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On the tracks to real change - 2nd COP15 planning meeting

28-01-2009 13:35

Invitation to the 2nd planning meeting in the International Climate Network, regarding protest and actions during the COP15 summit.

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Crossing the Channel: Initiatives Start Preparing for a Noborder Camp in Calais

28-01-2009 09:28

Last weekend groups from France and the UK including people involved in the UK NoBorders Network agreed in a meeting in Lille to organise transnational Noborder Camp in Calais, France, which will be held in the last week of June 2009.

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The Codex Alimentarius

27-01-2009 20:37

The Codex Alimentarius (Latin for "food code" or "food book") is a collection of internationally recognized standards, codes of practice, guidelines and other recommendations relating to foods, food production and food safety.

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Global Military Bloc: NATO's Drive Into Asia

27-01-2009 19:46

With the sixtieth anniversary summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to occur on April 3-4, the world should take note of how far from its original area of operations this, history's first, international military bloc has expanded in the interim since its creation in 1949.

That attacks on the capitals of US finance and government blamed by Washington on nineteen perpetrators from Arab nations would be used as justification for global and permanent military operations from the Strait of Gibraltar to the Philippines archipelago and from the Indian Ocean to the Caribbean Sea is, then, perhaps not to be wondered at.

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Milano-Let’s take back Cox 18, the Calusca Library and the Primo Moroni archive!

27-01-2009 01:57

[Milano - Italy]
The 22nd of January 2009 at 7.00 am, about a hundred policeman has entered and cleared out the Cox 18 - Conchetta Squat, occupied more than 33 years ago, where has place the Calusca library, created in 1971, and the precious and historical archive Primo Moroni.

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The Icelandic Government has Collapsed

27-01-2009 00:57

Demonstration outside parlaiment
Under the pressure because of a firestorm of a popular uprising that's seen the Icelandic Parlaiment seiged by demonstrators, weekly mass rallys that grew more and more militant, Police hospitalised and an elite who've been cowering away at how the winds blowing against their greasy faces, the Icelandic Government has finally collapsed. This makes it the first Government victim of the global financial crisis.

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Nicholas Stern Is A Dangerous Idiot

26-01-2009 17:47

Sir Nicholas Stern: market obsessed economist or environmental saviour? You could be excused for thinking the latter; so here's something that should make things a bit clearer.

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These nights are for Alexis; a closer look into the december uprising in Greece

25-01-2009 16:28

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Eleven days after the 15-year old boy Alexandros Grogopoulos was killed by a police bullet in Athens, I decide to travel to Greece. The following article is no news, nor is it an analysis of the news. It is an attempt to create more understanding of the inner workings of the uprising, the sociopolitical and cultural climate in which it took place and the movement behind it.

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Mass escapes from Lampedusa and protests

24-01-2009 16:55

Detention center left empty after migrants tear the gates down. Humanitarian situation very serious. Large protests by residents.

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1300 migrants escape from Lampedusa concentration camp

24-01-2009 12:53

They are marching towards the Town Hall demanding freedom
Lampedusa is a small island south of Sicily where thousands have arrived by boat recently. They were locked behind gates and forced to sleep in the rain due to the 'reception' centre's overcrowding.

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Event Report: 50 Years of the Cuban Revolution (London, sat 17 Jan)

24-01-2009 12:00

On Saturday 17 January Rock around the Blockade held a celebration of 50 years of the Cuban Revolution, hosted by the Venezuelan Embassy at Bolivar Hall in London.

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French Co. loses contract due to illegal Israeli project!

22-01-2009 20:11

First major blow to a company implicated in Israeli violations of international law
VEOLIA Loses 3.5 Billion Euro Contract in Sweden
VEOLIA, the French company involved in the "Jerusalem Light Rail" project, connecting Jewish colonies in the Occupied Palestinian Territories to West Jerusalem, lost the largest public transportation contract in Europe.

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Brighton Starbucks fight goes on

22-01-2009 18:29

The Starbucks saga in Brighton continues! The council served an enforcement notice requiring the coffee chain to take out their tables and chairs and operate as a shop to comply with their permitted permission of (A1) use. Starbucks predictably has appealed the notice and so the saga continues.

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SHAC solidarity demos at HLS sites, suppliers, Harlan and Sequani!

21-01-2009 23:15

Three days of solidarity saw activists from all areas of the UK travel to HLS Wooley and Harlan on Monday, Back to harlan and HLS Occuld on Tuesday. Sequani, Arrowmight Biosciences and Barclays on Wednesday.

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Day of Solidarity with the Palestinians and the Greek Anarchists and Anti-Authoritarians

21-01-2009 19:52

An International Day of Solidarity is being called for January 23, 2009, for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Greek Anarchists and other anti-authoritarian activists in Greece. There are many overlaps between these two struggles, and those similarities are explored below. The date of the demonstration is to also commemorate the anniversary of the Riots in the Warsaw Ghetto in Poland, during the period of Nazi Germany (1943), where 70,000 Jewish people took this city back, and held it for a long time before the Germans took over. The date and the atrocities exposed in this article are highly ironic, given that the Jewish people of Israeli have experienced a genocide of their own: the Holocaust.

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Netcu Watch // How you might go to prison for not knowing or knowing someone...

21-01-2009 14:34

"Persons Unknown" (the illusive terrorist group) made a special visit to seal the deal in the latest SHAC trial. Whoever these persons unknown are they sure to drop us in it time and time again. Apparently the defence were part of a group which torched cars, used blackmail and intimidation to further the campaign against HLS.

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Black Reagan

20-01-2009 13:36

When Barack Obama started praising Ronald Reagan the candidate's apologists claimed he was just paying respect to a dead president. Now it's clear that Obama's affection for the raging old reactionary was heartfelt. With his latest pronouncements on cutting "entitlements," Obama "has proven himself to be a true believer in the Reagan revolution."

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Netcu Watch // SHAC : Hypocrisy, Terrorism and Extremism.

18-01-2009 18:59

I have been looking at a few forums regarding the first SHAC trial and would like to respond to some of the main points.

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Palestine Inspires Global Resistance!

18-01-2009 12:49

Protest outside the U.S. embassy in Mexico City
Gaza is a harbinger of wider war against oppressed people of the world. We are on the eve of a global capitalist crisis. This means massive insecurity, cutbacks in ALL social programs, unemployment for millions.

Millions of working people will seek to fight back against a system of endless war and greater and greater divide of enormous wealth for a handful and poverty for the overwhelming majority. Increasingly they will identify with and take heart from the many forms of resistance they see around them.