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This Week in Palestine Week 40 2010

08-10-2010 18:41

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Welcome to this Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 2nd, to 8th, 2010

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Crude Awakening - 10 targets (that just missed our short list)

08-10-2010 08:20

London is a petropolis: a city running on oil. From slickers in the city to London’s clogged up streets; from the hundreds of petrol stations to the headquarters of Big Oil. Around every corner is another target in the struggle to kick our oil addiction.

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AADD-UK asks Paul Burstow to apologise for stereotyping ADHD Adults

07-10-2010 12:33

Paul Burstow MP, Minister of State for Care Services, and lead for Equality & Human Rights, seems to assume all adults with ADHD are potential criminals and as a result the Department of Health will only consider adult ADHD issues after people have entered the criminal justice system.

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Criminality of nuclear deterrence - World at the precipice of another world war

07-10-2010 09:35

US nuclear weapons in Europe
Today the world is at a precipice of another world war. The United States government has committed acts of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, and has authorized, armed, equipped, and supplied Israel to commit acts of aggression, crimes against humanity, and outright genocide against Lebanon and Palestine. Today the United States government is threatening to attack Iran under the completely bogus pretext that they might have a nuclear weapon, which the International Atomic Energy has said is simply not true. If they attack Iran with the Israelis, a British think-tank has predicted they could exterminate 2.8 million Iranians! They are fully prepared -- the Americans and the Israelis -- to use tactical nuclear weapons.

It is the government officials in the nuclear weapons states and their allied states that are disobeying international law. Every person around the world has a basic human right to be free from the criminal practice of nuclear deterrence/nuclear terrorism, and its specter of nuclear extinction. All human beings in our capacities as creatures of God possess the basic right under international law to engage in civil resistance for the purpose of preventing, impeding or terminating the ongoing commission of these international crimes.

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Report on a full announced inspection of Dover IRC

07-10-2010 05:13

24–28 May 2010 by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons. Report compiled July 2010, published Thursday 7th October 2010

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To the anarchists - a call for a united front

06-10-2010 20:52

The following is an attempt to put into words some thoughts on the UK anarchist movement, and hopefully get a bit of a debate going

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An Account Of The Right To Work March And Rally In Words & Pictures

06-10-2010 16:49

An illustration on how Social Democracy in its many guises dupes infects and stifles serious working class resistance

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Radical Workers Bloc - London, October 23rd Poster

05-10-2010 23:19

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Poster for the Radical Workers Bloc - London, October 23rd

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HURRIED STEPS by Dacia Maraini

05-10-2010 22:39

Hurried Steps is a powerful hour-long play based on testimonies from real women and written by Dacia Maraini, Italy's foremost playwright, novelist, poet and journalist. It was originally created for Amnesty International to raise awareness of Violence Against Women and Girls.New Shoes Theatre is touring during November 2010 to highlight The International Day of the Elimination of Violence Against Women (November 25th). FREE - there will be a collection for the local Women's Refuge.

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FBI Raids Activists' Homes in Sinister COINTELPRO Replay

05-10-2010 16:35

"With Friday's raids, the federal government under "change" huckster Barack Obama, has taken their repressive program to a whole new level, threatening activists with the specter of being charged with providing "material support of terrorism." A felony conviction under this draconian federal law (Title 18, Part I, Chapter 113B, § 2339B) carries a 15 year prison term."

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Camden clampers clamped then towed away an OAP's wheelchair.

05-10-2010 01:40

We all get old, each one of us. Indymedia is a tool for reporting on social injustices so we are posting this. Clampers in Camden clamped then towed away a wheelchair belonging to an old aged pensioner. Local youth filmed the outraegous attack and tried to stop the clampers. They told the men who were taking the wheelchair "You are atrocious" and they are absolutely right!

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Free Diop Olugbala

05-10-2010 01:16

FREE DIOP
Diop faces sentencing on Oct. 13 - Call & email the judge!

Mondays and Tuesdays: October 4, 5, 11 & 12
Judge Roxanne Covington
call: 215-683-7142
email:  tdaccrimssupport@courts.phila.gov

Tell her to reverse Diop's conviction. No charges, no sentence!

Your calls have been effective throughout this case - forcing the State to change judges three times. We need to let this judge know that we won't stop fighting until Diop is free!

Let us know you called or emailed:
Send reports of calls and cc: your letters to  editor@uhurunews.com.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, September 2010

04-10-2010 10:45

October 2010 Watchlist
Conflict Risk Alerts - None
Conflict Resolution Opportunities - None

International Crisis Group
 http://www.crisisgroup.org/

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Human Rights of Migrants without papers (irregular migrants)

04-10-2010 08:14

Statement of the Global Migration Group on the Human Rights of Migrants in Irregular Situation

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Nepali Police disrupt election

04-10-2010 05:18

Yesterday Nepali police disrupted the first round of the exile Tibetan elections.

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Activists disrupt police recruitment event, Brussels

03-10-2010 15:22

On Saturday 2nd October three activists disrupted a police recruitment event in Commensurate Ixelles, Brussels, following a week of harassment at the Brussels No Border camp. The public event was well attended and the activist took this opportunity to ask some questions of their own.

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BRD-S21-Demo: Warum nicht gleich Al-Kaida?

03-10-2010 10:31

WIR STOPPEN Stuttgart21
“Linksradikale Gruppen” als Rechtfertigungsversuch für Staatsgewalt? ... Warum nicht gleich Al-Kaida? ... An der Organisation der Schülerdemonstration, nach der es am Donnerstag zu heftigen Zusammenstößen zwischen Polizei und Gegnern des Bahnhofprojekts kam, waren nach Informationen des baden-württembergischen Verfassungsschutzes linksradikale Gruppen beteiligt. Die Präsidentin des Landesamts für Verfassungsschutz, Beate Stube, erklärte im Nachrichtenmagazin "Focus", dass "linksextremistische Organisationen wie die Jugendorganisation der Partei Die Linke, die Linksjugend [`solid] und die trotzkistisch ausgerichtete Sozialistischen Alternative (SAV) an der Jugendoffensive gegen S21 beteiligt" seien.

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Behind the coup in Ecuador – The attack on ALBA

03-10-2010 07:53

The Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) members (2009)
The latest coup attempt against one of the countries in the Bolivarian Alliance For The People of Our America (ALBA) is attempt to impede Latin American integration and the advance of revolutionary democratic processes. The rightwing is on the attack in Latin America. Its success in 2009 in Honduras against the government of Manuel Zelaya energized it and gave it the strength and confidence to strike again against the people and revolutionary governments in Latin America.

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'Cops are workers like us, let them do their job'

02-10-2010 23:44

Trade Unionists help cops 'neutralise' anti-capitalist bloc.

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Challenging The Jurisdiction Of The Judiciary Within England & Wales

02-10-2010 16:40

At 10.30am on Monday 4th October 2010, Mr. Grant of Campaign For Truth & Justice will appear on invitation by the establishment to the Royal Court of Justice, where he aims to lawfully CHALLENGE THE JURISDICTION OF THE JUDICIARY WITHIN ENGLAND & WALES, with documented evidence of the same Judiciary’s violations of national and international laws.