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Blair promises 'prosperity for all'!!!

13-01-2005 21:35

Just posted this for the comedy value really. I just have this rather amusing image of Tony "promising" us all prosperity!

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East Anglia Social Forum in Cambridge, 29th of Jan

13-01-2005 21:31

The next East Anglia Social Forum will be in Cambridge on Saturday the 29th of January from 1 - 5pm. It will be held at the Friends Meeting House, 12 Jesus Lane, Cambridge.

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Tom Hurndall remembered.

13-01-2005 21:22

Candlelit vigil one year after Tom's death.

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The Other "Salvador Option" for Iraq

13-01-2005 19:39

Published on Wednesday, January 12, 2005 by CommonDreams.org

The Other "Salvador Option" for Iraq
by Jim Goronson

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Brighton Arms Co in sticky situation

13-01-2005 18:37

Workers at edo/mbm on the home farm industrial estate in brighton arrived at work to find that their locks had been glued shut

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Invitation: Alterglobalists' Week in Hungary

13-01-2005 17:30

You can still register for the Public Services, Globalisation and Sustainability conference (Feb. 13-16). Funds are still available for travel costs. Accomodation and food will also be provided for registered guests. Please sign up for the conference before the end of January.

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Edinburgh Starbucks Picket

13-01-2005 17:21

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Supporters of the Zapatista’s, and the International Workers of the World joined forces in Edinburgh to picket Starbuck’s on the Royal mile for the second time on Saturday the eighth of January. Ignoring the cold, they handed out steaming cups of free fairtrade coffee from Chiapas to passing punters, and tried to persuade them not to go into the café. AUDIO AND PICS BELOW

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UZBEKISTAN BULLDOZES SETTLEMENTS

13-01-2005 17:19

A tense situation is unfolding near the South Kazakhstan--Uzbekistan border. In a program approved by Uzbekistan's Prime Minister, Shavkat Mirziyaev, local authorities are planning to demolish settlements and private dachas that happen to be located in the zone of border delimitation.

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AIDS protest in Moscow, Russia

13-01-2005 17:09

Photos from Russian IMC Media site of Moscow actions in supoprt of HIV+ citizens of Russia

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Now you see it...

13-01-2005 16:52

There is an ecological manmade disaster of geologic proportions occurring in the rolling mountains of the southern Appalachians, its called mountain range -- or mountain top -– removal.

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EMPIRE & RESISTANCE: From Caracas to Fallujah - TARIQ ALI

13-01-2005 14:29

EMPIRE & RESISTANCE:
From Carcas to Fallujah

A talk by TARIQ ALI

Monday 17th JANUARY 2005 @ 7pm
Khalili Lecture Theatre,
SOAS,
Russell Sq.
London WC1H 0XG

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Tortured, humiliated and crying out for some justice

13-01-2005 10:47

Four Guantánamo Britons are coming home. Don't forget those left behind

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The Story of a Co-operative that's selling out to the market!

13-01-2005 10:31

War of the roses

Amid the daffs and dahlias, there's the scent of trouble in the air at Britain's florists. Their non-profit co-op, Interflora, is up for sale - but will the rebels bunch together or wilt in the face of corporate firepower? Susie Mesure reports
13 January 2005

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UNISON United Left wants UNISON to back amnesty for illegal workers

13-01-2005 10:22

UNISON's Greater London Regional Committee today agreed to support Westminster UNISON proposals for an amnesty for 'illegal' workers. The committee wants the proposals to go forward to UNISON's National Conference and will support this at the upcoming Regional Council AGM.

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Make Your Tsunami Donations Go Further - Vegetarian Relief

13-01-2005 09:08

Tsunami/earthquake/tidal Wave Relief - vegetarian & vegan appeal
Make you money and donations go further when helping victims of the Tsunami , earthquake, Tidal wave in the Indian Ocean. Vegfam offers vegetarian/vegan relief and spends money on people not expensive advertising campaigns.

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More than one million people are expected to take to the streets of Los Angeles

13-01-2005 00:37

If Los Angeles is too far to go you can always celebrate the day in Sheffield (
Why? To celebrate the life and work of Martin Luther King Jr. USA’s champion of NVDA.
The parade commences on Martin Luther King Blvd at Crenshaw and lasts for two miles until Western. It includes more than 150 floats, 20 drill teams, ten dance groups, celebrities aplenty and the bombastic tunes of a military marching band.

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Infernal Noise Brigade on European Tour

12-01-2005 21:10

INB on tour in Europe, July & August 2005; needs places to stay

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Police Chief in Trouble

12-01-2005 21:06

Police chief unable to distinguish between legal and illegal hunting
Monday, 10 January 2005
A senior Police officer has sought advice from hunting organisation admitting that officers will find it difficult to distinguish between illegal and legal hunting after the Hunting Act comes into force on February 18th.

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The 'Black Book' of U.S. Imperialism: Ward Churchill's Roosting Chickens

12-01-2005 21:03

Todd Gitlin, Paul Berman and assorted intellectuals of the "decent left" have earned their keep arguing that anti-imperialism is nothing but an echo chamber of nihilism, oedipal rage and tacit support for whomever the governing class declares the enemy. Once upon a time their kind derided the Communist left as window dressing for the gulag; now they argue with parallel duplicity that anti-imperialists are shills for "Islamo-fascist" death cults and suicide bombers. As the gate-keepers of acceptable dissent, that is to say "none," they rarely take time to note what it is, this America, they've declared their loyalty to and what it is exactly the "anti-Americans" oppose.

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THREATENED TREES ACTION MEETING (2)

12-01-2005 20:11

SATURDAY 12TH JANUARY 109 HURST STREET 6PM