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Halloween bash, Canary Wharf, London - Pictures.

01-11-2008 12:42

Dancing on the grave of Capitalism.
Spooks and spectres gather outside Canary Wharf on Halloween to carry out a haunting outside Lehmans at 25 Bank Street to wail at the financial crisis gripping the living at the witching hour.

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Chevron-Texaco purges its website of Burma references as it stands trial

01-11-2008 12:11

Charges of Rape and Murder Prompt Disappearance of Entire Country from Corporate Website

SAN FRANCISCO — Chevron [trading as Texaco in the UK] has quietly removed from its website any reference to its operations in Burma [Myanmar], a country where the oil giant has been implicated in allegations of rape and murder connected to a lucrative pipeline project that generates up to $1 billion annually for the country's brutal military regime, the Amazon Defense Coalition said today.

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Republic of Congo;another horror?

01-11-2008 11:18

Republic of Congo
Congo:Oil,gold,coltan and civil wars.

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Trick or Treat Alistair Darling

31-10-2008 21:20

Visit to Downing St

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Communique from CIPO-RFM. Compañeros y Compañeras, please pass on and act.

31-10-2008 20:46

Miguel Cruz Moreno
“There’s not justice for the people, precisely because is poor,
and justice only use is to humiliate and depreciate the poor. “
Ricardo Flores Magon. 1911.


To the good at heart men and women
To the Other Campaign
To the honest media
To Human Rights Organisations

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No Borders clarification

31-10-2008 18:41

Wondering about the basic principles behind the No Borders and similar movements.

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Students Stick it to Shell

31-10-2008 00:32

Shell : Hell
This evening 30th October, Shell, the notorious Oil Corporation undertook a corporate recruitment initiative at Nottingham University. Simultaneously a few students engaged in a little anti-corporate counter-recruitment initiative.

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Sabotage Is Not An Option, It Is A Necessity

27-10-2008 17:55

We have been led to believe that the act of sabotage, all acts of sabotage, are inherently bad. This is because sabotage is a potential threat to everything civilization holds dear: it is perhaps the only thing that could stop the environmental crisis.

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Chomsky@80 - debate and discussion

27-10-2008 12:46

On November 28th Manchester will host activists and academics coming together on Noam Chomsky's 80th birthday to discuss some of the topics he's written on over the years - human rights, US foreign policy, imperialism and globalisation, and the media.

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Karl Marx and the Global Financial Crisis 2008 (by Latuff)

24-10-2008 21:07

The revenge of Karl Marx
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Looking into the Crisis

23-10-2008 16:52

Audio
'LOOKING INTO THE CRISIS' is a new audio-based initiative to help us explore and disseminate knowledge about current economic issues.

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CSSGJ Seminar Series presents What is Global Ethics?

23-10-2008 08:41

'What is Global Ethics?' by Kimberly Hutchings from the London School of Economics which will take place Monday 27th October from 4.00-5.30pm in the Conference Suite, University Staff Club, University Park Campus, University of Nottingham. The lecture is part of the 'Open Seminar Series' organised by the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ).

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Students Target Unethical Career Corporatism

22-10-2008 22:37

Grim reapers
On Monday 20th October the annual AISEC Careers fair commenced at Nottingham University, featuring many organisations with despicable or at least dubious ethical credentials and social-responsibility records, including BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Qinetiq, E.On, BP, RBS, MoD and the army. The fair also featured some student activists and Grim Reapers who had made an appearance in order to remind fellow students of the deadly consequences of working in the arms trade or climate change industry.

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Friends Of The Earth To Merge With UK Government

22-10-2008 10:17

In a surprise move today, Andy Atkins, Executive Director of Friends Of The Earth UK, announced that the former environmental pressure group are to become an agency of the UK Government, working within the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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The Sickened State of The Federal Government

21-10-2008 21:01

TWO WARS; A 100,00 Missing Arms and Legs; A Million Young People Killing and Being Killed; A Million Broken Lives; Torture; Illegal Imprisonment; Court Appointed President; Terrorist WAR; Drug WAR; Immigration WAR on "Aliens"; Federal Government Border Patrol Checkpoints; Failing Economic Model of Debt Appreciation; Federal IRS Property Confiscation; EARMARKS;

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Hallowe'en Anti-Capitalist Action in Wales

21-10-2008 15:44

Get down to the Nye Bevan Statue, Queen St, Cardiff at 5 pm, Friday 31st October for a torchlight march and exorcism with music, poetry, speeches and cacophony. Capitalism is bad black magick!

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Guildford Book Festival 2008

21-10-2008 15:34

Coca-Cola licensed to kill
The Guildford Book Festival is a ten day event running from 16-25 October 2008.

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World Anti Mcdonalds Day

20-10-2008 09:33

A free vegan food stall & tons of leaflets educating the public of cov

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Great Britain: What is it and where is it going? Part 2

20-10-2008 08:35

Cailean Bochanan's analysis is, in my opinion, unrivalled amongst present day scribes

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Great Britain: What is it and where is it going? Part 1

20-10-2008 08:30

First part in Bochanan's analysis of the financial collapse and it's origins