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Slavoj Zizek Speaks at Amnesty Lectures

29-01-2004 23:28

Slavoj Zizek, a leading philosopher and theorist, came to speak at the Oxford Amnesty lecctures on the theme of Asylum, Migration and Displacement.

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The ESF Decision Making Process

29-01-2004 20:15

An analysis of open, transparent consensus decision making and a proposal for the 2004 ESF decision making process. This is a constructive proposal to try and make the ESF truly open, but also to make it work in practice.

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Dis-Asda(anti walmart campaign) on the old kent road

29-01-2004 16:09

Update on Dis-Asda (Anti-Walmart Campaign) on the Old Kent Rd..

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Arms Trade Meeting

29-01-2004 12:50

Controlling the Arms Trade meeting

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Demonstrations against the FTAA in the entire continent will increase

28-01-2004 17:02

The possibility of create an opposition front to the FTAA that includes some Latin-American governments and the increase of popular demonstrations will be main issues of discussion in the 3rd Hemispheric Encounter against the FTAA, that is having place in Havana, Cuba.

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COMPUTER COMPANIES ATTACKED

28-01-2004 11:32

Clean Up Your Computer  http://www.cafod.org.uk/cleanup

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Lula in India

27-01-2004 19:08

Lula in India: “we can change the world commercial geography”

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SchNEWS on WSF

27-01-2004 16:15

SchNEWS on the World Social Forum - spot on as ever.

Read more at  http://www.schnews.org.uk

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London Rising Tide disrupts Caspian oil & gas conference, 27.1.04

27-01-2004 15:17

Activists this morning disrupted a London conference dedicated in part to 'overcoming ecological and environmental concerns' about the pipelines that are beginning to criss-cross the Caucasus with Big Oil and US military backing.

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Humanitarian Bombers in Court

27-01-2004 13:27

Dutch leaders give evidence on the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia - full version.

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Just 5 Words ..

27-01-2004 00:49

Bill Gates recieves Knighthood

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NATO ministers in war crimes hearing, The Hague

26-01-2004 23:43

Former Dutch PM and Foreign Minister forced to give evidence in court on NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

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Taking Control of the Unions

26-01-2004 21:13

New ideas of thinking and organising are needed.There needs to be a break with labour and its trade union machine.

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Third Encounter of Fight Against the FTAA

26-01-2004 18:34

The 3rd Hemispheric Encounter of Fight Against the FTAA, that will have place in Havana from January the 26th to the 29th, will turn into an alternative to the “Summit of the people”, which has recently finished in Monterrey, Summit in which the American presidents defined the integration policies according the north American model.

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SWP/GR (solitary wanker party) hijacks 2004 ESF (European Social Forum) process

26-01-2004 14:55

The European Social Forum is supposed to be a non hierarchical gathering of grass roots alternatives to the traditional political process.

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Shock news !! : McDonald's make you unhealthy

26-01-2004 14:20

LAST February, Morgan Spurlock decided to become a gastronomical guinea pig.
His mission: To eat three meals a day for 30 days at McDonald's and document the impact on his health, He put on 25 pounds but his supersized shape was the least of his problems.
Within a few days of beginning his drive-through diet, Spurlock, 33, was vomiting out the window of his car, and doctors who examined him were shocked at how rapidly Spurlock's entire body deteriorated..

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WSF / WEF collected reports from ips

26-01-2004 14:00

Collected reports from WSF and WEF by Terra Vivi / IPS
Some very good articles here:

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Fight Global War! Fight Capitalism! ... in munich 2004

26-01-2004 01:24

Every year on the second weekend of February the leading warmongers meet in Munich: at the former called "Wehrkundetagung", meanwhile renamed "Munich Conference of Security policy" generals and politicians from member states of NATO and other military powers like Russia and China come together to discuss the military aspects of capitalist world division/capitalist globalisation. The host is nobody else than Horst Teltschick, a former foreign policy expert in the government of Helmut Kohl. Today he works for the "Quandt-Stiftung". The Quandts are main shareholders of the transnational group BMW. It's a natural course of action that friends and competitors of the armaments industry are also invited to this illustrious party.

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WEF DEMO REPORT

25-01-2004 17:09

Here is an account of the police repression that followed on from the anarchist demo in Chur on Saturday 24 January, plus a few reflections on organising future events of this nature.