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M74 Extension: Contracts Awarded, Costs up 30%

16-02-2008 01:14

After months of silence the SNP government have announced that they will press ahead with the big business scheme to extend the M74 through the Southside of Glasgow. A contract has been signed awarding the single bidder 30% more than expected.

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Charges dropped for blockaders of Japanese Embassy

16-02-2008 00:49

Anti-whaling tying pair
A 14-year-old anti-whaling campaigner arrested at the Japanese embassy has condemned a decision to drop charges.

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US Government Agency Denounces Animal Testing

15-02-2008 23:37

"We are not rats and we are not even other primates … After all, ultimately what you are looking for is, does this compound do damage to cells? Can we, instead of looking at a whole animal, look at cells from different organs?"
Director Dr. Francis Collins, National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI)

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Student Climate Launch Event Takes Cambridge By Storm

15-02-2008 23:14

The Student Climate Project launched the first event of their Tour of Climate Action in Cambridge today. The flurry of climate activities saw a banner drop, street theatre, a flash mob are more...

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Camden Inferno -

15-02-2008 22:58

Will the fire in Camden see another area fall to corporate High Street culture? Wild rumours of a corporate plot behind the fire may have nothing in them, but one thing is certain another part of Camden is under threat.

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Free Paper War - LONDON LITtEr

15-02-2008 22:54

stocking the papers with our leaflets
Ten tonnes of waste per week is generated by the free newspapers in Westminster alone, which is not a problem that can be solved just by recycling. The only solution to the problem is to remove it - stop printing the papers.

In an attempt to get this message out, a group of intrepid paper boys and girls decided to use the tactics of The London Paper and London Lite, putting their own pro-recycling anti-waste propaganda into copies of the papers then aggressively and relentlessly forcing them on the public.

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Vivisectors Conference in Scotland + MAHR Action

15-02-2008 22:45

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
MacDonald Highland Resorts (MAHR) in Aviemore, Scotland, is hosting the Institute of Animal Technology (IAT) Congress 2008 in March.

Make your voices heard against the vivisectors in the UK!

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BNP leader plans vist to Hastings

15-02-2008 21:36

The British National Party chairman Nick Griffin is coming to Hastings on Monday, sparking a storm of controversy...

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Midsummer House – Valentines Protest

15-02-2008 20:42

Valentines Day demo at Midsummer House, Cambridge.

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Beatles invitation to Israel’s 60th just a PR stunt

15-02-2008 20:10

It’s the biggest load of nonsense I have ever heard. they [the Beatles] are not going to get together just because it is Israel’s 60th….let’s get real.

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Hackney Social Centre Opens!

15-02-2008 18:04

Free cafe!
London's newest autonomous zone opened last night with a free cafe, music, and a series of short films.

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This Week In Palestine – week 7 2008

15-02-2008 17:01

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This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for February 3rd through to February 15th, 2008.

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Supersize My Pay: activists from France and New Zealand speak in London tomorrow

15-02-2008 16:59

Mike Treen from New Zealand's Unite union, which organised the first Starbucks strike in the world, and French fast food worker and union activist Axel Perrson will speak in London tomorrow.

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Disability to be privatised

15-02-2008 16:47

Disability claimants to be outsourced to private companies.

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Brown gives yet another speech on training

15-02-2008 16:40

Today Gordon gave a major speech on training to a Labour conference in Wales.

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The capitalist phase of devastation

15-02-2008 15:58

Climate change as the economic, social and political organization that rules the world: brutal capitalism that is not content with plundering man, it also predates the planet

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Sheffield Army recruitment office blockaded

15-02-2008 15:46

A lock-on blockaded the Army recruitment office in Sheffield city centre today.

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Warfare of the Whisper –dividing the people and keeping them ignorant

15-02-2008 15:30

When the truth is too horrible to acknowledge, then it becomes very easy to believe in a series of lies instead. If the truth is that our leaders are really monsters, who have purposely manufactured a planned genocidal world war, in order to preserve America’s fading position in the world, then the truth becomes almost impossible to believe.

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Animal rights demos in Leeds

15-02-2008 15:05

Saturday 1st March, meeting at Leeds city train station by the ticket barriers 11am.

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Cambourne School Competition: public meeting

15-02-2008 14:53

Cambridgeshire County Council is proposing to establish a new school in Cambourne. In accordance with the law and related regulations, the council held a competition inviting organisations to make proposals to run this school and a public meeting is being held on 18th February at The Hub, High Street, Cambourne.