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G8 Debrief: Brighton

15-07-2005 11:03

G8 Debrief: 6pm, Tuesday 19th July, Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton

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Don't Blame Bush

14-07-2005 18:29

Maybe you think that it’s all just a bad dream. In a few years there will be a new President of the United States and everything will be different then. Everything will be back to normal. The bad news is, you are awake. The really bad news is, it isn’t Bush.

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CARAVAN TOWARDS MEXICO CITY

14-07-2005 17:31

At 9 am a march called by different organisations departed from Avenue Juarez “El Llano”. The aim of the march was to give the farewell to the caravan that is heading towards Mexico City to demand freedom for political prisoners...

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DISARM DSEi public meeting - 30th July 2005

14-07-2005 14:42

Feeling lost after the g8? Need a new direction, a new focus? Looking to fill the void? Don’t fear, dsei is near!

PUBLIC MEETING 2pm Saturday 30th July 2005 Bertrand Russell Room, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1 (nearest tube Holborn)

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Ambassadors express sympathy to all those affected by the blasts in London

14-07-2005 12:31

American Cultural Ambassadors David and Renate Jakupca of the International Center for Environmental Arts (ICEA) expresses its deepest sympathy to all those whose lives have been touched, directly or indirectly, by the explosions.

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France 'closes' borders - Minister: UK bombers earlier arrested

14-07-2005 11:27

Dark clouds on EU's horizon: France reintroduces border controls within the European Union after last week's terrorist bomb blasts in London. "Ninety-eight percent of crimes can be tried, but there remain two percent that justice cannot settle. They are called state secrets."

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Moral High Ground

14-07-2005 10:49

No More Brownwash
One of Brighton & Hove WDM's activists reports on their occupation and banner drop on a crane in Edinburgh on 5th July to protest at the UK government's hypocritical claims about alleviating poverty and declare there should be 'NO MORE BROWN-WASH'

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Rumour Mongering - turning the tables on the Capitalist Media

14-07-2005 06:18

Or how to create a media system which is a public utility, instead of a capitalist brain washing outfit, in really easy steps...

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The Propaganda Message is the Context not the Content

14-07-2005 01:42

After years of struggle, now it is time to turn the tables on the IMF, the World Bank, the G8, and the Capitalist Media System, et al, by pulling the same stunt on them that they have been pulling on everyone else for years...

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Blockading the G8: personal accounts

13-07-2005 19:15

Account of the various blockades that took place on wednesday 5th, the first day of the G8 conference. It describes the different actions that took place around Scotland and includes analysis of tactics:

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G8 Bike ride reaches Gleneagles: Photos

13-07-2005 15:37

Welcome to the G8
Some how, amongst much police confusion, where road blocks were not about stopping traffic, but 'discouraging it', we managed to get our vehicles up a narrow lane to what looked like the media entrance of Gleneagles hotel. Hidden behind a police pen and crowd of media was the G8 bike ride people.

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Legal Support Group Statement on the Policing of the G8 Protests

13-07-2005 11:36

During the protests against the G8 over 700 people were detained or arrested by the police, often overnight, and around 366 people have been arrested and charged.

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More photos and report from Boogie on the Bridge anti-M74 Action

12-07-2005 23:29

"Stop the M74, Save the Climate!"

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Photos from M74 Boogie on the Bridge on July 8th

12-07-2005 23:18

Boogie on the Bridge on July 8th
Photos of signs and anti-G* and climate change messages at the street party

more photos and my report are at  http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1752466.php

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Minister survives Beirut car explosion

12-07-2005 21:39

President Lahoud's Son-in-Law Elias Murr Survives Assassination Ambush

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Cynicism and the G8 Deal

12-07-2005 20:59

Are condemndations of the G8 deal on Africa reasonable, or the cynical reaction of those who would never have been satisifed whatever the results of the summit?

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Africa's battle with corruption

12-07-2005 20:54

Not only is much of the west’s third world policy intrinsically corrupt, but those policies also contribute a great deal toward corruption in Africa, the spoils of which may in turn find a warm welcome in the western banking system.

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Blaming Internet for Jihad, bombings & resistance

12-07-2005 20:33

The Pentagon has begun a massive program - whose budget dwarfs the 'Manhattan Project' to build the first atomic bomb - to install its own encrypted, private computer network designed to connect every HumVee, helicopter and human in the military.

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Mayor of Hiroshima calls people to participate in peace walk to Belgian NATO nuc

12-07-2005 15:53

Peace Walk 2003
The mayor of Hiroshima, Mr. Akiba Tadatoshi, calls people to participate between July 26th and August 9th in the peace walk from Ypres to the NATO nuclear weapon base in Kleine Brogel, in the north of Belgium (letter attached). The peace walk organised by For Mother Earth, the Flemish member of Friends of the Earth International, marks the 60th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6th and 9th 1945.

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Cambridge Talk: THE POLITICS OF 'MAKE POVERTY HISTORY'

12-07-2005 15:23

The next meeting of Cambridge Socialist Forum will be on:

WEDNESDAY 13th JULY
7.30pm
EMMANUEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH, TRUMPINGTON STREET

A discussion on THE POLITICS OF 'MAKE POVERTY HISTORY' : G8, Live 8 and the
NGO movement