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Lampedusa's prison for migrants burns: Picket of Italian Embassy

24-02-2009 12:38

Protests and a general strike of the residents in Lampedusa, who do not want their island to become 'a new Alcatraz'; mass escapes involving over 1000 migrants detained in the 'reception' centre; mass hunger strikes by the migrants against their deportation to Tunisia and the inhumane way they have been treated; at least 11 suicide attempts; riots that led to the Lampedusa centre (not in line with fire regulations) to be half destroyed by fire, the 17th February. The number of persons injuried may be around 80, 60 immigrants and 20 policemen. Migrants were kept locked inside the burning centre.

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Climate Camp launches Press Complaint over G20 article

24-02-2009 02:03

Today, the Camp for Climate Action lodged a complaint with the Press
Complaints Commission (PCC) against the Evening Standard. The camp claims
the Standard's article regarding the April 1st event "Climate Camp in
London's Square mile", to be held during the G20, is misleading.

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Police round up kids to make sure they 'Staysafe'

24-02-2009 01:22

As a test run for a project to be instated in 69 areas of the UK in April 2009, Yorkshire police stopped 1,200 children who were out at night and took them into 'police protection', before their parents picked them up. Several were also questioned by Children's Services.

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Students mount a Wall of Debt in Manchester

24-02-2009 00:59

Students from the Reclaim the Uni group at Manchester built a Wall of Debt last Tuesday 17th February 2009 – as a visual representation of the cost of higher education. Students were asked to write how much debt they were in each brick of the mock wall. In just over hour all the bricks had been filled, with a total of over £2 million being owed by just 140 students who took part. Several individuals owed as much as £35,000 each.

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BMW Workers Self-Organising Against Bosses and Sellout Union

23-02-2009 19:40

At 6 am this morning there was a small picket in response to the lay off of 850 agency workers, outside two gates of BMW's mini car plant in Cowley, Oxford. We were expecting a mass picket of laid off temp workers. These workers have been self-organising against their bosses and the corrupt union leaders who've essentially sold them out.

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Protest against Agrexco's share holders Apax Partners in London

23-02-2009 17:01

A small protest was held this morning at the London headquarters of Apax Partners, a UK-based private equity giant that holds a majority stake in Israeli agricultural co-op Tnuva, which owns 25 percent of Agrexco Agricultural Export Company, Israel's largest exporter of agricultural produce, which is guilty of trading in fruits, vegetables and flowers grown on illegal Israeli settlements built on stolen Palestinian land in the Occupied Territories (see the Carmel-Agrexco topic page

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2008/carmelagrexco/).

Earlier in the morning, an anonymous protester had separately D-locked the building's main door, causing some disruption to the baffled employees arriving to work. Armed with a banner and leaflets accusing Apax Partners of profiting from the illegal settlements, they called upon the company to divest from Tnuva or be complicit to crimes under the International Criminal Court Act 2001.

Police arrived about an hour later and imposed Section 14 of the Public Order Act! But protesters didn't leave until they'd run out of leaflets and energy.

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Palestine Today 022309

23-02-2009 16:21

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Monday , February 23ed , 2009.

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Work Stopped at Rosewell Open Cast Coal Minse Site

23-02-2009 14:47

At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to disrupt the operations of Scottish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in Midlothian. Some of the 10 activists stopping work today are local
residents.

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Film & Short update on outcomes of Birmingham University occupation

23-02-2009 13:33

This article has been reposted because the original film wasn't entirely uploaded via ftp. The full film should now be viewable.

The occupation at the University of Birmingham ended on 20th January on the same day it started when the occupiers decided to leave after two shifts of university security and 30 police besieged the building that evening.

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Action against Scottish Coal open cast mine this morning

23-02-2009 11:52

At 9am today a group of eco-activists began to disrupt the
operations of Scottish Coal at the Rosewell open-cast coal mine in the
Midlothians. Some of the 10 activists stopping work today are local residents.

They climbed onto digging machinery to prevent works and climbed onto trucks to prevent
coal from leaving the Rosewell site for 2 hours this morning. Then police arrived but no-one were arrested.

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Why the police riot? - part 6

23-02-2009 02:58

The British police public order manual is a secret document establishing a paramilitary third force in the UK, under the control of a private company (ACPO) with permission from the home office. It's long overdue that more information about this was in the public domain.

This is part 6 of a series, for parts 1-5 see:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/418797.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/01/419998.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/420982.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/421761.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/02/422077.html

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//418801.pdf

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/01//420000.pdf

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//420984.pdf

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//421762.pdf

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/media/2009/02//422079.pdf

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Two Days of SHAC Netherlands Tour

22-02-2009 22:53

Thursday, 19th February - Eight HLS customers and a supplier are demoed
Friday, 20th February - Another nine HLS customers are demoed

'Our mission is clear, our demands simple and straight forward, our motivation indestructible. We will not sit idly by or look the other way whilst animals pine away and suffer inside HLS!'

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UN's Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) clarifies misleading media reports on Iran

22-02-2009 21:55

Following the release of IAEA's latest report on Iran last week, a number of scaremongering anti-Iran headlines appeared in the Western media.

In response to questions by Dr. Kaveh Afrasiabi, the IAEA spokesperson, Melissa Fleming, has issued a statement clarifying the IAEA's position regarding the misleading articles in the US and European press concerning Iran's production of low-enriched uranium.

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Four Peaceful Anti-Vivisectionists Arrested - California

22-02-2009 20:58

For Immediate Release
February 22, 2009

Federal Authorities Arrest Peaceful Protesters
Animal Liberation Front, Other Clandestine Groups Prosper as Result

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St Andrews: Student Occupation Rallies, Enters Fifth Day

22-02-2009 17:43

To mark the fifth day in occupation of a key university building, student protestors held a rally to gather support for the campaign before a meeting with University officials on Monday.

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Victory for student movement: Strathclyde University to end complicity with Gaza

22-02-2009 01:26

Students at Strathclyde University won the vote on Thursday to cut the university’s ties with arms manufacturer BAe Systems which supplied components used by the Israeli military in the recent massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

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Group 4 Securicor Attacks South African Shack Dwellers' Movement Against

21-02-2009 15:05

Group 4 Securicor private security guards are being used on the increasingly violent war on the poor in South Africa as the ANC continues with its project to drive the poor out of the cities. For useful links giving background to this statement see

http://abahlali.org/node/4807

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Student University Occupations: A Growing Movement

21-02-2009 14:32

Around 200 students from the University of St. Andrews have been in occupation of Lower College Hall, a key University building, since Wednesday at 12 when a petition signed by over 600 students and staff was handed to the university.

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Murder of Small Farmer Rights Organizer Sparks Protests in Yaracuy, Venezuela

21-02-2009 14:25

Small farmer rights groups plan to march across the city of San Felipe in Venezuela’s Yaracuy state this Saturday to demand that the hired assassins of Nelson López, a small farmer rights organizer, be brought to justice. López, who was shot fifteen times in the back last Thursday, is the 213th small farmer (campesino) to be murdered since 2001, the year the government of President Hugo Chávez passed a sweeping land reform law which set the conditions for re-distribution of idle sections of large estates to small farmers, according to the Ezequiel Zamora National Farmers’ Front (FNCEZ), one of the groups convoking Saturday’s marches.

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Two of Top Five HLS Investors Sell Their Shares

21-02-2009 13:36

Wells Fargo, who were one of the top 5 institutional investors in LSR (Huntingdon Life Sciences), have sold all their shares and Bank of New York Mellon, which was also one of the top 5 institutional investors, has sold most of their holding in LSR.