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Prison Guards Strike On...And Then Off Again!

20-09-2006 21:44

Yesterday morning it was revealed that Liverpool prison officers had voted to go on strike over a below inflation pay offer and changes to their working practices. But last night it was announced that the strike had been cancelled!

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Free Palestine! End Zionist Attacks! Defend the Right to Protest!

20-09-2006 21:43

Despite Zionist intimidation, Victory to the Intifada continues to hold its weekly protest in support of the liberation of Palestine and against Marks and Spencer (M&S), Israel’s biggest British corporate sponsor, every Thursday from 6-8pm, as it has for the last 6 years since the Al-Aqsa Intifada started.

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Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill - Manchester Demo

20-09-2006 21:28

Stroll, Roll and Rally against the Welfare Reform Bill!

Next Monday, 25th September, the Coalition Against the Welfare Reform Bill will be Strolling and Rolling across Manchester to lobby the Labour Party Conference.

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Day 18 of Mersey Fire Strike: Compromise Seems Likely

20-09-2006 21:04

A compromise between the Fire Authority and Merseyside FBU seemed very likely tonight, as both sides talked up the chances of a deal.

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Photos from the incinerator protest at Council House before the vote

20-09-2006 20:59

Here some photos from the protest by NAIL who were expecting (and did) celebrate their victory over the proposed expansion of Eastcroft Incinerator. Today a planning committee of the council unanimously rejected the expansion plans.

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Film showing of Behind the Mask in Leeds

20-09-2006 20:21

The new film produced by Shannon Keith attempts to go behind the mask and explore the reasons that drive people to take direct action as representatives of the Animal Liberation Front (ALF).

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Australian government’s role in ousting East Timor’s prime minister Alkatiri

20-09-2006 20:11

Ousting of Alkatiri
The record of the Howard government in the ousting of Alkatiri demonstrates yet again that Canberra will stop at nothing to assert its economic and strategic interests in East Timor and throughout the Asian Pacific region. Having dispatched troops to the island in 1999 and 2006, the Australian government, with US backing, is determined to undercut its rivals and install a compliant regime.

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Marxists wreck productive body

20-09-2006 19:49

K. Marx and Ricardo states that wages not depend on production but in necessaries that tippify a slavery society not a mercantil systm. This conducts a marxists in govern to destroy productive system and to serve as clerks of financier capital.

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Titnore Victory??

20-09-2006 19:29

Worthing Council has announced that more than 200 trees threatened by the West Durrington development could be saved.

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Sheffield says time to go to Manchester

20-09-2006 19:15

Sheffield walks to Manchester - Time to Go

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NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST LIES AND SECRECY

20-09-2006 19:05

NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST LIES AND SECRECY KNOW NO BOUNDS
THESE FOLLOW BLAIR THE DISCREDITED LEADER WHO MUST GO NOW OR ELSE WE AS TENANTS AT NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST WILL ALL VOTE CONSERVATIVE - TO SHOW YOU WE ARE ANGRY WITH YOUR ABUSIVE BEHAVIOUR AT NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST

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NOTTING HILL HOUSING TRUST ABUSE

20-09-2006 17:50

You guessed it - as a member of management of Notting Hill Housing Trust we had to ban this site - far too much of the truth is being known by the public and the taxpayers - and worse of all the slimy shite tenants. So we just put that extra bit of pressure on those who work at Indymedia - it works like a dream!

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Nestlé, York, the Philippines and the boycott

20-09-2006 17:40

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Nestlé has just announced lay offs in York. Meanwhile in the Philippines trade unionist five years into a strike prepare to mark the first anniversary of the assassination of their leader. Nestlé was wining and dining trade unionists at the TUC a little over a week ago and is sponsoring a fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference on Monday. As with the baby milk issue, it puts its own profits first while engaging in PR to divert criticism.

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Fury over 'war on terror' board game

20-09-2006 16:26

The Hate Mail is in a fluster:

A survivor of the London bombings has branded a controversial new board game about the war on terror as "sick".

Jacqui Putnam survived the attacks which claimed 52 lives on July 7 last year when a suicide bomber detonated explosives in the carriage next to hers on an underground train.

Now she has reacted with anger to the launch of War on Terror: The Boardgame, calling it "inappropriate and insensitive".

 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=405801

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Coup d'etat in Thailand

20-09-2006 15:43

Military junta overthrows thai government

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What Future for Haiti? An Interview with Patrick Elie

20-09-2006 15:42

A new grassroots movement will have to form that comes from the street and grassroots mobilizations. Lavalas is this movement, but Lavalas and Fanmi Lavalas, although related, are different things. Fanmi Lavalas is a political organization. Lavalas is a political philosophy, not a party. Lavalas and the popular movement are one in the same. It was the name coined for it by President Aristide. But he did not invent the reality of it, he just put a name on it. He doesn’t own it. It owns him.

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Camp Bling marks 1st anniversary at king’s burial.

20-09-2006 15:33

Possibly against all the odds, and the expectations of some, including the local council, Southend on Sea’s very own road protest site marks its first anniversary this coming Saturday 23rd September

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There is no Palestine (Israel: Part 4)

20-09-2006 15:29

This is the fourth part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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On being a security risk (Israel: Part 3)

20-09-2006 15:27

This is the third part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).

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On how to tell a story (Israel: Part 2)

20-09-2006 15:25

This is the second part of an ongoing series I am still in the middle of mulling over regarding my recent visit to Israel and Palestine. I went as part of an all female, religiously mixed group of 1 Jew, 4 Muslims and me, a little old nothingist (and occasional faux-Christian for balances sake).