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Kyoto March and Dinosaur Party in Edinburgh

15-05-2004 19:53

Around about a fifty people joined the Kyoto March and Dinosaur Party in Edinburgh today, 15th of may. Starting at the Russian embassy at about 11 am, via Princes and Rose Street furry and fluffy dinosaurs were accompanied by "George Bush" with drums and slogans: SWhat do we want: Sign Kyoto! When do we want it: Now; as well as "1-2-3-4 we don't want your fossil war!" . Longer article will hopefully follow here soon -here are pictures and the original call for action.

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Consensus/facilitation workshop

13-05-2004 21:27

Sunday 23 may
12 pm
Corpus Christi, NEW MUSIC ROOM, Oxford

Open to everyone!

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precarious protest at cannes

12-05-2004 22:07

more info at marseille.indymedia.org and cip-idf.org

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police attacks at the university of instabul

09-05-2004 20:15

A historical moment for the student movement of turkey.
The students "occupy" the university on friday 7 may. The police enters and throws teargass , drops people out of the windows and arrests a lot of them. The students were protesting for issues of democracy .
They call for our solidarity

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US: Student President Forced Because Of Anti Zionist Comments

06-05-2004 13:15

Wednesday, May 5, 2004
Student President of Hillel Chapter at U. of Richmond Is Ousted After Criticizing Israeli Embassy
By ERIC HOOVER

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European Creative Forum - Visions of Another World - Sat May 8th

03-05-2004 23:38

ECF Forum
ECF + UK-ESF Culture Working Group call a Joint Culture & Creatives Assembly to discuss "How can Culture activate the ESF and interest in it?"
This is an ESF awareness and benefit event with an array of stimulating, awakening and creative activities from music and mime; painting and poetry; dance and debate; theatre, talk and cinema; seminars and workshops.

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WITS students arrested today!

28-04-2004 12:34

At least six Wits University students have been arrested this morning as
part of the South African police's response to a spontaneous students
uprising which broke out on Monday as a result of a decision by the
university management to cut financial aid by half.

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UWIC mistreats staff, issues false statement to press

24-04-2004 14:15

Students in the School of Art & Design at the University of Wales Institute in Cardiff have lost their tutors due to a funding crisis. UWIC has tried to cover this up by issuing a false statement to the press. Students and junior staff have reported numerous incidents of harassment and intimidation in the School, both prior to and in the aftermath of this affair.

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MEDIA ALERT: CRUSHING FALLUJA

23-04-2004 08:19

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

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Youth March to Aldermaston - report and photos

13-04-2004 12:27

Day 2 of the Youth March
On 10th April, 50 young people set out on the 40 mile march to Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment. The march, organised by Youth & Student CND, was to protest against Britain's nuclear weapons.

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Flier for Schnews event

03-04-2004 09:00

Flier
Here's the flier for the Schnews At Ten tour's visit to Oxford on Thursday April 15th.

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University of Leeds Reverses Policy on Nestle

02-04-2004 10:46

In February this year staff at the University of Leeds were told that they should use Nestle Watercoolers unless they had a specific reason not to. Enquiries were made to see if ethical concerns about Nestle would be considered a vaild reason not to use Nestle, but staff were told that this would not be considered a valid reason.

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Anna Scher-STILL IN EXILE

01-04-2004 10:11

JUSTICE FOR ANNA SCHER

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Prepration meeting on the Caravan towards World Economic Forum in Warsaw

31-03-2004 13:15

Our globalisation masters, so good in ripping off the people, have
decided this time to have their meeting in Warsaw. They have an
invitation from the polish president and with a weakly prepared
alter-global movement there, they expect to have nice & relatively calm
chat...

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Schooling and academic psychological ill treatment of intellectually precocious

29-03-2004 14:46

Academic psychological ill treatment represents the greatest implicit massacre of children. 60% of intellectually precocious children are faced with academic failure. All these children come from different social backgrounds and research reveals that 47% of them suffer from academic psychological abuse, 24% from academic physical abuse, 25% trigger off a pathology following their admission to school... This is nothing other than complete annihilation of the intellect!

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Update On Anna Scher Campaign

20-03-2004 02:27

NEWSFLASH!!!

ANNA SCHER IN EXILE

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San Fran Action Shuts Down Bechtel Headquarters on Anniversary of Iraq Invasion

19-03-2004 23:25

Global Mobilization Against US Occupation and "Corporate Invasion" of Iraq

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Course on What is Race?

19-03-2004 13:26

WHAT IS RACE? Beginning April 20, 2004. Tuesday evenings for 10 weeks.
A course lookig at 'race' from the birth of racism to the contemporary racism of immigration policy in an era of globalization to be held at the Oxford University Department of Education.

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Labour in Liverpool: Ducking the Fees Question

17-03-2004 16:36

Report from the council meeting on student fees