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Local Elections in June

20-01-2004 14:00

To People From "The Indy Field":

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RtB Weekend Jan 2004 - Roundup

20-01-2004 13:39

Five bases were visited for the January 2004 RtB weekend - RAF Molesworth, USAF Lakenheath, USAF Feltwell, USAF Mildenhall and Northwood HQ.

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European Social Forum Programme Group

20-01-2004 13:38

European Social Forum Programme Group
c/o World Development Movement
25 Beehive Place, London, SW9 72R

*** EVENT: The third European Social Forum
DATE: November 2004 - details to come
PLACE: London - details to come

*** Next UK Assembly for the European Social Forum
Time/date: 1.30-5.00 pm, 24th January 2004
Venue: GLA, City Hall, the Queens Walk, London SE1
Delegates welcome - info below

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Updated list of companies that aid the vivisectors Sequani ltd

20-01-2004 13:29

The companies below currently do business with vivisectors Sequani ltd in Ledbury, Herefordshire. People Against Cruelty to Animals - West Midlands are targetting these companies one by one in the hope of pressurising them through demos, emails, phone calls to sever their ties with Sequani. Two have been successful up to date. CryoService a liquid nitrogen supplier and the Jordans group of Companies (sequani's regd home) have severed all ties over the last few months.

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Iraq, Occupied Amara - Governor allegedly kills unarmed protestors - report

20-01-2004 11:00

The British agreed governor of Amara, one a folk legend for his armed resistance against the Baath dictatorship, has lost the plot according to local people...this is a report rying to get to the truth of what really happened.........

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Presidential elections in Russia: Putin is afraid of boycott

20-01-2004 10:51

Bureaucrats are afraid of boycott.

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Design of the 21st Century: a tree

20-01-2004 06:30

Time for revolution.

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Meadowlands: Join us in stopping Eviction 26/01

19-01-2004 21:53

FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF BULKINGTON LAST WEEK, WHERE A VERY SMALL GROUP OF PROTESTERS CAME TO SUPPORT A TRAVELLER COMMUNITY WHO SUCCESSFULLY FOUGHT OFF EVICTION ANOTHER TRAVELLER SITE CALLS FOR SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT TO HELP THEM SAVE THEIR HOMES AND WAY OF LIFE…

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The Ministry of Truth - Action around the Civil Contingencies Bill

19-01-2004 20:22

After a cup of tea and a cosy chat about the civil contingencies bill, something scary happened....

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This is not a Subject for Comedy

19-01-2004 20:14

THIS IS NOT A SUBJECT FOR COMEDY, ISM benefit with comedian IVOR DEMBINA
plus Manchester Klezmer.

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So was the war legal?

19-01-2004 20:12

The results of an investigation into the legality of the war in Iraq are to be announced on 20 January. Read on if you want to attend...

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Riot Police Storm Indigenous Town in Mexico Leaving Two Dead, ...

19-01-2004 19:06

Wed Jan 14, 9:04 PM ET -- Mexican riot police (thugs and murders)
Dissidents battled police Wednesday in a small town south of Mexico City after police entered to reinstate a mayor run out by opponents.

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OGM in NESQUIK NESTLE'

19-01-2004 18:43

A woman of Shangai has started a penal cause against Nestlè and the company Shangai Lianjia Supermarket Co. for the suspect that in the known product Nesquiks are present some ingredients genetically modified.

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Tlalnepantla repression update

19-01-2004 18:42

FYI the situation is deteriorating. Three human rights observation
missions tried to enter Tlalnepantla yesterday to look for refugees living in the hills above the town.

One group was small, and was able to pass, but as they walked through the woods a police helicopter was following them, (hovering only 100 feet above ground) and so the refugees ran away.

The other group contained people from Atenco, and was greeted by 200 riot police. Without warning, they were attacked, tear gassed, and bones were broken. I was almost arrested (and would have been deported) but was able to escape when the police were distracted.
One German international observer was detained and we believe he was deported.

The third mission arrived at nightfall. We sent only women, and so the police were obliged to let them pass. However, they were heavily escorted by police. They delivered food to women and children hiding in
their homes, afraid to turn on the lights or go outside. Their husbands are missing. One baby died because medical care was unavailable. My wife, a doctor, was able to treat some people.

This story is simply not getting the attention it deserves. It is worse than Chiapas, where the people and their allies are at least in a position to defend themselves.

see:  https://www.indybay.org/news/2004/01/1668144.php

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Mirror: Mobile phone location data now sold on internet

19-01-2004 18:22

A clutch of brand new and perfectly legal internet-based services have just been launched that cost as little as 30p to use, and take less than five seconds to zero in to within 50 metres of where a person is.

A simple text message or phone call to an operator from a suspicious spouse or boss can send one of the new DIY spying services off to track a person down. Another call or a visit to a special website will then tell you where they are.

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Two Otters shot on Skye

19-01-2004 16:27

It is quite ironic that we have two laws to protect our wildlife but time and time again they cannot be enforced. Let me give you three examples in the last few months. The Eurasian Otter (Lutra lutra) is listed under Schedule 5 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, and also the EC Habitats Directive implemented through the Conservation (Natural Habitats) Regulations 1994. These mean that it is an offence for any person to intentionally kill, injure or take otters.

And yet three otters have recently lost their lives through stupidity and deliberate criminal acts. The cases all involve otters from different areas which have been killed or wilfully taken from the wild.

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CORPORATE WATCH NEWS: VOTING SCANDAL AND MORE

19-01-2004 14:55

Corporate Watch's regular news updates - investigations and perspectives.

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New Video & speaking tour by Martin Shaw, climber injured by swiss police

19-01-2004 12:59

Martin Shaw the climber injured by the swiss police when they cut the rope he was hanging from, is touring the UK showing a video of the incident. He will be putting this action and it's consiquences in a political context of the recent respession of political actions. The authorities want to divide and scare us how are we going to respond to this repression as a community?

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Tuesday (20/01) - London - Int. Women's Day Meeting

19-01-2004 12:33

International Women's Day is on its way! On the 8th of March 2004
thousands of women and men all over the globe will take a stand
against the continuing oppression of women.