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Privatising the NHS

02-04-2007 22:12

A private GP practice on Merseyside. Private health care for the paying patients only. Can we afford to let it happen?

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Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show?

02-04-2007 21:34

Who IS running this bushite nazi liar show, where they, our
elite corporate media masters, kill our stupid kids with their
flagrant naked monster lies, while refusing all calls for
clarity, Johnny America really wants to know. Like
immediately. Help us out here some man, don't be evil.

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Has the UK lost its 'edge' in foreign policy?

02-04-2007 21:28

The recent story of the arrest of 15 British sailors in the Persian Gulf has revealed interesting and often hidden facts regarding the current administration in Britain.

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Poverty rises in Britain as money poured into Iraq war

02-04-2007 19:39

The number of people living in poverty in Britain last year rose from 12.1 million to 12.7 million, a rise of 600,000 people, according to the latest government figures. The number of poor children increased by 200,000 to 3.8 million between 2005 and 2006, in what is the fourth richest country in the world.

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Hundreds Defy th checkpoints in Nablus

02-04-2007 17:41

This one of a series of reports from a Brighton based activist from Occupied Palestine

I will be here for the next month making links with grassroots groups in the Tubas/Jordan Valley Region with other activists from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (tubas.brightonpalestine.org) and working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org).

I will be sending short reports about the effect of the Israeli occupation on everyday life and Palestinian resistance to the occupation…

THE WALL MUST FALL

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Land Day in Bil in

02-04-2007 17:36

This is part of a series of reports from a Brighton based activist from occupied Palestine

I will be here for the next month making links with grassroots groups in the Tubas/Jordan Valley Region with other activist from the Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group (tubas.brightonpalestine.org) and working with the International Solidarity Movement (www.palsolidarity.org).

I will be sending short reports about the effect of the Israeli occupation on everyday life and Palestinian resistance to the occupation…

THE WALL MUST FALL

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London Food Not Bombs

02-04-2007 16:56

Food Not Bombs
'Food is a right, not a privilege'. London is one of the most expensive cities in the world and also thus has a high level of poverty and homelessness. Through highlighting the amount of food that is wasted in this city and at the same time, providing people with a healthy and nutricious Vegan/Vegetarian meal, we aim to combat this.

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One Day Radical Film Festival in North London

02-04-2007 16:02

Haringey Independent Cinema - a community based film club involving local resident's associations, Haringey Solidarity Group, and community activists are holding a one day film fesitval on Saturday April 14th.

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Seed Swap @ Camberwell Squat Centre

02-04-2007 15:36

now spring is here there will be a seed and seedling swap at the Camberwell Squat Centre
this coming sunday

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Bugged Locum Service

02-04-2007 15:28

The bugging of a patient refferal service reported in todays Echo and a way they could have done it

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Blockading Agrexco UK Is Legal Say Met Police

02-04-2007 14:37

Agrexco UK Valentines Blockade Case Dropped by Met Police

Israeli War Criminals Cornered as Blockade of Israeli export company is deemed legal by Met police.

2 April 2007

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Important upoming rally: Free Mumia now!

02-04-2007 14:09

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man!
Free Mumia Now!
Abolish the racist death penalty!

Rally, sponsored by the Partisan Defence Committee

Saturday 5 May, 1 pm
University of London Union, Room 3C&D,
Malet Street, London WC1

Speakers include Rachel Wolkenstein, Partisan Defense Committee (US) counsel and former member of Mumia's legal team; trade union and other speakers to be announced

Mumia's life is in danger - mobilise now!

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Beyond Munich: The UN Helps Disarm a Prospective Further Victim of US Aggression

02-04-2007 13:49

Imagine that when Hitler was threatening to invade Poland, after having swallowed Czechoslovakia—with the help of the Western European powers' appeasement of Hitler at Munich in September 1938—the League of Nations imposed an arms embargo on Poland, making it more difficult for the imminent victim to defend itself, and at the same time suggested that Poland was the villainous party. That didn’t happen back in 1939, but in a regression from that notorious era of appeasement something quite analogous is happening now.

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Stop Deportations of Darfurians! Stop All Deportations!

02-04-2007 13:49

Called by the Darfurian Community in Manchester
Demonstration: Thursday 5th April at 12:00 noon
Dallas Court Enforcement Unit, South Longworthy Road, Salford Quays, Salford M50 2GF

Congolese, Zimbabwean, Iraqi, Afghan, Somali asylum seekers of other nationalities stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Sudanese, the latest targets of the Home Office's most shameful, vile attacks.

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Newsflash: The Ant remanded2 Wandsworth 4 non-arrestable public order offence???

02-04-2007 13:28

ANOTHER BENT JUDGE: Dj Tubbs sat in courtroom 1 for today's kangaroo court - 02/03/2007

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A wanton cover-up: No British soldiers found guilty in murder of Iraqi worker

02-04-2007 13:24

On September 14, 2003, Baha Musa, a 26-year-old hotel receptionist and father of two, was detained along with several others in a raid by the Queens Lancashire Regiment in the Haitham Hotel in Basra. Over the course of the next 36 hours, Musa was humiliated, starved, robbed, forced to drink his own urine, choked and repeatedly pummeled by perhaps dozens of British soldiers. He died as a result of the sadistic abuse.

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London Protest Over West Bengal Massacre

02-04-2007 13:20

At 4.00pm-5.30pm on Monday April 2, environmental campaigners, anti-capitalists and South Asian activists in Britain will be picketing outside the Indian High Commission in London in protest at the massacre of peasant farmers in West Bengal by state forces earlier this month.

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The Great Global Warming Swindle's GIANT Fallacy

02-04-2007 12:35

The documentary is now available free on Youtube:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XttV2C6B8pU

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FOI restrictions - More time to oppose restrictions

02-04-2007 12:18

The Government has announced an extension to the consultation period on proposed restrictions to the FOI Act