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Refugees on hunger strike to protest planned deportations.

08-06-2011 17:01

24 Iraqi refugees held in a detention centre in Oxford have started a hunger
strike to protest against the government's plans to deport them to Baghdad.

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Palestine Today 06 08 2011

08-06-2011 15:29

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Wednesday June 8, 2011

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NCAFC “reinvigoration meeting”: why we didn’t stand for the committee

08-06-2011 15:23

Many student activists will be wondering why we did not stand for, or vote, in the elections for a steering committee at the recent “reinvigoration” meeting of the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts on 5 June. Here's why

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Spain_Revolution_VIDEOS, TXT, AUDIO

08-06-2011 13:28

Spanish Protests "freedom unites us, unity frees us" Ib

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Political policing, or business as usual?

08-06-2011 12:55

Prevent: A Totally Illiberal Strategy

08-06-2011 12:21

I have now ploughed through all 120 pages odd of the Government’s new Prevent Strategy, which manages to be even more illiberal and more turgid than the original. It claims that the last Prevent Strategy was misguided – but for all the wrong reasons. Rather amusingly, it starts with a message of endorsement from Lord Carlile – who also endorsed the last strategy which it criticises so strongly. The truth is, Carlile will endorse anything for any government which gives him status – he loves status – “It has my considered and strong support” he concludes his endorsement – you have to imagine saying it with marbles in your mouth and a degree of insufferable pomposity – “It has my considered and strong support”- wanker.

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Finland: Solidarity actions for Satama, migrants and anarchist prisoners

08-06-2011 11:49

Communiqué claiming numerous incendiary attacks and planted bomb in solidarity to Social Centre Satama and Roma migrants in Helsinki, Finland and anarchist prisoners worldwide.

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Giz A Job – Atos Origin Recruitment Day - 14/6

08-06-2011 11:28

Benefit claimants, disabled people and supporters will be attending Atos Healthcare’s Recruitment Day on June 14th at 5pm and have called on people to join them.

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Cuba: Stop imprisoning peaceful dissents

08-06-2011 11:04

Freedom for Cuba

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resistance to fascism in bristol

08-06-2011 10:48

resistance to fascism in bristol

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3 New Mark Kennedy Articles: The State Suppressed Key Evidence

08-06-2011 09:44

The Guardian has today published 3 articles about Mark Kennedy:

Police knew about plans for Ratcliffe-on-Soar break-in before most activists

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-ratcliffe-on-soar

Police spying: secret tapes that put CPS on the spot

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-police-spy-secret-tapes

Mark Kennedy case: CPS accused of suppressing key evidence

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/07/mark-kennedy-surveillance-tapes-cps

They have even, *finally*, acknowledged that this story was first broken on Indymedia, in October 2010!

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UG#553 - US Interventionism, Then and Now (Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali)

08-06-2011 09:34

This week we hear a pair of perspectives from earlier this month on US foreign policy, both from seasoned critics of the US Imperial Strategy. Firstly, Tariq Ali reviews the historical record, from the genocidal expansionism of US colonists up this month's exploits in Libya. Secondly, Noam Chomsky speaksin Syracuse, NY on "What Drives US Foreign Policy & What We Can Do To Change It".

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Racist + Islamophobic News Manipulation by the BNP

07-06-2011 22:26

The BNP published an article under the headline "All Rapes in Oslo Committed by Immigrants", claiming that a Norwegian Police report "revealed that all perpetrators of rape... were identified as being non-Western by their victims", and that the report has "shown that Third World immigrants, most if not all of them Muslims, are responsible for the vast majority of sexual assaults and rapes in the country". In fact the report says exactly the opposite of what the BNP pretends it says ---

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Download! Dissident Island June 3rd 2011

07-06-2011 22:02

DOWNLOAD THE SHOW HERE:

http://www.archive.org/details/DissidentIslandRadio-3June2011-Episode83

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Success! Workfare conference cancelled due to protest

07-06-2011 17:19

Today, 7 June, the “Making Work Pay” conference was cancelled due to pressure from campaigners. Campaign coalition Boycott Workfare had called the action to launch the Welfare Uncut campaign that will take action against those organisations involved in rolling out the Work Programme.

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The UAF Hunting Club

07-06-2011 16:54

More moronic craven keyboard rantings from the UK far right

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Like women? Hate sexism? Please read on…

07-06-2011 15:55

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Palestine Today 06 07 2011

07-06-2011 15:23

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Tuesday June 7th, 2011

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Abolition of Meat: Closing communiqué for the May 2011 WWAM

07-06-2011 14:39

Throughout the world, individuals, groups and organizations stand up to proclaim their dissent. We demand the banning of animal agriculture, fishing and hunting.