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Earth First! summer gathering - new info

17-07-2004 08:59

EF! summer gathering, Wednesday 4th - Monday 9th August
New info on website - nearest mainline train station (to book
cheaper train tickets), tat needed, list of workshops offered so
far, (& do request fliers or A3/A4 posters for your area...)

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government attempting to collect information on lesbian drug usage?

17-07-2004 00:09

UK shoulder tapping lesbian community for drug war spies.

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Meeting in Archidona, Ecuador, to establish protected status

16-07-2004 23:29

On the 15th of May 2004, with the support of the County of Archidona, the Coalition Against Oil Exploitation invited communities and organizations from the area to participate in an assembly. The purpose of the assembly was to present the opportunity to discuss and declare the County of Archidona an ecologically-protected area.

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Anti-Petroleum Assembly in Tena, Ecuador

16-07-2004 23:27

“RICANCIE: We are nine indigenous Kichwa communities protecting nature.”
Approximately 2,000 people attended an anti-petroleum assembly in the town of Tena, Ecuador on March 20, 2004. The day marked a new step in the fight against oil exploitation. Participants arrived from the provinces of Napo, Pastaza and Orellana in order to protest oil exploitation in the newly-opened Amazonian oil blocks 20 and 29.

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Radical ecological protest campaign in Perm of Russia happened so far

16-07-2004 23:06

On the 16th of July the protest camp organised by various local and nationwide anarchist and environmental groups in Perm turns to its third week.

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Orphans On Trial

16-07-2004 22:40

This is taking place in America today
Orphans on Trial. Pediatric AIDS Drugs Forced Into State Wards and Orphans - Money for Big Drug Companies equals Big Loss for Kids. This was broken through Indymedia, and is now finally entering the mainstream.

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2nd Indymedia writing workshop - Tuesday 6pm!

16-07-2004 19:29

The second Indymedia writing workshop is coming up -

Tuesday 20th July
6pm
National Centre for Popular Music
Paternoster Row

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Buju Banton wanted for gay-bashing

16-07-2004 18:30

Buju Banton
Top reggae star wanted on assault charges after gay men attacked in Kingston, Jamaica.

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UK ID card tests - details and venues

16-07-2004 17:34

Contact details of UK ID card testing/experiments.
Use this resource creatively - disruption needed!

Here's the latest from my quest to become part of the test group for the ID card nightmare that is poised to make the seeminly innocuous "Papers, please." as feared a sentence in the UK as it was in wartime Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia.

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Allawi shot inmates in cold blood, say witnesses

16-07-2004 16:26

Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police station, just days before Washington handed control of the country to his interim government, according to two people who allege they witnessed the killings.

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Public meeting on casualisation hosted by AF/Freedom

16-07-2004 16:19

Anarchist Federation (London group) and Freedom are holding a discussion on casualisation - i.e. making workers more "flexible" for the benefit of the boss - inconvenient working hours, temping, cutting sick pay, etc. - and how to fight it. We'll discuss the trend, why it's occuring, succesful examples of campaigns against it, and what we should do about it.

The meeting is at 7:30pm upstairs at Freedom Bookshop, Angel Alley (under KFC), Whitechapel High St (nearest tube: Aldgate East).

All are welcome. Bring your ideas and opinions.

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RussianBabySealCull-Why no recent figures?

16-07-2004 16:10

Where are the figures for 2002-2004 of the numbers culled ??

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respect festival-Victoria pk. 17 July.

16-07-2004 16:02

respect festival, London 17 July.

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Farnborough News

16-07-2004 16:01

For those thinking of attending Farnborough Air Show / Arms Fair

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Anti-clusterbomb event-London 17 July.

16-07-2004 15:55

Handicap Intl anti cluster bomb event.

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Tonight Friday 16 - Farenheit 9/11 Free Screening in London

16-07-2004 15:43

Tonight Friday 16 there's a free screening of Michael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 film, plus some Indymedia shorts, in London's occupied Autonomus Lab-Rebellion and Resistance space.

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Bad Week for M&S - Good Night for Demo

16-07-2004 15:41

Another decent evening and another good demo outside the countrys biggest corporate Zionist sponsor.

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Oxford Uni Network Hacked

16-07-2004 15:19

2 student journalists have managed to break into the University's computer network.

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Earth First! summer gathering - new info

16-07-2004 14:46

EF! summer gathering, Wednesday 4th - Monday 9th August
New info on website - nearest mainline train station (to book
cheaper train tickets), tat needed, list of workshops offered so
far, (& do request fliers or A3/A4 posters for your area...)

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m and s pickett

16-07-2004 13:54

the truth yesterday