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Riots at EU/Asia economic meeting

28-05-2007 20:19

We declare war on the leaders of the world...

A sailing protest heading towards Rostock

28-05-2007 20:13

The Finnish Fair Trade sailing ship Estelle, running on windpower and locally produced biodiesel, left Helsinki on Sunday after 8 pm accompanied with an anti-G8 demonstration. The journey to Rostock takes more or less one week – depending on the wind. In Rostock, the vessel campaigns for a fairer world and serves as one of the venues for the G8 alternative summit.

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Flash Radio: Podcast No.2: G8 summit, counter summit and actions.Background info

28-05-2007 19:48

In our second podcast we cover upcoming events and background information on the G8, the opposition to it and the alternative summit. The Flash Radio repression forecast informs on the current political climate.

Blog:
www.flashradio.wordpress.com
The feed is located at

http://feeds.feedburner.com/flashradio

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Belfast 1907 General Strike Commemoration in Liverpool

28-05-2007 16:17

100th Anniversary Commemoration
Saturday June 2nd 2007, Liverpool

Assemble 12.30pm Combermere Street, off Park Road, Liverpool 8.
March to City Centre. March led by James Larkin RFB.
Afternoon function in the Casa Bar, Hope Street

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Make the G8 Precarious! (FelS G8 Call to Action)

28-05-2007 14:16

Make the G8 Precarious, Flexi-Fight the New World Order
Superfluous and Superheroes of the World: Unite and Take Over!

From 6-8 June, together with thousands of others, as part of the Block G8
campaign, we will cut the G8 Summit in Heiligendamm off from its
infrastructure. The other world – the one we say is possible – will, once
again, be revealed as already here.

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Turf Warfare

28-05-2007 12:59

Trafalgar Square has been turfed over, at great expense of energy and resourses -- only to be removed after two day! What a waste.

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ASEM Demo In Hamburg - First Reports And live Ticker

28-05-2007 12:01

Today is the day of the international demonstration against the ASEM summit in Hamburg. After a wide international Mobilisation and Court Appeals against the route and the organisers the demonstration starts fom Millerntorplatz , moves on along Reeperbahn, St. Pauli Fischmarkt, Hafenstraße, Baumwall to the Rödingsmarkt. The police protects the city centre with massive presence, media reports that appr. 4000-5000 police are in Hamburg today.

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Pine Gap Trial Begins with Move to Put Defendants Under House Arrest!

27-05-2007 22:30

Pine Gap is an NSA/CIA Base located near isolated Alice Springs in the Northern Territory of Australia. The base is part of the sattelite targetting used for U.S. bombings in Iraq and Adfghanistan. In December of 2005, four Christian resisters made their way into the most secure area in Australia to carry out a Citizen's Inspection www.pinegap6.org

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Critical Mass a Contradiction and a Phenomena

27-05-2007 22:24

What the hell is The Mass?

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An animal activist's account of current repression on UK streets

27-05-2007 16:21

Anonymous wrote May 20th 2007: I am preparing for yet another court appearance. Within the last year the police have began attacking anyone involved in animal rights (particularly anti- vivisection). I first found myself involved in this persecution due to attending what was always a peaceful *SPEAK protest in London on 27th Sept 2006.

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Happy Birthday Camp Titnore!

27-05-2007 13:26

CAMP Titnore in Worthing, West Sussex, has this weekend been celebrating its first anniversary.
And as well as celebrating the achievement of the last year, it is looking ahead by calling for more people to join the occupation and for solidarity action against the businesses threatening to destroy the countryside location.

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Video: Balata Camp Incursion May24

27-05-2007 07:42

On May 24, the Israeli Occupation Forces stormed Balata Refugee Camp in Nablus (Palestine). Several people got arrested.

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Care for a stop and a quiz?

27-05-2007 07:22

The Home Office is planning to give police new powers to "stop and quiz" anyone nationwide in a new set of anti-terror laws that are to be put before Parliament.

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2005.07.04 Faslane

27-05-2007 03:10

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G8 actions Faslane, gathering at the gate "brunch not bombs," with songs, statements, She Boom drum ensemble, Samba band

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G8 actions Faslane, featuring Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army(CIRCA) and Rinky Dink crew(bicycle powered music)

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Hamburg street chaos

26-05-2007 21:34

G8 Critical mass disrupted by police and St Pauli fans take over streets of Hamburg.

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Ritzy Cinema staff strike against poverty pay.

26-05-2007 17:26

Despite its trendy reputation as a favourite haunt for Brixton’s liberals the Ritzy Cinema is being far from kind to its staff. If you go to the Ritzy during the Human Rights Film Festival you will get see many worthy productions that rail against the exploitation of workers across the globe. Meanwhile the cinema is paying its staff the minimum wage of £5.35 an hour in the most expensive city to live in the country….

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Tesco truckers' strike: 25% of normal loads going out

26-05-2007 16:17

Only 25 per cent of normal truckloads of groceries and supplies are getting out of the Tesco distribution depot at Livingston near Edinburgh as the strike by drivers takes effect, according to reliable inside information given to the T&G section of Unite - the union.

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The World says: “Hands Off John Bowden!”

26-05-2007 12:41

Report on the International Day of Solidarity in support of John Bowden.

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Photos of London Critical Mass, May 25th

26-05-2007 10:12

Friday nights critical mass was massive with with no indication that the traditional monthly critical mass bike ride was endangered by the recent court ruling that organisers of such a ride might be breaking the law.
[ Photos copyright (c) - available for use under creative commons non-commercial share-alike license. ]

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"Lawful" Critical Mass goes ahead without hitch.

26-05-2007 10:04

Despite media interpretations that this week's court ruling made Critical Mass illegal, seven or eight hundred people turned up for a mass amble through the streets of London last night.