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New documentary provides rare insight into West Papua independence struggle

23-11-2009 23:22

Forgotten Bird of Paradise image
A new undercover documentary film shows rarely-seen footage of separatist rebels in Indonesian-ruled Papua province, who have been fighting a low-level insurgency for more than 40 years.

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Learning The Lessons Of Workplace Struggles - 4pm Sun 6 Dec Glasgow Social Centr

23-11-2009 22:43

Sunday 6th December
4pm
Glasgow Social Centre
66/68 Osborne Street
Glasgow
G1 5QH

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Buy-Nothing-Day Lincoln

23-11-2009 22:40

My Dads Strip Club out again on Buy-Nothing-Day-Release, this time three events in three days in the city of Lincoln

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When bigots attack, we fight back!

23-11-2009 22:17

After Liverpool City Council forced an anti-homophobia march to stick to the back streets, an angry group set off on an alternative, unapproved, route through the heart of Liverpool's shopping centre

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Activists Return to Bradfrd Uni

23-11-2009 21:35

Activists Return to Bradfrd Uni

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Cop15 Social & Climate Justice Caravan - Reader / Newspaper Published

23-11-2009 20:20

From WTO to Cop15: 60 activists from the global South will travel across Europe through Italy, Switzerland, Germany, France and Denmark. They will draw attention to the consequences neoliberal globalization and climate change have on their lives and show how to fight against them. Together with local activists, they look for alternatives to free trade and the privatisation of resources, and unite the North and South in their fights for another world.

The 23 page caravan reader introduces some of the caravan groups, their struggles and positions on the above issues:
 http://www.biopiraterie.de/fileadmin/pdf/Caravan_bulletin_09.pdf

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The whitewash in the Iraq war inquiry is already in place.

23-11-2009 16:57

I'm the best whitewasher
The whitewash, as usual, is in ‘The Terms of Reference.’

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Royal Park school to be evicted!

23-11-2009 16:38

the council will evict the occupiers tomorrow morning.

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Palestine Today 112309

23-11-2009 16:36

Audio


Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday November 23ed 2009.

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Vote AGAINST a Dungeness C nuke station

23-11-2009 16:08


After G. Brown said that a Dungeness C station might still be built (after Miliband said they'd dropped it) after the current sites had been assessed
15 week consultation period still includes a Dungeness section though

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EDL/WDL in Wrexham - report and photos

23-11-2009 15:18

Poster for the community festival
In response to the news that the English/Welsh Defence League were planning a demo in Wrexham on Saturday 21 November to protest against plans for a new mosque in the town, a coalition of local groups and political parties decided to hold an event to 'celebrate diversity' rather than meet the E/WDL in direct confrontation.

This is a short report from the day, with some photos.

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RE-OKUPATION OF THE LAPPERSFORT, CALL OUT FOR SUPPORT

23-11-2009 14:56

spread the word!
The Lappersfort forest has been okupied again,
and is now under eviction threat.

Come and stay if you like!
Aktion & Eviktion Practice Weekend 4-6 December

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The 300-350 Show: Civil disobedience for climate justice

23-11-2009 13:00

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On 16th December activists will attempt to take over the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen for a day and set the agenda. We speak to one of organisers of the various mass actions that are planned for the talks.

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Warwick students disrupt careers fair to protest against arms companies

23-11-2009 11:56

Earlier last week, students at the University of Warwick disrupted an
engineering and technology careers fair attended by a number of arms companies,
including Rolls Royce, DSTL, MBDA, Thales, QinetiQ and BAE Systems.

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Dogs 4 Us Demo'd in Leeds

23-11-2009 10:41

Dogs 4 Us Demo'd in Leeds

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Israel's War on Students

23-11-2009 09:51

To Palestinian students there is nothing strange about suffering for their degree. Israeli restrictions seem designed to thwart academic potential, arresting lecturers, embargoing equipment and shutting down whole universities

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28 arrests at Spanish event attended by BNP's Griffin

23-11-2009 08:59

Two far right groups came to blows outside the Velázquez Hotel in the capital

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Xmas Social/Benefit Gig for the IWW - Reading - 12th December

23-11-2009 02:27

Please fwd to local email lists, activist friends etc...

Friends and comrades,

On the evening of the next IWW* BIROC meeting, the Reading IWW branch invite y'all to come on down to the 2009 IWW Xmas Social gig!

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Bolivian COP-15 delegate's call for civil society to mobilise to Copenhagen

23-11-2009 01:41

On 13th November Bristol Indymedia and Trapese collective filmed an interview with Crisitian Dominguez on his views of the COP15 summit and what his country Bolivia was hoping to achieve at the conference.
Find out what he and a Bristol activist had to say on the Bliptv Bristol Indymedia channel link below.