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NATIONAL GRID ENDANGER LIFE OF PROTESTOR

16-01-2007 19:56

National Grid blatantly abused health and safety regulations yet again today when a peaceful protester d-clamped himself to a crane at their construction site at Alltwen in the Swansea valley. Despite calls from onlookers that he was clamped by his neck, national grid / nacap staff started up the crane and proceeded to move it with the protester attached who was approx 45 feet up in the air...................

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ACTIVISTS STOP WORK ON GASPIPE IN ALLTWEN

16-01-2007 16:11

Work stopped for five and a half hours on construction site in Alltwen, Pontardawe

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Home Office Still Planning to Deport More People to Unsafe Iraqi Kurdistan

16-01-2007 16:06

Since Monday 8 January the Home Office has again begun arresting rejected Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers in Manchester, Birmingham and Doncaster, presumably with a view to forcibly removing them to Northern Iraq. This is in the week that UNHCR warned that Iraq cannot deal with the number of displaced persons it already has[1], that Tony Blair says Britain has to keep fighting wars, and George Bush announces that he intends to send 21,500 more troops to Iraq.

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Pipe Protest Snowballs

16-01-2007 16:02

4th Protest on Pipeline Started today!

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New Wave of Arrests Against Iraqi Kurds

16-01-2007 15:49

A number of Iraqi Kurdish asylum seekers have been detained across the UK this month. No removal dates seemed to have been set as yet.

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Bolivia photos - General tests of civil war

16-01-2007 15:35

Cochabamba, 11-12-13-14-15 January, 2007

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Pictures from Guantanimo action at US embassy.

16-01-2007 13:28

Some late images of the action organised at the US Embassy in London by Amnesty international. Over 300 people took part.

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Craig Murray: Torture and The "War on Terror"

16-01-2007 10:35

Former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan speaks of the shocking torture and the knowingly false intelligence produced in the so called "War on Terror".

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Construction Worker Killed in Liverpool City Centre

16-01-2007 01:08

It had only been a matter of time before Liverpool City Centre saw a construction worker die on the job. Yesterday, the inevitable happened, and a 120 foot crane collapsed, killing one man and seriously injuring another at Duke Terrace, near Seel Street.

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Pipeline protests gather strength

15-01-2007 22:34

Active opposition is underway against the South Wales LNG pipeline in three separate locations. Objections to National Grid's controversial project are spurred by lack of consulation, safety fears, environmenal issues and climate change concerns. Protests grow stronger day by day, supported by long term campaigning, creating a spirited and unified resistance.

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BERLIN: 80 000 remember to Rosa Luxemburg, Karl Liebknecht

15-01-2007 22:08

Berlin. 80 000 people came to visit the "Cemetary of the Socialists" to remember to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, the founders of the German Communist Party. Luxemburg and Liebknecht were murdered by "Freikorps" Soldiers after World War I.

Pics from the protest march through Berlin.

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Indy Global Report on Resonance FM104.4

15-01-2007 17:21

Listen to the 8th of jan's Indy Global Report which broadcasts on Resonance FM104.4 every Monday between 22.30 and 23.30.
Also listen out for tonight's show which will be bringing reports about the recent US bombing of Somalia, This week in Palestine, the weekly update produced by IMEMC, as well as radical tunes and grooves.

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Tate in a State over "sensitive" photographs

15-01-2007 16:56

As Blair bangs on about how the media spoil his war, showing the wrong sort of pictures, confusion broke out this morning at Mark Wallinger's opening at the Tate.

Using extensive reference photographs Wallinger has has managed in his work 'State Britain' to re-create an exact copy of Brian Haw's protest camp as it was prior to 23rd May's police raid. Today's press call was to encourage us to photograph the art made from the photographs, so to speak.

Except that some art, including horrific birth defects as a result of depleted uranium armaments was off limits. Admission to the launch was dependent on agreeing not to photograph it.

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SOCPA - brian haw's full display rises like a pheonix

15-01-2007 14:20

next monday at horseferry road, judge purdy hands down his decision whether brian haw has a case to answer for alleged breach of socpa conditions that led to a night-time police raid by 78 officers in may 2006 cutting his display from more than forty metres down to a mere three. in the meantime, artist mark wallinger has been busy recreating the whole display and his exhibition entitled 'state britain' opened this morning at tate britain, on the very edge of the socpa zone.

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Another Irish airport could welcome U.S. military flights

15-01-2007 12:45

Knock airport could become a new stopover point for U.S. military planes en route to the illegal war in Iraq. Will it also be a stop on the Guantanamo Express?

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Gays demonstrate at Vatican for civil unions

15-01-2007 12:06

Members of gay and lesbian associations hold flowers as they demonstrate on St. Peter's square at the Vatican January 13, 2007 in Rome. The groups, which converged on the square in memory of an activist who killed himself there nine years ago, demonstrated against Pope Benedict XVI's latest speech on PACS, Italy's proposed social agreement for unmarried couples.

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Nazis in Russia tried to murder an antifascist again

15-01-2007 05:13

sequence of nazi attacks on anti-fascists in Russia goes on.
14 of january 2007 in St.-Petersburg group of about 10 nazi attacked with knives an activist of Food not bombs.

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10/01/07: Downing Street Candle-lit vigil for Guantanamo Bay prisoners

15-01-2007 01:47

Video of the candle-lit vigil for the prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.

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Copenhagen: On .. two .. many Youth Houses!

14-01-2007 18:58

Today is truely a historic day for the colorfull youth of Copenhagen. It started as a big demo 'For more Youthhouses' - and ended fullfilling it's own wishes at once! Another Youthhouse has just opened earlier today in the Copenhagen North Western part of town in a big industrial building, Dortheavej 63, half an hour walk from the other Youth House.

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Anti-Arms Trade Campaigners launch new Legal Attack against Factory’s Lawyer

14-01-2007 14:32

Anti arms trade campaigners have handed in seven official complaints to the law society regarding the conduct of Timothy Lawson-Cruttenden, the solicitor who represented EDO MBM in their failed attempt to gain a civil injunction against protesters at their Brighton factory.