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Wave of Repression against Activists in Austria

23-05-2008 19:29

(Austria) – Around 7:00 am on Wednesday May 21 members of the Viennese elite police force (WEGA) stormed several apartments in Vienna. Some of the residents were woken up in their beds with guns drawn on them. A total of twenty-three (23) apartments, houses and offices were searches in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Tirol.

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May 31st | Workshop Skills | Project 2012

23-05-2008 18:55

Workshop, Direct Action Video Session
Saturday 31st May 2-5pm
Conservatory Café, Methodist Central Hall, Near Parliament Square, Westminster

Please do personally forward to others who you think might be interested in rights, resistance and self-determination discourse and strategy..

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Direct Action Greece: 17th - 22nd May

23-05-2008 17:45

University rectors elections sabotaged (ATHENS-PIRAEUS)
Appelate Court's expansion works sabotaged with fire (ATHENS)
Attack against the municipal police of Ilioupoli (ATHENS)
Bank firebombed (LOANNINA)
University rectors elections sabotaged (ATHENS-PIRAEUS)
Surveillance cameras destroyed during squaters solidarity march (ATHENS)
Fencing bars around the polytechnic school dismantled (ATHENS)
Arsonists hit a bank (THESSALONIKI)

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This Week In Palestine – Week 21 2008

23-05-2008 17:40

Audio
This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 17h, through to May 23rd, 2008.

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Anti-racism Public meeting - 31 May 2008, 1.00pm

23-05-2008 16:41

What is the link between defending asylum seekers and the struggle against racism? Should the asylum issue be a charitable or political issue? Come and hear the experiences of a speaker from TCAR in the north east.


Help us build for the TCAR regional northern anti-racist conference in Newcastle on 21 June 2008.




Contact us if you want to speak. All speakers welcome. Everyone is welcome.

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Posters down at Jolly's circus

23-05-2008 16:18

We are appalled that an animal circus has come to our village near York.

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Will General Petraeus betray us?

23-05-2008 14:47

General David Petraeus
We've all heard of the US 'Defcon' system of war readiness. But what about here in the UK, do we have a similar system or just do what the US tell us to? Come to think of it are we citizen/subjects even allowed to know what defence condition we are at? Is it considered an official secret covered up in the interests of 'National Security'? With the new boy nut case Petraeus in charge of the US Military.......

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The White House is UNDER ATTACK! (by Latuff)

23-05-2008 14:11

Captain Iraq
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Pro Life loonies defeated both inside and outside of Parliament.

23-05-2008 14:05

Up to 1,000 on the Pro Choice demo.
On Tuesday an attempt to highjack the embryology bill going through Parliament was soundly defeated. Britain’s small but determined Pro Life movement had attached a number of amendments to the bill which included reducing the maximum time allowed for an abortion by half and also denying lesbian couples the right to IVF treatment. In the end every amendment was defeated and the pro lifers also had to suffer the humiliation of having their demo placed next to the pro choice contingent who outnumbered them by about 10-1.

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Smash EDO Fundraiser tonight

23-05-2008 14:02

smashEDO fundraiser @ the Cowley Club Friday 23rd May 8pm till 2am

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Go Indymedia, go! - Response to the SHIfT article

23-05-2008 12:07

The following is a response by some IMC UK activists to a defamatory article by an anonymous author published in the new, Manchester-based magazine SHIFT (issue 3, May-Sep 2008), under the title "Go Hamas Go"? Why Indymedia UK is losing support [1]. Although this may generate for SHIFT publicity they don't deserve, we thought it our duty to clarify the facts and refute these false allegations and accusations.

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Scientology cult fails in attempt to ban word "cult" at anti-cult picket

23-05-2008 12:06

Aim gun at foot. Pull trigger. Repeat until out of feet.

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New Webpage setup for Carnival Against the arms Trade

23-05-2008 11:49

New webpage setup for the Smash EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade on the 4th June in Brighton

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London hosts Dalai Lama- China handshake

23-05-2008 11:48

Smiling Avaaz members pass the Dalai Lama's handshake toward the Chinese Embassy
Yesterday London hosted an incredible event in the form of a 'human chain handshake' from the hand of the Dalai Lama himself, via 2,000 people in a human chain, all the way to the Chinese embassy in Mayfair.
It was an attempt to create some sort of dialogue between the two parties, and went off smoothly.

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Making Governance Gender Responsive.

23-05-2008 09:36

Mappie
Center for Asia-Pacific Women in Politics- Conference 2008.


A Conference will occur in October 2008 under the aegis of the CAPWIP and the
United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Risk Reduction in October 2008.
(UN-ISDR)

 http://www.capwip.org

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GLBT Rights: Mehdi Kazemi has been granted asylum in the UK

23-05-2008 05:12

Mehdi Kazemi, the young Iranian homosexual, has been granted asylum in the United Kingdom. EveryOne Group: “A memorable success we share with the Radical Party, Nessuno Tocchi Caino (Hands off Cain) and many international GLBT organizations.

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The NATO Lunacy

23-05-2008 01:53

It's interesting how often I hear about NATO (mainly US) warplanes bombing areas known to contain children - targeting civilians - and yet, when it happens, our media doesn't say a word.

Don't they claim that this is the fundamental difference between "us" and "them"?

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SchNews vs Scientology

22-05-2008 20:06

SchMovie of the now infamous 'Cult' incident.

 http://www.schnews.org.uk/schmovies/index.html#cf

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Where Are Those Iranian Weapons in Iraq?

22-05-2008 20:03

"Bergner's refusal to address that question reflects a fundamental problem with the US claims about Iranian weapons in Iraq: if there are indeed any Iranian rockets and mortars, and RPGs in the Mahdi Army's arsenal of stand-off weapons, they represent an insignificant part of it.

Reports by the US command in Iraq over the past 15 months cited only a handful of Iranian weapons out of hundreds counted in caches found in Shiite areas. Nearly 700 mortars and rockets were reported by specific caliber size, along with a handful of RPGs, in nearly two dozen caches. Of that total, only four rockets were reported as being of Iranian origin, and another 15 were listed as possibly being Iranian."

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Student Climate Project June gathering

22-05-2008 19:19

The Gathering is taking place at Sussex University, 5th June, from 2pm till 7pm.