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Scientology's Gulags: inside the Rehabilitation Project Force

10-03-2008 13:44

The Church of Scientology is an authoritarian cult whose parallels with authoritarian regimes around the world are well-documented. Most members are kept under control through misinformation and brainwashing. However, like any totalitarian institution, the Church of Scientology has its way of dealing with problematic members. Welcome to the Rehabilitation Project Force.

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UK attacked Iraq for oil – poll

10-03-2008 13:16

A larger number of people believe that Britain invaded Iraq to gain control of its oil than for any other reason, a new ICM poll for War on Want says today.

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DU test firing at Dundrennan this week

10-03-2008 12:02

The Ministry of Defence has announced a fresh round of depleted uranium weapons testing in south west Scotland.
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7287009.stm


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Pickets win re-instatement of migrant worker

10-03-2008 11:44

Following two successful pickets of Delaney’s restaurant in Belfast Dasa Kacova has won all her demands and been offered her job back.

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sawley .nr long eaton.greedy garage owner allows mobile phone mast

10-03-2008 10:10

greedy property owner allows mobile phone mast to be errected at wilne lane sawley long eaton ..greed of a wealthy man..never mind locals i get paid 4 it

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Bristol Shelter Workers Strike

10-03-2008 10:03

Today, Monday 10th March 2008, workers from Bristol and South Gloucestershire Housing Aid Centre’s, and their supporters, will be holding a picket line/protest 12pm-2pm outside Shelter’s regional office – 1 York Court, Wilder Street, St Pauls, Bristol BS2.

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The meaning of Gaza’s ‘shoah’: Israel plots another Palestinian exodus

10-03-2008 02:43

Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilnai’s much publicised remark last week about Gaza facing a “shoah” -- the Hebrew word for the Holocaust -- was widely assumed to be unpleasant hyperbole about the army’s plans for an imminent full-scale invasion of the Strip.

More significantly, however, his comment offers a disturbing indication of the Israeli army’s longer-term strategy towards the Palestinians in the occupied territories.

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Monument to the Victims of Communism?

09-03-2008 23:48

Washington, aided by the corporate media, never miss an opportunity to re-inforce the dominant ideology of inequality. According to them only those oppose capitalism cause human suffering. Capitalism accordingly to our rulers has no victims. This mind-warping indoctrination demands a constant war on our memory and the truth.

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March 8th:Newcastle Women make shoppers think twice about buying beauty products

09-03-2008 23:00

A woman's collective caused confusion in make-up counters in department stores and pharmacists in city centre Newcastle on 8th March, International Women's Day. Stickers with slogans such as, 'You're beautiful without make-up' were placed on mirrors and beauty products. Leaflets offering 'free beauty tips', with some of the costs of using beauty products, were inserted into women's magazines in city-centre newsagents.

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Prosecution stamps feet and refuses to admit defeat in Fitwatch trial

09-03-2008 22:43

The Fitwatch climate camp trial came to an abrupt halt on Thursday after the senior CPS lawyer sulked about losing an application to an unrepresented defendant and decided to take the District Judge's decision to Judicial Review.

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Truth Revolution Radio: Indymedia and 9/11 truth

09-03-2008 21:43

Audio
The Truth Revolution Radio show from 1st March 2008 (adverts edited out) is attached. Guests include Indymedia activists Chris Burnett from Los Angeles and Chris from Sheffield Indymedia.

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Flash mob reclaim space in Birmingham's Bull Ring (article & video)

09-03-2008 21:38

At 1.30pm on Saturday 8th March, upwards of 80 people took part in a flash mob in the Bull Ring (TM) in Birmingham city centre, where people froze in 'suspended animation' for 5 minutes.

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Collapsing the European security architecture

09-03-2008 20:41

german:  http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Maddalena_2009/4818.html
italiano:  http://gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage/Italiano/4821.html

For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe - A concrete proposal for the resistance movement against the G8 2009 in Italy


Each protest enables us to draw conclusions of how to do things better next time. In the same way, we can draw conclusions from the mobilisation against the G8 summit 2007 in Heiligendamm on how to achieve successful and broad resistance. Apart from three large self-organised protest camps and an international infotour in the months leading up to the summit, there were attempts to have international exchanges and establish networks beyond Germany. The decision was made not to respond to the G8 climate debate but to frame the protests in terms of other self-determined topics the movement was focussing on: migration, antimilitarism and global agriculture.

Looking ahead to the G8 2009 in Italy, this text takes up these points to propose a campaign against the new “European Security Architecture“. We outline some developments in police cooperation on a European level and call for a kind of antirepression work that goes beyond a simple critique and a scandalising police violence, and that is coordinated on a European level. Such political antirepression work would have to take new forms of social control seriously as an integral reference point for radical movements.

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United Kingdom Is A Danger For All Refugees - Mehdi Kazemi

09-03-2008 19:30

GAY IRANIAN REFUGEE, EVERYONE GROUP: "UNITED KINGDOM IS A DANGER FOR ALL REFUGEES"
REPORT WILL BE PRESENTED IN EUROPE
THE UK HOME OFFICE: "GAY PEOPLE CAN RETURN TO IRAN, IF THEY ARE 'DISCREET'"

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Gaza Emergency Demo, London March 8

09-03-2008 18:53

Gaza demonstration, Downing St, 1
After events in Gaza in recent days in which Israeli attacks have killed 115 Palestinians and wounded 350, the British Muslim initiative, Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Palestinian Forum in Britain and Palestine Return Centre called for an emergency demonstration opposite Downing St on Saturday afternoon.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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BBC's White Hate season

09-03-2008 18:36

BBC is backing a season designed to encourage violence between black people and working-class whites.

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Rebel bulletin The Nottingham Sparrow - March 2008 - No.3

09-03-2008 18:34

After a winter of near hiberation, The Nottingham Sparrow returns with issue 3 for March 2008. Articles on Instant Muscle, Victoria Baths, BNP festival, Derby NHS, and more. It's freely available from  http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/

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Zimbabwe Vigil – In London Every Saturday

09-03-2008 17:54

Zimbabwe Vigil 1
Every Saturday afternoon since 12 October 2002, the Zimbabwe Vigil outside the Zimbabwe Embassy in the Strand, London has protested against human rights violations in Zimbabwe. It also stages other events, lobbies Parliament and other bodies to end Mugabe's madness.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.