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Swansea Protest at Israeli bombing of Lebanon

03-08-2006 21:17

Protestors gather by the castle
On The Night of Tuesday 1st August around 50 protesters gathered by Swansea’s castle to show solidarity with the people of Lebanon and Palestine.

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Solidarity with Prison Guards! Solidarity with Class War Prisoners!

03-08-2006 20:57

Walton Prison
Prison guards nationwide are preparing to go on strike over a below inflation pay 'rise' of just 1.6%, and in solidarity with the guards at Walton Prison, whose bosses are turning the screw with tougher working practices rules.

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Orwellian Eye-in-the-Sky Gets Orwellian Fanfare in Liverpool Echo

03-08-2006 20:35

Cops unveil their new cameras
In a breathtakingly cynical strategy, Merseyside Police have linked their purchase of eye-in-the-sky camera technology with this week's 'moral panic' - mini-motos. In a breathtakingly credulous piece of 'journalism', the Liverpool Echo's Luke Traynor has bought their story hook, line and sinker.

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Sheffield Hands off Lebanon Protest Photos

03-08-2006 19:15

Despite short notice there was a good turn out of protestors in Sheffield on 3rd August 2006 at the Stop the War demo. The protest included a 5min sit down protest on the road in front of the Town Hall which blocked all the traffic.

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Appello per una mobilitazione antirazzista a Lampedusa il 9 e 10 sette

03-08-2006 18:56

La Sicilia è diventata negli ultimi anni la frontiera Sud dell’Europa e Lampedusa è il suo avamposto. Il tentativo di mascherare l’inarrestabile fenomeno politico-sociale delle migrazioni come un problema di ordine pubblico da contrastare, con la crescente militarizzazione delle frontiere e provvedimenti di polizia, ha prodotto soltanto l’istituzione di nuove forme di apartheid.

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Transport from Swindon to Lebanon demo, London, this Saturday

03-08-2006 18:51

Swindon Stop the War banner
As the slaughter in Lebanon continues, with tacit support from Tony Blair, and munitions flown in via UK airports and air bases, peace campaigners from Swindon will be joining the protest in London this Saturday to demand an immediate cease fire. Meet at 9:30am outside Regents Circus college. Four photos from last Sunday’s demonstration in Trafalgar Square are attached, along with a press release from Swindon Stop the War Coalition, and the latest newsletter from stopwar.org.uk

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Two Arrested for Publicising Britain’s Terror Weapons

03-08-2006 17:27

Trident is Terrorism
Last night two peace activists were arrested after painting a prominent peace message outside Faslane naval base, where Britain’s Trident nuclear weapon submarines are berthed.

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G8 Trials continue in US from 2005 protest

03-08-2006 17:25

On july 8, 2005 while the G8 was meeting in Scotland a demonstration was held in San Francisco. Now one defendant is to go on trial while another sits in jail for refusing to turn over video footage.

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Doomsday Global Warming: Fact-Sheet / What To Do?

03-08-2006 16:00

Drastic and tragic Climate Change is well underway, and will worsen unto Doomsday if we do not take drastic measures to stop its progress. Energy conservation is at best stopgap. The development of Green (clean, renewable, cheap) energy sources is indispensable. This has never been a particularly difficult technical problem. The Problem has been primarily political, necessitating a crucial political change --- Polluters' Power overridden by People's Power.

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Take economic action against Israel and its Imperial supporters!

03-08-2006 15:39

Israel gets tremendous funding/support from Christian fundamentalists in the U.S.

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Angela Patterson, Back in the Wars

03-08-2006 15:29

It has been exactly one year since Angela had been taken into
detention and the fight to save her life commenced. Some of you will
remember (NCADC Bulletin: Save Angela Maria Patterson 31/10/2005) that she was blinded and shot in Jamaica, attacked in Birmingham and assaulted
at Heathrow airport when she resisted removal.

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The Northern Green Gathering and the British National Party

03-08-2006 14:23

Get your dates right or you'll be bedding down with some very strange bedfellows.

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Israel started it!

03-08-2006 13:32

Israel must accept blame for latest conflict with Hizbullah.

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The US lost an important country today

03-08-2006 12:51

The 'Project for a New American Century' is sinking so fast that only the blood besmirched American flag is still visible above the ruins, the genocides, cemeteries and globally growing waves of intense contempt. Within six years the US management and its war machine has been unveiled: the blood of it's victims has definitely washed away the façade.

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Hizballah: A Primer

03-08-2006 12:44

Hizballah, the Lebanese Shi‘i movement whose militia is fighting the Israeli army in south Lebanon, has been cast misleadingly in much media coverage of the ongoing war. Much more than a militia, the movement is also a political party that is a powerful actor in Lebanese politics and a provider of important social services. Not a creature of Iranian and Syrian sponsorship, Hizballah arose to battle Israel’s occupation of south Lebanon from 1982-2000 and, more broadly, to advocate for Lebanon’s historically disenfranchised Shi‘i Muslim community. While it has many political opponents in Lebanon, Hizballah is very much of Lebanon -- a fact that Israel’s military campaign is highlighting.

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Israel's True Goal

03-08-2006 11:57

Less than three months after its formation, the Olmert-Peretz government succeeded in hurling Israel into a two-front war whose goals are unrealistic and whose results are unforeseeable.. When the weapons speak, the muses fall silent. When the cannons roar, the brain stops functioning.

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Scottish Socialist Party upholds interests of Scottish business

03-08-2006 11:19

Scottish nationalism is not a left-wing or anti-imperialist movement, as the SSP maintains. It first emerged as a significant political force only in the late 1960s as a response amongst sections of academia, business and the middle class to their own social concerns.

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Online Activism is the future!!!

03-08-2006 10:56

I need your help to show the world how effective the online activist community is!!!

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Rachel Corrie's Memory Hijacked On MySpace

03-08-2006 10:14

A 'Rachel Corrie' page set up on MySpace falls a long way short of what her memory deserves.

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Robin Archer conned the mug Council

03-08-2006 09:41

FORMER Culture Company director Robyn Archer worked in Liverpool for just four months in nearly two years that she was employed in the £150,000 role.