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S036.NET attacked by German Police

26-04-2010 19:41

German Radical ISP has homes and data centre raided by German cops

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Plane Stupid targets Red Bullshit

26-04-2010 13:30

Environmental campaign group, Plane Stupid, has deposited a large mound of manure outside the south London HQ of soft drink giant Red Bull. Three activists, dressed as ‘avenging air hostesses’ in wigs and mini-dresses the same colour as the company’s logo, crowned the mound with placards reading: ‘Red Bull-sh*t’, ‘Red Bull gives you (plane) wings’ and ‘No second runway by stealth.’

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Bristol and Bath Rising Tide Stop Coal Train

26-04-2010 12:02

Today, people involved in the Rising Tide Network have literally puts their necks on the line by chaining themselves to the rails in order to block the rail link to the Ffoss y Fran Open Cast Coal mine near Merthyr Tydfil. They are currently blocking the movement of coal trains from the mine to Aberthaw Power Station.

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Free Shaker Aamer from Guantanamo Bay, London - Pictures.

25-04-2010 14:11

Campaigners gather outside Downing Street to bring attention to the case of Shaker Aamer, a detainee who is the last British citizen to remain in incarceration at the notorious US military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Urgent: Protest in Defence of Gaza Demonstrators 26/4/10

25-04-2010 10:35

Protest in Defence of Gaza Demonstrators Monday 26 April 9.30am
Isleworth Crown Court, 36 Ridgeway Road, Isleworth TW7 5LP
***SOLIDARITY NEEDED IN COURT***

Yet another young man, who had the strength and courage to take a stand against the collective punishment of 1.5 million people in Gaza during the Gaza bombing last year, is in court on Monday.

Martin Askew, a writer from London, faces a lengthy prison term if the jury find him guilty of violent disorder. Mr Askew was himself brutally attacked by a police sergeant who gave evidence last week saying he "hit him as hard as I could" in the head with his full-body shield. The jury had earlier seen footage of Mr Askew showing peace signs to police lines moments before he was attacked. The police sergeant in question said he "jabbed" Mr Askew because he had been "distracting" police and had to "take him out".

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heavies sent in to rampart at globe road -- join us tomorrow at noon.

23-04-2010 21:48

A bunch of heavies broke into the rampart social centre's new location on 105 Globe Road tonight (friday, 23 April) at 10:30 pm. There were about 20 of us here watching films. The goons left, but said they wanted everyone out of building by 2 pm tomorrow.

We invite everyone, and their cameras, to come down and join us to welcome them. Come down at noon.

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West Mids IWW supports Alberto Durango - Oppose UBS (Union Busting Scum!)

23-04-2010 19:37

As part of the fourth day of protest in solidarity with sacked union organizer Alberto Durango, West Mids IWW took part in a demonstration outside the Birmingham offices of UBS.

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Corporate Watch: The Unemployment Business

23-04-2010 16:34

The latest issue of the Corporate Watch Newsletter is out. The double issue looks at the 'unemployment business'; its protagonists, ideological, political and economic premises and how it is being utilised by the New Labour government to dismantle what’s left of the welfare state. Examining the old and new benefit and employment regimes, it also provides new details and figures about the winners and losers, or the private contractors and their victims. The full text of the articles can be read online or downloaded at

http://www.corporatewatch.org/?lid=3572 .

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Council bans Aylesbury carnival against racism

23-04-2010 13:15

Aylesbury Vale District Council has blocked a carnival against racism in Aylesbury organised to proetst the EDL taking over the town centre on May 1st

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Oxford Action Resource Centre celebrates 5 years of radical organising!

22-04-2010 16:39

Since 2005, Oxford Action Resource Centre (OARC) has been a part of the local activist landscape: a social space, meeting venue, office and shared library for campaigners, activists, agitators and community groups.

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Palestine Today 04 21 2010

21-04-2010 15:15

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday April 21st, 2010.

Fifth annual conference on Popular resistance starts in Bilin, while the army detains civilians from the West Bank. These stories and more are coming up, stay tuned.

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Greyhound death demo greets Dara

21-04-2010 09:23

York protest after fatal injury to comic's dog at track

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Remember the dead - Justice for the Living

21-04-2010 08:06

Deaths from Self-Harm in immigration detention, murder, undetermined

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Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy #debill

20-04-2010 17:50

Attached is the audio and the slides from a presentation titled 'Law and Sausages: How Not to Legislate for The Digital Economy' that Lilian Edwards, Professor of Internet Law at Sheffield University gave at the Café Scientifique,

http://www.sciencecafesheffield.org/ in The Showroom, Sheffield, on 19th April 2010.

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Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation, Home Office, London - pictures

19-04-2010 18:10

The day before her deportation takes place, supporters of Bita Ghaedi gather in London to object to her forced removal to Iran. Bita is an Iranian woman who has been living in the UK and campaigning against chronic human rights abuses committed in Iran during recent Pro-Democracy protests.

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Shell gas terminal, Bacton, Norfolk, UK blockaded!

19-04-2010 06:40

Solidary with Pat O'Donnell and against Shell on Earth! Gas terminal access blockaded in both directions at 7am April 19th

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Frontex, Acpo and the policing of Fortress Europe

18-04-2010 21:29

On 23rd March 2010, No Borders activists disrupted a high-profile conference about 'policing the borders' that brought together Frontex, the UK Border Agency and senior police officers from various UK police forces [press release | video]. In their shock and dismay, some of the highly esteemed delegates left behind their welcome packs as they rushed out of the conference hall one after the other.

Here we reproduce the programme, the list of delegates and their bios, and two of the main presentations that were included in the welcome packs, one by Frontex and the other by ACPO.

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Corporate Watch in the Jordan Valley - Netiv Hagdud and Gilgal

18-04-2010 19:10

pics and more info at

http://corporateoccupation.wordpress.com/2010/04/18/netiv-hagdud-and-gilgal/

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BP + Tar Sands = Climate Crime – Thu 15 Apr 10

16-04-2010 17:58

Dateline: BP Shareholders Annual General Meeting, ExCel Conference Centre, London, Thu 15 Apr 10 – At the apex of the 'BP Fortnight of Shame', at the entrance to the BP AGM, climate chaos and human rights activists persuade BP shareholders to vote for the FairPensions anti-Tar-Sands motion. Mobilised by the UK Tar Sands Network, Rising Tide and Climate Camp, we let BP shareholders know, in no uncertain terms, that BP + TAR SANDS = CLIMATE CRIME.

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Local activists protest circus cruelty

15-04-2010 20:30

Local activists protest circus cruelty