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#504 - Just Cause, Just Laws & Just Wars (On The Desperate Edge of Now)

30-06-2010 15:53

Unwelcome Guests episode 504, about how WW2 was justified (Adam Curtis), the Reality of War (David Halpin) & the legal status of the Attacks on Iraq & Afghanistan (Chris Coverdale).

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5 EDO decomissioners found NOT GUILTY!!!

30-06-2010 15:35

Smash EDO

Press Release

Wednesday, 30 June 2010 15:52 UK

Hove Crown Court, Brighton UK

5 Gaza Bomb Factory Decommissioners NOT GUILTY!

Jury Still Out On 2 others

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Palestine Today 06 30 2010

30-06-2010 15:34

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Wednesday, June 30 2010.

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Leg Three, Five Day Peace Walk. Brentwood, Essex - Pictures

30-06-2010 12:40

On the day the bodies of seven British servicemen are returned to the UK after being killed in Afghanistan by misadventure and hostile combat, the London to Colchester peace walkers set out on the third leg of their peace walk led by 80 year old peace activist and campaigner Malcom Pittock.

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Around the Campaigns Wednesday 30th June 2010

30-06-2010 07:40

Saman Akbarirad
Great News! Saman's deportation cancelled Monday morning. NCADC received a call from Saman's partner saying that he had been pulled from the flight. She would like to thank all those who have supported the campaign. However, they are still deeply concerned as they do not have legal representation. If anyone could support Saman in this way please email

ncadc@ncadc.org.uk. Saman Akbarirad is being held at Harmondsworth. Saman fled Iran after being imprisoned and tortured for political activities.
Read more here . . . .

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Licence to Spill – FULL REPORT - LIBERATE TATE COMMUNIQUE #2

30-06-2010 05:46

It was us and it was art!

Last night (28 June), as the Tate celebrated 20 years of BP ‘support’ for British Art with a Summer Party, Liberate Tate disrupted the proceedings inside and out by pouring hundreds of litres of ‘oil’(molasses) and scattering thousands of feathers as the UK’s celebrity glitterati watched on in fascination.

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Parliament Action stations 6 arrested beginning operation rolling thunder

29-06-2010 23:19

Calling all up for it crew to action.

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Report on today's demonstration at Mexican Embassy in London: Freedom and Justic

29-06-2010 19:35

Demonstrators calling for freedom for the Atenco prisoners in Mexico protested for over 3 and a half hours in front of the Mexican Embassy in London today 29th June. The protest was part of an International Day of Action, coinciding with the Supreme Court of Justice of the Mexican Nation meeting to decide the future of 12 political prisoners from the small town of San Salvador Atenco near Mexico City.

Protestors defied police to take up position directly in front of the Embassy entrance, refusing police orders to move to the opposite side of the road. After around 20 minutes the possibility of arrest under the Public Order Act forced the dozen or so demonstrators to move a few yards back to a traffic island in the middle of the road.

Nevertheless leafleting continued right in front of the Embassy while Mexican revolutionary songs blasted out a message of defiance. Certainly the Embassy authorities were well aware of the protest as their Security officers were filming and photographing demonstrators.

"The Atenco prisoners have been imprisoned for the crime of standing up for the poor peasant farmers of the area," said Esther McDonald of the UK Zapatista Solidarity Network, who organised the protest. "It was therepresentatives of the state who committed violent atrocities at Atenco: Amnesty International has detailed shocking systematic sexual assaults and rapes by the police on 26 women during and after the police assault on Atenco in May 2006."

The events of 3rd /4th May 2006 were sparked off when police tried to arrest peasant farmers selling flowers in the street. When locals went to the flower-sellers aid and drove off the police, a massive state force gathered and then invaded Atenco. Police killed two youths, Alexis Benhumea and Francisco Javier Cortes, and arrested over 200 people. Dozens of homes were invaded without warrants, and hundreds of people were tear-gassed and beaten. Police subjected 26 women to serious sexual assaults, including rape, in attacks described by Amnesty International as "torture".

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Palestine Today 06292010

29-06-2010 19:17

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Tuesday, June 29 2010.

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Bloody Oil – Drum Em Out

29-06-2010 18:33

On Monday the 21st June 2010 In protest over The World National Oil Companies Congress protester marched from London’s Tate Modern to the Grange St Paul’s Hotel where In the middle of the death and destruction sown by oil companies all over the world, the industry’s “greatest minds” gathered together to celebrate and plan more carnage.

