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June 11th Punk show benefit for American Political Prisoner Jeff 'Free' Luers

17-05-2005 22:09

June 10-12 graphic
This event is part of the June 10-12 Weekend of Resistance for American Political Prisoner Jeff Luers. There are events in Brighton and Edinburgh that day as well as many cities in the US and around the world. Events list at
 http://www.freefreenow.org/june2005events.html

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Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference 2005

17-05-2005 19:37

Update on the NPT Review Conference in New York this month.

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Under the Pavement from may 16th online

17-05-2005 19:14

Under the Pavement - fortnightly radical radio show broadcast in Manchester.

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Attempts to shut down SWARM the Minutemen.com

17-05-2005 18:27

A Scottsdale-based Internet company said Monday it will force one of its Web site clients to stop encouraging harassment of the Minuteman Project or face being shut down. Swarmtheminutemen.com is encouraging people to go into the desert border areas to blast their radios or bang pots and pans together in an effort to confuse and harass Minutemen volunteers.

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Smash EDO demo tomorrow and Fundraiser this Sunday

17-05-2005 17:04

HERE ARE THE UPCOMING EVENTS AT EDO/MBM

EDO/MBM IS A FACTORY PROVIDING WEAPONRY FOR THE WAR IN IRAQ ON THE HOME FARM IDUSTRIAL ESTATE, MOULECOOMB, BRIGHTON - THEY HAVE RECENTLY TAKEN OUT INJUNCTION PROCEEDINGS AGAINST PROTESTERS TO SILENCE PROTEST HERE. IF PUT INTO PLACE THE INJUNCTION WOULD STOP ANYONE GOING TO THE FACTORY FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROTEST

contact  smashedo@hotmail.com or 07891 405923 for more details

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Critical Mass to return to Southampton

17-05-2005 16:28

In solidarity with protests around the world coinciding with the G8 conference in Scotland, Southampton activists are calling out for a return of critical mass to Southampton

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Gay Saudis tortured, flogged and executed

17-05-2005 16:24

International Day Against Homophobia protest against Saudi torture & executions.
Defend gay Muslims persecuted by fundamentalism
17 May is “International Day Against Homophobia”
Saudi Arabia is one of the world's most homophobic countries. Gay people are routinely arrested, jailed, tortured, flogged and sometimes executed

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Seething Contempt Diplomacy

17-05-2005 16:07

It could have been worse; much worse. Bush could have been smart.

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People & Planet G8 Festival and other events

17-05-2005 16:06

This year will see the return of the legendary P&P Summer Festival to coincide with the G8 Summit on the 6-8 July. We’ll meet in Edinburgh on July 2nd, as part of a massive mobilisation to Make Poverty History, and after that have a programme packed with inspiring speakers from around the world, workshops, entertainment and loads of action taking us up to the Summit, all in the Scottish sunshine! (P&P cannot accept liability for cloudy days…)

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NEWSWEEK'S 'KORAN IN THE TOILET' STORY

17-05-2005 15:59

Newsweek is owned by The Washington Post, and nobody at Newsweek has been fired or even reprimanded...

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No ASBO for Lindis Percy

17-05-2005 15:57

Some good news for followers of ASBOwatch ( http://www.statewatch.org/asbo/ASBOwatch.html).

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Anti-nuclear activists declare Drake's Island nuclear free state

17-05-2005 15:17

Anti Nuclear Action - Sarah Lasenby from Oxford has helped occupy the nuclear free state of Drake’s Island in Plymouth Sound

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UK Activists Join Global Protest Against Suez

17-05-2005 13:44

On Friday May 13th, activists from Bolivia Solidarity Campaign, War on Want, and WDM joined protestors around the world, to campaign against Suez, the multinational water company focusing their attention on Lord Simon of Highbury.

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Watch Galloway Live

17-05-2005 13:42

Watch Galloway Live

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link to ram file alloway in Senate committee hearings

17-05-2005 13:42

this is a live link posted as this started sorry for those who are too late

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Deportation of Joao Paulo Cassongo, survivor of torture in Angola and the UK.

17-05-2005 13:15

Yesterday Immigration tried to deport Joao Paulo Cassongo back to Angola, the place he escaped from torture and persecution.

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Halliburton Down Under, Above and Beyond

17-05-2005 12:29

In his 2947 "Prelude To Space" Arthur C. Clarke presumed British dominance of interplanetary activity due to it's control of the Australian Outback spaceport.
Today the Woomera facility is controlled by British Aerospace Engineering (now in scientific alliance with the Bush and Bin Laden families' Carlyle Group) while Halliburton and Mudoch lend a helping hand...

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Video footage of the Birmingham G7 protests May 1998

17-05-2005 12:07

Reclaim the Streets Flyer
May 1998 saw a global street party take place in Birmingham to coincide with the G7 summit being hosted in the city. The following downloadable films contain footage of the street party.

"Reclaim the Streets - Birmingham, UK. An organised street party erupts during the G8 summit." April 1997 (20mb/5'28min)

 http://www.kinokast.net/video/birmingham1998.mov

 http://www.kinokast.net/video/birmingham1998.wmv

Reclaim the Streets - the film!

"May 1995, London, England. A small group of people decide to organise an illegal street party in Camden, a part of the city renowned for its consumerism and incessant traffic. The final location is kept secret, because they know that the state and business will not be amused. Reclaim the Streets! is born, a cocktail of raging love, revolutionary carnival, art and anarchy. Since then, clandestine street parties have erupted all over the world. From Hull to Sidney, Lyon to Tel Aviv, Vancouver to Valencia, people are taking back their streets. And this is only beginning."

Download the Reclaim the Streets film here - it's got footage of the Birmingham G7 street party.

 http://www.ngvision.org/mediabase/385

792.75 Mb mpeg

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Carnival for Full Enjoyment 4 July 2005

17-05-2005 12:01

Start off G8 week on Monday 4 July with a carnival in central Edinburgh — express resistance to the institutions responsible for our precarious lives under capitalism with some fun in the city! See end of article for details on next planning meeting.

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How they forged the case against Galloway

17-05-2005 11:26

The central document used against George Galloway this week by the senate committee in Washington is a forgery. Investigation by Socialist Worker shows that evidence crucial to the alleged case against the Respect MP is a fake, created after the fall of Baghdad in 2003