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Urgent appeal from Iraqi LGBT

17-04-2009 11:27

URGENT - Dear Friends and Donors of Iraqi LGBT



Dear Friends and Donors of Iraqi LGBT This is an urgent appeal for donation to all our friends and supporters all around the world to help us with our new campaign and demonstration and to continue the fight for lgbt rights in Iraq

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Ford Visteon Solidarity Rally - Sat 18th

17-04-2009 11:21

Following the insulting and unacceptable offer from Visteon this week the sacked workers are stepping up their 24/7 picket of the Enfield factory. The Belfast and Basildon Visteon workers have also rejected the offer. Now more than ever they need support and solidarity for their decision to continue their struggle for justice.

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Stop Siemens - corporate police state

17-04-2009 11:12

Siemens - PFI favourite and billing system for utilites also proviodes snooping equipment.

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NETCU using ASBO to prevent SHAC protest

17-04-2009 10:23

SHAC london activist banned from SHAC protests by represive ASBO

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Erfurt, Germany: Squat Eviction

17-04-2009 08:51

Video of the eviction of the squatted areas in Erfurt, Germany
Translation from German
 http://de.indymedia.org/2009/04/247278.shtml

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Trotsky's ashes stolen and baked in cookies

17-04-2009 02:31

Them cookies
Eighty eight years of the day Trotsky directed the suppression of the anarchist uprising in Krondstadt, a group of bandits scaled the walls of his former house in Mexico City during the late hours at night.

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Dog saves life on highway

17-04-2009 00:59

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Humans usually seek to justify their oppression and exploitation of nonhumans by pointing to supposed empirical differences. One of the many claimed differences is that nonhumans, unlike humans, are unable to think or act morally. That is, we claim that only those who can recognize and act on moral obligations to others can be members of the moral community and since animals are supposedly incapable of such conduct, we are justified in treating them as things without moral significance.

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Borders, Migration & Freedom of Movement Dayschool - Edinburgh

16-04-2009 17:54

An opportunity for people to get together to share info and ideas on the border regime and the growing movement against borders and for the freedom of movement for all!

10.30am til 6pm, plus evening social and music, @ the Forest Café, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh, EH1 1EY

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Direct Action; 12 reports, 8 countries, 6 days

16-04-2009 17:31

11th-16th April

ANIMAL ABUSE TARGETED IN LONDON (UK)
BIRDS FREED FROM AVIARY (Chile)
FOIE GRAS RESTAURANT TARGETED FOR SECOND TIME (USA)
ALF HOME VISIT FOR COCKFIGHTER (Mexico)
FIVE RABBITS RESCUED (Australia)
MINK FREED FROM FUR FARM (Sweden)
MORE TROUBLE FOR TELMEX (Mexico)
OPEN RESCUE OF 61 HENS IN MEMORY OF JILL PHIPPS (Czech Republic)
BUNNIES RESCUED FROM PETTING ZOO (Canada)
ALF TORCH FISH COMPANY TRUCK (Sweden)
LOCKS GLUED AT INFAMOUS RESTAURANT (Sweden)

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Justice for the 96 Killed 15 4 1989

16-04-2009 15:42

JUSTICE FOR THE 96 KILLED 15 4 1989
“Why does Hillsborough get remembered in this way, when other disasters generally don’t? Well possibly because in those other disasters there was not a concerted and continuing attempt to smear the people who died as not only the authors of their own misfortune, but as thieving, drunken hooligans. Not the victims of King’s Cross, not the victims of Piper Alpha. Not even, as it happens, the victims of Valley Parade or other football stadium disasters (Ibrox, the recent Ivory Coast diaster, and so on). Any number of nightclub fires, where, almost inevitably, doors turn out to have been locked and chained: similarly fires in hostels. The deaths of the Chinese cockle pickers off the Lancashire coast not long ago. So many African would-be immigrants, drowned trying to reach Italy or Spain. Many dreadful incidents of many different types.

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Anti-deportation protest at the Kurdistan Regional Government office in London

16-04-2009 15:32

About 20 people gathered outside the London office of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government to highlight its complicity in the mass deportations of Iraqi-Kurdish refugees. The protest, which was called by the International Federation of Iraqi Refugees (IFIR) and supported by London No Borders, the National Coalition of Anti-Deportation Campaigns and Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, coincided with an international demonstration outside the UN offices in Geneva. No Borders South Wales also held a solidarity demonstration at the UK Border Agency office in Cardiff.

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DFEY-NW :: 25th April @ BBC Manchester

16-04-2009 15:10


DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education and Youth) is a group formed in response from a growing need in the Northwest of England for a group to encourage and promote young people's involvement with the free software community by creating a social space to make it more comfortable for young people to get involved with GLUGs and FSUGs.

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Palestine Today 041609

16-04-2009 14:59

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday April 16th, 2009.

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A Conspiracy too far?

16-04-2009 14:46

In one of the best reports on the incident so far, Daithai asks some pertinent questions about the police raid involving more than 200 officers from Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Staffordshire and British Transport Police which saw 114 people arrested for conspiracy at the Iona School in Sneinton Nottingham shortly after midnight on Monday.

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Terminator Seeds & Codex Alimentarius

16-04-2009 14:45

Terminator seeds are genetically modified seeds that produce second generation seeds that are sterile. This is keeping farmers in developing countries forever dependent on a practice designed to prey on farmers. Cross pollination is spreading this criminal anomaly to healthy, normal farms which renders those crops useless in the same fashion.

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Solidarity for the Coal Conspiracy 114

16-04-2009 13:33

Arrested for conspiracy, 114 people alleged to have been planning to shut down E-On's massive Ratcliffe coal fired power station have apparently found themselves voiceless, advised not to issue any statements to the media or friends. Unrelated groups however have been stepping into the void to express support for the alleged action and remind people that taking direct action to cut greenhouse emissions is something we should all be doing. Groups such as Rising Tide, Plane Stupid, Climate Rush, the Camp for Climate Action and others have already issued such statements and no doubt it would be great if a diverse range of groups did likewise.

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ITT Corp 'serious allegations' of corrupt NASA contract investigated

16-04-2009 13:25

more dodgy dealings by corporate parents of EDO MBM come to light in US

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Nepalese Maoists restate intention to ban strikes and other news

16-04-2009 12:18

Reports of recent developments in Nepal and the Maoist-led government's proposed crackdown on workers' struggle.

Submitted by Ret Marut on Apr 10 2009
Source; libcom.org

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Support SHAC

16-04-2009 12:12

Support SHAC prisoners of compassion.

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Greece: Immigrant beaten up to death by Coast Guarding Police

16-04-2009 11:49

men of the Coast Guarding police caused deadly injuries to a 29-year-old Kurdish man from Iraq