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Tree Felling in Sefton Park

06-10-2005 17:09

New plans for Sefton Park could see the felling of hundreds of trees.

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Cooperation with BAYER – Open Letter to Pittsburgh Filmmakers

06-10-2005 16:38

Dear Pittsburgh Filmmakers,

We read about the Environmental Film Festival you are organizing in cooperation with Bayer Corporation. We believe Bayer is not a good choice to partner with when pursuing environmental goals.

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Our media - another approach

06-10-2005 16:15

Over the last five years the indymedia open publishing concept has exploded throughout the internet, not just in the form of new indymedia collectives (of which there are now over 160) but also in the creation of many other non-affiliated 'citizen media' sites.

The model has been adopted in different forms and evolved along with new communications technologies such as RSS feeds which transformed the personal journals of the Blogging world into a global syndication network for content producers of every sort.

Indymedia however remains mostly uneffected, or does it?

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Latest Corporate Watch newsletter now out

06-10-2005 16:02

Corporate Watch is a small independent research organisation, based in Oxford. We publish research to help those resisting corporate power -- check out www.corporatewatch.org.uk

We also bring out a newsletter every two months, and a news update on web and email every two weeks. To subscribe to either of these, please see our website, or give us a call on 01865 791 391

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Critical Mass London: Letter from Green Party to Met. Police

06-10-2005 15:23

Jenny Jones has sent the following letter to the Commissioner of the Met Police, regarding Critical Mass. She and Darren Johnson will attend the next ride to show solidarity with fellow cyclists. They hope that others will do the same.

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Evidence needed to defend cilvil rights and promote world peace.

06-10-2005 14:06

Evidence needed to defend the rights of ordinary people to protest against powerful arms dealers responsible for the death of civilian s world wide

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B&K Universal- Blood on their Hands

06-10-2005 11:44

B&K are one of the largest breeders of lab animals in the UK wo sell gerbils, guinea-pigs, hamsters, mice, primates and rats. They are also known to sell rabbits and farm animals.

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Council says: More cash for community groups

06-10-2005 11:44

Over £70,000 has become available through the Neighbourhood Drug Community Chest Fund for community groups in Nottingham City to engage young people in activities.

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The Sky is Falling!

06-10-2005 11:20

Security fears as flu virus that killed 50 million is recreated

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Talabani thanks Blair

06-10-2005 10:34

SLY BUGGER
Blair told fatso talabani to fix the vote in Iraq on the constitution.

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Israel Court Bans Use of 'Human Shields'

06-10-2005 09:54

JERUSALEM - Israel's Supreme Court on Thursday banned the military's practice of using Palestinian civilians as "human shields" in arrest raids, saying it violates international law.

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Appeal for Solidarity with Ploughshares on Trial in Dublin - Oct 24th.

06-10-2005 09:28

On February 3rd. 2003, the Pit Stop Ploughshares were arrested and charged with $U.S.2.5million disarmament of a U.S. Navy War plane en route to the war on Iraq. They were arrested at Shannon Airport, County Clare, Ireland. 25,000 U.S. troops a month pass through Shannon along with Guatanemo Express planes used for renditions.

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Save Burgess Park, South London

06-10-2005 08:59

The Mayor of London announced on 29 May 2002 that the Cross River Tram, from Peckham to Camden via Burgess Park will go ahead, with a planned completion. date of 2011.

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National Security Study Memorandum 200

06-10-2005 05:27

The news is all about "Avian Flu" a disease which is predicted to depopulate much of the Earth although at the moment it remains rather limited in scope. It is worth recalling that this Avian Flu appeared shortly after scientists dug up the remains of victims of the 1918 Spanish Flu buried in the Arctic to play with the genome. Then it is worth remembering that the Spanish flu did not originate in Spain but in a US military base in Kansas.

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"Tunisians Conduct Online Protest"

06-10-2005 01:24

Right now there's an extraordinary online protest coming out of Tunisia. The website, www.Yezzi.org, is a collection of photos of Tunisians holding up signs in various languages, each with a message directed to Tunisian President Ben Ali.

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SPACE ROCKS KEEP FALLING ON MY HEAD MP3

06-10-2005 00:54

Audio
Well here it is .yet another song free to the general public.
cataclysms,wars,and corrupt empires are usually cyclical and go hand in hand,or so the real history books say.

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Next stop Iran?

05-10-2005 22:09

Is Iran still the next step - and is some kind of conflict there being prepared?

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Letter from Yarl's wood detention centre

05-10-2005 21:45

Many Ugandan women are awaiting deportation from the UK to Uganda. The UK government maintains that Uganda is a safe country to return to in spite of the war in the north which has raged for 18 years and the repressive means by with President Yoweri Musoveni maintains power.

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Insidious Police Recruitment

05-10-2005 21:41

stockwell police recruitment
In the exact spot where police under Ian Blair shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, there is now an advert recruiting for people to join the London Metropolitan police force...