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London / Euro-wide demos: Italian 'Anomalous Wave', 14th Nov

13-11-2008 14:20

London: Gathering in front of the residence of the Italian ambassador
14, Three Kings Yard
London W1K 4EH
from there, demo till LSE and free lecture about Universities inEurope
Nov 14th, h. 10.00
tlf: 0044 07531933006
mail to:  ukanomalouswave@hotmail.co.uk

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Climate Activists and NGO’s furious at the Danish Government

13-11-2008 13:29

Danish governments plan to support countersummit with money taken from Development Aid.

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police stop students filming in parliament square: barbara tucker arrested

13-11-2008 12:52

idiot cop who spouted non-law
this morning, some students from kingston university were prevented by police in parliament square from interviewing barbara tucker as part of their MA course. in the arguments which ensued, barbara tucker was arrested for allegedly assaulting a police officer.

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Update on the struggle inside, out and against the prisons in Greece

13-11-2008 12:12

An update on Greece's prisoners collective hunger strike, reported actions in solidarity and some other related news. Most news come from athens.indymedia.org, some mainstream media, and a few prisoners and comrades.

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WTO Chief Says Free Trade Plays Small Role in Job Losses: A Critical View

13-11-2008 02:50

Pascal Lamy
Pascal Lamy, head of the World Trade Organization, argues that free trade in a regulated environment drives economic growth worldwide. Speaking at Stanford University, he dismissed claims that free trade is responsible for job losses. Yet in every case where trade barriers have been dropped between structurally dissimilar economies, free trade has introduced profound socio-economic distortions, income inequality, and job displacement.

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Bath Bomb #16 out now

13-11-2008 01:19

Breathing a sigh of collective release and rubbing a tear of patriotic fervour from their eyes, the Bath wish-they-were massive squeeze out another nugget of journalistic integrity...

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Seen the latest on child social services

13-11-2008 00:22

Recently the death of another baby in the U.K. has stirred up the talks on youth care business. The truth is surfacing in the media trickle by trickle. In the Netherlands children were condemned to death the same way by the Dutch social services (privatized companies) who deliberately let parents, who clearly endanger the live of their child, proceed to kill the child. The social services are aware of the case but do nothing. Why? Because of money. The response of the Dutch government was: each time a child died under horrific circumstances the government immediately donated millions to expand the reach of the social services. In reality often they take children for no reason at all other than moneys.

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Podcast #2 and Launch Of We Are Change London

13-11-2008 00:20

Audio
Quality podcast for download and news of a name change

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otis ferry - still caged!

13-11-2008 00:10

In case you hadn't noticed Otis Ferry remains caged. It's interesting to see how the ruleing classes define a "political prisoner". Perhaps all political prisoners should be released... unless they are charged with witness nobbling?

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ashley rd, bristol - squat eviction update

13-11-2008 00:03

23.36 - 5 people still on roof

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Cambridge Holds Corporations to Account

12-11-2008 23:42

Make A Living Not a Killing
E.ON, BAE, Rolls Royce, Shell and BP meet fierce resistance to their presence at Cambridge University Careers Fair.

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Biased Newsnight coverage of Oxford animal lab opening

12-11-2008 23:02

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00fh6xb

Last nights Newsnight programme on BBC2 had a report on the opening of the new Oxford animal lab. It was one of the most biased pieces I have ever seen.

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Yet another Animal Rights Case dropped.

12-11-2008 22:57

It's not looking good for the animal rights cops. The one arrested at the Wickham Labs National has been released before even attending bail.

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On-going Italian Education rebellion: Some articles and videos

12-11-2008 22:44

STUDENTS WANT TRAINS! - November 12, 2008
The next big day of student protests in Italy is this Friday. There will be a mass demonstration in Rome, organized by students and universitarians, independently of parties and unions. At the moment, people are trying to pressure Trenitalia to allow people to travel to Rome by trains with reduced prices. This has been done in many occasions before

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Somali Shebab fighters seize port town ΜΑRΚΑ, entry point for food

12-11-2008 22:23

Somalia's Shebab group has taken over the southern port of Marka, an important entry point for food aid. The heavily armed fighters rolled into Marka, located 100km south of the capital Mogadishu, after pro-government forces fled. The Shebab is the armed wing of the Islamic Courts' Union

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Brown's Child P folly at today's PMQs typifies deeper crisis - the Councils

12-11-2008 21:27

Wednesday's [weekly] Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] at Westminster, fielded by Gordon Brown on the day of the latest jobless and economic bad news, got focussed on Brown’s refusal to show that he was disowning a negligent local Council disaster...This became very acute after David Ca-Moron had successfully included the reference to £100 Million that the public spends to keep the social service unit at Haringey in place.

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Tirupur, I do mind dying - Primark in India action mtg@LARC

12-11-2008 17:29

Meeting with photos from Tirupur, site of Primark's exposure for using child workers in their supply chain and organising solidarity actions.

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VIDEO: 7/7 Survivor Daniel Obachike - The Peter Power Terror Drill Inquest

12-11-2008 17:12

The 4th Bomb - a book by Daniel Obachike
With Daniel Obachike - Tavistock Square Bus Survivor & Eye Witness Many who've heard or read my story ask me to explain more about The Peter Power/Visor Consultants 'Terror Drill' I witnessed that day.