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Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 2

30-09-2006 12:24

Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 2

Friday 29th Sept @ 5.30pm

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm]

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Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 1

30-09-2006 12:18

Nottingham's Sept Critical Mass and Bike About :: The Pictures 1

Friday 29th Sept @ 5.30pm

Setting out from the usual meeting place [Outside the Savoy Cinema on Derby Road, meet at 5.30pm]

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critical mass manchester took the roads!

30-09-2006 11:49

manchester critical mass meet every last friday of the month at 6pm outside central library.

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People should not be afraid of their governments... Training for Sack Parliament

30-09-2006 09:11

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“People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people”

A weekend of planning and training for ‘Sack Parliament’

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A spanner in the corpse machine (report on picket of London Soldier)

30-09-2006 01:24

the leaflet given out on the day
On Saturday 23rd September, some people went down London Soldier - "for three days only, Chelsea will be transformed into a hive of military activity, demonstrating the best the Army and the Reserve Forces have to offer" - armed with piles of State Of Emergency's "Join the army - be depressed" leaflets to offer potential recruits some information on the possible downsides to taking the Queen's Euro.

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Asylum Seeker documentary - Ahlam's Story

30-09-2006 00:37

Ahlam Souidi speaks frankly about her time as an asylum seeker in Maryhill, Glasgow. Her family are at the moment threatened with deportation back to a country, Algeria, where they face grave danger.

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Day 26 of Mersey Fire Strike: Back To Work As Union Agrees £3.5m 'Savings'

29-09-2006 23:04

After nearly four weeks of strike action against £3.5 million of cuts to the Merseyside fire service, Fire Brigades Union negotiators have agreed to implement £3.5 million of 'savings'.

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London - Jack Boot City - Demo report, Weds 27th September

29-09-2006 20:41

An insight into the extreme behaviour of the police in their attempts to break the animal rights movement

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Leeds Critical Mass

29-09-2006 20:27

Had the cops left us alone on tonight's critical mass we'd have quite happily completed a second loop of the inner ring road and then all buggered off home. But no, the cops need absolute control over everything.

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An open letter to motorists who dislike cyclists.

29-09-2006 08:24

Thank you for all the little ways that you cooperate.

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CCTV Protest in Balsall Heath Continues

28-09-2006 22:28

Anti-CCTV Boy
Summary of ongoing campaign to get rid of a CCTV camera on our road, put up without consultation with residents, and suggesting that the protests are extended to other CCTV cameras. Also to link this with anti ID card campaigns,

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Day 25 of Mersey Fire Strike: End in Sight Following 'Cordial' Talks?

28-09-2006 22:15

As Merseyside firefighters began their fourth round of strike days, Fire Authority chief Tony McGuirk reported the end of the long-running dispute was in sight.

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Palestine Today

28-09-2006 16:45

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Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org For Thursday September 28th, 2006

Israeli air forces struck a Palestinian house in Rafah, the army injures an old farmer north of Beit Lahia town in the Gaza Strip, and in the West Bank the army invades several cities and takes prisoners. These stories and more coming up stay tuned.

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Another Tragedy Engulfing Afghanistan

28-09-2006 15:26

photo by Shayne Kavanagh
Afghanistan is presently suffering its worst violence since the removal of the Taliban government five years ago due to NATO´s extension of its ´peacekeeping mission´ to the South. But while the polticians are still busy with their war games, yet another tragedy is engulfing Afghanistan.

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Homeless families in Iraq seek government action

28-09-2006 11:34

Hundreds of homeless people demonstrated in Baghdad on Monday in protest over being evicted from government buildings and schools they had been squatting in.

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Poland - government has to go!

28-09-2006 11:20

hence! the government! hence the corruption of... no for liberals of...
Around 200 people demonstrate in a front of parliment builidings in Poland asking the government for leave...

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URGENT - Witch hunt in Chile: Six anarchists arrested after police raid squat.

28-09-2006 04:01

A lot of weapons of mass destruction
This is what progressive democracy looks like.

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Rhythms of Resistance Manchester: drums not war! (27/9 action)

28-09-2006 00:12

sambistas
27/09/06 at 8pm:

Young, naive but loud! A small band of Rhythms of Resistance Manchester sambistas walked right at the entrance of Midlands Hotel (where the labour conference delegates were staying) playing funky tunes and shouting antiwar chants.

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G8 2007 - Proposed 'Red Zone'...

27-09-2006 22:35

Cops in Germany have held their first 'scare-the-shit-out-of-the-local-populations' meeting, in advance of next years G8 Summit in Northern Germany. Along with apparently saying they are considering banning 'larger' demonstrations around the area of Rosstock/Heiligendamm (haha, try it!) they have produced this map, showing their proposed 'red zone'. They reckon the fence will be roughly 12ft high.

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The Faces Behind Redwatch

27-09-2006 18:19

These are the scum behind Redwatch