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Radical Weekend

03-04-2004 20:30

The weekend of March 27th - 28th saw the launch of the Sheffield Social Forum on Saturday while the Sharrow Lantern Festival made its fantastic debut on Sunday.

Sheffield Social Forum Launch

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Sheffield Social Forum Launch

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1 On SSF Launch
2 On article "Struggle NOT submission"

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Sheffield Social Forum Launch 1 | 2 | 3
Comment: Some more snaps 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

Sharrow Lantern Carnival

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The Lantern Carnival: was it political?

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Moment for Peace at Lantern Festival 1

Sharrow Lantern Procession Photos 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20

Pics from the Sharrow Lantern Carnival 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18
Comment: Some of my pics 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7

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video from sharrow lantern carnival | more video from the lantern carnival

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Falluja

03-04-2004 19:13

The propaganda value of the mutilation of American corpses in Falluja and a case for who the real barbarians are in Iraq.

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Schnews @ 10 Tour 2004 in the South West

03-04-2004 18:43

Schnews, the Brighton based weekly free newsheet, clebrates 10 years of kicking back with a national tour of the nations hotspots.

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Democracy Denied in Dundee

03-04-2004 18:43

The denial of an effective Mayday March in Dundee

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The non-Islamic oppression of women

03-04-2004 18:19

Just a thought.

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Quagmire in Iraq: U.S. Casualties Up To 11,700

03-04-2004 17:56

*Headlines for April 2, 2004*

- Bush Blocks 9/11 Panel From Seeing Clinton Papers
- House GOP Drops Medicare Cost Inquiry
- Bush Signs Unborn Victims of Violent Act
- March: Second Deadliest Month for U.S. in Iraq
- Sharon Threatens to Assassinate Arafat

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 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/02/1516216

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Resistance and Solidarit Struggle in Iraq and Palestine - talk on Sunday 4th

03-04-2004 17:35

The Tuffnell Park Social Centre (Opposite Tuffnell Park Tube - Northern Line- in the old Grand Banks building), North London, hosts a talk by an eye-witness actvist who spent 6 months living in refugee camps in palestine and 8 months living in Iraq and accompanying and supporting families, Palestinian refugees, workers, trade unions, the Union of the Unemployed, womens organisations and human rights groups in Baghdad and Basra.

Time: 7.30pm
Place: Tufnell Park Social Centre, (Grand Banks) Tuffnell Park, NW1
Donations appreciated - all monies will go towards projects in Iraq and Palestine (OWFI, autonomous womens self sufficiency project in Basra and Projecy Hope in Nablus)

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Afghanistan: optimism, Fragile Peace and Foreign Agendas

03-04-2004 13:46

General Dostum, warlord
This year will be a turning point for Afghanistan. This could be upward or downward. With foreign interests as usual taking priority here and increasing instability it does not look good and all the optimism in the country could be dashed.

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Italian Anti-Imperialists Gaoled

03-04-2004 13:16

Italian anti-imperialist activists gaoled under Anti-Terrorism Laws for supporting the Iraqui Resistance

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Let's Make Enemies

03-04-2004 12:48

Paul Bremer has Unveiled a Slew of Tricks That Allow the US to Hold on to Power in Iraq After June 30

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Disagreement over the Coke Boycott

03-04-2004 10:55

Why there are serious doubts over the underlying ethics of the agenda behind the current Coke Cola boycott

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SSA Marine--profile of a profitee

03-04-2004 09:28

Stevedoring Services of America, which recently shortened its name to “SSA Marine,” is a multi-national corporation with headquarters in Seattle. War profiteer, privatizer and globalizer, this corporate thug was involved in the police attack at the Oakland docks on April 7, 2003. On the anniversary of that day--let us return to the Port of Oakland to picket SSA!

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Flier for Schnews event

03-04-2004 09:00

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Here's the flier for the Schnews At Ten tour's visit to Oxford on Thursday April 15th.

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Arafat a possible target

03-04-2004 08:30

Copy/Paste from news.bbc.com

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'Caste' matters in the 'democratic' state of Israel

03-04-2004 07:14

"The funny thing is that if we went to Cyprus now and got married in a civil ceremony, it won't solve the problem either because the rabbinate will not give up its demand that I get a divorce in Israel."

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Israel has imposed an Apartheid state in the Occupied Territories

03-04-2004 02:09

Israel is the new Apartheid. The Occupied Territories operate in a similar way to South Africa under Apartheid. Palestinians are enclosed into ghettos, similar to the nominally self-governing homelands in Apartheid South Africa

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Boycott Marks and Spencer, Oxford Street Picket 1/04/04

03-04-2004 01:24

The regular Thursday picket of M&S continues to spread information about the increasing Israeli offensive against Palestinians despite attempts by both Zionists and the police to prevent us from conveying loudly and clearly to the public the terror, torture and humiliation inflicted on Palestinians every day by the racist State of Israel.

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DEPLETED URANIUM: The defence establishment acknowledges the problem

02-04-2004 22:18

Long before the illegal war on Iraq, physicians and NGOs had implicated Depleted Uranium in the epidemic of birth defects and cancers in Iraq since 1991, Yugoslavia since 1999, and Afghanistan after 2001, and of serious health problems among American and British personnel who had served in these regions. The Pentagon there, and the Ministry of Defence here, made repeated denials, asserting the safety of DU, which is used as a penetrating material in munitions (including cruise missiles) and as a protective material on tanks. Now - Jane's Defence Weekly, on April 2, a key Defence establishment journal, notes that there is serious "political fall-out for Washington and its allies"

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Indymedia cinema in Brixton

02-04-2004 21:41

As part of an ongoing showcase of contemporary filmmakers who are finding new forms of cinema to show resistance to globalization throughout the world, distributing and screening grassroots videos covering issues ignored or distorted by the corporate media, Indymedia Cinema presents:

‘Life in the Fast Lane – The NO M11 Story’

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Trident Ploughshares Mass Event

02-04-2004 18:57

Trident Ploughshares have set a "Deadline for disarmament." This coincides with the start of the NPT Conference where nuclear states will talk and not act on nuclear disarmament.