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India joins nuclear club, world doesn't care as india has minimal oil reserves

19-04-2012 09:29

India has successfully test-launched a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead. It's range is believed to be 5000km, enough to put it in striking distance of China for example.

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Immigration checks are everywhere - New Cross bus stop, latest hot spot

19-04-2012 09:09

Report from a South London Solfed member.

On my way to work this morning I found the bus stops around New Cross bus garage swarming with police and UKBA immigration officers. I saw a man being questioned by immigration officials and surrounded by several police under the bus shelter. This was a bit weird and unnerving so I sent a mass txt out to warn people and pass on the message.

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WATCH Livestream TONIGHT (&other dates) "The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning"

19-04-2012 09:07

PLAY PROMO YOUTUBE (1 min) - 'The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning Hyper Connecte Theatre
 http://youtu.be/8a7ZXVchhuE
You need to go to this link to register before viewing.....
 http://tinyurl.com/cfens7n

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Rights not Charity! - Protest brings traffic to a standstill

19-04-2012 07:02

Starting at Leicester Sq
Yesterday ,disabled people came from different parts of the country and assembled at Leicester

Square and moved off towards Trafalgar Square. It started raining intermittently. Police accompanied us and were not happy that we were on the road. They tried to get information and we heard them asking what were our plans but none of us spoke to them.

Arriving at Trafalgar Square, 2 groups of wheelchair users split up and block up two junctions. Police tried to get us off the street while activists chanted and voiced their protests.

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Brighton Bike Fest Day Four (It's Stopped Raining!!)

19-04-2012 06:45

Rain hasn't stopped Play! Police on Bikes Welcome!One less Riot Van.

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Fire! In A Crowded World

19-04-2012 03:38

Audio
Landscape fires appear to be increasing and more fierce. New wave of fires across N.E. North America in early April! Could UK drought bring more fire? Speech excepts from 3 fire experts recorded at 2012 American Academy for the Advancement of Science special session.

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Occupy Brookes kicks off despite monsoon weather

18-04-2012 21:53

The occupy camp outside Oxford Brookes Uni started up today amid crazy downpours.

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Bradley Manning Solidarity - report from Wales

18-04-2012 19:39

We're currently in Wales taking action for and in solidarity with Bradley Manning - the young US soldier with Welsh roots incarcerated without trial for two years and tortured for sharing the truth about wars being fought in our name - as the National Theatre Wales performs Tim Price's play 'The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning' in Pembrokeshire, Cardiff and Flintshire during April. This is a summary of events and actions to date.

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Portsmouth's Nazi Pub Exposed!

18-04-2012 14:59

Portsmouth Nazi Watch can finally reveal the details of our latest investigation into the activities of the far-right in Portsmouth. Rather worryingly these centre around the Landlord of a licensed Public House that has been used on many occasions to host meetings, conferences and film screenings for neo-nazi extremists and football hooligans.

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Second Squatters March

18-04-2012 14:55


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Oxford Brookes Occupied

18-04-2012 14:32

Students inspired by the global occupy movement have today occupied Oxford Brookes University as a protest against rising tuition fees.

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Dissolve secret agencies and police – Anarchy in the EU!

18-04-2012 13:55

According to a protocol of the EU Council working group on “Terrorism”, the European police agency EUROPOL is organising a conference on anarchism on the 24th and 25th of April 2012 in The Hague. According to media reports, there will be a presentation by the Italian delegation on the activities of the „Federazione Anarchica Informale“ (F.A.I.) and the conference will also discuss actions against “railway infrastructures” and against the “No Border Network”.

“Railway infrastructure”? WTF?!

Very much in line with general European politics, the actual content and intention of the organisers remains in the dark. What, for example, is meant by the term “railway infrastructure”: It seems reasonable to assume that it refers to the protests against the “railway infrastructure” Stuttgart 21 in Germany as well as the high speed connection “Treno ad Alta Velocità” (TAV) which is planned from Turin to Lyon. Both projects were strongly opposed by local communities and this resistance has of course also been strongly supported by a variety of Italian and German left social movements. In this context the German government speaks of “left wing extremism and terrorism” and its alleged “attacks on train transports”.

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SchNEWs: By George!: Stop The March For England

18-04-2012 13:47

As SchNEWS dives into the March for England's path

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Happy (Belated) Birthday Badger!

18-04-2012 12:55

On Tuesday 16th April we visited the offices of The Evening Post in Bristol to wish a happy birthday to our Comrade Huw 'Badger' Norfolk who is currently on the run due to crimes relating to the building. We held a banner which read: "BRISTOL ABC: Every Prisoner Is A Political Prisoner" and wore badger masks to show our solidarity with him.

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Mark Kennedy: A mole in Tarnac

18-04-2012 11:54

This is the story of an infiltration. For seven years, the English detective Mark Kennedy posed as a radical leftist throughout Europe. In France, he provided the DCRI with information about the people placed under investigation in the case of Tarnac.

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EUROPOL conference on targeting anarchism

18-04-2012 11:41

Police from 20 European countries are meeting next week (24-25 April) in Den Hague, NL, for a conference on coordinating repression against FAI, No TAV, No Borders and other "euro-anarchists". Repost from "Out of Control Berlin"  http://euro-police.noblogs.org.

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G4S loses EU Parliament contract over illegal activities in Palestine

18-04-2012 11:33

G4S loses its security contract with the European Parliament after complaints from 28 MEPs.

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Birmingham Trades Council Mayoral debate

18-04-2012 10:46

"Should trade unionists support an Elected Mayor?”

Thursday 19th April, 7pm - 9 pm

Council House, Birmingham B1 1BB

To be chaired by Joe Morgan

GMB Regional Secretary

Yes to an Elected Mayor:

Sion Simon, former Labour MP for Erdington.

Additional speaker to be confirmed.

No to an Elected Mayor:

Roger Godsiff, Labour MP for Hall Green and Richard Hatcher, Professor of Education, Birmingham City University.

An elected dictator in the Council House?

No to elected mayors - democratise the Council!

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Birmingham and Solihull Workers Memorial Day Events 2012

18-04-2012 10:40

Remember the Dead – Fight for the Living

Every year more people are killed at work than in wars. Most don't die
of mystery ailments, or in tragic "accidents". They die because an
employer decided their safety just wasn't that important a priority.
Workers’ Memorial Day is our chance to remember them and demand
an end to this suffering!

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Europol targets the “NoBorder Network”

18-04-2012 07:22

Dissolve secret agencies and police – Anarchy in the EU!

According to a protocol of the EU Council working group on “Terrorism”, the European police agency EUROPOL is organising a conference on anarchism on the 24th and 25th of April 2012 in The Hague. According to media reports, there will be a presentation by the Italian delegation on the activities of the „Federazione Anarchica Informale“ (F.A.I.) and the conference will also discuss actions against “railway infrastructures” and against the “No Border Network”.

“Railway infrastructure”? WTF?!

Very much in line with general European politics, the actual content and intention of the organisers remains in the dark. What, for example, is meant by the term “railway infrastructure”: It seems reasonable to assume that it refers to the protests against the “railway infrastructure” Stuttgart 21 in Germany as well as the high speed connection “Treno ad Alta Velocità” (TAV) which is planned from Turin to Lyon. Both projects were strongly opposed by local communities and this resistance has of course also been strongly supported by a variety of Italian and German left social movements. In this context the German government speaks of “left wing extremism and terrorism” and its alleged “attacks on train transports”.