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23-11-2011 01:34

University of Birmingham re-occupied - building squatted

Student activists have just squatted an abandoned former gatehouse of the North Gate of the University of Birmingham as part of the national day of action called by NCAFC  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2011/11/488808.html

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22-11-2011 21:53

Short notice! Census court case Wed (23rd) in Birmingham

If anyone has a free hour or so Wed afternoon, there's a census court hearing at Birmingham Magistrates Court at 2pm. Solidarity and support would be much appreciated.

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22-11-2011 18:59

An Inconvenient Truth 2 - World premiere

Filming in Sweden Three-part series starts 7 December 8.30pm on Community Channel

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21-11-2011 17:38

Scathing Attack on Library Cuts from Former Head of Libraries

John Dolan, the former head of Birmingham Libraries, attacked the council’s library cuts programme in a open letter published in the Birmingham Post.

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18-11-2011 23:12

NCAFC Conference 10-11 December

Where next for the student fightback?

National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts conference
Time: 10 December at 11:30 - 11 December at 16:00
Location Birmingham (venue tbc)

Facebook event:  https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=180710782016143

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18-11-2011 22:46

National Day of Action – 23 Nov – Defend Education, Fight Privatisation!

Time 23 November · 09:00 - 23:30
Location: Your college, your school, your university

Following the national demonstration in London on 9 November, the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts is organising a national Day of Action on 23 November to keep the movement mobilised and step up the pressure.

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18-11-2011 14:09

N30 List of Pickets, Demonstrations and Rallies

Britain’s biggest strike since the 1926 General Strike. Details below of known Pickets, Demonstrations and Rallies happening around the West Midlands

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18-11-2011 03:07

Legal Challenge to Government’s slave labour scheme

slavelabourplus Britain's biggest supermarkets are now using slave labour as young unemployed people are being sent to work for them for up to two months with no pay and no guarantee of a job. During this period they will be exempt from national minimum wage laws.

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17-11-2011 18:33

Fortnum and Mason protesters found guilty

A group of 10 protesters who occupied Fortnum and Mason during the M26 demonstration have been found guilty of aggravated trespass. The sit-in organised by UK Uncut was held at the luxury food store on Piccadilly, in London, to highlight the store's tax avoidance. Charges of aggravated trespass against 109 others were dropped earlier in the year

The Defendants released the following statement:

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17-11-2011 08:04

Census Refuser in Court in Birmingham: 5 January

Roger Grenville, 66, a former Local Government Officer and local Councillor from Leamington, Warwickshire, is being prosecuted for refusing to complete the 2011 Census on grounds of conscience because of Lockheed Martin's involvement. Solidarity and support needed at the court hearing in Birmingham on 5 January.

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16-11-2011 14:59

Defend Education – day of action in Birmingham, Nov 23rd

There is a gap that is emerging between universities like Birmingham City University and elite institutions like the University of Birmingham because of targeted government cuts. These targeted cuts are a recipe for a deeply unequal society. A society where the elite who could afford to go private schools get the best that money can buy at universities that most can’t get into.

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15-11-2011 22:11

A report on Birmingham Council's budget "consultation" in Kings Heath

A brief report from Birmingham City Council's budget "consultation" at Kings Heath Community Centre on 11th November 2011.

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15-11-2011 11:09

Second Brum FNB event

Birmingham Food not Bombs in Pigeon Park.

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15-11-2011 00:36

Prosecution of F&M 145 protesters falls apart

Today my trial for a two hour UKuncut sit-in at Fortnum & Mason ended far faster than anyone estimated. The trial was scheduled to end on the November 30th, however a thin prosecution case was over in just 2 and half days.

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15-11-2011 00:27

4 More Unions Vote YES to Strike on 30th November

4 more unions announced positive ballot results for strike action over pensions today – FDA and Prospect, who both represent civil servants, The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and the Society of Radiographers.

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13-11-2011 23:19

More photos from Friday's Census court hearing and Remembrance

CSOs Some photos and a short report from Wrexham, where anti-war and anti-Lockheed Martin conscientious census objector Judith Sambrook appeared in court on 11/11/11.

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11-11-2011 11:54

Remember, remember, the fifth of November…

On 5th November people from Occupy Birmingham protested outside RBS and Natwest. Below is the content of one of the flyers handed out at the protest.

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10-11-2011 23:13

Scottish Crown Office - Unfit for purpose?





Here is a summaryof the way that the Scottish "justice" system has treated Robert Green from the outset

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08-11-2011 18:57

IWW London Guildhall Cleaner's Solidarity protest in Birmingham

Yesterday West Midlands Industrial Workers of the World staged a two hour picket outside the Birmingham Children's Hospital in support of the IU640 Cleaners Branch protest at Guildhall in London and part of the International Day of Action against SODEXO.

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07-11-2011 23:54

Chaos in The Countryside

A week after falsely blaming hunt saboteurs for the death of one of their hounds, the attached video shows the Cotswold Vale Farmers Hunt casually risking the lives of their hounds

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