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IWW Valentine's Day Blood Service protest - Sat 14th Feb

11-02-2009 14:36

Solidarity forever
On Saturday 14th February the IWW is taking a mobile protest to hospitals around the city, to inform the public and healthworkers about the looming closure of the Birmingham blood processing lab in March.

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Sack the City- 23F

11-02-2009 13:10

It´s time to get medieval on their arses. In terms of stocks and rotten tomatoes that is. Monday 23 February is going to be the day that we sack the city. The bankers and their political lackeys do not know what they are doing- the system is out of control. It´s time to close down the system.


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Free 0844 numbers for your activist groups to forward to a landline.

11-02-2009 12:53

Hi everyone, we signed up for a free 0844 number yesterday for our sab group to forward to our land line :)

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"The CIA has launched a vast spying operation in the UK"

11-02-2009 11:48

Some extracts from a article in The Telegraph, 7 Feb 2009, follow...

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Goats tormented to undermine women

11-02-2009 11:45

Genetically modified goats are being bred to produce "human" milk for babies who are not breast fed due to choice or because a mother cannot breastfeed.

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Lieberman dumps Livni

11-02-2009 11:25

A useless tango
Her baby slaughter in Gaza was for nothing.

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Thursday 19th Feb - Rally for the right to play

11-02-2009 10:56

Poster
Next week's half term will see a plethora of activities for children, based in the Radford area - 2 days of creative workshops along the theme of reuse and recycle - followed by a Play parade, celebrating the re-development of Independent Street park and making noise about children’s right to play out safely. Information on volunteering opportunities in play will also be available.

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Around the Campaigns Wednesday 11th February 2009

11-02-2009 10:11

Leila, Soorena and Danoush put through the mangle
So it goes, when we last posted information the family had been taken to the airport on Thursday 6th February put on a plane taken off the plane and returned to Yarl's Wood.

On Monday night 9th February they were deported to Iran, on Tuesday 10th February they were brought back to the UK, released from immigration detention and are back in Halifax. No one at this stage is quite clear on what happened and why it happened the way it did. Once we have a factual summary of events, we will update everyone. Leila, Soorena and Danoush have had their world turned upside down and are deeply traumatized by the events. Seems pretty certain that we will be putting the family in touch with Bhatt Murphy solicitors, see next article.
Leila, Soorena and Danoush belong to Halifax
 http://www.ncadc.org.uk/Newszine103/Leila.html

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Double entry and double standards.

11-02-2009 10:05

The performances of the Nat West Executives in Parliament was worthy of an Oscar.

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Over Five Million Dead in Congo?

11-02-2009 07:54

...the story of war and plunder in Congo is not unreported. It is a story that has been censored, manipulated and covered up even when it is ostensibly being told.

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New left party formed in the Philippines

11-02-2009 02:57

More than 1000 people, including 920 elected delegates, attended the inaugural congress of Power of the Masses Party (PLM) on January 30.

The delegates represented mass organisations of workers, urban poor, peasants, students, street vendors, jeepney and tricycle drivers, women and senior citizens — a mass base estimated at 300,000 according to PLM leaders.

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Muad'Dib arrested and held in custody for distributing 7/7 Ripple Effect

11-02-2009 01:58

Muad'Dib made his own documentary narrative about the events of 7/7, opposed to the official narrativr
He posted a copy to all the parties he could find involved in the atrocity and its investigation..Seems he's been arrested and put in jail for the exercise of free speech and information

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AP threatened by Pentagon over accurate reporting of Iraq

11-02-2009 00:29

"Now is the time to resist the propaganda the Pentagon produces and live up to our obligation to question authority and thereby help protect our democracy." AP CEO Tom Curley, speaking at University of Kansas.

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Wirral Council Votes To Slash Services: What Now?

11-02-2009 00:15

When Wirral Council finally voted to go ahead with the Cabinet's proposed slashing of local services on 9th February, it caused anguish to the hundreds of people who have been campaigning for the last few months. Council employees are now set to lose their jobs at the worst possible time, as a global recession bites. Service users have lost access to libraries, leisure centres, and cultural venues. This terrible attack on ordinary people has shown the limitations of protests, letter-writing campaigns, and pinning hopes on politicians. The need for a new strategy has been highlighted.

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Millions of job losses threaten to trigger social unrest in China

10-02-2009 23:05

The Chinese government is facing a massive unemployment crisis, far worse than in the late 1990s, when lay-offs of more than 30 million workers from state enterprises led to a wave of militant protests. This time, the growing army of unemployed mainly consists of internal migrant workers from the countryside, who have been hit hard by plunging export orders in the urban manufacturing centres and the collapse of the construction boom.

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If your Irish stay out of Ireland- Cowen is pampering the banks

10-02-2009 22:40

The man is in a corner, his party in a hole, the opposition lining up to take on the government’s toxic debts and Ireland once again is in an economic shithole that was brought about by political representatives who neither knew how to spend wisely nor how to manage properly, in case of a rainy day, the state’s finances.

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Obama paints a picture of economic catastrophe

10-02-2009 22:38

Addressing a national television audience in his first White House press conference, President Barack Obama, promoting his economic stimulus plan, used unprecedented language to characterize the deepening economic crisis. He described conditions of rapidly rising unemployment, growing demand at food banks, widespread foreclosures, the collapse of consumer spending and the failure of small businesses.

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You Stand For Nothing But Election

10-02-2009 22:07

Dear Hazel,

Last week you used an article in the Guardian to attack my “cynical and corrosive commentary”. You asserted your political courage, maintaining that “you don’t get very far in politics without guts, and certainly not as far as the cabinet table.” By contrast, you suggested, I contribute “to the very cynicism and disengagement from politics” that I make my living writing about. You accused me of making claims without supporting evidence and of “wielding great influence without accountability”. “We need more people standing for office and serving their communities,” you wrote, “more people debating, engaging and voting; not more people waving placards on the sidelines.”(1)

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Police bail sysadmin in animal rights extremism probe

10-02-2009 22:01

Here is the latest from the register about the arrest related to the latest imc server seizure. The arrested man is a sys admin who hosted several servers including the indymedia server. Apparently this is enough to get you held for 8 hours and bail conditions. But the comments get it -  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/10/indymedia/comments/

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NATO in the Persian Gulf: From World War 3 to the Istanbul Cooperation Initiativ

10-02-2009 21:45

In October 2008 NATO would drop the last veil and expose what the ultimate purpose of the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative was: Preparing for possible military action againt Iran.

Jean-Michel Boucheron, then outgoing chairman of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly’s Mediterranean and Middle East Special Group, said "that while Nato states did not have the same obligation to defend GCC countries as they would other alliance members in the event they were attacked, Nato would 'not remain indifferent' if a Gulf country were subject to aggression.