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West London residents halt traffic outside DfT Headquarters

20-06-2007 13:36

West London residents protesting about plans to expand Heathrow dramatically stopped traffic this morning outside the Department for Transport (DfT) offices in Central London before attempting an invasion of the building.

The protestors carried a bed along Marsham Street from the flat of BAA Chief Executive Stephen Nelson (1) to the Department for Transport. In the bed were two figures symbolising the close relationship between BAA and the DfT under the slogan “DfT in bed with BAA”.

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UPDATE DIRECT FROM TREE HOUSE AT BRECON

20-06-2007 11:19

JUST SPOKEN TO THE LAST TWO PEOPLE IN TREE HOUSE!

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Branding, Cleansing and the Olympic Spin Machine

20-06-2007 11:03

(Repost with photos this time) The Olympics all over the world are heavily marketed. The spin surrounding them often hides some ugly truths. This piece attempts peel back the veneer and look at some Olympic realities

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Common Ground Community Garden - EVICTION UPDATE - Resistance successful so far.

20-06-2007 10:48

Common Ground Community Garden, is a self-managed squatted community project in the heart of Reading. The land and surrounding buildings are council owned, and they have tried to obstruct this initiative every step of the way - and thanks to the spirit of the squatters and our neighbours, they have failed every step of the way.

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Resisting the FIT teams: a proposal for action

19-06-2007 23:58

A proposal to start ending our own repression and to start resisting the actions of the Forward Intelligence Teams.

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Pictures from StWC Palestine Demo (pt 3).

19-06-2007 22:13

The final part of this set of pictures from the StWC Palestine Rally.

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More pictures from StWC Palestine March (pt 2).

19-06-2007 21:58

As promised, here's a further follow up of pictures for the Palestine demo that took place June 9th, 2007.

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Filton Five charged

19-06-2007 15:09

Five Bristol residents were charged on Monday 18th June with 2 charges relating to their occupation of BAE Systems in Filton, Bristol on Thursday 26th April this year. The group occupied an office in New Filton House, the Bristol HQ of the arms firm, for one and a half hours. Hanging a banner reading 'BAE Systems: Corruption and Destruction: Business as Usual' from the office, the group were drawing attention to the dropped Serious Fraud Office investigation into corruption with the Al-Yamamah deal with Saudi Arabia.

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brecon eviction update!

19-06-2007 13:14

The Eviction continues with two arrests on the ground and people locked on in the tree tops, there are also people underground with substantial supplies! please support these people by donating towards fines etc on the "fight the pipe" website.

if anyone can make it they need the support!

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Pipeline protestors refuse to climb down

19-06-2007 11:12

Protestors are refusing to climb down from trees on the route of the controversial high pressure methane gas (LNG) pipeline in Wales after being given a 10 minute warning this morning by bailiffs to leave the site or face being arrested.

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EVICTION STARTED AT BRECON ANTI PIPELINE PROTEST

19-06-2007 09:27

THE EVICTION OF THE CAMP STARTED THIS MORNING!

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Barcelona's Police Surround and Repress Protest Again

18-06-2007 17:57

On Sunday, 17 June 2007, about 1000 people gathered in Barcelona to protest against police repression, under a banner that read “la represió mai ens tallerá les ales,” ("Repression will never cut our wings")

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Halton School Closures

18-06-2007 14:01

When in 1996 Tony Blair was asked what his three priorities were, he
gave the now famous quote "Education, education, education!" After
eighteen years of Tory education cuts, this must have been music to
the ears of teachers who had seen their workload increase as they pay
decreased.

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Gari Allen Remembered

18-06-2007 12:33

It is one year today since veteran animal rights activist Gari Allen of Coventry Animal Alliance died, aged just 43. Read more about Gari below, including details of a special remembrance event coming soon.

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‘French Products’ stall anti-Foie-Gras leafleting in Cambridge

17-06-2007 21:32

Campaigners at ‘French Products’ in Cambridge again!

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Common Ground Garden - EVICTION RESISTANCE! Wed 20th June, 9.30am, Reading.

17-06-2007 21:10

// Common Ground Community Garden Eviction Resistance!

// FUCK THE EVICTION, SAVE THE GARDEN!

// WEDNESDAY 20TH JUNE

// Meet at 9.30am, in Common Ground Garden, through the alleyway next to the Womens Information Centre, at the bottom of Silver Street, Reading.

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Climate Camp fun at Barracks Lane

17-06-2007 15:32

Oxford climate campers raise money for Heathrow camp at Barracks Lane Community Garden

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Climate activists glued to doors at airport : Pictures 2

17-06-2007 01:36

On the afternoon of Saturday 16th June, climate campaigners glued themselves to the doors of the short-haul East Midlands airport to draw attention to the environmental impacts of flying as part of a European day of action on short-haul flights called by pressure group Airport Watch.

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Climate activists glued to doors at airport : Pictures 1

17-06-2007 01:30

On the afternoon of Saturday 16th June, climate campaigners glued themselves to the doors of the short-haul East Midlands airport to draw attention to the environmental impacts of flying as part of a European day of action on short-haul flights called by pressure group Airport Watch.

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Chronicle of state violence at G8 2007

16-06-2007 19:42

This an approach of an incomplete reconstruction. Please help to verify the events due to place and time. We are happy for any feedback, comments or corrections! So, we cannot give any garanty for the correctness of the mentioned facts.

Sources: Camp AG, Streetmedics, Infopoints, Indymedia Ticker, lawyers, police, eye-witnesses, press, pressgroups, Linkspartei Bad Doberan, Committee for Basic Rights and Democracy, own reports etc.

Translation: Media G8way International Pressgroup

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Update: June 15th 2007
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