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Nottingham Protest against Deportations to Northern Iraq (Kurdistan) :: Pictures

22-08-2005 12:44

Desperate to reach his targets, the home secretary is abducting Iraqi asyslum seekers to detention centres for return to Iraq. This goes against UNHCR advice that "failed" asylum seekers should not be sent back to Iraq, either forceably or by inducement, because the country is unstable and dangerous.

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Interesting ethical job!

22-08-2005 12:00

Corporate Watch is looking for a new part-time finance
worker/researcher.

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Screening – ‘When Killing Is Easy’

22-08-2005 10:20

In the spring of 2003, within a period of seven weeks, one British journalists and one American peace activist were killed by the Israeli army in Rafah, a Palestinian town at the southern end of the occupied Gaza Strip.

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DONT BUY A NEWSPAPER DAY.

22-08-2005 08:31

The simple idea i have on my childs blackboard today is this.

Start a campaign for DONT BUY A NEWSPAPER DAY.

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Kids Take the Power Back With Mobiles

22-08-2005 08:13

As the school year starts, school admins and scotland yard find out that the kids have decided to use their devices for things other than those intended.

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US website names MI6 officers

22-08-2005 05:42

Somebody should inform this authour that investigators in the US have identified Karl Rove as the Plame leaker. 7/7 kinda distracted from that news, and the media's been slow to get it back into the headlines.

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Teachers accused of anti-US bias

22-08-2005 00:39

But who owns the problem?
The NSW Teachers Federation condemned costello's comments as "absolute nonsense". Its senior vice-president, Angelo Gavrielatos, said: "The constant denegration of teachers isn't good for the country."

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Gallerycrashing: Interventionist Art, Causes for Alarm and Excuses for Failure

22-08-2005 00:08

The term gallerycrashing is a clumsy neologism I have coined to refer to the act of placing an unsolicited artwork in a private or public exhibition. Specialised circuits were constructed for the sole purpose of gallerycrashing and a family of objects called 'Spacehoggers' were gradually developed for proliferation around galleries.

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Resistance Dance/Drama Performance - Palestinians in London

21-08-2005 21:56

group photo in Balata
Making their world debut with this UK tour, youth from Balata Refugee Camp, Occupied Palestine will make a stop to perform their powerful original piece, A'edoon in London on Tuesday the 23rd of August, at St Georges Theatre, 49 Tufnell Park Road, N7 0PS.

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Flour bombs

21-08-2005 21:48

so this is what all the fuss was about?

why didn't the bomb squad tell the
Intellignce people who followed and killed Menezes?

they had a few hours or so

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Evil Ideology: Capitalism or Islam?

21-08-2005 19:34

So far, there has been no compelling, independently-verifiable evidence presented that proves either Bliar's or Bush's Conspiracy Theories about the attacks upon their countries we're supposed to blame upon Muslims.

There is, however, documentary evidence proving that these same men knowingly LIED to their citizens, in order to start an Illegal War of Aggression for Profit, slaughtering thousands upon thousands of innocent people in the process.

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Pope & Catholic Clowns in Cologne

21-08-2005 17:48

"The Catholic Church", the Pope said on World Youth Day in Germany on Sunday: "is like a net full of fish: you got the good ones and the baddies." But fish still starts rotting at the head.

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Banner Drop. No Arms Dealers in Peace Messenger City

21-08-2005 14:33

Let's hope it doesn't get ripped down by a passing moron...
Brighton should not be making bombs.

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Gate Gourmet use EDO tactics against strikers

21-08-2005 12:08

Gate Gourmet sought an interim injunction today against trade union members

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Who is responsible for the Metropolitan Police?

21-08-2005 10:39

The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes raises fundamental questions as to who runs the Metropolitan Police Force and who is ultimately accountable for it: the Home Secretary, an MP from Norwich, or the people of London, who actually pay for it. To date their have been calls for Sir Ian Blair to resign, however less scrutiny has been given to those shadowy London politicians, who are appointed rather than elected to provide oversight of the Metropolitan Police.

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Sheehan tells it like it is!

21-08-2005 04:31

Cindy Sheehan speaks out regarding the right-wing media smear campaign, and what she wants from coward George.

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Jan Benvie third report from Baghdad

20-08-2005 22:08

Jan at Edinburgh City Chambers in 2003.
This is Jan Benvie's final report from Baghdad after her 6 week stint there with Christian Peacemakers. Jan who is from Kirkcaldy in Fife, Scotland is now safely home.

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Stop the deportation of Susan Mataawe

20-08-2005 21:03

19-year-old Ugandan Susan Mataawe is to be deported Saturday evening 10.45pm, 20 August, Ethiopian Airways, Heathrow,

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Art of War : Making a Killing on Wall Street

20-08-2005 20:54

Making a Killing on Wall Street
Making a Killing on Wall Street:

Stock prices of Halliburton, Exxon, British Petroleum, Boeing (and other war-related companies) have doubled since the Iraq Invasion

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plans to build flats in heaton park, manchester

20-08-2005 16:10

Planning permission has been given to build flats in Heaton Park. Heaton Park in Prestwich is one of the few city centre green spaces we have left.