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Labor Day statements from the Philippines

04-05-2010 00:10

LABOR URGED TO USE LABOR VOTE TO ADVANCE LABOR AGENDA. May 1 protest demands a stop to layoffs and contractualization.

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Activists Scale Leicester Animal Lab in Rooftop Protest

03-05-2010 23:38

NAVA today Received the following report:
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Election billboards subvertised

03-05-2010 23:11

Messages like “Don’t vote – take control” and “Tories = New Labour” have appeared on Conservative billboards across Manchester.

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Oaxaca: Protest Letter Against Attack on Solidarity Caravan

03-05-2010 21:40

http://www.redtdt.org.mx/d_acciones/d_visual.php?id_accion=90

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Iran and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) conference

03-05-2010 20:43

This year's Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference - as with previous years' - promises to be yet another battle between the developing and the nuclear-armed nations. The US insists that the Non-Proliferation Treaty needs to be rewritten so as to place greater limits on what it calls "nuclear weapons proliferation" whilst the developing nations say that the concern over proliferation is being used as a pretext by the US to avoid its own obligations under the same treaty to disarm its own nukes and to share nuclear technology with everyone else.

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Shut Down The G4S Chambers

03-05-2010 19:56

G4S have recently won a "British Safety Council International Award" in relation to the Concentration Camp in Oakington. The company will be presented with the award on Friday 21 May during a black tie banquet at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.

We urge workers to disrupt this spectacle.
We will be there to help destroy it.

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Notts Indypendent: New Nottingham community newsletter

03-05-2010 16:00

Notts Indymedia are pleased to announce the first edition of the Notts Indypendent, an offline community newspaper reporting on local campaigns.

The publication was unveiled at Nottingham's Mayday demonstration. Further copies will be distributed to homes in Nottingham in the run-up to the general election. Copies are also available from the Sumac Centre and the Sparrows' Nest. Alternatively, you can download the pdf copies below and print your own.

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Chesterfield Mayday 2010

03-05-2010 15:44

Chesterfield Mayday is traditionally one of the largest celebrations of International Workers’ Day in the region if not the country. Although substantially smaller than at its peak, the event continues every May bank holiday weekend.

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Britain's Election: Welcome to No Choice Democracy

03-05-2010 14:22

British voters go to the polls on Thursday in a general election that promises to be historic – for all the wrong reasons.

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Critical Mass at Party at the Pumps 2

03-05-2010 12:22

When: Saturday, 15th May
Critical Mass meeting point: 1PM at Marble Arch
Bring: a bike, noisemakers, your friends & family and your dancing shoes
Marble Arch meeting point map:

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl&q=marble%20arch%20
(Meeting point for those without bikes – Oxford Circus, 1PM.)

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EDL Rooftop Demo at Dudley Mosque site

03-05-2010 12:06

Early this morning the EDL staged a rooftop demo at the site of a proposed mosque where they had a demo just over a month ago. According to The Stirrer, the plan is for the demonstrators to stay for at least a week to show their opposition to the "Islamification to the town". They also claim there are just four people on the roof with a St. Georges flag and an Israeli flag, plus a banner saying "No Mosques"

http://www.thestirrer.co.uk/May_10/edl-protestors-030510.html

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South Africa:

03-05-2010 11:50

The sight of people, mostly women or children, walking kilometres over dusty roads to haul wood back to their homes for cooking, heat and light is not uncommon in South Africa’s rural areas. Likewise, every winter, fires rampage through the thousands of shanty towns that dot the urban landscape because people are forced to use dangerous sources of energy like coal and paraffin.

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Lib Dems accused of Homophobia for smearing and endangering LGBT community

03-05-2010 10:40

Northampton’s Lib Dem run Borough council has been accused of stirring up homophobia by dispersing the gay community and describing them as ‘cottagers and cruisers’ in official documents.

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May Day in Coventry

03-05-2010 10:19

Yesterday was the first May Day celebration in Coventry for many years, organised by Coventry Against Racism. The organisers had planned to kick off the event with a march, followed by a "Festival" in Millenium Place. The police demanded a payment of £900 to close the street: and when organisers couldn't cough up, the march was banned.

All the same, some of the assembled May Day celebrators forgot about the ban and spontaneously took to the streets, reclaiming the road and holding a colourful procession from the Council House to Millenium place. Maybe just an act of token resistance -- but was great to see Coventry town centre give way to anarchic festivity on May Day, even if just for a brief pause. The parade was led by the banners of West Midlands No Borders: "asylum is not a crime"; "freedom of movement for all"; "no one is illegal"; and "working is not a crime".

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More racist than thou: Tory quits to stand for BNP

03-05-2010 09:21

However much David Cameron tries to outdo the other two leaders on the telly – proudly proclaiming that he’s the one to kick out the most ‘illegals’ – it seems he’s just never going to be racist enough for some Tories.

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Undercover investigation reveals government relationship with private military c

03-05-2010 08:55

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/elections/dont-panic-post/post/dont_panic/16/exposed-government-relationship-with-shady-private-military-companies.html

Undercover investigation by Don't Panic for Yahoo! reveals shocking links between government and shady private military companies.

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Mayday! Peace Camp / Democracy Village - Parliament Square

02-05-2010 21:59

Statement From The Democracy Village, Parliament Square

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Action Alert #1 - Stop the Leicester Animal Lab

02-05-2010 18:48

A new campaign has been launched to oppose and stop the construction of a new animal testing laboratory on Lancaster Road at the University of Leicester.

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Terrible attack on solidarity caravan in Oaxaca, Mexico

02-05-2010 18:47

The UK Zapatista Solidarity Network condemns the attack on an aid and solidarity human rights convoy travelling to San Juan Copola in Mexico. 2 people killed by paramilitary gunfire.

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Arthur Scargill addresses Dublin Mayday rally

02-05-2010 16:56

On a miserable wet day around 400 workers marched through Dublin in the annual Mayday march organised by the Dublin Council of Trade Unions. Speakers at the end included Arthur Scargill, president of the British National Union of Mine Workers during the bitter year long 1984 strike in which 10 people were killed.