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No Borders event @ Area 10 Destination

22-06-2007 16:08

We are having a noborders film + talk
at the event on Saturday evening, we'll be there from 8pm.

Films : Harmodsworth No borders demos 2007 and 2006 , London, Scoltland and more...
No Borders activists and ex-detainees speaking.

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Nigerian general strike

22-06-2007 16:02

General strike to escalate if demands not met

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Dodgy Southwark Tenancies again

22-06-2007 15:44

How Many Tenancies does Miss Mangle have?

There are thousands of people on Southwark’s housing register trying to get housed, yet papers from the London Borough of Southwark delivered to flats on the Aylesbury Estate show that a number of flats have been given to one person – a Miss M Mangle.

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Miffed by Miffy

22-06-2007 14:34

Miffy joins the monkey wrench gang
I don't know how it came about but the Miffy rabbit character has for a long time been associated with the EarthFirst! movement and radical ecological direct action. But do the creators and copyright owners of the character know or approve of Miffy's political activities?...

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DepARTure Lounge: create resistance against the root causes of climate change

22-06-2007 13:28

DepARTure Lounge: A weekend workshop designing creative resistance against the root causes of Climate Change.
13 – 15 July, near Heathrow, London

A weekend workshop where we will collectively explore the spaces between art and activism and design creative actions in preparation for the Camp for Climate Action.

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SPEAKing out at the Oxford Encaenia ceremony 2007

22-06-2007 13:27

the campaign against the oxford lab continues......

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Air strikes Afghanistan and Iraq

22-06-2007 12:30

Below are detailed air strikes being called in by forward air controllers (JTACs). Basically reconnaissance guys who identify targets.
Bombs used are mainly bunker busters (between 500-5000lb), so for example if you identify a potential roadside bomb you call in an air strike and leave a gaping crater in the road. Deconstruction and democracy Western style
If you are in Northampton why not pay bombmaker Texas Instruments a visit.

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Who Frees Us From Capital?

22-06-2007 12:21

Whole continents bowed to the Washington Consensus in the hope of growth and prosperity..The World Bank must end its embittered attack on distribution policy. Privatization awakened false hopes.. Evo Morales in Bolivia nationalized the oil and gas economy and raised the monthly minimum wage to $100.. If capitalism is a religion, there are fewer and fewer believers.

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Lawyers claim British government approved systematic policy of torture in Iraq

22-06-2007 11:45

Lawyers are claiming that the British government approved a systematic policy of torture of detainees in Iraq.

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Peace Strike - Your Presence Required

22-06-2007 09:40

PEACE STRIKE – THE BIG ONE - Parliament Square Saturday 23rd June
Singer Harry Loco and guest speakers join the Peace Camp in "Don’t Attack Iran" Pre Emptive Peace Strike Number 7

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Parliament Square Peace Camp

22-06-2007 06:15

Parliament Square Peace Camp, 23-28 June 2007
Brown's Tweedledum to Blair’s Tweedledee?
See out Blair See in Brown

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National Protest on Sunday as Gordon Brown is Corronated

22-06-2007 00:03

Protest against neoliberalism, war and division

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Brum protest against Home Office attacks on refugees - 23 June

21-06-2007 23:58

JUSTICE FOR REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS! AMNESTY FOR ALL! NO DEPORTATIONS!

BIRMINGHAM PROTEST AGAINST HOME OFFICE ATTACKS ON ASYLUM SEEKERS AND REFUGEES

Saturday 23 June 2007, 12 noon until 2.30pm
Outside Birmingham Council House, Victoria Square, Birmingham.

The protest is organised by the Birmingham Anti Racist Campaign (ARC) along with members of many of Birmingham’s migrant communities and the organisations supporting them.

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Birmingham Refugee Sleep-out: Remember the dead, justice for the living

21-06-2007 23:50

On Friday, 22nd June, as part of Refugee Week and the national ‘Still Human Still Here’ campaign, the Birmingham Anti-Racist Campaign (ARC) will be protesting against British government treatment of asylum seekers and remembering those who have died while seeking asylum here. The protest has been organised by the Birmingham Anti Racist Campaign (ARC) and sponsored by Celebrating Sanctuary, the organisers of Refugee Week.

SLEEPOUT IN SOLIDARITY WITH DESTITIUTE REFUGEES AND ASYLUM SEEKERS
5.00PM, Friday 22 nd JUNE, St. Philip’s Cathedral Churchyard Square, Colmore Row, Birmingham.

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UK fishing fleet set to destroy Argentinean rural families

21-06-2007 23:28

The EU and the UK government are financing a project to try and develop biofuels for the UK fishing fleet. The Sea Fish Industry Authority manage the project. The British company Regenatec want to import large quantities of Argentinean soya for biofuels for the fishing fleet. Soya expansion is the driving force behind the rapid destruction of Argentina's semi-arid Chaco forest and the humid Yungas forest.

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Empire as a Way of Life, Part 9

21-06-2007 22:10

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The current imperial slaughter in the Middle East, justified by the "Global War on Terror", that has resulted in at least 600,000 deaths in Iraq, is nothing new — the U.S. Empire has a long and sordid history of genocidal mass murder.

The history of the US imperialism and Empire is the subject of a series of ten monthly seminars from Dr John Marciano, "Empire as a Way of Life". Attached is a recording of the ninth of these seminars and the text upon which it was based. The last seminar has taken place and will be posted to the site when the audio is available.

This seminar, recorded on 15th May 2007 by the L.A. Sound Posse, runs for 44 minutes and includes the discussion following. It has been made available under a Creative Commons license. If this recording is broadcast please let the L.A. Sound Posse know. This recording was originally made available on the A-Infos Radio Project site.

The following text has been reproduced here with the kind permission of Dr John Marciano and he can be contacted at johnmarciano@mac.com. He introduced this series of seminars in the following way:

A fundamental purpose of our meetings is to understand the systemic nature of the U.S. Empire and the economic and military imperialism that is its lifeblood. The historian William Appleman Williams argues that empire became "a way of life" in the U.S., a "combination of patterns of thought and action that, as it becomes habitual and institutionalized, defines the thrust and character of a culture and society." This "way of life" has convinced many U.S. "Americans" they have a right or "manifest destiny" to impose their political and economic policies upon others.

Dr John Marciano is Professor Emeritus, State University of New York at Cortland, where he taught courses on social and historical foundations of education and class, gender and race.

Previous parts of this series:

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The Record of the Newspaper of Record

21-06-2007 19:06

Exposing how the New York Times covers Venezuela.

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Fred Thompson, Please Go Back to Hollywood

21-06-2007 18:57

“Fred Thompson, who may join the Republican presidential race, said today that the U.S. and its allies should consider a blockade against Iran before military action to curb the nation’s nuclear ambitions,” reports Bloomberg. “Thompson didn’t give details about his view for a possible blockade or discuss whether it should be limited to naval power or extended to cover Iran’s land borders with Afghanistan, Pakistan, Turkey or Azerbaijan.”

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screening of 'Move' documentary on June 28 at rampART

21-06-2007 17:49

Move poster
Talk by Ramona Africa, sole survivor of the 1985 FBI bombing of MOVE's
house, where 11 adults and children were murdered, and screening of The MOVE
documentary.