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Strasbourg. Vaubaun bridge action.

05-04-2009 18:23

A clown builds an ingenious CRS trap.
Despite agreeing a route for the march in advance the cops decided to block the Vaubaun bridge chucking tear gas and grenades at anyone who approached their line.

Most marchers waited patiently for the cops to leave. Some threw the gas back and generally harassed the Police until the moment they withdrew.

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Strasbourg. Early morning Samba blockade.

05-04-2009 17:49

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It was sometime between 6 & 7. The cops were taken by surprise and before they could respond over 100 people had blocked a major intersection near the summit.

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G20 SUMMIT EYEWITNESS REPORT

05-04-2009 16:12

As the G20 Summit takes place, we look at what the leaders are discussing, along with an eyewitness account of the G20 protests around the Bank Of England on Wednesday April 1st.....

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Inside the Visteon occupation.

05-04-2009 16:01

One the roof.
These pics were shot a few days ago.

The workers at Visteon are a truly courageous bunch of people whom have never done anything like this before so they deserve EVERYONES support. They were sacked at six minutes notice. The night shift were sacked by phone. Please raise money or take them some food and drink.

The address is easy to find the nearest station is rectory road.

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European call for a counter summit in Louvain against the Bologna process

05-04-2009 15:56

European call for a counter summit in Louvain against the Bologna process
28th and 29th of April, Louvain, Belgium

“The worst enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge”

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Anarchist taking over a building in Cheapside.

05-04-2009 15:15

The Pre-Breakout
Anarchist taking over a building in Cheapside.

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Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African Revolutionary Anarchism. Issue 10.

05-04-2009 14:43

The Zabalaza Anarchist Communist Front (ZACF) is pleased to announce that
issue number 10 of our organ *Zabalaza: A Journal of Southern African
Revolutionary Anarchism *is now available online. It can be downloaded in
PDF format for you to print out and distribute here:
 http://www.zabalaza.net/pdfs/sapams/zab10.pdf
Individual articles will also be published on
Anarkismo.netas time goes by.

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from mainstream Plymouth Press draw your own conclusions

05-04-2009 14:43

please check the links to two local press articles from Plymouth

any thoughts?

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Witnesseses of Ian Tomlinson's brutal murder come forward

05-04-2009 13:45

An article in today's Observer newspaper states that the "police assaulted bystander who died in G20 protests". Three independent witnesses have come forward with corroborative statements telling how he was violently assaulted.

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Don´t mention the mortgage fraud!

05-04-2009 13:04

One thing that seems to have escaped the attention of the G20 superheroes, at least in public, is the extent to which their crisis is related to systemic fraud and ´liar loans´ in the deregulated financial climate created by the neoconservatives.

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The real cost of salmon

05-04-2009 12:10

The salmon sold in every supermarket in the UK has a terrible hidden cost; thousands of seals are shot every year by the fish farmers. While puffins starve the fish their young could eat are fed to sick salmon brought up in cramped conditions more akin to a battery cage than the open ocean.

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"Eco-Town Blues" hits Nottingham

05-04-2009 11:45

Ken Clarke poem and image
"Eco-Town Blues" Art Exhibition
Credit Crunch Gallery, 28 – 30 West End Arcade, Nottingham, NG1
Mon 6th April – 2nd May  (closed Sunday and Easter Monday)
Arcade opens 8.30 to 6 pm

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Visteon Occupation News and Website.

05-04-2009 11:35

A website for the Visteon occupations (www.visteonoccupation.org) is now up and running. The dispute continues and the support and organisation behind the worker's action is gathering pace.

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ITALY ‘Big Brother’ fears as Berlusconi tightens his grip on power

05-04-2009 08:56

ITALY: Leader given almost absolute power over new right-wing group

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HAPPY 15th IMPUNIVERSARY - Join The Ceremony ! TUESDAY, 7 APRIL IN PARIS

05-04-2009 08:36

Join The Ceremony ! TUESDAY, 7 APRIL IN PARIS

HAPPY 15th IMPUNIVERSARY
to the French partners of the 1994 genocide

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 4

04-04-2009 22:35

Poetry in motion...
The fourth and final part of this rather epic photo diary of the 2009 Climate Camp and G20 protests in London.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 3

04-04-2009 22:12

Antisocial Climbers!
Third part of my pictorial diary of Climate Camp and G20 protests in The City of London.

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GLBT Rights. Save the lifes of 128 homosexuals in Iraq

04-04-2009 21:59

From Iraq
According to the judicial and religious authorities, the prisoners will be murdered in groups of about 20 people. The first series of executions is imminent.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 2

04-04-2009 21:51

Note the leaf, I didn't place it, it just happened that way.
Second part of my pictorial diary of the G20 protests, mainly showing Climate Camp in The City of London.

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G20 Protest Pictures, part 1

04-04-2009 21:28

Shocking Exclusive: Man waves Fist at Protestors!!
On Wednesday of this week, in the belly of the beast, known as The City of London, normally a place purely for the generation of wealth witnessed an amazing transformation when thousands of protestors descended upon it's streets and occupied them for a brief flowering of human potential beyond the dysfunctional confines of what we laughingly know as global capitalism.