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AAPDEP Initiates Community Fishing Project in Oloshoro, Sierra Leone

14-04-2008 16:51

Oloshoro, Sierra Leone
The All African People's Development and Empowerment Project is working with the people of Oloshoro, Sierra Leone to develop the town's local fishing economy.

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Urgent: demonstrate for Mumia Abu-Jamal, this Saturday 19 April: Free Mumia now!

14-04-2008 16:24

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org (includes international leaflet, full list of endorsers and further information about Mumia Abu-Jamal)

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Coastguards hold second strike

14-04-2008 16:05

British coastguards took part in a second 24-hour strike last Friday 11th April over pay.

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Airport workers suspend hunger strike

12-04-2008 16:08

Airport workers suspend hunger strike after union gives guarantees that their demands will be met.

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Rail conductors balloted on strike

12-04-2008 16:00

Conductors on trains to and from Nottingham are being balloted for strike action.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 11th April

11-04-2008 11:20

Vera Manda Kunde and Kenni Musada Back home in Leicester
Amidst all the trouble in Yarl's Wood yesterday, some good news. Vera had a bail hearing by video link with Birmingham immigration court and was granted bail.
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/archives/filed%20newszines/newszine91/Vera.html

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Justice For Ama Sumani / Demonstration in her Memory

11-04-2008 10:56

Saturday 19th April 2008
Assemble 1:00pm
Nye Bevan Statue
Queen Street
Cardiff

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All out on 19 April! Free Mumia now! (Includes new leaflet and endorsers)

11-04-2008 00:35

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org

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Struggles And Riots Against The High Cost Of Living In West Africa

10-04-2008 22:05

Demo in Abidjan
After demonstrations and riots in Burkina Faso and the bloody repression of the riots (perhaps 200 dead) and demonstrations by young people and workers in Cameroon at the end of February (a hasty justice pronounced hundreds of judgments against the young people, sometimes rounded up randomly, of years in prison), it is the turn of the Ivory Coast and Senegal to undergo demonstrations, struggles and... repression.

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Two Hunger strikers now in hospital

10-04-2008 01:04

Two of the three sacked airport workers on hunger-strike outside their union offices in Belfast are now in hospital. Earlier today Gordon McNeill was rushed to hospital only to be released, Gordon and 72 year old diabetic Madan Gupta are now both in hospital.

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Berlin Mayday Radio Jingle!

09-04-2008 16:32

New Berlin Mayday Radio Jingle! For German speakers only, unfortunately!

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N.S.W. Government Medical Officer of HealthQuest Terminated

09-04-2008 12:59

HealthQuest is the N.S.W. Government Medical Office which has been for years accused of serious human rights violations. Activists believe doctors at HealthQuest have 'certified insane' many public service whistleblowers in order to sack them for allegedly being unable to carry out their duties. The most notorious of the HealthQuest doctors was an English G.P., Dr Helia Gapper, who was forced to resign in the late 1990s after negative publicity. It is not known whether she has returned to England and is practising under another name.

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Pavilion – the new slum landlords

09-04-2008 12:58

asbestos roofing
It used to be the private landlords that were the Rachman landlords, the ones the tenants feared, now it is housing associations who are managing the slum estates.

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Reminder: Blood Service Demo on Friday

09-04-2008 12:23

Demonstration! Watford, Friday 11th April

STOP SLASHING THE BLOOD SERVICE!

Protest at the NBS bosses' HQ

Assembly point: Watford Junction Station
Friday 11th April 2008, 12pm

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Berlin Mayday Promo Video

09-04-2008 10:36

Berlin Mayday Promo Video now on YouTube!

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UNISON to recommend pay cuts for health workers

09-04-2008 02:07

Public sector union UNISON looks set to rubber stamp a three-year package of pay cuts for workers in the NHS.

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All out on 19 April! Free Mumia now!

09-04-2008 00:25

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org

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Stop Slashing The Blood Service!

08-04-2008 18:49

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Protest at the NBS bosses' HQ

Assembly point: Watford Junction Station
Friday 11th April 2008, 12pm

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The Fight for Justice for Simon Jones - Ten Years On, The Lessons Learnt

08-04-2008 18:22

A public meeting on the tenth anniversary of the death of Simon Jones, killed on his first day as a casual worker in a Shoreham dock.

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IWW May Day Celebration

08-04-2008 12:31

West Mids IWW celebrate International Workers Day at the Lamp Tavern, Digbeth. All are welcome, it's free in!