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Liverpool gap between rich and poor highest in UK

14-07-2006 09:44

Anyone have any ideas where this 2 billion plus that is comign into the area is going?

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Thought crime laws on their way in the UK

14-07-2006 08:48

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The Home Office plans to make it a criminal offence to own pornographic images it thinks are abhorrent. Even if you don't like porn, there are many reasons to be terrified about these proposals.

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New pamphlet: "War and Revolution: the Hungarian Anarchist Movement"

14-07-2006 08:32

The latest KSL pamphlet gives you a chance to learn about Hungarian anarchists in the Budapest Commune of 1919, and the stories of figures like Ervin Szabo (anarchist librarian and anti-war conspirator), Otto Korvin (agitator) and Ilona Duczynska (the assassin who didn't).

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banner in bristol

14-07-2006 06:54

saw this in bristol this morning

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Outlawing Genetic Engineering via Grassroots Education Campaigning

14-07-2006 05:48

Genetic Engineering is a nightmare technology that has already caused a number of deadly, crippling and injurious DISEASE EPIDEMICS -- documented but unpublicised. We must OUTLAW GMOs via grassroots education/political activation campaigning. A detailed Action Plan will be found in this article.

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Pfc. Chris Gorman: I refuse to go back to Iraq, because this war is illegal

14-07-2006 05:06

Interview with Christopher Gorman, a religious Conscientious Objector who is refusing to return to Iraq.

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Health Promotion

14-07-2006 01:43

"social marketing"
Never let the facts get in the way of a good health promotion campaign

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7/7 and Britain's Terror Paradigm

13-07-2006 23:30

This is the transcript of a public address by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, author of The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry (Duckworth, 2006) at the first parliamentary meeting calling for an independent public inquiry into the 7/7 terrorist attacks. The meeting was held in the House of Lords, 12th July 2006, chaired by Lord Rea. The event was sponsored by CAMPACC (www.campacc.org.uk) and supported by London Metropolitan University's Human Rights and Social Justice Research Institute, Stop Political Terror, and several other campaign groups. Panelists included 7/7 survivor Rachel North, antiwar activist and author Milan Rai, international lawyer Professor Bill Bowring, among others. Also participating were 7/7 survivors Holly Finch and John Tulloch. In this address, Nafeez Ahmed, who teaches international relations at Sussex University, explores the reasons why an independent public inquiry is needed, and also explains why the government doesn't want one.

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RAF Fairford requires volunteers

13-07-2006 22:58

I know you people already do do a lot of voluntary work, but airshows are such fun it might make for a great weekend. Get you applications in tommorow !

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NOISE DEMO AT DALLAS COURT!

13-07-2006 22:36

Monthly Pickets of Dallas Court Reporting Centre - Place of Fear
Friday 21 July and Friday 18 August 2006, 12-2pm
Dallas Court, South Langworthy Rd, Salford Quays

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North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group - PUBLIC MEETING

13-07-2006 20:51

On Tuesday 1st August, the North West Asylum Seeker Defence Group (NWASDG) will be holding a public meeting at Friends Meeting House, Mount Street, Manchester, Starting at 7pm

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In This Climate Of Fear The Energy Giants Must Not Win

13-07-2006 20:30

We live in times of fear : fear of terrorism, fear of energy shortages, fear of climate change. Which do you fear most?

The governments of the USA and UK would have you believe that terrorism is the thing to fear above all else : the Eastern Hoards collaborating in their cells to bring down the Evil West. Hot on its heels comes the mystical phrase “energy security” : an all encompassing term meaning essentially anything that gets in the way of continual power to feed our irrepressible need. Climate change is important too, or so the powers would have us believe, but in the end, like all things in politics, it’s the things that are out of the ordinary person’s control – terrorism and security – that really drive policy.

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ALTERNATIVE G8 ST Petersburg DECLARATION OF COMMON SECURITY July 14, 2006

13-07-2006 19:54

The time for rhetoric is long since past. The G8 must comply with years of obligations and commitments made to “Common Security” – peace, human rights, environment and social justice. The Following is a proposed Alternative G8 St Petersburg Declaration of Common Security

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Hospital Staff Protest In Southport and Ormskirk

13-07-2006 19:35

Health workers will demonstrate outside Southport and Ormskirk hospitals in response to its latest round of job cuts. Amicus and other unions will mount two protests next week after the NHS trust revealed it will sack more than eighty staff in coming months.

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Latest Updates from G8 protests in Russia

13-07-2006 17:32

The protests against the G8 in Russia have already started ahead of the Summit which takes place this weekend in St. Petersburg. Repression of political activists taking to the streets, and arriving at the Russian borders, is on the increase. More than 200 people have already been arrested in different Russian cities. Even though people are determined to make their voices heard. Demos and activist gatherings have already taken place in Moscow, and a cycle caravan has already arrived to St. Petersburg from Berlin.

See the latest updates below, from well before the mobilisations against this year's G8 summit begin in earnest, until Wedensday 12th. Today, Thrusday 13th, most activists from different parts of Russia are making their way (or trying to) St.Petersburg where the main mobilisations start tomorrow Friday 14th.

See the main IMC UK feature which is constantly udpdated with the latest reports - click at the 'Full article' link for the latest updates. Also check out the IMC-Russia (multilingual) website for news and reports.

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Israel and The Land

13-07-2006 17:24

The Straw Man Zionism foists upon its followers and the world is just as empty as everything else they've ever said in order to disguise the realities of their violent, supremacist Cult and its actions.

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Iraqis Call for Timetable, America Cracks Down

13-07-2006 17:21

Both Bush and Bliar LIED when they said they'll leave "when the Iraqi Government asks us to" (wink, wink!). They no doubt thought that the BILLIONS pilfered from the Iraqi Treasury they were using to bribe Iraqi politicians would create another Iraqi Puppet Regime.

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"Never Again" Gone Mad In Israel

13-07-2006 17:18

Keep in mind that this most recent offensive in Zionism's decades-long War was called for and planned months ago.

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Fight for British Jobs: Nationwide Protest This Saturday!

13-07-2006 17:11

Car maker PEUGEOT have sacked 2000 workers, and are planning on uprooting their production plant to Eastern Europe, so that they can pay workers far less money and make them work in appalling health and safety conditions.

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Ambulance Staff Strike Back

13-07-2006 17:08

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire have gone on strike in a dispute over pay. Technicians, who assist paramedics in ambulances, began a 24-hour walkout on Thursday after the collapse of pay talks on Wednesday night.