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ALCOA offices in Reykjavik stormed by 30 young people as ALCOA announce plans for new smelter in north Iceland

02-03-2006 12:23

"Jubilation" minutes after ALCOA's announcement
Alcoa add fuel to the fire and announce plans for a new aluminium smelter in north Iceland. The announcement was made from ALCOA Global Center at Park Avenue in New York City in order to avoid facing protesters in Iceland.

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Corporate Watch news: international women's day hijacked by big business

02-03-2006 11:33

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

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Two Situationist Films @ the Common Place in Leeds

02-03-2006 11:31

Two Situationist Films

On 19th March at 7pm we will be showing two masterpieces of detourned imagery, Guy Debord's 'Society of the Spectacle' and Rene Vienet's 'Can Dialectics Break Bricks?'

Entry will be by donation.

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Western Media Fails Balata Refugee Camp...yet again

02-03-2006 11:30

The Israeli army re-invaded Balata Refugee camp in full force on Thursday 23/02/06, killing five camp residents and injuring scores, including two medical workers. In only a few days, the operation termed 'Northern Glory' by the Israeli Occupation Forces has resulted in seven fatalities and around 100 injured.

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Truth For A Change: MNN TV Explodes the Myths that Make for War

02-03-2006 11:06

WTC 7 demolition Smoking Gun of 9/11 inside job
9/11 researcher Webster Tarpley interviewed today and tomorrow on MNN.org Web TV, claims WTC was destroyed in controlled demolition, not by hijackers, and tells what we can do about it.

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CommonwealthGames in Melbourne

02-03-2006 10:45

Very shortly the Commonwealth Games will begin in Melbourne. Here are some things to watch out for.

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Protecting the Right to Water - tonight, Friends' House, London

02-03-2006 10:24

Hear from a Brazilian campaigner about the impact of Nestle's water bottling activities and from leading UK organisations on why we need to protect water as a human right and a public good.

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Block the Builders: 13 March 2006

02-03-2006 09:32

Cops fail to cut out blockaders at Home Office Gate
Anti-nuclear NVDA group Block the Builders call another blockade of Britain's Atomic Weapons Establishment Aldermaston

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'Women Say NO To War' - US Embassy, London, March 8th

02-03-2006 09:31

In January 'Women Say NO To War' started a campaign calling for an end to the war and occupation in Iraq. The first step in the campaign is a global petition - the 'Womens Call For Peace'.

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"Crossrail shall not pass through Brick Lane Area"

02-03-2006 01:55



The Khoodeelaar! Brick Lane London E1 area campaign against Tower Hamlets Council’s role in the Crossrail hole
Held a robust demonstration against the Council at 6PM on Wednesday 1 March 2006. It was joined by George Galloway MP who compared the Crossrail hole attack with the Mosley Black Shirts attack on the East End Jews in the 1930s. 'They shall not pass'

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Solidarity Demo at New Court Case of Lancaster Uni Protesters (George Fox 6)

02-03-2006 01:01


Join the Demo.March 13th 2006, 10.00am.at Lancaster Crown Court (behind the Castle).

The 'George Fox Six' are the six student protesters taken to court by the bosses of Lancaster University. They had been protesting against unethical corporations, including weapons manufacturers, hijaking the University. The original trial convicted them. Now they are appealing... http://www.georgefox6.co.uk

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Six years since Jack Straw released Pinochet

02-03-2006 00:07


It is exactly six years since Jack Straw released brutal Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet.

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The QUICKTIME REPORT 2/3/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

01-03-2006 23:00

A review of news & opinion
A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive! Now crystal clear on widescreen!

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Occupied Dalston Theatre Wins in High Court But Eviction Proceedings Continue

01-03-2006 22:56

I'm sure someone who knows more will update on this very soon, but just to say that today the High Court ruled that the application by Hackney Council for possession of the occupied theatre + buildings in Dalston should not have been made to the high court, and they refused to rule on it.

It's now to be refered to the county court for a judgement this coming Friday.

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get the guzzling 4x4s off the roads

01-03-2006 22:35

shift buying habits towards more fuel efficient vehicles and help reduce the impact of cars on the climate

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SEC Covers Up UAE Money Laundering with U.S. Stocks

01-03-2006 22:34

And some of that money laundering with this unaudited U.S.penny stock fraud's shares has been in the UAE's Dubai,Kuala Lumpur,Nicosia and through a California bank while W Bush has assured us, in order to run his deal with whoever in the UAE to surrender our ports,that the UAE has cleaned up its act and this kind of thing no longer occurs ! And the Securities Exchange Commission is harrassing business journalists to cover up such stock fraud and thus are also covering up money laundering and illegal pump and dump activities with U.S. penny stocks in the EAU for George W Bush,et.al. !

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Media Workers against the War

01-03-2006 22:09

Media Workers Against the War

WORLD JOURNALISTS ATTACK WAR-ON-TERROR COVERAGE

Press contacts: 07815 111 191, 07801 789 297

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Solidarity with Matan Cohen

01-03-2006 21:50

Tonight London activists picketed the Israeli Embassy in Kensington in solidarity with a young activist who has been badly and deliberately injured by the Israeli border Police.

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Protests over cartoons: Neither democracy nor religion

01-03-2006 17:13

Whose side should we take? Islam and Christianity are still powerful mythologies used to perpetuate the existing system. But democracy is perhaps the most powerful mythology of all, precisely because it pretends not to be one. To choose one against the other can only serve the interests of our rulers.

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Random Searches on Sheffield Midland Rail Station 28-2-2006

01-03-2006 14:04

Police use sniffer dogs and random searches on Sheffield Midland Rail Station.