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Campsfield demo this saturday

23-11-2003 22:17

Razor wire at back of Campsfield immigration prison
Big demo at Campsfield immigration prison on Saturday November 29, 12-2pm outside Campsfield main gates, 3pm in Broad St Oxford, bike ride to Campsfield from St Giles 10am, coaches from Oxford, Birminghma, london,etc. Rhythms of Resistance, Oxford samba band, Bill Morris, ex-detainees. 10th anniversary of opening; Campsfield not to be closed but expanded.

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Heavy handed policing at Bush protests

23-11-2003 21:15

During the week of Bush protests, I witnessed police arrests where people were treated pretty roughly, but I also saw police being pretty restrained. There were an unprecedented number of police monitoring the anti-Bush protests, and consequently Bush was able to travel without ever really encountering the protesters (occasionally this involved Bush slightly rearranging his schedule, so he certainly felt our presence).

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Israel stiffs family of Tom Hurndall with rubber compensation check: it bounces

23-11-2003 21:14

A DEFENSE Ministry check, sent "without any admission of liability by the State of Israel and/or the Ministry of Defense" to the family of a International Solidarity Mission volunteer shot by an Israel Defense Forces soldier, bounced when the family tried to cash it earlier this week. The ISM volunteer was rendered incapacitated [website note: in fact brain-dead] as a result of the gunshot wounds sustained last April [2003].

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Amnesty International Benefit in Glasgow

23-11-2003 21:13

Puny Human Promotions, a new left wing independent concert promotions group, are organising a benefit gig for Amnesty International at the 13th Note in King Street, Glasgow on December 2nd.

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Censored 2004 - The Top 25 Censored Media Stories

23-11-2003 20:32

Taken together, these stories paint a chilling picture of a long-ranging
plan to dominate huge sections of the globe militarily and economically,
and to silence dissent, curb civil liberties and undermine workers' rights
in the course of it.

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27/11: 'We Interrupt This Empire...' & 'Kilometer 0' in London

23-11-2003 20:26

Film screenings of "We Interrupt This Empire..." and "Kilometer 0".

Thursday November 27th, 9.30pm

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RESIST BUSH - APPEAL FOR WITNESSES

23-11-2003 19:21

This is an appeal to anyone who witnessed arrests during the Bush demonstrations in London on 19th, 20th or 21st of November.

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Pictures Anti-Bush-Protest in Cambridge and London

23-11-2003 17:06

hi,

this is just to give you some 170 pictures of the Anti-Bush protest

here in cambridge on 19.11.03

 http://www.bundjugend-berlin.de/bilder/2003_11_19/

and here in london on 20.11.03

 http://www.bundjugend-berlin.de/seite_review.php?auswahl=40

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Police violence - Listen to FTAA report

23-11-2003 17:06

Check out  http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/21/1521259 on the Democracy Now site for interesting and disturbing report on police tactics in Miami for FTAA protests.

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Thessaloniki Update - Sunday 23rd Nov

23-11-2003 17:03

Today, the medical team treating the 5 hunger strikers were denied access to the prison to see Simon Chapman and Suleiman "Kastro" Dakduk.

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Sending Antiwar protesters to Guantanamo

23-11-2003 16:51

F.B.I will probaly soon begin to ship aktivists to Guantanamo..

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pics. Manchester STOP BUSH Demo 19th Nov.

23-11-2003 16:04

Choke on this Dubya
3 photos from the Manchester STOP BUSH protests

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Africana Studies, Media Literacy and the Hip-Hop Mix-Tape

23-11-2003 15:04

Jared Ball discusses the relationship between Africana Studies, Media Literacy and the Hip-Hop Mix-Tape

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European Social Forum 2004 - Paris

23-11-2003 14:18

Another World Is Possible!

This is the conviction that brought around 60,000 people together in Paris last week, for the European Social Forum, with the aim to share ideas about how alternatives to neo-liberal globalisation can be conceived and realised.

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Bush wrecks Queen's garden

23-11-2003 13:46

Sorry about cross-posting, but this is just hilarious!

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New LAAW Forum now open

23-11-2003 13:34

Legal Action Against War Forum opened TODAY

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Dracula backs erm Dracula!

23-11-2003 13:29

Screen Drac back tory Drac

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TWISTED PHOTO SPECIAL: Bush in Merry Owld England

23-11-2003 12:51

Don't let those anti-Bush folks tell you that any of those scenes of quaint English villages and villagers in Bush UK photo ops are not ABSOLUTELY AUTHENTIC!! In fact, here's a sneak preview of "Time's" commemorative photo spread!!

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NEW FORUM FOR LAAW

23-11-2003 11:59

New Legal Action Against War Forum now open..............

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11/22/63

23-11-2003 11:20

A student Cold Warrior remembers the day JFK died, goes to the funeral, meets a woman, gets drunk, gets married, gets divorced, joins the revolution, becomes a fugitive, goes to California.