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Oxfordshire Faslane blockade pics

29-03-2007 15:45

A couple of photos from the Oxford Faslane 365 blockaders.

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UNITY at the Immigration Court

29-03-2007 13:04

Yesterday UNITY and other organisations held a protest / vigil outside Glasgow's Immigration Court. Here's some photos.

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Demonstration outside The Home Office in Leeds

29-03-2007 11:18

Called by members of the West Yorkshire Congolese community and supported by Leeds No Borders around 80 people protested outside Waterside court reporting centre on Wednesday.

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Bailiff shysters

29-03-2007 10:42

Largest bailiff firm taking on contracts around the uk

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"Photographers being arrested to seize evidence" (nuj photographers conference)

29-03-2007 08:32

Important article from a few weeks ago from EPUK website:

http://www.epuk.org/News/489/photographers-conference-pace-seizure

EPUK also carries some good articles on the npower Radley Lakes injunction (also recently coverede by SchNEWS):

http://www.epuk.org/News/493/npower-injunction-judge-i-never-intended-to-stop-news-photography

http://www.epuk.org/News/480/radley-lake-witness-statements

http://www.epuk.org/Blogs/476/the-law-as-an-ass

http://www.epuk.org/News/472/npower-injunction-on-epuk-member

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Audio from Indymedia Global Report on Resonance fm 26/03/07

28-03-2007 22:19

The audio reports from this weeks Indymedia Global Report which was broadcast on Resonance fm between 10.30pm and 11.30pm on Monday 26th March.

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SOCPA - serious 'contempt of court' hearing tomorrow, thursday

28-03-2007 21:37

2pm horseferry road thursday 29th march
brian haw and barbara tucker face possible imprisonment for contempt of court.

earlier this week they challenged the right of district judge evans to enter pleas for barbara after summonses had been sent to the wrong address for offences she couldn't even recollect.

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Nottingham (and Leicester) demos against deportations to Congo

28-03-2007 20:36

Today in seven UK cities including Nottingham and Leicester, the Congolese community and their supporters held demonstrations to focus attention on government plans to categorise the 'Democratic' Republic of Congo as a 'safe' country to return people who have been fleeing the violence to the UK in search of security. In Nottingham people rallied and marched, highlighting that the Congolese who have already been deported face a very uncertain fate.

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Occupation against academy in Brent

28-03-2007 20:00

Over the weekend anti academy protesters occupied and camped out on the Wembley Park Sports ground, site of a proposed academy. They have erected tents and intend camping on the site permanently until the proposal is dropped. The protesters include local residents, sports ground users, teachers and parents.

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Refugee family forcibly taken by police in bullet proof vests - urgent action!

28-03-2007 19:54

At 7 a.m. on Tuesday morning (27th March) Jannatul Chowdhury and her children were suddenly and violently arrested at dawn and taken by van to a cell in Reliance House Water Street where they were held until they were again taken by van to Yarls Wood detention centre where they are currently imprisoned and facing imminent deportation on Sunday April 1st. Such treatment is outrageous in a so-called ‘civilised’ society.

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Reparations Group Demans Truth from Barclays on Slavery Link

28-03-2007 14:42

New York/USA -- Considering the 200th anniversary of the British closing of their Transatlantic slave trade, it is fitting that attention is focused on existing British institutions that participated in the practice. There are enormous online resources that help with the task of identifying these parties, and the Restitution Study Group, a New York non-profit, wants to share some with the public. Of particular note in their research of British archive and museum records is information on two prominent slave trading bankers, Benjamin and Arthur Heywood, brothers from Liverpool, England who founded Arthur Heywood, Sons & Co. (Heywoods Bank) in 1773, which merged into Martins Bank in 1883, which merged into Barclays Bank in 1968.

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Photos - Starbucks welcoming in Whitechapel

28-03-2007 11:46

A crowd gathers outside the new Starbucks

Cold cold cold. One of the coldest days of the years without doubt yet a good group turned out last saturday to give Starbucks the welcome it deserved as it opened a new store in Whitechapel.

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Trident vote day blockaders - court update

28-03-2007 09:25

Yesterday (27 March), nine activists trundled along to Horseferry Rd mags to answer two charges relating to the blockade of Parliament Square on 14 March - the day of the parliamentary debate/vote on replacing Britain's WMD.

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since 16 am riot in paris at gare du nord

27-03-2007 21:10

solidarity with the french youth rioters

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Mustafa to be deported from Heathrow

27-03-2007 19:34

Our friend Mustafa is due to be deported this evening on a commercial British Airways flight.

The flight number is GF008 and leaves at 22:00.

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Demo at Sheldon Immigration Court has been cancelled tomorrow

27-03-2007 13:56

The demonstration against deportations to the Democratic Republic of Congo at Sheldon Immigration Court in Birmingham has been cancelled, and is being re-scheduled for April.

The other 6 nationally co-ordinated demos are still going ahead.

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/03/365846.html

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Whitechapel Knees Up Against Starbucks

27-03-2007 11:29

On one of the coldest, windiest days so far. A large group of local residents and anti-starbuck activists took to the streets of Whitechapel to hand out free fair trade tea and home made cakes, in order to raise awareness about the bad business practices of Starbucks.

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Unwelcome Guests: #351 - Death Squads and Empire

27-03-2007 11:29

Attached is the Unwelcome Guests radio show from 25th March 2007, entitled For The Love of Tyranny, Banannas, Bad Apples, Death Squads and Empire. It features Dahr Jamail, William Blum and John Taylor Gatto (reading).

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R.S.V.P. Horsehit Road, 29/03/2007@2:00 p.m.Westminster Magistrates

27-03-2007 10:56

Is public peaceful political dissent an act of Terrorism?

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Announcing IMC-UK-PHOTO

27-03-2007 00:26

A new indymedia mailing list has been created to help facilitate communication and collaboration between photographers working on environmental and social justice reporting. If you regularly go out to document protests etc with a camera, please join this list.