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Fifty Years On - Tibetan Freedom March, London, March 7

09-03-2009 14:02

The Tibet Freedom march through London on Saturday marked the 50th anniversary of the 1959 Tibetan People's Uprising. Among those taking part was a monk who was tortured and spent 33 years imprisoned for taking part in those peaceful demonstrations. Pictures Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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One Law For All - No Sharia Law in Britain

09-03-2009 11:31

Over 200 people turned up in Trafalgar Square on Saturday afternoon (7 March) for a rally against the introduction of Sharia Law to the UK before marching to a public meeting at Conway Hall. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Second attempt to remove Kadesh Desturi Swedi

09-03-2009 08:03

Kadesh Desturi Swedi a national of DR Congo a resident of Wolverhampton is currently detained in Oakington IRC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Friday 13th March on Ethiopean Airways flight ET701 from London Heathrow @ 21:00 to Addis Ababa and on to DR Congo.

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Student Activism Not Dead in Plymouth!

08-03-2009 18:26

Activism grows in Naval town of Plymouth, as students take to the streets.

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Leila Deen, Custard Queen, Arrested

08-03-2009 15:43

London activist Leila Deen was arrested Saturday for throwing green custard over government minister Peter Mandelson on Friday to protest at his undemocratic involvement in the decision to Heathrow airport. She received a text message and phone call from the police to inform her she was to be arrested for common assault. After being interviewed she was released without charge, and bailed to return on the 9th of April.

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Crufts Demo Report

08-03-2009 15:17

Crufts 2009 is coming to an end.

Animal rights activists from Nottingham, London and elsewhere gave a grand farewell to the Kennel Club, hoping that this will be the last year that people will be allowed to breed dogs for racial(breed), purity whilst thousands of healthy dogs die in shelters around the world because of a demand they created.

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Million Women Rise March, London

08-03-2009 10:59

Several thousand women marched through London's main shopping streets on Saturday in an International Women's Day event dedicated to ending male violence against women. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Carmel Blockaded in Jayyous Solidarity Action

08-03-2009 07:18

Press Release:

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Prada: Union Busting is Just SO Last Season

07-03-2009 22:45

Around a dozen people held placards and gave out leaflets at Prada in Old Bond St, London this morning (7 March 2009) in a protest over union busting, low wages and unsafe working conditions at Prada's Turkish supplier.

Pictures Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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The Summer Of Rage Starts Here! - Call from London Anarchists

07-03-2009 14:59

THE SUMMER OF RAGE STARTS HERE!
G20 London Summit: A rebellious call for days of action
March 28th - April 2nd 2009

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Ahava picketted by Jewish Palestine activists

07-03-2009 14:53

Ahava in central London picketted by activists from JBIG as well as other organisations.

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Large Number Of Mutilated Porpoise Carcasses Strand At Dutch Beaches

07-03-2009 13:39

An increasing number of mutilated carcasses of Harbor Porpoises, on average 1.50 meters in length, have stranded in recent months on beaches at Texel, an island north east of the Dutch mainland. Ecomare, the centre for the Wadden- and North Sea, says the killings of the animals found in a total of 120 strandings in recent months can be contributed to the Danish fishing vessels which operated along the Dutch coast over the winter period.

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Students keep up the pressure on NatWest

07-03-2009 11:37

Week 3 of protests at the campus branch of NatWest at the University of Birmingham saw students maintain pressure on the bank, with the demand for RBS to divest from the fossil fuel industry which is funding climate chaos.

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"Top secret" G20 venue revealed

07-03-2009 08:35

G20 Finance ministers are to hold pre-summit talks in southern England next weekend, Saturday March 14, ahead of the main event on April 2-3.

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Welsh children's charity to attend...arms fair!?!

07-03-2009 00:05

Ty Hafan, the well-known Welsh charity that runs a hospice for dying children is to attend Aerolink Wales 2009, one of the UK's premier events for weapons manufacturers. Among those attending the arms fair with Ty Hafan are Magellan Aerospace, General Electric, Thales and Gardner Aerospace...a nastier bunch of bastards there could not be.

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Manchester students confiscate arms industry stall

06-03-2009 23:06

On Tuesday 24th February 2009, 40 students from the University of Manchester confiscated the entire recruitment stall for Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) – a Ministry of Defence organisation, including the backing display board. The students wore high-vis jackets with the words 'UMSU Health and Safety Inspectors' written on the back.

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Families of False Positives March in Colombia

06-03-2009 21:23

“United to Recover our Memory for a Colombia that Does Not Forget."

Today, 200 families of victims of extrajudicial killings carried out by the Colombian armed forces, protested in Bogota, the capital of Colombia demanding "truth, justice, reparation and measures to ensure it does not continue. Protests also took place in other Colombian and European cities.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 10 2009

06-03-2009 17:45

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 28th through March 6th, 2009.

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Dissident Island Radio tonight (March 6th)

06-03-2009 14:07

LCAP // Climate Rush // Sea Shepherd // Fe_Bac

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Around the campaigns Friday 6th March 2009

06-03-2009 13:29

Asylum man in rooftop stand off
A Nigerian asylum seeker staged an eight-hour rooftop protest after immigration officers turned up at his family home early yesterday. Steve Umoru, 43, clambered through a skylight window and then scrambled along the roofs on Dodworth Road.
Full article: Adam Civico and Kate Pickles, The Barnsley Chronicle, Friday 06/03/09

http://www.barnsley-chronicle.co.uk/news/2,0000,2606.html