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Reports From the Brighton Group - Makhool; After Hadidya We Will be Next

02-11-2008 12:24

This is part of a series of blogs from delegation of eight people from Brighton who arrived in the Tubas region of occupied Palestine last week. The delegation is part of the project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. The group's aims are to highlight Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in the region, raise awareness about life under occupation and create practical solidarity links between grassroots organisations in Brighton and Tubas region.

This is an excerpt from Fiona's blog

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The Peter Power Terror Drill Inquest

02-11-2008 12:13

Many who've heard of or read my story ask me to explain more about the Peter Power Terror Drills I witnessed that day, as I only gave it a breif mention in The 4th Bomb. Many see this so called 'coincidence' as the strongest evidence yet of state involvement.

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Three Russian police officers admit burning suspect alive

02-11-2008 12:08

The three officers are accused of detaining the man on suspicion of theft on the night of October 28-29, and then beating a confession out of him. When he then refused to sign his "admission of guilt," local media say he was "taken to the edge of the city and burned alive

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'Be a visitor, not a spy' - QQ Section, Site B, Khayelitsha

02-11-2008 10:52

Diary of London anarchist Matt Birkinshaw while visiting the autonomous Abahlali baseMjondolo shack settlement QQ in Cape Town

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Local residents protest at Lodge Farm open cast site

02-11-2008 10:46

At noon yesterday (Saturday) around 40 people braved rain and cold winds to protest outside the new open cast mining site at Lodge Farm, in Smalley Derbyshire.

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Pickled Heads, Mud Cakes, Rivers Of Babylon

02-11-2008 02:01

Growth is Vanity Fair, Lear Jets, Sex in the City. Sustainability is Adbusters, bicycles, sex in the haystack. And now, just as eco awareness is spreading, the financial meltdown hits... We came for the oil, left a mountain of corpses and filled up the rivers of Babylon with shit.

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Philppines: Labor export policy is anti-women, anti-development

02-11-2008 00:57

MANILA, Philippines – The country should not take pride in being the model in terms of labor migration, according to women’s groups who are engaging the Second Global Forum on Migration on Development (GFMD).

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We won't pay for their crisis - March on Guildhall, Bath 22nd Nov

01-11-2008 23:14

On Saturday 22nd of Nov, Bath Activist Network have called for a day of mass action against the deepening financial crisis.

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German anti-nuclear waste newswire now active

01-11-2008 22:09

Anti-nuclear activists in Germany are gearing up for another transport of highly active nuclear waste to run through France and Germany from 7 to 9 November for dumping at the north German village of Gorleben. About 20,000 police will be deployed to guard the consignment against thousands of demonstrators. At

http://www.castor.de/ticker/index_en.html is a newswire run by the protest movement. It already has some run-up stories on it.

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Halloween CM in Oxford

01-11-2008 20:33

Short videos are up at if you want to see how the other half Mass

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Nottingham's October Critical Mass and Bike About :: Piccys

01-11-2008 20:22

On Friday 31 October, Nottingham's Critical Mass Bike Ride started from the Market Square on Halloween Night. Critical Mass is for everyone who rides a bike in Nottingham and wants to take part. Meeting at 5pm, this was the first in some time in the city, and was really well attended.

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From the Brighton Group - Said Lataba – 31 Years in Prison,

01-11-2008 20:02

This is part of a series of blogs from delegation of eight people from Brighton who arrived in the Tubas region of occupied Palestine last week. The delegation is part of the project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. The group's aims are to highlight Israeli war crimes against Palestinians in the region, raise awareness about life under occupation and create practical solidarity links between grassroots organisations in Brighton and Tubas region.

This is an excerpt from Fiona's blog

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African Students Demand End to Imperialist War in Congo

01-11-2008 19:11

At 16:00 UTC (11am US EST), www.UhuruRadio.com will talk live with Kambale Musavuli, student at North Carolina A&T University, who recently organized an international week of campus action to raise awareness of the crisis in Congo.

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Oppose ID cards on 25th November

01-11-2008 18:48

No Borders South Wales recently held a protest outside the Newport passport office to raise awareness about the fact that ID cards come into effect for non-EU students and spouses from 25th November.

http://noborderswales.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/newport-protest-against-id-cards/

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Refugee beheaded after being deported to Afghanistan from Australia

01-11-2008 18:35

As EU deportations to Afghanistan are set to increase....

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Congolese rebels torch refugee camps

01-11-2008 18:14

150.000 refugees fleeing after refugee camps burned down by rebels

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"A Second 9/11": An Integral Part of US Military Doctrine

01-11-2008 15:26

For several years now, senior officials of the Bush administration including
the President and the Vice President have intimated, in no certain terms,
that there will be "a Second 9/11". All the authoritative statements point
in chorus in the same direction: The enemy will strike again!

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Countryside Alliance graffiti

01-11-2008 13:28

Located near to Wetherby some graffiti associated to the Countryside Alliance was discovered.

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Halloween bash, Canary Wharf, London - Pictures.

01-11-2008 12:42

Spooks and spectres gather outside Canary Wharf on Halloween to carry out a haunting outside Lehmans at 25 Bank Street to wail at the financial crisis gripping the living at the witching hour.

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Chevron-Texaco purges its website of Burma references as it stands trial

01-11-2008 12:11

Charges of Rape and Murder Prompt Disappearance of Entire Country from Corporate Website

SAN FRANCISCO — Chevron [trading as Texaco in the UK] has quietly removed from its website any reference to its operations in Burma [Myanmar], a country where the oil giant has been implicated in allegations of rape and murder connected to a lucrative pipeline project that generates up to $1 billion annually for the country's brutal military regime, the Amazon Defense Coalition said today.

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