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Attack Struck at Heart of Israeli Hard-line West Bank Settlers' Movement

07-03-2008 09:07

The Palestinian attack today on Jewish yeshiva (rabbinical seminary) in Jerusalem struck at the heart of Israel's hard-line religious West Bank settler's movement.

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Monday March 10th. 7pm *Screening of Anti-War Doc "Route Irish" HousmansBookshop

07-03-2008 08:58

"ROUTE IRISH" is a 90 minute essay film on the campaign(s) against Irish
facilitation of the US/UK invasion of Iraq.
"An excellent documentary. It deals very very well with the frustrations of a peace movement. It tackles some complex matters which aren't usually discussed or even thought about." -Alex Cox, Director of Repo Man

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Guantánamo “Fair Trial” posters censored by shopping centre in Reading

07-03-2008 08:32

One of the “distasteful, offensive or political” posters that upset the Oracle.
Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on an act of political censorship against a promotion aimed at fair trials for Guantánamo prisoners in a Lush store in a shopping centre in Reading.

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Guatemala: hiperdam threatens living space of guatemaltecos

07-03-2008 06:49

Worldwide, already around 80 million people have been displaced from their living space by dams.
The hydroelectric installation “Xalalá” in the state Quiché in Guatemala is one of the next large projects that will be realized within the Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) and will have negative impacts on around 6000-8000 people.

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South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war

07-03-2008 02:26

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.

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Protest at Total sponsoring French Film Festival

07-03-2008 01:43

French Film Director shocked at Total sponsorship of French Film Festival
Eight protesters demonstrated on Tuesday March 4th at the French Film Festival at London Cine Lumiere 17 Queensberry Place London. The protest was against Total sponsorship as the largest western sponsor of the brutal Burma military junta, not against the festival or the French films being shown. "Priceless" was the first film being shown and its amiable director Pierre Salvadori was shocked to learn that Total was sponsoring the festival.

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Stop The Camden Atrocity Laboratory Potential Tragedy In The Making....

07-03-2008 00:21

Oppose planning permission for The Camden Virus Containment Facility / Animal Testing LAb by writing to Mike Greene : Mr Mike Greene, London Borough of Camden Old Town Hall Judd Street London WV1H 9JE. No-one wants thgis troublesome lab to affect them on their on their own doorsteps.....a council estate is no palce for a high security lab. {It will be used for animal torture unless stopped!!}

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White working class? Is that investigative journalism?

06-03-2008 21:41

Most local and national journalism defaults to notions of an underclass of 'losers' without any analysis of how these 'losers' have been structurally excluded. The recent discovery of 'working class' and 'white' as a disadvantaged group is for purely cynical and sensationalist reasons.

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The Politics of Non-Proliferation

06-03-2008 21:07

If there was a time when Iranian analysts and decision makers would question the benefits of continuing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, it would be now. The IAEA has allowed systematic US intervention in Iran's nuclear file paving the way to a third round of sanctions. But while US pressure on Iran with the knowledge that no evidence of a covert weapons programme exists, is perhaps in the hope that it will finally force Iran to leave the NPT in protest, Iran seems to be one step ahead and does exactly the opposite.

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Sign online petition / join campaign.

06-03-2008 20:45

The MRC intend to build a dangerous virus containment facility and animal testing lab on a Camden council estate {Somers Town} - please help us stop this. This will ruin the community forever, creating adangerous environment patrolled by armed police and saturated with members of the security services - MI5/6. The arae will be at risk of attack and virus leaks. {Camden New Journal}

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UCL students expel the military from their campus

06-03-2008 20:27

University College London's students' union, UCL Union, voted to ban the officer training corps, territorial army and all other military recruiters from its premises and events, in what was its best attended general meeting in years, denying the military access to new recruits.

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Paddy's Day Of Action Against Shell

06-03-2008 18:44

This year´s St Patrick´s day, Monday 17th March, has been called as an International day of action against shell, in solidarity with the people of Rossport, County Mayo, Ireland.

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Voice from Gaza

06-03-2008 18:36

As the threat of all out war hangs over the Gaza strip and an Israeli Minister threatens a holocaust against the people living there, we publish interviews with people in the Gaza strip, conducted by journalists and political activists from the Bells of Return website, which campaigns for a secular one state solution for Palestine

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Instant Muscle 'workfare' Job Centre contractor goes bust

06-03-2008 16:34

Training provider Instant Muscle went into administration last week, leaving staff unpaid for February and unemployed trainees turned away from the doorsteps of their training centres. Staff were given termination letters as they arrived at work on the 27th.

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Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

06-03-2008 16:11

Press release
06/03/2008

Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

For more info contact Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh:

tel 07875708873 or email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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GOOD NEWS:Spanish drop extradition requests for Jamil El Banna and Omar Deghayes

06-03-2008 15:32

Omar Deghayes and Jamil El-Banna,along with Abdel Nour Sameur, returned to the UK from Guantánamo Bay in December 2007. Deghayes and El-Banna were promptly arrested under a European arrest warrant...

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UCL Union votes overwhelmingly to twin UCL with Palestinian universities

06-03-2008 14:48

On Thursday 5th March, The University College London Students’ Union (UCLU) voted overwhelmingly to twin UCL Union with the Unions of Al-Quds and Al-Azhar Secular Secular Universities in the West Bank and Gaza respectively with immediate effect.

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Palestine Today 030608

06-03-2008 14:35

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday March 6th, 2008.

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Saddiq Family belong to Leeds, urgent support needed.

06-03-2008 14:24

On Tuesday 26th February Border and Immigration Officials broke down the Saddiq family's front door in a dawn raid in Harehills, Leeds. They were given 20 minutes to pack up their belongings and then taken to Yarlswood removal centre in Bedford. They have been given a removal order for March 7th.

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Cycling 17,000km to Australia from Oxford

06-03-2008 13:37

Bike 2 Oz is an online video series about the young couple who successfully cycled the 17,000Km from Oxford (UK) to Sydney (Australia).