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Eye witness: Sea Shepherd frees 800 endangered bluefin tuna

29-06-2010 13:51

This is an eyewitness account from an action by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, which set out onto the Mediterranean Sea last month in search of bluefin tuna poachers. As one of the most valuable fish in the world, the bluefin populations in the Mediterranean region have been reduced by over 85% in the last 50 years due to relentless industrial overfishing. Crew member Wietse van der Werf reports.

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Tate Summer Party Crashed with Oil Spill - Licence to Spill

29-06-2010 11:55

On the evening of the 28th of June at approx 7:15pm, Liberate Tate In protest over BP’s sponsorship of the arts performed a “Solemn” oil like spill at the Tate’s Summer party.

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Report: 26 June Demo in Solidarity with Victims of Extraordinary Rendition

29-06-2010 11:47

On a hot Saturday afternoon at the end of June, as the British media and government sought to use British troops as a weapon on the home front to defend their senseless warmongering in faraway lands on Armed Forces Day, the London Guantánamo Campaign took a stand against the indefensible and marked a far more poignant anniversary with a demonstration in solidarity with victims of extraordinary rendition outside the US Embassy in Mayfair on UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.

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Unarmed Forces Day, Five Day Peace Walk. London - Pictures.

28-06-2010 16:45

On a day of searing heat, peace campaigners assemble in London to begin a five day peace walk from London to Colchester to continue to oppose the war in Afghanistan and to bring attention to the detention of Joe Glenton, currently serving a military sentence for refusing to serve in Afghanistan.

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Palestien Today 06 28 2010

28-06-2010 14:25

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org for Monday, June 28 2010.

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Critical Mass London, England 25th June 2010.

27-06-2010 14:30

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxtxV1W-IhU

One arrest with loads of cops and several drivers trying to physically intimidate corkers by nosing into them with horns blazing.

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24 Hour Animal Aid Vigil held in Cambridge.

26-06-2010 21:47

Animal Aid, the Cambridge Animal Rights activist group, staged a 24 hour vigil from 5:00pm Friday to 5:00pm Saturday this weekend, both in memory of Pat Griffin, an Animal Rights activist of some 25 years who died this time last year, but also to raise awareness of the fact that plenty of vivisection is happening on our very doorstep in and around Cambridge.

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This Week in Palestine – Week 25 2010

25-06-2010 15:23

Welcome to this week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for June 19th to the 25th, 2010.

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edo trial update

24-06-2010 19:22

Update, and way to be informed of the verdict
The trial of the decommissioners has now entered its third week and is moving along at a brisk pace. Originally scheduled to run for 10 weeks, then cut to 7, it now seems likely that it will conclude around the middle of next week. Some highlights of the case so far include the five-day-long cross examining of EDO's managing Director Paul Hills about his company's business weapon deals, and the early aquittal of one of the defendants after a submission by the defence that she had 'no case to answer' after the prosecution failed to present the jury with any strong evidence against her. At the moment the jury has heard evidence from most of the defendants and are being presented with evidence from Palestine, highlighting the war crimes that have been committed there.

So far so good...However, it's not over yet and the defendants still need your support! There is a vigil every day outside Hove Crown Court from around 9.45am. Everybody welcome both outside and inside court.

There is a demonstration planned for the day of the verdict, whatever the outcome. It will most likely take place at very short notice. If you want to know the outcome of the trial and come to the demo, please email your mobile phone number to smashedo@riseup.net as soon as possible. You will then be sent a text when the jury goes out and another once the verdict is announced, with demo details.

As you may have noticed, we have all been very busy during the trial period and have been bad at posting updates about how it is going...so, if you come to court and feel like writing about what's going on please feel free to send your impressions to Smash EDO's email and we can keep people informed. In the meantime, here is a link to a piece which has been written already:

www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/453920.html

"Every bomb that is dropped, every bullet that is fired in the name of this war of terror has to be made somewhere -and wherever that is it can be resisted"

Smasher
- e-mail: smashedo@riseup.net
- Homepage: http://www.smashedo.org.uk

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Reflections on Climate9 Trial- Last day Tomorrow

24-06-2010 19:19

Climate scientists have expressed that the UK government's emission targets are not radical enough to a criminal for the first time in a Scottish court this week. Vandalism charges have been dropped. Hear it from the defendants in written update and come and support tomorrow!