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Protests Greet Blair in Nottingham

27-07-2006 10:34

Tony Blair was in Nottingham yesterday (Wed 26th July) to give a talk on health at the Albert Hall on health. He was greeted by angry protests inside and outside the hall.

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Cambridge Leaflet Drop: YOU ARE NOT IN A TERRORIST AREA

27-07-2006 10:30

Cambridge Action Network drops parody leaflets on shoppers to draw attention to the bombing of Lebanon and Gaza, 25th July.

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Parents of children at Yarls' Wood on Hunger strike

27-07-2006 10:25

"We want the Home Office to hear us and free us"

Parents of children at Yarls' Wood on Hunger strike

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Pit Stop Ploughshares 5 Free - U.S. Embassy Pissed, Irish Government Exposed!

27-07-2006 06:48

On Tuesday, a Dublin jury returned a unanimous decision of "not guilty" to free the Pit Stop Ploughshares 5. After 4 hours of deliberation & 13 days of trial the five walked free in comapny of many local & international supporters. The five had been facing a max sentence of 10 years if convicted on a $US2.5million "criminal damage without lawful excuse charge" arising out of their nionviolent diarmament of a U.S. Navy war plane.

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Practices & resistance within autonomous spaces

26-07-2006 23:01

The People's Global Action is an anti-capitalist and anti-authoritarian network, whose European encounters will take place this summer in France. This even will happen in two parts: from August 19th to August 27, simultaneous decentralized conferences will take place in five locations throughout France; from August 30th to September 3rd, all participants are to gather in Dijon, for a centralized moment.

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Shell’s Corrib Gas Project in Context

26-07-2006 20:23

For over a year now all work has been stopped on Shell and the Irish state’s attempts to build gas refinery and production pipeline in Erris, County Mayo, aka the Corrib gas project. This overview seeks to put the resistance to the planned destruction in context, by looking at the potential for oil and gas exploitation in Ireland, and at the positive impacts the struggle in Mayo can have, and is having, on other situations. Though firstly I’ll look at the issues around this mis-development, and I’ll conclude by looking at what activities we will be carrying out in the near future.

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Titnore - new police dirty tricks

26-07-2006 20:03

ONE day before the High Court hearing which could lead to an eviction order for the camp, police have resorted to dirty tricks in what is now clearly a concerted campaign against the campers. Whatever happened to the impartial community policing approach they have been presenting to the media?

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Ex-Firefighters To Stand With Bosses On Cuts Agenda?

26-07-2006 17:01

It looks like Merseyside firefighters will be forced into strike action to save four fire engines for the region. But ex-firefighters now working as office staff will be trained to provide some cover during the strike.

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Report on die-in and collective scream against war - London, 25th July

26-07-2006 16:23

At 4.30pm, a handful of people caused a scene outside 173 Oxford Street, the home of Marks and Spencer, when they died in front of the shop door to show solidarity with Lebanese civilians who are being murdered by Israeli troops.

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The Square evicted

26-07-2006 12:27

Police and Baillifs evict the Square

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MEDIA ALERT: DEMOLISHING LEBANON - PART 1

26-07-2006 11:56

MEDIA LENS: Correcting for the distorted vision of the corporate media

July 25, 2006

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Against the generalised chaos in the Middle East

26-07-2006 10:52

solidarity to middle east

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Glasgow airport used in US 'bunker buster' bombs shipment to Israel

26-07-2006 03:44

Glasgows Prestwick Airport is a staging post for US supplies of bunker buster bombs to Israel. The aiport has just received two chartered Airbus A310 cargo planes filled with GBU 28 laser-guided bombs over the weekend. The bombs are being flown from the US to Israel for use in the war in Lebannon and possibly for a wider war. The GBU 28 is the massive 'bunker busting bomb' a weapon the Israeli war machine desperately needs in its bloody attempt to smash Hizbollah.

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CCTV Protest

25-07-2006 22:20

A local protest about the installation of a CCTV camera on a residential road without the residents being consulted.

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48 Hour Ambulance Strike This Weekend!

25-07-2006 19:25

Ambulance workers across Merseyside and Cheshire are preparing for 48 hour stoppage this weekend, in a dispute over pay. Technicians - who assist paramedics in ambulances - began a series of walkouts two weeks ago, after the collapse of talks with their bosses.

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Emergency assembly for direct action against invasion of Lebanon and Palestine

25-07-2006 18:21

Emergency assembly called for direct action against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon and Palestine

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Artivists' Flyer Drop!

25-07-2006 17:42

In response to Israel's pro war flyer drop the other day over Lebanon, some Cambridge activists decided to reclaim the flyer drop this afternoon - for peace!

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Review of New Indymedia Film, "i"

25-07-2006 16:39

"i,” the powerful and occasionally frustrating new film by independent directors Raphael Lyon and Andres Ingoglia, tells of one such democratic moment, the Argentinean economic collapse of 2001 and the social uprisings that accompanied it. Along the way it also functions as one of the first, if not the very first, feature length films about the Independent Media Center (IMC, or Indymedia) movement, which chronicled the Argentine struggle as it unfolded.

Anyway. Here's an advance review of the Indymedia film "i" that I did for the upcoming issue of the Indypendent.

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Tearing down the US Embassy fence last Saturday

25-07-2006 15:49

On Saturday the fence around the US Embassy was brought crashing down. Demonstrators from the Lebanon & Palestine solidarity demonstration, angry at the US support for Israel's attacks, shook the metal barriers until they came down.

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Titnore volunteers urgently needed to resist imminient eviction.

25-07-2006 15:25

On Monday, 24th July Tinore Woods Action Camp in Durrington West Sussex was served with a summons to appear at crown court in london. We are expecting an attempted eviction at any time from Thursday 27th July and urgently require support from local residents, activists and anyone who wishes to help protect this ancient woodland from development/destruction.