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Transitions towns

09-10-2008 15:11

Transition towns support energy reduction, localisation, why therefore the criticism?

Titnore Woods plans - new info

09-10-2008 07:57

The deadline for objections to the Titnore Woods planning appeal in Worthing, West Sussex, has been extended, the borough council has now said.

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Christian Rodrigue Mbianga / Captured Again

09-10-2008 05:30

Christian Rodrigue Mbianga from Cameroon, is currently in detention and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Saturday 11 October 2008 on British Airways flight BA302 @ 06:15hrs to Paris and from Paris to Cameroon on Air France flight AF940.

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SOCPA is dead.... but the illegal harassment continues

08-10-2008 22:45

sections 132-138 of the 'serious organised crime and police act' sought to control demonstrations near parliament, and specifically brian haw's seven year vigil opposite the carriage gates. the law is in tatters, but police, unable to use these powers, are resorting more and more to unlawful violence, intimidation, and harassment

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Home office steals Unity centre volunteer

08-10-2008 12:00

Kenny Olwole Ogunbowale, a regular volunteer and a good friend of everyone at the Unity Centre in Glasgow, was detained on Monday 6th October. He has now been moved to Tinsley House where he awaits forced removal to Nigeria tomorrow 9th October. In Nigeria he believes the men who killed his father will be looking for him. There is not a lot of time to help Kenny, please see below what you can do immediately to help him.

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Reading the Names of the Dead, Afghanistan, London - Pictures

08-10-2008 11:08

Peace camapaigners gather in Whitehall opposite Downing Street on the seventh of the month for a seven hour vigil seven years after Afghanistan is invaded by a US/UK led coalition in the opening salvo of the now disgraced so-called War on Terror.

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About some investigations for “terrorist association” in Germany...

08-10-2008 11:01

About some investigations for “terrorist association” in Germany...

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Sussex Uni Students Strike Again At Royal Navy

08-10-2008 07:13

For the second time in as many weeks Sussex university students have demonstrated their determination to drive the University Royal Navy Unit (royal navy recruitment organisation on uni campuses) into the sea.

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Freedom not fear - some links

07-10-2008 13:02

More info about the freedom not fear international action this saturday:

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Demo by University & College Union, derecognised at Nottingham Trent University

07-10-2008 01:19

On 12:30 on Monday 6th October 2008, staff and students from Nottingham Trent University together with hundreds of UCU members from all around the country held a national rally outside the Royal Concert Hall in Nottingham.

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Hamburg: Precarious Superheroes in Court?

06-10-2008 20:19

In April 2006, about 30 precarious superheroes took delicatessen from a gourmet supermarket in the German City of Hamburg and distributed them to people who could use them. They also left an invitation for the upcoming EuroMayDay Parade.

The action worked not only as a circulation of luxury goods, but also as a media stunt. The police didn't like it at all and tried to catch the superheroes with lots of vans and a helicopter – in vain [report en]. Some hints as to why the state might think that these superheroes are so dangerous can be found here.

After a house search, the cops thought they had found one of the activists who participated in the action and convicted her in court, based on a perceived similarity between her and a photo of one of the masked superheroes. She appealed, and this Wednesday, she will be in court again. This time, the prosecution based the accusation on the fact that they found documents on her laptop dealing with “precarization”. If this is enough for criminalisation, the main service trade union in Germany must be regarded as criminal, as well as lots of academics and researchers who have been working on the issue of precarity for more than a decade. Let alone Euromayday groups in more than 20 european countries.

Read on for the press release of Euromayday Hamburg, who are supporting the activist in court:

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Anti-ID card demo in Newport

06-10-2008 17:33

You can read a much longer version of this report with more photos and background info at:

http://noborderswales.wordpress.com/2008/10/06/newport-protest-against-id-cards/

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Palestine Today 100608

06-10-2008 17:08

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Monday October 6, 2008

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Happy 1st Birthday, Next To Nowhere

06-10-2008 16:16

Liverpool's social centre has been open for a year, and its members celebrated last Saturday by partying into the night.

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TAG Aviation seek massive expansion at Farnborough Airport

06-10-2008 14:30

TAG Aviation has published the result of its so-called consultation exercise for massive expansion of business aviation at Farnborough Airport.

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East London BNP Launch Scuppered.

06-10-2008 13:39

News reaches us that the re-launch of the East London BNP group got off to a
less than successful start today. After what can only be described as a
gathering of the Darby and Joan club, the assembled geriatrics met at the
Salmon and ball pub on the corner of Bethnal green road. This it turns out was
just the re-direction point as it soon became clear that the grey haired
security team we're shepherding the old folk a mere one hundred meters away to
a church hall opposite! Well done on the planning there people!

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The Peace Procession and the Peace Plan, London. Pictures.

06-10-2008 11:01

Peace campaigners from all the faiths gather at Westminster Cathedral to carry out the Peace Procession through London. They are joined by David Gould, who's step-daughter Helen Katherine Jones was killed on a Piccadilly line train at Kings Cross during the bombing of the London underground in 2005.

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Big protest in the Netherlands against Europe's largest primate research centre

05-10-2008 10:45

From across the Netherlands over three hundred animalfriends on Saturday came to Rijswijk to demonstrate against the Biomedical Primate Research Center. The demonstration was organized by the Anti Vivisection Coalition (www.stopdierpoeven.org).

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Protest against the persecution of Roma in Italy

04-10-2008 22:50

Activists from No Borders, International Workers of the World, Crossoads Women centre and others held a lively protest at the Italian Toursit Board last Friday, 3rd October.

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In memory of SAlly Grace activist raped and murdered in Oaxaca

04-10-2008 12:16

Sally's murder may have passed as yet another case of sexual violence, completely unrelated to her political work with some of the most persecuted organizations in Oaxaca. But Sally's friends in Oaxaca City know that she was being followed as a result of her human rights work and her associations with CIPO and other Oaxacan organizations for whom political violence is a daily fact of life.