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Lebanon's Increasing Refugee Crisis - Sun 6th Aug - Photo Report

11-08-2006 16:12

Exact figures for the amount of refugees in Lebanon and Syria are hard to come by. Everyday the situation changes. Today for example several new districts of Beirut have been leafleted, so now thousands are flooding out from the suburbs in question, looking for shelter anywhere in the city they can find it. There is also a fear that with the world looking the other way (i.e. towards London’s ‘foiled terror plot’) the Israelis will exploit the one-track media window to get away with mass murder. They have a history of doing this. Ask any activist or journo who was in Palestine during 9/11.

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South Beirut After a Night of Bombing - Sat Aug 5th - Photo Report

11-08-2006 16:05

This morning Israel announced that it had hit several Hizbollah strongholds in the south of Beirut. That their targets had been carefully selected and were areas where they were storing arms and ammunition. So we went to the neighbourhood of Dhayiya to take a look for ourselves. The last time I saw devastation on this scale I was covering the aftermath of the South Asia Earthquake. Entire blocks have disappeared into piles of rubble and twisted metal. The first and most obvious thing is that aside from a few small shops and work units this was clearly a densely populated residential area. Locals tell us that the buildings destroyed include a mosque, an orphanage and a neighbourhood health clinic. The death toll is unknown this area has been bombed periodically over the last week. How many bodies lie under the rubble is unclear but human remains have a very distinctive smell and the odour is everywhere.

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Driving Into Lebanon - Friday August 4th - Photo Report

11-08-2006 15:27

The border with Syria is total chaos. Going into Lebanon is easy, coming out hundreds of cars and lorries are stacked up in a never-ending queue. Some are HGVs desperate to get their goods and vehicles out of the war zone. Others are packed with refugees; the lucky ones with the right documentation and enough money to escape.

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G8 Germany: hundreds plot resistance at direct action camp

11-08-2006 12:36

“Camp Inski” opened its doors on 4 August in North West Germany. There, more than 500 activists prepare for the protests against the G8 2007 summit, to be held in the nearby town of Heiligendamm. Numerous workshops and action training provide information and skills while at the same time direct actions are already being carried out in the area.

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Homeless in Anata

11-08-2006 11:11

Whilst the world's media is now distracted away from Israel-s destruction of another country, the Israeli occupation of Palestine becomes more administratively savage and swift whilst no-one is looking. This article is about Israel's illegal demolition of family homes in Greater Jerusalem and the West Bank. See 'Big Issue in the North out Monday 14th August for the article with pictures.

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Kate Hudson and Pat Arrowsmith at Brize Norton Peace Protest (+pics)

11-08-2006 09:04

Around two dozen peace activists from all over Oxfordshire, held a dignified protest outside the main gates of RAF Brize Norton on Wednesday 9 August. This was the first of two protests to be held at the base against its use by U.S. planes transporting armaments to Israel. The local group was joined by well-known peace campaigners Kate Hudson of CND and Pat Arrowsmith.We were all videoed to bits, to the disgust of some.The second protest will be held on Saturday 12 July, from 12.00. I have more, but similar, pics if required.

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Indymedia Photography from Lebanon

11-08-2006 08:31

IMC-NYC photographer Andrew Stern reports from Lebanon.

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Public Service Announcement for Electronic Lebanon

11-08-2006 07:48

In the weeks after Israel launched its attack on Lebanon, a team of New York-based artists, designers, and multimedia producers converged on a warehouse location in Brooklyn to create a Public Service Announcement for Electronic Lebanon. The two minute PSA is intended for wide distribution and public viewing. A laptop version of the PSA, for projection, is also available for download. Activists and others seeking broadcast-quality versions of the PSA are asked to contact EI.

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Join the civilian convoy to South Lebanon on August 12th

10-08-2006 21:56

On August 12, at 7 am, Lebanese from throughout the country and international supporters who have come to Lebanon to express solidarity will gather in Martyr's Square in Beirut to form a civilian convoy to the south of Lebanon.

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Bosses Adopt Bullying Tactics Against Striking Ambulance Workers

10-08-2006 17:03

The chief executive of the North West Ambulance Service resorted to bullying tactics last night, in an attempt to weaken solidarity between striking ambulance workers, ahead of this weekend's scheduled fifth stoppage.

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Anti Israel protest at Liverpool V Haifa

10-08-2006 16:34

A group of anti-war protesters made their point at the Liverpool V Maccabi Haifa Champions League match last night. Despite the Liverpool Echo's scaremongering (

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/liverpool/2006/08/347320.html), the protesters did not attempt to 'ruin' the match, leaving that to Rafael Benitez's unadventurous tactics.

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19 arrests at eviction of occupied forest near airport in Belgium!

10-08-2006 14:43

The occupation aims at physically preventing the cutting of the trees for as long as possible. The company hired to do the cutting, originally planned to make their preparations on the 1st of August and to start with their destroying work on the 2nd of August, however they now started on Wednesday the 9th.

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Occupation, not democracy!

10-08-2006 12:06

This is a small contribution of ours to the circulation of the students' struggle that emerged in Greece two months ago.

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G8 Summit, St Petersburg, Russia - On the ground 4

10-08-2006 10:00

I woke late. The sun was up and the head of a large and round-faced Russian policeman was poking through the tent entrance. He said something in Russian.

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Hi-di-hi Prestwick!

10-08-2006 09:46

Loitering with a Tent, an ad hoc affinity group established a peace camp in Glasgow Prestwick's main car park for around 11 hours in protest of the illegal military flights that are being allowed through what is marketed as a civilian airport.

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Israeli Anarchists Blockade Air Force Base

10-08-2006 08:48

Around 20 Israeli anarchists on Wednesday blockaded the entrance to Ramat David air force base in the north of the country, from which fighter planes have been taking off to bombing missions in Lebanon.

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Photo Essay from Lebanon - 2

10-08-2006 04:15

These images are stories in themselves

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Photo Essay from Lebanon

10-08-2006 04:03

These images are stories in themselves

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Civil Defense members removing corpses from Marwahin, Lebanon

10-08-2006 02:52

Civil Defense members removing corpses from Marwahin, Lebanon

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Highlighting the meaning of “Lanterns on the Lake”, Swindon, 9th Aug 2006

09-08-2006 23:54

Peace campaigners in Swindon were in attendance at the annual “Lanterns on the Lake” event at Coate Water, to highlight the reason for the event – the anniversary of the world’s first, and hopefully last, act of nuclear warfare, in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and also to publicise the protest at Brize Norton this coming Saturday. Things got a bit heated when an Israeli man and his wife took exception to the leaflets being handed out, but fortunately it ended with handshakes and good wishes.