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Video of 9th March against Custody Deaths.

29-10-2007 11:32

Every year families and friends of those who die in State custody march from Trafalgar Square in London, England, to Downing Street, the fortified official residence of the Prime Minister.

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Keep Veneera & her Children Safe in Swansea

29-10-2007 10:36

Mrs Veneera Aliyeva and her children are Baptists from Azerbaijan with Armenian ethnicity. Veneera has suffered persecution on both accounts: as an individual of mixed ethnicity in a country known to persecute its Armenian minority and as a Christian in an intolerant Muslim country.

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Wind turbine construction course

29-10-2007 10:34

Course flyer
We're running a "How to build a wind turbine" course at the Brighton Earthship on 23rd-25th November. We'll build a turbine from reclaimed materials over the three days and put it up on Sunday afternoon.

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Protesting at Parliament

29-10-2007 09:15

The Home Office is seeking the views of the Left about the protesters on Parliament Square.

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He liked to ride his bicycle

29-10-2007 00:00

Incredible stuff! Maybe 'having sex with a bed' will become an offence (applies if you have a boner in the morning on waking etc and are caught doing it with your bed) FFS. BTW does anybody know how you have sex with pavements? (read below) Maybe it's like with the bed but a bit rougher? :- ) Answers on a postcard ..

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INDYMEDIA EXHIBITION opens this Tuesday in London.

28-10-2007 23:02

Feel free to download and distribute....
Tuesday Oct 30th.

7pm onwards at The Foundry.

Nearest tube: Old Street (exit 3).

See flyer for opening times finishing dates ect.

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film of shell wildlife photographer exhibition action yesterday

28-10-2007 22:54

Video
activists highlighted the irony of a multi-national oil company sponsoring a wildlife photography exhibition in london yesterday.

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Dignity Not Detention! march arrives at Lindholme

28-10-2007 22:41

Demonstrating on 'private property'
Today, at 3pm, the 3 day Dignity Not Detention! march, starting from Sheffield, arrived at Lindholme immigration removals centre near Hatfield. About 70 people demonstrated solidarity with detainees and called for the centre to be shut down.

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Midsummer House – Caught with Their Trousers Down!

28-10-2007 22:13

Section 14, cancelled bookings and waiters pull their trousers down - an eventful demo!

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Slow Genocide

28-10-2007 22:10

Burma Update etc

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The Ethnic Cleansing Of Palestine-Round 2

28-10-2007 21:51

Note that the Brown Government has done nothing to oppose or condemn these War Crimes.

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850 More UK Troops in Iraq ‘before Christmas’

28-10-2007 21:45

So much for Brown's promises to the British people, the military, and their families.

One has to wonder what the true motivation behind this Military Escalation is, and what these soldiers will be forced to do right after Christmas.

Does this have anything to do with Israel and the Bush/PNAC Regime's attacks on Iran and Syria?

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Jason McPherson -- Another Death in Custody not in the News

28-10-2007 20:02

Flyer by the family (Photo: JudyGr)
Last Saturday at the 9th Annual Rally against Custody Deaths, some familiar faces were missing, but like every year there were also plenty new ones, having lost a loved one during the past year. Amongst them the family and friends of Jason McPherson, who had died on the 18th January 2007 in Police Custody in Notting Hill. Unsurprisingly, only a local paper catering to the black community reported the incident at all, and the 'I'PCC's 'investigation' didn't turn up with anything yet.

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SOCPA consultation re-opened

28-10-2007 19:04

OK, so this isn't necessarily the good news it may seem at first :-/

The gushing intro from home secretary Jacqui Smith(*1) on 'the importance on protest to democracy' might reassure many readers they need read no further, sadly this is not the case...

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NETCU backtrack in brown nosing with vivisectors shock

28-10-2007 18:59

The shady police advisory body known as NETCU (National Extremism Tactical Coordination Unit) have stopped promoting pro-vivisection groups and multinationals on their links page at www.netcu.org.uk

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Rough Music #16 Has Hit The Streets Of Brighton

28-10-2007 17:50


Rough Music Issue 16 - Oct-Nov 2007

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Reports From The Brighton Delegation - Settler Violence, Army Collusion, Justice

28-10-2007 16:06

This is one of a series of reports from the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at forming and building on links between grassroots groups in Tubas region, Palestine and Brighton, UK.

There are currently ten members of the group in palestine as part of a week long delegation to document Israeli human riights abuses in the region, make new links and strenghtn existing projects...

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One Year Since Brad Will's Murder in Oaxaca, Mexico

28-10-2007 15:59

Brad Will: Open Letter International

Like in the cases of so many other journalists, human rights activists, indigenous leaders and social activists, the murder of Brad Will, a U.S. journalist and documentary video maker from Indymedia New York, who was killed in Oaxaca on October 27, 2006, has been addressed by the Mexican Government with impunity for the murderers.

Brad Will's Last Video:
 http://www.stralunato.com/2006/11/09/el-ultimo-video-de-brad-will
 http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3664350201077731285
 http://www.docacine.com.ar/Notas%20Centrales/NOTAS.htm

Brad Will's murder and solidarity actions reports in IMC-UK:
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354501.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354689.html
 http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/10/354866.html

IMC-UK's Oaxaca topic page:
 http://publish.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2006/oaxaca/

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Reports From The Brighton Delegation - Settlement Slavery

28-10-2007 15:57

This is one of a series of reports from the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at forming and building on links between grassroots groups in Tubas region, Palestine and Brighton, UK.

There are currently ten embers of the group in palestiine as part of a week long delegation to document Israeli human riights abuses in the region, make new links and strenghtn existing projects...

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'Rolls Royce Derby Trident workers are war criminals' say Trident Ploughshares

28-10-2007 15:51

Protesters were stopped and searched by Derbyshire Police on Monday 22 October on their way to hand out anti-Trident leaflets at the Rolls Royce Raynesway plant in Derby.