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'Say Your Peace' on Turnham Green this saturday

12-03-2010 12:22

The first event from the newly formed Brentford Peace Action

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Bath Bomb #28 Out Now

12-03-2010 10:35

Highlights from this issue of Bath's radical freesheet include eviction, broken windows, pissed off hunters, council waffle and the usual crows...

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Pickets At South Korean And US Embassies

12-03-2010 10:15

The UK Korean Friendship Association has called a picket of the both the US and
south Korean embassies on Monday 15th of March in protest at the continuing war excercises in South Korea jointly with US military

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Criminal MPs Protest – Pix-&-Vidz – Thu 11 Mar 10

12-03-2010 06:40

A1. Three Fingers for Corrupt Swindlers
Dateline: Westminster Magistrates Court, Horseferry Road, London, UK, 10:30-15:00, Thu 11 Mar 10 – Nearly 400 MPs swindle over £1,000,000 in false expenses claims over several years, and how many scapegoats are put up for criminal charges? Just three Labour MPs, and a token Tory Lord too. The 'public' were appalled, angry, and up in arms about this scandal – so how come when the four Parliamentarian criminals first face charges in court, only SEVEN protesters turned up?

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Helping Iraqi Refugee's

12-03-2010 01:11

In the first of a series of interviews, Elaine Bigelow of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign speaks to Sasha Crow, who as director of the Collateral Repair Project is currently in the Kingdom of Jordan, where the CRP is providing assistance to many of Iraq’s displaced people.

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The Situation in Greece

11-03-2010 22:24

This is best viewed at  http://www.lasthours.org.uk/blogs/the-situation-in-greece/ and will be updated from there.

Tensions rise once again in the streets of Greece’s major cities. Radicals and Anarchists join workers from around the country in voicing dissent. Airports, hospitals and other public services have shut down for the day as the Greek Government attempt to impose harsh new austerity measures.

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Greek Revolt Updates 11th of March 2010

11-03-2010 21:50

Begins with a song by germany's most influential "polit" Rockband Ton Steine Scherben "My name is human being", that was published in greek to honor the anarchist Lampros Fountas assassinated by cops yesterday in Athens. After the updates comes a flier spread in Athens. If it sounds too familiar to you scroll a bit down to learn more about the current situation in Greece.

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800 Tube Staff To Go

11-03-2010 20:50

London Underground (LU) is to axe up to 800 jobs under plans to make savings of £16m a year, the company has announced.

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Greek General Strike

11-03-2010 19:48

More than 50,000 people have demonstrated in Athens during a nationwide strike in Greece against the cash-strapped government's austerity measures.
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UK Coal company information

11-03-2010 18:32

UK Coal are responsible for 11 proposed surface mine sites throughout England totalling well over 5975000 tonnes.
 http://coalintheuk.org/new/

Here’s a little information about the company and its major share holders:

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Protest against the imprisonment and abuse of Kurdish children in Turkish jails!

11-03-2010 17:03

A 15 year old Kurdish girl Berivan Sayaca has been jailed for 8 years for allegedly throwing stones at police, she is just one of hundreds of children singled out and arrested indiscriminately and jailed unjustly in Turkey. We want to highlight this scandal and free the children. Join us!

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State Repression in Iceland: Nine People Taken to Court With Serious Accusations

11-03-2010 16:35

One of the accused and a policeman on the parliament balcony
The legal aftermaths of Iceland’s last winter revolt are now being determined. A court case against nine individuals who entered the parliament with the intension to protest, was filed this morning and will continue in April. The people are facing very serious accusations; being supposed to have broken laws that might bring them years in prison.

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New Porkbolter is out!

11-03-2010 15:30

THE latest edition of The Porkbolter, the pig-fixated local newsletter from Worthing in West Sussex, has hit the streets. Here's the main article:

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Leeds AR Demonstrate at Bradford Uni Funders

11-03-2010 15:19

Leeds AR Demonstrate at Bradford Uni Funders

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Meeting for radical climate action and analysis - Tuesday 16th March

11-03-2010 15:05

The next in a series of meetings at the Sumac Centre (245 Gladstone Street,Nottingham NG7 6HX) at 8pm.

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With regard to ANAIRC’s campaign against NSEL, Flor de Caña and Grupo Pellas

11-03-2010 15:03

To this date, there is no recognized formal scientific study that establishes a relationship of causality between sugarcane cultural practices and chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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Dialogue between Nicaragua Sugar, Grupo Pellas and ASOCHIVIDA regarding CKD

11-03-2010 14:58

Report from the Compliance Advisor and Ombudsman (CAO) of the World Bank: Dialogue process between the San Antonio Sugar Mill and ASOCHIVIDA advances.

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Calais - effective disruption of police

11-03-2010 14:46

With a few more of us on the ground in Calais we were more effective at protecting the large Africa House squat last night

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Dissident Island Radio - How to superglue yourself to Gordon Brown

11-03-2010 12:29

Download the latest Dissident Island Radio show...

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Coal Mining Heritage and Issues March 12-14th 2010, Newcastle

11-03-2010 11:58

Coal mining has never been more important around the world than it is today, and it looks set to expand further on a global scale. In this context energy debates, coal mining communities and associated issues and so on, need further examination.