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Eight Years of Guantánamo: Reports and Round Ups

13-01-2010 19:45

protesters outside the US Embassy
Eight years on...no let up in the regime of torture, arbitrary detention and indefensible justifications...

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Sheffield, Nottingham & Leeds Saboteurs End Of Year Report

13-01-2010 16:52

Summary of hunt saboteurs' activity in the region from August - December 2009.

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Iranian scientist assassinated as US steps up war threats

13-01-2010 16:51

Massoud Ali Mohammadi, one of Iran’s leading nuclear scientists, was assassinated in Tehran Tuesday, just two days after the top US military commander in the region announced that the Pentagon has drawn up plans to bomb Iranian nuclear sites.

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Towards an Unemployed Workers Union in Oxford

13-01-2010 13:56

This is a callout for people to take part in setting up an Unemployed Workers and Claimants Union in Oxford.

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Why is the University of Liverpool silencing blogs critical of Sir Howard Newby?

13-01-2010 13:36

On 5th January 2010 blog platform WordPress.com shut down a number of blogs it hosted after claims by the director of legal services at the University of Liverpool, Kevan Ryan, that posts on them defamed vice-chancellor Sir Howard.
At least three blogs were affected - The Bristol Blogger, EcoLogics and Sir Howard Newby Watch. The first two were brought back online after the posts in question (dating as far back as 2007) were hidden from public view. Sir Howard Newby Watch remains offline. The claims that the posts in question were defamatory have not been tested.

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Luton protest trial and Islam4UK ban: huge attacks on civil liberties

13-01-2010 09:13

Convictions for peaceful protests deemed 'offensive' to chauvinists, and plans to ban an organisation which is not accused of any crime, mark a further onslaught on basic liberties in Britain.

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Visteon workers fight on

13-01-2010 06:08

Visteon Pension Action Group protest at Bridgend, S Wales
Workers at the car part manufacturers who won a momentous battle for redundancy payment from Ford motor giants last year are still locked in a bitter dispute with their ex-employers over money owed through the pension fund after the collapse of Visteon UK.

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Scientology Targets Haiti for Slave Labor

13-01-2010 04:51

The Scientology cult tries to convince poor Haitians they can come to the USA as Scientology clergymen. The reality is that they will live as virtual slaves.

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National Demo Against Bradford University - One Month Away

13-01-2010 02:19

NATIONAL MARCH & RALLY AGAINST THE UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD
Saturday 13th February 2010

Important developments have been made with the campaign to stop animal experiments at the University of Bradford and we are progressing with our aims on a constant basis. Please come out onto the streets of Bradford on this day and help create a show of strength, letting Bradford Uni know the opposition to their ongoing vivisection.

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multimultimultinational bid to take over the earth centre ????

13-01-2010 00:32

As you may be aware a campaign has been running to revive the Earth Centre in Doncaster as a community space and environment skill centre. In the last few days it has come to our attention that a very curious collection of multinationals partner a company (RTTG) Rapid Technology Transfer Group that has along with DMBC have been privately making plans for the future of the site. They dont seem to have a website yet.....

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Racism against asians from a large company

12-01-2010 22:28

I would like to publice the way in which a large company treats Asians. There have been 3 separate issues of serious Racial Discrimination/Harassment by this company which led to Asian employees leaving the company.

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Pro-democracy nuclear physicist assassinated by bomb in Iran

12-01-2010 19:19

Masoud Ali Mohammadi
Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a 50 year-old nuclear physics professor who has been a public supporter of opposition figure Mir Hossein Mousavi and an advocate for secular democratic reform in Iran was killed outside his home by a motorcycle rigged with a bomb.

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The Anatomy OF US's Defeat IN Afghanistan

12-01-2010 19:14

The article discusses the reasons for US's defeat in Afghanistan

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Westside Gathering, 16th & 17th January 2010

12-01-2010 19:04

Drax 2006 - Where "Westside" Started - but where will it all end?
The weekend will see activists from Bristol, Bath and hopefully South Wales converge upon Bath to draw together experiences of the G20, Climate Camps this summer (Cymru, Scotland and London), the Calais camp, ongoing No Borders activity, Co-Mutiny, the Ratcliffe swoop and recent events in Copenhagen as a basis for 'where do we go from here?'

Westside may have formed at Cimate Camp, but their activities are ot restricted that process, and last year, in fact, focussed elsewhere.

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Boycotting KFC? Include Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silver's

12-01-2010 18:38

For maximum impact, all aspects of a boycotted corporation's parent
company should be avoided.

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To shoot an elephant (Proiezione globale)

12-01-2010 17:24

TO SHOOT AN ELEPHANT

The “To shoot an elephant” team calls for a Global Screening-Global Screaming Day for Gaza on January 18^th , 2010

The 18^th of January 2010 is the first anniversary of the end to the bombing by Israel of the Gaza Strip; an attack which began on the 27^th of December 2008, and lasted until the 18^th of January 2009, and in which 1,412 Palestinians lost their lives. The documentary /To shoot an elephant/ is an eye witness account from within the Gaza Strip of what occurred during those days. This direct and privileged narration becomes a tool with which we can confront the Israeli propaganda about what really happened there and the silence of the international community.

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Northwest Bomb Plot 'Oddities'

12-01-2010 16:40

The goal is Yemeni oil. Hence the reason for the destabilization and the purported need for the US to stop al-Qaeda (literally, 'the database'). The Yemeni national security chief has declared that the country is receiving assistance from the US in the crackdown on what he called 'al-Qaeda operatives' in southern Yemen (Press TV). Translation: US corporaterrorists want Yemen's oil and they want it NOW.

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Splitting The BNP Vote? By 'Malatesta'

12-01-2010 13:00

the BNP is facing a financially tough general election and now the NF & UKIP could split their vote.

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 12th January 2009

12-01-2010 12:26

Lydia Besong Released From Yarl's Wood

Fresh claim for asylum to be considered by UKBA

Supporters of Lydia Besong, the writer and human rights activist threatened with deportation from the UK, have welcomed the UK Border Agency's decision to release her and to consider a fresh claim for asylum.

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Protest tactic for the coming UK election

12-01-2010 12:05

We show how the politically alienated and determined non-voters can use the general election to push for meaningful reform.