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East End of London community No to unaccountable public office holders

13-06-2007 13:44

Blair's allagedly cvritical refertences to the 'feral media' on Tiesday giot klengthy poryrauls in parsie of Blair.

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G8 Media Gets the Massage - good article from 'unspin the g8'

13-06-2007 12:49

Good article from dutch media activist on the 'media battle', the press centre village and the media intervention made by some clowns at Kühlungsborn:

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German G8 Police: Lies, Propaganda and Provocation (report)

13-06-2007 11:44

Below are a few examples of the lies and propaganda spun by the police during the G8 protests in Germany, as well as direct evidence that the police were at times using infiltrators to try and create conditions to justify further repression.

There are for sure many more examples of this during the last two weeks or so and civil liberties monitoring groups are investigating other incidents. It should also be said that while the media were able to report what appeared to be a tolerant attitude to the blockades at the East Gate, in other places sit down protestors were water cannoned, pepper sprayed and beaten. Also the police tried to provoke violence at various different protests and actions, arrested people for nothing more than having the wrong clothing on them, and failed to give medical assistance to injured people in a number of incidents. Police have also been criticised for using water canon at close quarters against peaceful blockaders resulting in several serious eye injuries, including a man from Liverpool who has lost the use of his eye after it was dislodged. Further criticism has come regarding the use of the military against protestors including the army on the A19 autobahn and the use of Panavia Tornado jets in low fly reconnaissance / intimidation runs over protest camp sites.

Other tactics used by the police included mass unrpovoked arrests, closure of transport systems to prevent people reaching legal assembly points and systematic feeding of misinformation to the media - details of which below:

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Daily Mail G8 Blockade Reporting - Atrocious Newspaper Article Shocker!

13-06-2007 11:16

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Last night on newsnight Peter Oborne, a Daily Mail political columist said "It's the job of the press to bring to light falshoods". It's a shame the idea wasn't applied to the article below.

Published in print and on the web, it deals with the blockade protests against the G8 held on Wednesday 6th June. I saw a copy of it last night and was astounded at the shoddy quality of the journalism. I find it hard to believe that someone was actualy paid to produce such a mixed up shambles of misinformation and mistake.

It contains around 13 serious factual errors. This is a shocking number of mistakes for any article.

The Daily Mail does not have a good record when it comes to accuracy and G8 protests. This article confirms that their reporting should not be believed. Over 2.3 Million people read the Daily Mail...

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Video of Prisoner Solidarity March, 08/06/07

12-06-2007 23:29

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Video Rushes of the G8 Prisoner Solidarity March

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Complaints lodged with EU against the Irish State

12-06-2007 23:11

The Tara Foundation has lodged complaints with the European Commission against the Irish State over the M3 Motorway in Co. Meath and the onshore gas refinery at Ballinaboy, Co Mayo

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Whats hot and not G82007 Heiligendamm

12-06-2007 19:46

From the streets, blockades and bars- the self- elected unrepresentative group of 8 that make up the whats hot team have this report.

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june 29 critical mass summer party BBQ

12-06-2007 17:53

manchester cm june 2007
on friday 29th of june it is the next amazing critical mass in manchester!!!

meet 6pm central library.

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Why your revolution is no liberation!

12-06-2007 16:33

Fight Antisemitism!
During the recent weeks and months a spirited debate developed in different German left wing newspapers and groups about the sense or non-sense, the perspectives and the means and goals of the mobilisation against the G8 summit. Different German and Austrian anti-fascist groups started a campaign to criticise a wrong analysis of capitalism widely spread in the anti-globalisation movement. In the context of this campaign several public discussions and lectures were held, a special webpage was set up but above all reader was published that contains a set of basic texts referring to this problem. This reader is available in German and English and will soon also be published in French in order to spread the debate also across other countries. Check it out: www.no-liberation-reader.tk

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Turbulence: Ideas for movement (Issue #1 Online Now!)

12-06-2007 16:23

The articles from the first issue of 'Turbulence: Ideas for movement' are now available to read and download online at: www.turbulence.org.uk

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Aberystwyth Activists Arrested at G8

12-06-2007 15:27

Three peace and justice activists from Aberystwyth were arrested during the G8 summit near Rostock in Germany, while taking part in a ‘Global Agricultural Day of Action’ on Sunday 3rd June at a local McDonalds.

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The Tyrant Visits Tirana

12-06-2007 13:44

Bush is craving after affection. He fully enjoyed his reception without protests in Bulgaria...

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Greenpeace Bio Fuel Campaign

12-06-2007 13:31

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Greenpeace, along with a number of other environmental groups have launched this campaign to raise awareness of the potentially detrimental effects of bio fuel in terms of deforestation and loss of habitat:

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G8 protester blinded by police

12-06-2007 13:18


During blockades of the West Gate during the G8 summit police used water canons mixed with pepper spray excessively. A number of serious eye and ear injuries were reported including Matt from Liverpool. The force of the jet of water was so serve that his eye came out of its socket. Matt has been left blinded in one eye.
Matt was discharged from hospital in Rostock but faces months of operations and discomfort from his injury. A CAT scan has revealed that he had sustained internal bleeding, extensive damage to his Iris and possible damage to his retina.He faces future operations, cataracts, and glaucoma.

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Venezuela's Withdrawal from the IMF and the World Bank

12-06-2007 11:38

With their emancipation from the Bretton Woods institutions, the states of latin America now try to lessen their dependence. A Bank of the South could assume the role of structural creditor in the future.

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08/07/2007: International Shell to Sea block and shutdown

11-06-2007 20:25

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On Friday samba bands and protestors shut down the Shell garage in Evershagen, Rostock.

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Pics of Saturday's Rostock Demo, 2nd of June

11-06-2007 17:52

Somebody came up to us in the imc and asked us to put up her pics on indymedia - here they finally are.

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Oil interests flout International Law in Balkans

11-06-2007 08:07

Republican president Bush follows Democrat president Clinton’s course in the Balkans; oil pipelines and gas supplies take precedence over every other consideration including international law and the sanctity of human life. Bush has challenged Russia, Serbia and International Law by announcing during his recent visit to Albania that Kosovo, a Serbian province, would become independent in the near future, negotiations must result in “certain independence ... that’s what’s important to know”, he said! Bush’s grammatically woeful statements beg the question, why the need for negotiation if the Texan president insists that independence is “certain” for Kosovo -- which remains Serbian sovereign territory?

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REPORT ON THE CLASS STRUGGLE IN THE PHILIPPINES

10-06-2007 21:12

INTERVIEW OF FILIPINO ACTIVIST INTELLECTUAL E. SAN JUAN, JR.
AT THE PERMANENT PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL, THE HAGUE, MARCH 2007