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On Streets of Dublin: Manning-Assange-Snowden

04-12-2013 11:02

Promoting the Trinity Event beforehand

The last few days in Dublin unfolded in a warm embrace of solidarity for imprisoned Pvt. Manning’s mother Susan, aunts Mary & Sharon & uncle Kevin. The family had travelled from their hometown Haverfordwest, south-west Wales to Dublin, Ireland, the birthplace of their father.

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Insurgency Responsible for Civilian Plight of Syrians

04-12-2013 09:50

Objective and non-objective as well as official and non-official reports about the responsibility of the Syrian government are abundant, but that of the insurgents has been for too long covered up and only of late come under the scrutiny of human rights organizations and media spotlight.

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UG#671 - The Nuclear Fuel Pool of Damocles (Fukushima, Chernobyl and PBDEs)

04-12-2013 01:06

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We hear a collection of speakers on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (which Wikipedia reports injured 39 and may result in anywhere from 0 to 1000 cancer deaths). We hear testimony that the real figures are many orders of magnitude higher, and that the crisis is far from over, with radiation leaks increasing and a pool containing over 400 tons of nuclear fuel suspended 100 foot in the air in a badly damaged building highly vulnerable to any further seismic disturbance.

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Workfare Protest in Wrexham

03-12-2013 19:47

A protest took place outside the Wrexham Jobcentre at lunchtime today against changes to the benefits system.

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You Have Not Been Told the Truth About Global Warmin

03-12-2013 18:58

Official figures greatly underestimate global heating. Robert Way explains groundbreaking new paper. The EPA likewise low-balled methane emissions in the U.S. by half. Harvard's Scot Miller on new science. UK photojournalist Robert Leslie on "Stormbelt" - the decline of the southern states.

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An Imperfect Peace: Colombia's Civil War Nearing End

03-12-2013 12:01

There has been civil war in Colombia more or less continuously since 1948. It seems it may finally be coming to an end. It is ending the way most other long-lasting civil wars end.

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bristol city council mobile cctv vans attacked

03-12-2013 11:03

this is for the curtain-twitchers & community-snitchers, "their out there!" bolt your doors, lock up your daughers.

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9/11 in the Academic Community: How Professors Analyze 9/11 & "War on Terrorism"

02-12-2013 07:40

Coming this fall, “9/11 in the Academic Community,” a Winner of the University of Toronto Film Festival, is a unique film that documents academia’s treatment of critical perspectives on 9/11 by exploring the taboo that shields the American government’s narrative from scholarly examination.

Through a powerful reflection on intellectual courage and the purpose of academia, the film aims at changing intellectual discourse on 9/11 and the War on Terror.

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Day 1: Take Online Action Against The Workfare Conference Monday 2nd Decembe

01-12-2013 23:29

Online action announced, tell the workfare and sanction conference sponsors what you think #ERSA2013

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#OpSafeWinter Engaged

01-12-2013 19:11

Mission of the OP, to highlight the homeless situation in areas throughout the UK. Build up a resource network for food supply, blankets clothes socks etc

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Inside the paranoid Maoist cults of 1970s Britain

01-12-2013 13:05

The couple accused in the case of alleged “domestic slavery” in London were reportedly the leaders of a tiny Maoist sect, the Workers’ Institute of Marxism-Leninism-Mao Zedong Thought, which had gone “underground” in the late 1970s. To understand how the Workers’ Institute ended up so far off the radar, we need to understand where they came from – the strange world of radical Maoist politics in 1970s London.

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Photo report: Private Manning's Family in Dublin

01-12-2013 09:19

The family relaxes in the Brian Boru pub at a social event Saturday night

We've been in Dublin since Wednesday with Welsh members of Chelsea Manning's family, enjoying warm and enthusiastic Irish hospitality from AFRI and many others during three days of solidarity events, meetings, meals and media interviews. There are Irish connections on both sides of Chelsea's family: maternal grandfather from Rathmines, Dublin and one set of paternal great grandparents (both Mannings) from a village in Cork. Chelsea was flown out to Iraq via Shannon airport, the use of which by the US military compromises Ireland's supposed neutrality. There will be more to report back later, but for now here are a few photos from the visit and some links to other reports and news items.

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Isa is back in the UK!

01-12-2013 00:14

FANTASTIC NEWS!
Isa, the 45 year old Nigerian man who the Home Office tried to deport yesterday morning is now back in the UK!

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Week of Action to Stop Workfare and Sanctions Beginning 2nd December

30-11-2013 17:20

Join the nearest protest or action and take part in online actions posted on boycottworkfare.org throughout the week.

Plan an action at a Jobcentre or workfare exploiter near you - let us know about actions and leafletting on this group or email  info@boycottworkfare.org
And help spread the word!

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Noam Chomsky and the willful ignorance of 9/11

30-11-2013 09:27

In response to a question at the University of Florida recently, Noam Chomsky claimed that there were only “a miniscule number of architects and engineers” who felt that the official account of WTC Building 7 should be treated with skepticism. Chomsky followed-up by saying, “a tiny number—a couple of them—are perfectly serious.”

If signing your name and credentials to a public petition on the subject means being serious, then Noam Chomsky’s tiny number begins at 2,100, not counting scientists and other professionals. Why would Chomsky make such an obvious exaggeration when he has been presented with contradictory facts many times?

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Isa Muazu, hunger striker, removed by the Home Office

29-11-2013 15:46

Isa Muazu, on hunger strike for 98 days
It has just been confirmed that Isa Muazu has been removed from the UK by the Home Office. Unity volunteers lost contact with him at around 2.30 am this morning after an exchange of text messages. At 2 o’clock this afternoon, Isa just contacted his lawyer‘s office from Malta where is waiting for a connecting flight to Abuja. He has not eaten or drunk anything and he hasn’t been put on a drip.

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Disconnecting the police state: Sabotage@Vodafone

29-11-2013 11:48

The night before last night we attacked the electronic communication net in Berlin (Germany). Our act of sabotage took place at a Vodafone radio tower and is meant as a symbol against total surveillance by governments, secret services and transnational corporations. Vodafone was chosen because it is eagerly engaged in cooperating with the british secret service GCHQ. GCHQ cooperates with the american secret service NSA. And NSA in turn cooperates with german secret service BND. Secret services collect patterns of normality and compare particular behaviours in order to find out if you could plan something deviant before you know it yourself. The collaborations of secret service industry and the industry's secret services secure the conditions of profit and power for both of them.

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Anarchists and the Syrian revolution

29-11-2013 11:19

The following is the English version of an interview with Leila Shrooms originally published in Apatris (a Greek anarchist newspaper). It gives a general overview of the Syrian revolution, including questions of military intervention, the situation in Kurdish areas, anarchist currents within the popular struggle and suggestions for solidarity. Repost from tahriricn.

"It is important to challenge the simplistic binary narrative that we have to choose between the Assad regime and Al Qaeda. There are no chocolate box revolutions. In the course of any revolutionary process numerous competing actors will emerge, many of them reactionary. We have to stand in solidarity with those whose vision we share, right up until the last person left and there are many positive initiatives to support in Syria."

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Brighton Hunt Sabs Benefit Gig On Friday

28-11-2013 22:39

Brighton Hunt Sabs benefit gig this friday 29th November at The Cowley Club, London Road, Brighton.

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Songs of the Struggle

28-11-2013 16:33

A growing collection of songs about poverty, wealth and desperation, about the class-system, exploitation, capitalism and greed. Songs about freedom and liberation and hope. Songs about rebellion and revolution. Songs about oppression and solidarity. Anti-war songs, anti-money songs - looking forward to a world free from injustice.