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Paper Plane Flash Mob at the Department for Transport on 3 July

12-06-2008 13:12

Tell Ruth Kelly to Stop Airport Expansion:
- Meet 11am, Thursday 3 July, Department for Transport (DfT), 76 Marsham
Street, SW1P 4DR (tube: St James's Park or Westminster)
- 11.03am: Reveal your 'Stop Airport Expansion' t-shirt, if you have one
- 11.05am: launch your 'Stop Airport Expansion' paper planes at the DfT

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As George Bush visits London, Reprieve tells Bush and Brown: Bring Binyam Back t

12-06-2008 12:32

Where: Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery
When: 3 pm, Sunday 15 June
Who: Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith, former Guantánamo prisoners, Barney the Dinosaur and other special guests

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Warning safe tests at Universities etc are Gentically modified,doublecheck

12-06-2008 12:02

Warning many safe test at Universities etc are Gentically modified,doublecheck. Starting with unnecessary GM pig+ insulin which was sold on US market as replacement for normal animal insulin which they said was running out, it wasn't running out.
I only found out after asking before a test at Nottigham university.
Diabetics need to contact Insulin diabetes trust
 http://www.iddtinternational.org/campaigning/gmvsanimalinsulin.htm

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Mill Road Social Centre's days are numbered.

12-06-2008 11:26

This morning at approximately 10:30am in room 2 of East Road Court, a judge presiding over the case of a repossession order for the premises currently occupied by the Mill Road Social Centre granted possession to Tescos, meaning that the current occupants will have to vacate the premises some time in the near future, thereby soon ending an era of community occupation of the old Wilco store premises.

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Israel accelerates settlement expansion after Annapolis

12-06-2008 11:04

Har Homa settlement (Photo: Adri Nieuwhof)
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and US President George W. Bush follow contradictory policy tracks. In the major media offensive accompanying last November's US-sponsored Annapolis peace conference both leaders presented themselves as the peace makers of the region. In Annapolis, Olmert committed to freezing settlement expansion.

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Daniel McGowan Transferred - Threat of Madison Grand Jury

12-06-2008 09:54

Daniel McGowan has been moved to the Columbia County Jail in Portage,
Wisconsin. The reasoning for his move is unknown, but could be related to
an as yet to be convened grand jury in nearby Madison.

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Sanctuary for Jonathan Kazembe

12-06-2008 09:32

Jonathan Kazembe
Jonathan is a trainee teacher from Kirumba-Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He has suffered harassment and discrimination as a member of the Banyamulenge tribe. Things got worse when Jonathan joined a humanitarian organisation in 2002 and fought, with others, to stop the conscription of child soldiers by both rebel and government forces. Soldiers would march into the school and seize boys as young as eight years, giving them guns and sending them to fight and kill.

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Washington ordered destruction of Guantánamo interrogation records

12-06-2008 09:03

In another confirmation of the criminal character of Washington’s handling of so-called “enemy combatants,” a “Standard Operating Procedure” manual has come to light that explicitly instructs US interrogators at the American prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba to destroy contemporaneous records of their interrogations.

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The Price of Business-as-Usual - UK Abandons 2°C Target

12-06-2008 08:53

Christian Aid is angry. The British government has just "eviscerated" the Climate Change Bill, claimed the agency.

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Delegation to Downing Street Warns Against Iran Attack

12-06-2008 08:23

“Do the right thing and boost flagging poll ratings” –
Brown urged to take tough line with Bush on Iran

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Action day for persecuted eco-activists in the US

12-06-2008 06:19

This Saturday, there will be an international action day for the, by now numerous, eco-activists who are currently imprisoned in the US.

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Peace, U.S. style (by Latuff)

12-06-2008 05:15

Peace dove
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Raytheon 9 Acquited in Belfast!

12-06-2008 05:13

Raytheon 9 Defendants Freed from Belfast Court Respond to their Acquital

 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87945

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The Blueprint for Forward Base America

12-06-2008 03:59

Regardless of how they try to dress this up - with the help of the same media which conspired with them in their LIES - this was one of the major reasons for this illegal war from the outset.

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U.K. Anti-Bush Demonstration Banned from Whitehall

12-06-2008 03:32

Be sure to come out and join in the festivities.

Bring cameras, and anything that makes noise.

Why not block the War Criminal altogether?

Why not demand that he be arrested?

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Olmert: Next U.S. Administration May Not Be as 'Accommodating'

12-06-2008 02:01

Dare to dream ...

Judging by the carbon-copies the candidates the media allows coverage to gave at last week's AIPAC Conference, I don't think Zionist Extremism has much to fret about.

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Bush Resurrects a Whopper

12-06-2008 01:59

Hmmm. Where have we heard this before ... ?

"For more than a decade, the United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war. That regime pledged to reveal and destroy all its weapons of mass destruction as a condition for ending the Persian Gulf War in 1991.

Since then, the world has engaged in 12 years of diplomacy. We have passed more than a dozen resolutions in the United Nations Security Council. We have sent hundreds of weapons inspectors to oversee the disarmament of Iraq. Our good faith has not been returned."

Bush's Address, March 2003
 http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030317-7.html

War in the Ruins of Diplomacy
Published: March 18, 2003
 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01EFDA1431F93BA25750C0A9659C8B63

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US Senate Report Exposes Key Role of the Israel Lobby in Fomenting War with Iran

12-06-2008 01:51

This isn't exactly news, as it's clear to see, this time around, that Israel's ruling Extremists are the ones demanding the US fight more of their wars.

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Protests at animal-lab workers' homes, Berkeley

12-06-2008 00:04

Officials have been trying to keep it quiet, but 24 UC Berkeley researchers and seven staffers have been harassed by animal rights activists in recent months, in some cases having their homes or cars vandalized.