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Victory for Brighton bin wildcat

15-02-2008 14:16

After two days on wildcat strike, refuse workers at Brighton's Hollingdean Depot have won their fight against management bullying.

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Urgent! Ring Health Secretary Friday&Saturday To Save 600 National Bloodworkers

15-02-2008 14:15

Demo at health sec alan Johnsons surgery this evening 5.45pm to demonstrate against plans to axe 600 national blood centre lab workers & cut national blood centres to 3 centres. www.iww.org.uk.
Also demo at surgery tomorrow ring 07789362772 for details.
Or ring-email Alan Johnson Hull MP in london or Hull

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No G8 Japan Info-Tour

15-02-2008 14:04

Films Talk and Food with Japanese activists against G8 Japan 2008
When - Friday 22. February from 6:00pm until 8:00 pm

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Guantánamo Britons’ Spanish extradition request: an update

15-02-2008 13:47

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on the latest stage in the Spanish government’s attempts to extradite Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna, two of the three Britons freed from Guantánamo in December, on long-discredited charges.

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Scientology: what it is and why we fight it

15-02-2008 13:14

0. Prologue.

Tottenham Court Road, 10th February 2008. A busy London high street filled with shoppers. On one side of the road, the “Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Centre”. On the other, a crowd of people clad in V for Vendetta masks, dancing to Rick Astley and holding placards. Fair Game. Lisa McPherson. The Rehabilitation Project Force. What in the name of Xenu are they on about?

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LSE Union Demands Divestment from Israel

15-02-2008 12:50

LSE Students' Union General Meeting
The London School of Economics Students' Union (LSESU) yesterday voted overwhelmingly to call on its university and the National Union of Students (NUS) to divest from companies that provide military and commercial support for the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, condemning the decades of human rights abuses and systematic oppression that has occurred as a result.

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Position Paper - 15th February 2008: Digging Machinery operating at Lismullen

15-02-2008 12:41

According to reports on the 6th February 2008, there is digging machinery at the Lismullin
Henge as attempts are being made to bury this National Monument.

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We Are Change UK - Alastair Campbell

15-02-2008 12:34

Members of We Are Change UK attended the QPR vs Burnley football game on 12 February 2008 to protest against Alastair Campbell, who is a lifelong Burnley fan and was in the crowd.

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15.02.03 What was all that about then? The Rise & Demise of the Anti-War Movement

15-02-2008 11:34

Where to Now Then?

It's five years on since millions marched against the invasion of Iraq.

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Next East Anglian Social forum announced in Ipswich

15-02-2008 09:45

Ipswich is to be the next venue for the East Anglian Social forum, which will be taking place on Saturday, March 1st.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 15th February 2008

15-02-2008 08:42

Glasgow the Brave: People in Glasgow found the idea that refugees should be arrested and returned to a brutal regime, which they had bravely opposed, completely unacceptable and took to the streets to protest. Many of these protests helped to form Anti-Deportation campaigns, which were the inspiration for the wider defence of refugees, which has been mounted across Glasgow over the years often to considerable success.

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Where is my Private Life?

15-02-2008 08:28

Questioning what the law regards as "Private Life" to which we are supposedly entitled under the Human Rights Act

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The 2008 Elections and The Peace Movement

15-02-2008 06:39

In America even if the Democrats win, the progressive peace movement needs to continue to “bear witness” to the crimes that our government, the CIA, and the Pentagonians are committing in foreign lands against people that have never harmed or attacked America.

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Emergency action needed to stop deportation of Nigerian family Today

15-02-2008 02:23

Nigerian family living in Byker due to be deported with their last remaining child 12.50pm TODAY (Friday). Please send your messages of protest to the addresses below.

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Cuban Students Denounce Manipulation

14-02-2008 23:05

Students whose images were exploited by different foreign media to present them as a sign of rebellion against the Cuban government spoke during a video interview denouncing the manipulations that occurred and denying that they were arrested on Tuesday.

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The end of a sentence for me at CDG.

14-02-2008 22:25

this is a log of what happened at CDG for me

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Careers Development Group – Revelations

14-02-2008 22:14

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. This is EVERYTHING CDG does not want you to know and disregards as lies. Today I blow the lid on a pack of lies told by CDG itself.

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Interviews At UK Indymedia Network Meeting

14-02-2008 21:22

Audio
On Saturday and Sunday, Nottingham hosted a national gathering of the UK Indymedia network, bringing together around 40 people from as far afield as Scotland and Bristol.

A whole host of issues were discussed, such as the future of Indymedia, developments on the startpage and calendar, and aspects of moderating the site. A range of viewpoints on the role of Indymedia were expressed, and a number of proposals to take the project forward will be implemented as a result of the gathering.

Here are some interviews with participants at the gathering, from various other local Indymedia collectives..

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9/11: The New Evidence (Monday 18th February)

14-02-2008 19:26

London 9/11 Truth group presents: 9/11: The New Evidence. An evening
with Ian Henshall, author of the recently-published book of the same
title, and fellow-campaigners.

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BlokR Cancelled

14-02-2008 18:13

BlokR calls off the siege on Copenhagen's City Hall on February 21.