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Prime Minister visits Nottingham University :: piccys 1

15-01-2006 22:43

Prime Minister visits Nottingham University :: piccys 1

He was there to announce nuclear policy, [or perhaps the wrong policy]

Hence a number of concerned citizens turned out to protest.

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Japan misleads public about whaling protests

15-01-2006 17:30

Japan's Institute of Cetacean Research has released misleading images intended to smear anti-whaling protests in the Southern Ocean

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Harpoon line dumps Greenpeace activist in Antarctic waters

15-01-2006 17:22

Canadian Greenpeace whaling activist, Texas Joe Constantine, was dragged overboard into the freezing Antarctic waters after the whaling harpoon was fired over his inflatable and the harpoon rope became entangled in the craft. Constantine spent a few minutes in the water in his survival suit, before his compatriots could manouver their craft to pick him up. The harpoon killed the whale almost instantly after a chase lasting an hour.

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KHOODEELAAR the BRICK LANE LONDON E1 COMMUNITY campaign against the Crossrail ho

15-01-2006 10:01

On Tuesday of this coming week, 17 January 2006, a UK House of Commons committee is due to start formally looking at the Crossrail hole Bill in view of the petitions that have been submitted mainly by objectors to the Bill. There is no room in that process for the truth of the real political machinations and betrayals during the past three years by the ‘elected’ politicians for the area affected in London

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Pic's of Tony Blair visit in Nottingham

14-01-2006 20:28

Some pictures of Tony Blairs Visit in Nottingham

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Oxford anti-vivisection demo + important AR info

14-01-2006 20:02

report back from the SPEAK demo in Oxford against the £20 million vivisection lab under construction.

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Story from Fallujah

14-01-2006 18:18

This is a 500 word article about the awful civilian suffering in Iraq, especially in the city of Fallujah.

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Brighton group to march on Grosvenor Square

14-01-2006 17:31

A BRIGHTON campaign is taking part in a national march on the American Embassy to call for justice for British residents held in Guantanamo Bay, the US concentration camp in Cuba.

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Aufheben about the G8 in Scotland

14-01-2006 03:52

Editors` introduction
The prospect of the G8 summit taking place in Gleneagles, Scotland, in July 2005 promised perhaps the excitement of Genoa, Seattle and the other anti-capitalist mobilizations of recent years, on UK soil. But the movement seemed to lose momuntum after the last Iraq war, and some of us wondered wether the protests would resemble more the last few Mayday demonstrations – with protesters held for hours in a police cordon designed to bore people into submission – rather than the exhiliratation and energy of the 1999 Carnival against Capital. Moreover, most of the predicted crowds were mostly expected to gather around the call by Bob Geldof to protest peacefully to “send a message” to the politicans, rather than attempt to close down the Summit.

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Indymedia Radio London news Wire Shows Nov 2005 until Jan 4th 2006

14-01-2006 00:07

Listen to 8 Indy Media London news wire Shows which were broadcast on Resonance FM 104.4
The Indy Media London News Wire show airs every wednesday between 1.00 and 2.00 PM on Resonance FM104.4 or is streamed at the same time on

http://www.resonancefm.com/

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Audio Report from Cite Soley Haiti.

13-01-2006 23:43

Listen to audio recorded for Free Speech Radio of Aaron Lakoff reporting from Haiti as another UN massacre is feared.

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Stop UN's plan for a new massacre in Haiti

13-01-2006 23:40

Dear friends and allies,
I hope you are all well. I have been in the Dominican Republic the
last
few days, visiting Haitian migrant workers and human rights
organizations
working with migrants here. I will be returning to Haiti tomorrow
morning, and meanwhile, quite a storm seems to be brewing there.

Please have a look at this announcement. It is quite shocking, but I
think urgent action might be needed over the next few days:

http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HAC/1_11_6/1_11_6.html

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Haiti's Deadly Class Divide: Class war takes on a new meaning in Cite Soley

13-01-2006 21:09

Port-au-Prince, January 10/06 - Driving into Cite Soley on January 8th,
the day Haitians were supposed to go to the polls in a presidential
election, there is no mistaking the fact that we are entering an
occupied
zone. The streets are almost deserted, the atmosphere tense, and UN
armored personnel carriers patrol the streets.

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Political Prisoners Rot in Haitian Jails While Canadian Politicians Lie

13-01-2006 21:04

--My meeting with So Anne Auguste by Aaron Lakoff

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This weeks SchNEWS - Hacked Off

13-01-2006 18:26

There’s a gold rush afoot in east London, and we’re not invited. Also left in the cold is Sicilian café-owner Tony Platia who, together with other locals in the borough of Hackney, has recently re-occupied Francesca’s Café, his business of 30 years, after being booted out last summer. It was one of many premises sold from under tenants’ feet as the Council scrambled to dispose of their property over the last few years.

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Speech in London by Basra Oil Workers Union President

13-01-2006 17:48

Below is the transpcript of GUOE President Hassan Jumaa Awad al Assadi's speech at the UK Stop the War Coalition's international peace conference held in London, December 2005. Translation is by Lebanese Academic and Writer Gilbert Achcar:

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New Home Office Scheme Against Asylum Seekers

13-01-2006 16:45

The Home Office has cynically introduced a new scheme in an attempt to remove asylum seekers. Instead of the 'stick' of using enforced poverty and destitution against people seeking asylum in the UK, the Home Office has started using 'carrots' - offering asylum seekers bribes to give up their claims. But the scheme does not guarantee safety - or that anyone taking up the 'incentive' will actually get any money.

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Protest fax and mail against Japanese whaling in the Antarctica

13-01-2006 10:16

Whalers ram Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise was deliberately rammed and damaged by the Nisshin Maru, the factory ship of the Japanese whaling fleet. Straight after the ramming, the Nisshin Maru began to steam away from the "scene of the crime".

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The QUICKTIME REPORT 13/1/06 - SEE and LISTEN GLOBALLY!

12-01-2006 19:40

A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

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Global Womens Campaign For Peace In Iraq

12-01-2006 13:44

On Thursday January 5th 2006 women from around the world - from the USA to Iraq to Britain to Japan - launched a campaign aimed at ending the war and occupation in Iraq.