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Freephone BNP Membership number

29-09-2009 15:40

It costs `em money so phone away

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*Breaking news* - Sizewell 5 anti-nuclear blockaders found not guilty

29-09-2009 15:28

Two days into their four-day trial, the Sizewell five have been found not guilty of aggravated trespass after a blockade in 2008 of the Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk.

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Picket Tomorrow In Protest At Violent Attacks On Abahlali BaseMjondolo

29-09-2009 14:34

Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers' movement in South Africa who sent representatives to the UK a couple of weeks ago, is under violent attack, and fighting desperately to save their homes and their organisation from ANC supported "development" (ie demolition)- physical and political annihilation.

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Calais hunger strike - Press release

29-09-2009 14:15


As of 9am French time today 11 migrants in Calais started a highly visible hunger strike in the port area. The migrants, from regions including Iran, Afghanistan, Sudan, Palestine, and Egypt, say they will continue the strike until Western countries co-operate to offer them asylum. They are also demanding that no migrant in Calais is readmitted to Greece, Italy or Malta.

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Leeds Turned Upside Down

29-09-2009 13:54

Leeds Turned Upside Down
Sat 10th October

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support the refugees in calais

29-09-2009 13:31

i'm under no illusion about the problems of writing to our MPs & the media but think it is worth doing in this case (as well as doing other things). below is the letter i wrote. you can do it very quickly and for free here www.writetothem.com

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Indymedia network asked to support Solar Powered Cinema tour

29-09-2009 13:05

Voters are being sought to support alternative media charity, undercurrents to win a £5000 grant to run a UK tour of campaigning films in a Solar Powered cinema

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squatted art centre in the belly of the beast.

29-09-2009 12:56

This building has been abandoned and left to rot for over 1 year .
We took action to battle this unfair fact by occupying this space and turning it into a form of autonomy an active , creative space where people feel free from the monster called capitalism ......... while being completely surrounded by it.

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Honduras RESISTE! (by Latuff)

29-09-2009 11:47

Honduras RESISTE!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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10 No Borders activists arrested in Calais for holding unauthorised protest

29-09-2009 11:21

keep up to date at calais migrant solidarity twitter.

Seems like arrests were made just ahead the clearance of Hazara jungle. Activists were held during the clearance to stop similar scenes as last Tuesday.

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Fur Demos in the West Midlands

29-09-2009 11:09

Maddy Lies but still gets demoed!
29/09/2009

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David Miliband to block Goldstone Report!

29-09-2009 10:48

Urgent Action Needed. War Criminals getting away with murder in Palestine.

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Key facts to keep in mind while opposing war against Iran

29-09-2009 09:16

Nicholas Sarkozy, Gordon Brown and Barack Obama at the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh
Representatives of Iran and six of the world's most powerful countries are scheduled to meet this week in Geneva, one of a series of events that increasingly looks like a rerun of the build-up to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Now is the time to reaffirm a simple principle that ought to be the bedrock of our anti-war movement: every country that has been oppressed by U.S imperialism has the right to determine its own destiny.

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If you see this man at the Labour Party conference.

29-09-2009 08:12

Ehud Barak
Do a citizens arrest on him and hand him over to the police.
He is a wanted war criminal.

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Residents Against Station Closure No Barriers..

29-09-2009 07:55

East Midlands Trains have now applied to Sheffield City Council for Listed Building Consent to install ticket barriers, which would prevent free access across the bridge.

Please now object by

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Nestle's threats to farmers in Zimbabwe

29-09-2009 03:38

An article in the Daily Telegraph profiles Nestlé under the headline: "Nestlé: the world's biggest food company and one of the 'most boycotted'" and reveals that the company is purchasing 1 million litres of milk per year from Grace Mugabe, wife of the President Robert Mugabe, despite sanctions due to human rights abuses by the regime.

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Guinea: Bloody Repression Kills Dozens of anti-Junta Protesters

29-09-2009 02:47

Today opposition and labor protesters descended from the main boulevards of the city to the national stadium ("Stade du 28 Septembre"), but were met with a ban order, lines of troops, live fire, and rumors that the military is disappearing captives and bodies of the dead. As many as 80 bodies have been rumored to have been laid out in the stadium itself. If anything like the events of 2007 reoccur, the military would be willing to continue this crackdown for weeks or even months.

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Black is Back! Nov. 7 Anti-war March in Washington, D.C

29-09-2009 02:45

Washington, D.C. – A newly-formed Black coalition has announced a rally and march on the White House to take place November 7, 2009 beginning in Washington, D.C.’s historic Malcolm X Park. The Rally and March are to protest the expanding U.S. wars and other policy initiatives that unfairly target African and other oppressed people around the world. Known as the Black is Back Coalition for Social Justice, Peace and Reparations, the coalition formed on September 12, 2009 during a meeting in Washington, D.C. of more than fifteen activists from various Black organizations, institutions and communities.

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Workers' Fightback: direct action vs council cuts, Vestas, Cali uni occupation

28-09-2009 23:58

We support... rank and file workers' struggles against the chaotic profit system!

We believe... workers know how to run our workplaces far better than business people, the government, or trade union leaders!

We aim for... workers' control over our own jobs and our own lives!

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Callout for support in Calais for migrants on hunger strike

28-09-2009 21:13

Following a demonstration yesterday by No Borders activists, including migrants from places such as Iran, Sudan and Afghanistan, a hunger strike is being planned in protest about the situation here in Calais.