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Palestinian Today 031209

12-03-2009 15:58

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Thursday, March 12th, 2009.

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Five women fined for blockading nuclear weapons factory

12-03-2009 14:38

Campaigners outside Reading Magistrates' Court - Copyright D. Viesnik 2009
Trident Ploughshares Press Release

Defendants disappointed at failure of judge to uphold international law

The founder of Trident Ploughshares, Angie Zelter, from London, was one of five experienced female members of the group on trial at Reading Magistrates’ Court on Monday, 9 March 2009 for obstructing the highway during last October’s Big Blockade of the Aldermaston Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) in Berkshire, England.

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Police Raid 3 Houses Of Palestine Supporters In Swansea

12-03-2009 12:57

Three houses of Palestinian supporters were raided yesterday morning and two people were arrested on suspicion of 'conspiring to commit racially aggravated criminal damage', the third person was not at home. Police seized three computers and papers relating Palestine and Israel. The 3 are outraged at the racist slur implied by the charge.

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Shell To Sea Protester Jailed For 28 Days

12-03-2009 10:53

Maura Harrington, a Shell to Sea spokesperson has been jailed for 28 days in relation to an incident that took place during a protest against the Shell onshore gas terminal construction work in 2007 . She recently went on hunger strike against the Shell gas pipe-laying ship the Solitaire. Messages of support to:

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Case dropped against Jewish activist charged over "bloody hands" protest for Palestine

12-03-2009 10:08

Pro-Palestinian campaigners claimed victory on Wednesday when charges were dropped against a Jewish activist arrested for protesting at a celebration of Israel's 60th anniversary last June.

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DWP occupied by bankers & others.

12-03-2009 09:08

Starting young.
On Monday the Department of Work and Pensions was visited by some irate bankers demanding more children to sweep their chimneys. At the same time some proletartian protesters also intervened leaving both of the main entrances to building blocked.

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more lawlessness in parliament square

11-03-2009 18:29

barbara holding the damaged megaphone
police criminally damaged a megaphone and assaulted a protester in parliament square this morning - there were no arrests

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Students removed by force from Bullring Topshop

11-03-2009 15:59

Protestors freeze in the shop doorway
Last weekend students from the University of Birmingham were forcibly removed from the Bullring during a non-violent peaceful protest against Topshops refusal to join the ethical trade initiative.

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Palestine Today 031109

11-03-2009 15:09

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Wednesday , March 11th, 2009.

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The Stereotypes Rally - Miss University pageant picket

11-03-2009 03:44

Over 50 people gathered outside Crystal nightclub off Oxford Street, London, to demonstrate against the miss university beauty pageant being hosted inside.

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Feminist Protest of Solidarity : Newcastle upon Tyne

11-03-2009 01:14

I heart feminists
Radical/Anarcho Feminists from Newcastle upon Tyne "decorate" Greys Monument on the eve of International Womens Day with banners protesting against the exploitation and oppression of women worldwide.

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Newcastle Students Occupy!!!

10-03-2009 19:58

Students at Newcastle University have occupied the fine arts lecture theatre in solidarity with the people of Gaza and Palestine. 25 students took the room and informed the University management who have sent a senior manager to start 'neigotations' which have resulted in the occuption entrying its first night with no clear resolution, as yet.

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hicham yezza sentenced to 9 months imprisonment

10-03-2009 15:43

hicham at a recent conference in london
last thursday at northampton crown court, despite strong mitigation arguments, hicham yezza was sentenced to nine months for "securing avoidance of immigration control using deception"

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Palestine Today 031009

10-03-2009 15:26

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Tuesday , March 10th, 2009.

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In Memory of Steve Cohen

10-03-2009 10:18

Steve Cohen, a socialist and fighter against all forms of racism and immigration controls, died on Sunday morning, 8. March 2009.
"Right now, ‘Don’t Organise, Mourn!’ - his only slightly tongue-in-cheek injunction to grieving friends’ seems as tidy and insightful as anything else he came up with." (Jane on Engage Online)

Here is a my attempt at public remembering and mourning.

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Around the Campaigns Tuesday 10th March 2009

10-03-2009 09:49

*************** is back in the UK and back in his community
The Home Secretary has now brought *************** a gay person seeking asylum in the UK, back to the UK from Uganda where he was unlawfully deported last year. Jacqui Smith was ordered to do this by a High Court judge on 19th February. He arrived back in the UK last Friday and was detained in Tinsley House IRC before being released yesterday afternoon.
( http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/deporting-gay-asylumseeker-was-unlawful-1627052.html)

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London Truth Action: February Street Actions

09-03-2009 18:25

February 28th: Outside the Convention on Modern Liberty
London Truth Action  http://londontruthaction.blogspot.com are part of  http://truthaction.org an international autotomous grassroots organisation committed to raising awareness of the true nature of the events of September 11th 2001.

What follows is a brief round-up of what we got up to this month...

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Viva Palestina convey enters Gaza at last

09-03-2009 17:16

And they entered side by side like heroes, some on foot some in their vehicles, tears, smiles, hugs, flowers. It was historic, it was legendary. Gaza we are here. We have fulfilled the promise - Viva Palestina! The lifeline from the people of Britain to you, the people of Gaza, has arrived.

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FIT at Tibet march London

09-03-2009 16:15

CW 3055
Forward intelligenge monitoring peaceful demo on 7-2-09

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Palestine Today 030909

09-03-2009 15:41

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Monday, March 9th, 2009.