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07-10-2005 15:29

Sumac Centre - October Dates Confirmed

Download pdf of Sumac flyer for October here.
Print off and distribute!

Events include:
Colombian Activists Presentation - Mon 24th Oct
Medical Aid for Cuba Benefit - Sat 22th Oct
G8/No I.D. Benefit - Fri 28th Oct
Saving Iceland Gathering - 28th-30th Oct
Workshops, Gatherings and Meetings! ...

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07-10-2005 11:22

Critical Mass tonight meet up @ 5:30 pm Pigeon Park

Following on from the continued repression of Critical Mass rides in New York since the Republican National Convention, London's Critical Mass is now under threat.

The regular monthly Brum Critical Mass meets up at 5.30pm tonight outside the Cathedral in Pigeon Park

Let's get this show on the road!

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05-10-2005 18:08

Photos from Stop The War March September 2005

Here are some photographs taken on the Stop the War march in London.

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05-10-2005 09:48

Veggie Food Extravaganza Comes to Redditch

Redditch`s first ever Free Veggie Food Fair will take place this coming Saturday, 8th October, between 10.30am - 3pm at St Stephens Church(Redditch Town Centre). The event is being organised by the recently formed Redditch Vegetarians & Vegans(RVV) group. There will be a huge range of delicious, mouthwatering food to sample and all of it will be FREE. This is an ideal opportunity for anyone seeking a healthier, more ethical, eco-friendly lifestyle to taste food that they have perhaps never tried before.

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04-10-2005 17:53

Birmingham Women 'rescued' by police from massage parlour to be deported

Six of the 10 women 'rescued' by Birmingham police from Cuddles massage parlour last Friday, where they had been held aginst their will and forced into prostitution, are now being held in Yarl's Wood detention centre facing imminent deportation. Please make your opposition to this hypocracy and continued human rights abuse known.

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04-10-2005 13:02

Tembak Aja – Just Shoot

The recent bombings in Bali have once again highlighted the inappropriate (disastrous) approach of the ‘us and them’ mentality. There is ‘no love lost’ in divisionism. The Australian Senate, take note! Western analysts fail to understand that Muslims take personally another Muslim’s plight. Race or nationality has little relevance in the context of the unifying familial aspects of Islam. Kill a Palestinian and Muslims in Indonesia, Sudan (everywhere) will feel the loss. Furthermore, many would feel obliged to take positive action to prevent the further loss of Muslim life. However, Muslim fanatics fail to understand a principal tenet of Islam, the brotherhood of all humanity; taking innocent life is strictly forbidden. But we take the simplistic view of the fanatics and Western politicians, the question should be, who benefits from these bombings?

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03-10-2005 15:31

West Midlands Anarchists Update

This is an overview of what west midlands anarchists are going to be up to in the coming months after decisions taken at our general meeting on the 2/10/05.

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02-10-2005 23:29

(audio) Mindwalk 15: Working Class Hero

Jody Paulson speaks of the Bush supporter who desecrated a memorial in Crawford. A Seymore Hersch edit by Kavi.org excerpted from Democracy Now. John Lennon, Jello Biafra and Eminem inthe mix. Strong language used.. LPFM should air during safe harbor.

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02-10-2005 23:03

Activists Clash over Respect candidates' 'Death to Gays' policy

More controversy is set to brew between the Respect Coalition and OutRage!

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30-09-2005 23:14

Think you have the right to protest in the UK anymore?

Below is todays news report (30.09.05) from the pro-vivisection, animal hating 'Burton Mail' based in Staffordshire...

Support all comrades fighting against injustice and imprisoned by the state!

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29-09-2005 19:57

The Nursery Social Centre Birmingham

The Nursery at 1 Bournbrook Road, Selly Oak in Birmingham was shutdown by Birmingham City Council and left empty for two years. The council shut the community nursery down and handed it over to its Economic Development Department (E.D.D). E.D.D. are a private company who sell our public property to the private sector. There is no public consultation about this process. Local projects from council nurseries to sports centres are being closed and sold off to the private sector for re-development across the city.

Here's a very short intro to a longer film about the Nursery Social Centre. Sorry I haven't got round to encoding it with an open source codec yet. If you have any problems playing the film in it's Mp4 format download vlc player - an open source player:  http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

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27-09-2005 15:31

Herefordshire: Sequani vivisection labs Regional Demo report

At the regional demo on Saturday 24th September, 40 activists gathered outside the Sequani vivisection hell-hole as part of the SSAT regional demo, shouting and waving placards, the police looked for anything that they could do to lower the numbers.

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27-09-2005 05:41

Apathy

Whether born/e of passivity or apathy, the world’s populations are tolerating, as never before, gross ineptitude, incompetence and criminality from their governments. Comparisons could be made with infamous regimes of the past that maintained their illegitimate rule by deploying draconian social policies and manipulating information. However, today, information is easily accessed through various sources not controlled by mainstream media or governments yet apathy in the face of deliberate deception and criminal government prevails.

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26-09-2005 18:16

After8 - Post-G8 Live Music Weekender in Derby

After8 is a music weekender showcasing the best in Live Rock and Live Hip Hop that Derby has to offer. Organised by Derby residents who undertook a sponsored cycle to the G8 summit After8 hopes to raise over £5000 for Greenpeace and Oxfam as well as awareness regarding the G8s role in creating poverty and climate change.

Saturday 8th October sees a host of Derbys finest rock bands taking to the stage for an evening of diverse music whilst the Sunday 9th October provides a day packed full of Hip Hop talent, including DJs, MCs, Beatboxing, Freestyling, Breaking and Graffitti art.

An After 8 compilation CD featuring all bands involved shall be available throughout the weekend.

For more info and directions check out www.after8.givingabitback.net

Peace and protest
Jonezy

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26-09-2005 01:53

Spectacular Terrorism and the Terror of the Spectacle

“Such a perfect democracy constructs its own inconceivable foe, terrorism. Its wish is to be judged by its enemies rather than by its results. The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive. The spectators must certainly never know everything about terrorism, but they must always know enough to convince them that, compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in any case more rational and democratic” (Guy Debord, Comments on the Society of the Spectacle).

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25-09-2005 21:48

Peace & Liberty March - Video

Video footage from Saturdays march in London, including speech from Tony Benn

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25-09-2005 11:56

New Reports of Abuse of Detainees Surface

[reposting] [update] ongoing

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25-09-2005 10:35

Redditch Cyclists Celebrate International Car-Free Day

On Thursday 22nd September, a group of Redditch cyclists celebrated International Car-Free Day by cycling round & round the streets during rush hour.

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23-09-2005 21:28

Chomsky On Cambodia

How Chomsky denied how the Khmer Rouge where responsible for thousands of deaths.

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23-09-2005 19:40

Public Meeting on Civil Liberties and Anti-Terror Measures

Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign has organised a Public Meeting to discuss ith various community organisations and others the threat posed to our civil liberties in this country by Tony Blair's proposed new legislative and administrative measures following the 7th July events in London.

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