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Zapatista film showing in Cambridge

08-01-2004 01:53

Cambridge IMC will be showing 'Zapatista', a film shot in Chiapas, on Sunday 11 January, 7.30pm, The Locomotive, 44 Mill Road. Come along and find out about the struggle that inspired, and continues to inspire, protests for a better world, around the world.

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US conference to revisit USS Liberty sinking

08-01-2004 01:04

Controversy has raged for
years over the sinking of the Liberty, a signals intelligence ship, in international waters by
Israeli jets and torpedo boats in which 34 US sailors were killed and 171 wounded

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Charles guilty as sin? Or Lying-in-state?

08-01-2004 00:17

That's how and why the Westminster system is flawed because it's full of clowns who investigate themselves. When will Government, Monarchs and police stop investigating themselves? When the government goes straight!

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Civil contingencies bill

07-01-2004 21:38

The Civil Contingencies Bill, with the accompanying non-legislative measures, will deliver a single framework for civil protection in the United Kingdom.

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Protest to support cannabis coffeeshop entrepreneurs

07-01-2004 21:18

1/04: END OF AN ERA OR A NEW BEGINNING!

A Pro-Cannabis demonstration is expected outside Crown Court on Friday 9th
January 2004 when Worthing Cannabis Cafe entrepreneurs appear for sentence.

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Urgent help needed to defend London social squat

07-01-2004 20:17

People are needed to help defend a squat, which is being ilegally threatened by landlord.

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Ignoring Rape

07-01-2004 19:11

Why do the police so often choose not to investigate rape claims fully?

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Preemptive Crowd Control: Why Are Some Protesters Treated So Differently By Police

07-01-2004 18:56

Natural Graffiti: Peace Signs Mysteriously Appear on Seattle Lawns at Pre-Dawn
Why do police spray anti-war protesters with pepper spray and rubber bullets if they stray off the sidewalks into streets, but they accommodate rowdy sports fans blocking streets, with smiles? Is this difference politically driven? The police violence at the Miami FTAA protests in Nov, 2003, could easily be repeated in Boston and NYC this summer, in 2004, at the Democratic and Republican National Convention protests...

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Anti-social behaviour act - important changes to the law

07-01-2004 18:52

>In the rush to get its legislation through Parliament before the end of
>the last session in November, the government was subjected to lots of
>scrutiny on some of its proposals, for instance to limit trial by jury
>and 'foundation' hospitals. Meanwhile, of course, the various bills
>were packed with a ragbag of other bits and pieces which slipped through
>with much less scrutiny. Here are a few gems from the Anti-social
>Behaviour Act 2003 which are now law and will soon be in force.

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Anarchist Federation National Secretary on letter bombing campaign

07-01-2004 18:52

A statement from the National Secretary of the Anarchist Federation (IAF/IFA) on the recent letter bombing campaign and it's attribution to Italian anarchists.

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Freedom for the 6 basques in Mexico.

07-01-2004 17:48

Please read, sign and circulate among friends and defenders of elemantary human rights of Basque People.

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Justice in the 21st C. Law Conf. 7-8 Feb.Canterbury.

07-01-2004 16:52

Critical Lawyers group Conference in Canterbury(UKC) in February. 7-8th.

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Five Israeli Conscientious Objectors Jailed

07-01-2004 16:38

Israeli Conscientious Objectors Jailed

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Analysis: GOP Losing Early Battles

07-01-2004 16:01

Why did RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie attack  http://www.moveon.org 's
Bush in 30 Seconds campaign with all his might on "Fox News Sunday?"

Because it hurt like a killing blow.

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CHILLING DEJA VU: The Original Bush:Hitler Comparison from July, 2001

07-01-2004 15:49

"When this essay comparing Hitler's rise to power with Bush, and the tactics of the present GOP with the 1930s Nazis and Stalin's communist regime was first published in July, 2001, I was the recipient of a flood of hate mail and even a couple of death threats from militant rightwingers. But the comparison hit home: the article has been been circulating all over the world, reprinted in at least five languages. Unlike the lame, even bizarre comparisons rightwingers try to make between Clinton, Dean, et al. and Hitler, the similarity between Bush's regime and the rise of the Nazis is REAL and undeniable and has evoked a shock of recognition in readers - a chilling deja vu - that has been steadily growing.

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UK Rail Union threatens to use scab labour against own staff!

07-01-2004 15:00

you couldn't make it up up, the new Blairite leader of the train drivers union: ASLEF is threatening staff at its London headquarters with all sorts of brutal penalties including sick pay being cut, flexitime withdrawn, holidays stopped and childcare vouchers abolished if they go on strike. Worse still, strike-breakers would be recruited on individual contracts.

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Tell Michael Howard to Cut Kent's Section 28 Red Tape

07-01-2004 14:19

The Conservative Party has launched a website encouraging voters to tell the Tories which bits of "bureaucracy and red tape" they would like to put an end to.

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VIDEO EU Presidency Protest Ireland

07-01-2004 09:44

Video
Ireland now hosts the EU Presidency
Today saw the first of many protests
in MAY there will be an International Protest as there will be if George Bush Visits as promised!!!

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The Future of Race Relations in the South West - TMG Spring Conference

07-01-2004 09:06

A conference for social change marking the 5th Anniversary of the publication of The Stephen Lawrence Inquiry Report and launch of TMG Rural Racism Project in the South West.

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G8 2004 Savannah/ Activists pressure pays off

06-01-2004 22:32

Political thaw in Savannah: Officials get behind planned G8 Summit Actions