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NHS Unite members reject pay offer

12-06-2008 21:25

Members of Unite, the UK's largest trade union and third largest in the NHS, have overwhelmingly voted to reject the government's 7.99% three-year pay deal and have voted for a ballot on industrial action.

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Colin Powell, Keep Out

12-06-2008 20:51

Powell: Slated for Vancouver speech.
Colin Powell, George Bush's former secretary of state and previously the general in charge of the slaughter of Iraqi troops in the first Gulf war, is scheduled to speak in Vancouver on June 12. Possibly setting a new standard for hypocrisy, the title of his talk is "Leadership in the 21st Century."

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New autonomous and creative social space in South London

12-06-2008 19:27

New autonomous and creative social space in South London

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Current TV and BRITDOC want your pitch - July 4th Deadline

12-06-2008 19:21

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Current TV and BRITDOC have come together to offer you an unprecedented chance to be part of this year’s festival: the Current Pitch! We want you to pitch your idea for a short documentary, with the opportunity to earn a pass to the BRITDOC festival and to potentially be commissioned for TV distribution.

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Wells Fargo Attacked In Portland

12-06-2008 18:26

Communique from anonymous anarchists:

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Sea Shepherd Captain Paul Watson Talks in London

12-06-2008 18:10

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This is a recording of a talk by Paul Watson, the founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in London, 5th June 2008. Paul has battled poachers and hunters of whales, seals and other marine wildlife for the last 31 years. He was one of the original founders of the Greenpeace Foundation but left the organisation and set up his own in 1977 to focus on the enforcement of international conservation law at sea. Duration recording: 35 minutes. An exclusive interview with Paul Watson will be featured on the next Riseup! Radio show.

More info: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | UK Indymedia Ocean Defence topic page

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Invitation to planning meeting of OpenSpace, London

12-06-2008 18:04

Invitation to OpenSpace planning meeting

Tuesday 17 June 2008 7 pm

At NoID Gallery, 26 Calvert Avenue, Shoreditch, London E2

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Report from the London Social Forum

12-06-2008 17:47

A discussion about the neoiberal transformations of London and New York and campaigns to defend local markets in London which took place on Monday 9th June in Central London

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Mill Road Social Centre May Stay For Flippin' Ages

12-06-2008 17:31

A possession order was granted to Tesco today in court, yet representatives of the Mill Road Social Centre had apparent confirmation of indefinite leave to remain from Tesco's solicitors.

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Artist Cleared of all Charges in Precedent-Setting Case

12-06-2008 16:52

Department of Justice Fails to Appeal Dismissal
Kurtz Speaks about Four-Year Ordeal

Buffalo, NY--Dr. Steven Kurtz, a Professor of Visual Studies at SUNY at Buffalo and co-founder of the award-winning art and theater group Critical Art Ensemble, has been cleared of all charges of mail and wire fraud.

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Amdani Juma's deportation flight cancelled on day of removal

12-06-2008 16:52

Amdani Juma's deportation flight to Burundi via Nairobi on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 was cancelled at zero hour yesterday on Tuesday June 10th as an application for an judicial review, accepted by the High Court, was finally acknowledged. He is now awaiting a bail hearing on Monday.

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Bridge painted 'Free Sean Kirtley'

12-06-2008 16:50

Solidarity is a weapon!

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Bowl Court Social Centre Days Are Numbered

12-06-2008 16:18

David vs Goliath
The courting hearing today ruled in favor of the property developers claiming ownership of the derelict warehouse in Bowl Court that has been used as a radical social centre since openning 23rd March. The David vs Goliath case was clearly motivated by Hammersons desire to prevent the new social centre becoming a hub for the local campaigns against their proposed development for the area, the biggest development in London since Docklands in the eighties.

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Solidarity for the imprisoned Austrian Activists - 16-18 June

12-06-2008 15:54

Since the 21st of June 2008 the animal rights movement sees itself confronted with an incomparable wave of repression! In the early morning armed units of the special force WEGA 23 raided apartments and offices of animal liberators in Vienna, Graz, Tirol and Kärnten.

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A Litany Of CNN And Time Warner Crimes

12-06-2008 15:52

promotion of war, deforestation of animal habitat, pricegouging, muzzling of third party candidates,
materialism mongering, advertising pieces of mutilated animals,
promotion of rodeo and hunting

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HLS Supplier DHL trashed for Active Slaughter

12-06-2008 15:21

anonymous communique (translation):

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Police officer denies assault on 12yr old in custody

12-06-2008 15:19

officer due to stand trial on 16th July

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Palestine Today 061208

12-06-2008 15:07

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday June 12th, 2008.

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Demonstration in Mexico City in solidarity with the Zapatistas

12-06-2008 14:06

Yesterday a demonstration against the military incursion into Zapatista communities took place in Mexico City. About two hundred demonstrators marched from the Ángel de la Independencia to the Zócalo (main square) in solidarity with the Zapatistas.

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US,Russian or Chinese military EMF kills dolphins

12-06-2008 13:53

Many smaller fish etc just die & float to the bottom, we are probably only seeing just the surface of this "hitech" assault on nature.
"In a paper published in Nature magazine, scientists from a British Government-funded research programme show the first evidence of gas bubbles and associated tissue trauma in six dolphins, a porpoise and a beaked whale recovered from British waters."