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End G8 Domination!

12-07-2008 14:31

End G8 Domination!
Joint Statement on the 34th G8 Summit in Toyako, Hokkaido, Japan

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SchNEWS Front Page F.I.T for Purpose?

12-07-2008 11:10

CO 5494 Ian Skivens
AS SchNEWS SWINGS ITS LONG LENS TOWARDS STATE SURVEILLANCE

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Investigate green councillor door supervisor

11-07-2008 20:34

East Oxford Community Centre Action Group calls for investigation of allegations of assault and of political control of police officers

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On Photography

11-07-2008 20:24

On my experiences photographing various door supervisors on the day of the 2008 Cowley Road Carnival.

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Help Save Wensley Hillside Peak District National Park

11-07-2008 16:05

From this
Glebe Mines, owned by INEOS (the multi-billion pound company that owns Runcorn chemical works) have put in an application to the Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) to build an open pit quarry on Wensley Hillside. The site, which is 6 miles from Bakewell, is within the Peak Park and is 2 miles away from the scene of the well-known Stanton Moor quarrying disputes.

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An Open Letter to the Camp for Climate Action

11-07-2008 11:50

Dear Camp for Climate Action,

Firstly thank you for contacting me. I'm hopping mad about what I've
heard, but I may not have been told the whole story. I can tell you too
the mining community whats left of us feel utterly betrayed by rumours
about you swinging all your efforts to close down what remains of the coal
industry. There are debates about counter-demonstrations etc and press
statements from the power workers and miners. So its vital we do not take
up cudgels over this unless and until and at least that we know where each
other stand. I was a matter of interest with the National General
secretary of the NUM and the Yorkshire Area Leadership last weekend and
they are spitting feathers about the Drax demonstration. The slogans on
the demonstration and the statements made to the press by the protestsrs
demonstrated no concern for the miners, railway workers or power workers.
There was no consultation with us, no debate with us, no seeing what we
wanted or how we see the world or how we can see if there is anything is
common. 'Leave It In The Ground' was the banner which was unfurled at
Drax, 'it' being the coal, and the miners ? where do we leave them ? that
bit wasn't answered. We know where John Major and Maggie Thatcher and
Harold Wilson left us, on the dung heap, and most of us are still there.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 11 July 2008

11-07-2008 10:52

Another airline may be backing off carrying deportees

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A wave of school students' strikes hits Germany

10-07-2008 23:38

students' protest in Berlin
On 22 May, about 8,000 students in Berlin demonstrated through the inner city. On 12June, there were students' strikes in at least eight different cities, from Tübingen in the south-west to Bad Doberan in the north-east, with a total of 15,000 participants. On 16 June, another 3,000 Berlin students protested in front of the city hall.

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Another Demo at Heckler & Koch weapons manufacturers HQ in Nottingham

10-07-2008 22:35

On Tuesday 8th July, people had initially met on the corner of Abbey Bridge and the road leading to Lenton Lane. Then, arriving together, people gathered at the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, based within the Easter Park Industrial Estate on Lenton Lane, Nottingham.

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First, the "extremists", then the "radicals", then the world

10-07-2008 18:27

The ACPO recently released a strategy with which to tackle "extremism". This was circulated among local authorities and strategic partnerships in order to co-opt their help in delivering it. The strategy seeks to identify, isolate, muffle and divert any protest and concern that is not channelled through the "official" and "normative" streams, and to establish these "extremists" as enemies of democracy. First, they came for the "extremists" ...

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Palestine Today 071008

10-07-2008 15:01

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Thursday July 10th, 2008.

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News International threatens Media Lens with legal and police action

10-07-2008 14:44

Following on from the news that News International threatened Media Lens with legal and police action, Media Lens has posted a new alert about the repression. This was in connection with their critical commentary on the bias of the Times over Iran and the nuclear issue. Media Lens, for those who have not encountered their work, are a small (three person) web-based team who analyse British media output, especially at the "liberal" end of the spectrum. Since 2001 they have been publishing free email 'alerts' about mainstream distortion and bias based on Chomsky and Herman's "Propaganda Model" in their book "Manufacturing Consent".

Related Indymedia article:  https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/07/402914.html

Posted from:  http://www.medialens.org/alerts/index.php

Will be soon archived here:  http://www.medialens.org/alerts/08/080710_news_international_threatens.php

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Lambeth residents and workers confront council over privatisation

10-07-2008 14:08

Save Our Services Campaigners Outside Lambeth Town Hall
A group of local trade unions and community groups fighting against plans to privatise local services yesterday confronted the Labour-run Council behind them. Under the banner of "Save Our Services in Lambeth", the group, including local teachers, lecturers, local government workers, tenants and leaseholders packed the public gallery at Lambeth Town Hall and quizzed the Cabinet Members responsible for widespread cuts and privatisation.

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Wembley Tent City Occupation: Press Release, 30/06/2008

10-07-2008 13:13

The Latest Press Release from the Wembley Tent City Occupation: Smash School Privatisation, dated 30 June 2008.

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Latest London Offline & Infousurpa now out

10-07-2008 13:07

... With the latest news and events that you have probably seen in Indymedia London and elsewhere ...

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French sans-papiers occupation : two months !

10-07-2008 08:56

Occupied Center of the Unions
French undocumented immigrants, workers but isolated, begun the occupation of the Center of the Unions in Paris two months ago !

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Virgin's lies about deportation flights

10-07-2008 00:57

Emails sent by Virgin employees to campaigners leading up to the proposed deportation of Kemi Ayinde (which was eventually cancelled, for the 2nd time) have left a trail of lies and deceit. Despite this Virgin's PR machine manages to spin the story in its favour and get them hailed as the hero of the hour in the Daily Mirror.

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G8 solidarity action for Food Sovereignty - Portugal

10-07-2008 00:52

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Last Friday, July 4th, a group of activists occupied the building where the Japanese Embassy was located on a 6th floor, in Lisbon - Portugal. Holding a 6 metres where it read “G8 at the table, One Planet starving”, with the objective of exposing the real consequences of the anti-democratic neo-liberal policies of the G8, and their fake recipes for the current world crisis: food, climactic and social..

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Wembley Anti-Academy Tent City Facing Eviction: Party And Resist!!!

10-07-2008 00:25

Wembley Tent City Occupation
On Tuesday 15 July 2008 Brent Council representatives will attend Willesden County Court at 10.30am to seek a court order for the immediate eviction of the Wembley Sports Ground Tent City Occupation. Party Friday night. Meet the locals and get involved.