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Reclaim the Street Party - Mayday

14-04-2010 21:39

Saturday 1st May 2010, 4pm

!RAVE AGAINST THE MACHINE!

!STREET SOUNDCLASH!

!RECLAIM THE STREETS PARTY!

Spread the word and invite your friends!

Location to be confirmed... Waterloo/Southbank/Se1 London

Reclaim the Streets! Fuck the Election!

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Counter Terror Expo at Olympia Exposed

14-04-2010 21:14

A peaceful protest took place outside the Counter Terror Expo at Olympia against the profits made from terrorising people around the world and the increasing use of surveillance systems to control and document our lives. London, UK. 14/04/2010 Photographs copyright (C) 2010 Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Educating who about what - University figures revealed

14-04-2010 20:32

Despite the threat of massive job cuts across the whole of education the latest official figures show the income of UK universities has risen by over £2bn in the last academic year largely due to the increase in tuition fees.

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Richard Leese resigns (temporarily) after assaulting teenage stepdaughter

14-04-2010 19:07

The leader of Manchester City Council, Sir Richard Leese, stepped down today after it emerged he had been cautioned for assault on his 16-year-old stepdaughter. The City Council and Manchester Labour, however, insist the incident is just a “private matter” and say his resignation is only temporary.

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Election Question Time hosted by Amnesty, Oxfam & NO2ID, 22nd April

14-04-2010 16:23

Everyone is welcome to the Election Question Time being hosted by Amnesty International Cambridge city group, Cambridge Oxfam Group & Cambridge NO2ID.

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Palestine Today 04 14 2010

14-04-2010 15:49

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Wednesday April 14, 2010.

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Police Raid NY Anarchist Film-Fest Collective

14-04-2010 15:36

For Immediate Release

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Surveillance + detention = £Billions: How Labour’s friends are ‘securing your world

14-04-2010 15:27

At the bustling Counter Terror Expo in London’s Olympia this week they are giving top billing to the security industry’s favourite politician. “The most experienced cabinet minister of modern times”, they call him: Dr John Reid.

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Stop prison censorship of radical literature!

14-04-2010 15:14

Leroy Smith has asked us to encourage people outside prison to write individual letters, complaining about the banning of Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! (FRFI) in Woodhill.

The banning of any radical literature in prison is an attack on ALL those sending alternative publications into prisoners.

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Activists call for an end to university animal experiments

14-04-2010 15:04

Activists protested against animal experiments at the University of Sheffield. Over 30 000 animals are experimented on every year at the university, before being killed and disposed of.

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Corporate Watch - IATA: Supporting Settler Tourism

14-04-2010 15:02

pics at

http://corporateoccupation.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/iata-supporting-settler-tourism/#more-516

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Your Tax Dollars at War: More Than 53% of Your Tax Bill Goes to the Military

14-04-2010 14:52

Military spending in all its myriad forms works out to represent 53.3 percent of total US federal spending. US military spending isn't just half of the US budget. It is also half of the entire global spending on war and weaponry.

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Last week in Calais: Fascism, Tea and English classes

14-04-2010 14:25

Here is a summary of the last week in Calais by No Borders/Calais Migrant Solidarity activists working there

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Fighting Corruption or Persecuting Political Opponents in Venezuela? A Response

14-04-2010 14:21

"A judge should not get a cosier cell just because of her socio-economic class."
"In his April 3rd article for the New York Times, Romero manipulated and distorted the facts about Afiuni’s case to fit the Times’s agenda of impeding honest news and discussion about Venezuela, driving forward the informational sabotage against the Chavez government that is widespread in the mainstream international media.

Romero asserted that Judge Afiuni and Eligio Cedeño were political prisoners. This is clearly inaccurate, especially since no evidence was presented that they were politically active. His piece also implied, by omission of sufficient context, that the Chavez government is the primary cause of the problems in the judicial system. This is also inaccurate and disingenuous. Romero even went so far as to implicitly compare Afiuni to the Dalai Lama at the end of his article, confirming the Times’s lack of seriousness when addressing these issues.

Romero’s article is an insult to the real political prisoners of Latin America – past and present – who have been tortured, murdered, and disappeared by dictators and neo-liberal regimes that used the justice system as a repressive tool to eliminate opponents. And, Romero’s article distracts his international audience from any constructive discourse about the problems in Venezuela’s justice system and how to overcome them, in the context of this gruesome history."

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BlueNG Superglued in Protest Against Agrofuels

14-04-2010 14:07

Last night, Agrofuel company Blue NG had their head offices visited by activists and all of the doors superglued shut. This action was in protest at Blue NG's involvement in plans to build an agrofuel power plant.

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Party at the Pumps – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 10 Apr 10

14-04-2010 12:00

Dateline: Party at the Pumps, Shepherd's Bush Green BP Petrol Station, London, UK, 13:00-17:00, Sat 10 Apr 10 – Hundreds of people descend upon the BP petrol station on the south side of Shepherd's Bush Common for a four hour long 'Party at the Pumps'. Dancing to live music from the Rhythms of Resistance samba band and the Green Kite Midnight ceilidh band, plus MP3s piped through the Bicycology sound system, we rocked the forecourt, left peacefully and there were no arrests. But why? This was the London direct action component of an International Day of Action on the Canadian Tar Sands – the single most dirty, toxic and dangerous climate crime atrocity on Earth; and the centrepiece of the 'BP Fortnight of Shame', culminating in a vote at the BP shareholder's AGM in London on Thursday 15 April 2010 to keep BP out of the planet-trashing Canadian Tar Sands (protest details below).

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BIBRA Animal Labs Close Down

14-04-2010 11:01

The British Industrial Biological Research Association (BIBRA) has a long standing history of animal abuse and torment, testing on behalf of a variety of companies ranging from Boots the Chemist to AstraZeneca. Rodents, rabbits, primates, beagles and other unfortunate animals were used at this Contract Research Organisation for toxicology experiments.!

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Missile Merchants Go Off Target

14-04-2010 10:45

As the Counter Terror Expo kicks off today peddling it's trade in death, destruction, surveilance, oppression and control, activists set about disrupting the event this morning.

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Venezuela: the myth of "Eco-socialism of the XXI Century"

14-04-2010 02:23

* This text, which appeared in El Libertario # 58, March-April 2010, critically examines what has been meaning the government of Hugo Chavez from an environmental point of view, highlighting the clear separation between the rhetoric speeches that are emitted from power and the specific facts being promoted and implemented.

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Sisters In Struggle

13-04-2010 23:39

The anarcha-feminist conference in Manchester, organised over the weekend of the 10th to 11th April was nothing like my preconceptions.