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Nottingham City Council Postpones Victoria Pool Closure

20-03-2008 22:30

Nottingham City Council had signaled it was ready to close the Victoria pool at the Easter. But A strong campaign and local opposition meant it diluted those plans and backed down [just a bit] at a meeting today. On Tuesday the campaign says they have achieved their first aim - delaying any closure while other options are looked at.

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Join the Nano-Bio-Virtual-Sit-In Against War Profiteers!

20-03-2008 22:19

//please forward and help grow the SWARM!///

Join the action and learn more at  http://bang.calit2.net/5yearsofwar/

We are extending the action to coincide with calls to "On M20 Shut it
Down" from Unconventional Action Chicago and March on M21 from SDS.

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Demo @ Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage shop

20-03-2008 22:07

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall outside his River Cottage shop
Please join Animal Aid on Wednesday 26th March at 12 noon (for a couple of hours) outside Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s River Cottage shop, to tell the celebrity chef and his customers that if they genuinely care about chickens and other farmed animals, they would go veggie.

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contact details update.

20-03-2008 19:44

As many of you know there is an attempt to build the world's larghets ever, highest level virus containment facility ans animal testing lab on a Camden council estate. {Somers town}

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Two-day DWP strike ends

20-03-2008 19:18

Thousands of Job Centre and benefit office staff carried out a 48-hour strike this week against a new three-year pay deal.

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'Blok R' Mass Action in Copenhagen, April 3rd

20-03-2008 19:11

Blok R - one of the posters
Blok R is intended to increase the pressure on Copenhagen City Council to come up with a new Youth House (one year after the brutal eviction of Ungdomshuset). Various houses have been proposed by the Council but negotiations have become drawn out. Blok R happens on 3rd April, afterwhich all participating groups have agreed to quit negotiations and take the battle to the streets for as long as it takes.

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Guillain Barre Syndrome

20-03-2008 17:53

Alert On Canadian MD's

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Belgium Calling: Solidarity for Julian, Dhuratha and Matéo

20-03-2008 17:51

Once again we are appealing for international solidarity. This time, it is to secure the release of Julian, Dhuratha and three and a half year old Matéo Illiu from the nightmare they have been living, since the 30th October last year, in a detention centre in Steenokkerzeel in Belgium.

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ALF raids fur farm in Ireland, again

20-03-2008 17:41

ALF raid which saw 1,000 mink released in 2003
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) has released 500 mink from their cages at a fur farm in Vic޲޲ar޲s޲t޲ow޲޲n, spray-painting gra޲ffi޲ti aro޲und޲ the޲ bui޲ldi޲ngs޲. The farm was first raided in February 2003, when 1,000 mink were released, making the action the first recorded fur farm raid in Ireland. This would be the second...

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Direct Action; UK, Mexico & Germany

20-03-2008 16:39

"COSMETICS = ANIMAL TORTURE!"
18th & 19th March

ABATTOIR ATTACKED (UK)
COSMETICS STORE, BUTCHER SHOPS PAINTED (Mexico)
WINDOWS ETCHED AT BERLIN FUR SHOP (Germany)

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Democrat’s New Spy Bill – Lulling Americans Into False Sense of Security

20-03-2008 16:39

The war on terror and the war on freedom are nonpartisan issues. Both Democrats and Republicans alike have consistently voted for legislation that, through the illusion of protecting our families and our homeland, have actually removed critical components of the U.S. Constitution. Will the Democrat’s new FISA Spy Bill be any different?

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Friends of Mohammed Isahq Ibrahimi

20-03-2008 16:31

He is currently detained in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday, 25th March at 20.30hr by Hamburg International Airlines 'Ethnic Charter Flight' PVT008 to Baku for onward transit on flight PVT085 to Kabul.

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First offenders of new anti-terror law admonished for peace protest

20-03-2008 16:06

Faslane anti-nuclear peace activists charged with offences under SOCPA discover that the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act is not so serious after all.

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Houseless on a Hillside

20-03-2008 15:45

House demolitions, near Yatta village south of Hebron in the West bank on the 19th march 2008.

The Christian Peacemaker Teams, a human rights action group based in the area telephoned the office of IMEMC (the International Middle East media Centre) in Beit Sahour near Bethlehem.

“Three houses belonging to Palestinian villagers are being destroyed by the Israeli army with bull dozers”

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Palestine Today 032008

20-03-2008 15:43

Audio

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday March 20th, 2008.

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Climate Camp Victory over Evening Standard

20-03-2008 15:40

The Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint by the Camp for Climate Action, that the Evening Standards coverage of the Heathrow protests was inaccurate because it was fabricated.

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Cancer victim deported to Ghana dies

20-03-2008 15:18

Ama Sumani, the Ghanaian woman who was deported despite undergoing treatment for terminal cancer, has died, friends said last night. The 39-year-old mother of two died on Wednesday afternoon in Korle Bu Hospital in Accra, Ghana. Friends had told her recently that £70,000 had been raised to get her the treatment and drugs that she so desperately needed.

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Friends of Mohammed Isahq Ibrahimi

20-03-2008 14:58

He is currently detained in Harmondsworth Immigration Removal Centre and is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Tuesday, 25th March at 20.30hr by Hamburg International Airlines 'Ethnic Charter Flight' PVT008 to Baku for onward transit on flight PVT085 to Kabul.

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Iraq War: 5 years (by Latuff)

20-03-2008 13:48

Iraq War: 5 years (1)
Copyleft artworks by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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MOVE Members Up Before The Parole Board

20-03-2008 13:14

MOVE is an organization formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia, in 1972 by John Africa. MOVE was described by CNN as "a loose-knit, mostly black group whose members all adopted the surname Africa, advocated a 'back-to-nature' lifestyle and preached against technology."