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lAwful - Revolt of Peasants UK - London 1.11.08

13-10-2008 19:58

UK Peasants Revolt 2008
Peasants Revolt is organised by people for the people and will be Peaceful.Protest.of.Individuals.and Communities.`of.the.UK.Populations.that would choose to live a lifestyle that is in keeping with the concept of sustainable development!
We will not allow our communites to suffer due to poor and unsustainable paliamentary practices!

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Watching the 42 day detention debate live: An Overview

13-10-2008 19:48

Highlights of the debate, written chronologically from notes I made whilst watching the entire 3 and a half hours or so on the parliament website today. Including points made for and against the bill, though mainly focusing on points made against.

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Animal Farm Economics - Economic Fascism in the United States of America

13-10-2008 19:46

It is very simple economic fascism, animal farm economics 101.
IRS property confiscation for taxes; this is the definition of economic fascism; IRS property confiscation for taxes.

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The Case of Peter Hakala

13-10-2008 18:34

Many innocent and vulnerable people suffer at the hands of the state one such being Peter Hakala who has been wrongly incarcerated for over twenty years for a crime I believe he did not commit.

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Sussex Police erect new cameras at Falmer Station for Shut ITT demo

13-10-2008 17:25

Smash EDO are planning a demo on Oct 15th from Falmer Station

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Rotten Borough of Rushmoor loses 2 million

13-10-2008 16:41

The Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has lost 2 million of local taxpayers' money in the Icelandic banking crash.

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Palestine Today 101308

13-10-2008 16:31

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday October, 13 2008

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Brown’s National Economic Council consolidates government by the super-rich

13-10-2008 16:21

Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced last week the creation of a National Economic Council.

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FITwatch at EDO

13-10-2008 16:18

FITwatch spotter sheet
Download and print the FITwatch spotter card, and engage in a little FITwatching of your own at EDO this Wednesday...

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Bath Bomb #15 out now

13-10-2008 16:03

The latest offering from the Bath newshounds...

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24 hens freed, barclays, butcher & shops targeted

13-10-2008 15:18

11th-13th September

24 HENS FREED FROM ILLEGAL BATTERY FARM (UK)
BARCLAYS AND BUTCHER SABOTAGED (UK)
EXPLOITIVE SHOPS SEALED SHUT (Mexico)
BARCLAYS CASH POINT GLUED (UK)

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SHAC London Demos Continues Apace

13-10-2008 15:06

Do your bit to support the SHAC UK 8 and get out onto the streets

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Direct Action; Mexico, UK, USA, Switzerland & Sweden

13-10-2008 15:03

POULTRY COMPANY WALLS AND TRUCKS SPLATTERED WITH PAINT (Mexico)
KITTEN RESCUED FROM DISGUSTING PET SHOP (UK)
SHOTGUN SHELLS SLIPPED INTO TAILPIPES OF UCLA VANS (USA)
10 PET SHOPS GLUED SHUT (Mexico)
SIX CHICKENS FREED, EGGS TRASHED (UK)
SMOKE BOMB STOPS CIRCUS PERFORMANCE (Switzerland)
CARS PAINT-STRIPPED AT HOME OF VIVISECTOR (USA)
SHOOT SABOTAGED (UK)
REGION'S LAST FUR FARM REMAINS CLOSED (Sweden)
BIRDS RESCUED FROM SLAUGHTERHOUSE (UK)
ACTIONS CONTINUE DESPITE "RESEARCHER PROTECTION ACT" (USA)
CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (UK)
SIGNS FOR GAME FAIR RIPPED DOWN (UK)

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Shut down BMI Airlines day! Monday 20th October 2008

13-10-2008 14:05


In 2007 the UK government deported 63,140 migrants. Airline companies are a key link in the deportation industry. Without them it would be very difficult, if not impossible, for the state to implement this aspect of the migration regime and there can be no migration controls without deportations.

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More pics of Merseyside Police Versus Free Expression

13-10-2008 14:01

Here are some more images from Saturday afternoon, when police disrupted the democratic rights of Liverpool activists, provoking anger from hundreds of people passing by.

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animal rights raids in leeds area

13-10-2008 13:27

reports coming in of raids on animal rights activists in leeds - bradford area.

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Parliament Square Peace Campaigner, Mrs Barbara Tucker threatened again!

13-10-2008 12:09

City of Westminster Magistrates' Court (CoWMC) continued it's long-term harassment of Parliament Square Peace Campaigner, Mrs Barbara Tucker, this morning trying to illegally enforce SOCPA fines knowing that the cases against her were under appeal.

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ALF cell arrested during direct action.

13-10-2008 12:01

ALF actavists have been arrested attrempting to liberate animals bred for vivisection. They are being held under Burglary and SOCPA charges.

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Return to Resistance

13-10-2008 11:18

What has become of prison revolts in the British prison system? Where now are the open expressions of collective anger and solidarity that fueled the uprisings and jail riots of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s and created the iconic images of Hull 1976 and Strangeways 1990? What happened to the spirit of revolt that used to periodically shake the British long-term prison system and engender a philosophy of prisoner empowerment and solidarity, a philosophy that situated the struggle of prisoners at the very forefront of the universal struggle for human rights and even social revolution?

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Iraq: US dropped nuclear bomb near Basra in 1991, claims veteran

13-10-2008 10:47

An American veteran of the first Gulf War in Iraq claims that the United States dropped a five-kilotonne nuclear bomb in 1991 in a deserted area outside the southern city of Basra on the Iranian border.
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