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Barclays cash machines sabotaged

16-09-2009 13:47

3 barclays cashpoints in Brighton were superglued last night

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HSBC smashed in Brighton

16-09-2009 13:26

Last night (september 15th) windows smashed in HSBC

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Campaign Against Arms Trade Launches University Wiki

16-09-2009 12:13

CAAT launches new Universities Wiki to assist with campus campaigning.

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Invite to Activist Tat Maintenance / Training Week

16-09-2009 11:48

After a busy year of events, Activist Tat are going to have a maintenance / training week in Nottingham from 5th-11th October. We will be doing maintenance during the week and providing training at the weekend. We also hope to debrief on this years events e.g. the climate camps and how we can work better in the future.

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Climate Rush on the Run

16-09-2009 11:41

Is ongoing - why no support

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Critique of Climate Camp action 17/18 October

16-09-2009 11:09

“It’s time to start imagining a future without coal” says the call-out. Oh no! Not that crap again! If anything was going to put thoughtful people off this action, silly rhetoric like that does the trick. It’s like trying to build opposition to Donald Trump’s plans to turn acres of sand dunes near Aberdeen into a golf course for the rich, or golf courses in general, by urging people to imagine a future without grass.

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International Financial Crisis and End of the Dollar Hegemony ...

16-09-2009 01:22

A regional alliance like ALBA, with its own currency for trade and financial transactions, constitutes doubtlessly another nail in the coffin of dollar hegemony.

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Gays in Iraq. Asylum for the Iraqi gay activist Anwar Basim Saleh

15-09-2009 23:41

Gays murdered in Iraq
Anwar Basim Saleh, the 21-year old Iraqi gay activist from Baghdad, is at present in Holland, where he has applied for asylum.

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Matthew Gibbons - York A.R. and AntiFa Police Informant

15-09-2009 23:22

Matthew Gibbons - York A.R. and AntiFa Police Informant

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Last Tuesday's Protests Against DSEi Arms Fair

15-09-2009 20:38

Destroy the arms trade
s the DSEi arms fair opened at the ExCeL centre, several demonstrations against it took place in London. A couple of hundred people, many masked, took part in an autonomous action in the City of London, while CAAT organised demonstrations including one outside the UK Trade and Investment office in Victoria St. Dan Viesnik was also there as a part of his 100-hour famine at various key locations highlighting the suffering of victims of the arms trade. Pictures Copyright (C) 1999, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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US Military Mental Health Crisis

15-09-2009 18:39

In January 2009 more US troops committed suicide than were killed in action in Iraq & Afghanistan. In recent years suicide rates in the military have more than doubled, mental health entry standards for new recruits appear to have been lowered and the resulting problems are being medicated with a dangerous cocktail of psychotropic drugs despite manufacturers warning labels.

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No beer, no bands, no fun

15-09-2009 18:15

This year’s British National Party Red, White and Blue festival, the tenth, was going to be the most successful ever, according to the party leadership. The reality was very different.

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Palestine Today 091509

15-09-2009 17:09

Audio

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Tuesday September 15th, 2009

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UN Report Finds War Crimes In Operation Cast Lead

15-09-2009 16:55

UNITED NATIONS

Press Release


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xxxxxxxxxx UN Fact Finding Mission finds strong evidence
of war crimes and crimes against humanity
committed during the Gaza conflict;
calls for end to impunity

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15 September 2009

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Prague: Sept09 - Trials and solidarity

15-09-2009 15:26

This Monday 14th September 2009, the first few squatters, detained during the Saturday action in Apolinářská Street, were taken over to court.

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Vestas Protestors Occupy Crane and Boats in Southampton

15-09-2009 14:59

The occupied ship - 'Blade Runner'
Blade Runner Protest launched from Power Boat

Using Southampton's Boat Show as cover, protesters have arrived by power-boat this morning to occupy cranes and vessels at the city's docks.

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Co-Mutiny Update

15-09-2009 14:14

Action Update

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Work restarts at Mainshill, resistance needed!

15-09-2009 13:53

Forestry Commission workers this morning re-started clear-felling large areas of plantation in preparation for a new open cast coal mine. When the clear-felling started in June, Mainshill solidarity camp was set up to stop work on the site and occupy it, preventing any further felling and preventing any of the wood being removed from the site. Support is needed to prevent this destruction.

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Keyboard Warriors Needed as Liverpool Activists Picket Rubbish Scabs

15-09-2009 12:07

A group of activists from the Workers' Fightback group amongst others are currently picketing strike-breakers Assist Streetcare at their depot in Aintree, Liverpool, and they need your help!

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Mosque-Veto

15-09-2009 11:27

Parademics pull a woman from the crush
A Palestinian woman died and dozens more were injured as they attempted to reach Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Incompetent and inhumane policing turned the Qalandia checkpoint into a scene of chaos as worshippers gathered for prayer on the third Friday of Ramadan.