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Basildon Council sunk secret group appointed to solve Dale Farm crisis

14-09-2011 19:57

The Homes and Communities Agency have confirmed in a letter to Richard Howitt MEP that their offer of land and funding for alternative sites for the Dale Farm community was rejected by Basildon Council in October 2010.

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Statewatch Analysis of Undercover Police in Europe

14-09-2011 18:26

Using false documents against “Euro-anarchists”: the exchange of Anglo-German undercover police highlights controversial police operations.

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Palestine Today 09 14 2011

14-09-2011 15:11

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday September 14, 2011

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Public Sector Strike Predictions

14-09-2011 14:29

Expect to see old pictures like this dredged up over the next couple of months
General secretaries have used the Trades Union Congress conference in London to announce that they will be balloting their membership for strike action against the government's raid on pensions. So far, only 30% of the public sector workforce is covered by the ballots, but already the ruling class is howling in outrage. Using past experience and a little dialectical materialism - i.e. revolutionary common sense as a philosophical guide for the working class movement - what can be predicted over the next few months?

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New Squatting Law Assault on All our Rights to Protest

14-09-2011 13:10

The proposed new law on squatting will affect,protests that occupy space and which trespass,such as environment defence camps,peace and climate camps,student and worker occupations etc etc
We need all protest groups to get active on this asap.
Consultation ends Oct 5th 2011 check links below

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Housing Action Group, meet 12 noon thurs 15th sept at Oval Tube for action

14-09-2011 13:07

Housing Action Group, meet 12 noon thurs 15th sept at Oval Tube for action magickal mystery tour

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Medieval Tortures In Modern Greece

14-09-2011 11:47

Medical treatment and legal aid is required for the irregular migrants (at least three of them are of Kurdish origin; therefore, may very well be prima facie refugees) who are being detained after the raid of the Greek police in Egoumenitsa, Greece on 22 August 2011.

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A taste of Apartheid

14-09-2011 09:27

The Israel Government Tourist Office invited Londoners to visit the InterContinental
hotel's Cookbook Cafe and 'discover one of Israel's finest Hidden Gems': its
settler-colonial conquest of Palestine, overseasoned with cultural appropriation. At
the Taste of Israel week, diners could sample Arab cuisine and goods produced on
stolen Palestinian land. Most of the tables remained empty and the £20 a head buffet
untouched for the first day of this poorly attended event; blinds were hastily
lowered by staff to obscure placards held up against the Cafe windows by boycott
activists, reading "Food and wine of apartheid Israel" and "The bitter taste of
Israeli occupation".

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All out in Birmingham 18 Sept + Manchester 2 Oct

14-09-2011 00:05

Even the mainstream right are admitting the Coalition have betrayed democracy. The next 2 major protests will lobby the Lib-Dem conference, 18 Sept, Birmingham, and the Tory conference, 2 Oct, Manchester. We're defending our right to receive services we've ALREADY PAID FOR through decades of Income Tax and National Insurance payments and VAT...

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100s of activists stage protests against DSEI fair

13-09-2011 23:03

Hundreds of protesters stage a series of stunts across London against the arms trade as the UK government invites 14 countries criticised by human rights organisations as having authorative regimes to the DSEI arms fair which the defence secretary Liam Fox describes as 'in the national interest'.

 

March from Kingsgate House, in Westminster, to the arms fair at Customs House sets off at 10am tomorrow (Wednesday).

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Retraction: EDL and Stabbings

13-09-2011 21:40

We published an article yesterday casting doubt on the claims that two EDL members were stabbed outside the Tyburn Pub in Marble Arch, London.

We now accept these stabbings did happen and anyone with any information should contact Westminster Serious Violence Team on 0207 321 9314, or Crimestoppers anonymously.

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Gaza children’s images of war censored

13-09-2011 21:28

Gaza children’s images of war
Gaza children’s images of war censored under pressure from US Israel lobby .... Pro-Israel organizations pressured an Oakland children’s museum to cancel an upcoming exhibition of drawings made by Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip. ...The censored drawings were created through local children’s mental health initiatives in Gaza immediately following Israel’s attacks in the winter of 2008-09, during which approximately 1,400 Palestinians, including more than 300 children, were killed.

