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photos from BP banner drop

26-04-2005 16:47

"protesters? where?"
Okay, it was perhaps the longest banner drop in the history of banner drops (over 8 hours to unfurl) but it was worth it...

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BATH PEACENIK PIRATE GATHERING - DROP ANCHORS NOT BOMBS!

26-04-2005 16:46

Celebrate mayday with the Peacenik Pirates in bath. Activities include info stalls, music, poi lessons and bucaneer antics. DROP ANCHORS NOT BOMBS!

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Dissent! website compromised?

26-04-2005 15:24

The Dissent! agaisnt the G8 website may have been compromised. The URL returns a longish error message.

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Americans believe "they are coming to get us"....

26-04-2005 14:47

The lies mount and mount...the followers of Messiah Bush still don't listen...what is wrong here?

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Tony Blair in liverpool today!!

26-04-2005 14:31

Tony Blair will be in Liverpool this afternoon. Protest called!

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Climate campaigners scale Prescott's roof + fit solar panels

26-04-2005 12:48


26th April 05

Greenpeace volunteers fitted solar panels to John Prescott's roof and hung a huge banner across his house this morning that says: Oi 2 Jags! Hit targets, not voters.

The Deputy Prime Minsiter is putting Britain's climate change targets at risk by failing to make UK homes more energy efficient. According to the UN, climate change kills 150,000 people every year, and Tony Blair has described the threat as the gravest we face.

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Sainsburys Big Brother Con

26-04-2005 11:35

Sainsburys has been caught out deliberately lying to its customers. Digital cameras at it petrol stations are not "linked to the police" as big warning signs claim. Often there are no cameras there at all! Now the fake "poloce" signs are coming down.

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Israel Shamir exposed! A fake or a plant?

26-04-2005 11:21

The man known as Israel Shamir
Israel Shamir, the "Israeli-Jewish" enemy of Zionism (and now of Judaism too) has a secret identity which he won't deny or speak about. He just smears his critics. Here is photgraphic evidence that Shamir, the darling of White Supremacists, the BNP and other racists is a Swedish bloke called Joram Jermas.

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INSURGENTS ARE US: death squad capitalism

26-04-2005 04:15

US MILITARY CORPORATE COMPLEX NEEDS THE INSURGENCY like the fish who needs water. Therefore, US has financed, created and supported thousands of individul terrorists and hundreds of militias to terrorize Iraqis Shiis'a into accepting the US slates for vital cabinet posts. This is a radical departures from the corporate media which falsely propagates that Iraqi resistance is responsible for atrociies in Iraq.Insurgents are US is in dialectical opposition antithisis of this view.

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Fuel Protestors Considering G8 Summit Action?

26-04-2005 01:02

Report in yesterday's Transport News Network, following the short blockade / picket of Shell's Stanlow oil refinery in Cheshire. Plans for high-profile demonstrations to demand a cut in fuel prices will be discussed at a meeting in Edinburgh today (tues).

Re G8 see report below:

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ExxonMobil spends $8M on think tanks and eco front groups re climate change

25-04-2005 21:32

Put a Tiger In Your Think Tank

ExxonMobil has pumped more than $8 million into more than 40 think tanks; media outlets; and consumer, religious, and even civil rights groups that preach skepticism about the oncoming climate catastrophe.

See the run down group by group in latest issue of motherjones:
 http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2005/05/exxon_chart.html

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New research shows public libararies at threat under GATS

25-04-2005 14:23

Publicly-owned, publicly-accountable libraries in the UK could be under serious threat unless citizens wake up to the planned liberalisation and expansion of international trade in services being negotiated behind closed doors in the World Trade Organisation (WTO), according to a new book by respected British academic and information expert, Ruth Rikowski.

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Longbridge and St Modwens

25-04-2005 14:16

The collapse of MG Rover, the last remaining British car company, has left many facing financial ruin, and yet in addition to the Phoenix Four, who appear to have milked the company for millions, one company, St Modwens the Destroyer, has done very nicely out of the collapse of MG Rover.

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Resisting privatisation in Iraq: Conference: May 2005, Basra, Iraq

25-04-2005 07:02

You are invited to take part in a conference organised by the General Union of Oil Employees in Basra. Please take part by attending in person, or submitting stories and/or messages of solidarity, via the contact at the bottom of the page.

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saturday club 4x4 antics

25-04-2005 05:14

the saturday club met this saturday to congratulate the 4x4 drivers of manchester for giving us asthma..causing 25% of all road traffic accidents and for their massive contribution to climate change...

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OzAsIs Forum under attack: 40 hours old!

25-04-2005 04:24

Monday, 25 April 2005
OzAsIs Forum under attack: 40 Hours old.


Author – Oz.unslaver.com

Less than 40 hours after informing the Federal and Queensland State Polictians of Australia, an Australia Free Speech Forum was hacked and defaced before the astonished eyes of the onlooking readership. The intensive focus of the www.Oz.Unslaver.com site is the Beattie Government in power in Queensland and more specifically, Mike Renolds (Minister for Child Safety), Member for Townsville.


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Blair pledges to heal Africa.....again

24-04-2005 22:29

Today is World Poverty Day. The situation is desperate, and ought to be a source of cringing shame to every single person in the developed world. As the UK approaches a General Election how should we assess our government's stance on the crisis?

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Cyber Terror: New Privacy Co-op Targeted

24-04-2005 07:32

Sunday, 24 April 2005
Cyber Terror: New Privacy Co-op Targeted

Less than a week old, one globally based Counter Surveillance Co-operative is more than aware of the new strategies employed in the effort to bring rampant censorship across the Internet.

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Voting for global justice (not party political)

24-04-2005 06:12

Voters in 21 constituencies have the option of voting for a candidate who has signed a pledge to implement the Simultaneous Policy (SP) alongside other governments. This campaign is gaining cross-party support and now is the ideal time to encourage politicians to sign the pledge.

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Singrauli - Dying for Development - Video

23-04-2005 20:39

Video Video
Singrauli is the major power production centre of north India, situated in the two states of Utter Pradesh and Madyah Pradesh.This area is bigger than Yorkshire. This area has 6 open cast mines, 11 Thermo Power stations and a 5,000 sq km reservoir (the Rihand Dam). These projects have destroyed lives, cultures, communities, and environment. And continue to do so.