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Nimal Mendis is looking for a UK Sponsor for Tsunami Song

01-02-2005 22:24

British Sri Lankan singer/song writer Nimal Mendis has composed a tsunami song with all proceeds going to the tsunami victims in Sri Lanka. He is looking for a UK sponsor to record the song in London.

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Whats hot and not WSF 2005

01-02-2005 16:56


Porto Alegre was hot- beneath the seas of white tents thousands sweated to make a better world possible- but did they? World Socialsing Reporters have this prelimary report

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Sylvia Pankhurst remembered

01-02-2005 14:55

Peter Tatchell reveals his admiration and affection for the socialist suffragette, Sylvia Pankhurst

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Wireless World: Powell's legacy at the FCC

31-01-2005 18:17

A story about FCC chairman Michael Powell and his career there.

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Positive Global Movements

29-01-2005 01:12

Positive Global Movements is an exhibition with film forums happening at Rampart Social Creative Centre in London, England, from the 6th to the 12th of February 2005.

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XXI Century film showing

27-01-2005 16:55

XXI Century, the mammoth seven-part underground documentary is coming to Liverpool, and so is its director!

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Hammer&Tongue 4 Nation Slam

27-01-2005 01:32

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DON'T MISS THE 4 NATION SLAM
AT THE ZODIAC IN OXFORD(Cowley Road)
ON Tuesday 1ST FEBRUARY
The UK competes with USA, Canada and Irland
Click and listen to 6 minutes of last month's Hammer&Tongue event...

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Hammer & Tongue 4 Nations Slam

27-01-2005 00:48

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DON'T MISS THE 4 NATIONS SLAM AT THE ZODIAC
(Cowley Road)IN OXFORD ON TUESDAY 1ST FEBRUARY
The UK competes with the USA, Canada & Ireland
Click here to listen to 6 minutes of last month's
Hammer & Tongue event...

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Royal Nazis Hit New Low

25-01-2005 16:02

Bristolian 101
Here it is again. The Bristolian, Bristol's little paper with the big impact.
This fortnight - Herr Harry's Coup D'Etat, Daily Mail Nazis, The lovely Imperial Tobbacco, MP Corston resigns, Cultural fat cat cashing in, More bullshit from RDA, Winston in Bristol: THE TRUTH...
plus much, much, much more... FREE DOWNLOAD



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Video: Urban Explorations and Climbing

25-01-2005 03:42

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Here is a short 8-minute video made during last weekend's DIY Culture event in Birmingham, showing one of the more surreal sessions, a psychogeographic walk through part of the city, combined with some urban climbing.

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(Oxford) Report: Lord Puttnam speaks on Parliament. the Press and the People

22-01-2005 11:21

View of Sheldonian
(eileen:Apologies for neither getting the name of the French woman from Article 19 who started the meeting, nor a good photo of her - not a case of inverted sexism or xenophobia on my part, just human frailty!!)

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G8

21-01-2005 02:31

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The Nursery Social Centre DiY Culture 21st-23rd January

20-01-2005 19:41

The Nursery Social Centre Collective presents...

DiY CULTURE - JANUARY 21ST - 23RD 2005 : BIRMINGHAM UK

3 Days of tools, techniques, workshops, skillshares and mindbody expansion for autonomous living

Get off the Grid - Diy heating - Low tech computing - Urban climbing - Biofuel recipes - Feral Food - Self Build Structures - Subvertising - Status Changing - Permaculture - Indymedia - Underground film + music - Squatting + Autonomous spaces - Educate the G8 workshops

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Graffiti from around Oxford, pt. 8

19-01-2005 10:17

oxford city graffiti.

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The Walks: Open Letter to Project Manager

18-01-2005 12:31

One week after the treetop protest, I've sent an open letter to Richard Hales, the Walks project manager heading up the plan to fell over 200 trees, most of them healthy.

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Mexican Mural School - Art of Estaño

17-01-2005 22:31

A new website reveals the history of the Mexican Muralist Movement and one American artist’s personal connection to it. Philip Stein, also known as Estaño, worked alongside the famed Mexican Muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros from 1948 to 1958. He assisted the Mexican master in painting some of his most famous murals. Now a brand new website showcases the stirring artworks created during Estaño’s long career.

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Iraqi Insurgents Responsible for Fewer "Collateral" Casualties than American For

15-01-2005 15:45

In a much publicized article in The Atlantic Monthly, William Langewiesche wrote: "For the most part, . . . the insurgents' attacks are less nihilistic than they are logical and precisely focused, whether against the American coalition and its camp followers or their Iraqi agents and collaborators. The truth is that however vicious or even sadistic the insurgents may be, they are acutely aware of their popular base, and are responsible for fewer unintentional 'collateral' casualties than are the clumsy and overarmed American forces" ("Letter from Baghdad," January/February 2005).

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Searching for a friend of England

15-01-2005 00:50

This is an ad about a Colombian man who is searching for a friend he has in Leeds (England). He lost contact with her and now he needs to find her contact as soon as possible.

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Qaradawi says tsunami victims deserved to die

14-01-2005 17:19

Livingstone defends Qaradawi - again

Qaradawi says tsunami victims deserved to die

Mayor cancels GLA Gay Forum to stop debate

Ken Livingstone has defended Dr Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the day it was revealed the Muslim cleric said the Asian earthquake victims deserved punishment from Allah because, he believes, their countries are centres of immorality, decadence and perversion.