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Invitation to the Camp for Climate Action at Kingsnorth Power Station

This summer the Camp for Climate Action will pitch its tents outside Kingsnorth coal-fired power station in Kent for a week of education,
sustainable living and direct action.

Everyone is invited to the camp, which is now part of an international movement, with eight climate camps on four continents planned for this summer.

Els PP trenca la imatge d'unitat

08-03-2008 04:03 | World

Els PP trenca la imatge d'unitat que intentaven donar els partits al Congrés amb el comunicat de rebuig de l'atemptat

This Week In Palestine – week 10 2008

07-03-2008 19:42 | Palestine | World

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for March 1st through to March 7th, 2008.

No to Crossrail hole campaign supporter East End Cuncillor resigns

07-03-2008 18:17 | History | Social Struggles | World

Khoodeelaar! Campaign supporter, and Brick Lane London E1 ‘area’ Opposition councillor [on Tower Hamlets Council] Louise Alexander resigns on health grounds….

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Japanese Officials Caught Lying on Firearm Use against Sea Shepherd

07-03-2008 14:42 | Analysis | Animal Liberation | Repression | World

Captain Paul Watson was shot in the chest during an engagement between the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling ship, Nisshin Maru on March 7. The Japanese Foreign Ministry and Institute for Cetecean Research have denied guns were used at all during the engagement in contradiction to advice given to Australian embassy officials in Japan and the reports from Sea Shepherd.

Do you writes zines or comics anonymously?

07-03-2008 14:15 | Culture | Other Press | World

A new web host for anonymous zines and comics has been set up,

http://provisionalzine.blogspot.com.

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Sea Shepherd: Japanese Scramble to Spin Shooting Story

07-03-2008 11:48 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

In the aftermath of a confrontation between the crew of the whaling ship Nisshin Maru and the crew of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin, the Japanese public relations flacks are working overtime to get the spin right. First, they admitted that warning shots were fired, then they corrected themselves and said that only flash grenades were fired at the crew of the Steve Irwin. Then they changed the story again and described the flash grenades as “warning balls.” By tomorrow morning, they may have it spun it again and may be describing them as “marshmallows.”

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Japanese Open Fire on Sea Shepherd Crew: Three Injured

07-03-2008 10:17 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | World

Captain Paul Watson Shot in Chest; Cameraman and Crewmember Injured by Flash Grenades - At 1545 hours (0445 GMT), a clash between the crew of the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin and the Japanese whaling ship Nisshin Maru turned violent when the Japanese Coast Guard began to throw flash grenades at the crew of the Steve Irwin. Captain Paul Watson was struck by a bullet in the chest. Fortunately, the bullet was stopped by his Kevlar vest. The bullet struck just above the heart and mangled Captain Watson’s anti-poaching badge, which was worn on his sweater underneath the Kevlar vest.

Falconio - v The Barrow Creek Incident

07-03-2008 10:01 | Analysis | World

Seperating the fact from the fiction

Guantánamo “Fair Trial” posters censored by shopping centre in Reading

07-03-2008 08:32 | Repression | Terror War | World

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on an act of political censorship against a promotion aimed at fair trials for Guantánamo prisoners in a Lush store in a shopping centre in Reading.

Guatemala: hiperdam threatens living space of guatemaltecos

07-03-2008 06:49 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Worldwide, already around 80 million people have been displaced from their living space by dams.
The hydroelectric installation “Xalalá” in the state Quiché in Guatemala is one of the next large projects that will be realized within the Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) and will have negative impacts on around 6000-8000 people.

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South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war

07-03-2008 02:26 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.

Stop The Camden Atrocity Laboratory Potential Tragedy In The Making....

07-03-2008 00:21 | Animal Liberation | Bio-technology | Other Press | World

Oppose planning permission for The Camden Virus Containment Facility / Animal Testing LAb by writing to Mike Greene : Mr Mike Greene, London Borough of Camden Old Town Hall Judd Street London WV1H 9JE. No-one wants thgis troublesome lab to affect them on their on their own doorsteps.....a council estate is no palce for a high security lab. {It will be used for animal torture unless stopped!!}

The Politics of Non-Proliferation

06-03-2008 21:07 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | World

If there was a time when Iranian analysts and decision makers would question the benefits of continuing to cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency, it would be now. The IAEA has allowed systematic US intervention in Iran's nuclear file paving the way to a third round of sanctions. But while US pressure on Iran with the knowledge that no evidence of a covert weapons programme exists, is perhaps in the hope that it will finally force Iran to leave the NPT in protest, Iran seems to be one step ahead and does exactly the opposite.

Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

Press release
06/03/2008

Smash EDO protesters prevent delivery companies supporting war crimes in Iraq.

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