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Indy Global Report' from Bethlehem, on Resonance FM104.4 for the 7th April 2008

07-04-2008 14:28

This weeks Indy Global Reports, brings an interview with Two Palestinian activists, who are trying to find out the truth about the missing and disappeared bodies of dead political prisoners and fighters.
The "Cemetery of Numbers" is a name for secret grave yards where Israel keeps the dead bodies of its' political enemies.

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Olympic Torch Relay: Heated Arguments in Trafalgar Square

07-04-2008 14:16

After the torch had left there were arguments in Trafalgar Square between Chinese supporters of the Olympics and human rights demonstrators.
Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Chinese Torture Torch Relay Shames Olympic Ideals

07-04-2008 13:59

Pictures and text from Bloomsbury, Sunday April 6, 2008 as the Olympic torch rally passed through with no sign of the torch at all.
Images copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Photographer arrested by armed officers [finally, the pictures]

07-04-2008 11:25

This is all old news really...... but I have recently got access to the pictures that were seized by police on my memory card. I thought I might show you what all the fuss was about ....!

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Canada To Charge Sea Shepherd Crew For Documenting Seal Hunt

07-04-2008 09:54

Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans Loyola Hearn has decided to charge the Captain and 1st Officer of the Sea Shepherd ship Farley Mowat with the "crime" of approaching too close to a seal slaughter without permission from the Minister.

The Sea Shepherd argues that their vessel has "right of free passage" through the waters they have been navigating in: "The problem for Hearn is that the Farley Mowat is a Dutch registered yacht not engaged in economic activity navigating with the right of free passage as allowed by International Maritime law in waters beyond 12 miles of Canada. .. If the Canadian government forcefully boards a Dutch registered ship in international waters that will not be looked on very kindly in Europe. If they actually arrest two Europeans for the "crime" of documenting a seal being skinned alive, that will not play very well in Amsterdam, Stockholm or London or Paris."

Also on the newswire: Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked By Mob Of Seal Hunters | Interview With Captain Onboard Sea Shepherd Ship On Current Seal Hunt | Canadian Coast Guard Rams Sea Shepherd Ship (twice) | Sea Shepherd Moves In On Canadian Seal Slaughter

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Israeli Army Tries to Close Schools and Orphanages - Please HELP !!

07-04-2008 08:19

The Israeli Army has decided to close down the Islamic Charitable Society in
Hebron, Palestine. They claim that the society is linked to Hamas and channels
money to terrorism but this is not true. The army has stolen a large amount of
food and equipment from the Society including computers and 2 school buses.
Food and bread for the orphans has been stolen also.

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Police compete in olympic farce

07-04-2008 03:30

The police were today acting in a blatantly political manner to try and sideline Tibetan protesters as well as making themselves and the olympic procession look quite absurd.

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Berlin MayDay Call

06-04-2008 20:47

The following is the Berlin Call for the MayDay Parade!

Similar Parades are taking place in cities across Europe on May 1!

More info soon at: www.euromayday.org

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Tibetan Freedom Torch Rally

06-04-2008 20:42

Peaceful protests at Whitehall as the Olympic Torch comes to London,. followed by an account of the Tibetan Freedom Torch Rally, held at King's Cross.

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Harmodsworth repression

06-04-2008 19:34

It is official: some detainees have been assaulted and injuried when the riot police intervened to break the hunger strike and took 30 detainees out Harmondsworth IRC.

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Olympic Torch Chased off the Streets, pics from Fleet Street

06-04-2008 18:30

Thousands of people decended on the Olympic Torch Procession today leaving bungling coppers forced to bundle the torch (which had gone out) onto a bus.

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Sea Shepherd Crew Attacked By Mob Of Seal Hunters

06-04-2008 18:01

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s ship, the Farley Mowat, was attacked this morning by a mob of 30-40 angry fishermen. The attack took place while berthed in the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon. The Farley Mowat was berthed in St. Pierre to transfer video footage of the Canadian seal slaughter onto shore and await the resumption of the slaughter, which was temporarily suspended after the death of four sealers.

Tensions quickly escalated in St. Pierre as the growing mob hurled rocks, threats, and insults at crew members of the Farley Mowat. Cameraman Simeon Houtman was assaulted by an axe-wielding fisherman after stepping onshore to film the incident. "The fisherman raised the axe above his head with one arm and tried to knock Simeon back with his other. Simeon jumped back onto the ship just before the mob threw our gangplank into the water," said Peter Hammarstedt, First Officer of the Farley Mowat.

Also on the newswire: Interview With Captain Onboard Sea Shepherd Ship On Current Seal Hunt | Canadian Coast Guard Rams Sea Shepherd Ship (twice) | Sea Shepherd Moves In On Canadian Seal Slaughter

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BlokR was a success! Copenhagen action day report

06-04-2008 17:52

The BlokR action in support of creating a new Youth House in Copenhagen went off without a hitch. About 5000 people joined the demo which took nearly four hours to walk and ended in a massive street party in Nørrebro.

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36 people arrested so far during the Olympic torch relay in London

06-04-2008 17:48

36 people arrested so far during the Olympic torch relay in London

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Police Manhandle Press at Tibet Demonstration

06-04-2008 17:42

The Metropolitan Police today used physical force against photographers during the Olympic Torch protest along Whitehall.

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Torch Protest hits Whitechapel

06-04-2008 15:47

There were a few scuffles with police near the Blind Beggar pub in Whitechapel, at the cross roads of Mile End Road, Cambridge Heath Road and Whitechapel Road. Otherwise a fantastic turnout by the locals with some colourful banners.

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Oxford Groups ask politicians to stop ignoring aviation

06-04-2008 15:43

On Saturday in Carfax, passersby saw a larger than life Gordon Brown covering his eyes while playing with an aeroplane - hoping that aviation emissions will just go away. Oxford Friends of the Earth (FoE) and World Development Movement (WDM) joined forces as part of the 'Big Ask' National Day of Action to ask Gordon Brown and local MPs Andrew Smith and Evan Harris to stop ignoring aviation.

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Brilliant pro Tibet protest ongoing in London today

06-04-2008 14:01

comments called for as protesters steal the limelight

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Big Ask campaign, Kirkcaldy

06-04-2008 13:15

50 environmental and development campaigners gather in Kirkcaldy, in the Kingdom of Fife, to ask the local MP to include aviation in the Westminster Parliament Climate Change bill - 5/4/08

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East Oxford Social Club - more details of the stitch-up

06-04-2008 01:52

East Oxford Community Social Club is a social club run for and by its members, based in a local community centre for which it raises money. It's unique not just for the way it's run but also because of its diverse, inclusive and friendly atmosphere, cheap prices and availability as a community venue. Meanwhile the local cops are doing everything in their power to see that it closes.