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Afghanistan under occupation: An assessment—Part 1

14-02-2007 20:57

Almost three decades of conflict
Living conditions for Afghanistan’s 7.5 million city dwellers has also deteriorated in the past five years. Most of the urban population (which is estimated to double to around 13 million by 2015) is concentrated in Kabul, Kandahar, Herat, Mazar-e-Sharif, Jalalabad and Kunduz. All six cities have devastated infrastructures from almost three decades of conflict. Pressures on them have been exacerbated over the past few years by the combined influx of returning refugees, impoverished rural migrants and displaced sections of the population, often fleeing the fighting in the south and east of the country.

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Why?

14-02-2007 20:12

Why are people in S/Yorkshire attacking SUVs and claiming them as ALF attacks?

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Basque political prisoner Iñaki de Juana in risk of death

14-02-2007 20:07

Tied to his bed and forced fed through tubes
Basque prisoner is in his deathbed after 101 days of hunger strike

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reclaim love (iv)

14-02-2007 19:59

last year's event
come and celebrate divine love at piccadilly circus on saturday at noon. this will be the fourth year of non-commercial valentine partying. bring love, bring friends, bring music and food. come and share. send out love to all the beings in all the worlds, and PARTY!!

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Boomchukka Circus

14-02-2007 19:49

Latest report from the Boomchukka Circus from Jenin. More details and reports on the website.

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Cuban Hip Hop bands to tour UK in March

14-02-2007 18:18

OBSESIÓN, Cuban hip hop band
In March two of Cuba’s most influential rap groups, OBSESIÓN and LOS PAISANOS, will be touring the UK in association with cultural organisation Movimientos & Cuba Solidarity Campaign, taking part in public discussions as well as live performances giving audiences an insight into urban culture in Cuba today. They will perform for one London date only, Friday 16th March.

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Six hours of disruption at LNG terminal

14-02-2007 18:00

Since November there has been lots of protests around the gas pipeline currently being constructed in Wales, and shortly Englans. Today people paid a visit to sunny pembokeshire to take direct action on one of the root causes of climate change; fossil fuel corporations seeking more profits for their shareholders.

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Launch of London Guantánamo Campaign weekly demonstration outside US Embassy

14-02-2007 17:32

The London Guantánamo Campaign started its weekly demonstration outside the US Embassy calling for the detention and torture camp to be closed down

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Faslane Family Blockade 19th 20th May

14-02-2007 16:01

A family block has been announced as part of the Faslane 365 action, for the 19th and 20th of May. The organisers are calling for help/support from clowns, cooks and cyclists, storytellers, face painters, strolling players and piano players, anyone else who'd like to lend a hand
- and most of all FAMILIES!

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remember ohio - cuyohoga says 2004 U.S. election CRIMINAL : 2 IN PRISON ALREADY.

14-02-2007 15:59

Cuyohoga is a place in Ohio that shall get into the textbooks about the end of a fraud . . . . a very big fraud . . . .

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Autonomous bloc on Feb 24th 'No Trident' Demo

14-02-2007 15:37

This is a callout for an automomous bloc on the 'No Trident' demo taking place in London on Saturday 24th Febuary. All participation is welcome.

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Invitation au contre sommet Biovision 2007

14-02-2007 14:59

This message is adressed to all people in Europe who want to resist actively GMO’s, cloning, nano-technologies, biometrics, DNA registration, industrial experiments upon animals, BioPatent and more generally agrochemical multinational policy.

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Weed contamination

14-02-2007 13:53

Weed problems continue - Check your skunk for dodgy ingredients!

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Military-Industrial Complex

14-02-2007 13:18

The fusion of the new American patriotism with religious fundamentalism developed into the most powerful legitimation resource for continuing the MIC.. Stability and containing conflict in the Middle East are obviously not the goals of the neoconservatives.

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Deportation afghan people?

14-02-2007 12:30

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In Calais, after the violences increasingly repeated against the refugees, the police force had stopped a pilot journalist of the one of these violences.

The police officers returned to the attack this Tuesday February 13, by driving out the Afghan refugees

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John Howard: Profile of a Coward

14-02-2007 12:15

The Australian Prime Minister, John Howard, has managed to gain some international attention after his hysterical attack on presidential candidate, Barack Obama. The seasoned Australian politician knowingly stated that a victory for Obama OR the Democrats would be a victory for al-Qaeda, “I mean, if I we're running al-Qaeda in Iraq, I would put a circle around March 2008 and pray as many times as possible for a victory not only for Obama but also for the Democrats”.

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How a Symposium on Iran Cinema Turned into Glorification of Islamic Revolution

14-02-2007 12:13

British universities turned into platforms of propaganda by Islamic Republic embassy in London.

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OaxacaLibre english weekly

14-02-2007 11:53

The subject of the elections in the APPO assembly

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Friends of John Okello

14-02-2007 09:39

John Oneka Okello, 58 from Uganda was detained at Beckett House Immigration Reporting Centre on Saturday 3rd February and currently detained in Tinsley IRC. He has been in the UK seeking asylum for 10 years and his claim has been refused. For the last five years he has not been allowed to work and has received no benefits in that time.

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Critical Mass London extra video.

14-02-2007 09:23

Video
In addition to  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/01/360863.html I thought I would include a 3gp version to put on your mobile phones experimentally, only 2Mb. It is supposed to work OK but lets see.