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AN Interview with Mordechai Vanunu

18-08-2004 23:55


“So I am ready to speak because I used all my fight and want in seventeen and a half years in prison was the demand for freedom of speech. I believe the human being have the right to freedom of speech. I don't have any secrets. All what I'm speaking about is my view. My political view as a human has a right to express his view in any subject.”

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Home Office surveillance at london linux meeting

18-08-2004 21:22

Home office pushes the case for mass surveillance on the streets, and linux role in techno-monitoring. at linux world expo in london 6-7 oct, regsiter now for free ticket, but not for paying conference.
We are not deceived by claims that the technology is only for 'ID parades', it can easily be used on the streets.
It would appear they cant even put proper english sentences together1

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'Palestinian terror - morally justified'

18-08-2004 16:03

A leading radical philosopher, who has been compared to Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre and praised by Noam Chomsky, says Palestinian "terrorism" is a moral response to Israeli ethnic cleansing.

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Police raid Genoa weekly in search of documents

18-08-2004 15:46

The Milan weekly Gente and the house in Rome of journalist Gennaro De
Stefano were raided by police acting on the orders of the Genoa
prosecutor, looking for documents relevant to an enquiry into street
clashes during the July 2001 G-8 summit in Genoa.

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Ethnic cleansing in Bombay Street remembered

18-08-2004 13:14

The people of Clonard in west Belfast commemorated the
thirty-fifth anniversary of the burning of Bombay Street on
August 15, 1969 at the weekend.

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Fight Club & Autonmous Spaces @ rampART

17-08-2004 20:31

Tomorrow night (wednesday 18th from 8pm) at the rampART...

Free community cinema presents - F I G H T C L U B
an evening of films and discussion about reclaiming and defending spaces from capital
- land squats, housing, social centres and much more...

People involved in squat projects/social centres are invited to come along and share their experiences, motivations and stories of resistance.

Some of the projects represented (either on film or hopefully in person), include:

* rampart street creative centre (new 10 minute film plus speakers)
* sutton street 21st century action zone (10 min film plus speaker)
* chalk farm road autonomous lab (short film, maybe speaker)
* plus other films from;
Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Roma, Milan, Berlin and more

( Anybody from 'in arms reach', 'ex-grand banks', ‘St’ Agnes Place’, ‘142’, ‘491’ )
( ‘Unity Works’ or from 'Use Your Loaf' wanna come along and/or got video? )

Starts 8pm. Drink and vegan food available.

Also screening... 'Fight Club' 1999 USA 21st Century Fox (139 minutes)

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Defend the Commission of Racial Equality Library

17-08-2004 19:19

It is a request for solidarity with the librarians of the Commission ofRacial Equality of UK because the government wants to close its libraryleaving the public without access to information.

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Why the genocide in Sudan?

17-08-2004 00:21

Exclusive from Freedom, Anarchist News and Views, from a former resident of Sudan on the perpetrators of the genocide and their links to international oil corporations.

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Liverpool City Council preparing stock transfer of 21,500 council houses to RSLs

16-08-2004 21:33

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Liverpool City Council (Lib-Dem controlled) has been softening up tenants for Stock Transfer, already the glossy leaflets have been delivered, firstly those glossy full colour leaflets that went out a few months ago said that an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation, which is one step privatisation) isn't possible, they've also said a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) isn't possible either, thus leaving tenants with the fait-accompli Lib-Dem decision of Stock Transfer or nothing.

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Liverpool City Council preparing stock transfer of 21,500 council houses to RSLs

16-08-2004 21:10

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Liverpool City Council (Lib-Dem controlled) has been softening up tenants for Stock Transfer, already the glossy leaflets have been delivered, firstly those glossy full colour leaflets that went out a few months ago said that an ALMO (Arms Length Management Organisation, which is one step privatisation) isn't possible, they've also said a PFI (Private Finance Initiative) isn't possible either, thus leaving tenants with the fait-accompli Lib-Dem decision of Stock Transfer or nothing.

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U.S. NEWS BLACK-OUT

16-08-2004 16:32

New Zealand cuts diplomatic ties with Israel - $1.2 trillion missing from the Pentagon - Young American girl murdered in cold blood by Israeli soldier - Are Americans not getting these stories because the U.S. is in a perpetual news black-out?

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Privatisation of council housing

16-08-2004 14:01

Privatisation of social housing can and should be stopped. Those council tenant who have already been privatised have found themselves far worse off.

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UK 'sleepwalking into Stasi state'

16-08-2004 13:22

click on the links-

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Video.Edinburgh demo in support of the Bolivarian revolution of Venezuela

16-08-2004 10:53

Edinburgh in support of the Bolivarian Revolution of Venezuela
see video at  http://homepage.mac.com/diegolucio/iMovieTheater8.html

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video: witness description of shooting (es)

15-08-2004 20:15

video interview with person saying something in Spanish about the shooting

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The spying, carcinogenic fuckers

15-08-2004 19:35

Emissions from British Army spying equipment has been blamed for gross birth defects in livestock in the South Armagh area.

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Venezuela Solidarity Demonstration at Edinburgh Festival

15-08-2004 17:34

start of demo at Bristo Place, in the background festival venue

A spontaneous demonstration in solidarity with the people of Venezuela took place in Edinburgh, Sunday, 15th of august, co-inciding with the simultaneous referendum against Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela, and initiator of massive social reforms benefiting the poor. The Edinburgh Fringe festival also co-incided with the demonstration, lending a high profile of publicity to the cause of the demonstration, particular when the demonstration with comedian Mark Thomas accidently met the Edinburgh Samba School, the party rocked.

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"Deportations of asylum seekers have taken a vicious new turn"

14-08-2004 22:29

Deportations of asylum seekers, abuse in detention centres...

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Olympics - Games of the Rich and Powerful Its Hidden History

14-08-2004 22:22

Friends, I thought this was a very comprehensive 'essay' on Olympics
> sent by
> a friend. It is long but interesting, can it be on Indymedia, Alex, or
> even
> in a shortened form?Zarina

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Iraq: The Evil Of Cluster Bombs

14-08-2004 17:35

father on hunger strike & son, Mustafa.
Baghdad: A Father goes on hunger strike in support of his son, who has lost partial sight in one eye and fingers - due to a cluster bomblet. No one is to blame!!