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The Camp for Climate Action- ‘next steps’ gathering 13/14 Jan, Leeds
In August of this year hundreds gathered near Selby to confront the UK's biggest CO2 emitter: Drax Coal Power Station. The Camp for Climate Action was an inspiring 10 days of learning, sustainable living and direct action to challenge the causes of climate chaos.There is already much enthusiasm for organising another Camp, come and get involved on 13th/14th Jan at 'The Common Place' in Leeds. Meetings will run Sat 11-5 and Sun 10- 6
BAE-Saudi Scandal Cover-up Not Over Yet
The head of the working group on bribery at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, the world's leading anti-bribery watchdog, has demanded that the government explain why it ordered the Serious Fraud Office to abandon a two-year inquiry into alleged corruption involved in BAE Systems' £40bn defence deal with Saudi Arabia.Serious Fraud Office drops case against BAE
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358344.html BAE Systems Scandal: Email Tony Bliar
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/12/358389.html
X-ray Asylum Seekers
The Guardian today published a report on a new government plan to introduce x-ray and dental checks for young asylum seekers entering the UK to assess their age. The article says the plan is seen by "an array of medical specialists and children's campaigners" as "unethical and ineffective", but does not say how racist this new neo-Labour invention is.5 years of Guantanamo - Tackle the Shackles Action at Hiatts
Human rights lawyer Clive Stafford-Smith, comedian and activist Mark Thomas, Reprieve, Amnesty International, and Guantanamo campaigners will deliver a ‘birthday cake’ to Hiatts of Birmingham on the 5th anniversary of the opening of the infamous detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Full Story | 1 addition | 1 comment >>
Want to get involved in the Camp for Climate Action 2007? Meet up 9th January
Prior to the National Camp for Climate Action meeting in Leeds on 13th - 14th January, come and join in an open discussion about Climate Camp 2007 and how people feel about organising a brum neighbourhood at this years camp. Everyone is welcome to come along, whether you have been involved with the Climate Camp before or not.Iraqi asylum seekers in the UK, claims in progress or have been refused asylum
UNHCR is specifically advising refugee receiving countries to give due consideration to granting refugee status to Iraqi's from Central and Southern Iraq and that there should be no forced returns to Central and Southern Iraq further that there should be no forced returns to third countries. They are more cautious on returns to the three Northern Governorates (Sulaymaniyah, Erbil and Dohuk), though they do say "the security situation, even if calm, remains tense and unpredictable" and that careful consideration must be given before any returns are carried out.
Solange Nlandu Therese Nsingu
Solange has been detained in Yarl's Wood IRC since early October and is due to be removed from the UK back to DR Congo, on Wednesday 3rd January 2007 @ 19.00hrs.
Kalyx & Colnbrook IRCs - Close them down Now!
With hunger-strikes, acts of self-harm and protest people are fighting their invisibility. The recent resistance inside these detention centres joins with the thousands of other people worldwide who demonstrate, riot, light fires and destroy compounds in protest against and in defiance of their incarceration. It shows that people, regardless of their desperation, will always struggle for their human dignity.
Encourage Green Groups to Promote Plant Based Diets
Despite the increasingly overwhelming evidence of the impact that meat & dairy farming has on the planet, none of the national environmental campaigning organisations currently promote plant based diets. Wouldn`t it be great if we could influence groups like Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace to encourage their supporters and the general public to adopt a veggie/vegan diet for the benefit of the planet?!! Well, now we have an opportunity to do just that.Full Story | 1 addition | 10 comments >>
ZNet's Anti War Songs
... which include Dylan's Masters of War, Lennon's Working Class Hero, Ochs's I Ain't Marching Anymore, Newman's Political Science, Springsteen's Born In the USA and many many more.Defend the Freedom of Information
The UK government is currently debating changes to the Freedom of Information Act. In short, these changes will make it even harder to get politically inconvenient information into the public domain. Changes to costing, and limitations to the number of requests an organisation may submit, threaten to make the act totally unusable for public purposes.Privacy, Email and Activism - a brief intro
Recently there was a conference for activists interested in security issues - obviously something that any activist should be interested in. Notes from the gathering are being compiled along with previous documents into a printed booklet for activists which is expected to be distributed next year.In the meantime I've been doing a little additional research on solutions specific to securing email communication...
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Yet another case dropped in West Mercia
13th December 2006 the social inadequates of west Mercia police failed yet again to convict me for being present near a laboratory.
BAE Systems Scandal: Email Tony Bliar!
Hello everyone, I have attempted to formulate an email/letter to send to Tony Bliar which captures the nation's feelings regarding the latest BAE/Saudi scandal which he has now pulled the plug on. I wholeheartedly encourage everyone to reproduce and amend this letter as you see fit, and send it to him. This is a democracy, he needs to know what we think!
He can be contacted here!
http://www.number10.gov.uk/output/Page821.asp Reclaim the Night March in Ipswich
After the bodies of 5 sex workers have been found murdered within 10 days of each other and the police advising women to stay at home, women in Ipswich are holding a march.Your mission, should you choose to accept it...
ID cards, injunctions, CCTV with voice activated alerts, national license plate monitoring, face recognition, directional microphones, network profiling, DNA databases, keylogging, phone taping, bugging and tracking, these are just some of the tools of repression being used against those battling to save the world from total domination and destruction.This message will self destruct in 10 seconds.... 9.. 8.. 6.. 5.. 4.. 3.. 2..
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Is It Really About Terrorism?
For the second time this year, I arrived at Coventry airport on Friday evening to find Special Branch officers at my reception [see first time]. Again, I was the last passenger to leave the airport, having been searched and questioned for over 45 minutes under the Terrorism Act. But it was so obvious this time that it had nothing to do with 'terrorism', but more with my being an activist, or "an anarchist", as they put it.