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Roof of St.Pauls Cathedral occupied to commemorate 9/11

12-09-2006 14:21

I case you were wondering 9/11 is not just the anniversary of General Pinochett's US backed coup which installed a fascist government and murdered 30,000 people. Nor is it just the day that the people of New York discovered what it is like to be Palestinian.

It is also the day that Gandhi announced his strategy of peaceful non violent direct action. A way of doing things that would eventually see the liberation of an entire continent and inspiration for many of the great civil rights movements of the last 100 years.

Whether or not such tactics could work now is a matter of debate. One of the first things that US troops did when 'liberating' Iraq was to gun down 'peaceful non violent' demonstrators demanding jobs from the 'Coalition' government. Personally I think that if Gandhi was alive now he would be carrying an AK47 and dedicating his spare time to making roadside bombs.

Anyway, yesterday was the 100th anniversary of Gandhi's declaration. So to remember the great man and his work, 3 women occupied the roof of St.Pauls Cathedral and dropped a banner. Below is their press release.

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Bikounga Family Must Stay

12-09-2006 12:34

"We've had it all in the UK: Economic persecution, hardship, legal and administrative prejudice, brutality and detention, years of waiting and now destitution and the four of us living in one room. It's time to fight for our right to stay." - Judith and Juslain Bikounga, Tuesday, 12th September, 2006

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Statement from Raytheon Nine as court date set

12-09-2006 10:09

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The other 11th of September, the Catalan Nation carries on the fight

12-09-2006 02:38

On the 11th September 1714 the Catalan Nation lost its capital to the hands of the Castillian troops, initiating a long a bloody period of systematic destruction of the Catalan language and culture.

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Blair press conference disrupted in Lebanon

12-09-2006 00:36

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More London 9/11 Truth Protest Photos

11-09-2006 23:37

Another set of photos from protest held on the 5th anniversary of the attacks on 11th September 2001 outside the US Embasy in London.

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London 9/11 Truth Protest

11-09-2006 23:07

Protestors gathered on the 5th anniversary of the attacks on 11th September 2001 outside the US Embasy in London.

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Latest news from the rampART

11-09-2006 23:01

This is an edited version of the latest newsletter from the rampART social centre in East London. You can join the mailing list yourself via

http://lists.riseup.net/www/info/rampart in order to stay up to date as the newsletter is not posted on indymedia every week.

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Classroom assistant suspended for anti-Blair protest

11-09-2006 22:19

A London classroom assistant has been suspended for helping to organise a protest against Blair when he spoke at his school last week. Please support the campaign to defend his job and workers' right to protest.

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Personal Experience of the Climate Change Camp

11-09-2006 22:11

The article gives impressions of what the climate change camp was like as a performer, workshop leader, and participant of workshops.

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Feedback from the Green Spirituality Workshop at the Drax Climate Change Camp

11-09-2006 22:06

There were 26 participants in a Green Spirituality Workshop which discussed spiritual answers to the coming climate change crisis.

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SOCPA - judge trashes human rights "because she can"

11-09-2006 19:34

judge wright, when asked by barbara tucker's barrister why she was setting bail conditions that were unprecedented and 'unheard of', replied 'because i can'. today, the simple action of standing alone with a banner decrying blair's war-crimes has been criminalised not just in the designated zone, but even elsewhere, on penalty of imprisonment. this is way beyond even the original contentious socpa powers and marks a further sinister attack on protest.

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York IMC Launch // 12 September // Space 109, Walmgate

10-09-2006 17:21

New Independent Media Centre to be launched in York, 12 September

A new Independent Media Centre (IMC) is to be launched at Space 109 (community centre), Walmgate, York, 19:30.

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Peace Cycle enters the West Bank.

10-09-2006 11:43

After considerable hindrance by the Israel military the Peace Cycle has finally been allowed to enter the West Bank.

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Brighton Police Attack on Demonstrations

09-09-2006 19:57

Starting with violent attacks on demonstrations against the EDO bombs factory, Brighton Police - under their Divisional Commander Kevin Moore - swamped the last demonstration against the bombing of Lebanon, harrassing demonstrators, especially Arabs and Muslims and videoing everyone present. Moore later declared the march anti-Semitic.

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No waste lorries, one arrest, two protesters and three police cars

09-09-2006 18:17

Saturday morning protest at Hafod Quarry, Johnstown, Wrexham, where landfill waste from Merseyside is being dumped on a site which includes an SSSI and a Special Conservation Area, and which is only 150 yards from local houses. But Hey! This is big business. Who cares about a few extra cancers and kids born with cleft palates and other abnormalities? We do!

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Institutional racism and torture in Austria

09-09-2006 15:28

A trial against four police men, who tortured a man that resisted his deportation on 7th of April 2006, has been ended without any consequences on 31st of August 2006 in Vienna. Though the Cruelty was confessed by the officers, three of them were sentencd to 8 months on probation and another officer to 6 months on probation.

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Camp Titnore Eviction??

09-09-2006 14:58

Camp Titnore Eviction

When is it likely this week or later?

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Sheffield Protest Against NHS Cuts and Privatisation

09-09-2006 14:31

Hundreds of protestors took to the streets of Sheffield on Saturday 9th September 2006 to oppose the closure of a ward at the Childrens Hospital and against NHS cuts and privatisation in general.

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3 Arrested at Blair Protest

09-09-2006 09:44

3 just arrested in London