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Interview with Erik Swyngedouw: The post-politics of climate change

15-02-2010 22:01

Interview from Shift Magazine, issue 8

Erik Swyngedouw is Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester. He is committed to political economic analysis of contemporary capitalism, producing several major works on economic globalisation, regional development, finance, and urbanisation. His interests also include political-ecological themes and the transformation of nature, notably water issues, in Ecuador, Spain, the UK, and elsewhere in Europe.

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Big Pharma security thug threats to kill gay AR activist with crack cocaine.

15-02-2010 19:54

A thug working for a private security firm on behalf of a pharmaceutical company have threatened to kill animal rights activists with crack cocaine & make it "look like suicide". The homophobic thugs have said they will rape & kill the man his family members with crack & a noose. The thugs burgled his house and stole family photos & told the AR activist " we will rape your gran, your mum & aunt".

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Dresden - Germany: Nazi-march stopped

15-02-2010 19:16

"no pasaran" - the slogan of the day
For the first time europe`s biggest annual nazi-march at Dresden, Germany was stopped by mass-blockades and antifascist action.

Translation press release of Alliance "Dresden Nazifrei" and some further information plus translation of antifascist ticker.

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Victory in Bilin!

15-02-2010 16:22

Israel to Reroute Part of West Bank Wall Following Years of Protest

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Urgent Letter Appeal For Medical Treatment Of Jerome White-Bey

15-02-2010 15:47

Jerome White-Bey is the founder and president of the Missouri Prisoner Labor Union, an organization of Missouri prisoners and their outside supporters who are organizing around labor and other prison conditions. Since the founding of the MPLU, Jerome has been subject to administrative harassment and retaliation. He was in the "hole" (administrative segregation) for two years following the formation of the MPLU and has constantly been moved in and out of segregation since.

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The media response to the growing influence of the 9/11 truth movement

15-02-2010 15:31

In the past year, in response to emerging independent science on the 9/11 attacks, nine corporate, seven public, and two independent media outlets aired analytic programs investigating the official account.

Increasingly, the issue is treated as a scientific controversy worthy of debate, rather than as a "conspiracy theory" ignoring science and common sense.

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Witness Appeal - Bradford University National Demo Arrests

15-02-2010 13:52

WITNESS APPEAL - National March & Rally Against Bradford University - Sat 13th Feb 2010

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Mash The System - Gig

15-02-2010 12:51

Come and rave your face off!

Friday, 19 February 2010 10pm till 3am, at the Casbah, 1 Wellington Street, Sheffield
£3 before 11pm, £4 after
(Donations welcome!)

Sequoia Sound System, Tinnitus and Sheffield Social Centre have teamed up
to bring Sheffield a night of the best Drum and Bass, Reggae, Jungle,
Ragga, Dub and Breakcore there is to offer.

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Bath Black Cat occupied social centre moves again!!

15-02-2010 12:40

For 6 months, the Black Cat has been providing Bath with a liberated community space featuring a radical library, freeshop, cafe, debt advice centre, and dozens of film nights, meetings, activities and workshops .

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British Airways Scab Union Exposed

15-02-2010 12:38

Thank goodness that there are still people out there with a conscience. The Trade Unions are in possession of information that firmly points the finger at British Airways as
the masterminds behind the newly forming ‘Professional Cabin Crew Council’. In doing so they have romanced a small number of misguided cabin crew who are seeking to
undermine the support for your Trade Unions, for their own self aggrandisement.

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Worldwide: war is illegal action

15-02-2010 10:47

War is illegal
Spread the word! The US military/corporate empire is destined to crumble. Come be part of a historic action!

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The Mujahadeen

15-02-2010 10:46

“Earlier the NATO commander apologised after rockets killed 12 civilians”

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PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds blockade nuclear bomb factory

15-02-2010 10:01

Blockading at the main gate
Campaigners call for disarmament of Trident and abolition of nuclear weapons
 
An estimated eight hundred campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a number of other countries have joined a blockade of every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. [1] The blockade started at 7am.

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BNP’s constitutional change means nothing

15-02-2010 09:50

Nick Griffin: “For one thing they can’t call us racist any more.”///
Nick Griffin, you racist twat. There, you see, I can.

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More civilian deaths as US launches offensive in southern Afghanistan

15-02-2010 09:11

In what is likely to be the first of many such atrocities, two US military rockets slammed into a house near Marjah, the target of the current offensive, killing 12 people. US military authorities admitted that the victims were innocent civilians sheltering in their own home, as they had been advised to do by US and NATO officials.

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Anti-Olympic protests.

15-02-2010 08:09

"The Olympics have a history of leaving host cities in debt, and relocating the poor and homeless away from the sanitized corridors of host cities."

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NATO's Secret Transatlantic Bond: Nuclear Weapons In Europe

15-02-2010 03:07

"Each non-nuclear-weapon State Party to the Treaty undertakes not to receive the transfer from any transferor whatsoever of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices or of control over such weapons or explosive devices directly, or indirectly; not to manufacture or otherwise acquire nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices; and not to seek or receive any assistance in the manufacture of nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices." [13]

The Time piece of December 2, then, points out that the continued presence of U.S. nuclear warheads in Europe is "more than an anachronism or historical oddity. They [the weapons] are a violation of the spirit of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)...."

"Because 'nuclear burden-sharing,' as the dispersion of B61s in Europe is called, was set up before the NPT came into force, it is technically legal. But as signatories to the NPT, the four European countries and the U.S. have pledged 'not to receive the transfer...of nuclear weapons or control over such weapons directly, or indirectly.' That, of course, is precisely what the long-standing NATO arrangement entails."

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Adrian Radford. A hoax, diversion and paid by Cancer Research UK?

15-02-2010 02:04

The farce that is the "Adrian Radford" story. Adrian Radford claimed that he infiltrated SHAC who he describes as the ALF. He runs a "surveillance instruction" outfit and claims that he was working for MI6 [SIS]. He came out publicly and claimed that he was "responsible" for the info given to police about SHAC [leaving the real moles to carry on]. We think his real employer was Cancer Research UK.

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Cambridge 'Anima' on Fairtrade Fortnight 2010

15-02-2010 01:06

Anima is a newly formed movement, there is no central control and no leaders anyone and everyone can be Anima, as long as they follow the Mission Statement. People can form Anima groups anywhere and everywhere, they can be closed (groups of friends, etc) or open (anyone can join) or a mixture of both – whatever works for you.

Cambridge Anima is the first part of this new movement. We aim to do stuff in the Cambridge area - look out for us!

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Oil-ympics Come To Trafalgar Square

15-02-2010 00:29

On Saturday, 13 February at 12 noon, UK and Canadian environmental activists opened the ‘Oil-ympics’ at Canada House in Trafalgar Square. The event, timed to coincide with the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, highlighted the role of British companies in the single biggest industrial project on earth, the Canadian Tar Sands (1).