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Hiroshima Day in Wrexham

07-08-2007 18:12

Banner by the roadside
Wrexham Women for Peace yesterday marked the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by holding a remembrance ceremony and picnic for peace.

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Giuliani’s Neocons

07-08-2007 17:35

Be the next president Clinton or Giuliani, and it will likely be the former, foreign policy will remain virtually the same, no doubt with a few stylistic differences.

The “left,” headed up by the decider gal Hillary Clinton, will pick up the neocon baton and go after Iran, as planned.

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Blackmetal-Concert with extreme right band in London

07-08-2007 17:31

In September the extreme right finnish black metal band "Horna" shall play in "The Fridge", London.

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There is NO Asylum 'Amnesty'

07-08-2007 16:44

Despite what NCADC regards as misleading articles in the media (none of it sourced; none of it correct) and rumors on the streets, there is definitely no new 'amnesty'.

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Climate camp stall in Bath + launch of new radical newsheet

07-08-2007 16:35

Today, seven activists from Bath Activist Network set up shop in the middle of Bath to raise awareness and encourage people to attend the upcoming. Climate Camp

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China Detains 6 for Tibet protest at Great Wall

07-08-2007 16:14

The Banner (sorry for poor quality, its very hard to get photos out of china)
Six Tibet independence activists from the UK, US, and Canada were detained today after rappelling from the top of the Great Wall of China with a 450-square foot protest banner reading “One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008”

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Free Tibet Protest Marks Beijing Countdown at the Great Wall

07-08-2007 15:58

The banner at the Great Wall of China
Six activists have unfurled a massive banner at the Great Wall of China on the eve of the one year countdown to the Beijing Olympics. The protest takes place as IOC President Jacques Rogge is in Beijing meeting Chinese officials. The six activists have been detained by Chinese authorities.

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Four Internationals arrested and detained in Oaxaca for watching a video

07-08-2007 15:14

Four internationals were arrested on the evening of the election, 5 August, by Federal Police for the crime of watching a video of last year's riots on a television screen set up in the in Zocalo.

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Do NOT believe the spin of 'First Solution' being retailed this wseek

07-08-2007 11:55

THE “ACTION COMMITTEE TO GET THE PEOPLE THEIR MONEY BACK” ON "FIRST SOLUTION" - CAMPAIGN UPDATE 1100 GMT 7.8.2007


UK Bangladeshis whose money has been stolen or misappropriated via 'First Solution' have been being given the run around via all manner of diversionary engagements.

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GOOD NEWS - Britain seeks release of British residents in Guantanamo!!!

07-08-2007 09:52

Britain to seek release of British residents in Guantanamo after 5 1/2 years!!

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If you see something, say something

07-08-2007 00:50

Catchy, isn’t it? It’s the theme line of the New York City, Metropolitan Transit Authority’s advertising campaign that has run from 2002 through 2007. It’s a call to keep our eyes open for “terrorists” and to be the eyes of the law wherever we are, as if there weren’t enough eyes and cameras already.

The slogan runs on bus panels and posters in subway cars. It often shows an abandoned black bag looking ominously at you with the theme line above it. Sometimes there’s a robot on wheels about to snatch the case for detonation. Ah well, fellas, I do see something here, and I’d like to say something.

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Anti-Deportation March

06-08-2007 22:56

Come and join the march against deportations

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Post election day in Oaxaca

06-08-2007 21:42

Monday 6 August 2007: The election is over and the result found Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) back in power, but only through a coalition with la Alianza con el Verde Ecologista. But those who refused to vote across Oaxaca were nearly 80 percent.

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Dispatch - new workers' bulletin on the public pay dispute - distro help request

06-08-2007 21:06

We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers.

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Help Misbah and her children

06-08-2007 20:21

Misbah is my downstairs neighbour, she is now stuck in Tinsley Detention Centre and they are threatening to deport her to Pakistan on Wednesday. She and her children are terrified of being sent back. I am very, very worried about her, as is my son who goes to school with Sharhoiz. Please help her.

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Help needed to distribute public sector workers pay struggles bulletin

06-08-2007 18:43

We are a group of workers mostly in the public sector, who met via the libcom.org website who are putting together a bulletin called Dispatch - Public sector pay dispute—information for action. An ad hoc newsletter for the ongoing struggles, mainly in the post office at present, against sub-inflation pay offers. We need your help getting it out to postal workers.

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Another cover-up of the police killing of Jean Charles de Menezes

06-08-2007 14:44

The second report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission on the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes is yet another sordid episode in the cover-up of the brutal state execution of an innocent man.

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Critical Mass - Glossop - Fri 14th Sept 2007

06-08-2007 14:18

We're staging a Critical Mass bike ride on 14th September 2007, to celebrate Car Free Day and to demonstrate that bikes and people should be catered for on our roads, not just cars and traffic.

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War on Terror - Solidarity against poverty needed

06-08-2007 14:16

It is a slide show broadcast then banned by the US government, depicting graphically the horrors of HIV/AIDs, poverty, homelessness etc. While the twin towers were hit and the US pushes the "War on terror",it reminds us of the many more people who have been killed or affected by poverty, HIV/AIDS, homelessness etc and reminds us that solidarity with these p0eple is vital.

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Protest in support of Starbucks workers, 18 August

06-08-2007 13:38

Starbucks in an anti-union company that exploits its coffee shop workers as well as the people who grow the coffee beans it uses. That's why on Saturday 18 August, No Sweat and the Industrial Workers of the World union will be holding a national day of action to expose Starbucks' abuses and support Starbucks workers fight to get organised.