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UK SHAC 7 Solidarity Action in Southampton

19-01-2009 20:01

On Monday 19th of January SHAC Hants took an early morning trip to the outskirts of Southampton to pay a flying visit to Promega, Enterprise Road, Southampton Science Park one of the newest found suppliers to HLS. We showed up around half nine, just as the workers were settling in to another long week of making money out of animal torture.

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Three Remanded in EDO Decomissioners Bail Hearing

19-01-2009 20:00

Smash EDO

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Protest at Arms to Israel from Staffordshire

19-01-2009 18:44

A protest was held today outside UAV Ltd. in Shenstone, Staffordshire to protest against the company's link with the repression and massacre in Gaza. 30 protesters from around the Midlands, including locals from Shenstone, gathered to draw attention to the fact that this company is owned by the Israeli defence contractor Elbit systems, and all the evidence points to them producing the engines for the drones which have been used to carry out surveillance and targeting for the IDF strike fighters.

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LSE occupation continues into fifth day as other universities start protests

19-01-2009 18:41

tudents occupying a lecture theatre at the London School of Economics have continued their demonstration in to the fifth day.

Over forty students started the occupation in solidarity with Palestine last Thursday afternoon demanding that the LSE condemns Israeli aggression, divests from BAE, a firm that arms Israel, and provides material support for Palestinians. The students are demanding that the LSE waivers application fees and provides more scholarships for Palestinian students, sends surplus computers and books to Palestine and facilitates a cross-campus collection for Medical Aid for Palestine.

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PCSO Watch - Office of Community Sousveillance

19-01-2009 18:30

The Office is interested in playfully and creatively engaging with concerned individuals to interact and comment on government initiatives relating to surveillance, control and policing. The Office of Community Sousveillance will be patrolling hotspots around Nottingham from 15th - 18th January 2009.

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CCTV 'Treasure Hunt' around Nottingham

19-01-2009 18:10

I accepted the invitation to the CCTV Treasure Hunt in Nottingham city centre. On Sunday 18th January at 1pm. People met at Broadway Media Centre to help map Nottinghams insane surveillance system!!!

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BAE protest at Warwick university

19-01-2009 18:01

Account of our disruptive protest against a BAE recruitment event

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No one is illegal in Moscow - action against pro-Kremlin xenophobes

19-01-2009 17:32

Today "Molodaya Gvardiya Edinoy Rossii" (Young Guard of United Russia - one of the several, competing pro-Kremlin youth organizations) attempted to organize an action "Our money to our people". Concept was to meet a train from Central Asia 2:10 PM in Kazan railway station of Moscow with anti-migrant placates, with text such as "Work legally!", "Illegal = thief!" and "Want to work? Pay taxes!". Action was protected by a plenty of OMON riot police and own security of Young Guard.

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Gaza Protest March Through Nottingham to Market Sq : Pix 2

19-01-2009 17:10

On Saturday 17th January people began meeting at 10.30 am on the Forest Recreation Ground.

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Gaza Protest March Through Nottingham to Market Sq : Pix 1

19-01-2009 17:05

On Saturday 17th January people began meeting at 10.30 am on the Forest Recreation Ground.

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Forest activists hand in petition to Australian High Commision in London

19-01-2009 17:04

FOREST ACTIVISTS HAND IN PETITION TO AUSTRALIAN HIGH COMMISION IN LONDON WITH 1000 NAMES ASKING FOR THE IMMEDIATE HALT TO LOGGING OLD GROWTH AND HIGH CONSERVATION VALUE FOREST

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Nottingham Gaza Protest 'candle-lit' Vigil : Pix 2

19-01-2009 16:42

Friday 16th January from 5.30pm onwards, there was a Protest 'candle-lit' Vigil outside the Council House in the Old Market Square on Friday evening. people began to gather from 5:30pm, some coming straight from work. There were speakers, including Alan Simpson MP, Hicham Yezza from Nottingham University (recently wrongly imprisoned under the terrorism laws), Nottingham City Labour Counsellors and others.

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Nottingham Gaza Protest 'candle-lit' Vigil : Pix 1

19-01-2009 16:38

Friday 16th January from 5.30pm onwards, there was a Protest 'candle-lit' Vigil outside the Council House in the Old Market Square on Friday evening. people began to gather from 5:30pm, some coming straight from work. There were speakers, including Alan Simpson MP, Hicham Yezza from Nottingham University (recently wrongly imprisoned under the terrorism laws), Nottingham City Labour Counsellors and others.

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Palestine Today 011909

19-01-2009 15:41

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center
www.imemc.org, for Monday, January 19th 2009.

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Anarchists target corporate investment cowboys, Baillie Gifford

19-01-2009 14:43

South Wales Anarchists are targetting Baillie Gifford, the Edinburgh finance company which invests in some of the world's worst corporate polluters.

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500 pigs, 20 horses, 16 dogs, 2 starbucks - Sat 17th London Gaza march banned

19-01-2009 12:29

Following Israel's announcement that they'd killed enough Palestinians to be going on with, London's lamest decided to celebrate the military success by going on a rampage through the West End, terrifying the decent people going about their normal business, with helmetted hordes and triplets of SWAT-style vans speeding in every direction chasing shadows and shebab.

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Photos: Sheffield Gaza Protest - 17th January 2009

19-01-2009 11:25

The action was marred when a placard held by AWL supporters at the protest against the imperial genocide in Gaza in Sheffield on 17th January 2009, which read, "No To IDF No To Hamas" was taken down by the Chair of the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

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Traders Fight To Save Their Market!

19-01-2009 10:46

Northampton market traders are fighting a 'Save the Market' battle against Liberal
Democrat Northampton Borough Council (NBC). A petition has already got over 7,000 signatures from local people who are afraid they will lose their market. The market is used by a diverse multi-cultural community of the working population of the town centre and its surrounding estates, some of which are deprived areas.

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Photos: Gaza Vigil - Falmouth, Cornwall

18-01-2009 23:02

Saturday 17th January

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Birmingham Gaza Demo and the SWP

18-01-2009 22:22

Members of Wrekin Stop War and Wrekin Anarchist Group collectives have just returned from a demo in central Birmingham in support of the Palestinian people under attack in Gaza.