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Peace camp at nuclear base to remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

30-07-2004 13:35

Press release from: Lakenheath Action Group, Fri 30th July 2004.

From Friday 6th to Mon 9th August, there will be a peace camp at USAF Lakenheath to remember the victims of the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. Events will include remembrance vigils, street theatre, workshops, music, children's cooperative games and non-violent direct action.

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Nestle whistleblower needs support

30-07-2004 12:21

Nestlé whistleblower needs support to stop being deported to Pakistan where threats have been made against his life. Plus a theatre piece from the WOMAD festival showing a Nestlé Medical Delegate at work.

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Southend: Protest against privatisation of home care

30-07-2004 12:00

Home care workers, members of Unison, Southend Pensioners Group and others joined forces to protest outside a Southend council meeting last week. They want to stop the councils plans to privatise home care services. It was a lively protest, with pensioners and trades unionists waving banners, chanting and handing out leafletts which warned how privatisation will mean a worse service for the elderly, as well as attacks the jobs, pay and conditions of the care workers.

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East Anglia workers strike threat beats turkey corporation!

30-07-2004 11:57

Around 1,000 workers had voted for strike action at the Holton and Great Witchingham plants in Norfolk and Suffolk. The strike was due to go ahead last Monday (19th July). However, in the face of this proposed action, their bosses at the giant Bernard Matthews Turkey corporation instead suddenly withdrawn its plans to change shift patterns and extend the working week from four days to five. The workers have shown that being organised in a Trades Union can win real results. There actions have now won a withdrawal of the shift changes, a 3 percent pay rise and a 1 percent increase in pensions.

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Liverpool IMC looking for venues

30-07-2004 11:56

liverpool indymedia is interested in getting out into the community to introduce people to the project and show them how to publish their own grassroots news reports on the website.

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Braintree: Protesters demand baby care unit for hospital.

30-07-2004 11:52

Protesters, including many mothers, have been marching and campaigning in Braintree Essex to keep their maternity unit open 24 hours a day. Organisers called on supporters to march in their hundreds to demand health bosses make WJC Hospital, in London Road, a fully operational unit. Local mums feel that the other nearest 24 hour unit, in Chelmsford, is too far away.

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Genetically anti-social to be sedated

30-07-2004 11:49

Conference discusses genetically identifying troublemakers

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Human Rights Watch Weekly Digest

30-07-2004 11:30

+ U.N.: Support African Action on Conflicts
+ Saudi Arabia: Condemn Abuses, Not Their Exposure
+ ICCs Uganda Probe Must Protect Witnesses
+ Cambodia: Opposition Party Activists Under Threat
+ India: AIDS Fueled by Abuses Against Children
+ Testimonies of children and parents from the report, Future Forsaken:
Abuses
Against Children Affected by HIV/AIDS in India
+ Future Forsaken
+ South Africa: Safeguarding Children's Rights to Medical Care
+ Kosovo: Failure of NATO, U.N. to Protect Minorities
+ Sri Lanka: New Killings Threaten Ceasefire
+ U.S.: Review Panels No Fix for Guantanamo
+ Human Rights Watch Findings Not Exaggerated
+ Failure to Protect
+ Workers Hell in Saudi Arabia
+ Mexico: Ex-President Charged in Dirty War Killings
+ Nepalese Supreme Courts Proposed Ban
+ Nepal: Sexual Rights Group at Risk of Closure
+ Panama: Reject Harsh Laws on Youth Offenders
+ Indonesia/Malaysia: Household Workers Rights Trampled
+ Eritrean Refugees in Danger of Deportation from Libya
+ Letter to President Moscoso
+ Help Wanted

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Vanunu: let me leave

30-07-2004 10:57

Letter published in Guardian from Vanunu

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Tower Hamlets by-election results

30-07-2004 09:52

results for by election stepney 29/7/04

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Respect win council seat in Tower Hamlets

30-07-2004 09:28

Oliur Rahman has won the St Dunstan's and Stepney Green ward by-election to
gain a place on Tower Hamlets Council.

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Excellent Marks and Spencer Demo

30-07-2004 09:14

The weekly boycott of Marks and Spencer, Britain's biggest corporate sponsor of Israel, went ahead again last night with energy and creativity.

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Genoa Film night

30-07-2004 09:00

Genoa film night
this Friday 30th July 2004 @ Occupied Social Centre "Ex-Grand Banks"
156-158 Fortess Road, Tufnell Park, London NW5
Opposite Tufnell Park tube station

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Cambridge: remeber Hiroshima and Nagasaki

30-07-2004 08:15

A vigil and simple lantern floating ceremony will take place on
Sunday 8th August to remember all those who were killed or who
suffered as the result of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
in August 1945

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Alternative campsite

30-07-2004 05:33

Alternative campsite

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Lambda Project tackles Two-Spirits for Upcoming Rainbow Theater Festival

30-07-2004 03:18

BWT is looking for your stories of spirit for upcoming theater festival.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 7/30/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

30-07-2004 00:24

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.3MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Russia, China, and Cuba.

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National Demos against detention: Salford, Liverpool, Oxford, Dover, Scotland

29-07-2004 20:05

This is the press release sent out today which includes further details on the demo outside HMP Forest Bank Salford, and contacts for further information.

THE DEMO OUTSIDE HMP FOREST BANK IS A NOISE DEMO SO BRING NOISY THINGS/WHISTLES/DRUMS/PANS/YOURSELVES. Cars leaving from Chorlton St 12 noon Aug 1st Sunday. Demo starts 1pm Forest Bank prison Carpark. If you need a lift see contact details for HMP Forest Bank demo.

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Vanunu: Israel Killed John F. Kennedy

29-07-2004 18:45

In a startling accusation, nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu has alleged that Jerusalem was behind the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, who was exerting pressure on the then Israeli head of state to shed light on the Dimona nuclear plant.

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Critical Mass 30th July

29-07-2004 18:16

Critical Mass 30th July