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Demo in Athens remembering the killing Nikos Temponeras - pics

09-01-2009 19:46

Teachers and students demonstrate against the privation of education and police repression.

This email is being monitored by your government ...

09-01-2009 19:27

... or it will be from the 15th of March 2009.

What is happening then?

From that date forth your ISP (Internet Service Provider) will
by law have to keep a copy of the address of every email you send and
receive (Including any junk mail your receive offering you pills,
potions and other services!) and it is estimated it will cost the
government in the region of 15-25 Million pounds per year (How many
teachers, nurses etc could that fund?)

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FIT policing at the Gaza demo (Sat 3rd Jan)

09-01-2009 19:13

The Gaza demonstration last Saturday was justifiably passionate, angry and determined, and there were many more there than the 12,000 that the police claimed.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 02 2009

09-01-2009 17:46

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for January 3rd 2009 through to January 9th 2009.

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Please help Naverah Nuzhat Saleemi and her four children

09-01-2009 10:32

Naverah, and her four children Ahmad (age 12), Hassan (age 11), Husnain (age 11) and Humna (age 8), nationals of Pakistan and residents of Glasgow, were detained on Monday whilst reporting to the Home Office at Festival Court. They are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Sunday 11th January at 16:50 on

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from Gaza: Riding on fire and a third intifada

09-01-2009 03:20

Under fire in Gaza, an activist calls for direct action against named, local, complicit companies:

"...These companies, Carmel Agrexco, Caterpillar, Veolia, Raytheon, EDO, BAE Systems, they are complicit in the crimes against humanity being committed here. If the international community will not uphold international law, then a popular movement should and can..."

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Candlelit vigil (Southampton) gratuitious ...write your own comment also please.

09-01-2009 02:37

People came from far and near came, to hold their candles and share the cold and the sadness for others further away where electricity, water. food and ordinary daily needs are not being met because of savage oppression, killing, maimings and bombing.

Hanthala turned up, I reflect he was saddened and if you could have seen his face there were tears of blood - yet he held a bright candle with us - he holds a candle even now whilst many of us sleep he holds it high - hope happens in community never alone, alone we despair.

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Report: Militant Picket of M&S in Newcastle 08.01.09

09-01-2009 01:07

Tonight over 30 people took part in a noisy and angry picket of Marks and Spencer, Britain's biggest corporate sponsor of Israel. A banner was held across the main entrance and information was distributed to passers-by. Many members of the public took the opportunity to join the picket and express their anger at Israel's actions in Gaza and Britain's continuing complicity.

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Vigil for Gaza, Parliament Square, London

08-01-2009 23:22

It's started... until it stops.

A vigil for peace in Gaza, right opposite Parliament.

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Greece: 25/12 to 6/1 report

08-01-2009 20:23

This is an update on the most critical events of the past two weeks in Greece

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SHAC Demo HLS' Filthy Financiers

08-01-2009 17:34

Wednesday, January 7th

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Palestine discusssion at Friends Meeting house (06-01-2009).

08-01-2009 13:25

On Tuesday night of this week (06-01-2009), despite the temperature outside being minus figures, a room in Friends Meeting House, Cambridge was packed out by a couple of hundred people who wanted to hear another side of the story about the bombs being dropped on Gaza. Another side of a story that the media doesn't always tell, quite often preferring to portray things as 'a Palestinian problem'.

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Urgent Update on Ronnie Easterbrook – Action Needed!!

08-01-2009 13:04

Ronnie is now entering his 3rd week on hunger strike. At 78 years old and already in failing health due to previous protests, this may be his final act against a judicial and penal system that he believes has unjustly imprisoned him for 20 years.

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Gaza protest at Israeli Embassy, London, Wed 7 Jan

08-01-2009 12:19

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Gaza supporters cover Swansea in Graffiti

08-01-2009 03:05

Undercurrents reports on the student group who have covered many of the billboards in Swansea with provocative slogans about Israel's invasion of Gaza, Palestine.

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Gaza Graffiti Small Heath Birmingham & Falls Road Mural

08-01-2009 02:08

Photos of 'Free Gaza' graffiti on Muntz Street in Small Heath, Birmingham and a mural that stood on Falls Road, West Belfast in 2002. This is a repaired frame from 288 frames that were taken in Belfast but were damaged by British Special Branch when the film was seized.

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Jan 09 Gaza Demo Birmingham

08-01-2009 01:55

A massive crowd, reported in the in the Evening Mail, as over 1000 strong, gathered outside Birmingham’s Council House to voice their protest over the invasion of Gaza and called on the local City Council to boycott all Israeli goods. The main debating chamber was over-subscribed and a despite a hastily organised auxiliary room being pressed into service, there were still more at the door!

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Plymouth Protests Disgraceful BBC Gaza Reporting

07-01-2009 23:17

Plymouth says no to War Criminals and their Apologists.

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Video Series: Asylum Seekers Squat Church in Zurich (Switzerland)

07-01-2009 22:25

On Friday, 19 December 2008, around 150 Sans-Papiers and solidarity activists squatted the "Prediger" Church in Zurich, Switzerland. The squatters demanded from the Canton Zurich documents for everyone, work permits for all and the implementation of the hardship provision.

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Interview with Councillor Salma Yaqoob after the Birmingham Gaza protest

07-01-2009 22:13

The following is a transcript of an interview with Councillor Salma Yaqoob on 5th January 2009 after a protest against the ongoing massacre in Gaza. Between 800 and 1000 people attempted to storm the Council House in Birmingham City Centre but were effectively pacified and contained by Yaqoob and Birmingham Stop the War.

You can read and watch footage of the protest and the interview here:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/birmingham/2009/01/417402.html