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5000 Against NATO Conference in Munich

13-02-2007 16:44

Seen as a start into the anti-militaristic protest during the G8 in June, 5000 people gathered to protest against the NATO Conference in Munich last Saturday.

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About 1000 At Anti-G7 Protest in Essen, Germany

13-02-2007 16:35

Last weekend about 1000 people demonstrated against the G7 Financial Minister meeting in Essen in Germany.

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Oxford Campaigners Get Wet For Climate Change

13-02-2007 13:32

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM) staged a 'Climate Change Challenge' in Cornmarket Street on Saturday to raise awareness of a talk they are holding with Friends of the Earth on Thursday 22nd February 7.30pm, at the Friends' Meeting House in St. Giles. The talk is about the impact of climate change on the developing world, and the speakers will be Ricardo Navarro, an environmental activist from El Salvador, and Martyn Powell, WDM's Campaigns Officer.

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Banner drop

13-02-2007 12:49

Autonomous group drops a banner against the lab

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Video-chronicle: Demonstration against racism and foreigners law

13-02-2007 12:24

500 people took part in the demonstration against racism in Alcorcon and in the whole Madrid region.
The immigrant people and the antifascist youth marched around the streets of the multicultural neighbourhood of Lavapies shouting: “native or foreigner, it is the same working class”.
Video and music produced by La Plataforma

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Leeds 'Right to Rent' conference report

12-02-2007 20:50

In recent years, Leeds Tenants Federation has not been known for a militant anti-privatisation approach. However, on Saturday 3 February, it held an impressive conference on the 'Future of Social Housing' that appears to indicate a radicalising of its position amid a growing campaign mobilisation.

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White House challenged over Iran dossier

12-02-2007 17:12

Implausible and Unlikely: Campaign Iran’s response to the Iran Dossier

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Antarctica: Sea Shepherd Ship Holed during Collision with Whaling Ship

12-02-2007 16:50

The Sea Shepherd ship, Robert Hunter, has been holed in its starboard bow, and its port stern section above the waterline, during a collision with the whale spotter ship Kaiko Maru , according to Sea Shepherd's president Paul Watson. No injuries have been incurred by crew on both ships, and neither ship is in danger of sinking. A pod of whales being chased by the Japanese ship escaped.

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'It's safe to eat if cooked properly'

12-02-2007 14:48

What confidence can we have in a diseased food product, when we are assured not to worry, as it is safe to eat if cooked properly? Not eat it, maybe?

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Brize Norton - Anti forced removals demonstration

12-02-2007 13:44

60 Demonstators assembled on the gates of Brize Norton Royal Air Force (RAF) this morning Monday 12th February, to protest against the base being used to deport refused Kurdish asylum seekers to Kurdistan.

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2 short videos of noisy No Borders Demo 10th Feb - Heathrow

12-02-2007 12:24

These are 2 video short clips of samba band and general demoing outside of Harmondsworth detention centre at the weekend. No borders! Close the centres!

Previous stuff:
Stop Deportations to Iraqi Kurdistan - including photo of defiant inmate at a distance!

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361861.html
More photos:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/361996.html
More photos: Nottingham against detention centres & deportations - Harmondsworth, Heathrow

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/02/362059.html

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Brize Norton - Anti forced removals demonstration

12-02-2007 11:49

60 people assembled on the gates of Brize Norton airbase this morning Monday 12th February to protest against a charter flight that was to leave the base with 50/60 refused Kurdistan asylum seekers.

[The photos below are from the No Borders demo at Harmondsworth on Saturday]

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Sri Lankan state crackdown in Left wing activists and Independent media

12-02-2007 10:57

News about the persecution and intimidation of Left wingers and Independent media who do not agree with the war against the LTTE.

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Nottingham against detention centres & deportations - Harmondsworth, Heathrow

12-02-2007 10:44

Nottingham contigent numbered 8 out of a 150-strong Feb 10th demo outside privately run detention centres at Heathrow, too big for the small pen cops wanted us in. See photos of a Serco/Sodexho screw (they turned up in pairs shortly before visiting time - cops stopping visitors entering until we'd gone. Police 'intelligence gathering' as well. We also manage to make contact with inmate(s).

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1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen

12-02-2007 10:05

About 1,000 protestors demonstrate against the G7 Finance Ministers meeting in Essen, Germany, February 10, 2007

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Oaxaca, No Sweat and the Fifth International

12-02-2007 07:18

A SPEAKER from Oaxaca in Mexico spoke out the tumultuous events of the last nine months at a packed meeting in Brighton's Cowley Club on Sunday evening.

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Urgent! Ola and family kidnapped by snatch squads!

11-02-2007 19:06

Olawumi Alao and her three young children were snatched from their home in Liverpool in the early hours on Thursday 1st February. Please do all you can to help in their release.

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Munic: Thousands protest against the NATO (pics+report)

11-02-2007 17:26

"It is the tragic of each and any democracy, that everybody here can tell freely his oppinion in public and that state representatives have to be protected in a democracy. In dictatorships things like that would not happen."
Horst Teltschik, organizer of the NATO-security conference in an interview given to BR 2

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They shall not pass - demo @ kalyx/Colnbrook 10th February 2007

11-02-2007 15:59

200 + demonstrators from all over the UK supported the demo outside Kalyx/Colnbrook called by the 'No Borders Network'

Police bottle it
For over an hour no traffic passed in or out of the complex as the police gave up trying to clear a path through the assembled protestors.

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[Brasil] Camp in front of City Hall Demands Worthy Dwelling

11-02-2007 14:41

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