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TomSongs new release, "BushWhacked", has been burning up bandwidth this week with 32,000 downloads in just 5 days. The world is waking up to the travesty in Iraq!

BushWhacked WMV Runtime 3:48

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TGV Lyon-Turin, 6-8 décembre : colère et rebondissements autour de Venaus

10-12-2005 04:33

Cela fait cinq mois que la "coopérative rouge" CMC essaie de mener à bout l'expropriation de 84 terrains à Venaus (Val de Suse, Italie), afin de commencer les travaux d'une galerie de service de 10 km, prélude au percement d'un tunnel de 53 km, la pièce maîtresse du chantier du TGV Lyon-Turin. A chaque tentative (29 juin, 6 octobre), la mobilisation de la population de la vallée, largement opposée au TGV, l'en a physiquement empêchée. Le 30 novembre, la CMC revient à la charge, mais 5000 personnes l'attendent à nouveau de pied ferme, marquant le début d'une occupation nuit et jour des terrains de Venaus.

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Interview with Friends of the Earth about Dalkeith Bypass and climate change

10-12-2005 00:23

Interview with Duncan McLaren, Chief Executive from Friends of the Earth Scotland, about Dalkeith Bypass, Direct Action, Carbon Emissions, Climate Change and the court case against the M74.

Recorded at the Climate Change Demonstration in Edinburgh, 3rd of december 2005.

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Deeds not Words

09-12-2005 23:51

words are cheap

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Nottingham Animal Rights Day

09-12-2005 22:58

To mark the 8th International Animal Rights Day, 15 members of Nottingham Animal Rights took part in a candlelit vigil outside the QMC University of Nottingham laboratories in remembrance of all the animals that have died and suffered all over the world in experiments and research.

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Party to Celebrate the release of the Edo rooftop 3. Brighton

09-12-2005 22:49

A fun packed evening of entertainment.

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Rockin' the Boat: CPT Peace Activists Held Hostage

09-12-2005 22:48

3 of the CPT hostages in Iraq were also in Palistine are known by the ISM and are friends of people within the London activist sean.
This radio article was made by Rockin' the Boat part of Freak Radio.
One thing I aint heard of in the corperate media is that there have been calls from Palistine to free the hostages.

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This Weeks SchNEWS - Hong Kong Phooey

09-12-2005 20:53

“The rhetoric of the WTO may be free trade, but its key agreements promote corporate monopoly.” - Walden Bello, Focus on the Global South

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The Trial of Saddam Hussein

09-12-2005 20:16

This is an expose of the hypocrisy of the trial of Saddam Hussein, a man the West supported for many years, remember Tony Blair and George Bush are guilty of war crimes as well (the use of banned weapons like DU, cluster bombs, excessive force etc)

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Abolish the New Slavery: Protest against the Prison System

09-12-2005 20:09

December 10 is international human rights day, and people across the world will speak out against torture and abuse carried out in US-run prisons in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.

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Human roadblock in protest against special needs school closures

09-12-2005 17:27

Parents and activists held up traffic this morning in protest against the proposed closure of schools for children with special needs.

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Harold Pinter's Nobel Lecture: "Art, Truth & Politics"

09-12-2005 17:18

"What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed." ~Harold Pinter, 2005 Nobel Laureate, Literature

Note: The below article is available with integrated web links via the iNoodle.com blog at the following URL:

http://inoodle.com/2005/12/harold-pinters-nobel-lecture-art-truth.html

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Homes planned for Bayer site

09-12-2005 17:11

It appears that Bayer are intending to cash in on their 22 Acre site at hauxton just outside cambridge. After years of use by Bayer how contaminated will the site be ? who will clean it up ? who will pick up the bill ? will Bayer do a deal with the local council ? will the public have to pick up the tab allowing private property speculators to make a killing and Bayer get off the hook and not have too clean up their shit !! as per usual .

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CINDY SHEEHAN TO VISIT UK PEACE PROTESTOR BRIAN HAW

09-12-2005 16:57

SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER, 12 NOON, PARLIAMENT SQUARE:

Cindy Sheehan, a mother whose soldier son was killed in Iraq and who is now campaigning for the removal of US troops from the country, will be visiting long-standing peace campaigner Brian Haw at his vigil opposite the Houses of Parliament.