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gorgeous BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE 5 storey Victorian Building to be DEMOLISHED

15-09-2006 18:04

this buildings @ intersection of Lower essex Street/ Bromsgrove st

birmingham is tearing down its great buildings at a horrendous pace and will be lost forever

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Legalized extortion in Smalltown U.S.A. (Portsmouth, Scioto, OH) - SOMC Part III

15-09-2006 17:44

U.S. law firms and attorneys may get upset when they are compared to mafia and criminal connections. In the next few paragraphs, I will demonstrate that attorneys’ tactic is often the same as the original gangster extortion technique. Physical violence may not be involved, but the attack on personal property to obtain compensation by fear is just like extortion by mobsters. While mafia is against the law, legalized extortion is protected by Courts and by the Legislative systems, which are controlled by Bar Associations. Mr.R.E.Dever (Bannon, Howland & Dever Co., L.P.A.) exemplifies the abuses of the due process perpetrated by this kind of lawyers.

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Singapore: Where Frowning upon Globalisation Gets you Arrested

15-09-2006 16:55

The first Frown
A Singapore activist, Mr Seelan Pillai, has been arrested and held at the Clementi Police Station in Singapore. His arrest and detention is believed to be in connection with Singapore hosting the IMF and World Bank Meeting and was reported by the Singapore Democratic Party on September 13.

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NHS accused as mental health patients die younger (in UK)

15-09-2006 16:37

The government could face a legal challenge over sub-standard treatment
given by the NHS to people with learning disabilities and long-term mental
health conditions, the Disability Rights Commission warns today.

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'I'd just like more control over my life' :- Independent Living Bill!!

15-09-2006 16:35

The government says it is committed to giving disabled people greater
independence, but in reality progress is stifled by red tape and severe
funding shortages. Andrew Cole on how a radical new bill aims to address
this.

So they need to get on with radicially changing the laws in the UK to bring
them in line with the UN Disability Convention.

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Protests Increase in August

15-09-2006 16:25

From: Protest News Website

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NUS Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB lobby

15-09-2006 16:11

Hi some very good news, the National Union Of Students (NUS) Disabled Students Campaign are backing the Disabled Peoples' and CARWB 'Welfare-Reforms' protest in Manchester, on Monday 25/9/06 and they wish to be added to the growing list of groups endorsing the Coalition:. apparently they already have policy on this.

WILL YOU BE THERE TOO???

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ALSO Remember - (ever think you got "news-wiped") 9/12, 9/13 terror envelopes

15-09-2006 15:39

37 died
chemicals in envelopes
immediately after 9/11
miami, washington dc, congress,
- but -

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Cottage Social centre eviction (in pictures)

15-09-2006 15:26

Save the Cottage Social Centre!
Well our intrepid urban warriors were evicted from what will become yet another shameful fall of our only remaining local social centres. Shame on you Birmingham City Council!

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Solidarity protest outside Glasgow Immigration Centre tomorrow

15-09-2006 14:36

Support asylum seeker families who have to report at the Glasgow Immigration centre at Festival Court, Brand Street (near to the Cessnock Underground station) Families are required to report here weekly or monthly and can be detained without warning and taken to detention centres. Thanks to weekly protests earlier this year, families reporting on Saturdays now only have to report once a month. Tommorrow is when the families are due to report in September.

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The Cottage Autonomous Social Centre has been violently evicted

15-09-2006 14:29

police and bailiffs in the ghetto
The Cottage Community and Youth centre in Sparkbrook, was closed by Birmingham City Council last year and left to rot. The building was occupied by a group of activists, who, along with local people, repaired the building, put it back into community use and helped setup a vibrant local campaign to re-instate the Cottage Community Youth Centre.

The Cottage of Content was boarded up in May 2005 when the building was declared ‘surplus’ to requirement by Birmingham City Council. During this time it was vandalised and neglected. It was then handed over to Birmingham Property Services to make a substantial profit out of yet another one of our buildings that are a part of our municipal heritage. Without any public consultation, the Cottage Community Youth Centre was shut down and scheduled for auction.

The auction would have inevitably meant that the property developers with the most capital would have bought the building instead of community groups and levelled it to the ground to make way for yuppie flats. A local councillor, responding to pressure from a local Somali group, managed to get the building withdrawn from auction and along with local people supported the occupation of the Cottage as a means of ensuring the building wasn’t sold off to the highest bidder and that it was looked after properly.

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Picket of the Mexican embassy (London)

15-09-2006 13:52

AGAINST ELECTION FRAUD
IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE PEOPLE OF MEXICO

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Stop the War Coalition ... Time to go?

15-09-2006 13:35

Those pseudo-subversives and fake friends to revolutioneries the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) have called a demonstration in Manchester which they say will 'surround the Labour Party Conference' and be the largest ever demonstration held in Manchester.

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CAPITALISM SUCKS! - DEMO AGAINST THE IMF AND WORLD BANK! SATURDAY - READING!

15-09-2006 12:09

// CAPITALISM SUCKS! - DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE IMF AND WORLD BANK!

// MEET AT REAR OF RISC, 35 - 39 LONDON ST, READING @ 12PM, SAT 16TH SEPTEMBER! AND DRESS SMART... :) MAP @ WWW.RISC.ORG.UK

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Anti-IMF films - Monday - Reading.

15-09-2006 12:05

Film Screening:

// CROWD BITES WOLF! ON THE EASTERN BLOCKADES...

See what happened when the International Monetary Fund and World
Bank held their annual meeting in Prague. Want a clue? They ran away
a day early...

// WHEN: MONDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER, 7.30PM

// WHERE: RISC, CONFERENCE ROOM, 35 - 39 LONDON STREET, READING - MAP @ WWW.RISC.CO.UK

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Anarchists Against the Wall UK tour - Grassroots in Israel/Palestine

15-09-2006 12:00

The infamous Anarchists Against the Wall, an Israeli direct action group which is committed to joint popular struggle with Palestinians, is sending two representatives on a speaking tour around Europe, with an extensive tour around the UK.

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The 'writing on the wall' comes in different sizes

15-09-2006 11:50

The walls of the Immigration Service Midlands Reporting Centre are decorated with 28 large notices offering asylum seekers monetary inducements to leave the UK, including free travel.

However there are only three very small notices informing them that they are entitled to travel expenses when they are required to attend the reporting centre. One of the attending asylum seekers asked management at the centre, why the notices for travel expenses were so small and was told, "It is not in the interests of the Home Office to make them bigger".

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U.S. JUSTUS- remember the Indians!

15-09-2006 10:18

A Call for remembrance of the indigenous communities of the Americas and the freedom of political prisoner Leonard Peltier

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can eny-1 D-code th FT (the purest play130906)

15-09-2006 09:35

UKFT130906frontPAGE
special dividend at drax- Electricity generator D unveiled a 326 million special dividend as it announced a STEEP JUMP in first half profits. page22; lombard, page 20