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News Round-Up From British Occupied Basra

06-01-2004 22:22

This is a round up of the past few weeks (troops on high alert, 2 massive carbombs planted at the 'mouth' of Basra town, unemployed riots and the head of education in Basra declaring himself King, sorta) but today there was a pretty serious riot with 10 people shot - by Iraqi paramilitary plod and one demonstrator at least shot in the head and killed. The demo - 1500-2000 strong was made up of ex-soldiers fulfilling their promise to escalate their struggle for survival payments from the occupation Administration. Full report on this later.

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DISARM DSEi 2005: SHUT DOWN SPEARHEAD - open meeting

06-01-2004 21:34

DISARM DSEi 2005: SHUT DOWN SPEARHEAD
The fight continues…


Open Meeting: 18th January 2004, 2pm, LARC, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel, London.

The following plan for future action has been formed by a number of people involved in the DISARM DSEi co-ordinating group who would like to see the campaign continue and grow. Come to the open meeting and get involved. Further details below or contact:
Email:  disarm@dsei.org Website: www.dsei.org
Address: BM Box 3679, London WC1N 3XX
Tel: 07817 652029

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Cyanide and government corruption

06-01-2004 20:14

200 000 tons of cyanide will be dumped at Rosia Montana (plus 30 other densely populated areas), by Canadian mining company Gold Corporation, in the water, with the collusion of a corrupted government. Translator notes at the end. Here is the translation of an amazing interview. Visit  http://www.rosiamontana.org for more.

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KEN LOACH FILM SHOWING AND Q&A FOR NO SWEAT AND MEXICAN TRADE UNIONISTS

06-01-2004 18:52

Ken Loach will be introducing a special showing of Bread and Roses on Thu Jan 22, 6.30-9 at the Other Cinema, Rupert St W1 (just off Leicester Sq).

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Italian Anarchist Federation - FAI: press release

06-01-2004 17:06

Italian Anarchist Federation about mail bomb in Europe

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Iraqi War in COLOR ! (cartoon)

06-01-2004 17:03

for a better and colorful world !

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Preparations For International Women's Day Under Way In London

06-01-2004 17:00

To prepare for March 8th 2004 (International Women's Day) in London a group of people have put together some basic infrastructure to help get things going.

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Reclaim The Bases Weekend Jan 2004: Menwith Hill

06-01-2004 15:03

A weekend of protest, direct action and civil disobedience at military bases throughout the UK. 17th and 18th of January 2004.
A various mix of activist who were present at the Reclaim The Bases Summer Camp have decided to call for another Reclaim The Bases Weekend, calling for groups to organise events at their local military bases on the weekend of the 17th and 18th of January. There is no fixed form for those events, and no fixed meaning. The only guideline is "Reclaim The Bases events should not harm or dehumanise other people"

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Request for Andrew Smith to condemn illegal killing

06-01-2004 13:13

Andrew Smith MP for Oxford East is still a strong advocate for the war on Iraq. There is very strong evidence that British soldiers beat an Iraqi police man to death. I ask Andrew Smith to condemn this and take up the case to see justice done.

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political fun for the grey winter of 2004

06-01-2004 11:50

Video
here are some animations to cheer you up in this cold grey winter of capitalist world domination and the reign of the fools.

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Turin Samba player found not guilty!

06-01-2004 11:36

The case against the samba player from Turin, who had been accused of three counts of
assaulting a police officer, was dropped today due to police ineptitude.

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Scrap Section 55

06-01-2004 11:34

8th Janurary will the 1st anniversary of Section 55, which maked asylum seekers destitute, coming into force.

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EU Anti-Anarchist force set up + co-ordinated from Italy (+ EU protests...)

06-01-2004 11:04

Here's the first article i've seen on the new EU task force set up to combat "anarchist insurrection" / EU parliament letter bombs. It's also worth noting that at the Paris European Social Forum one of the two main campaigns proposed for mass co-ordinated international protests is against the EU constitution (demos set for May 2004)...

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Letter Bombs Attributed to Anarchists Raise Questions

06-01-2004 10:37

(en) Italy, Letter Bombs Attributed to Anarchists Raise Questions
Date Mon, 5 Jan 2004 23:42:18 +0100 (CET)
A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E
News about and of interest to anarchists
 http://ainfos.ca/
 http://ainfos.ca/index24.html

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American Baptist Group Hopes To Convert Iraqi Muslims

06-01-2004 06:31

While coalition forces need to win the hearts and minds of Iraqis, an American Southern Baptist group plans to win Iraqi souls.

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Nablus: Why Is This Story NOT Reported or Reported Correctly?

06-01-2004 03:29

Contrary to how the media is reporting it January 4, 2004:

4 Killed in Nablus. One hiding behind a taxi (age 19) One standing and
talking (age 26) One throwing rocks (age 15) One carrying the other's body
(age 22) Only one had weapon (rocks) age 15

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Major AFL-CIO Union, SEIU, Has New Local Leadership in the “Cradle of Liberty”

06-01-2004 02:57

Just in time to ring in the New Year, new local union leadership has been elected in Philadelphia, USA, the “Cradle of Liberty”. On December 13, members of Local 36 of the 1.6 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU), one of the largest in the AFL-CIO, elected a new president, secretary-treasurer and 23 Executive Board members. This came in the 18th month of a national SEIU trusteeship over Local 36, which represents over 4,300 janitors, building maintenance workers, technicians and professionals in Philadelphia and its suburbs in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

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Celebrate Panamanian Day of the Martyrs

06-01-2004 02:49

January 9th thru 13th marks the 40th Day of the Martyrs, since the national anti-imperialist revolts that swept the country in 1964. Celebrate in solidarity with a publicly-burned flag or effigy.

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Second Homes for the powerful

06-01-2004 00:33

Government fund its' own ministers second homes while homeless reaches crisis levels.

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Communique of the Anarchist Federation of Italy

06-01-2004 00:30

Here is a translation of a press release from the communications committee of the Italian Anarchist Federation (whose acronym is FAI from the Italian: FEDERAZIONE ANARCHICA ITALIANA). The press release pertains to the hostile media campaign and repression targeted against the anarchist movement in Italy.