Cannabis Festival - 25th Nov 2003

Lakenheath Intruders On Trial
Peace activists who broke in RAF Lakenheath airbase facing trial - 6th Nov 2003

Leniency For Corporate Complacency
Workplace health and safety takes a slide as fines for H&S convictions drops - 5th Nov 2003

Jo Wilding Returns To Iraq
British activist in Iraq during invasion makes return journey - 1st Nov 2003

Life And Limb In Evian
British activist Martin Shaw severely injured due to police action at G8 Summit in Evian, Switzerland - 6th June 2003

Peace Shot In The Head
British peace activist and photographer Tom Hurndall in coma after being shot by Israeli army - 29th May 2003

Human Rights Activist Murdered By Israeli Soldier
US international solidarity activist Rachel Corrie is murdered by Israeli army - 17th March 2003

US War Mongers Eye Up Alaska
Alaskan wilderness under threat from oil corporations - 11th March 2003

Cyber-Graffiti Artists Tag NASA
NASA hacked by anti-war cyber-pranksters - 9th Feb 2003

Nuke Security Sacked
Security firm are sacked after peace campaigners break into Plymouth nuclear submarine base - 27th Jan 2003

Nuclear Nonchalance
Trident Ploughshares activists Petter Joelson and Eliza Sivenionen break into Devonport, Plymouth nuclear submarine base - 19th Nov 2002

Brazilian Landslide
Lula becomes first ever left-wing president in Brazil - 28th Oct 2002

Radical Brazil
Working-class socialist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva AKA 'Lula' on the brink of becoming Brazilian president - 8th Oct 2002

Blobbies On The Beat
Birmingham police to be issued McDonald's vouchers - 20th Sept 2002

Sub Plots
Peace campaigners fined after demo at Devonport nuclear submarine base - 14th Aug 2002

Branded Brains
Psychologists study the impact of corporate brands on the human brain - 13th Aug 2002

SQUALL's Up For Media Award
Squall nominatd for European Online Journalism award - 4th July 2002

Bush Clanger
George W adds to his staggering string of verbals gaffs - 14th June 2002

Jubilee Graffiti
Banksy to have street art show for Queen's Golden Jubilee - 25th May 2002

Jayday Jives
Large numbers for Cannabis Festival, Brixton - 20th May 2002

Cannabis Fez A Go Go
The 4th annual Cannabis Festival to take place on May 4th at Brockwell Park, Brixton - 3rd May 2002

Trumping The Censors
'Injustice', the film about deaths in UK police custody to be publicly screened - 25th April 2002

Pole Hole Is Warming's Toll
Record hole in ozone layer as North Pole melts - 7th March 2002

Art Attack
Graffiti artists create massive artwork in response to Greater London Authority's (anti)graffiti commitee meeting - 16th Jan 2002

Depleted Uranium Comic Attracts Heat
Sinister mail and computer tampering of comic artist Davy Garland's work about depleted uranium - 1st Sept 2001

Nobody Does It Better
Vote Nobody campaign has first election victory in Easton, Bristol - 26th May 2001

Basta Blaster!
Italian protest movement 'Ya Basta' declare 'war against western capitalism ahead of G8 Summit in Genoa - 26th May 2001

What Women Want
Global Women's Strike on March 8th see demonstrations in Britain and across the world - 8th March 2002

Legalise It!
Cannabis legalisation demo at Downing St - 31st March 2001

'Terrorists' Attack T.A.
The Terrorism Act comes into force, with demonstrations to highlight draconian measures in new law - 15th March 2001

Nike Puts Its Foot In It (Again!)
Nike and the sweatshop labour used to make their shoes - 7th March 2001

Gap Gets Shagged In Sheffield
Use of sweatshop labour by clothes brand 'Gap' highlighted in protest - 4th Feb 2001

K-Ching! K-Ching! That's The Sound Of The Police!
The privatisation of public security and policing begins as private security firms sign contracts - Feb 2001

EU Wanna Make Summit Of It?!
European meeting of international movement 'Peoples' Global Action' to take place in Milan, March 3-4 - 17th Jan 2001

Boat Rockers Put Dock Co In Dock At Last
Shoreham dock company responsible for workplace death of Simon Jones to be finally prosecuted for manslaughter - 8th Jan 2001

Destroy Barnsley's Dirty Dozen
Protest in Sheffield against prisoner Mark Barnley's extraordinary and unjustifiably long sentence - 8th Jan 2001

