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Police Officially Using Facebook

11-06-2008 22:07

Now is the time for ALL activists to either get off facebook or to be very careful about the information they put up.

The Police are officially, openly, using facebook.

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Disarming the Markets

11-06-2008 20:00

This December 1997 essay by the editor of Le Monde diplomatique kindlede the global justice movement Attac.

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Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance

11-06-2008 16:33

Conference:
Capital, Culture, Power: Criminalisation and Resistance
2-4 July, 2008

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Barack O’Bilderberg: Picking the President

11-06-2008 15:26

Recently, there has been much discussion about Barack Obama having possibly
attended the recent Bilderberg conference in Virginia. This speculation arose
when Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton sneaked off for a secretive meeting
while in Virginia. As the AP reported, "Reporters traveling with Obama sensed
something might be happening between the pair when they arrived at Dulles
International Airport after an event in Northern Virginia and Obama was not
aboard the airplane. Asked at the time about the Illinois senator's
whereabouts, [Obama spokesman Robert] Gibbs smiled and declined to comment."

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Pittsburgh Food Not Bombs under attack

11-06-2008 01:21


North AmericaRich White folks represented by the Pittsburgh Downtown Partnership (PDP) are trying to remove FNB from Market Square, where the group has served food to hungry people for 15 years.

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Let's shout about the price of oil

10-06-2008 12:35

Should we be complaining about increases in fuel prices or welcoming them as a help in addressing climate change and peak oil? This article suggests we should be shouting, not just for cuts in prices, but for responsible management of the world's resources. It is in our own self interest to do so.

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Silvio Berlusconi: A threath for European democracy?

10-06-2008 12:21

Elected senator and member of Berlusconi's party 'people of freedom'
In the media I read that Berlusconi's company mediaset has taken over the dutch media concern of Endemol. Do we have to worry in Europe?
The victory of Berlusconi has nothing to do with the 'exotic' nature of Italians, or with political left or right but everything with mediaconcentrations that can fall in the wrong hands.
Who or what controls the European media?

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July 5th International Day of Action againt the G8 - meeting

09-06-2008 16:01

Walking On The Moon ...
Invitation to another London Planning Meeting

Sunday 15th June, 3pm
Pullens Centre,
184 Crampton Street,
Elephant and Castle,
SE17

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Whats Ken Clarke MP&"democratic representative doing at private Bilderberg 2008?

07-06-2008 16:42

What is Kenneth Clarke MP for Rushcliffe borough doing currently at the Bilderberg AGM in Virginia? ex British Ameritcan Tobacco executive.More powerful than G8& Held in private & until recently top secrecy Bilderberg& Trilateral meetings are steered by David Rockefeller, Henry Kissinger& Brezezinski.He is accomponied from UK by Lord John Kerr. Member, House of Lords; Deputy Chairman Royal Dutch Shell plc. Bilderberger's arent nazis, most need psychiatric monitoring& are dangerous psychopath's
Its time to stop the war& Reclaim our Planet from them crazy bilderballs,
nows the time, virginians take to the streets & protest!

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Don't Feed the U.S. War Machine!

05-06-2008 15:05

Corporate globalization=U.S. hegemony.

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Statement from Iraqi Oil Workers support committee on Union repression

05-06-2008 10:18

Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions President Hassan Jumaa Awad called for support in response to the transfer of eight union activists by the Iraqi Oil Minister.

The eight executive committee members have been told they must leave their homes and community networks in Basra and move to Al-Dora, one of the most violence ridden with neighbourhoods of Baghdad. The leadership of the IFOU has branded the move a 'human rights crime' Senior managers from the Southern Oil Company have also been transferred.

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2 Million PETA Members Continue Heat on KFC after Victory With KFC Canada

04-06-2008 12:15

Many forced molt birds freeze to death
12,000 pickets and demonstrations against 35,000 Yum Foods owned KFC
Restaurants

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What to do about corporate globalization?

03-06-2008 15:11

We have protested. We have marched. We have surrounded international elitist meetings with our numbers.

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Science Museum, London: Letting Corporations Control Young Minds

03-06-2008 12:26


Take one major museum, a childrens exhibition about the environment and add three sponsors who between them represent three of the most environmentally destructive industries on Earth, and you have The Science Of Survival...

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Ready Steady Skip: Trailer and website launched!

02-06-2008 23:22

Ready Steady Skip - the game show where needlessly wasted food is recovered from the bin and turned into delicious dishes before your very eyes!

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Urgent: from Iraqi oil union - Govt transfer of 8 workers 'a human rights crime'

02-06-2008 21:10

Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions leader Hassan Jumaa Awad has sent the following urgent email to supporters. He urges action in response to the oil minister transfering union activists from Basra to Baghdad - a 'human rights crime' and an escalation of repression against the union at a time when the controversial oil law is still being pushed in order to privatise Iraq's oil. The IFOU are on the forefront of resistance to this and the non-armed resistance to the occupation. Please email the Iraqi embassy in the UK in protest....

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Brazil, Traffic of Wild Animals, Amazônia, Bahia

01-06-2008 18:04

Commercialized wild animals in free fair of the Bahia, Brazil
The Brazil lives of the traffic of birds and wild animals.

The Traffic of Wild Animals is the biggest source of income of Brazil, the financial greater of campaigns politics of presidents and governors.

The money sent for other countries to fight these crimes only serves to enrich ambient owners of Ongs.

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Turning Weapons into Windmills

01-06-2008 17:34

Cover picture
The Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign provides a way to implement policies to turn weapons into windmills.

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Genoa 2001 films and discussion

30-05-2008 20:17

Tuesday 3rd June 8pm.
The Common Place, Leeds