http://www.tmponline.org The multicultural political magazine and forum Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:14:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en From Liberal Conspiracy Campaigning group Power2010 has announced plans to target those MPs who have consistently opposed cleaning up and reforming our political system. In their bid to rid Parliament of anti-reform MPs, the grassroots campaign is drawing up a list of culprits from all major parties wanted for “crimes against democracy” ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/03/10/power-2010-target-anti-reform-mps/ The 8th March is International Women's Day. To celebrate this TMP (The Multicultural Progressive) is putting a spotlight on Womens' rights and liberation, throughout this week. As part of this, TMP has commissioned a special report into the state of women in the UK and internationally. The London based Black ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/03/08/yarls-wood-hunger-strikers/ As South African President Jacob Zuma visits London today, members of the Abahlali Solidarity UK campaign will hold a protest at 10 Downing Street to demonstrate against the repression of South African shack dwellers’ movement Abahlali baseMjondolo (AbM). AbM activists were attacked on September 26 and 27, 2009, at the Kennedy ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/03/04/protest-at-zuma%e2%80%99s-uk-visit-in-solidarity-with-south-african-shack-dwellers/ Abahlali baseMjondolo Solidarity group in association with SOAS War on Want Society Presents: The Right to Know: The Fight for Open Democracy in South Africa - A Short Film Showing and Discussion - 7pm - Wednesday 3rd March Room 4418 (4th Floor, SOAS Main Building) Since the mid-2000s, a number of social movements in South ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/03/03/film-screening-at-soas/ “1° Marzo, una giornata senza di noi” – “1 March, a day without us” Protest at the Italian Embassy Monday, 1st March ,1-2pm 14 Three Kings Yard, London W1K 4EH Immigrant people in Italy, France and other European countries, led by African people, have called an Immigrant Strike on the 1st March 2010 to ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/02/27/african-immigrant-strike-against-european-racism/ International pressure on Uganda as the country attempts to pass an anti-homosexuality bill is important, but other nations remain havens of anti-LGBT oppression. Cary Alan Johnson and Ryan Thoreson call for an end to the criminalisation of same-sex relationships that is fuelling homophobia in Senegal and elsewhere. BY PAMBAZUKA NEWS Authors: Cary ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/02/25/senegal-increased-homophobia/ As Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) announce quarterly profits of £772 million this week, cleaning workers and their supporters will be demonstrating at their London offices on Friday 12th February. The demonstration is in protest at attacks on workers’ pay and the dismissal of Alberto Durango, the cleaners’ now former shop-steward. Alberto ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/02/12/justice-for-ubs-cleaners/ This is a guest post by a young labour party activist. The Left, broadly defined, has become quite fractious and fissiparous. There are left-wingers in Labour, in the Lib-Dems, in the Greens, in Marxist groups and in no party at all. The Progressive London Conference aimed to gather together speakers from ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/02/05/progressive-london-left-unity/ This is a guest post by James Holland, a climate camp and a local community activist. Please add your thoughts below and join the debate. People who want to make the world a better place usually start with the big things – war, poverty, climate change etc and they usually ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/01/30/give-up-politics/ For anyone not convinced tht we have repressive anti-terrorism laws, look no further than the story of Paul Chambers, in yesterday's Independent. I and many other liberal-lefty people in Britain use to sneer and mock the American law-enforcement for overreacting to anyone joking about Osama Bin Laden. But in a ... http://www.tmponline.org/2010/01/19/twitter-terrorists/