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Animal Liberation Direct Action Reports

27-12-2007 23:02

Pet shop in Romania painted
A quick update from the last few days (27th-25th); the first recorded ALF treatment in Romania, actions in Mexico (FLAM), USA, Austria, France (ALF Bordeaux) & Germany.

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Calais at Christmas,

27-12-2007 22:47

Christmas is a time for giving but not it seems in Calais. Where refugees lives continue to be a living hell.. The following is the first of a couple of reports, and thoughts about how we might build solidarity for some of the most serious and vulnerable ,yet resourceful and intelligent victims of war,globalisation more war and the war on terror.They have one final hurdle to surmount; British /French collabarative immigration policies which are destroying their basic refugee protection.

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US prepares to increase occupation forces in Afghanistan

27-12-2007 21:09

The Bush administration is preparing to significantly increase US troop levels in Afghanistan in an attempt to quell growing popular hostility to the US and NATO occupying forces. It is doing so with full confidence that it will face no significant opposition from the Democratic-controlled Congress.

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Assemble January 12th for Freedom of Assembly!

27-12-2007 19:11

Where: top of Trafalgar Square
When: January 12th 2008, 1pm

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Arctic melt

27-12-2007 16:48

Pole
Nordic countries alarmed by Arctic melt

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Palestine Today 122707

27-12-2007 16:00

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 28th, 2007.

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London Mayor 2008

27-12-2007 13:18

Brian Haw the peace campaigner is standing for London Mayor 2008

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Asylum Airways

27-12-2007 13:10

Specially adapted planes with restraints & padded rooms for transporting failed (?!) asylum seekers to foreign countries and security forces?
anyone?

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Blair's misguided economic optimism

27-12-2007 12:48

The wall in Bethlehem
The Quartet's Middle East envoy, Tony Blair, wanted to raise $5.6 billion US at the donor conference in Paris in December 2007. Since 1999 the per capita gross domestic product in occupied Palestine has declined by 40 percent. As a result Palestinians are getting poorer and 65 percent live below the poverty line.

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Scam training course for the unemployed

27-12-2007 12:21

Scam training courses that do nothing for the unemployed, have become a lucrative gravy train for the private companies that run them.

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Stop Stealing Our Forests: Plant an Illegal Tree

27-12-2007 12:15

The last couple of weeks, FONT COLOR Milieudefensie planted illegal trees in Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels. These actions illustrate the absurd situation that planting trees is illegal while the European trade in illegal timber stays unpunished.

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Jean Pierre Gueutchue Must Stay

27-12-2007 09:27

Jean Pierre Gueutchue
Currently detained in Dover IRC, is facing forced removal to Cameroon, on British Airways Flight BA302 leaving Heathrow at 06.20 on Monday 31st December 2007 to Charles De Gaulle airport France for onward transit to Douala/Cameroon.

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Iraq: Struggle goes on! (by Latuff)

27-12-2007 07:26

Iraq: Struggle goes on!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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radiozapote collective is being threatened with removal from our space

27-12-2007 03:46

propitiated by the decision to impose a new director on the National
School of Anthropolgy and History (ENAH), one who has interests in
common with Alfonso de María y Campos, Director of the National
Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

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York & Ainsty South Hunt Sabbed - Hunt Slash Tires Following Sab Success

27-12-2007 00:19

SABOTEURS FROM THE YORK HUNT SABS GROUP TODAY MONITORED THE YORK AND AINSTY SOUTH HUNT, SAVING LIVES AND CONFRONTING THEIR ILLEGAL ACTIONS

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rampART losses in court

26-12-2007 23:19

If you’ve been wondering what happened in court on the 20th… rampART lost. No great surprise but it had been felt that there was a good enough defense to have had a shot and at least come away with a adjournment till the new year.

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Police State America - A Look Back and Ahead

26-12-2007 20:27

It's been that way ever since 9/11 with both sides of the aisle complicit with the administration. This article looks back at the record, and year end is a good time to review it. It's hard imagining another as bad with a President defiling the law and once telling Republican colleagues the Constitution is "just a goddamned piece of paper."

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Message from Ramón Labañino, Cuban Five.

26-12-2007 16:14

Ramón is in lockdown since December 11 and for that reason he has not been able to send all the letters and salutations for the new year to his friends around the world...

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Palestine Today 122607

26-12-2007 16:06

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 20th, 2007.

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Lakota Withdrawal Letter, December 17, 2007

26-12-2007 15:17

Lakotah, formally and unilaterally withdraws from all agreements and treaties imposed by the United States Government on the Lakotah People.

Lakotah, and the population therein, have waited for at least 155 years for the United States of America to adhere to the provisions of the above referenced treaties. The continuing violations of these treaties’ terms have resulted in the near annihilation of our people physically, spiritually, and culturally.