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Looking at this post could land you three years in jail!

19-05-2008 16:38

The new violent porn legislation is now in place making any image illegal:

if it portrays, in an explicit and realistic way, any of the following— (a) an act which threatens a person’s life, (b) an act which results, or is likely to result, in serious injury to a person’s anus, breasts or genitals, (c) an act which involves sexual interference with a human corpse, or (d) a person performing an act of intercourse or oral sex with an animal (whether dead or alive), and a reasonable person looking at the image would think that any such person or animal was real.

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121 minors in hunger strike in Greece

19-05-2008 16:36

In Leros, an Aegean island, more than 300 refugees and among them 121 children, mainly from Afghanistan, are held by the principles for more than a week.

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Great Notts Bike Ride

19-05-2008 16:30

Be part of one of the biggest cycling events in the country. This year the Great Notts Bike Ride, taking place on June 22nd will have a new, 100 mile sportive circuit added to its routes as well as a family lap challenge.

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Sects And The City

19-05-2008 16:22


CULT FRICTION AS POLICE HARASS ANTI-SCIENTOLOGY PROTEST..

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Large Scale Expansion Of Britain's Detention Estate [4,502 new spaces]

19-05-2008 16:10

More immigration prisons, more deportations

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MAYDAY Magazine meeting 24th May midday Newcastle

19-05-2008 14:53

Advertising a progressive political meeting and trying to take the working class movement forward and towards better politics.

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Palestine Today 051908

19-05-2008 14:51

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 19th 2008.

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Call for submissions against Shell pipeline- DEADLINE WED 25th JUNE

19-05-2008 13:55

what's at stake
Now Shell have applied for planning for their 'new' pipeline route, we must act swiftly to oppose it at every stage. Everyone can make submissions! This entire project has been the cause of untold misery, strife and unhappiness for our families and community. We will continue to resist Shell through every legal, political and campaigning means open to us, even though this could lead to more years of unnecessary conflict. Please support us!

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Shakespeare and Others on Calves, Deer, Flies, Beetles, Vivivsectors,

19-05-2008 11:38

Shakespeare, E Dickinson, J Hackett, F M Esfandiary, G B Shaw, Robert Burns, Wm Blake, Abe Lincoln, Edna St Vincent Millay, C. Salamone, Mao Tse Tung, P Levine,

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From Berlin to Kehl and Strasbourg: Block NATO!

19-05-2008 11:12

Against the meeting of the “NATO Parlamentarian Assembly” in Berlin
Rally and bicycle parade May 24, 1pm

This year’s annual NATO conference in Bucharest has taken the decision to celebrate NATO’s "60th anniversary" in France and Germany in 2009. The precise date remains unclear, but it will be held in spring 2009 in the border cities of Strasbourg and Kehl. NATO strategists have already stressed the importance of next year’s summit. They have made the proposal to ratify a new strategic concept that includes nuclear first strikes to keep or get access to resources and a civil-military approach to counter-insurgency.

Europe is at war - even if the bombs are falling several thousands of kilometres away. Because of NATO, the US maintains bases for military interventions worldwide. Nuclear weapons are still deployed in Europe. NATO membership implies participation in military interventions all over the world, directly with national forces, indirectly from military bases, or through logistical support for foreign troops.

Like the G8, NATO is an important player for the "Global Security Architecture".

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Burma : Repurcussions of Nargis and update on Tsunami

19-05-2008 11:09

getting water after a cyclone
Not alone the fight for survival in the aftermath of Nargis , but issues
of corruption which has prevented aid have appalling repurcussions
for the people of Burma/Myanmar.

Issues unlooked at generally in msm,are those relating to gender and
Lawlessness. The women at  http://www.isiswomen.org are covering
reportage on gender violence in disaster aftermath this month.

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Labour Fake Toff.......is a toff

19-05-2008 10:46

Labour hypocrisy in Crewe by -electon exposed with photographs to prove it

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Smash EDO Activists Denied Legal Aid will Defend themselves in Court

19-05-2008 08:13

19/05/2008

SMASH EDO PRESS RELEASE

Press Contacts - Andrew Beckett or Chloe Marsh

tel 07875708873, email  smashedopress@yahoo.co.uk

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BNP attempt martyrdom operation in Glasgow

19-05-2008 00:40

BNP members outside Borders
BNP members returned to Buchanan Street at the weekend. Ostensibly there to sell papers, their choice of location suggests they're more interested in provoking confrontation with the non-fascist groups whose regular pitch it is. They left in the back of a police van.

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Big Business as a supporter of anti-racism

19-05-2008 00:19

Jewish author knows 'anti-racism' is a tool of Capitalism

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“Supermarket Sweep” Boycott Proctor and Gamble Day Action

19-05-2008 00:04

Video Outside Tesco after unlocking the trolley
Unlock the labs, lock up the trolleys! Animal Rights Cambridge marks Global Day of Action against P&G!

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Civil Liberties and Extradition to the US

19-05-2008 00:01

The 2003 Extradition Act and Tony Blair and Gordon Browns erosion of Civil Liberties and Innocent with being proven guilty has gone.

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Union Stages MGM Casino Protest at Foxwoods

18-05-2008 21:04

The United Auto Workers gathered near the new MGM Grand at Foxwoods in Ledyard on Saturday to kick off the first of two days of protests against what the union calls an unfair tipping policy and the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe's refusal to bargain.

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Freedom Rider: America Brings Hell to Somalia

18-05-2008 20:31

Somali Refugees
The U.S. "war on terror" is in fact a war on international law and
civilization, a catch-all category of assaults on the weak. Under the
anti-terror banner, Washington grinds Somalia into the sand, through hi-tech
weaponry and the deployment of Ethiopian surrogates. No more rationale is
offered for murderous aggression in the Horn of Africa than the presence of
people the U.S. calls "Islamists" - a label designed to excuse any and all
American crimes against Muslims. "More than 600,000 Somalis have fled from
their homes and at least 6,000 are dead." The savaging of Somalia is
nonpartisan - Democrats are as bloody-handed as Republicans. "It takes
foolish optimism to think that the willing accomplices to crime will change
their ways when Bush is gone."