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June London Critical Mass ride pics.

27-06-2009 06:47

Several hundred riders. Warm weather. Still no cycle police.

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Refugees in Calais. Why we say NO BORDERS!

26-06-2009 23:44

A few years ago that nice Mr Sarkozy (then French home secretary) was desperate to impress that even nicer Mr Blair. So to capitulate to Mr Blair and his masters in the British tabloid media, he closed the Red Cross Sangatte refugee camp near Calais. Prior to its demolition Sangatte was a place where vulnerable refugees fleeing places like Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan could get food, healthcare and a bed for the night. By a staggering coincidence Great Britain has had rather a lot of influence in the fortunes of Iraq, Somalia and Afghanistan. So some people might suggest that we have a slight responsibility with regard to helping these people? Now (post Sangatte) they have to sleep under bridges and in dangerous camps where they are regularly attacked by the Police and local racists. Fortunately they are being fed each day by a number of unpaid volunteers from the Calais based 'Salam' charity who are doing an amazing job.

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Freedom of movement?

26-06-2009 21:50

Road blockade to Calais port at the No Borders camp and police repression

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Workers' Fightback: Update 8

26-06-2009 21:29

Co-ordinating solidarity and exchanging information on independent, rank and file working class resistance to the profit system. The revolution will be social networked...

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Motorway Blocked By No Borders Campers – Pics

26-06-2009 21:20

A group No Borders protesters blocked the E15 motorway south bound carriageway for a short time before forced off the road back into the camp.

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Motorway blocked by Calais Noborder Campers

26-06-2009 19:10

Just now, at 8pm UK time, a few people from the Calais NoBorder camp have blocked the motorway that goes alongside the camp.

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NoBorder Calais Friday 26.06.2009

26-06-2009 17:30

This is a short summary of the Friday, 2606.2009 on the No Border camp.

Lots of things happen at the same time at different places so if you ve got something to add please write a comment.

Pictures | Video from the Police ath the Camp | Video from the Lock on action early in the morning

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This Week in Palestine -Week 26 2009

26-06-2009 15:01

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for June 20th to the 26th, 2009.

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Pictures from Calais, 26.06.2009

26-06-2009 13:22

recent photographs from inside the calais no borders camp

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Demo against Notts Police & £700,000 bill for arresting 114 enviro activists

26-06-2009 01:10

on Wednesday June 24th at 9.30am at Nottinghamshire County Hall, Trent Bridge, Nottingham. A Demonstration against the Notts Police Authority meeting had been organised. The object, to demand that the Notts Police are Accountable for their recent actions.

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Calais report; Riot police surround leafleters in Calais town centre

25-06-2009 21:54

Around 4pm this afternoon around 30 people from the No Border Camp went to Calais town centre in order to distribute the NOMADE newsletter and to talk to Calais residents about the aims of the camp. Given the high level of police surveillance the group were not able to travel together but had arranged to meet at a central location.

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Nomad - calais noborder camp journal

25-06-2009 20:18

People are putting together a newspaper every day here in the camp.

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Border problems - no chance for the Afghani people in Calais

25-06-2009 19:10

My name is Ali. I'm from Afghanistan. Now we live in the "Jungle", how we call the woods around Calais, were we're forced to live. We request support from the English people. The border is very hard. No one pass to England. The English government should tell the government of France to open the border.

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Stories from people trying to cross the border at Calais

25-06-2009 16:12

Behind all the scare stories and fiction of the tabloid scum press, we are making friends with people here who gradually tell us their stories. Obviously they are scared of what would happen if their stories were made public but have agreed to let us tell people the rough outlines. All names have been changed.

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"Be The Media!" at Glastonbury

25-06-2009 16:07

Maybe not to everyone's tastes, but this years Glastonbury Festival is in full swing and Indymedia is there to cover the goings on that are relevant to the activist community and to reach out to get people involved and excited about participating in Indymedia collectives around the country. A mobile "Be the media" centre has been provided by the Northern Indymedia collective at the Veggies Catering Campaign pitch in the green futures field and will be running alt-media workshops throughout the weekend in conjunction with IMC Nottinghamshire. Don't hate the media, BE THE MEDIA!

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Palestine Today 062509

25-06-2009 14:31

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday June 25th 2009.

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Solitaire Arrives in Rossport

25-06-2009 08:06

The Solitaire, the huge pip laying ship, that will lay the pipeline in Broadhaven Bay has arrived. If you were thinking of coming to Rossport this summer now is the time. Resistance continues whilst 200 Gardai and the Irish Navy are drafted in to facilitate Shell's project.

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Lebanon: Short film on the siege of Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp

24-06-2009 21:19

The anarchist media collective a-films has just published a new short film ("Two Years Under Siege"/10min) from the destroyed Nahr al-Bared Refugee Camp in northern Lebanon.

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Update And Info From Calais No Border Camp

24-06-2009 16:55

A farcical curtain of steel has descended on Calais, and the massive campaign of demonisation of our camp by the local authorities continues in the press. The camp is now fully set up with approx 300 people from all over Europe. Many local people are visiting the site and a group of around 40 mostly Kurdish and Afghani migrants. It is nice big site, quite open for people to come walk around and a lot of local kids hanging out. It runs alongside the main motorway from the port out of town and is just a few minutes from the Jungle, the makeshift camps where migrants are living. Many of the migrants seem to be very young, one just 12 year old Afghani visited the camp last night. Migrants report that currently the controls at the border are very tight and that no one has been getting through for few weeks, consequently the number of migrants in Calais are at their highest in several years.

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Kew Bridge Eco-Village - Photos

24-06-2009 16:31