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Carbon Town Crier, Hands ON Iraqi oil and Corporate Pirates take on Shell...

17-05-2008 14:11

anti-occupation campaign Hands Off Iraqi Oil targets Shell AGM over oil grab and ongoing climate crimes. Corporate Pirates, cheekster Hands ON Iraqi oil types and Carbon Town Crier liven up the dead edifice that is both The Barbican Cedntre and Shell's stonewall on Iraq, climate change, Rossport, Nigeria, the Canadian tar sands and ... and ....

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Naomi Klein Fundraiser for Iraqi Oil Workers

17-05-2008 14:03


1. NAOMI KLEIN: FUNDRAISER FOR IRAQI OIL WORKERS (19 MAY)

7pm, Monday 19 May 2008

Friends House, 173 Euston Road, NW1 2BJ (tube: Euston).

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Dialect - Bank nationalisation & impact of the credit crunch on ordinary people

17-05-2008 11:48

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Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download here every Saturday. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733

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Foie Gras Off the Menu in Ilkley

17-05-2008 11:27

Ilkley Animal Rights held a demonstration outside Ramus, in the town centre, because of their sale of foie gras

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Knesset members: 'Bush more Zionist than Olmert'

17-05-2008 10:58

Following the US President's speech at the Israeli Knesset last Thursday, marking the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding, several right wing members of Knesset said that "Bush seems to be more Zionist than Olmert" and that "it is better to have Bush as a PM instead of Olmert". The Arabs48 news website reported that some of the Knesset members even said "Bush appears to be the one person who will achieve the Zionist aspirations"!!

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Shame on EU& Berlusconi,petition MEPs now!& support Italian migrant worker gypsi

17-05-2008 08:30

Shame on EU& Berlusconi,petition MEPs now!& support Italian migrant worker gypsies. Gypsies & travellers are easy to scapegoat despite being hardest working people Ive met & work almost 24/7. Most pay taxes far more than dodgy billionaires like Berlusconi. Boycott italian goods unless from cooperatives etc & petition your MEPs, good luck antifash in Italy.Will try to help you & go to International cooperative alliance meet in Rome at start of June if I get time from work, www.ica.coop

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Safeguard Zimbabwe's sovereignty, journalists urged by palestinian ambassador

17-05-2008 02:59

Yes, it seems there is a palestinian ambassador to Zimbabwe. And he has come out in defence of Zimbabwes sovereignty, shaming the left wing in europe

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British firm 'polishes up' Tsvangirai for presidency

17-05-2008 00:39

Once again we see foreigners ninterfering in the internal elections of a third world country. The.y dont dare allow the people elect a president who would be independent of foreign control.

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Sequani trial stitch up

16-05-2008 23:40

The vindictive state twists the knife.

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Justice for cleaners demonstrate against AON

16-05-2008 22:52

Handing out whistles
Justice for Cleaners have organised a week of actions against companies in London who employ contract cleaners who pay their workers less than a living wage. Pictures and text from demonstration at Devonshire Square, London EC2 on Thursday 15 May, 2008. Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall

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Iraqi Democrats Demonstrate at London US Embassy

16-05-2008 21:40

Embassy and Poster
Iraqi Democrats Against the Occupation and the Stop the War Coalition demonstrated outside the US Embassy in London on Thursday evening, 15 May 2008, calling for an end of actions against the Iraqi people and the withdrawal of occupying US and other forces.

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Rumsfeld: Why not another 9/11?

16-05-2008 21:31

In a newly-released tape of a 2006 neocon luncheon meeting featuring former War Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, attended by ex-military "message force multiplier" propaganda shills Lt. General Michael DeLong, David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, Robert H. Scales and others, Rumsfeld declared that the American people lack "the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the ‘threats’" -- and need another 9/11.

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Biofuels and the Rise of Nationalistic Environmentalism

16-05-2008 21:17

The rapid expansion of biofuel production worldwide has paralleled a dramatic rise in food prices. The expansion of biofuels has been supported by a wide spectrum of people, from environmentalists looking for "sustainable" energy to conservatives wanting to reduce U.S. dependency on foreign oil. With food riots spreading, the U.S. remains committed to an expansion of biofuel.

Biofuels are part of a larger movement toward green capitalism, the idea that we can scale down our energy use through technologies that improve the efficiency of the consumer society. Biofuels are emblematic of the dark side of green capitalism, which is focused almost entirely on the well being of the global upper class. Biofuels are a form of nationalistic environmentalism that is creating a foundation on which more extreme nationalists will try to wed the racist tools of yesterday with a version of "sustainability" that will include the destruction of the global poor.

Real solutions are both impossibly difficult and simple. The cooperative societies in which most humans have always lived are capable of supporting a high standard of living with far less resources than the individualized, consumer society. Enlightened political leadership would be helpful, but we can create a sustainable society without it. Indeed, we have to.

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Anti-gypsy sentiments out of control in Italy

16-05-2008 21:15

The Roma in Italy are not criminals, they are families living in conditions of great hardship. Out of the 150,000 “gypsies” present in our country, 90,000 are children. The average life expectancy of the Roma in Italy is 35 years, compared to the 80 years of the other citizens.
Infant mortality among Roma children is 15 times higher than that of other children.

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Science museum in strike ballot

16-05-2008 21:03

National Science Museum staff are being balloted on strike action after voting overwhelmingly to reject below inflation pay offers for 2007-2008 and 2008-2009.

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Council workers to ballot for strike action

16-05-2008 21:01

UNISON members working in local government in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have been given the green light for a ballot on industrial action after rejecting the pay offer from employers.

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Saying Goodbye to Air Travel

16-05-2008 21:00

The airline industry has no future. The same is true for airfreight. No air carrier has a viable plan to make a profit with oil at current prices—much less in years to come as the petroleum available to world markets dwindles rapidly.

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Israel Gears Up For More Gaza Attacks

16-05-2008 18:45

And why wouldn't they? So long as world Governments are willing to Appease these Extremists, in the name of political support, they will continue slaughtering the people of Gaza, and working to eliminate the chance of a Palestinian state.

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This Week In Palestine – Week 20 2008

16-05-2008 18:37

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This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 10th, to through to May 16th, 2008.

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Alienated at work? Don't sell yourself.

16-05-2008 17:56

Legislation since the 1990s has introduced a focus on mass education , performativity and marketisation in British Higher Education alienating the workers at the base in the universities.