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Debt Pride

11-03-2009 13:14

I hereby propose to the house the idea of Debt Pride.

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Evening Mail’s ‘Stirrer’ on Gaza: Inhumanity and Double-Standards

11-03-2009 13:09

The recent articles of the Birmingham Evening Mail’s commentator “The Stirrer”, aka Adrian Goldberg, are quite peculiar in their timing. It seems that something has stirred “The Stirrer” into writing seemingly unsolicited pseudo-propaganda pieces for the Israeli government.

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National Squat Meetup This Weekend. BRISTOL

11-03-2009 13:04

For more info:
07790073015

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Right to protest under attack from state and racists over Luton anti-war protest

11-03-2009 12:30

Media hysteria is reaching extreme heights over an anti-war protest at a soldiers' parade in Luton. It is being widely suggested that raising slogans such as that soldiers are murderers or violate human rights is somehow illegitimate and beyond the bounds of freedom. This is a concerted attack on basic liberties, trying to turn hostility to war crimes into a speech- or thought-crime and to legitimate locking people up simply for expressing the "wrong" beliefs.

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Videoclip: Block NATO strasbourg 2009 - public action training

11-03-2009 12:13

block NATO
About 50 activists from the Block NATO network held a public action training in the run up to the NATO summit in Strasbourg. They present their motivations and intentions to shut down the summit through civil disobedience.

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Open Meeting at Platt Chapel Community Centre Thursday 12th March 7pm

11-03-2009 12:01

Before the opening of Platt Chapel Community and Social Centre next weekend (20-22nd March) we are holding an open meeting for anyone or group who wants to get involved in any way. The meeting will be an opportunity to suggest ideas for the use of the space, be introduced to others involved in different projects, and hear potential plans of the organisers of this new and exciting social centre.

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G20 London Summit costs £6 million to stage

11-03-2009 10:55

The up and coming G20 financial summit to be held in London's Excel Centre, Docklands on April 2nd is costing the taxpayer £6 million to stage.

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@NTI MILLTARIST GATHERING,WATFORD.

11-03-2009 10:44

@nti militarists will be gathering in Watford today to voice our disgust at these killers of humans and democracy. 1.00PM Watford junction station. Look out for the red n black.

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The Stereotypes Rally - Miss University pageant picket

11-03-2009 03:44

Over 50 people gathered outside Crystal nightclub off Oxford Street, London, to demonstrate against the miss university beauty pageant being hosted inside.

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Feminist Protest of Solidarity : Newcastle upon Tyne

11-03-2009 01:14

I heart feminists
Radical/Anarcho Feminists from Newcastle upon Tyne "decorate" Greys Monument on the eve of International Womens Day with banners protesting against the exploitation and oppression of women worldwide.

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Latest event organised by Edinburgh group as part of a fundraising drive that ha

11-03-2009 01:13

This Thursday, the 12th of March, Bannerman's on Edinburgh's Cowgate will host a benefit gig in support of the Zapatista autonomous communities in Chiapas, Mexico and the Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh.

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Direct Action; USA, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Mexico & France

11-03-2009 01:01

5th-10th March

VEHICLE BURNED AT HOME OF UCLA VIVISECTOR (USA)
WINDOWS SMASHED WITH BRICKS AT WAGENINGEN UNIV. (Netherlands)
FUR FARMERS HARASSED WITH JUNK MAIL (USA)
FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS CLEANING-UP AFTER ALF VISITS (USA)
THOUSANDS OF PHEASANTS FREED (Italy)
CIRCUS POSTERS TAKEN DOWN (USA)
FUR SHOP REDECORATED (Spain)
"THE FIRE WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT" (Mexico)
POLICE STATION BURNED IN PROTEST OF SLAUGHTER OF ANIMALS IN JALTENCO (Mexico)
HOME VISIT PROTESTS KILLING OF ANIMALS AT L.A. ANIMAL SERVICES (USA)
FUR SHOP COVERED IN PAINT (France)

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Ballymurphy 11 Campaign in England

10-03-2009 23:47

The Ballymurphy 11 were murdered during the first three days of Internment August 1971, by the 2nd Battalion of the British Army’s Parachute Regiment. This same regiment went on, 5 months later, to murder fourteen civilian demonstrators on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Two daughters of the Ballymurphy 11 were in Birmingham and Coventry for International Women’s Day events from Thur 5th – Sun 8th March.

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Newcastle Students Occupy!!!

10-03-2009 19:58

Students at Newcastle University have occupied the fine arts lecture theatre in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine. 25 students took the room and informed the University management who have sent a senior manager to start 'neigotations' which have resulted in the occuption entrying its first night with no clear resolution, as yet.

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C.R.A.S.H - a postcapitalist A to Z

10-03-2009 19:50

Take part in a free course combining art, activism and permaculture or get paid to actively imagine a postcapitalist world !

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SouthAm Defense Ministers for Dialog

10-03-2009 19:17

unasur
Santiago, Chile, Mar 10 (Prensa Latina) Defense ministers from the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR) are to foster in private sessions here on Tuesday mutual confidence in the region through dialogue and integration.

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Promo Video - Pro-Capitalists gather for G20 in London April 1st

10-03-2009 17:56

Video
As the world finances start to spin and the roulette wheel of international finance starts to turn increasingly dark, this is not to abandon the ideas that have made a select few people very rich.

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Dundee packaging factory occupied

10-03-2009 17:19

A small group of workers in a Dundee packing case factory have taken an important stand in defence of their living standards. Twelve workers have occupied Prisme Packaging's industrial unit near central Dundee in order to force their employer into paying legally required redundancy payments, following the company's decision to dispense with its entire workforce.

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Berlin Squatters UNITED WE STAY demo, 14/3 + video

10-03-2009 16:48

Call for Autonomous Demonstration 3/14/2009
"United we stay- Collective, offensive, subversive".

Mobilization Video:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfmesReuHdk

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Message to All Continents - Global Week of Action

10-03-2009 16:42

The Global Week of Action is for everyone in every city, town, village and community, in every country on every continent. Organise events near you, to begin on 04 July 2009.

Designing posters and flyers and spread the word.

Let's have action in at least every City around the World.