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Brazilians protest at corrupt system

09-09-2011 17:51

THE INTERNATIONAL wave of revolt against the corrupt ruling system has spread to Brazil.

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Confront the arms dealers! Destroy the death fair! 10am, Tuesday 13th September

09-09-2011 17:24

Confront the arms dealers! Destroy the death fair!
10am, Tuesday 13th September 2011.
Custom House DLR station (inside the station and on the trains).

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Bikes not Bombs -Dsei Critical Masses

09-09-2011 17:15

TUESDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 2011- PART OF THE DAY OF ACTION AGAINST DSEI. DSEI IS THE WORLD’S LARGEST ARMS FAIR, 1200 ARMS COMPANIES, 25000 BUYERS AND IT’S TAKING PLACE AT THE ExCeL CENTRE IN LONDON’S DOCKLANDS.

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Stop The Arms Fair Day Of Action: Tuesday 13th September!

09-09-2011 17:02

It's only four days till the DSEi arms fair opens its doors and the global arms trade arrives in London. There is a wave of actions planned for the first day of the fair, September 13th. You can find the full list at www.stopthearmsfair.org.uk.

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Noise protest outside Cedars detention centre

09-09-2011 16:55

This afternoon activists from NoBorders and No One is Illegal held a noise demonstration outside Cedars, a detention centre for nine families and their children in Pease Pottage, Sussex, which opened last week.

The activists gathered outside the front gates (metal fencing with a perspex cover) with a banner denouncing Barnardo's involvement in the detention industry (the charity is running "social and welfare services" at the detention centre). They chanted through a loudspeaker and made noise with various instruments. They also walked part of the way round the perimeter fence, continuing to remonstrate loudly against detention and deportation.

There were guards in hi-vis vests in the grounds of the centre, and a UKBA guard was also spotted. There was no sign of any of the detainees.

As the activists left the centre they were stopped by police under the pretext of "anti-social behaviour".

The activists stated that protests will continue until Cedars closes.

 

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Demolition in progress - Wall outside Cairo's Israeli Embassy attacked

09-09-2011 16:26

Protestors in Cairo have begun tearing down a wall that was built recently to protect the Israeli Embassy. There is discontent over the military rulers continued close ties with the Israeli regime.

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Harsh sentences for student demonstrators

09-09-2011 16:04

Student demonstrators arrested at last years protests have been convicted without sufficient evidence, and have been subjected to disproportionate sentences according to legal support activists.

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Why I put myself back in the dock over Fortnum’s

09-09-2011 15:41

On 26th March, I was arrested, along with 144 other people, for sitting down in Fortnum and Mason, in protest at their tax avoidance scheme, which costs taxpayers nearly £10m per year.

On the 18th July, my case was dropped, along with around 100 others, leaving 30 defendants to be tried (some were never charged, and youth defendants had already had cases dropped in case you are confused about the missing numbers). On Sept 7th, the Fortnum145 defence campaign revealed that 21 of us have decided to revive our case.

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Squatting is fine- for Homeowners

09-09-2011 15:01

What ?

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EDL / Casuals United / Infidels = Violent Racism

09-09-2011 12:30

As shown by this montage of screen shots, EDL organiser Jeff Marsh's Casuals United group and the EDL splinter groups called the Infidels are different branches of one and the same organisation.

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PoliceReview Article: Enviro Protesters win appeal

08-09-2011 23:55

Police Review Item this week:  

Climate change activist were cleared of trespass when an undercover officer's statement was not discosed in court.

Nick Peel assesses the legal implications



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Bashir the butcher of Darfur travels at will despite ICC arrest warrant

08-09-2011 23:40

It is an outrage that the architect of the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Darfurians and now responsible for bombings in South Kordofan may travel with impunity outside Sudan.

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EDL, SDL & NWI threaten violence against Anti-Fascists

08-09-2011 23:26

The Scottish Defence League are threatening to demonstrate in Edinburgh this Saturday, 10 Sept 2011, 1pm to 4pm. The SDL is well-known for being almost 100% BNP, and recent NWI Facebook posts describe one of their opponents as a "Paki loving cunt", and say that the "NWI-NEI-SDL coallition thrive on kicking the shit out of cunts like you". One SDL supporter is Paul Newlands, who has a huge Swastika tattooed on his chest...

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two banks close ahead of planned protest - bristol against dsei

08-09-2011 23:11

Planned Protest Targetting Investors In Arms Achieves Early Success!

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Cartoon on cuts/riots

08-09-2011 21:18

Cartoon on cuts/riots

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Urgent Squatters action update.Action Thurs 15th sept network it

08-09-2011 19:34

URGENT WARNING – ONE MONTH TO GO – GOVERNMENT CONSULTATION ENDS OCTOBER 5th
THIS NEW LAW WILL AFFECT ALL OUR RIGHTS TO PROTEST, TRESPASS AND SQUAT – WILL AFFECT STUDENT AND WORKER OCCUPATIONS, AND TENANTS RIGHTS

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The post-9/11 decade of lies

08-09-2011 19:05

1st Sgt with Baker Company stationed in Iraq, September 2003
It has been and will be the same since the day it happened. The same exhausting exercise, whether one, five years, ten or fifty years since 9/11. Another orchestrated orgy of mass propaganda-stoked ignorance and “war on terrorism” hysteria.

The propaganda myth of 9/11, imbedded inextricably into the fibers of society and culture, and into the brain cells of naïve, willfully uninformed people, is back for another sickening “commemoration”.

Who chooses to “commemorate” the lie of 9/11? Undoubtedly, the high officials and elites who planned the event, who successfully achieved everything they wanted---unending war for oil, naked fascism and militarism, and economic conquest---from this ultimate false flag operation. The atrocity of 9/11, the desperate act of an empire facing extinction, was not an “intelligence failure”, but the greatest intelligence success and criminal operation in history.

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Open expression of concern

08-09-2011 19:04

I am actively involved in supporting people in prison and those hurt by our "justice" system and write to express concern regarding the treatment of those detained at Woodhill CSC. I am well aware that these are prisoners some of whom have mental health issues and are unlikely to be helped by some of the reports that have reached me.

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Where was Andrew Lansley on 7 September 201

08-09-2011 17:55

On the day the House of Commons held the second day of the report stage and third reading of the Health and Social Care Bill, (Wednesday, 7 September) Andrew Lansley was opening a conference for the independent healthcare sector.  Also present was Barbara Hakin, National Managing Director for Commissioning Development at the Department of Health, and David Bennett, Chairman and Interim Chief Executive of Monitor 

Laing & Buisson arranged a one day symposium for the independent healthcare sector and the opening speaker was Andrew Lansley. This took place yesterday, on the very day that the Health and Social Care Bill received it's third "reading" in the House of Commons and was approved by MPs by 65 votes to go back to the House of Lords.

The day consisted of talks about riveting matters such as: Putting private healthcare back on the political agenda, Investment opportunities, The OFT's market study into private healthcare, Private practice the new market for the NHS.

Andrew's friends were also present. Ian Dalton, Managing Director of Provider Development at the Department of Health, gave a presentation called "Transforming the role of providers: the new open market in healthcare, opportunities for independent sector providers.

I'm not making this up. Mr Andrew "ludicrous scaremongering" Lansley was there and so were his mates from the Department of Health. Here is a link to the brochure for this conference http://www.laingbuisson.co.uk/Portals/1/Conference/Brochure_Forum_1.pdf