BBC Selectively Cuts Loach's Select Cuts
Film maker Ken Loach is censored on BBC Radio - 1st Jan 2001

Big Brother Bother Bigger
Intelligence Services and Police seek greater telephone and internet surveillance powers - 8th Dec 2000

CIA's Sick Chile Concoction
Declassified documents show CIA involvement in Chile, and the 1973 coup by General Pinochet - 28th Nov 2000

Animal Acts
New law bans farming for fur in Britain, but the right-wing landowners' lobby the Countryside Alliance claim it is an '...assault on civil rights' - 28th Nov 2000

Terrible Terror Bill Law Next Year
The draconian new Terrorism Act about to come into force - 18th Nov 2000

Trilateral Friction At Trilateral Commission
Anti-globalisation protesters clash with neo-nazis outside summit of Trilateral Commission in Milan - 18th Nov 2000

They Must Be Krakers
Battle zone as Kalenderpanden - the large community squat in Amsterdam - is evicted - 18th Nov 2000

Dounreay Clean Up Costs The Earth
Mammoth task to clean up Dounreay Nuclear Plant, Scotland, when it closes in 2004 - 25th Oct 2000

Uneasy Net As FC No Longer In The Pink
Reclaim The Street's spoof of The Financial Times has website closed by FT's lawyers - 25th Oct 2000

Pain & Punishment For Prague Protesters
Reports of police brutality against those arrested during S26 demonstration in Prague against World Bank/IMF - 2nd Oct 2000

Sub Sab Verdict Fab
Court victory for Trident Ploughshares anti-nuclear activists who damaged submarine at Barrow in Furness - 28th Sept 2000

Know FC? Know Comment
Spoof paper 'Financial Crimes' circulates in Britain as protesters descend on Prague for World Bank/IMF Summit - 28th Sept 2000

Vodka Ad Not In Socialist Spirit
Photographer of iconic image of Che Guevera contests its commercial misappropriation - 28th Sept 2000

Legal And Great
Success for Exodus Collective as they hold their first legal outdoor rave - 7th March 2002

Death By Truncheon
Commemoration and demonstration at Home Office for Roger Sylvester, killed in police custody - 17th Aug 2000

Legal But Late
Exodus Collective's 'Free The Spirit Festival' has date moved to October - 14th Aug 2000

Toker Trouble
Police, sniffer dogs and toupes at Smokey Bears Picnic in Portmouth, the longest-running annual protest against the prohibition of cannabis - 13th Aug 2000

3 'Deaths' In Cells After GM Protest
A trial crop of Genetically Modified maize in Dorest is trashed - 5th Aug 2000

What The Papers Won't Let NUJ Say
Local newspaper giant threatens workers against using new union powers - 5th Aug 2000

GM: Surge In Public Interest
Legal challenge could force consultation on future Genetically Modified crops - 5th Aug 2000

Potent Mixture Brewing In Prague
Protests against the World Bank/IMF in September could be the biggest in Prague since the fall of communism - 5th Aug 2000

Two Free For Now
Cambridge Two - both charity workers jailed for supposedly allowing drug dealing in a homeless centre where they worked are free on bail - 24th July 2000

Drug Related Shooting Outside Parliament
Marijuana seedlings sprout at Parliament Square following the Mayday Guerilla Gardening - 24th July 2000

World Bank: Czech Set To Bounce
Anti-capitalists plan for September action in Prague against World Bank/IMF - 15th June 2000

Legal High Boosts Exodus Spirit
Exodus Collective successfully negotiate with police and landowner to hold legal raves - 15th June 2000

Banksy Buffs Bag Bargains
Graffiti artist Banksy has clandestine gallery in London street - 15th June 2000

Fat Cat Frat Shack At Chateau Du Lac
The Bilderberg Group hold summit in Belguim, under the secrecy of a media-blackout - 15th June 2000

Saturated Road-Stoppers Undeflated By Show-Stopper
First ever Irish Reclaim The Streets action is held in Dublin - 15th June 2000

Crack Display Team Want Royal Review
Demonstrators 'moon the monarchy' outside Buckingham Palace - 15th June 2000

Media Bloodlust - UEFA Puts The Boot In
Media sensationalise violence after Cup Final for their own purposes - 20th May 2000

40,000 Furtive Fumers Find Free Fun On The Grass
Cannabis Festival 2000 at Brockwell Park, Brixton is an overwhelming success - 6th May 2000

