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Solidarity with the popular uprisings in North Africa and Middle East

03-02-2011 20:00

On December 17, 2010 cracks began to show in the by the Western world powers cherished 'stability' in the Arab world. In Tunisia, there was civil unrest as a fruit seller set himself on fire while people took to the streets en masse to protest against the repressive dicator Ben Ali and his government. Food prices, low wages, lack of political freedom and a lack of perspective initially brought a few thousand people on the streets to fight for a better life. They had overcome their fears and defied the dictatorial police state.

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Revolving door between planning department and Scottish Coal explains new South Lanarkshire minerals plan

03-02-2011 18:22

South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) have just announced a 6 week consultation on the proposed new minerals plan, setting out areas of recoverable coal that the planning departme

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Context for Struggle - S.O.S. South Lanarkshire

03-02-2011 18:22

Disclaimer: This is the opinion of one member of CAS/THWAC and does not speak on behalf of the collective.

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Cardiff North Africa / Middle East Solidarity Protest

03-02-2011 17:33

Just a poster for the above event - Friday, 5.30 - 7pm, meet at Nye Bevan statue, Queens St.

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Misreporting Egypt

03-02-2011 17:15

Pro-Mubarak thug on camel attacks crowd
@banbarkawi: This is not a war between sects, nor religions. This is a war of the government against its people. 02/02/11

The rapidly unfolding events in Tahrir Square now stand irrefutably as the result of an act of state repression that is at once inherently insidious in nature, but blatant in its staging. The fact that the initiation of attacks and violence in Cairo came at the behest, under the control, and in the interests of a state mechanism attempting to crush its people, is not incidental to the situation, nor is it a complexity of chaos for history to reveal and make sense of at a later date. It is inherent to the reality of the situation – it is the situation itself and everything that is happening stems from that.

Yet despite the constant stream of reports from both paid journalists, and Egyptian demonstrators, on the ground, either immediately, or later, verified in photos, video or witness statements, that first exposed and consistently reaffirmed the truth of today’s events; the reporting of major news channels has, throughout the day, become more and more a passive journalism of the uncertain.

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Mozaz's Funeral

03-02-2011 17:11

Audio Mark Mozaz Wallis RIP
There were a lot of old and new faces at Mozaz's funeral and wake today, attached is a recording of the funeral and some anecdotes from people at the wake.

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Palestine Today 02 03 2011

03-02-2011 15:39

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, February 03 2011

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What's really happening with the EU Cosmetics Directive

03-02-2011 15:34

It was recently leaked to the Guardian newspaper that the European Parliament will probably be asked to postpone a ban intended to impose a Europe-wide ban on the use of animals for testing cosmetic products, (and their ingredients), and a simultaneous ban on the sale of cosmetic products tested on animals after the European ban comes into force.

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Pictures from the anti-cuts demonstrations in Sheffield on Saturday 29th Jan

03-02-2011 15:23

Sheffield 29thJan demo 1
About 450 people were gathered at Weston Park, Sheffield to demonstrate against the massive cuts to public service funding implemented by the coalition government.

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Victory for the 4 Thessaloniki 2003 Summit activists

03-02-2011 15:08

On Monday January 31st the four activists, Simon Chapman (Britain), Suleiman “Kastro” Dakdouk (Syrian origin), Michalis Triakapis (Greece) and Fernando Perez Gorraiz (Spain), were found not guilty in Greek court of the charges related to the EU Summit in June 2003 in Thessaloniki, Greece.

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upcoming demo and public meeting in Bath

03-02-2011 15:07

Join union members, students, claimants and community activists around Bath and the surrounds, to fight against the Con-Dem cuts

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Rebel Alliance Brighton 6/2/11

03-02-2011 13:27

Rebel Alliance meeting Sunday 6th Februaury, 6pm at The Cowley Club

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Edinburgh students shut down lecture by Israeli diplomat

03-02-2011 12:43

Edinburgh University Students for Justice in Palestine successfully shut down a lecture last night by Ishmael Khaldi, advisor to Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman.

The event, hosted by the University's Jewish society and held in Lecture Theatre 1 of Appleton Tower, was re-arranged only the night before after the International Relations society refused to host Khaldi, due to the fact that Palestinian were living under “Apartheid”

The talk was scheduled to start at 5pm but was delayed until 5.30pm, with the organisers citing 'security concerns'. When it did eventually get under way, one SJP member interrupted immediately shouting “Where is the freedom of speech for the 1,500 massacred in Gaza? Where is the freedom of speech for the Palestinian students in Israeli dungeons?”

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Inside anti-kettling HQ

03-02-2011 11:23

Cairo, it wasn't. But at about a quarter to four last Saturday afternoon, on a crowded backstreet in central London, something happened outside the Egyptian embassy that deserves at least a footnote in the annals of protest history. A crowd of students weren't kettled.

In the context of recent British protests, this was a near-miracle. At each of the previous four major student protests in London since the Millbank riot on 10 November, police have kettled – or, in their terminology, "contained" – thousands of protesters, preventing them from leaving an area for several hours, and often from accessing basic amenities such as food, water and toilets.

Police kettle protesters supposedly to quell violence, but protesters arguably only turn to violence out of frustration at being kettled. Most notoriously, police trapped hundreds of teenage schoolchildren inside a tight grid on Whitehall on 24 November – and only subsequently did a few of them smash up a police van abandoned in their midst.

Saturday's non-kettle, then, was a victory in itself. But the real excitement wasn't that it didn't happen – but how it didn't happen. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly why police and protesters behave in a certain way at a certain time, but one explanation for the kettle's failure to form lies with a new communications network, which launched that afternoon:Sukey.



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Bristol WDM presents: Hunger for Justice

03-02-2011 11:22

An evening of speakers, discussion and action over the local and global issues of food sovereignty.
Small farmers are locked into a world food economy controlled by a greedy few. Find out what social movements are doing to change this and where we fit into the struggle.

When: Tuesday 22nd Feb 7.30pm

Where: Unitarian Meeting House, Brunswick Sq. BS2 8PE

Free Entry

Now we are in the midst of another food crisis, the structures of the world's food economy have again been revealed for their inequities. However, across the world, movements of people are rising up to change this. This evening will host a vibrant discussion of what actions people are taking in the global food sovereignty movement and what is being done here in Bristol. Come along to find out how to get involved in the global justice movement.

Contributors:

• Claire Hall- activist with experience of campesina movements in Colombia

• Christine Haigh – WDM food campaigner

• Dr Alan Terry –Lecturer in the geography of rural development (UWE)

• Claire Milne – Community food activist and lecturer on the global food system at the School of Artisan Food

Invite your friends to this event on facebook: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=125992027471169

Read more about WDM’s food campaign: http://www.wdm.org.uk/

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Forest Sell Off MP Calls Public Meeting

03-02-2011 11:22


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Police agent Mark Kennedy was active throughout Europe

03-02-2011 10:02

Mark Kennedy, the police agent who worked undercover in the environmental movement for eight years, was active in his undercover guise as Mark Stone throughout Europe.

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Berlin Squat Evicted

03-02-2011 08:37

Berlin commune eviction results in arrests and huge protests

Eviction of Liebig 14 former squat in Friedrichshain takes five hours and 2,500 police to counter protesters