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Picket of Border & Immigration Agency, Cardiff

16-04-2008 22:21

No Borders South Wales have another one of their regular pickets.

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Interview with NUT activist

16-04-2008 18:43

On April 24, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will hold the first national teachers strike in more than twenty years. Angry at a below inflation pay award, NUT members across the country have voted for industrial action at a ratio of four to one.

With real terms pay cuts being the in thing in the public sector right now, civil servants in the Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) and further education lecturers in the University and College Union (UCU) have also voted to strike on the same day.

In Nottingham there will be a march from The Forest Recreation Ground at 10am, with a rally at the Congregation Hall, Castle Gate at 11am. Speakers will include Martin Sleath (Unison - who aren't striking), Mary Pope (PCS), Helen Bowler (UCU) and Liam Conway (NUT).

To give some insight into why teachers are striking, I interviewed Liam Conway, the Joint Secretary of Notts NUT and began by asking him what his impressive sounding title actually entails.

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Pavilion threaten critics

16-04-2008 15:18

Pavilion Housing Association are behaving like spoilt playground bullies, threatening and intimidating their critics in a crude attempt to shut them up.

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Palestine Today 041608 - Updated

16-04-2008 15:13

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday April 16th, 2008.

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Wominspace eviction successfully resisted!

16-04-2008 15:13

The first attempt to evict the Wominspace in North East London was today successfully resisted.

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Brighton Biofools Day Protest

16-04-2008 12:29

A group of biofuel activists made a colourful banner and flyer tour of Brighton city centre and Sussex University on Tuesday raising awareness around a new law which came into affect as of yesterday. The RTFO or “Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation” has mandated 2.5% biofuels at British fuel pumps from April 15th, and thereby hugely increased UK consumption of biofuels.

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Yousuf belongs to Wales

16-04-2008 11:25

Yousuf Ahmed Ibrahim, currently in Oakington Immigration Removal Centre (IRC), is due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Royal Jordanian Airlines Flight RJ112 at 17:05 on Wednesday 23rd April 2008.

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NBS Bosses Get Hot Under The Collar

16-04-2008 04:55

Friday, Watford: Demonstration disrupts the solemnity of "invincible" Watford NBS Office Block, over the ongoing blood cuts fight.

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Scottish Police Harass a Peaceful Protest

15-04-2008 22:40

Five members of the Edinburgh Clown Army (1) were detained for questioning this afternoon at a peaceful and entertaining biofuels protest in Bruntsfield(2). They have since been arrested and charged with a breach of the peace, despite maintaining a friendly atmosphere.

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Mother on hunger strike

15-04-2008 21:43

breast feeding mother on hunger strike since 5th April when they tried to take her and her baby to the airport. she took refuge in the church and refused to leave. there is a genocide going on in Burundi.

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Shut Down Guantánamo! London Actions in April & May

15-04-2008 20:44

The London Guantánamo Campaign has held weekly demonstrations outside the US Embassy on Friday evenings since February 2007. This month, we decided to extend our demonstrations to target other co-sponsors and profiteers from torture and the "war on terror". For details of these actions and next month's schedule, read on.

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"The Unconquered", Tron Theatre, Glasgow

15-04-2008 18:38

A review of the play "The Unconquered," written by Torben Betts and performed by Stellar Quines at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.

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Listen To Our Cry/ Mothers on hunger strike

15-04-2008 18:21

Seven mothers in the family unit in Yarl's Wood immigration prison are on hunger strike since Thursday the 10th of April. The group of those not eating includes two breastfeeding mothers.
A protest involving up to 15 families started last Thursday when a mother who was to be taken to the airport took refuge in the church with her baby and refused to leave.

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Harmondsworth prison: who profits?

15-04-2008 17:36

Some background.
Sodexo founder Pierre Bellon, a very good friend of Sarkozi, wants to increase the use of detention Europe wide.

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Pavilion gets greedy

15-04-2008 16:48

Pavilion Housing Association is looking to the next four years to sweat its assets, to extract the maximum value.

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Putting people into London's empties

15-04-2008 14:02

As part of days of action for squats and autonomous space a squatters estate agents was been set up in a newly opened squat in the centre of London. It consisted of display of eighteen empty properties ranging from abandoned houses and flats, to empty pubs, shops and even government buildings. Some would suit small residential squats and others grand large scale housing communities, squat cafes, freeshops or social centres. Along with photos of each property, details were given about their location, history and suitability for squatting.

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Days Of Action Follow Up for London's Autonomous Spaces

15-04-2008 12:12

Coinciding with the Europe-wide days of action in defence of free spaces a new squatted social centre was opened in Shoreditch and a series of events took place in autonomous spaces around London starting on Friday evening with a social meetup and info night at the rampART and acoustic bands and performances at the NOID gallery. On saturday, the newly opened social centre opened it's doors with an art-exhibition, free shop, films and a squatters estate agency. On saturday there was also a demo outside a homeless hostel in Hackney. In the evening around 300 ppeople turned up a the Hackney Social Centre for a gig raising money for the Advisory Service for Squatters and another benefit took place at the Wominspace. On the Mall, there was a banner drop from squatted crown property.

After the Space Is The Place and other contributions to the call out for decentralised actions in support of squats and autonomous spaces, what next?

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News from Londons autonomous spaces...

15-04-2008 11:33

New squats; more meetings; Brad Will revisited; days of action followup; the film they tried to ban; 56a Infoshop and more... With the days of action for autonomous spaces now behind us it's time to look forward. Taken from the rampART mailing list, this is a round up of news and events relating to London's social centres. Get involved.

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Scuba Divers Pressure Goverment on Marine Bill

15-04-2008 10:26

Divers from the Marine Conservation Society (MCS) and the British Sub Aqua Club (BSAC) marched on Parliament on April 3rd. Over 100 people dressed in diving kit delivered a 100,000 strong petition calling for Marine Reserves to be included within the currently proposed Marine Act.

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Actions against; GM, fur & circus

14-04-2008 22:38

ALF & Angry Wild Boars...