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Sedgefield Interview with Derek Cattell

03-05-2005 16:21

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short interview with Dereck Cattell, moved from the Labour Party to support Independant candidate Reg Keys in sedgefield Other supports include Brain Eno and Fredrick Forsyth.

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Billy Bragg for Blair?

03-05-2005 16:03

Deeply probing interview with Billy Bragg on the UK elections...just pulled it off the web. It makes for an interesting read.

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smashing dates at EDO

03-05-2005 15:41

With the growth of the campaign fueled by the futile and costly blunder to quash peaceful protest there will be ever larger demos and rallies. Come and help put the arms dealers out of Brighton and out of business.

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The AUT boycott and the rights of Israelis and Palestinians.

03-05-2005 15:39

Attempts to overturn the recent AUT boycott of Haifa University and Bar Ilan University, focus on the rights of Israelis at the cost of the rights of Palestinians. The ICj ruling on the Apartheid wall has come to nowt, now academics fight to ignore the Palestinian call for a boycott.

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Picket Of Armley Jail

03-05-2005 15:30

Saturday May 7th

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Direct action defies fascist ASBOs in Derby

03-05-2005 15:27

The pigs have introduced Section 30 fascist anti-freedom orders, also known as area ASBOs, in various areas of Derby. None of these are "problem" areas in the usual sense; most are middle-class suburbs and satellite towns whose only "anti-social" problem is an infestation of whining bigots. In one area, local activists have carried out mass stickering to expose and attack the evil laws.

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First Dissent Meeting in Southampton

03-05-2005 15:25

The first meeting of the a dissent group will be happening in Southampton on the 16th of May, upstairs at Freedom
Bar, High Street Southampton at 8pm. All welcome.

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Iraqi Petroleum Conference 29/06/05

03-05-2005 14:40

Time to Re-build & Develop the Oil & Gas fields in a Country Containing the World's Second Largest Oil & Gas Reserves

This is a unique conference on the Iraqi petroleum industry with speakers and attendees from the Ministry of Oil, Iraq, and international oil companies giving their insight on the current status of the Iraqi oil industry and its current and future needs.

Every professional from major international oil and gas operators, service companies and general investors who has an interest in Iraq and the Middle East should attend this conference.

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BBC Election Bus in town today. Whoopee.

03-05-2005 14:37

At very short notice, and with hardly any publicity at all, the BBC's election roadshow wends its way into the centre of Cambridge today.

Well, almost the centre.

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Is Iraq a key election issue for you?

03-05-2005 14:33

The wife of Guardsman Anthony Wakefield, 24, the most recent British soldier to die in Iraq, has blamed Tony Blair for his death saying her husband should never have been sent to iraq.

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Free film Nite 8th May at LARC London

03-05-2005 14:25

Rising Tide Presents.. the End of Suburbia and other shorts

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Mayday 2005 Video: Highbury and Islington Station

03-05-2005 14:14

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Videoclip showing visible aggrevation between police and protestors following an arrest made at Highbury and Islington station.

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Who's trying to get Galloway?

03-05-2005 13:31

The media are running a vicious campaign to destroy George Galloway MP.

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BIRTH CONTROL BY DECREE IN UZBEKISTAN

03-05-2005 12:58

A family planning campaign that looks benign is marred by allegations of forced sterilisation on a wide scale.

By Malik Boboev, Galima Bukharbaeva and Yusuf Rasulov in Andijan and Tashkent.

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Bomb attacks on the rise as 'New Baath party' is born

03-05-2005 12:39

Flames and smoke rose over Baghdad from a blazing building after an explosion that was aimed at a police patrol killed six and wounded seven passers-by instead.

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Judge halts Abu Ghraib case to consider plea

03-05-2005 12:38

The US Army reservist Lynndie England, who appeared in some of the most notorious photographs associated with the torture and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib jail, has pleaded guilty to seven counts of abuse. The judge adjourned the proceedings, however, to consider whether to accept the plea after the 22-year-old from West Virginia said that at the time she did not believe her actions were wrong.

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Get your neck measured Tony - the hangman is waiting!!

03-05-2005 12:10

Elizabeth Wilmshurst's opinion
Blair's problem is that he always had a Foreign Office legal opinion dating from March 2002 that an attack on Iraq would be illegal under international law without another UN Security Council Resolution. All the machinations with Lord Goldsmith were an attempt to override this opinion, which stood squarely in the way of an attack. The original opinion was written by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, who resigned on the eve of the attack as a matter of principle (she had been with the Foreign Office since 1974!). Her resignation letter was released with one paragraph missing:

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manchester mayday weekend + audio

03-05-2005 10:18

amongst the party and protests of the mayday weekend were;
the seventh manchester radical bookfair
critical mass bike ride
anarchist picnic

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euroMAYDAY London - Report!

03-05-2005 09:56

euroMAYDAY London report