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Belarussian anarchists call for solidarity!

24-03-2006 09:25

In Minsk, Belarus, a tent camp has been set up in the central October Square, to protest against election fraud. Last night, this camp was brutally evicted with about 500 arrests. One of the evicted tents was the indymedia tent. Belarussian Anarchists are asking for solidarity.

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Call to the (American) Continent- Indigenous Peoples of Ecuador Demand Democracy

24-03-2006 00:46

This is a letter to the Government and Peoples of the USA from NAHUACALLI, Embassy of Indigenous Peoples.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/24/06 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

23-03-2006 23:54

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion, recorded from a shortwave radio. With times and freqs for listening at home. 2 files- broadcast and slow-modem streaming. Free to rebroadcast. China, Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

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HIGH COURT JUDGE CONDEMNS ARMS COMPANY’S LEGAL TACTICS

23-03-2006 22:43

On Thursday 23rd March 2006 a High Court Judge handed
down a damning judgement against an arms company. He
struck out an interim injunction against remaining
defendants in the controversial harassment injunction
case brought against anti-war protesters in Brighton
by arms manufacturers EDO MBM Technology Ltd.

The case has been continuing in the High Court for
nearly a year without reaching a full trial despite an
court order that a speedy trial should be prepared
for because of ‘human rights implications’.
‘The blame for loss of the trial date in my view
undoubtedly lies with the claimants’ says Judge
Walker.

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SAVE THE STREET PIANO!! Free Community Piano Under Threat!

23-03-2006 22:06

Since August, Sharrow Vale Road has been the home of Sheffield's only (as far as we know) Street Piano.

If you read the local press or listen to local radio you may have heard of this wonderful piano, where members of the public are free to make music any time between 9 and 9.

Now the Council Want to take it away.

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Bristol: Bass not Bombs - political PARTY mashup!

23-03-2006 20:53

Take a flyer - come early, stay late
Sat 25 March sees the finale of a month of funds/awareness raising benefit nights across Bristol, as Bass not Bombs returns for its third epic mashup benefit nite. Let the tribes gather, party, and go forth to resist.

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Update from Ecuador.

23-03-2006 20:23

Repression and violation of human rights is escalating in Ecuador, a country in state of emergency for the better part of the last three weeks.

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Libertarian, Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Forum, in Athens, May 4-7, 2006

23-03-2006 18:20

Libertarian, Anarchist and Antiauthoritarian Forum, in Athens, Greece, May 4-7, 2006.

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Strike Rallies throughout Britain on 28th March - Red Tuesday!

23-03-2006 18:20

Red Tuesday - 28th March will see mass strikes against capitalist attacks in both Britain and France.
In Britain, the strike will be to defend workers pension rights, and will involve 1.5 million workers. It could be the largest strike here since the 1926 general strike.

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Three day sit-in outside parliament next week.

23-03-2006 18:11

Eighty or more Iranian asylum seekers' sit-in will be staging a three days sit-in in London to protest against the Home Office's asylum laws. The protest begins on the 27th and end on the 29th in front of parliament and they will attend everyday from 8am-6pm.

Thousands of asylum seekers who have fled the Islamic regime of Iran and have come to Britain are faced with appalling and inhumane conditions. Many have either been refused asylum and issued removal orders or are in the precarious situation of waiting. An illegal, unsafe and unprotected life has been imposed on many of them.

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Insansa 3- 1st April

23-03-2006 18:09

Chilled out live world music and Zambian food night, raising money for a computer room for schools in rural Zambia.

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The hidden plight of religious minorities in Bangladesh

23-03-2006 16:34

The minorities of Bangladesh have witnessed large-scale violence, cultural genocide and discrimination and bias at the hands of all the successive governments in perpetual order.

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Budget 2006 - A Brown not green budget

23-03-2006 16:15

Gordon Brown's last budget? A lost opportunity to set out his stall for the environment, his vision for the future.

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Britain's Answer: Send in the Bulldozers

23-03-2006 16:13

Yesterday the bulldozers were sent in
yet again to crush the homes of Travellers
who by the British Government's own admission
have nowhere legally to live.

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ID Cards Information Evening

23-03-2006 16:11

In Cambridge, the Libra Aries bookshop is holding a NO2ID information evening on Wednesday 29th March. Feel free to drop in any time between 6:30pm & 8pm to chat to NO2ID activists, get more details on what the government proposes and how we're opposing it, and pick up literature, car stickers and badges. All welcome.

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Balatacamp film night

23-03-2006 15:46

indymedia presents...

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Coaches to No Borders Demo - April 8th

23-03-2006 13:27

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COACHES are being organised and other transport from around the country.
Please contact London No Borders at:  noborderslondon@riseup.net or call
07944 135 617
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Tatchell: Why I support freedom of expression

23-03-2006 12:59

Peter Tatchell says free speech is under attack and needs defending

"The strength and survival of free society and the advance of human knowledge depend on the free exchange of ideas. All ideas are capable of giving offence, and some of the most powerful ideas in human history, such as those of Galileo and Darwin, have given profound religious offence in their time. The free exchange of ideas depends on freedom of expression and this includes the right to criticise and mock. We assert and uphold the right of freedom of expression and call on our elected representatives to do the same. We abhor the fact that people throughout the world live under mortal threat simply for expressing ideas and we call on our elected representatives to protect them from attack and not to give comfort to the forces of intolerance that besiege them."

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Important ruling on police keeping DNA records?

23-03-2006 12:09

As I understand it the police routinely take DNA samples when people are arrested and do not destroy these even if you subsequently released without charge (let alone found not guilty if brought to court). Now see this which has just been reported by the BBC.

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Ustiben report : BRITAN'S ANSWER: SEND IN BULLDOZERS

23-03-2006 12:06

Ustiben report

BRITAIN'S ANSWER:
SEND IN BULLDOZERS
Grattan Puxon

Yesterday the bulldozers were sent in
yet again to crush the homes of Travellers
who by the British Government's own admission
have nowhere legally to live.