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UEA Climatic Research Unit row escalates

02-12-2009 09:56

The news that the head of the climate research unit who had its emails hacked and posted online is creating a big stink....

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Around the Campaigns Wednesday 2nd December 2009

02-12-2009 08:46

1) ADC Work shop Glasgow
2) Destitution Awareness Week
3) Refugee Council ~ UKBA proposals to change asylum support

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Riot police on tour: The Times runs sick TSG PR as Tomlinson family attend vigil

02-12-2009 04:41

How the article looked before it was spiked
Last night, with phenomenally insensitive timing The Times newspaper published a puff piece aimed at rehabilitating the Metropolitan Police's Territorial Support Group, at exactly the same time as Ian Tomlinson's family were attending a candlelit vigil to remember him at Royal Exchange Buildings, near to the spot were he was attacked by a TSG officer on April 1st. The article was later pulled from The Times website, but not before copies were cached by other online news services.

In the article Chris Allison, the Met's kettler-in-chief, explained that the TSG are just misunderstood and do a lot of great work for charity...

The Times piece was published here:
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6939597.ece

See traces here:
 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22G20+riot+police+to+go+on+good+will+tour%22

The Ian Tomlinson Family Campaign website:
 http://www.iantomlinsonfamilycampaign.org.uk/

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Bradford University National Demo & March - full details released

02-12-2009 01:37

NATIONAL MARCH & RALLY AGAINST BRADFORD UNIVERSITY
Saturday 13th February 2010
Meeting 12noon at Centenary Square, Queensbury, Bradford, BD1 9ST

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Rough Music #22 out now in Brighton

01-12-2009 23:37

Your all favourite dirt-digging, scurrilous, four page rag is roughin' up the streets now.

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NPIOU Make an appearance at Decommissioners trial

01-12-2009 22:28

today was the first hearing in the decommissioners case ( http://decommissioners.co.uk/)

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War & Piss

01-12-2009 22:12

As usual, the mainstream news condemns a minor act of so-called vandalism/ desecration , while condoning major war crimes.....

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22 Days of Waging Peace: Targeting Brimar, Targeting Bloodshed, Remembering Gaza

01-12-2009 21:46

On 27th December it will be one year since Operation Cast Lead, the brutal 22 day bombing of Gaza by Israeli forces. Target Brimar will be organising 22 days of protest to commemorate not only those killed in Gaza, but those killed by UK/US forces in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere around the world.

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Resist Eviction of Kings Crescent Estate 12pm Thursday (London N4)

01-12-2009 21:34

Resist the eviction of a community squatting initiative 12PM on THURSDAY 3rd of DECEMBER. They are calling for as many people as possible to assemble at our place from Wednesday night onwards. Numbers mean victory!

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Life Sciences Research Stockholders OK Going Private

01-12-2009 21:11

Life Sciences Research (LSR) announced that, at a special meeting of its stockholders, its stockholders voted to approve the merger of Lion Merger with and into LSR pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 8, among LSR, Lion Holdings and Lion Merger, as amended by Amendment No. 1 to Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of October 20, among LSR, Lion Holdings, and Lion Merger.

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Opposition to Obama, Browne and NATO War and Troop Increase Grow

01-12-2009 20:45


The Obama prosecution of the Afghan war benefits the Zionist agenda, the Chinese policy of exhausting their Muslim and American foes in fighting each other, petroplutocrats, CIA and ATF heroin distribution and war profiteers as it hemorrhages money to over 1000 imperialist bases around the world. American soldiers died in the last 3 months in FOUR war zones: Afghanistan, Iraq, the Philippines, and in aircrashes in the US.

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Bogus Honduran Elections

01-12-2009 20:43

The true divides in Latin America - between justice and injustice, democracy and dictatorship, human rights and corporate rights, people's power and imperial domination - have never been more visible than today.

People's movements throughout the region to revolutionize corrupt, unequal systems that have isolated and excluded the vast majority in Latin American nations, are successfully taking power democratically and building new models of economic and social justice.

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Opening the gates

01-12-2009 18:25

Andrea D’Cruz talks to a group organising collective action among people on the margins of the welfare system

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Enforced destitution

01-12-2009 18:24

Frances Webber investigates the Home Office’s policy of imposing poverty on those seeking asylum in Britain

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Anti-capitalism: alive and well

01-12-2009 18:21

Ten years ago, the global justice movement burst from the streets of Seattle onto the world’s television screens. John Hilary examines the victories and challenges of the last decade

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Anti-capitalist Block at The Wave

01-12-2009 18:20

The Wave will be lumped as a protest with a mixture of liberals and SWPers. Avoid being lumped with these lot (Unless you do fit those categories, of course!) and join the anti-capitalist block on Saturday 5th December.

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Ken Loach - Statement concerning Sahrawi human right’s activist, Aminatou Haidar

01-12-2009 18:12

In an impassioned statement about the Western Saharan hunger striker, award winning film director Ken Loach and screen writer Paul Laverty draw a comparison between Haidar’s landing card, and Rosa Parks’s seat.

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Good News for 209radio!

01-12-2009 17:32

Palpable tension in the studio, as presenters recount their favourite moments.
It's not often in this job that I get the rare pleasure of telling some genuinely good news, but today I'm glad to say is one of those days.

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Close Campsfield Demo Success

01-12-2009 16:59

Around 100 people gathered outside Campsfield Detention Centre in Kidlington on Saturday 28th November, to protest against the arbitrary incarceration of innocent individuals in Campsfield, and to mark the 16th anniversary of the creation of Campsfield.

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British Parliament Tables Motion in support of hunger-striking Saharawi activist

01-12-2009 16:27

A Motion was today tabled in the House of Commons expressing concern for hunger-striking Nobel Prize Nominee Aminatou Haidar. Letters of support were also signed by celebrities including film director Ken Loach and former Monty Python, Terry Jones.