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Full report on DSEi arms fair 'trespass on DLR' trial

11-12-2007 18:12

This is a follow up to the following reports:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/09/381352.html

and

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/12/387021.html

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Palestine Today 121007

11-12-2007 16:07

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, December 10th, 2007.

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Palestine Today 121107

11-12-2007 16:04

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, December 11th, 2007.

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Demonstrators Blockade Mexican Embassy in London

11-12-2007 15:19

Today Monday 10th December demonstrators blockaded both the Mexican Embassy and Mexican Consulate in London, in solidarity with the Zapatistas and in opposition to the attacks on their communities by the state and paramilitaries.

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Guantánamo Britons To Be Released: A Mixed Result

11-12-2007 12:29

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, explains why news that four British residents are to be released from Guantánamo provides grounds for cautious celebration, but also points out that two British residents will not be coming home.

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Support the Villagers of Nandigram!

11-12-2007 11:47

Support the villagers of Nandigram, W Bengal against eviction from land and corporate greed.

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Bali Demo for Climate Justice

11-12-2007 10:08

My colleague and I are at the Bali COP and we took part in the Day of Global Action here. For the duration fo the COP meeting, the Indonesian Civil Society Forum have been hosting their alternative events, including workshops, discussions and actions.

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Campaign against Climate Change - London Rally

11-12-2007 10:00

Some photos from the rally near to the American Embassy in London on Saturday 8th December.

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Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

11-12-2007 01:12

Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo Survivor and author of Enemy Combatant, Andy Worthington Journalist and Author of Guantanamo Files, a student from the Amnesty Society and Shazia Rashid from the Stop Islamophobia Society all spoke to a public meeting titled Human Rights in The War on Terror at Sheffield University on 10th December 2007.

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Palestine Today 121007

10-12-2007 16:01

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, December 10th, 2007.

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Global Climate Change March, London Dec 8, 2007

10-12-2007 10:29

The march showed growing public concern about climate change with over 6,000 marchers and several hundred cyclists making their way through the centre of London. It was a one of over 50 world-wide actions before the UN Climate Change talks in Bali. Images are copyright.

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Police manhandle Tesco biofuel protestors – corporate protection gone mad?

10-12-2007 09:36

3 protestors who arrived to set up a peaceful protest against Tesco’s investments into biofuels were manhandled by Police in central London on December 8th who forced them into a metal pen. Despite, this a peaceful protest was held for an hour including a stop by 300 cyclists and 1 minutes silence for those who are suffering or who have died as the result of massive expansion of large scale biofuel plantations across the South.

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Pictures from Campaign against Climate Change march in London.

10-12-2007 02:26

Around 10,000? climate campaigners marched from Millbank to the American embassy in Grosvenor square despite the pouring rain.

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Carmel gets fruity with protesters

09-12-2007 21:48

This afternoon 8 protesters from JAGUAR (Jews And Gentiles Undermining Apartheid Regime) attempted to blockade the main UK warehouse of Israeli agricultural produce exporter Carmel Agrexco. The action was the latest in a three year campaign against Carmel Agrexco aiming to disrupt and expose their illegal activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

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Sadie Graham Expelled from BNP!

09-12-2007 15:02

Sadie Graham has been unceremoniously booted out of the BNP for an alleged conspiracy to brief against Mark ‘Nazi-Boy’ Collett and discredit the BNP leadership.

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4th East Midland Vegan Festival, Council House, Nottingham

09-12-2007 13:09

The 4th East Midlands Vegan Festival, was on Saturday 8th December 2007 11am-5pm. The2007 event returned to the Council House on Nottingham's Old Market Square.

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Glasgow Climate March - pics

09-12-2007 01:13

Just some photos of a rainy march in Glasgow

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Protest March against Kidnap of Activist in Oaxaca

09-12-2007 00:06

On Friday several hundred marched through the streets of Oaxaca to protest the kidnap last Sunday of Nancy Mota Figueroa, member of the Coordination of Women of Oaxaca (COMO, which is part of APPO). Nancy was kidnapped by suspected cops and released an hour later after being tortured.

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EarthFirst! blockade at coal-fired power plant in Rotterdam, NL

08-12-2007 19:09

On Saturday morning a collective of twenty Dutch EarthFirst! activists blocked the coal conveyor- belt to a plant owned by the German energy giant E.on on the Maasvlakte near Rotterdam. This day, December 8, has been announced as an international actionday in the protest against the coal industry. The growing number of coal-fired power plants worldwide and in the Netherlands at the moment is the biggest threath to the climate. Secondly, this action is part of the protest against the plans for a new E.on coal-fired plant, right next to the existing one on the Maasvlakte.

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Billboards pasted in Manchester

08-12-2007 18:06

Three airline billboards advertising cheap flights to european cities were subverted today.