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Comics and Activism: the perfect combination. Meeting 12/06/07

07-06-2007 16:50

What's better than activism? Reading! (OK which one of you said "sex"? I heard you). Ahem, where were we? Reading, yes. What's a really cool format to read stuff in? Graphic novels! So, why not combine the two?

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Hill of Tara on List of 100 Most Endangered Sites

07-06-2007 13:39

The World Monuments Fund (WMF), based in New York, has announced that the Hill of Tara has been included in the World Monuments Watch List of 100 Most Endangered Sites.

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One Million Pounds to be a British Muslim

07-06-2007 11:38

The following article was written by Hussein Al-alak of the Iraq Solidarity Campaign, in response to a Government report published this week, which includes allocating £1 million of public money for the training of Islamic Imams.

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Hello! Festival

04-06-2007 17:01

Bandstand
The Hello! Festival took place at the Arboretum on Sunday June 3.

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Peace In The Park Radio

04-06-2007 13:35

Audio
Audio report from Peace In the Park (Sheffield, June 2 2007)

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More Peace in the Park Pictures

04-06-2007 13:20

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Additional photos of a Sunny Saturday in Endcliffe Park

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Opening of Barracks Lane Community Garden & Workshops, 16 June

04-06-2007 08:47

This looks like a very worthwhile development, with an exciting range of activities planned over the summer and beyond. You may be allergic to Andrew Smith MP, who is officially opening the event at 3:00pm, but the project itself seems excellent, so don't hang back if you're free this afternoon. Check out the pdf for more details.

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Support the Cuban People -- Help Send a Bookmobile to Cuba!

03-06-2007 14:37

The US embargo on trade with Cuba continues. This summer Pastors for Peace will again challenge the blockade with a friendship caravan. A fully stocked bookmobile will accompany it. Before the revolution there were only 32 libraries in Cuba. In 2002 there were 400 public libraries and 6000 school libraries. Cubans are avid readers and life long learners but Cuban librarians struggle to meet their needs under the blockade. We urge you join us in sending books to Cuba!

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Photos from Sheffield's Peace in The Park

02-06-2007 20:47

This years Peace in the Park festival was held in Encliffe Park on 2nd June 2007 and it was the biggest yet.

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The War on Drugs Does Not Exist

31-05-2007 22:01

The WAR ON DRUGS does not exist - welcome to the WAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS, FREEDOMS, BELIEFS AND CHOICES…..For if it is a War on Drugs, why do we annihilate and persecute some, while giving supremacy to others?

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Sounds on the Downs

31-05-2007 12:12

Poster
FREE GREEN Festival on the Downs of University Park Campus every Summer
Wednesday 6th June, 2007 1-9pm

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Picnic and live music from refugee communities

31-05-2007 08:23

Exodus Picnic at Feast!

Sunday 3 June 1 - 6pm, FREE EVENT
Platt Fields Park, Wilmslow Road, Manchester, M14 6LA

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Asylum Monologues (free performances)

31-05-2007 08:13

Performances of Asylum Monologues in 12 UK cities on June 21

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Balibo, 32 years of Australian Cowardice

31-05-2007 01:02

The infamous Balibo murders perfectly illustrate Australian cowardice and Indonesian barbarity. It should be stated from the outset that the truth of the cold-blooded murder of the Balibo five has been known since the day of the crime in 1975. The cringing attitude displayed by successive Australian governments toward the barbaric Indonesians has made Australia a laughing stock in Asia. All successive Labor and Liberal governments that perpetuated the lie of a tragic accident (caught in a cross-fire) are guilty of criminal suppression of the truth and criminal collusion with the murderers -- grubby oil deals notwithstanding.

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Simon Reynolds interview: Pop, politics, hip-hop and postpunk

29-05-2007 21:34


Jamie Reid's 1977 cover for the Sex Pistols' single God Save The Queen. You can see the original artwork and much more at Panic Attack! Art In The Punk Years, an exhibition at the Barbican art gallery in central London running until September 2007.

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Leading Palestinian hip hop band DAM in London

29-05-2007 17:07

DAM is Palestine’s seminal rap band, and one of the most interesting groups garnering international attention today. Through their music, DAM raises awareness of the situation of Palestinians living in Israel, proving that rap is a fantastic tool to forge identity and build strength and hope in our acutely discriminating world.

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Q) Where are all the protest singers ? A) Rostock

29-05-2007 11:01

This question has been asked twice now, and quite rightly hidden. For if your idea of an anti-Thatcher song is by the monster-rock Pink Floyd then you are probably just too dumb to educate. When Sid Vicious was signed up he was wearing a Pink Floyd T Shirt that he'd scrawled 'I HATE' on. Luckily anarchist protest songwriting has progressed a great deal since 'Anarchy in The UK' but I still hate 'the Floyd'.

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Nottingham Refugee Week 2007 - 16th–24th June

29-05-2007 09:09

Refugee Week is a UK wide festival that celebrates the great contribution made by refugees to UK life and promotes understanding of why people become refugees. Every year hundreds of arts, cultural and educational events are organised across the UK.

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McJob

28-05-2007 20:25

McJob, McShite, MuckDonalds

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ARTIST TO EAT A CORGI LIVE ON RADIO

28-05-2007 13:55

ARTIST TO EAT A CORGI 2007

Mark McGowan is to eat a corgi dog live on Resonance FM 104.4 on Tuesday 29th May at 9pm in a protest against the RSPCA and their inability to prosecute Prince Philip over the shooting of a fox leaving it to die for 5 minutes then beating it to death with a stick and even stamping on it.