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Local journalists strike in York

22-05-2008 18:02

Local newspaper journalists go on 5 day strike in York over below-inflation pay rises.

Iceland Defies Moratorium On Commercial Whaling - Whale Hunt Started

22-05-2008 15:38

Without warning the Icelandic government authorized Icelandic whalers to begin their killing on May 20th in direct defiance of the global moratorium on commercial whaling. Iceland has rejoined the trinity of whale killing nations along with Japan and Norway. The three rogue whale killing nations have thumbed their noses at the international community to continue a criminal barbaric practice that has been outlawed under international law.

Also on the newswire: Norway Starts Whale Hunting Season

Previous features: Armed Canadian Coast Guard Storms Conservation Vessel | Nottingham Activist Returns From Whale Saving Mission In Antartica | Injured Among Sea Shepherd Crew As Japanese Military Open Fire | Activists Held Hostage By Japanese Whalers In Southern Ocean

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Palestine Today 052208

22-05-2008 14:51

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday, May 22nd, 2008.

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ALF Foie gras actions (2007 - 2008)

22-05-2008 13:15

There are places that will not listen to reason, continue to support an industry illegal in the UK, and cause massive suffering to geese and ducks, and for a 'delicacy'.

It is clear that there are places that have no limits to what they will place on the menu.
They will not listen to protesters and campaigners, now they are having to deal with the Animal Liberation Front, as they are realising to their increasing cost.

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Coal Cleaners at E.ON - The Film.

22-05-2008 11:15

The Coal Cleaners are a service recently contracted by E.ON to clean their coal. Using a mix of false capatalist solutions and good old fashioned elbow grease the cleaners went to work on May 1st, as part of the

http://www.daysofclimateaction.org.uk/ . The cleaners are available for hire; look for them on

http://www.climatecamp.org.uk/

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Sussex Students Union supports Smash EDO activists denied legal aid

22-05-2008 07:45

University of Sussex Student Union has backed the five Sussex students that have been denied legal aid by Brighton magistrates court. The five, part of a group of seven on trial, were denied legal aid on the basis that as students they are "intelligent enough to represent themselves".

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No Borders Activists Convicted

21-05-2008 23:28

Four activists have been convicted for a breach of the peace for an anti-dawn raids action last December. The action was part of a nation wide day of action against dawn raids.

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Latest repression against the Escada Campaign

21-05-2008 22:04

PRESS RELEASE: TUESDAY 20TH MAY 20008

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Mobilise for Bush visit!

21-05-2008 21:52

GEORGE W Bush, the well known war criminal, is heading our way next month - let's give him a warm welcome!

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Videoreport on spectacular blockade of soyfactory Cargill in Ghent, Belgium

21-05-2008 21:37

On April 17th 2008, activists from seven different European countries closed down the Cargill soy factory of Ghent for a whole day. More info on:

http://lasojamata.org/en/node/135

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Bowl Court social centre under threat

21-05-2008 17:15

the new social centre in shoreditch was served papers today for a court hearing on the 4th june. the owners hammerson have no immediate interest in the building which they have yet to secure planning consent to demolish for their huge redevelopement plans for the area. the developments are the biggest in london since the creation of dockland and canary warf.

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Palestine Today 052108

21-05-2008 15:12

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday, May 21st, 2008.

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Raids And Arrests In Austria

21-05-2008 13:36

...since the early morning hours, houses, flats and storage rooms of austrian animal rights activists have been raided and some of them where arrested. The police forced some people with weapons and handcuffed others while searching the building and rooms.

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Burma Cyclone Global Day of Actiion London Report

20-05-2008 20:05

Over 100 campaigners, mostly Burmese took part in a protest at the French and US Embassies and the British Foreign Office in London, for the May 17th Global Day of Action for Burma Cyclone Victims. More than 30 events took place worldwide, including in UK, USA, France, Spain, Hong Kong, Thailand, Chile, Australia, Canada, Belgium and Czech Republic. The official death toll has exceeded 140,000 with aid agencies saying 2.5 million people are at further risk.

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Saved from landfill or stolen? What do you think?

20-05-2008 17:29

A Wrexham woman is facing a possible criminal charge of theft under Section 1 of the Theft Act 1968 for allegedly taking four green plastic garden chairs out of the landfill skip at the local household 'recycling' centre.

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Students Released After 7 Days Incarceration Without Charge

20-05-2008 17:13

The two students arrested under the Terrorism Act have been released without charge. The manner of the police operation and its choice of victims has raised great concern amongst the student and academic body, as well as within the wider community in Nottingham

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Former Wilco building squatted - to be turned into social centre

20-05-2008 16:58

On Monday night, 19 May, the former Wilco building on Mill Road (the very site where Tesco want to open a new supermarket) was squatted. On Tuesday afternoon, acting on a 'tip off' from a neighbour, armed police entered the premised on the pretext of looking for illegal drugs. There were a total of three police cars, a police van, and at least eight officers. The premises were searched, but no illegal substances (bar a supermarket trolley that was already on site) were found.

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No borders Cardiff picket report

20-05-2008 16:08

Report from No Borders Picket Cardiff today 20th may

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New Name, New Website, Old Threat

20-05-2008 15:55

London's latest social centre has finally given itself a name, set up its own website and received a visit from the owners saying "get out!"

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Journey to Justice, Birmingham, May 18, 2008

20-05-2008 15:15

Ten years after the major demonstration outside a meeting of the G8, organised by Jubilee 2000 in Birmingham in May 1998, campaigners from the Jubilee Debt Campaign returned to Birmingham on Sunday 18 May to celebrate the progress made and to demand further action.
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