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FIT teams admit they are out to disrupt, not just to watch.

04-08-2009 09:45

A 'Structured Debrief' published after a review of policing of the Kingsnorth Climate Camp in 2008 contains some remarkable admissions, such as the use of FIT teams to cause 'disruption' as well as to gain intelligence.

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AFP in Honduras Hung By Its Own Photograph

04-08-2009 09:27

"It turns out that AFP’s make-believe “journalist,” Francisco Jara knew full well that his statements about military-style “training exercises” by what he called “Zelaya’s ‘popular army’” were false and he chose to lie about it anyway. The proof of his deceit comes from AFP’s own photographs, like the one above. The exercises – see for yourself – were more akin to a Sunday Easter egg hunt or picnic than the conspiratorial scenario conjured by Jara in his felony against journalism."

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Villagers stage Oldbury anti-nuclear protest

04-08-2009 08:57

Direct action by local residents against new E.On / RWE npower nuclear power plant planned in Oldbury, Gloucestershire.

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The Times: Iran awaits Ayatollah’s nod for nuclear bomb

04-08-2009 08:19

a map by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)
How many more countries will be wiped off the map through US, UK and Israeli agression before we revolt against this insane propaganda?

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NO STATE

04-08-2009 08:17

GREEK POLICE a substate millitary terroristic unistitutional organisation

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Climate Activists occupy roof of 2nd Vestas factory!

04-08-2009 06:35

Climate activists have occupied the roof of the Vestas turbine factory at Venture Quays, East Cowes, Isle Of Wight, in solidarity with workers occupying a factory in Newport. The protestors have hung a banner above the Ferry Port saying: “Vestas Workers - Solidarity in Occupation. Save Green Jobs,” and issued the following statement:

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Bligh government corruption savaged by Tony Fitzgerald QC

04-08-2009 01:32

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Former Queenslander, Fitzgerald Inquiry Commissioner and respected corruption fighter, Tony Fitzgerald QC, has savaged Queensland Labor's corruption, cronyism and secrecy during its 12 years in power.  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25851749-5013871,00.html

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Direct Action; Spain, Mexico, Italy, UK, Belgium & Mexico

03-08-2009 22:58

10 RABBITS LIBERATED (Spain)
30th July - 3rd August

10 RABBITS LIBERATED (Spain)
ROOSTERS RESCUED FROM COCKFIGHTING RING (Mexico)
BOAR LIBERATION (Italy)
SHOOTING BUTTS BURNT TO THE GROUND (UK)
ONE NIGHT, THREE FUR SHOPS GLUED (Italy)
CIRCUS ADS, BUTCHER SHOP PAINTED (Belgium)
PHEASANT PEN SMASHING (UK)
"DOUGLAS FAMILY BUNNY BUTCHERS" (UK)
FIRE STARTED AT DOOR OF MEAT RESTAURANT (Mexico)
MEAT SLASHED (UK)
GLAXO BILLBOARDS CUT DOWN, PAINTED OVER (UK)
P&G ADS SUBVERTISED (UK)

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Workers can take advantage of a serious crisis too.

03-08-2009 21:21

Capitalists aren't the only ones that should be taking advantage of a good crisis. Workers shouldn't let a crisis go to waste either.

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The "Aryan Martyrs' Brigade"?! Is this really supposed to be serious journalism?

03-08-2009 19:16

'The Guardian' may have been suckered by 'Searchlight' yet again, but antifascists shouldn't be fooled by attempts to 'big up' the so-called 'Aryan Martyrs' Brigade'.

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Palestine Today 080309

03-08-2009 16:44

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday August 3ed 2009.

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Ed Miliband’s offices blockaded: Vestas solidarity

03-08-2009 12:31

The protesters were glued from 8.30am to 10.30am
Ed Miliband's London offices were blockaded this morning by a coalition of "red, green and black" activists in a demonstration of solidarity for the factory workers who have been occupying the Vestas wind turbine plant on the Isle of Wight since the 20th July.

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65 Australians Dead from Swine Flu

03-08-2009 11:56

Australian mainstream media seem to be covering up the deaths of 65 Australians from Swine Flu.

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Camps and criminals - Peace News camp report

03-08-2009 11:31

Journalist Bibi van der Zee reports in the New Statesman on the recent Peace News Summer Camp in Oxfordshire.

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Urgent Demo: Israel Stealing Homes Is Ethnic Cleansing

03-08-2009 10:14

Come down to the Israeli Embassy to let them know we that we are witness to their crime of stealing homes to ethnically cleanse East Jerusalem of Palestinians. We are going to be there from 5pm to 8pm tonight.

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Protest at Press TV over Iran Repression

03-08-2009 09:27

Part of a long line of images hanging opposite Press TV
Around 40 British and Iranian socialists and trade unionists protested outside the west London studios of Press TV, the English language TV station funded by the Iranian government on Sunday 2 August to highlight the plight of political prisoners in Iran. Photos Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Around the Campaigns Monday 3rd August 2009

03-08-2009 09:01

Myroslava (Mira) Muronyuk, Still here, Still fighting
"Solicitors working for the Manuel Bravo Project managed to stay the removal; Mira remains in Yarl's Wood but solicitors are working to get her released."
Background: We want Mira to Stay in Leeds, where she belongs
 http://tinyurl.com/noy5hf

Church fights to stop deportation
Mira has been befriended by members of Christ Church in Upper Armley, which is linked to the Manuel Bravo Project, named after an Angolan asylum seeker who killed himself in Yarl's Wood in 2005.
 http://tinyurl.com/FriendsOfMyra

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Protest Mediators: A Plan To Make Protest Even More Benign

03-08-2009 07:49


What is the point of protest?

To create change. I would have thought that was obvious; it is the only rational response to the question. So why has so little change happened as a result of protest in the Western world in the last 30 years?

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Innocent man sent to prison for life by the Irish High Court.

02-08-2009 23:28

The Irish State wants to force this married man to allow them to break up his marriage, but he will not agree with their unlawful directions.