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21/12/06 - London Colombian Embassy Picket

30-12-2006 14:16

STOP Coca-Cola’s Continuing Dirty War

Thursday 21 December 2006: A letter was delivered to the Colombian Embassy expressing international concern at Student and Trade Union leaders yet again being targeted by death squads, this time the Aguilas Negras (Black Eagles), for daring to criticise Coca Cola, Nestlé and other private corporations.

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The UK Ambassador's cheek

30-12-2006 14:03

Anthony Brenton, the British Ambassador in Moskow, took a part in the extremist conference "The other Russia". During his speech he noted that "forum "The other Russia" was promoting the development of democratic society in Russia", he pleased the facists audience anouncing that the UK government was supporting them by giving 1 million pounds per year in order "to help Russia be richer, stronger and more independent".

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Pictures from Chiapas

30-12-2006 08:57

Commanders and bases of support of the EZLN arrived yesterday in the afternoon at the caracol II of Oventik, accompanied by a delegation of national and international observatores.

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Saddam executed after travesty of justice

30-12-2006 04:07

With several members of his defence team murdered was their ever any chance that Saddam's trial would be fair? I doubt it. Bush, Blair and the Iran/Contra neoCons know Saddam was the man who could have put them away or sent THEM to the gallows.

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Anti-Wall Activists Beaten and Shot with Rubber Bullets in Bil'in Protest

30-12-2006 02:55

Around 200 hundred people, including international and Israeli activists, joined together in Bil'in village, near the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, for the weekly demonstration against the illegal annexation of the village's land. Nearly 60% of Bil'in has been lost as the route of the wall cuts directly through the area.

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Sharphill Woods Protest :: A Video

29-12-2006 23:35

At the begining of last summer, local folks organised to protest against the proposed Sharphill housing development on fields south of West Bridgford. They won. [Well done guys].

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Baghdad Burning

29-12-2006 18:51

Friday, December 29, 2006

End of Another Year...
You know your country is in trouble when:

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motley crew confront Northwood

29-12-2006 00:49

faith based bunch have a nerve; to 'resist', 'insist on life' and vigil UK military nerve center

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Anarchists Against the Wall have blocked central Tel Aviv

28-12-2006 19:23

Twenty activists from Anarchists Against the Wall have blocked central Tel Aviv with razor wire from the Apartheid Wall.

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22/12/06: Solidarity for Oaxaca, Mexico - London, UK

28-12-2006 18:06

A London solidarity group projected a film show on the front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square and distributed information leaflets about the deteriorating situation in Oaxaca, Mexico.

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Catholic Workers Blockade Northwood HQ on "Feast of Innocents"

28-12-2006 17:09

Following a day of reflection on the "Feast of the Holy Innocents" and the wars presently raging on Afghanistan and Iraq, a dozen Catholic Workers and friends made their way to Northwood Headquarters on the outskirts of London.

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HD-DVD and Blu-ray copy protection beaten already

28-12-2006 16:15

It's starting to look like someone has cracked the system used to protect commercial movies distributed on the HD-DVD and Blu-ray Disc high-definition-disc formats!

A thread on the Doom9 forums details the astonishingly speedy development process of the beta version of the cracking tool for the AACS (Advanced Access Content System).

The thread even includes links that let you download the Java-based command-line tool for Windows in a miniscule (18KByte) Zip file.

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The UK Ambassador's agenda in Russia

28-12-2006 16:05

Anthony Brenton, the British Ambassador in Moskow took a part in the extremist conference "The other Russia". During his speech he noted that "The civil forum "The other Russia" was promoting the development of democratic society in Russia", also he pleased the facists audience anouncing that the UK government was supporting them by giving 1 million pounds per year.

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Pakistan secretly holds hundreds in prisons

28-12-2006 14:37

Police broke up a protest by dozens of relatives of missing people and detained some as they tried to march towards the military headquarters.

Rawalpindi, Pakistan - December 28, 2006

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FOR THE LOVE OF BRAD (In 2 Parts) Videos and One Poem

27-12-2006 20:44

2 Videos and One Poem By Brad's friend and colleague.

http://blip.tv/users/view/Warcry%20Cinema

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Steve Pound MP on SOCPA - Radio 4 Christmas Repeal - Vote now!

27-12-2006 09:35

Radio 4 is running a Christmas Repeal listener vote, and the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act (SOCPA) is one of the candidates. Steve Pound, Labour MP, was on the Today programme this morning talking a load of bull about SOCPA, but he was forced to admit that Maya Evans and Milan Rai should not have been convicted under the Act. This jolted me out of my apathy to go and vote and to send a comment to Today (below).

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SOCPA - a cold christmas in parliament square

25-12-2006 14:57

brian haw maintains his peace vigil in parliament square and is there today with supporters including steve jago and barbara tucker.

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ID chip implants, other repression proposed by Blairites

25-12-2006 09:43

Chip implants, forced biochemical manipulation, state-sponsored vigilantism, psychological abuse of prisoners, anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant repression, and "rationing" of alcohol are among the repressive measures being mooted by the Blairites, to counteract a feared "rise in crime" they admit is mainly caused by neoliberal economics.

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Plane Stupid Newsletter #6

24-12-2006 16:41

“This is a deeply traumatized community which has been lied to for years and years by the aviation industry and one political party after another. There is a litany of broken promises. I wonder just how you might feel if you had endured all this for years! I am so angry I am almost incandescent with rage at the immorality of it all.”
- A resident of Harmondsworth, near Heathrow

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Cardiff supports Oaxaca

23-12-2006 20:41

Southwales anarchist hold solidarity action for Oaxaca