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Northern Rock: Government attempts to stem banking crisis

20-09-2007 11:13

The Labour government’s pledge to guarantee savings at the Northern Rock building society has been forced on it by a massive public display of no-confidence in Britain’s banking sector.

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No War, No Warming, Rise Up!

20-09-2007 10:13

For months a movement has been developing that consciously and intentionally links the related issues of the war in Iraq/oil wars and the heating up of the earth that is disrupting the world’s climate. On Monday morning, October 22, in Washington , DC on Capitol Hill and elsewhere around the country, that movement will become visible as large numbers of people engage in nonviolent direct action to disrupt business as usual. We will be calling for an end to this criminal war and strong action to slow, stop and reverse global warming (  http://www.nowarnowarming.org/ ).

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“Ignominious” British in Basra

20-09-2007 10:10

The British government promoted its occupation of Basra as an exercise more sophisticated and intelligent than that conducted by its ally the US in Iraq. From the moment the British hunkered down in Basra after the March 2003 invasion of Iraq it seemed the British government and much of the mainstream media never missed a chance to boast of the softly-softly, ‘hearts and minds’ approach of its occupation. We were assured that this had everything to do with the experience it had gained in previous British military exploits, particularly in Northern Ireland, while the US were still learning lessons from their historic defeat in Vietnam. This projection of the fair-playing Brits was repeated ad naseum until a string of dramatic events took place in front of the world’s media which put an end to this myth making. Events such as prisoner and detainee abuse by British soldiers, and SAS special forces undercover operations apparently designed to foment civil strife, exposed the British army as no different to any other hostile military occupier. Everyone outside the Ministry of Defence and Cabinet agrees that the British ‘deployment’ from Basra Palace to the airport eleven kilometres out of the city is a defeat.

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C.U.T.S ( Communal Use Textile Studio), Liverpool.

20-09-2007 09:55

A Newly-opened community resource for creative textile recycling in Central Liverpool, with sewing studio and screen-printing facilities. Details of up-coming workshops for October and November 2007.

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Israel's Agenda For Ethnic Cleansing and Transfer

20-09-2007 09:04

The stage for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians has been set in the Occupied Territories, and ethnic cleansing is in progress. At present, this is the major project of the state of Israel. For an impartial person of medium intelligence, a tour of the Occupied Territories may be sufficient to understand this fact.

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Zeitgeist the Movie

20-09-2007 08:58

What does Christianity, 911 and The Federal Reserve have in common?

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Palestine: The Trademark of Resistance (by Latuff)

20-09-2007 07:56

Palestine: The Trademark of Resistance 1
Copyleft artworks by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's state terrorism.

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Zimbabwe: Why Africa finds it hard to support MDC/ and Ghana supports Mugabe

20-09-2007 06:15

Weve seen a lot of media driven hysterical attacks on Zimbabwe, its govt and its people by white europeans, even those on the left who should know better than to be led by the mass media. So lets see how real africans feel

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STILLMANS EXPOSED! Ponies abandoned for slaughter

20-09-2007 02:56

Production-line death: Potter’s abattoir: Picture by Animal Aid
Animal Aid exposes Stillmans Horse Slaughter House in Staplegrove, Taunton, Somerset.

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Neo-Fascist Plot Against Iran Meets Resistance

20-09-2007 02:03

You have to wonder what pressure the media has come under, to produce such deceptive spin.

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UN Condemns Israel's Escalation of Gaza Crisis

20-09-2007 02:00

Since this is a crisis caused by Israeli and American covert operations in collaboration with corrupt elements of Fatah, it stands to reason that this was the plan all along.

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Liverpool IMC Info Night

20-09-2007 00:19

Another night at Next To Nowhere, and another triumph! There's a great buzz about the place, and everything's really exciting! Who knew activism was meant to be like this?

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Setting up the Gatwick No Border Camp

20-09-2007 00:16

the outside gate
About 40 or so people arrived at the new site on Sunday afternoon to start set up. Time was of the essence: since the previous site had fallen through following police harassment of the landowner, the organisers wished to establish their presence as soon as possible and to set up the big structures. The structures had been collected from various other collectives around the country, many of which have been used for other camps. Soon the camp began to look rather familiar to the more seasoned camper!

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Pix from the No Border Camp

19-09-2007 23:56

Some quick pictures from the No Border Camp today.

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Impressions from the NoBorder camp

19-09-2007 23:41

"The best organised camp I have ever seen", said one.

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Return Beatrice to Liverpool

19-09-2007 22:32

Beatrice campaigning in Liverpool
Beatrice who was living in Liverpool was 'removed' to Cameroon on 28th August after being held in Yarls Wood detention camp for many weeks. Beatrice resisted being forced onto the plane but she has told us that she was very badly beaten and kicked by her two 'escorts'. Her condition was so bad that the Cameroonian authorities refused to acccept someone who was in such a bad state into their country and put her on a plane the same night on a flight back to the UK. She remains in Yarls Wood and has had her mobile taken from her and she is very unhappy with her legal representatives.

Leafleting at St Lukes at the top of Bold Street on Saturday 22nd September 1.30 - 2.30 for Beatrice and others, as sadly Beatrice's case is not exceptional, many others suffer from these racist immigration controls.

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Time for Navy to Ship Out of Illegally Occupied Hawaii

19-09-2007 21:56

It is time for the U.S. Navy to close its Hawaii Range Complex, pack its bags, and ship out of the illegally occupied nation of Hawaii.

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Allotment Holders Sowing the Seed of Resistance in Reading

19-09-2007 21:28

On Monday 17th September 07 Cow Lane allotment holders began their first action against plans to bulldoze the site to make way for a new road as part of the Reading station upgrade.

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BALOCHISTAN - ICJ - Articulating the case and educating the West

19-09-2007 20:30

"...question is whether or not the ICJ can give fair hearing to Balochistan, a tribal province without clear sovereign status, now that Pakistan has become a nation of international standing. Which is why it is imperative that such a move is backed in the press. The alternative, if an appeal to the ICJ fails, is likely to be armed struggle."

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Deliberate Lies, Strange Deaths and Agression to the World Economy

19-09-2007 20:15

Fidel Castro denounced that the United States government is using unimaginable economic means to defend a right that violates the sovereignty of all the other countries.