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Nazis committed one more murder in Irkutsk

16-10-2008 22:48

On the 8th October 2008, around 22 p.m., a 16-year-old girl Olga
Rukosyla was killed in the district of Sinyushina gora in Irkustsk.

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Palestine Today 101608

16-10-2008 15:47

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday 16.2008

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Bush: "This sucker could go down." If only!

16-10-2008 14:43

What strange times we are living in. George Bush is being called a 'socialist' and is forced to intensify a sense of panic concerning the state of the 'economy' in order to convince fellow republicans and the public of the virtues of state intervention in the financial system. Surely this isn't how capitalism works.

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UNICEF to pull out of The Baby Show over links with the arms trade.

16-10-2008 14:28

This story is due to appear in The Guardian tomorrow, but has been forward to DISARM DSEi after the freelancer concerned (who has done all the work on the story), was shafted by both CAAT and The Guardian.

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Activists Bring Biofuels Conference to Stand Still on World Food Day

16-10-2008 10:58

Climate Activists have brought the Newark Biofuels Expo to a stand still with rape alarms and banners.

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Smash ITT/EDO. Witnesses needed for assault on photographer.

16-10-2008 10:19

Yesterday at around 2.15pm protesters emerged from the woods above the ITT factory into an adjoining field. They had brought with them a sound system. Also in the field were two Police dog handlers and several other officers in riot gear. At one point during the clashes a photographer who was recording the Police action was assaulted. A dog handler set his dog on him causing serious injury.

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photos of today's demo Smash EDO 2

15-10-2008 20:30

A mass protest against Brighton-based arms manufacturers EDO MBM/ITT

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Smash EDO Press Release - Campaigners Close Down Bomb Factory

15-10-2008 19:58

Smash EDO Press Release
15/10/2008 For immediate release

Contact Chloe Marsh or Andrew Beckett: tel - 07754135290, e-mail

smashedopress@riseup.net

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Photos Of Today's Smash EDO Demo 1

15-10-2008 19:36

Photos of the mass protest against Brighton-based arms manufacturers EDO MBM/ITT

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Nottingham SU Council back racist

15-10-2008 19:01

Yesterday Nottingham SU Council voted down a no confidence motion against racist Education Officer, Craig Cox. Cox held up a banner reading 'Bring Back Slavery' at an NUS meeting during the summer. In spite of a mass lobbying campaign, including a 60 strong picket of the council meeting, the vote for the motion fell well short of the two-thirds required to pass it.

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Climate Rush - video footage

15-10-2008 17:23

Mainstream media showed Climate Rush as a very quiet affair - that certainly wasn't the case as this film shows.

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Amsterdam evictions

15-10-2008 15:47

In this season's Amsterdam eviction wave there were six squats evicted, including the well known PS28/Joe's Garage and the Barcelona.

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Palestine Today 101508

15-10-2008 15:20

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday October 15.2008

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Abdi Ahmed: "England is the only place I can call home"

15-10-2008 14:02

"Somalia is not only a deadlock and a place of conflict generating many refugees, but for me a country that I simply do not call 'home'. I left the country when I was four years old. I have never been to Somalia since and my entire family is in the UK. I do not even speak Somali fluently enough to make my way around this country that I only know through stories."

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Activists Take Over BP Recruitment Event

15-10-2008 11:14

BP's attempt to recruit Oxford graduates at the uber-swanky Randolph Hotel last night didn't quite go according to plan...

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Shut ITT! - Full Timeline

15-10-2008 09:59

A mass protest against Brighton-based arms manufacturers EDO MBM/ITT has just started. Organised by the Smash EDO campaign, the event is called Shut ITT! and is the third such demonstration this year. Last June, Brighton saw the Carnival Against the Arms Trade, organised by Smash EDO too. The 600 or so protesters then managed to reach the Brighton bomb factory despite police attempts to stop them.

Below is a full timeline put together by the Indymedia Dispatch team. It's being updated as reports come in, so keep an eye on it!

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Inside a Greek detention container

14-10-2008 22:34

This video was taken with a mobile phone by one of the refugees in a container used as a detention centre to hold refugees arrested by police and border guards in the port of Patra, Greece. It was originally posted on a Greek blog and on Youtube, and the Youtube link posted on Indymedia Greece.

I've stripped it off Youtube and converted it to mpg so that people could watch it and use it as they wish.

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Stopping the city.

14-10-2008 22:14

On Friday a demo in the City of London was met with far fewer MET than expected. So the mixture of trots, students and activists went on a tour of some of our more wealthy institutions, much to the alarm of the outnumbered cops who got increasingly sweaty over the next hour as they tried and failed to control the crowd.

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Parliament rushed - but not by suffragettes.

14-10-2008 18:23

A great multitude of ladies, gentlemen and some from the underclasses gathered in Parliament Square last night.

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Further Demo at Heckler & Koch weapons HQ in Nottingham : Pix 2

14-10-2008 17:55

At 4pm on Monday 14th October, people had initially met on the corner of Abbey Bridge and the road leading to Lenton Lane. Then, arriving together, people gathered at the gates to the UK headquarters of Heckler & Koch, based within the Easter Park Industrial Estate on Lenton Lane, Nottingham.