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Iran releases rebuttal footage of sailors playing chess

09-04-2007 18:23

The Brits really should've quit while they were ahead . . .

Too late now.

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Fusion Power against Global Warming

09-04-2007 17:54

Nuclear Fusion for eletricity generation is closer than we think

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Cafe Politique at the CommonPlace Thursday 12 April

09-04-2007 16:57

What is successful action?

In the run-up to this year's G8 summit and Climate Camp (among other things), it seems timely to ask ourselves what we do (and why we do it), and how we can do it better. Affinity groups? Civil disobedience? Mass blockades? Street stalls and petitions? Demonstrations? Lobbying? And how does what we do relate to the sort of world we want? Can we create that world now? Where do social centres, like the CommonPlace, fit into this?

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Climate Chaos Cafe

09-04-2007 16:52

WEDNESDAY 11 APRIL 7pm
‘NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS...
CLIMATE CHANGE IS REAL’
a response to Channel 4’s Great Global
Warming Swindle by Leeds University
scientist Dr Simon Lewis

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SOCPA "organisers" in court this week

09-04-2007 16:30

maya evans became the first person to be convicted for holding an unauthorised demonstration under the SOCPA laws introduced in august 2005. milan rai was the first conviction as an organiser.
their 'demo' was reading out names of british and iraqi people killed in the war. since then, they helped organise a further demonstration highlighting the massacre of civilians in fallujah. for this 'offence', they are in court tomorrow.

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Plaid Cymru embrace Nuclear Power

09-04-2007 16:18

Plaid Cymru Leader, Ieuan Wyn Jones has been widely quoted in local media as saying that he would support - in principle - a new nuclear power station being built in Wales.
This follows the leadership stating that it would be prepared to be in coalition with the tories or New Labour after May 3rd.

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London Mayday - Suited and Booted

09-04-2007 15:26

Fun for all the family!
After a successful workshop at Reclaim the Future, we realised that there was a fair demand for a different type of mayday than an anarchist block on a march

We want to relaunch the Mayday protests with a new spirit and new tactics.

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South Australian Indigenous Peoples Roadblock

09-04-2007 15:04

MEDIA RELEASE
4st April 2007

ILUKA INDICATE REMOVAL OF MACHINERY
AS BLOCKADE REACHES DAY 6

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Opening Action Prison Boats Zaandam, NL

09-04-2007 14:43

photo Johannesabelink.nl
Just before the official opening of the new detention boats in Zaandam, The Netherlands, around 90 activists made a start opening the fences with bold cutters. The ministry of justice plans to take in use this month the 300 two-person cells for detention of 'illegal migrants'. The barbed wire and 150 meters of fencing were dismantled with bold cutters, spanners and wire cutters.

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Ben Heine vs The Zionist Gang (by Latuff)

09-04-2007 13:56

Ben Heine
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of Ben Heine and his art.

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Wake Up

09-04-2007 13:49

The time for civil disobediance is now. No more nukes, no more war, peace on earth and nothing more.

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Staying Warm and Comfortable in The Outdoors

09-04-2007 13:28

Jet setters need not adopt.

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Ismet Hyseni - Back in the Wars

09-04-2007 12:39

Ismet Hyseni
Ismet Hyseni went to report at the Home Office in Brand Street on Wednesday the 4th April 2007 and was detained (second time) and served with a removal notice for Thursday 12th April

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Poznań: Rospuda Valley – New internal battles?

09-04-2007 12:36

Ósmy Dzień Theatre has held a debate about the conflict over the route of the Augustów bypass through protected marshes with the participation of Maciej Muskat (the leader of Greenpeace Poland), Dr Krzysztof Podemski (director of the Sociology Department at Adam Mickiewicz University), Jacek Polewski (The Greens 2004). Lech Mergler (The Greens 2004) hosted the meeting. The debate was preceded by a documentary about the protest action on St. Anna’s Mount with commentary by Jacek Polewski.

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Allotment under threat

09-04-2007 12:16

Situated in Hackney Wick, London an allotment is under threat of being concreted over for the Olympics

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'BBC reporter staged capture'

09-04-2007 12:11

Al-Hayat Report: BBC reporter may have staged kidnapping
London-based newspaper reports Palestinian sources looking into possibility that kidnapped BBC reporter staged own capture to avoid being fired; BBC refuses to comment on report

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YOUR apathy is killing Iraqis

09-04-2007 11:03

YOUR apathy is killing Iraqis, Somalians; in fact everyone who doesn't toe the Fascist line

Go and read Eman Walid's story then come back and tell me there's nothing YOU can do about it!

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GM Crop Trials - Protest

09-04-2007 09:21

The first GM Crop Trials in years are getting underway in Cambridge. This is widely being viewed as a test of public opinion and if we let these trials go ahead with little or no opposition, more GM trials, and eventually commercial growing will be here before we know it. Please come along and support this protest and keep an eye on our (currently very basic) website -  http://www.cambridgeaction.net/gmconcern

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Afghanistan war political slaughter

09-04-2007 09:18

Not constructive at all
Former British serviceman opined that most of what British troops do in Afghanistan is not constructive at all and it only works to further alienate Afghan population.

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Announcing: FARE STRIKE! San Francisco 2005: First-Hand Accounts

09-04-2007 07:27

Finally, a collection of first-hand accounts of the Fare Strike, in which thousands of San Franciscans openly and spontaneously united along class lines and rode mass transit for free. Popular anger over service cuts, fare hikes and threatened driver layoffs on Muni (SF Municipal Railway that runs a system of buses, streetcars and cable cars) set this action in motion. The working-class was being saddled with increasing costs for declining service in a system that was already very poor. Anger at this was transformed into the joy of refusal as many people rode mass transit like any other day, yet withheld their money from the fare box. The alienated space of public transportation was briefly transformed into an arena of solidarity and radical possibilities.