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An Inconvenient Truth: Film & regional decision makers response at the Broadway

23-09-2006 22:41

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An Inconvenient Truth: Film Showing & regional decision makers response at the Broadway

On friday, the Broadway cinema screened 'An Inconvenient Truth'.

Following the screening a panel of local and regional decision makers respond to the film

and answered [or tried to :-))] questions about what's happening here in Nottingham and the

East Midlands already, and suggest how we can do more.

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Appeal for donations to bring grassroots organisers in the Bolivarian Revolution

23-09-2006 21:19

You may have seen our notice of the visit of two grassroots organisers from Venezuela – Juanita Romero and Gastón Murat. (Both are interviewed on our film, Talking of Power.) We are now appealing for your help in covering the costs of the three-week speaking tour.


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Nothing Right

23-09-2006 14:16

The one glaring undeniable fact regarding the Bush administration is the fact that they have failed in ALL their endeavours – in other words they have done nothing right. The latest display of neo-con ineptitudes by John Bolton and Condoleezza Rice regarding their tactical inaction during the conflict in South Lebanon reveals the essential ideology/philosophy of the neo-cons – not only [to], ‘GIVE WAR A CHANCE; but also, WAR IS THE ANSWER’! [Thank you John Lennon.]

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HUGO CHAVEZ'S NEW WORLD VISION

22-09-2006 23:38

THE SPIRIT OF THE BOLIVARIAN REVOLUTION

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UK/USA:Establishment joins"radicals",success 4 sentience, minderbinder panics

22-09-2006 15:36

- IN CASE PEOPLE MISSED IT - WE HAD A KEY MOMENT YESTERDAY - things are moving - the "royal society" is the oldest scientific organisation in britain, invented after 1649, then put into practise after the "restoration" - its about as establishment as it gets . . . .
- the reaction was shocking too, though - revelatory, for some, in fact -

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Mining in Colombia - An Eyewitness Account, 3rd October

22-09-2006 10:34

British companies are profiting from masacres, human rights abuses and environmental destruction in the most blood-soaked country in the Western hemesphere.

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National Camp for Climate Action follow-up meeting in Manchester

21-09-2006 13:05

The Camp for Climate Action was just the beginning!

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London Climate Camp meeting

21-09-2006 13:01

Where next for climate activism in London? Second Camp for Climate Action follow-up meeting, Tuesday, September 26, 7 PM at RampART

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Climate change sceptic Bjorn Lomberg on radio 4

21-09-2006 09:39

Caroline Lucas featured prominently on the radio 4 programme Iconoclasts last night which was a debate with the maverick political scientist Bjorn Lomborg who was trying to convince everyone that not only is climate change not a real threat, but that trying to do anything about it is a big waste of money.

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World Leaders, Reading the Same Script

21-09-2006 09:17

Wake up and smell the sulphur....

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IMF out of the Philippines and South countries now, protesters demand

21-09-2006 03:13

IMF out of the Philippines and South countries now!
On the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) together with the World Bank in Singapore, the Freedom from Debt Coalition (FDC) and other civil society organizations blame “the Fund” for being the single most influential factor for the worsening poverty in the Philippines and other countries in the South.

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Marxists wreck productive body

20-09-2006 19:49

K. Marx and Ricardo states that wages not depend on production but in necessaries that tippify a slavery society not a mercantil systm. This conducts a marxists in govern to destroy productive system and to serve as clerks of financier capital.

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Shell Still Stopped.

20-09-2006 13:00

Picket in front of main gate to the site
Latest news on the struggle against Shell in the West of Ireland. Large numbers at pickets prevent entry into refinery construction site. Shell’s public relations efforts come to naught.

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Housing and Land Rights 06 Campaign

20-09-2006 01:49

London Social Forum as part of international
support for World Habitat Day on Monday 2nd October 2006
Day of Direct Action on Housing & landrights in London.

Open Forum on speculation, housing, land, civil and social rights

Sunday October 1, 2006, 12.30pm-6 pm
Limehouse Town Hall,
646 Commercial Road, London E14 7HA

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A Dirty Business - Oxford University & the Dogs of War!

20-09-2006 00:17

It’s difficult to imagine Oxford University professors having cosy chats with seasoned mercenaries. It’s even more difficult to believe that there is a strong link between leading Oxford University academics and men who are paid to go to war and whose only loyalty is to their bank accounts. Or is it?

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insurrection

19-09-2006 11:53

momentous events are unfolding in HUNGARY

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Nestlé and child slavery

18-09-2006 11:10

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Today - 18 September - Nestlé has refused to attend a meeting in the US about its failure to end child slavery in its cocoa supply chain. Yet next Monday - 25 September - it is sponsoring a meeting at the Labour Party Conference to boast how it is taking action to end forced labour. Listen to an interview about legal action in the US over Nestlé's failure to address child slavery and attend the meeting at the Labour Party Conference to raise the questions Nestlé is trying to avoid.

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Reading Library Privatised - Effects of IMF!

16-09-2006 21:56

Representatives of the G.R.Eedy Corporation were seen leafleting in Reading today, informing people that the town library (along with all others) has been privatised, and they are now the owners. This seems to be a direct effect of a recently agreed IMF loan to the UK - complete with all the usual 'Structural Adjustment Program conditions, such as cutting public spending, making labour markets more flexible and privatising services. The full text of their leaflet is reproduced below....

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9/11 Toxic Dust Whistleblower Raided By SWAT Team

15-09-2006 21:26

Ground zero hero Major Mike McCormack says he was deliberately targeted for helping release documents on EPA government cover-up, says 75% of police, firemen believe 9/11 cover-up

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Singapore: Where Frowning upon Globalisation Gets you Arrested

15-09-2006 16:55

The first Frown
A Singapore activist, Mr Seelan Pillai, has been arrested and held at the Clementi Police Station in Singapore. His arrest and detention is believed to be in connection with Singapore hosting the IMF and World Bank Meeting and was reported by the Singapore Democratic Party on September 13.