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Mass Antifascist Demonstration in Madrid Remembering Carlos Palomino

13-11-2008 21:38

More than 2000 people demonstrated in Madrid on Tuesday 11th November in solidarity, remembrance and homage to Carlos Palomino, the antifa activist murdered exactly one year ago by a far right member of the spanish army.

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Heathrow Decision Day Flashmob

13-11-2008 17:49

Stop Airport Expansion - Hoon's Not Listening

12 noon (on the dot), Heathrow Terminal 5 Departures ('Security North' section)
on the first Saturday after the Government makes its decision on Heathrow expansion
(unless all forms of expansion are ruled out – see below).

Reveal your t-shirt and then pelt Transport Secretary Geoff Hoon with red sponges.

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Sixth attempt to remove Alliance Ngondiop

13-11-2008 15:13

Alliance Ngondiop
Alliance Ngondiop, a Cameroon national and resident of Leicester,was 'Captured' when reporting to the Immigration service on Wednesday 3rd September and is currently detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on British Airways flight BA302 on  Saturday 15th November @ 06:15 from Heathrow Airport London, to Paris, Charles de Gaulle airport, then Air France flight AF940 @ to Douala Cameroon.

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London / Euro-wide demos: Italian 'Anomalous Wave', 14th Nov

13-11-2008 14:20

London: Gathering in front of the residence of the Italian ambassador
14, Three Kings Yard
London W1K 4EH
from there, demo till LSE and free lecture about Universities inEurope
Nov 14th, h. 10.00
tlf: 0044 07531933006
mail to:  ukanomalouswave@hotmail.co.uk

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UCU derecognised at Nottingham Trent University as Parky installed as Chancellor

13-11-2008 00:29

Earlier protest outside the Royal Concert hall
On Tuesday 11th November at the Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham Trent University installed its first Chancellor, Sir Michael Parkinson. At the same time, NTU has formally terminated recognition of UCU in a direct attack on independent trade unionism on the campus.

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Seen the latest on child social services

13-11-2008 00:22

Recently the death of another baby in the U.K. has stirred up the talks on youth care business. The truth is surfacing in the media trickle by trickle. In the Netherlands children were condemned to death the same way by the Dutch social services (privatized companies) who deliberately let parents, who clearly endanger the live of their child, proceed to kill the child. The social services are aware of the case but do nothing. Why? Because of money. The response of the Dutch government was: each time a child died under horrific circumstances the government immediately donated millions to expand the reach of the social services. In reality often they take children for no reason at all other than moneys.

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On-going Italian Education rebellion: Some articles and videos

12-11-2008 22:44

STUDENTS WANT TRAINS! - November 12, 2008
The next big day of student protests in Italy is this Friday. There will be a mass demonstration in Rome, organized by students and universitarians, independently of parties and unions. At the moment, people are trying to pressure Trenitalia to allow people to travel to Rome by trains with reduced prices. This has been done in many occasions before

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Brown's Child P folly at today's PMQs typifies deeper crisis - the Councils

12-11-2008 21:27

Wednesday's [weekly] Prime Minister's Questions [PMQs] at Westminster, fielded by Gordon Brown on the day of the latest jobless and economic bad news, got focussed on Brown’s refusal to show that he was disowning a negligent local Council disaster...This became very acute after David Ca-Moron had successfully included the reference to £100 Million that the public spends to keep the social service unit at Haringey in place.

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Demos continue at Heckler & Koch weapons HQ in Nottingham

12-11-2008 16:30

At 4pm on Monday 10th November, people gathered at the gates to the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, based within the Easter Park Industrial Estate on Lenton Lane, Nottingham.

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Palestine Today 111208

12-11-2008 14:40

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday November 12 2008

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87 Ashley Road Eviction Happening NOW!!

12-11-2008 13:10

The inhabitants of 87 Ashley Road woke up this morning to a garden full of cops and bailliffs here to evict them from the house that is a home to around 15 people, and make them homeless.

Rooftop occupation happening right now!

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Video of Wembley Park Action Group Anti-Academy Conference

12-11-2008 11:08

Hank Roberts, Bob Blackman, Martin Francis, Bill Greenshields
Links to the continuing video coverage from the Wembley Park Action Group (Tent City Occupation) anti-academy campaign.

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Greek prisoners hungerstrike

11-11-2008 23:32

More than 5.000 prisoners in hungerstrike, another 6.500 boycotting prison meals.

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Raw Power: Correa’s Totalitarian, Industrial, Extractivist Ecuador

11-11-2008 19:07

Over the last few years Ecuador has been undergoing a series of transformations that misleadingly have been labelled as (neo-)socialism with an environmental sensibility. The main architect behind the project, which is really nothing other than industrialist, progressivist routines of old, is called Rafael Correa.

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Free Tibet in Guildford

11-11-2008 18:22

Monday evening 10 November 2008, Amnesty International hosted a talk by Free Tibet at St Nicolas Church in Guildford.

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Direct Action; Mexico, Colombia, Italy, Spain, UK & USA

11-11-2008 17:03

4th-10th November

MORE TELMEX PHONES VANDALIZED (Mexico)
DOG RESCUED FROM VIVISECTION (Colombia)
FALSE BOMBS LEFT ON DOORSTEPS OF EXPLOITERS (Mexico)
INCENDIARY ATTACK ON BURGER KING (Mexico)
URBAN ART AS A METHOD OF STRUGGLE (Mexico)
POULTRY COMPANY HIT BY STINK BOMB (Mexico)
2000 MINK RELEASED FROM CAGES (Italy)
CHICKENS RESCUED, IN MEMORY OF BARRY HORNE (Mexico)
BOAR LIBERATED, FOR BARRY (Spain)
FREEDOM FOR THOUSANDS OF MINK (Italy)
WINDOWS SMASHED AT BARBECUE RESTAURANT, FISH COMPANY (Sweden)
BARCLAYS BANK GLUED SHUT (UK)
PHEASANT PEN CUT UP, GROUSE BUTTS TOPPLED (UK)
TELMEX PHONE BOOTHS SABOTAGED (Mexico)
ANTI-BULLFIGHT GRAFFITI (Spain)
BIRDS SAFE FROM HUNTERS, FARMERS (Italy)
VEHICLES SABOTAGED AT UCLA? (USA)

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Palestine Today 111108

11-11-2008 16:02

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Teusday November 11 2008