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Birmingham Critical Mass Bike Ride this Friday 3rd November

02-11-2006 16:20

Birmingham Critical Mass will be meeting this Friday 3rd November at 5.30pm at St. Phil's Cathedral.

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NOW-attack/evicton radio and APPO stronghold

02-11-2006 16:18

the mexican government ocupation forces in oaxaca, the butchers of the federal police (PFP), the army and van fulls of armed paramilitaries. are attacking the APPO resistance stronghold, and host to Radio Universidad, radio resistance, apporadio - attacking the University.

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Beatings and Sugar Plums: New Labour's War on the Kurds

02-11-2006 16:17

Early morning on September 5th security guards burst into the sleeping quarters of Colnbrook detention centre in west London. The guards had come to take thirty two Iraqi Kurdish men away. Barefoot, handcuffed, with the guards swearing at them, the thirty two were taken to RAF Brize Norton. Their threatened forced deportation to Arbil in northern Iraq was imminent. In response, one man slit his throat and up to fourteen others took overdoses or cut themselves in a desperate attempt to avoid "removal". One eye witness described the scene at the holding area at the airport as "carnage with blood on the walls".(1) The Kurds knew the danger of returning to Iraq. They had fled the country years before because of that danger.

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NHS Medical Data Base and Mental Health

02-11-2006 15:01

Government plans to put medical records on a national electronic data base are going ahead.

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Greenpeace invade and shut down Didcot power station

02-11-2006 14:53

Greenpeace on conveyor
Environment protesters have got into Didcot power station, Oxfordshire, and chained themselves to equipment taking coal to the boilers.

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British Police Try to Arrest Plaintiff Against Khatami

02-11-2006 14:46

British police try to arrest one of the two Iranian refugees who applied to have Khatami arrested under Section 134 of the Criminal Justice Act 1998.

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Estat Català. The unitary act the 80th Anniversary of The Prats de Molló Events.

02-11-2006 14:46

SPEECH BY ESTAT CATALÀ IN THE UNITARY ACT COMMEMORATING THE 80th ANNIVERSARY OF THE PRATS DE MOLLÓ EVENTS. 22 OF OCTOBER OF 2006
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CANdLE (Cumbria AND Lancashire Etc) at Faslane

02-11-2006 14:38

A group from Lancaster, Lune Valley, and three areas in Cumbria came together to help maintain the 365 faslane blockade.

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Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston

02-11-2006 14:01

Houston USA: Justice for Janitors campaign needs your active support NOW.

Thousands of migrant cleaners are on strike in Houston, the 4th most important city in the US - and Bush territory.

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Mexican embassy covered in symbolic blood

02-11-2006 13:54

On Wednesday night, London activists threw red paint to symbolise the blood of the people of Oaxaca on the walls, stairs and doors of the Mexican Embassy

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Video: Dalston Theatre Eviction

02-11-2006 13:48

Video
A short video (2min) from the eviction of Dalston Theatre in Hackney last night (november 2 06)

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Luxeux Construction Division

02-11-2006 13:44

Advanced Metal Research and Technology

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Colombia: Emergency Protest Today from 12 NOON onwards

02-11-2006 13:39

Francisco Santos Vice-President of Colombia has come to Britain to launch a publicity campaign against the Curse of Cocaine. He is targeting cocaine users in adverts paid for by European governments and has already appeared at events in Birmingham, Basingstoke and a press conference in London yesterday. The Colombia Solidarity Campaign states that Santos is involved in a well funded and carefully prepared attempt to manipulate public opinion, deflecting attention way from his own government’s responsibility in a conflict that has generated the worst human rights violations in the western hemisphere.

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Polish ultracatholic government is building a road through primeval forest

02-11-2006 12:50

Picture by Wlodzimierz Lapinski
In Poland the new extreme-right government has begun the procedure of constuction of the new Via Baltica road. Pimeval forest of outstanding beuty is endangered. Why exactly this route was chosen among so manyu other possibilities.

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Discussion forum on capitalism, the environmental crisis and the working class

02-11-2006 12:42

What should the left say about the Stern report? Can we save the environment under capitalism? Is the workers' movement part of the problem or part of the solution? What kind of society can establish a sustainable relationship between human beings and the environment?

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RIO GRANDE CITY — Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez Forced Out of U.S. Army

02-11-2006 12:18

Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez testifies about Iraqi prisoner abuse before the Senate
RIO GRANDE CITY — Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez blamed the ghosts of Abu Ghraib for forcing him out of a military career that spanned 33 years.

The 55-year-old Rio Grande City native and one-time top U.S. commander in Iraq retired in a formal ceremony at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio on Wednesday.

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Israeli Left-Right Divide Unmasked as Phony

02-11-2006 12:11

Avigdor Lieberman’s ascent to a strategic executive role in Israel has unmasked the artificial divide between left and right and revealed the mainstream ruling elite as still in consensus on the Zionist goals, a fact that rules out any credible peace process in the foreseeable future and dooms peace and left, until a forcible outside intervention could enforce a de-Zionization of peace-making.

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UN DECLARES SADDAM DETENTION AND TRIAL ILLEGAL

02-11-2006 11:49

A United Nations expert on human rights law body has declared the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein before an Iraqi special court is illegal because it violates the right to fair trial under international law writes Saleh Al-Mukhter.

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An Army of Yobs!

02-11-2006 11:23

A classic Problem, Reaction, Solution.

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national welfare reform protest/lobby london dec4th

02-11-2006 11:10

come and support the event challenging the Govts Welfare Reform Bill,
we need everyone to raise this issue,