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London Food Not Bombs feeds Wobblies

01-09-2008 21:30

Feeding hungry syndicalists
This weekend saw the first general meeting of the Industrial Workers of the World outside of the US ; London Food Not Bombs provided the lunch-time food

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Cops attacking anti-RNC demos this afternoon, Minneapolis

01-09-2008 19:39

Macy's window meets the Black Block downtown
More photos and videos can be found here:
Another news feed from activists on the streets around the blockades can be found here:
 http://twitter.com/coldsnaplegal

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Up-to-minute newsfeed from Republican Convention blockades

01-09-2008 18:49

Cops gas up for it protestors
All the latest news on the streets of todays huge anti-Republican Convention from the streets of Minneapolis. Lots of stuff going on now from a 10,000 people demo, a breakaway Funk The War march, a block block roaming and breaking stuff and various sectors blockaded to prevent delegates moving around the City. Cops going in hard. Some arrests. Pepper spray and rubber bullets now being used on protestors.

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Palestine Today 090108

01-09-2008 18:49

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday September 1, 2008.

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Riot Police Defend the Mall of America from workers

01-09-2008 18:07

Starbucks workers and their supporters, 50 to 70 of them, converge for a rally
today at the rail station at Lake and Hiawatha in downtown Minneapolis. The
crowd comes to stand in solidarity with Starbucks workers in their fight to
organize a union, the Starbucks Workers Union (SWU), with the Industrial Workers
of the World (IWW)*, and to escort Erik Forman back to work at the Mall of
America.

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Minnesota cops bust ‘criminal’ RNC/FNB protesters

01-09-2008 17:56

A series of police raids that took place in the Twin Cities over the weekend, in which FBI agents and local law enforcement detained six people on suspicion of conspiracy to riot at the Republican National Convention. The detainees have not been formally charged with any crime and their lawyers are in court today seeking their release. There were no such pre-emptive arrests of protesters at the Democratic Convention in Denver last week

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Radical Response to Hurricane Gustav and the RNC: Statement

01-09-2008 17:45

Here in the Twin Cities, activists have been experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights through intolerable pre-emptive raids, and members and friends of the RNC Welcoming Committee have been on the run, seeking sanctuary from police terrorism. Now, residents of the Gulf Coast are will continue to be experiencing the suspension of civil and human rights on an even more massive scale, and seeking sanctuary not only from the weather but from a military invasion of their cities - the same kind which 3 years ago proved an even bigger calamity than Hurricane Katrina itself.

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We Are Change UK - Notting Hill Carnival 2008

01-09-2008 14:10

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Racial profiling at the Notting Hill 'Carnival'

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Amadeu Casellas, 72 days hungerstrike - a "more political" prisoner now.

01-09-2008 13:01

In the last 6 days Amadeu Casellas has eaten no food as his protest, the ultimate protest any prisoner may undertake continues. But in contrast to the last report which noted the lack of international mobilisation and political pressure to highlight his case.

He's still in prison. So the political pressure must be sustained and increased. & it is.
A short article on what's happened in the last 6 days since the article "Amadeu Casellas, 64 days hungerstrike - a "not political enough" prisoner." was published.

"Amadeu says that he will exit on his own legs, or with his feet forward"

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FNB homes and offices raided & volunteers arrested before RNC protest

01-09-2008 09:21

CRACKDOWN BEGINS: Food Not Bombs homes and offices raided. Volunteers
arrested.

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Bobby Roberts demo - Towyn, North Wales

01-09-2008 09:02

Demonstration at Bobby Roberts' animal circus met with threats of violence... again...

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Photos - Sophie Lancaster Memorial March 31st August 2008 Sheffield

31-08-2008 21:22

The Parade of United Souls
HUNDREDS of goths and their supporters marched through Sheffield this afternoon to protest against 'alterophobia': fear, prejudice and hatred towards members of alternative subcultures.

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Rossport Picket Account

31-08-2008 12:12

Report from yesterdays picket at Glengad where Gardai attacked protesters at Shell's Compound

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Save Titnore Woods!

31-08-2008 10:42

WHEN is a wood not a wood? When it has a road running right through it!

The "new" planning application for the West Durrington development in Worthing, West Sussex, is being sold to the Worthing public as a "response to public opinion" that will spare many of the Titnore trees.

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Riseup! Radio #8 - September Show

30-08-2008 22:37

Climate camp cops in need of raw food diet?

Cor blimey – this month’s rioting edition of riseup! radio will have you jamming in the streets and digging carrots out of roundabouts. It’s our most packed and smartest show ever- no summer holidays for us, we’re too busy sorting our shit out- so join us for the lowdown on the summer’s hottest DIY events, camps and schemes, to find out why cops do bad things, and hear about some serious debates coming up this autumn. Get inspired to get involved.

Listen: #8 The September Show

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Guantánamo torture victim Binyam Mohamed: High Court condemns UK/US policy

30-08-2008 01:19

Andy Worthington, author of “The Guantánamo Files”, reports on the High Court’s judgment in favour of British resident Binyam Mohamed, in which the judges ruled that the government must hand over evidence relating to his rendition and torture, and the Court’s second judgment on Friday, in which the judges ruled that the government’s attempts to prevent disclosure for reasons of “national security” were insufficient.

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Demos Against HLS Customers in the South

29-08-2008 23:10

On Wednesay 27 August, four activists with a few hours to spare decided to visit Novartis and remind them of the horrors they pay for at Huntingdon Life Sciences.

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Direct Action; Denmark, Mexico, USA, Australia & Spain

29-08-2008 20:10

CAGES EMPTIED AT FUR FARM (Denmark)
DAYLIGHT RESCUE OF RABBIT (Mexico)
TOILETS CLOGGED AT FAST-FOOD RESTAURANTS (USA)
MELBOURNE ZOO VANDALIZED (Australia)
REPEAT VISIT TO FUR SHOP (Mexico)
15 FUR SHOPS SABOTAGED IN BARCELONA (Spain)
MEAT MARKET REDECORATED (Mexico)
PAINTED PROTESTS AGAINST PET STORE, GE CORN (Mexico)

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Shell to Sea visit Shell's boats

29-08-2008 19:48

shell to sea readyfor action...

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Vegan Prison Soap in Austria

29-08-2008 19:19

Letter from Elmar: