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Message from Smash EDO - thanks to all those who cam to Shut ITT//Halloween Demo

23-10-2008 12:09

the Shut ITT demonstration was held last Wednesday in Brighton...

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Liverpool & Athletico Madrid fans unite!

23-10-2008 12:03

an account from Wednesday (last night) of Liverpool fans in Madrid to see their team play Athletico Madrid (considered the 'working-class' football side in Madrid) brings back memories of working class unity and solidarity from Liverpudlian anarchists who arrived on Spanish shores to support the anarchist fighting forces during the Spanish Civil War!

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Industrial Workers of the World - New Website from Wales

23-10-2008 11:44

A new website has been launched with history and current informaion about the IWW trades union.  http://union-wales.org/iww_wales.html

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UK nuclear tests left 'disease timebomb'

23-10-2008 11:36

UK nuclear tests conducted in the 1950s have left veterans and their children with a variety of congenital diseases, according to a backbench Tory MP.


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SHAC Barclays Demo-Brum

23-10-2008 11:20

Two Barclays in one day.

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Campaigners to blockade nuclear bomb factory to mark World Disarmament Week

23-10-2008 09:25

Trident Ploughshares has called a major blockade of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston near Reading during UN World Disarmament Week [2], on Monday 27 October.

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Swedish Peace Activists Repeatedly Break Into Weapon Factories

23-10-2008 08:20

Using hammers and bolt cutters, peace activists repeatedly broke into weapon plants and damaged weapons in Sweden. Activists from the Swedish group OFOG/Avrusta admitted damaging twenty high explosive grenade launchers as well as internal parts to a Howitzer 77. Five people were arrested. Two remain in jail. Two activists who were arrested and released were re-arrested after they returned to the weapons plant to do more damage. A fifth person was arrested Saturday in another break in. All are facing trial on charges from criminal damage to trespass at places of national security.

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Hip Hop Artists fighting back against the fascists

23-10-2008 06:57

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Found this video of some anti fascist anarchist hip hop

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The Anti-Christ or The Leo Straussian NeoCon Front?

23-10-2008 01:24

Still if the “biblical” version of Anti-Christ is considered then every age has had millions of such people. But Barack Obama is not one of them. He is Christian. And we know this from the contrarian propaganda of their rovian, right-wing, smear machine as insinuated into this campaign as they have tried to tie Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s behavior and attitude to that of Barack Obama. And we also know from Obama’s value system of his being concerned about other people (and not a primarily selfish creed of too many in the right-wing). They can’t have it both ways in their distortive propaganda.

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Students Target Unethical Career Corporatism

22-10-2008 22:37

Grim reapers
On Monday 20th October the annual AISEC Careers fair commenced at Nottingham University, featuring many organisations with despicable or at least dubious ethical credentials and social-responsibility records, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Qinetiq, E.On, BP, RBS, MoD and the army. The fair also featured some student activists and Grim Reapers who had made an appearance in order to remind fellow students of the deadly consequences of working in the arms trade or climate change industry.

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Immigration Minister shows why we should join TCAR's March Against Racism on Sat

22-10-2008 21:57

flyer for the march
Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) invites all progressive organisations and individuals to support the 2nd Northern March Against Racism this coming Saturday 25th October. The march will assemble at the Old Fire Station on Westgate Road at 12noon. We will march through the West End to the city centre and there will be a public meeting in the open air at Grey's Monument from 1pm.

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Angry Yet??? Biggest Waste of Taxpayer Money Ever!

22-10-2008 19:22

As the government bails out businesses and industries that were clearly mismanaged and the United States continues its financial meltdown, concerned citizens demand answers, accountability and true change.

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For the boycott of employment tribunals

22-10-2008 17:05

This is a call for the boycott of employment tibunals which are not defending workers rights but still colluding with a government living at the feet of the gloomy shadow of a now-gone-forever Thatcher.

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Benefit Gig - Support DPM - Saturday Night, Jamm, Brixton

22-10-2008 16:22

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The aim is to show support for a group of friends that have been incarcerated for graffiti and to raise awareness to the injustice of imprisoning people who paint graffiti. In a society where 'street/urban art' is exhibited on the walls of the Tate Modern, London and sold in auction houses around the world the messages are mixed.

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Palestine Today 102208

22-10-2008 15:47

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday 22,2008

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Amey Cleaner Solidarity Picket

22-10-2008 15:34

amey picket in bristol
Solidarity With Amey's Sacked Cleaners

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Direct Action; Belgium, Spain, USA, Mexico, UK & Ireland

22-10-2008 14:26

18th-21st October

HOME REMODELING WITH NYSE DIRECTOR (Belgium)
200 PHEASANTS FREED (Spain)
ANOTHER OREGON FUR FARM RAIDED (USA)
ARSON ATTACK AT BURGER KING (Mexico)
SMASHING TIME AT FUR SHOP (UK)
TRUCK SET ON FIRE AT CHICKEN COMPANY (Mexico)
POULTRY FARM'S VAN ATTACKED WITH STONES (Spain)
CHEF GETS A WARNING (UK)
UCLA COMMUTER VANS CONTINUE TO BE TARGETS (USA)
FOX HUNTER'S VEHICLES DAMAGED (Ireland)

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Trident on trial: Judge defends nuclear proliferators Rolls Royce

22-10-2008 13:52

Preliminary report on trial of anti-Trident protesters charged with blockading Rolls Royce's Raynesway factory in Derby. Rolls Royce make the nuclear propulsions systems and fuel rods for nuclear submarines, including the Trident nuclear missile-armed Vanguard class based at Faslane in Scotland.

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Chagos Ethnic Cleansing; No Right to Return: Implementation of International Law

22-10-2008 13:35

Ethnic Cleansing and Crimes against Humanity justified by UK Regime and House of Lords