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Leave it in the ground banner dropped above roadway

04-08-2008 22:33

Campaigners battling plans for an open cast mine on the edge of Telford today unfurled banners across one of Shropshire’s busiest roads. Members of Wrekin Stop War and Wrekin Anarchist Group are bidding to catch the attention of motorists travelling on the M54 past Telford and are calling for them to join their protests.

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Police drop top secret NETCU guide to policing protest - part 2

04-08-2008 20:01

Part 2 of the NETCU guide

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Police drop top secret NETCU guide to policing protest

04-08-2008 19:46

When raiding the site of the Camp for Climate Action, the police dropped a copy of their top-secret guide to policing protest.

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Occupation of ARK by Wembley teachers in pictures.

04-08-2008 16:29

On Friday teachers from Wembley who are militantly opposed to their local sports ground being turned into a Thatcher inspired nightmare called ‘City Academy’ occupied the offices of ARK the company who will immediately benefit from this appalling decision.

Shit that’s a long sentence, my English teacher would be disgusted…. anyway the teachers in question are just a little bit tired of not having their calls returned. So decided to make their representations in person.

Details and further hilarity below:

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SPEAK Demo Report from Oxford Labs

04-08-2008 15:03

SPEAK Campaign supporters met opposite Oxford's new animal abuse lab to campaign against the University's barbaric treatment of the sentient beings who will be tortured and killed inside it, as they have done every week for the past four and a half years. Campaigners of all ages, some who have been with SPEAK from the beginning, others who have been drawn to the campaign more recently having heard the appalling truth about the horrors perpetrated against the animals imprisoned within university labs, spent the four hours of the demo informing the passing public of their opposition to vivisection at Oxford. These highly visual demos always receive much support from those passing in vehicles and on foot, and this week was no exception with gestures of support from a huge number of motorists and tourists on tour buses, and words of encouragement from pedestrians, many of whom stopped to talk to protesters and took leaflets.

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Aldershot town centre regeneration

04-08-2008 14:44

The Labour group at the Rotten Borough of Rushmoor has discovered the blindingly obvious, that Aldershot has a failing town centre!

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Binyam Mohamed: judges grill MI5 agent and question fairness of Guantánamo trial

04-08-2008 14:12

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files,” reports on the explosive developments during last week’s judicial review, in the British high court, of the case of British resident and torture victim Binyam Mohamed, imprisoned in Guantánamo and facing a trial by Military Commission.

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Palestine Today 080408

04-08-2008 13:32

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday August 4th, 2008.

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Climate Camp Radio ready to go

04-08-2008 11:01

The studio's set up, we've got guests coming in, and an action packed schedule of programs coming up over the duration of the camp

We'll be doing two shows a day during lunch and dinner. The early show starts at 1pm and goes til 2-2:30, the late show starts at 7pm and finishes at 9pm.

Shows are available online (streaming or as podcasts) from

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

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Dawn raid on Climate Camp

04-08-2008 11:00

"Police on site, get up London, move it now!" was today's 5.15 alarm call. Clothes still wet from last night's downpour, London neighbourhood, now a couple of hundred strong was up and running for the top gate.

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Artists jailed for bringing colour to shitty cities.

04-08-2008 10:29

Members of the DPM crew were jailed for up to 2 years for making dull shitty city scapes brighter and more colourful spaces.
As they start a prison sentence, pictures of their work are to be exhibited in a New York art gallery. So are they vandals or frustrated artists?

myspace page explaining more www.myspace.com/supportdpm

Petition to present at appeal to try and get reduced sentences here

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/petitions/graffiti-artists.html

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Climate Camp solidarity demo in the High Peak - Save the Woodhead Tunnel

04-08-2008 09:52

On Saturday 2nd August, campaigners in the High Peak staged a demonstration to call for the re-opening of the Woodhead Tunnel and the Manchester to Sheffield rail line.

The demo co-incided with the Climate Camp at Kingsnorth, Kent. The tunnel is under threat due to National Grid's plans to run cables through it, transferring power generated in the coal fields of Yorkshire to the industrial centres of the North West.

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Video of Caravan and March to Climate Camp 3-8-08

04-08-2008 08:44

This year's Climate Camp in the UK is against a proposed new highly polluting, coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent, at at time when the Government is pretending to be 'green'.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/ClimateCamp3-8-08

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5 o'clock and the police try and drive through main gate to climate camp

04-08-2008 08:13

Climate Camp main gate duty meets and repels a van load of police at 5am

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New libel threat against Uzbekistan solidarity

04-08-2008 08:05

Craig Murray, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, is threatened again with libel action to prevent the publication of his new book.
In this book, Murray plans to expose the methods of mercenary commander Tim Spicer, one of those who has made a fortune with supplying his private, unaccountable army, to Iraq. [Fuck the War action]

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Footage from dawn raid on Climate Camp

04-08-2008 06:49

Some short extracts of footage recorded this morning from police raid on the Camp for Climate Action, nr Kingsnorth, Medway.

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Wembley Sports Ground Occupation Being Evicted: protestors physically assaulted

04-08-2008 06:26

Baliffs have used heavy-handed force to evict protestors at the anti-Academy occupation of Wembley Sports Ground this morning, with allegations of physical assault. Members of the press have also been physically assaulted. There is video evidence.

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Police mount morning attacks against climate campers

04-08-2008 05:37

Shortly after 5am this morning, police mounted an operation at the climate camp.

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Wembley Park Sports Ground Camp and Business Eviction 5am Tomorrow

03-08-2008 22:05

Brent Council will enter Wembley Sports Ground 5am tomorrow morning with police backup to evict the GRASS protestors and the businesses who refused last week's eviciton orders.

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Caravan and March to Climate Camp 3-8-08

03-08-2008 21:13

The March began in Rochester where it was was joined by the Caravan.