The NUJ in the newsMillions have marched and demonstrated in Egypt calling for the ousting of President Mubarak and the restoration of a democratic constitution.
Journalists have been in the thick of the action, reporting from demonstrations such as Tahrir Square in Cairo and Alexandria. But last week, when the pro-Democracy demonstrators were attacked by Mubarak supporters, media workers came under attack themselves with many being beaten or arrested.
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The recent upsurge in student protests with the magnificent demonstration on the 10 November followed by the national walkouts on the 24 have been an inspiration to everyone wanting to fight back against the cuts. NUJ members have been showing their support around the country.
Public meeting: Support NUJ and FBU strikers
A public meeting in south London on the eve of the BBC and FBU strikes will be addressed by leading members of the unions involved:
Salvation Army Hall, Princess Street, Elephant and Castle, SE1 6HH, at 7pm on Thursday 4 November.
The meeting has been organised by local campaign group Southwark Save Our Services.
More details on NUJ website, what you can do to help.
Background to the BBC dispute
The NUJLeft offers its full support to London firefighters and tube staff who are on strike this week and in the coming months.
The attacks on these workers will lead to loss of pay and jobs, worse working conditions, and undermine the safety of our public services.
Staff at the BBC are striking on the 5 and 6 October over threats to their pensions. The national strike will take BBC’s coverage of the Tory Party conference off the airwaves. There will also be two-days of strikes later this month.
Charles Atangana is a journalist who fled Cameroon after death threats. He has lived and worked in this country for many years but is now facing deportation back to Cameroon. He is being held in Dover Immigration Removal Centre.
The NUJ is actively supporting Charles and is campaigning for him to be given indefinite leave to remain in the UK (he lives and works in Scotland)
Tomorrow he has a bail hearing in London and the NUJ will be present supporting him.
Protest on Thursday 12th August at 14.00 in London, Taylor House, 88 Rosebery Avenue, case number EC1R 4QU.
The BA cabin crew have shown extraordinary spirit in the face of bullying management and a hostile press. Their two resounding YES votes for striking show that they determined to force BA to negotiate. The cabin crew are out again on 27 March. Here an NUJ Left member reports on the first Saturday of the strike.
The immediate defence by journalists at the Financial Times of Chinese colleagues threatened by management with redundancy has brought complete victory. The FT chapel demanded unanimously that the redundancy threat be lifted from their four colleagues on the FTChinese website, and warned that otherwise FT journalists would ballot on industrial action. So management changed its mind.
NUJ treasurer and veteran activist Anita Halpin received the TUC gold badge in honour of her services to the union movement as she stepped down from the TUC’s general council.
Accepting the prestigious award on the last day of congress, the annual gathering of trade unionists, she paid tribute to her husband, Kevin, who she described as “a thorn in the side of the bosses”.
One thing inevitably lost in the coverage of the case of the four Unison activists banned from office after criticising the union’s leadership is the contribution they made to their local media.
As a former chief reporter who covered Bromley for a south east London weekly, one of my reliable contacts was Glenn Kelly, the local council’s Unison branch secretary.