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Czech Anti-Missile Defence Activists On 15th Day of Hunger Strike

27-05-2008 21:20

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Palestine Today 052708

27-05-2008 14:37

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, May 27th, 2008.

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Citex Squat Amsterdam Illegally Evicted

27-05-2008 12:32

The Citex squat in Amsterdam has recently been illegally evicted.

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Austrian activists in prison

26-05-2008 20:39

Subject: EVANA Newsletter May 2008: Austrian activists in prison

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Southfields Get Total Oil Out of Burma Protest

26-05-2008 19:39

Six protesters demonstrated at the Southfields Total Station, 262 Wimbledon Park Road on 21st May 2008. They were protesting against the French oil and gas giant's 500 million dollar a year funding for the brutal military regime in Burma. The money just goes to the evil junta not the poor people of Burma. The regime has allocated just 5 million dollars to cyclone relief, whilst it earned 2 billion dollars in gas exports in 2007.

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Eclectic Tech Carnival Underway In Amsterdam

26-05-2008 19:21

The annual (by now) ETC happening is housed in Amsterdam:

http://www.eclectictechcarnival.org

It began on Sunday 25th and will continue until Saturday the 31st of May.
Invitees include women and gender Minorities.

Info included on :

http://www.genderchangers.org

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Wrexham marks US Memorial Day with a Picnic for Peace

26-05-2008 18:52

In solidarity with all those marking Memorial Day in the US with messages of peace, Wrexham Peace and Justice Forum and Wrexham Women for Peace held a Picnic for Peace in Wrexham's Peace Garden. Meanwhile, in Portland, Oregon, our friend Bridie from Wrexham has read out a message of unity at the Memorial Day service organised by Veterans for Peace Chapter 72 in their Peace Memorial Park. Solidarity across the pond!

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University of Nottingham Graduate and Employee Facing Imminent Deportation Without Hearing

26-05-2008 17:39

Hicham Yezza, a popular and active member of the academic community at the University of Nottingham, was recently arrested along with another student. After six days of detention, both were released without charge [1]. Hicham was re-arrested on immigration grounds. He now faces imminent deportation to Algeria wihtout due process [2]. There is widespread concern at the proposed, imminent deportation.

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Palestine Today 052608

26-05-2008 15:09

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, May 26th , 2008.

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Justice for Darfur - London Protest

26-05-2008 11:19

Approaching two hundred protesters, many from the Sudan, gathered opposite Downing Street yesterday (Sun 25 May, 2008) for a noisy protest before marching to a rally held adjoining the Sudanese Embassy opposite St James's Palace in London.
Pictures (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Activists succesfully block Cargill soyfactory in Belgium: exciting videoreport!

26-05-2008 07:20

On April 17th 2008, activist from seven different european countries blocked the soy factory of Cargill in Ghent (Belgium) for a whole day long. Not one single truck of soy was able to enter or leave the factory.

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Indymedia Linksunten founded

25-05-2008 17:11

On the 23rd-25th of May 2008 a new Independent Media Centre (IMC) for South West Germany was founded: Indymedia Linksunten. Indymedia Linksunten.

deutsch | english

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'Panzer Operation': Spanish Army weapons in the hands of the extreme right gangs

25-05-2008 11:53

The Crisis and the impunity of the neonazi armed gangs at Valencia Region, Spain

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Via Campesina protests at the Convention on Biological Diversity

25-05-2008 10:54

During the current Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) conference in Bonn, Via Campesina and other social movements and activists have been organising a series of protests under the motto "Nature for people, not for business". 22nd May saw a banner protest, with noise and leafletting during the official celebrations of Biodiversity and at an agribusiness industry lunch.

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Solidarity for imprisoned anti-fur activists in Austria

24-05-2008 22:55

In response to the Viennese armed "elite" police force (WEGA) storming a total of 23 apartments, houses & offices to arrest and imprison anti-Kleider Bauer activists in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Tirol on May 21st 2008, solidarity demonstrations have taken place in; Vienna, Wiener Neustadt, Graz, Bregenz, Hamburg, Berlin, Stockholm, Munich & Salzburg.

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Notts Uni detainee innocent but still facing deportation

24-05-2008 16:41

Hicham Yezza, a popular, respected and valued former PhD student and current employee of the University of Nottingham faces deportation to Algeria on Sunday 1st June. This follows his unjust arrest under the Terrorism Act 2000 on Wednesday 14th May alongside Rizwaan Sabir and their release without charge six days later.

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Wave of Repression against Activists in Austria

23-05-2008 19:29

(Austria) – Around 7:00 am on Wednesday May 21 members of the Viennese elite police force (WEGA) stormed several apartments in Vienna. Some of the residents were woken up in their beds with guns drawn on them. A total of twenty-three (23) apartments, houses and offices were searches in Vienna, Lower Austria, Styria and Tirol.

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This Week In Palestine – Week 21 2008

23-05-2008 17:40

This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for May 17h, through to May 23rd, 2008.

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Pro Life loonies defeated both inside and outside of Parliament.

23-05-2008 14:05

On Tuesday an attempt to highjack the embryology bill going through Parliament was soundly defeated. Britain’s small but determined Pro Life movement had attached a number of amendments to the bill which included reducing the maximum time allowed for an abortion by half and also denying lesbian couples the right to IVF treatment. In the end every amendment was defeated and the pro lifers also had to suffer the humiliation of having their demo placed next to the pro choice contingent who outnumbered them by about 10-1.

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Go Indymedia, go! - Response to the SHIfT article

23-05-2008 12:07

The following is a response by some IMC UK activists to a defamatory article by an anonymous author published in the new, Manchester-based magazine SHIFT (issue 3, May-Sep 2008), under the title "Go Hamas Go"? Why Indymedia UK is losing support [1]. Although this may generate for SHIFT publicity they don't deserve, we thought it our duty to clarify the facts and refute these false allegations and accusations.