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next Disarm DSEi Public Meeting @ rampART London 28th July

23-07-2007 10:51

Disarm DSEi Public Meeting Saturday 28th July, 2pm-4pm
rampART centre, 15 Rampart Street, London E1 2LA
 http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=534642&Y=181247&A=Y&Z=1

Tube : Whitechapel, Shadwell, Aldgate, Aldgate East, Tower Gateway
Bus : 15, 115, D3, 100

There will probably be police photographers outside the meeting, don't be intimidated. You might choose to wear a scarf in this unpredictable weather.

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Volvo: Evading corporate responsibility

23-07-2007 07:07

Volvo and Caterpillar equipment demolish Palestinian homes in the West Bank
The Business & Human Rights Resource Centre in London published on its website a link to my article "Volvo: Symbol of safety or human rights abuses?," and asked the company to respond. Mr. M. Wikforss, Vice President of Media Relations & Corporate News of Volvo Group wrote a letter in response, which is also published on the Resource Centre's website. In this article I react to Volvo's arguments.

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Mandar Obedeciende...

23-07-2007 01:40

Only the most malevolent of people can fully ignore in themselves empathy for their fellow man. Even when clouded by war and prejudice, poverty and religion, the massive majority of us, deep down, know right from wrong at the base level. Why then does conflict like the one described below continue? Not for freedom's sake, that's for sure...

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Neocons Set Stage for Pakistan Attack

22-07-2007 23:28

Like a Frankenstein monster that escapes the castle and preys on innocent villagers, “militants” of the Islamic Emirate of Waziristan, itself a creation of the doctor Frankenstein relationship between Pakistan’s ISI and the CIA, are out of control, thus prompting the U.S. to threaten invasion.

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FIT hunting NoBorders activists at rampART

22-07-2007 22:50

FIT outside rampART
A Forward Intelligence Team was, again, waiting outside the rampATR social centre in London today as NoBorders activists arrived for a meeting about the Gatwick No Border Camp in September. As usual, they were photographing and writing down the descriptions of everyone coming in for over an hour. Yet, they were so shy of being photographed themselves!

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SOCPA - update on 'the brown stuff'

22-07-2007 22:16

update on SOCPA - the brown stuff (previous article on indymedia).
more metropolitan police harassmant of a single peaceful lone demonstrator.
having successfully persuaded mark thomas to stop his mass lone demos on the basis that brown is going to repeal the act, the police continue to intimidate known peaceful demonstrators.

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Liverpool C.W.U. March and Rally.

22-07-2007 17:07

Around 1,000 people turned up for a march and rally in central Liverpool this afternoon. The constant rain did not dampen the enthusiasm of the demonstrators and there was a good deal of support from the general public as the march passed close to the main shopping area.

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26hr WTC security breach 2 days before 9/11

22-07-2007 16:28

British IT engineer Scott Forbes was working in New York's World Trade Center in September 2001 and lost 89 of his work colleagues in the 9/11 attacks. This is a 25 minute mp3 interview with him for free dissemination... ..

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Agent Orange online petition

22-07-2007 13:30

Asking for support for the victims of Agent Orange the chemical used by US forces in Vietnam over a ten-year period from 1961-1971

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Framing the Russians

22-07-2007 13:17

Latest Anglo-Russian spat is all about targeting Putin
 http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11320

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Smash EDO Protesters in Court tomorrow

22-07-2007 12:23

Three anti arms trade protesters arrested at a blockade of EDO MBM at the time of the Israeli bombing of Lebanon last Summer are in Brighton Magistrates Court tomorrow

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Make life easy for the buggers...carry your own bug

22-07-2007 12:09

More on the surveillance state

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The Militarization and Annexation of North America: SSP Unmasked

22-07-2007 11:44

Besides the Bush administration's imperial aims and permanent war on the world, add the one at home below the radar. Its weapons include the WTO, NAFTA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, CIA, NSA, NORTHCOM, militarized state and local police, National Guard forces, paramilitary mercenaries like Blackwater USA, and all other repressive instruments of state power and control. They target the people of three nations slowly becoming one headquartered in Washington.

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Letter to the Philippine President on widespread violations of human, democratic

22-07-2007 11:25

The Alliance of Progressive Labor (APL) hereby raises to your office as Chief Executive of the land our concerns about the reports that at the International Labor Organization Conference Committee on Standards meeting held in Geneva, the Philippine representative rejected said committee's recommendation for the ILO to send a high-level mission to the Philippines to look into the case of involuntarily disappeared and murdered trade union activists and leaders.

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Truckloads of seismic data for nuclear waste dumping destroyed in Germany

22-07-2007 06:24

Anti-nuclear activists fighting waste dumping in north Germany claim to have information from inside the industry that “truckloads” of safety-relevant information have been destroyed.
The group opposes the ‘interim’ storage of highly radioactive waste in a light-construction hall and the later ‘final’ storage in a specially dug salt mine next door at the village of Gorleben, between Hanover and Hamburg.

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More Repression In Oaxaca

21-07-2007 16:54

The comrade is fine when arrested.
Brutal beating to activists by the fascist and criminal police. Comrade left in the brink of death.

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Links and Updates to Tara Campaign

21-07-2007 13:53


 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83495
 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83475

The 7 protestors facing Jail for , amongst other things :
Incitement. Assault. Holding up multi-billion roadway are accepting supports.
 http://www.savetara.com

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Bush Executive Order: Criminalizing the Antiwar Movement

21-07-2007 11:30

The Executive Order criminalizes the antiwar movement. It is intended to "blocking property" of US citizens and organizations actively involved in the peace movement. It allows the Department of Defense to interfere in financial affairs and instruct the Treasury to "block the property" and/or confiscate/ freeze the assets of "Certain Persons" involved in antiwar activities. It targets those "Certain Persons" in America, including civil society organizatioins, who oppose the Bush Administration's "peace and stability" program in Iraq, characterized, in plain English, by an illegal occupation and the continued killing of innocent civilians.

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The invisible government

21-07-2007 10:49

In a speech in Chicago, John Pilger describes how propaganda has become such a potent force in our lives and, in the words of one of its founders, represents 'an invisible government'.

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U.S. Calls For Release of Imprisoned Iranian-Americans

21-07-2007 10:00

It's nothing new for the Islamic regime in Iran to be condemned by the United States government. Yet there's something else about this July 17 press release from the U.S. State Department that stands out as being glaringly preposterous.