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0S.120 WAS KICKED OUT THIS WEEK..

17-08-2006 08:47

0S.120 WAS KICKED OUT THIS WEEK..

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Diary of a Peace cyclist – week one of the 2006 Peace cycle

17-08-2006 06:18

Sunday 6th August: 10.45 p.m.
'I like to ride my bicycle'
Too tired to write - and its only my first day and we only cycled 24 miles!

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Australian government to deploy 150 extra troops to Afghanistan

17-08-2006 03:45

Long term vision for Australia?
In a TV interview on the Nine Network, Defence Minister Brendan Nelson recently revealed: “The prime minister, in his long term vision for Australia and the Australian Defence Force, has indicated to me that he thinks it important that we consider the possibility and the options for increasing the size of our defence force, and in particularly the army. Over the next few months I’ll be working through those ideas.”

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Heilingendamm demo, Germany

16-08-2006 23:54

On Friday August 11 2006, several hundred demonstrators visited the Kempinski Hotel complex in Heilingendamm, North-Eastern Germany, where the G8 Summit will be meeting in June 2007.

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Mass callout to help build the climate camp

16-08-2006 21:49

We are calling for all people who can to arrive in Leeds from Monday August 21 and head to the Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ. This is to build all the infrastructure ready to occupy the site. This is a mammoth task and the more people we have the more infrastructure is ready when we occupy the site and the less has to be built there. No DIY knowledge is needed as the highly skilled site practicalities group will be there to make sure everything goes smoothly!

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They're Lying.

16-08-2006 18:52

…from AntiWar.com:

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Voices of Pakistani Women Detained in UK

16-08-2006 17:19

"We always are the slippers of our husbands"

A statement from Maliha, Sajjida, Farzana, Sadia, Adibunnisa, Masooma and Heenia, seven Pakistani women currently Imprisoned in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre

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Urgent Appeal on Behalf of the Doldur Family

16-08-2006 17:09

Please help ensure that this family don't get removed before their Judicial Review is heard.

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Fundraiser for the people of Palestine and Lebanon

16-08-2006 16:33

23rd August at 7pm at the Basement Cafe, Lever Street, Manchester.

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TO STOP NEW WARS - remember the "big" peace - remember the "bigger" peace

16-08-2006 15:04

Nameless "old hacks"s brief gist of a "what the papers aint saying" - accenting the "key background info missing" - that asks why - with a "spin" towards practical "peace process / ceasefire enacting " that asks why THAT isnt already happening _( terms : - "big" peace = israeli/lebanese peace + palestine,syria, iran. A "bigger" peace = end the manufactured "clash of cultures"("war of errorism") + !

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Refugees Return to South Beirut - Mon 14th Aug - Photo Report

16-08-2006 14:44

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Mon 14th Aug: Today Beirut began to return to life. Shops are opening and the roads are jammed with traffic. For the first time since I have been here people are obeying the traffic lights. Hundreds of refugees are flooding back into the devastated south Beirut district of Dhayiya, with a dignity that is breathtaking.

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South Beirut and Palistinian Refugee Camp Bombed - Sun 13th Aug

16-08-2006 14:36

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At around 2.30 the Israelis start pounding the southern suburbs of Beirut again. One of those bunker buster bombs shakes the windows of our accommodation. We are miles away. We get a lift into the south of the city. Hizbollah stop our car as we approach the area around an hour after the strike. They have put a large cordon around the areas that are being hit or expected to be. They give us directions to a vantage point high above the city where we can view the proceedings from a safe distance.

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Liverpool Asylum 'Victims' Start Campaign

16-08-2006 13:15

Formation of a campaign against the New Asylum Model which has already claimed one life

Organising meeting to start the campaign
6.30pm Thursday 17th August
Asylum Link, 7 Overbury Street, Liverpool, L7 3HJ

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The US media and the London terror scare

16-08-2006 09:11

Since August 10, when British authorities arrested two dozen individuals in connection with an alleged plot to blow up a number of airplanes over the Atlantic Ocean, the American mass media has worked ceaselessly to create a climate of fear.
For the first several days after the news of the alleged plot broke, American news programs were virtually unwatchable. The lurid logos and wild, unsubstantiated allegations made a mockery of claims that the networks and cable channels are in the business of “news-gathering.”

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Saving Iceland

16-08-2006 07:35

First camp at Snaefell
The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. Join the protest camp.

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Tragedy for Aboriginal Land Rights - Senate approves paternal bill

16-08-2006 06:46

Tragedy for Aboriginal Land Rights
August 16, 2006: "This will be marked as a tragic day for land rights in Australia," said Senator Rachel Siewert today. Despite strong criticism the laws are "paternalistic and strip Aboriginal Australians of their property rights." Amendments to Northern Territory Land Rights Act passed through the Senate today. The changes scrap the NT's 30-year-old scheme of communal land ownership under land council administration...

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61 schoolgirls killed, 129 wounded in airstrike

16-08-2006 02:07

“a horrible act of terror.”
They condemned the “deliberate, cold-blooded and inhumane” targeting of the schoolgirls compound by the daylight air raid.

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Hezbollah’s Victory and the Coming Shock and Awe of Iran

16-08-2006 01:17

"Since Hitler, there has not been an enemy like Ahmedinejad…. He has Hamas in the south, and Hezbollah in the north. This is an existential peril.”