No-One Pays For Happy Haze
Thousands gather in Brixton park for Jayday Cannabis Festival and march - 6th May 2000

Paint Man Pays But Has His Say
Out-of-proportion prison sentence for ex-soldier, just for daubing paint on Winston Churchill's statue on Mayday - 5th May 2000

We All Pay For Polluting Ways
UK report warns of massive economic implications of climate change - 5th May 2000

Cops Pay For More Than A Graze
Animal rights protester Bryce Wilby gets out-of-court settlement from Essex Police after being beaten up by them in 1995 - 5th May 2000

Vaticaner FM
Vatican attempts to thwart cancer investigation into its communications transmitters in northern Rome - 5th May 2000

MI6 Man Oiks Wheels Of Industry
BP-Amoco Vice-President appointment highlights revolving door between intelligence services and oil and arms corporations - 5th May 2000

Park Peppered With Sergeants As 'Terror' Hits Islington
Sgt Pepper's album cover re-enacted by activists to protest against upcoming Terrorism Bill - 1st May 2000

Flower Power Digs At Roots Of Capitalism
Guerilla Gardening takes over Parliament Square on Mayday in Reclaim-The-Streets inspired mass action - 1st May 2000

Last Of The Mohicans Bloodied By The Unknown Soldier
Ex-soldier who served in Bosnia admits to daubing statue of Churchill with red paint on Mayday - 1st May 2000

Protesting Gives You Cancer
Tear gas used by Seattle Police against anti-WTO protesters last November is found to contain carcinogen - 17th April 2000

Colonel Smack To Be Banged Up?
US army colonel admits to involvement in heroin smuggling from Colombia - 6th April 2000

Woe Zone
International scientists record massive decrease in the Ozone layer over the Arctic - 6th April 2000

Web Freedom - RIP?
Regulation Of Investigatory Powers Bill - the forthcoming law which will allow highly intrusive new surveillance powers - 6th April 2000

Expensive Briefs Are Pants! Say Exodus
Exodus Collective successfully defend themselves against attempts by council to extract money from them following millenium party - 6th April 2000

Eddie Gilfoyle Is Innocent
British 'miscarriages of justice' website closed down due to pressure from the Police Federation - 28th March 2000

U'wa Two Tell Of Gore's Oxy Morons
Two members of Colombia's U'wa tribe to tour US and Europe raising awareness about oil drilling on their ancestral land - 28th March 2000

Thaws For Thought
Global warming produces record-breaking iceberg in Antarctica - 28th March 2000

No Comfort For Cambridge Two
Two social workers still in jail for not 'grassing up' their homeless clients to police - 28th March 2000

Dress Up For Your Rights
Protest march in Newcastle against the Terrorist Bill - 23rd March 2000

Pesticide Pests & Agri Aggro
Government scientific advisers are riddled with corporate connections - 23rd March 2000

Nestlé Spoonfeed Makes Campaigners Sick
Childcare conference to accept sponsorship from Nestlé - 16th March 2000

Download This & You Could Be A Terrorist
The new Terrorist Bill is currently rushing through parliament - with little public opposition other than grass roots activists and socially-aware legal professionals - 16th March 2000

Why Don't You...?
Adam Smith Institute report claims young people are 'turned off' by politics - 7th March 2000

Who Owns The Clones?
US Bio-tech company 'Human Genome Sciences' take out patents on human DNA - 7th March 2000

Old Measures Lead To New Bars
The UK prison population is rising rapidly - 7th March 2000

Brotherhood With Alms Bashed By Brothers With Psalms
Bedfordshire Freemasons publicly embarrassed by the Exodus Collective - 7th March 2000

Greenpeace In Dock As Bean Fleet Is Blocked
Greenpeace stop US shipment of GM soya from docking at Liverpool - 1st March 2000

Stand Up For Yer Rights
Comedians Mark Thomas and Rob Newman to perform at two major benefit events - 1st March 2000

Unfair For The Common Man
Festival organiser Shane Collins taken to court following the Mayday Cannabis Festival at Clapham Common - 17th Jan 2000

Tzar Still Favours Rushing Roulette
New intiatives to test the contents of Ecstasy tablets - 1999

Stonehenge Summer Solstice
Still no free access to Stonehenge over the summer solstice this year, despite the lifting of the police exclusion zone for first time since 1985 - 21st June 1999

Cannabis Mayday Festival Triumphs
Hugely successful Mayday Cannabis Festival marching from Brixton to gather in the sunshine at Clapham Common - May 1999

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