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Italian Crystal nights, first the gypsies...Is this Europe 1938?

26-05-2008 09:44

burning gypsy camp in Napels
A few nights of raids with baseball bats and molotov cocktails have done the job…
Why didn`t we see the sensational images of burning gypsy camps, terrified and crying children and desperate people in our European press?

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Letter to Amnesty International

26-05-2008 07:45

Dear Amnesty International,

Thankyou in advance for taking the time to read this letter. It is an important subject to hundreds of thousands in Australia and millions around the world.

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Activists succesfully block Cargill soyfactory in Belgium: exciting videoreport!

26-05-2008 07:20

On April 17th 2008, activist from seven different european countries blocked the soy factory of Cargill in Ghent (Belgium) for a whole day long. Not one single truck of soy was able to enter or leave the factory.

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South Africa: how the media stoked the fires of racism

25-05-2008 19:59

A major Idasa report, “Press Coverage of Cross Border Migration to South Africa Since 2000”, says the country’s newspapers and news wire services have played a major role in inflaming xenophobic sentiment.

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"The air we breathe & the lines we cut" : FARC name Alfonso Cano is new leader.

25-05-2008 18:11

Timoleón Jiménez has appeared in a video passed to TeleSUR lamenting the passing of the founder of FARC whose death began to be reported yesterday.  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/05/399496.html He died of a heart attack.

They have also named the new leader of the paramilitary organisation. Thus the new name and personality who we may consider dealing with all the baggage of FARC. Its guerilla army, its hostages, its loyal population, its political hinterland who eschew armed struggle yet are persecuted, its role in the coca production and supply of cocaine from Colombia which is not already in the hands of the 3 cartels linked to the far right terrorists in the Colombian state. The new leader Guillermo León Sánez, alias Alfonso Cano is thus one of the people who decides how much rainforest should be cleared to grow coca instead of making oxygen. Coz as all you know well, coca only grows on the edge of rainforest for a maximum of two years, being a hungry little plant it needs nutrients when farmed which can only come from burning off jungle.

A short profile of this new man who shall play a small role in what goes up your nose. Be it oxygen or a 17% pure alkaloid.

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Indymedia Linksunten founded

25-05-2008 17:11

work in progress
On the 23rd-25th of May 2008 a new Independent Media Centre (IMC) for South West Germany was founded: Indymedia Linksunten. Indymedia Linksunten.

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Time For Action 4 - SHAC Need Your Footage + Trailer

25-05-2008 16:44

This movie is about a global struggle against HLS, and we need YOUR global contributions to help us put together Time for Action 4. Since the last movie, we have seen hundreds of demos across the globe and would love to hear from you if you've documented your protests.

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Five suppliers for the National Identity Scheme apointed

25-05-2008 15:44

repost from  http://www.ips.gov.uk/passport/press-2008-05-23.asp
The five suppliers chosen to work with the Identity and Passport Service (IPS) and to deliver the National Identity Scheme (NIS) were named today.
CSC, EDS, Fujitsu, IBM, and Thales have been invited to sign framework contracts and form a Strategic Supplier Group for the scheme.

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Ban Ki Moon and world leaders to take proactive action on Burma

25-05-2008 15:41

Burma Democratic Concern today called for Ban Ki Moon and world leaders to take proactive action decisively by setting out clear deadlines and benchmarks to solve Burma crisis.

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Some Thoughts on Utah Phillips

25-05-2008 14:42

Utah Phillips just died, reported on Bay Area Indymedia. David Rovics response is worth a reading.

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trident nuclear /rolls/royce derby prottesters win rights to prottest

25-05-2008 14:18

foe members given rights to prottest against rolls.royce in derby ..but still on bail

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'Panzer Operation': Spanish Army weapons in the hands of the extreme right gangs

25-05-2008 11:53

The Crisis and the impunity of the neonazi armed gangs at Valencia Region, Spain

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Lebanon: Writings on the Walls of Nahr al-Bared Camp

25-05-2008 11:04

The anarchist film collective 'a-films' has just published another short film from North Lebanon. It documents many racist, sexist, humiliating and insulting graffiti that Lebanese soldiers had written on the walls of the houses in the destroyed Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared.

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Via Campesina protests at the Convention on Biological Diversity

25-05-2008 10:54

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During the current Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Bonn, Via Campesina and other social movements and activists have been organising a series of protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business". 22nd May saw a banner protest, with noise and leafletting during the official celebrations of Biodiversity and at an agribusiness industry lunch.

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Euro seat for Italian neo-fascist Roberto Fiore

25-05-2008 10:42

A leading Italian neo-fascist with a nine-year conviction for conspiracy after the bombing of Bologna train station in 1980 has taken a seat in the European Parliament.

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European Parliament passes new DU resolution in landslide vote

25-05-2008 09:58

The European Parliament has passed its fourth and most far-reaching resolution yet against the use of uranium weapons. MEPs have called for an EU and NATO-wide moratorium and global ban.

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Solidarity for imprisoned anti-fur activists in Austria

24-05-2008 22:55

Berlin, GERMANY
In response to the Viennese armed "elite" police force (WEGA) storming a total of 23 apartments, houses & offices to arrest and imprison anti-Kleider Bauer activists in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Tirol on May 21st 2008, solidarity demonstrations have taken place in; Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Graz, Bregenz, Hamburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich & Salzburg.

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Bilderbergs will meet in Washington, D.C. June 5-8

24-05-2008 21:20

Dutch newspaper reports that P.M. Jan Peter Balkenende and Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen will be attending the Bilderberger meeting in Washington, D.C. June 5-8.

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Conservative victory in Crewe and Nantwich as Labour disintegrates

24-05-2008 20:14

The Brown Labour government suffered its third major defeat in a month on Thursday in the Crewe and Nantwich by-election, which saw the party’s 7,078 majority transformed into a 7,860 lead for the Conservatives.

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Support Sean in court - Fri 30th May

24-05-2008 19:45

Please support Sean Kirtley when he is sentenced - Coventry Crown Court, Friday 30th May, 10am