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Bicycology biketour pedals onwards : Nottingham Pix

20-08-2006 15:28

Bicycology is a biketour travelling from London to Lancaster (via Nottingham).

Form Lancaster it will be heading to the Climate Action Camp. It visited

Nottingham on Saturday 19th August.

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Close Down Dallas Court - Report 18 August

20-08-2006 10:48

Defend Asylum Seekers
On 18 August 2006, the North West Asylum Seekers Defence Group, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, asylum seekers as well as other anti-racist campaigners gathered outside Dallas Court Reporting Centre in Salford Quays, to protest against the racist treatment of asylum seekers and the continued kidnapping of people at Dallas Court. Including the recent kidnap and transfer to Campsfield, on Wednesday, 16 August of Jean Lobouka from Congo (Brazzaville), when he went to sign.

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Sheffield Protests: Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza – Don't Attack Syria or Iran

19-08-2006 21:34

Protestors gathered in front of Sheffield City Hall on Saturday 19th August 2006 for a demonstration called by the Sheffield StWC: Israel out of Lebanon and Gaza – Don't Attack Syria or Iran.

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The Cachan Thousand Being Evicted

19-08-2006 15:44

A big operation has begun to evict up to 1,000 immigrants, who have been occupying a former student hostel in Cachan, on the outskirts of Paris, for over 5 years. The block, which is mainly occupied by undocumented immigrants and homeless people, is one of the biggest squats in Europe.

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Recent account of life in Baghdad from Iraqi refugee.

19-08-2006 15:04

This piece contains an eye-witness acount of life in Baghdad written by an Iraqi refugee who has recently returned to her home town.

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Israel mounts new air raids on Lebanon

19-08-2006 13:37

Obviously having no intention of observing its own ceasefire, in an act of unparralled cynicism, Israeli warplanes and helicopters launched fresh raids in eastern Lebanon today.

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Poem for Lebanon

19-08-2006 10:57

This is a poem by Raja Chemayel

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+++ MEXICO: Rebellion in Oaxaca - activists kidnapped, tortured, killed +++

18-08-2006 15:55

repression in oaxaca
Mexico, Oaxaca. Since a few months the people stand up to fight the corrupt government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Since june the repression against the movement has grown. Activists were kidnapped, tortured and killed by police and paramilitary units.

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Biggest victory yet over WTO

17-08-2006 22:15

Biggest victory yet over WTO and « free » trade. Celebrate it!

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STOP PRIVATISATION OF PUBLIC SPACE

17-08-2006 21:27

HELP SAVE DAWSON STREET GARDEN - OXFORD.

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Bradford IWWs Defend Fired Starbucks Union Organizer

17-08-2006 19:35

IWW Bradford in northern England leafletted two Starbucks stores on 12 August in support of union organizer Daniel Gross, who was the latest IWW fired in New York the Saturday before. The Starbucks Union has called for a boycott of Starbucks until all four organizers fired are re-hired.

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London mayor proposal to register cycles and their owners...

17-08-2006 13:43

... and require cycles to carry number plates!

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Diary of a Peace cyclist – week one of the 2006 Peace cycle

17-08-2006 06:18

Sunday 6th August: 10.45 p.m.
'I like to ride my bicycle'
Too tired to write - and its only my first day and we only cycled 24 miles!

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Mass callout to help build the climate camp

16-08-2006 21:49

We are calling for all people who can to arrive in Leeds from Monday August 21 and head to the Common Place, 23-25 Wharf Street, Leeds LS2 7EQ. This is to build all the infrastructure ready to occupy the site. This is a mammoth task and the more people we have the more infrastructure is ready when we occupy the site and the less has to be built there. No DIY knowledge is needed as the highly skilled site practicalities group will be there to make sure everything goes smoothly!

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Voices of Pakistani Women Detained in UK

16-08-2006 17:19

"We always are the slippers of our husbands"

A statement from Maliha, Sajjida, Farzana, Sadia, Adibunnisa, Masooma and Heenia, seven Pakistani women currently Imprisoned in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre

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Urgent Appeal on Behalf of the Doldur Family

16-08-2006 17:09

Please help ensure that this family don't get removed before their Judicial Review is heard.

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Refugees Return to South Beirut - Mon 14th Aug - Photo Report

16-08-2006 14:44

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Mon 14th Aug: Today Beirut began to return to life. Shops are opening and the roads are jammed with traffic. For the first time since I have been here people are obeying the traffic lights. Hundreds of refugees are flooding back into the devastated south Beirut district of Dhayiya, with a dignity that is breathtaking.

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South Beirut and Palistinian Refugee Camp Bombed - Sun 13th Aug

16-08-2006 14:36

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At around 2.30 the Israelis start pounding the southern suburbs of Beirut again. One of those bunker buster bombs shakes the windows of our accommodation. We are miles away. We get a lift into the south of the city. Hizbollah stop our car as we approach the area around an hour after the strike. They have put a large cordon around the areas that are being hit or expected to be. They give us directions to a vantage point high above the city where we can view the proceedings from a safe distance.

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Saving Iceland

16-08-2006 07:35

First camp at Snaefell
The Icelandic highlands are the last great expanse of true wilderness left in Western Europe. Now the country's hydroelectric potential has been targeted by multinational corporations, who intend to establish large-scale heavy industry in these hitherto pristine hinterlands. Join the protest camp.

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Live indymedia coverage of 'terror rap' debate this thursday

15-08-2006 23:44

STREAMED LIVE THIS THURSDAY

This thursday, 17th August, Aki Nawaz lead singer of the radical rap band Fun-da-mental, will be at the rampART social centre in East London to debate Islamophobia, racisim and the health of freespeech and democracy in the UK. Joining him on the platform will be renowned human rights lawyer Louise Christian, Natacha Atlas, Ken Fero of Injustice Films, Shahrar Ali of the Green Party and John Pandit of Asian Dub Foundation.

The event starts at 6.45pm but if you can't make it you can catch it live online via indymedia.