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Gold market and TW debt

14-06-2005 19:19

This is an article looking at the link between Third World debt, the IMF and the gold industry, there is also an appeal at the end to put mail/fax the largest corporation involved.

(article taken from  http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2005/0506gold.html)

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G8 Leaders in Cowley Road Carnival

14-06-2005 12:21

Carnival 1
G8 leaders were out in force on the Cowley Road carnival in Oxford taking their pro-capitalist slogans to the streets

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Trolley Town

14-06-2005 09:41

A forum about TESCOPOLY

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Jesuits of Capitilism who sit at Blair's right hand

14-06-2005 08:06

How McKinsey, the secretive global consultancy firm, is gaining influence at the heart of UK plc

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Rice on ministers' menu

13-06-2005 21:38

An article from the Sheffield Star about the Make Poverty invite to G8 ministers to eat rice with them on Devonshire Green
- 08 June 2005

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Six on ten sounds right for this Government (India)

13-06-2005 20:59

I'm real sorry I was a bit slack with this one it was sent to me ten days ago, too busy, but i think with Phoney Baloney trying to pull off a smoke screen debt relieve scam for his corporate buddies and in the run up to the G8. It's very relevant and shows just how banks and multi nationals are still making billions from the poor ...

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PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY IS BAD: A Bunfight - this Friday

13-06-2005 19:21

you are here but why?
Are you tough enough to fight it out! Are you a drunk deriver? Is psycho-geography a tool in the class struggle? Who will rule the London Psycho geographers crowd? Let the battle commence!!

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United Parcel Service (UPS): Statistics and Incongruities

13-06-2005 17:38

United Parcel Service is engaged in poor to illegal practices in the United States. Because UPS is an international corporation, it would be helpful to know if these practices are accepted in other countries, if they are occurring. Please read the paper and get in touch if you have data for Europe.

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Debt cancellation

13-06-2005 15:10

'Give us your fuckin' money', the rallying cry of Live Aid, was again the rallying cry of Live 8, only this time it was aimed at the G8 leaders, not the man in the street. And it seems to have worked.

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FPF SPECIAL: NATO Europe taking over more illegal US warfare

13-06-2005 13:52

The collaborators in England, Romania, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy and Germany are to send extra troops to Afghanistan...

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Juan Carlos Galvis Colombian Trade Unionist Speaking Tour Dates

12-06-2005 23:33

Juan Carlos Galvis, one of the Coca-Cola workers named
in a civil action against the corporation and its
bottling companies in Colombia charging collaboration
with paramilitary death squads, is currently on a
speaking tour of Europe. Juan Carlos has had several
close relatives murdered, and has survived death
threats and actual assassination attempts. He is
President of the CUT union federation in
Barrancabermeja and the Secretary of Organisation of
his own union SINALTRAINAL - the National Food and
Drink Workers Union. He has already spoken in
Birmingham, Oxford and Paris where he has received
standing ovations.

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Sheffield 'Stop the War' March [anti-G8] :: The Pictures

12-06-2005 21:51

Demonstration against the G8 Justice and Interior Ministers in advance of them coming to town. People gathered in town on Devonshire Green, Sheffield. Marched through the city centre, and on to the Peace in the Park Festival.

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Iraqi Family in Swansea Threatened with Deportation

12-06-2005 15:10

Ahalf British and half Iraqi family in Swansea are faced with the treat of imminent deportation after the Home Office turned down a bid for asylum.

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Brown lied about debt relief

12-06-2005 13:19

Debt relief is NOT agreed, there is NO new debt relief program, any debt relief is conditional on aggressive pro-market policy. Gordon Brown is lying when he says he wants to help the poor: he wants to subject starving people to a harsh and brutal economic regime. No free-market policies means NO debt relief.

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Squad Rave against the G8 Summit

12-06-2005 12:12

Audio
Hip Hopers Mister Manage and the Suicide Farm performed on stage against the G8 summit in Scottland. Check out their anti G8 Summit track, free to download!

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anti-g8 benefit gig this evening in sheffield

12-06-2005 10:30

anti g8 benefit gig

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Bill Gates: Killing Africans for Profit and PR, Now Blair joins him.

11-06-2005 18:57

Bill Gates: Killing Africans for Profit and PR and and Britain is teaming up with the Gates Foundation in the US to launch a pilot project to increase spending on vaccines and medicines to $4bn per year.

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The Worst Breakfast You Can Eat

11-06-2005 16:26

Study findings published in the April issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition declares the Mcbreakfast 'the worst breakfast you can eat!

Are you suprised?

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200,000 people evicted in Zimbabwe

11-06-2005 15:02

200,000 people evicted in two weeks and another million threatened in Zimbabwe, appeal for urgent action.

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Personal Account from Bolivia

11-06-2005 14:45

Personal account of current events in Bolivia