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Rights are Wrong

22-08-2006 15:20

A short rant about Police tactics and freedom

The Battle of Aita Al-Shabb - Thurs 17th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:31

The border town of Aita Al-Shabb saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The town is destroyed having been hit with shells, missiles, bombs and heavy machinegun fire. Shortly after we arrive, an elderly woman approaches and asks us to come and see her home. Haji Mariam Srour is 82 and slept for thirty days under her bed. This was a smart move when you consider that every window in her house has been shattered, showering the place with glass. After half her house (the other side from the bedroom) was hit directly by a shell she spent three days sheltering in a neighbour’s bathroom with three other elderly women and no food. Had the ceasefire not happened they could all be dead.

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The Unexploded Bombs of Jbah - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:19

I am shown around the southern village of Jbah by Abir Ghamloush, a local woman who lives and works in Beirut. This is her first opportunity to return here since the Monday ceasefire. Until now, her Beirut house, which she shares with her mother, has been home to 30 refugees from fives families, three of which were from here. Jbah is home to around 8,000 local people of middle incomes and acts as a hub for a further 7,000 people from local rural communities. The schools and nursery are based in the village along with a few workshops and small businesses. Until now the place had been deserted by all but five families who stayed during the war. Looking around the village it is not hard to see why the people fled in such numbers.

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Lebanon - Driving South - Wed 16th Aug - Photo Report

22-08-2006 14:14

South of Beirut the mother of all traffic jams stretches for miles. Every bridge big and small has been bombed and engineers are working around the clock to clear the way around or to put in temporary ones.

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Victims of Operation Ore sue the police

22-08-2006 14:01

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act - George Orwell. Writers and correspondents in New Zealand, Australia, Cambodia, Thailand, France, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, and the US.

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Squatters under siege

22-08-2006 13:59

9 Marlborough road, Manningham, Bradford
Under siege

Today a number of people that have squatted a house on Marlborough Road, Manningham are being held illegally under house arrest by a number of police. Anyone leaving the building is being arrested for criminal damage.
This is illegal police action please show your support by dropping by. Booze and food is appreciated.

Cheers

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Restoration of Sparkbrook Cottage Continues Despite Looming Court Case

22-08-2006 13:24

The occupation of the Sparkbrook social centre known as the Cottage of Content is ongoing, yet while court proceedings and legalities are set in place against the occupation, the renovation and revival of the community asset is continuing unabated.

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Sparkbrook Social Centre Occupation Approaches Seventh Week

22-08-2006 13:19

The Sparkbrook community centre neglected by Birmingham council, known as the "Cottage of Content", is approaching its seventh week of occupation, with encouraging progress and community participation increasing.

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Video of Hands off Lebanon demo, Brighton 19th August

22-08-2006 11:37

A video of Hands off Lebanon demo, Brighton 19th August 2006

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Anti-Deportation Picket in Solihull This Friday

22-08-2006 11:29

While the number of forced deportations is alreadly reaching unprecedented records, and asylum seekers of ceratin nationalities (Iraqis and Zimbabweans, for example) are facing the prospect of mass deportation campaigns in the near future, Birmingham NoBorders and Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign are holding their monthly picket at the immigration reporting centre in Solihull this coming Friday, 25 August, 2006.

The picket at Sandford House (41 Homer Road, Solihull) will start at 12 noon to highlight this dim reality and demand an end to all deportations of asylum seekers. Come along and show your anger and disgust!

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Fancy Dress Eviction Party

22-08-2006 09:54

Dub Roots Sounds , no techno

Fancy Dress Eviction Party
Elvis Sound DJ's MC's
Ishu. Minty & Andy (urban warfare)
+ surprise guests

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Solidarity for Marco Camenisch: Eco-Anarchist Prisoner

22-08-2006 09:48

Marco Camenisch was born in Switzerland in 1952. In the late seventies, Marco, as a militant of the movement against nuclear power plants, was engaged in many struggles to fight the local Swiss nuclear mafia. Direct action was the base of such struggles; cutting down pylons, sabotage against power stations, attacks against the people involved in nuclear mafia.

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Playing Favourites; or a Vicious Sight of Reality

22-08-2006 07:07

There is people who still believes that Israel has a right over the rest of the people, to jill or condemnd to prevent sometihng that they are building

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Tea Party at the Hague

22-08-2006 03:25

Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation!

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The BNP and the Northern Green Gathering

21-08-2006 23:54

What happens when Nazi scum meet hippy scum? Apparently some of them got on famously.

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Alarming rise of Children’s ID databases and biometrics in schools

21-08-2006 23:47

On top of ID cards and the move to NHS electronic records, another major government plan with a potential for hideous invasion of privacy and loss of personal freedom comes out of the Children Act (2004). The new Act allows the setting up of incredibly invasive databases by the Secretary of State and/or children's services authorities in England. At the same time pupils and parents are getting more vocal and organised in their protests against the alarming rate of introduction of biometric systems in schools. These have included fingerprinting (and even iris scanning) of children for school dinners, attendance registers, and use of libraries or ‘learning resource centres’.

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Little Birds: A Devastating Window on the War

21-08-2006 22:52

Powerful documentary on Iraq war from the perspective of Iraqi citizens

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Up The Creek Without A Paddle!

21-08-2006 22:43

Two BNP activists raising money for the fascist party with a sponsored canoe trip were very quickly out of their depth. Read this and weep (with laughter!)

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Mersey councils to dump their rubbish in Wrexham. Protest now!

21-08-2006 21:34

Waste from five Merseyside authority areas: Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helen's, Sefton and Wirral is to be dumped at a Wrexham landfill site, part of which is a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and home to great crested newts. Local residents have been campaigning for years against the plans, but dumping looks set to go ahead from Wednesday. Solidarity actions needed.

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FOREIGN OFFICE BLOCKADE REPORT: Monday 21st August

21-08-2006 21:18

Anti-war activists blocked entrance to the Foreign Office for two hours Monday morning in a protest against British foreign policy.