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Scots census awarded to Abu Ghraib torturers

04-08-2008 17:34

The Scottish government has awarded the next census contract to CACI, a corporation responsible for torture in Iraq. This corporation is not only being sued by Iraqi survivors, but was even condemned by the official US army investigation. This gestapo-like corporation will soon be legally demanding the personal details of all Scots, so one more reason not to fill in the census.

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Report Back From the Green Spirituality “ Friend or Foe” Workshop Monday 4th Aug

04-08-2008 16:30

Chris Philpott gave a little talk about how Green Spirituality can be a friend of the Climate Change Movement. He explored the commonality of spiritual teachings that pointed to the spiritual causes of Climate Change. He said that one cause was the drive of greed and materialism fuelled by consumerism, as this was shown as a danger and distraction to spiritual progress in the Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Bahai, Islamic, Hindu, and other spiritual traditions. Another spiritual cause of climate change was identified as how we have lost our connection with nature, which was illustrated in the teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Shamanism, Paganism and other spiritual traditions. A further spiritual cause of climate change was pointed out to be our collective bad karma which was explained in the teachings of Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Jainism and other spiritual traditions. Finally he pointed out that a spiritual cause of climate change was our loss of balance in our lives which was emphasised in the teachings of Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, and other spiritual traditions.

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Occupation of ARK by Wembley teachers in pictures.

04-08-2008 16:29

On Friday teachers from Wembley who are militantly opposed to their local sports ground being turned into a Thatcher inspired nightmare called ‘City Academy’ occupied the offices of ARK the company who will immediately benefit from this appalling decision.

Shit that’s a long sentence, my English teacher would be disgusted…. anyway the teachers in question are just a little bit tired of not having their calls returned. So decided to make their representations in person.

Details and further hilarity below:

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Intelligence Report On Crimes In The Financial markets By The fbi And The cia

04-08-2008 15:40

INTELLIGENCE REPORT ON THE fbi AND THE cia, reflecting criminal activities as the fbi and cia obtain illegal funding; the cia probably does the same little dance globally.

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SPEAK Demo Report from Oxford Labs

04-08-2008 15:03

SPEAK Campaign supporters met opposite Oxford's new animal abuse lab to campaign against the University's barbaric treatment of the sentient beings who will be tortured and killed inside it, as they have done every week for the past four and a half years. Campaigners of all ages, some who have been with SPEAK from the beginning, others who have been drawn to the campaign more recently having heard the appalling truth about the horrors perpetrated against the animals imprisoned within university labs, spent the four hours of the demo informing the passing public of their opposition to vivisection at Oxford. These highly visual demos always receive much support from those passing in vehicles and on foot, and this week was no exception with gestures of support from a huge number of motorists and tourists on tour buses, and words of encouragement from pedestrians, many of whom stopped to talk to protesters and took leaflets.

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Aldershot town centre regeneration

04-08-2008 14:44

The Labour group at the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has discovered the blindingly obvious, that Aldershot has a failing town centre!

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Binyam Mohamed: judges grill MI5 agent and question fairness of Guantánamo trial

04-08-2008 14:12

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on the explosive developments during last week’s judicial review, in the British high court, of the case of British resident and torture victim Binyam Mohamed, imprisoned in Guantánamo and facing a trial by Military Commission.

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Palestine Today 080408

04-08-2008 13:32

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday August 4th, 2008.

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Cops Spying on HoneyBaked Ham Protestors and Peace Activists

04-08-2008 13:06

Two activists who handed out vegan pamphlets outside of a HoneyBaked Ham store– and were harassed, spied on, and arrested for it– can proceed with a lawsuit against the cops, a federal appeals court recently ruled. [1]

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Climate Camp Radio ready to go

04-08-2008 11:01

The studio's set up, we've got guests coming in, and an action packed schedule of programs coming up over the duration of the camp

We'll be doing two shows a day during lunch and dinner. The early show starts at 1pm and goes til 2-2:30, the late show starts at 7pm and finishes at 9pm.

Shows are available online (streaming or as podcasts) from

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/radio

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Dawn raid on Climate Camp

04-08-2008 11:00

"Police on site, get up London, move it now!" was today's 5.15 alarm call. Clothes still wet from last night's downpour, London neighbourhood, now a couple of hundred strong was up and running for the top gate.

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Artists jailed for bringing colour to shitty cities.

04-08-2008 10:29

Members of the DPM crew were jailed for up to 2 years for making dull shitty city scapes brighter and more colourful spaces.
As they start a prison sentence, pictures of their work are to be exhibited in a New York art gallery. So are they vandals or frustrated artists?

myspace page explaining more www.myspace.com/supportdpm

Petition to present at appeal to try and get reduced sentences here

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/graffiti-artists.html

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All Aboard The Good Ship fro Monday Love!

04-08-2008 10:07

Because We Live In a World of Conflict, Misinformation, Disinformation MONDAY LOVE part 7 boards the Good Ship with a party of Grass roots Heroes and Servants of freedom. These London based souljas are coming to help in the reasoning thru MultiMedia Piracy, Open Deck discussion, independent music, Social witnesses, Front line Filmmaking to Share with us 100 things we need to know this year.

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London FreeSchool Week

04-08-2008 10:05

A week long London FreeSchool event will be taking place between the 1st and 7th of September 2008 with workshops, discussions and skill-sharing. Themes will include Food, Creative Arts, Permaculture, Gender, Science and Languages. The event will be completely free and open to all people willing to respect the ideals of the free school and each other. if you would like to facilitate or suggest a workshop, skill-share or discussion then please let us know by the 25th august at the very latest. if you are not london based then why not arrange something in your own town?

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Climate Camp solidarity demo in the High Peak - Save the Woodhead Tunnel

04-08-2008 09:52

On Saturday 2nd August, campaigners in the High Peak staged a demonstration to call for the re-opening of the Woodhead Tunnel and the Manchester to Sheffield rail line.

The demo co-incided with the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, Kent. The tunnel is under threat due to National Grid's plans to run cables through it, transferring power generated in the coal fields of Yorkshire to the industrial centres of the North West.

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Video of Caravan and March to Climate Camp 3-8-08

04-08-2008 08:44

This year's Climate Camp in the UK is against a proposed new highly polluting, coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, at at time when the Government is pretending to be 'green'.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/ClimateCamp3-8-08

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5 o'clock and the police try and drive through main gate to climate camp

04-08-2008 08:13

Climate Camp main gate duty meets and repels a van load of police at 5am

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New libel threat against Uzbekistan solidarity

04-08-2008 08:05

Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, is threatened again with libel action to prevent the publication of his new book.
In this book, Murray plans to expose the methods of mercenary commander Tim Spicer, one of those who has made a fortune with supplying his private, unaccountable army, to Iraq. [Fuck the War action]

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Footage from dawn raid on Climate Camp

04-08-2008 06:49

Some short extracts of footage recorded this morning from police raid on the Camp for Climate Action, nr Kingsnorth, Medway.

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Wembley Sports Ground Occupation Being Evicted: protestors physically assaulted

04-08-2008 06:26

Baliffs have used heavy-handed force to evict protestors at the anti-Academy occupation of Wembley Sports Ground this morning, with allegations of physical assault. Members of the press have also been physically assaulted. There is video evidence.