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No Borders May Day Report

09-05-2010 11:50

Thanks to everyone who helped to make the day a great success. This was the first time in years that there was an explicitly anti-authoritarian and anti-capitalist event on 1 May in Manchester - so we are glad it went well.

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IAEA director Yukiya Amano oversteps his bounds

09-05-2010 11:23

With the departure of ElBaradei as the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a deep and bitter divide has opened up on the IAEA Board of Governors between advanced nuclear states, including most of the states with nuclear weapons, and developing countries that make up a majority of the membership. On highly publicized issues such as Iran and Syria, consensus has evaporated.

It remains to be seen whether Amano can restore consensus to the IAEA Board and building trust particularly of the majority of its members who represent the developing countries. However, his perfomance with respect to Iran thus far does not bode well.

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Free Black Panthers! (by Latuff)

09-05-2010 02:50

Cartoon I made for Black Panther Larry Pinkney, on behalf of Black Panther members jailed in US prisons.

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Sheffield Temporary Autonomous Arts - Thurs 13th - Sat 15th May

08-05-2010 21:24

Four days of open access art space. Come and bring your art to display: painting, sculpture, photography, film, interactive art, performance, fashion, and whatever else you can imagine and make happen! There will also be nightly events, like film nights.

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Fifth in series of demonstrations outside settler company Ahava

08-05-2010 19:47

Palestine actvists return to Ahava in central London for fifth in series of demonstrations against the shope, which stocks good from illegal West Bank settlements.

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New York car bomb Incident: Another false flag?

08-05-2010 19:36

As long as imperial ambitions and rogue agencies like CIA and their foreign counterparts exist, false flag operations will be commonplace, the May 1 New York one the latest example, and maybe a forerunner of what's to come - another 9/11 some believe, far worse than the first one, perhaps involving a nuclear incident in a US city.

Then using it as a pretext for more war and to divert attention from America's deepening economic crisis, likely to erupt in protests because of Washington's indifference to millions affected.

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End the War in Afghanistan, Downing Street, London - Pictures

08-05-2010 17:46

As the British political system cartwheels into chaos after the return of a hung Parliament, Anti-war campaigner Maria Gallastegui manages to take the message of peace directly to the heart of the seat of Government, entirely on her own.

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Desperate Plea for Animal Activitsts, Greater London

08-05-2010 16:03

ACATA are desperately searching for animal rights activists to demonstrate with them against Zippos Circus today and Tomorrow.

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Iran, the US and the UN nuclear conference

08-05-2010 13:05

The Obama administration and the US media have exploited the visit of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to New York to again threaten Iran with further UN sanctions and military action over its nuclear programs and demonise the Iranian president.

Like the Iranian “military threat,” the demonisation of Ahmadinejad serves to deflect public attention from Washington’s underlying aim of dominating the key strategic regions of the Middle East and Central Asia.

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Glasgow rallies against the Tories

08-05-2010 03:15

Peoples assembly parliament square democracy village call out to network

07-05-2010 23:54

Peoples assembly parliament square direct democracy village is growing and evolving

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Smash EDO - Target Barclays Picket 11am Saturday

07-05-2010 21:05

see www.smashedo.org.uk/target-barclays.html

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Britain's Election: Welcome to No Choice Democracy

07-05-2010 20:46

"This “no choice democracy” is being foisted on ordinary people everywhere, from North America to Europe. It is the other side of the prescription of “economic structural adjustment” that for decades was the “tough medicine” that international capital forced poverty-stricken nations to swallow. The “choice” it seems is: you can hold your nose while swallowing this, or you may not hold your nose. The British non-election of 2010 marks the nadir in western so-called liberal democracy in which “we the people” have pointedly no choice in how our societies are to be run. Because we are all Third Worlders now. Bankrupt politics in hand with bankrupt economics."

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Brown Battles on

07-05-2010 20:24

wat a muppet

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New colonialism: Pentagon carves Africa into military zones

07-05-2010 19:42

Last year the commander of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), General William Ward, said the Pentagon had military partnerships with 35 of the continent's 53 nations, "representing U.S. relationships that span the continent." That number has increased in the interim.

As the first overseas regional military command set up by Washington in this century, the first since the end of the Cold War, and the first in 25 years, the activation of AFRICOM emphasizes the geostrategic importance of Africa in U.S. international military, political and economic planning.

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Corporate Watch: backers of Maskiot settlement in the Jordan Valley

07-05-2010 19:33

Big corporations are not alone in implementing the Israeli occupation on the ground. Especially in the smaller settlements which do not yet have any industry or commercial outlets, ideological charities and religious groups play a crucial role when it comes to encouraging settlement expansion. This is the case with Maskiot, the first new settlement to be approved in the West Bank for a decade when it was officially established in the middle of 2008.

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Anti Tory Protests in London and a riot obsessed pet dog in Athens!

07-05-2010 19:05

The Facebook group got shut down, here's the backup blog page...

http://toryhatersunite.blogspot.com/

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Wnat a charade!

07-05-2010 18:57

Democracy?

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Democracy dies in Sheffield: students denied their constitutional right.

07-05-2010 18:15

Hundreds of voters in the Sheffield Hallam constituency were denied their democratic right to vote after waiting in queues of over 2 hours at polling stations. Voters had the door of polling stations slammed in their face at exactly 10pm, even though they had arrived at the polling station hours before the deadline, due to inefficient staff.

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BNP meltdown continues - annihilation in Barking and Dagenham

07-05-2010 18:06

Bye-bye BNP