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12 February 2007 - Fantastic February Blockade at AWE Aldermaston

28-01-2007 09:28

From 7 am at Tadley gate

Circus 2 Palestine

28-01-2007 09:12

The boomchucka circus are off on tour in Jerusalem at the moment bringing a little entertainment to the children there. This is the latest report from Sheila.

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Colombian farmers evicted by British mining companies

28-01-2007 07:26

Representatives of African-Colombian and Indigenous families evicted from their land in the province of La Guajira, Colombia to make way for a massive opencast coal mine will speak in London on Monday 29th January, 6.30pm-8.30pm at The Human Rights Action Centre, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2.

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Thousands Protest Iraq War In Washington - Jan. 27, 2007

27-01-2007 23:56

100,000 people.
The coalition "United for Peace and Justice" organized the march and pledged to hold more demonstrations in the future.

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Burberry Workers Protest in London, supported by 'No Sweat'

27-01-2007 23:52

'No Sweat' removers supported Welsh Burberry workers in London protest against factory closure outside Burberry's prestige West End shops on Sat 20 Jan, 2007.

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TAG Aviation caught rigging on-line poll

27-01-2007 21:08

TAG Aviation have been caught red-handed rigging an on-line poll to support their plans for a doubling of weekend and bank holiday flights at Farnborough Airport.

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3 protesters arrested at supermaket blockade

27-01-2007 20:12

A Morrisons supermaket was blockaded by over 80 people and three protesters were arrested today (Saturday 27 January) as part of the continuing campaign for a law ensuring rights to use Welsh language.

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Germany/Switzerland: protests against the visit of mexican president Calderón

27-01-2007 19:37

Germany. Protesters managed to get into the park of Castle Belvedere, the place where german Bundespräsident Köhler welcomed mexican president Calderon, who got into office by election fraud and who brutally surpresses the social movement in Oaxaca.

Switzerland.
protesters show Calderón he is not welcome. They managed to protest directly in fron of the Hotel Belvedere.

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Happy Days In Brecon Beacons

27-01-2007 19:30

The tree camp site in Brecon is gaining a LOT of local support. It's in a beautiful setting, and is quite sheltered!

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Holocaust Memorial Day in Nottingham

27-01-2007 18:01

Holocaust Memorial Day in Nottingham

Saturday 27th January is Holocaust Memorial Day. An event marked widely. Here in Nottingham

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Nottingham Fur Protests

27-01-2007 17:53

Nottingham Fur Protests

Saturday 27th January from 12.00 onwards

Kurt Geiger have been selling real rabbit fur boots and whilst they have taken the fur off the shelves for now, they are UNWILLING to provide CAFT with a fur free policy. This reluctance to provide anything concrete in writing confirming they will not stock fur in the future speaks volumes and makes their position clear: they will be selling real fur again in the future!

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Video: 24/01/07 - Shell blockades London

27-01-2007 17:40

Video of an evening of Shell garage blockades in London.

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Video of Critical Mass London January ride

27-01-2007 17:38

This time the cops decided to get tough with riders without lights and those who go through red lights and also with sound systems in the SOCPA zone.

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The New Borders Bill: A More Fortress Britain

27-01-2007 15:21

The new Borders Bill, the fifth on immigration in eight years, was published on 26 January, 2007 (see Home Office's press release). It will equip the new Border and Immigration Agency with a wide range of new powers to "deter, detect and deport those breaking the rules and ensure that those foreign nationals legally in the UK play their part in upholding the rules."

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Leeds Critical Mass a success

27-01-2007 13:29

45 people rode around Leeds for just under an hour last night, with no police interventions. The largest ride for some years, its hoped that this is the beginning of reversal in the downward trend of recent times.

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Critical Mass London January ride.

27-01-2007 12:25

You never know what the police are going to do next on the London ride. They clamp down on some things and relax on others from one month to the next and from one part of the ride to another. 'Shambolic' is perhaps the word that best describes their behaviour. They seem at times to behave more like Anarchists than the riders. You would think with their radios they could at least arrive at some sort of a consensus. In addition to our usual police overkill the Forward Intelligence Team were also in attendance at the South Bank, poking their cameras in people's faces. All this just because of a bike ride!

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Video of Protest at Manchester magistrates court over Police Rave Riot

27-01-2007 03:47

This video shows two things clearly. One is that there were definately a lot of out of control Police actions happening at the break up of the squatted warehouse in bellevue on the 20th Jan. Another is that visiting court nowadays is a privilledge not a right.

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When You Raid Someone's Home at Dawn, That's a Dawn Raid

27-01-2007 00:36

The Home Office was recently asked in Parliament how many occasions over the last two years their officers carried out dawn raids on asylum seekers accompanied by the police. Immigration minister Liam Byrne's answer was that the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND) "do not conduct 'raids' against asylum seekers." Officers, he insisted, "undertake operational visits to detain and remove persons who no longer have the right to remain in the UK and do so in line with operational policy and guidance." Byrne, however, revealed that there were 8,865 and 13,953 police-supported 'operations' in 2005 and 2006 respectively, some of which, he said, "would have been undertaken early in the morning for operational reasons."

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pipeline footpath protest stopped and started

27-01-2007 00:18

the footpath blocked by activists and locals for 3 weeks was illegally blocked off by national grid, and work begun again.
this was pointed out to the police, and work has now been stopped again!

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Protest against Mexican "president" - this Sunday and Monday - Please publicise

27-01-2007 00:01

Fradulent Mexican "president" Felipe Calderon is visiting the UK this Sunday and Monday. His first major act since taking office in December, having stolen the vote, has been to crush the social movement in Oaxaca, which has been mobilising against a corrupt and murderous local governor.