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G8: Schwerin, Caterpillar and Snatch squads

14-06-2007 22:49

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What follows are 3 videos from last weeks mobilisation against the G8 in Germany:

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Palestine-Israel: One-state solution "gaining ground" UN envoy admits

14-06-2007 22:25

The one-state solution for Palestine-Israel is "gaining ground," a senior UN diplomat has admitted in a leaked confidential report. Recently retired UN special envoy Alvaro de Soto wrote "that the combination of [Palestinian Authority] institutional decline and Israeli settlement expansion is creating a growing conviction among Palestinians and Israeli Arabs, as well as some Jews on the far left in Israel that the two State solutiuon's best days are behind it."

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Award winning film duo join forces over climate change

14-06-2007 20:59

2 welsh women turn their lens towards the environment.

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Pictures from StWC Palestine Demo.

14-06-2007 19:59

On The Steps #1
A belatedly filed picture report from last Saturday's Stop The War Palestine Demonstration in Central London.
These images shot on good old fashioned film (hence the lateness) - digital pictures to follow soon.

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Exposing the Crossrail hole plot-backing Alan Johnson's Brick Lane prance!

14-06-2007 16:51

In Brick Lane yesterday [Wednesday 13 June 2007] Khoodeelaar! the campaign against Crossrail hole Bill greeted UK Education Secretary Alan Johnson with a demand that he renounce his voting for Crossrail Bill. Johnson was in the Brick Lane 'curry district' touting for votes from ethnicity-linked members of the Blaired Party in Johnson’s bid to become deputy dummy. Khoodeelaar! loudly told the world that Johnson was a hypocrite for visiting Brick Lane the very area that he had repeatedly voted to have devastated by Crossrail hole

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SOCPA - The Movie

14-06-2007 16:38

this new one-hour documentary will be screened as part of the "Docdays" event at the renoir cinema this sunday at noon, followed by a panel discussion with the film maker 'indymedia rikki', brian haw, maya evans, emma sangster, and journalist marc valée

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Cambridge Students Act to Break the Chains of Modern Slavery in the UK

14-06-2007 16:15

Great St Mary’s to be wrapped in a huge paper chain petition: Mon 18th June in protest against people trafficking and slavery in the UK.

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Reviewing Noam Chomsky's New Book: Interventions

14-06-2007 14:24

In-depth review of Noam Chomsky's new book.

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Conditions worsen at UK asylum-seeker detention centres

14-06-2007 14:09

Britain’s Immigration Removal Centres have become notorious due to the desperate conditions facing immigrants and asylum-seekers detained there.

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German police raid eleven premises on suspicion of “terrorism”

14-06-2007 14:06

Only days after the end of the G8 summit, German police conducted new raids against left-wing and anarchist organisations in northern Germany. Early on Wednesday morning the federal prosecutor’s office and police carried out surprise searches of a total of 11 premises in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein.

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Mesud Barzani is liable for destabilising both Iraq and Turkey.

14-06-2007 13:21

The consequence of American invasion to Iraq in April 2003 and its limitless support to the Kurdish allies in Iraq had caused numerous damages to Iraqi internal affairs and a real chaos to the neighbourhoods. Recently the sovereignty of Turkey is violated by the separatist Kurdistan Workers’ communist party rebels (PKK) following Mesud Barzani, the leader of KDP’s latest threats to Turkey.

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Homo Oeconomicus and Economic Theories

14-06-2007 12:36

The neoclassical theory dominant today is different from the Keynesian theory that defined the decades after the 2nd World War. "Bad ideas flourish because they are in the interest of powerful groups." (Paul Krugman) In the 1990s the socially engaged demystified the homo oeconomicus in the framework of social liberalism.

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Disarm DSEi Public Meeting @ ULU London 30th June

14-06-2007 10:19

Disarm DSEi Public Meeting Saturday 30th June, 2pm-4pm
Room 2C, University of London Union, Malet Street, WC1E 7HY

Tube : Euston, Euston Sq., Warren St., Goodge St. or Russell Sq.
Bus : 10, 18, 24, 29 , 30, 59 , 68, 73, 91, 134, 168, 188, 205, 253, 390 or 476

It is likely there will be police photographers outside the meeting, don't be intimidated. You might choose to wear a scarf in this warm weather.

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Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL]: A Video

14-06-2007 10:13

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Nottingham Against Incineration and Landfill [NAIL]

This video shows it is a national issue, affecting many people and their communities.

There has been a large campaign, with much support over recent times. A planning application to extend the operation of the Eastcroft Incinerator in Nottingham was denied. WRG, the operators of the plant, appealed. This process has now been stopped and a new application has been lodged.

Now, folks have to go round again.

The film explains the background and dangers.

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Australia: Pine Gap Trial/Closing Speeches

14-06-2007 04:40

Pine Gap is an NSA/CIA Base
We are all feeling good, and tonight we are holding a "mock trial", to get evidence from the expert witness on Pine Gap we were not allowed to question in the trial, Professor Richard Tanter from Royal Melbourne Institue of Technology, who came all the way to Alice Springs for the trial.

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Southwark council banning dogs!!1

13-06-2007 23:29

On 19 June at a meeting in Peckham Town Hall at 7pm Southwark Council will try an introduce a rulling that all dogs be kept on leads in public places including parks.

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The Siege of Baghdad

13-06-2007 22:40

It’s funny, in a sad sick almost perverse sort of way, but it seems the only people who listen to George Bush and take him seriously anymore is the insurgency. Several months after his royal hind ass made his now famous “bring em on” statement the insurgency issued their own proclamation saying in affect, we have brought it on do you have anything else you wish to say to us?

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Of Crazies, Neocons and the Enemy Within

13-06-2007 22:26

Beginnings

An all too familiar and ominous echo is reverberating through the American landscape, once more blasted into the airwaves, and our minds, through the Ministry of Propaganda and its merry bunch of sycophants and stenographers. For yet another consecutive year since three monolithic towers were demolished, imploded and systemically brought down onto their own footprints in a catalyzing event unleashing a new American century, Americans are hearing the fiery rhetoric of imminent danger, a cocktail of fear, terror and warmongering fed our enemy-addicted culture, aimed both at stirring conflict with Iran and conditioning our minds into accepting the coming attack on yet another Muslim nation that poses no threat to the mighty Empire.

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Tony Blair to visit Kirkby Thurs 14 July

13-06-2007 20:50

Tony Blair to visit Kirkby college.

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Reflections on Rostock

13-06-2007 20:36

Rostock showed us the system is rotten, the planet is ailing, neo-liberalism is struggling to survive, alternatives have taken a toehold in Latin America but still have to metamorphose from the pages of philosophers into real life elsewhere.