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7pm Embankment - Solidarity Demonstration

17-10-2004 18:03

Got a telephone report that there is a Solidarity Demonstration for some arrested this afternoon. This starts at 7 pm - ie from now.... Bring some thing to make a big noise with.

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Indymedia takes to the streets.

17-10-2004 17:10

Photos of Indymedia bloc on the ESF demonstration. They took to the streets to protest against the theft of the servers by the FBI, and the lack of information which has followed.

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ESF future: We should go deeper, to find more links between movements

17-10-2004 17:02

Four years after the initial World Social Forum (WSF) in Porto Alegre, a frame has been built to facilitate discussion, debate and exchanges, on how to build a better world. A series of meetings were held in order to explore what we can expect from this experience. The first event, titled “Future and perspectives for the ESF - WSF”, was held on Friday 14th of October 2004 in the Alexandra Palace of the English capital.

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Extraterrestial ambassador names President Chavez as an honorary priest

17-10-2004 16:49

Extraterrestial ambassador names Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Frias as an honorary priest

I swear this is genuine, although maybe the 'Ambassador' is not so genuine

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Indymedia Reporter Violently Arrested

17-10-2004 15:57

One Indymedia volunteer was arrested from behind the stage at the rally in Trafalgar Square.

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Maelstrom: anti-repression squat - Events - Leeds

17-10-2004 15:55

Details of some of the events planned...

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ESF continues while activists are arrested!

17-10-2004 15:20

Minute to minute updates reguarding the arrests at King Coss station

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Preventitive arrests, police violence

17-10-2004 15:11

Minute to minute updates reguarding the arrests at King Coss station

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The police are under resourced

17-10-2004 14:15

This many cops...
There are at this moment about 75 police at King's Cross surrounding about 15 peaceful protestors who got off the train and were trying to join the main demo today. Makes a bit of a mockery about their usual claim of always being under resourced.

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GM strike - Tues 19 October - European day of solidarity action!

17-10-2004 13:37

worker´s families and citizens of Bochum rally to the factory gates
GM Europe Works Council declares day of action for 19 October as reaction to threatening job cuts in GM car factories in Europe.

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People detained in king kross ldn, sunday 14:03

17-10-2004 13:06

A group of 20 people are currently forcibly detained at Kings Cross St Pancrass.

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Storming Palace visual report

17-10-2004 12:22

From one participant of the ESF – whilst standing on a chair to take photos of the intervention, the speaker that was currently in the middle of speaking, came off the stage and was shouting and using obsentities to those doing the intervetion on stage, two women from the SWP were holding him and trying calm him dowm and saying stay calm... at which point he than broke free from the women, ran behind the stage then attacked people trying to speak, at which point a banner went up and the skimish was blocked from view. However, photographers on the scaffolding took pictures - we may soon see what happened.....

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Social Cleansing!

17-10-2004 12:14

At this present moment there has been a 48% increase in homeless families in Liverpool and as a result they are planning to build more dreadful homeless hostels for poor unfortunate people to live in.

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Ministry of Defence gags soldier's grieving mother

17-10-2004 11:55

She is the mother of soldier Gordon Gentle who was killed in Iraq. She is currently suing the Ministry of Defence over her son's death.
On 3 September, the Ministry of Defence issued a D notice about her case.
D notices are government orders which are issued to media outlets. They warning the media off reporting certain things.

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the storming of the palace

17-10-2004 10:52

the anti esf demo was an empty protest

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ESF: hacking networks of power

17-10-2004 10:50

Hacking networks of power:

Report on the contrast between the 'official' ESF and autonomous spaces; and a coffee-fueled analysis of the ESF process, and what happens next...

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Blair agrees to US missiles in Britain

17-10-2004 10:38

American interceptor missiles are to be stationed on British soil after Tony Blair agreed a secret deal with the United States, it has been reported


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European Social Forum events

17-10-2004 10:15

Gabriel Carlyle of Voices UK speaks. Ewa Jasiewicz chairs.
This is a short report of some of the events at the ESF with a look at the lack of mainstream media coverage of the forum.

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Call to Action: Stop Government Repression of Indymedia

17-10-2004 08:27

Call for Indymedia Solidarity