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RESIST G8 // 3rd Southeast Assembly - April 3rd - Reading

27-03-2005 13:49

RESIST G8 // 3rd South-East Assembly

Date: Sunday 3rd April

Time: 1.30-6.00pm

Venue: RISC, 35-39 London Street, Reading, Berks.

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RAF WIVES

27-03-2005 09:28

RAF officers wives are enslaved by being forced to work for very long hours on stations without payment or thanks,(not housework.)My website was created more than six years ago and with regular updates is now extensive.  http://users.powernet.co.uk/rafwives

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Zapatista Doll Returns Faulty Starbucks Cup

27-03-2005 04:56

Doll Returning Faulty Cup
Zapatista Doll returned a faulty Starbucks cup
to a local retailer asking them to get it back
to the manufacturer and alert them to this
possible need for a recall. As you can see
the cups do not say what Starbucks would like
their main message to be.

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Bank of Scotland HBOS: Evicted Family – Call for Right of ‘Right of Respect'

27-03-2005 01:08

Bank of Scotland Chief Office London
The Shalom Family Campaign for Justice, from Wales, recently targeted the Bank of Scotland, (a Crest Plc major shareholder, via HBOS), at the Birmingham NEC National Boat Caravan and Outdoor Show 2005.

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Report and Pictures from Close Campsfield Demonstration.

26-03-2005 21:39

Demonstrators outside the front gate (1)
About 25 people and a small samba band attended todays Close Campsfield at Campsfield House Immigration detention centre near Kidlington.

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Happy Birthday Critical Mass

26-03-2005 20:58

Happy Birthday Critical Mass

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Mein Kampf - Turkey's Hot Spring Read

26-03-2005 17:58

Adolf Hitler’s Mein Kampf, a bestseller in many sectors of the Muslim world, has become a best seller in Turkey – traditionally considered a moderate country.

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The Big Bad Wolfowitz

26-03-2005 17:33

"The Wolf at the door...I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house up!" From Venezuela: We must throw our support behind the Developing World, as our governments have clearly lost control.

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Israeli War Crimes

26-03-2005 16:50

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This is a summary of israeli war crimes in Palestine for the week ending 24 March 2005. 8mins (english)

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Dallas Court Reporting Centre, Salford criticised in recent report

26-03-2005 15:58

Dallas Court has been singled out for particular criticism in a recent report into conditions in short-term holding centres.

It is particularly disturbing that even after the YarlsWood fire, there are no approved fire or health and safety procedures in these "places of disappearance".

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Smash Edo high court injunction affects 1000+ people.

26-03-2005 15:20

Yesterday Smash Edo, Bombs out of Brighton and 14 individuals found themselves issued with intended injunctions against them in the High court, London.

This is the first time that groups outside of the Animal rights movement have found themselves issued with intended injunctions at the High court.

Over 1000 people are connected to the groups listed in the injunction, most people in the anti-war movement in Brighton are members of Sussex action for peace, Smash Edo etc.

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Gangs of America: Book Review

26-03-2005 15:13

Ted Nace's "Gangs of America: The Rise of Corporate Power and the Disabling of Democracy" explores the bizarre intrigues that resulted in the infamous `corporations are persons' ruling of 1866 and how that ruling affected the subsequent development of Supreme Court doctrine.

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Critical Mass

26-03-2005 14:59

Critical Mass

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Picture Story of March 19th Demo (reposting)

26-03-2005 11:59

Some Portraits of the day's participants.
Due to a dispute about the layout, this item has been reposted in the author's original intended pictorial format (with resized images).

Several hundred thousand people assembled in the middle of London last Saturday as a timely, pre-election reminder to the government that many people still do not support their phoney war for oil.

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'Leaflets Trouble' by anti-Straw group outside Blackburn mosque

26-03-2005 11:57

Graphic of LET article
A group of muslim campaigners were assaulted in Blackburn yesterday when distributing leaflets urging people not to vote for Jack Straw in the upcoming general election.

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Islamists attack students in Basra

26-03-2005 10:39

Students at Basra and Shatt Al-Arab universities have staged a strike following a series of violent attacks on students by religious extremists and supporters of Al-Sadr's Madhi Army, whilst British troops and Iraqi police stood by.

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Alam family antideportation campaign - help needed

26-03-2005 08:38

Just before Christmas 2004 Immigration atttempted to deport first Alam and then later his young family and wife. They are now trying to do this again at Easter. Alam has removal directions for Tuesday the 29th of March and his family for the 5th of April.

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Copyleft

26-03-2005 05:13

Copyleft is a term you're likely to hear a lot more about in the future as more people embrace the concept of copylefting their material, whether written, audio or visual material. So what does it mean?

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Resist G8 Benefit - London // Saturday April 2nd

26-03-2005 04:02

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Resist G8 Benefit - London // Saturday April 2nd

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1984 (Radio play)

26-03-2005 02:28

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This is a 1949 NBC radio adaptation of George Orwell's classic dystopian nightmare: 1984
The acting may be dated, but the cautionary message remains just as chilling...so, turn up the sound, dim the lights, and remember... Big Brother is watching you!