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April's Critical Mass:Report

29-04-2008 15:20

Short Report of Critical Mass April 2008

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Further Strike Action at Shelter

29-04-2008 14:58

Details of further dates of industrial action at Homlessness charity Shelter.

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Direct Action: 8 countries / 12 reports

29-04-2008 14:48

SHEEP RUSTLIN’ ALF STYLE (UK)
COLORFUL SURPRISE FOR KFC (Mexico)
530 HENS FIND FREEDOM (UK)
FRIDAY NIGHT FUN FOR NOVARTIS VIVISECTORS (UK)
BUTCHER TARGETED (Portugal)
FIGHT AGAINST FUR REACHES NEW HEIGHTS (Norway)
PAINT, GLUE AND BROKEN GLASS AT FUR SHOPS, VIVISECTORS (Sweden)
CIRCUS VEHICLES PAINTED RED (Mexico)
CIRCUS SIGNS DESTROYED (Germany)
HUNT SCUM RECEIVES ALF TREATMENT (UK)
FUR SHOP PAINTED (Austria)
FUR SHOP LOCKS GLUED (Spain)

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ITT To Close EDO MBM Flexi-Circuits Factory In Brighton

29-04-2008 12:40

ITT TO CLOSE EDO MBM FLEXIBLE CIRCUITS FACTORY

Doug Brewer

brwr_dg@yahoo.co.uk

28 April 2008

28 April 2008

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The Tumbledown Dick

29-04-2008 12:03

The Tumbledown Dick, an old pub, an old coaching inn in Farnborough, faces an uncertain future as it has closed down and been boarded up.

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deacent housing, asylum rights, tcar and angle housing

28-04-2008 22:09

a an angel group demonstratiomn called by tyneside community action for refguees

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Shaming HLS top supplier Staples on Novartis march

28-04-2008 21:44

Clip from the autonomous bloc confronting Staples, 26th April 2008. They have been caught out delivering office equipment to HLS in a disguised vehicle. SHAC have listed them as no.1 supplier.

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National March & Rally @ Novartis UK HQ

28-04-2008 18:10

400 campaigners from across the UK gathered at Horsham Park for a National march and demo at Novartis UK HQ, where experiments on primates, guinea-pigs and other animals are tortured for profit.

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Workers Memorial Day in Birmingham

28-04-2008 16:48

About 50 people gathered today in Birmingham's Pigeon Park (St Phillips Cathedral) to "remember the dead [workers] and fight for the living". The International Workers Memorial Day (IWMD) event was organised by UNISON and supported by Birmingham Trades Council. Speeches remembered those who lost their life at or as a result of work, explained the reasons and demanded better health and safety procedures in the workplace.

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Mars Attacks!

28-04-2008 15:15

Fairtrade venue boarded up with workers still inside!

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trident protesters arrested out side rolls royce derby

28-04-2008 14:38

dorothy skrytek arrested out side rolls royce with foe comrades in derby

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Copwatching at Novartis/SHAC march

28-04-2008 14:22

Pictures from the march/demo at Novartis headquarters, AKA: Primate Research Centre. World Week for Lab Animals, Saturday 26th April 2008.

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NO EDO! anti-arms graffiti in brighton, 2008

28-04-2008 14:15

sighted in preston circus area, february 2008

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Grangemouth Workers Strike

27-04-2008 21:50

Today sees the start of a 48 hour strike by workers at the Ineos oil refinery in Grangemouth, Central Scotland. Members of the Unite Union have staged the walk out in response to the companies discontinuation of their pension scheme, leaving workers with an uncertain future. Grangemouth produces %10 of the UK’s petrol and diesel. The strike will also cause the shutting of the Forties pipe-line, which supplies much of the UK’s fossil-fuels, including the fifth of Britain’s gas.

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St Athan march in pictures

27-04-2008 18:08

Report from the march in Cardiff yesterday against the proposed military academy at St Athan.

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Antispeciesist Action/Autonomous bloc at Novartis march

27-04-2008 16:42

Against Speciesism! Against Capitalism! Against the State!

Call for bloc:

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/04/397352.html

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No Borders demonstration outside the Home Office in Leeds

27-04-2008 13:44

Over fifty people took part in a demonstration outside Waterside Court Reporting Centre in Leeds on Friday calling for an end to dawn raids, detention and deportations.

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Barriers dismantled at Novartis march

27-04-2008 12:43

Antispeciesists claim responsibility for breaking police lines at the SHAC march against Novartis headquarters in Horsham, West Sussex. Many barriers were left broken and seperated after a long battle with police, aided by a minutes silence for the animals who are suffer from this speciesist war. We left as riot police turned up.

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What the cops did in Cardiff yesterday

27-04-2008 11:07

Yesterday there was a seriously over-policed peaceful demo in Cardiff against the huge new PFI that will bring a 'School of the Americas' style military academy run by arms dealers and the Open University to St Athan. Here are a few pictures of the cops, whose services were provided at huge expense to the taxpaying public, with a special focus on the evidence gathering team.

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London Critical Mass 14th Anniversary ride.

27-04-2008 07:35

Early in the ride police blocked the front at traffic lights and prevented movement, even when the lights were green. This is a familiar tactic which is done to compress the ride into as small a space as possible, with officers and a van at the back hassling stragglers to keep up, which slows things down and holds up traffic as well as making cycling difficult.