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The Consequences of the War on Terror” with George Soros and Timothy Garton Ash

13-11-2006 09:09

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film of old street shell garage blockade

12-11-2006 23:17

6' 25" video of the old street shell garage action on friday evening, where activists blockaded the garage and stopped business twice during the course of the evening.

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Climate Chaos Camp - Trebanos

12-11-2006 22:23

Campaigners get together in protest on Climate Change and Enviromental Rape by National Quid

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Stop the War demo at Nottingham's Armed Forces Recruitment Centre

12-11-2006 18:36

Stop the War demo at Nottingham's Armed Forces Recruitment Centre
On Saturday Stop the War Coalition draped Nottingham's Armed Forces Recruitment Centre with coffin-shaped placards naming the members of the British Forces killed in Iraq.

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Attack on anti-castor camp thrown back

12-11-2006 18:18

The Castor, a transport of nuclear waste, is going through Germany again. Several thousand people are protesting all over Germany. Near the route of the transport a protest camp is set up in Metzingen. Last night a street blockade with burning hay bales was set up.

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Families of Servicemen Killled in Iraq Lay Wreaths at the Cenotaph

12-11-2006 15:31

In a moving and solemn ceremony of remembrance, members of the families of some of the 121 British soldiers killed in Iraq processed along Whitehall to the Cenotaph in London on Nov 11, 2006, and laid wreaths. They were accompanied by a number of prominent supporters of the 'Stop the War' campaign and a large group of media.

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Fourth International Week of Action Against the Apartheid Wall

12-11-2006 15:14

On Saturday 11th November, demonstrators showing solidarity with Palestine Liberation struggle set up their stalls outside the doors of Marks & Spencer at the Marble Arch end of Oxford St, London, engaging shoppers in conversation and collecting signatures for their petition.

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Nuclear opponents delay waste transport

12-11-2006 09:36

Anti-nuclear activists on Saturday delayed a waste train from northern France to northern Germany by several hours, said the French reprocessing company, Areva.

The train carrying 12 Castor train storage caskets was held up before Serqueux near Rouen because activists were near the track. Two years ago a protester was killed when he was sucked under a Castor train train.

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Media coverage of Israeli attack on Beit Hanoun

11-11-2006 20:53

Wednesday’s dawn attack on the sleeping Palestinian family in Beit Hanoun by an Israeli artillery barrage (part of operation `Autumn Clouds`) was barely reported in the mainstream media. The focus was on the US mid-term elections and the resignation of defence secretary Rumsfeld.

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11th anniversary of Ken Saro-Wiwa murder marked in London

11-11-2006 18:52

Having attended the unveiling of the first of two creations commissioned by Remember Saro-Wiwa (see www.remembersarowiwa.com), London Rising Tiders headed across town to the Natural History Museum, to keep Saro-Wiwa's memory alive in a slightly more confrontational fashion inside the Shell Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition.

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Legal Aid Reforms - An Attack on the Working Class!

11-11-2006 17:46

Picture this – A nervous and overwhelmed individual is dragged before a court. He has spent the previous night in police custody, being interviewed about a crime he is alleged to have committed. He is tired and he is scared. He is dragged before a court, who are simply interested in getting home on time. He has no legal representation. The prosecuting solicitor wants him locked up, and launches into an eloquent tirade, using all his years of training and experience in the legal field, explaining exactly why this man should not be released. The man is asked if he has anything to say in his defence. He stutters and stumbles through a cringe worthy attempt to appeal for his freedom, ending with the words “….and, uh, sorry but this is very hard without a solicitor”. The judges feel that they have little choice but to send him to prison, and that is where he goes, bewildered and frightened.

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Shell Disrupted & Protested Again in Reading

11-11-2006 17:21

Inspired by last weeks action, and by the struggles of the people of Rossport and Niger, activists have again targetted Shell with protest and direct-action in Reading.

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Mancunians against the G8

11-11-2006 13:57

Manchester folks are in Rostock this weekend. Meeting at Arch Bar on Wednesday to include report back of the talks being held by anti-capitalists in Germany.

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shell garage closed twice by protest in london

11-11-2006 12:19

the old street shell petrol garage in london was closed down twice yesterday evening by protestors highlighting shell's repression of local people in county mayo, ireland, and linking it to the 11th anniversary of the murder of the ogoni 9 in nigeria, where shell is proven to have been involved in the killing of ken saro-wiwa.

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ken livingstone harangued at opening of dalston square

11-11-2006 11:55

livingstone was at gillett square in dalston today to mark the opening of a new 'space for local people'. protestors are angry at the gentrification of the area connected with the olympic invasion.

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Police endanger demonstration of high school students.

10-11-2006 14:40

Wendland, Germany -- Police endanger demonstration of high school students, neglecting traffic regulations during anti-nuclear waste transport demonstrations.

The Castor, a train transporting nuclear waste is supposed to start from France during the evening of Friday, 10. November. Protests are already taking place at the destination of the trains, the Wendland in Germany.

Translation of a report on Indymedia Germany

http://de.indymedia.org/2006/11/161562.shtml

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JJB Support Picket - Manchester 11th November

10-11-2006 13:48

Saturday 11th November: No-Sweat and the GMB Union have called a series of solidarity pickets around the country in support of striking workers at the JJB warehouse in Wigan. The company has allegedly been using recruitment agency temps to break the strike (which is illegal).

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Shell Protest in Newcastle only one arrest!

10-11-2006 12:58

Rush hour protest at largest Shell station in Newcastle November 10th

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Photos from Nottingham Shell Action

10-11-2006 12:53

photos from the Nottingham Shell to Sea solidarity action.

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Nov 17th is an Action Day For Imprisoned Anarchists in The Philippines

10-11-2006 12:28

A day of protest has been called for the Sagada 11, young anarchists falsely accused of a Maoist guerilla attack and tortured in The Philippines - Phone, fax, email, write on Friday, 17th November. Also more demonstrations at embassies etc are encouraged, please copy and distribute the leaflet below, and last but not least please write to the prisoners directly.