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Glasgow AF and Friends Meeting Tues. 20th Sept. 7pm

13-09-2011 21:03

Glasgow Anarchist Federation and Friends Meeting
Open to anyone friendly to AFed's Aims and Principles:

 http://www.afed.org.uk/organisation/aims-and-principles.html

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Solidarity Call For Gerze Community-Turkey

13-09-2011 20:59

Solidarity Call for Gerze Community in Turkey, who successfully defended its land against the power plant company and the state violence

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National Gallery shamed whilst hosting arms dealers’ reception

13-09-2011 20:51

Arms dealers schmooze with National Gallery
Activists protest against DSEi drinks reception at the National Gallery.

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Bailiff’s dirty tricks at Dale Farm

13-09-2011 17:55

Last night (11/12th Sept) a man who claimed to be working for Altek Security with bailiffs Constant & Co on the operation to clear the site at Dale Farm, contacted Richard Sheridan President of the Gypsy Council, ostensibly to leak information about the eviction. He claimed the eviction would proceed at 8am on Monday morning and that Basildon Council had lied about the date the eviction would start.

Last night a man who claimed to be working for Altek Security with bailiffs Constant & Co on the operation to clear the site at Dale Farm, contacted Richard Sheridan President of the Gypsy Council, ostensibly to leak information about the eviction. He claimed the eviction would proceed at 8am on Monday morning and that Basildon Council had lied about the date the eviction would start. The man was recognised from Traveller evictions at Hovefields last year, confirming that he had previously worked with Constant & Co. He encouraged Travellers to use violence and protesters to climb barricades and to act as if they might throw themselves from these structures. He suggested urgently calling national media outlets. Dale Farm residents recorded the meeting.

Residents, already on high alert and deeply stressed, ran in panic to raise the alarm. Terrified children were unable to sleep wanting to know whether or not they would be forcibly removed from their homes and school. Many women were crying.

Supporters and residents rallied together, locked down the hatches, and tried to stay calm while they unpacked the man’s story. By 8:30am no bailiffs had turned up, but nevertheless residents suffered a night of harassment and fear.

It appears the operation to remove residents from Dale Farm has reached a new level of duplicity. Elderly and sick residents as well as children again suffered greatly.

Already there are reports of equipment arriving to build a press compound adjacent to Dale Farm. Concerns that press access to the site will be controlled by police have intensified. Residents fear lack of media access will increase the likelihood that past incidences of bailiff and police brutality will be repeated without public witness.

http://dalefarm.wordpress.com/

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Palestine Today 09 13 2011

13-09-2011 15:58

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday September 13, 2011

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Nov 9 National Demonstration for Education

13-09-2011 12:55

National demonstration and walkout against cuts to education
After a period of political lull, students are mobilizing again for their first big action this year – a national demonstration-cum-walkout in London on November 9. The march is focused against cuts to the education sector, and is meant to involve not just students but education sector workers as well.

The NUS is not supporting this demonstration officially, which means the responsibility of organizing this demonstration is pretty much open to all concerned. Student activists themselves have expressed willingness to work with a broad cross-section of students, student representatives, activist groups and radicals to make this march a success and hopefully rejuvenate the student/anti-cuts movement.
As anarchists and radicals the struggle for non-privatized, not-for-profit education available to all is something we should be an active part of . We can do so by contributing our collective presence, in whatever way we see fit, to this event. This call-out, therefore, is for anarchists/anti-authoritarians in London to meet to decide how we can organize politically – collectively – not only for Nov 9, but also for the build up in the interim.
A venue is being booked for a meeting early next week, in the meantime, ideas and proposals for the agenda on how best we can organize can be sent to this email address: n9mobilization@gmail.com. A Facebook page will be set up once the date and venue are confirmed.

Anarchist/radical student groups who might be planning actions for the day are especially welcome, so that we can link up and co-ordinate our actions.
Please forward this to your groups and networks.