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Vestas Factory OCCUPIED

20-07-2009 19:58

Save Vestas - Defend Jobs, Save the Planet - Support the Occupation
Workers at the Vestas Wind Turbine factory on the Isle of Wight have JUST NOW occupied their factory. They are fighting for 600 jobs and the future of the planet. They need help now.

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London Protest Against Calais Clearances

20-07-2009 19:08

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Protest Against Destruction of Calais 'Jungles' 20th June, pics and report

20-07-2009 18:45

Following a call from No Borders groups in London and Brighton a group of people have demonstrated this morning outside London's French Embassy to protest the repression and planned mass deportations of migrants living around Calais, France.

See full article in IMC-London for pics and background information.

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Palestine Today 072009

20-07-2009 16:04

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Monday July 20th 2009.

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Out of sight, out of mind ~ Experiences of immigration detention in the UK

20-07-2009 10:51

A new report ‘Out of sight, out of mind’ released today by detainee rights charity Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID) reveals the unacceptable human cost of indefinite immigration detention in the UK and calls on the government to halt its plans to increase detention capacity.

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Around the Campaigns Monday 20th July 2009

20-07-2009 05:57

Iloba Family: Hopeful smiles from behind the barbed wire fence
From behind the 20ft walls of Yarl’s Wood immigration detention centre, there is not much view of the outside world. For the Iloba family who, after five years in the UK, were bundled into the back of a van to be deported, there is also little to view for the future. Betty Iloba and her children, Toby (18), Saskia (17), and Emmanuel (14), spoke of how they were sent to the UK by their policeman father, who feared for their lives, just months before he himself was killed.

http://tinyurl.com/Ilobafamily

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Police Shenanigans on Recent Sequani Demonstration

19-07-2009 17:19

A report about the repression from police onto activists demonstrating against Sequani at the recent No Holiday For The Animals Inside Sequani demo, as well as police repression onto supportive members of the public as well!

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Social Centre evicted

18-07-2009 11:51

Last night a large number of police with several vehicles, riot gear, and dogs evicted the newly opened social centre, on the pretext of fire safety. There were no arrests. The public meeting called for tonight will go ahead in a reduced format outside the bingo hall.

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City Pigs Wallow in the Bonuses Trough

18-07-2009 08:32

City pigs are truly back with their snouts in the trough, and to celebrate this, Chris Knight and others from the 'The Government of the Dead' came into the heart of the City of London tonight for a 'Bonuses are Back Pig Party', wearing pig masks and setting up a trough with 'Pig Pounds' mixed with pig swill and getting snouts down and bottoms up to wallow in it. Photographs Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Bonuses are back party at Bank of England - Some photos

17-07-2009 23:06

Photos from the pigswill party outside of the Bank of England's Royal Exchange - 17th July 2009

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This Week in Palestine -Week 29 2009

17-07-2009 17:18

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for July 11th to the 17th, 2009.

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Cambridge BINGO! Social Centre

17-07-2009 16:17

Update on what's going on at the occupied Bingo Hall Social Centre, Hobson Street, Cambridge.

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Dissident Island Radio - 2 years old tonight!

17-07-2009 14:52

London Freeskool // Mrs Expenses home occupiers // Iain McKay // W.A.G // Whalid Jumblatt

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Urgent-Stop Destruction of Calais Migrant camps and mass deportations.

16-07-2009 19:35

Urgent - Stop destruction of Calais migrant camps and mass deportations to Afghanistan 21-24th July 2009

Please forward and reply to

calais.witnesses@googlemail.com, adding your name below.

Re: Migrant camps threatened with clearance at Calais 21st July, Mass deportations to Afghanistan planned for 24th July, widespread human rights abuses imminent

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More broken promises and lies as the fight to save Mainshill Wood continues.

16-07-2009 16:46

The threat from Scottish Coal is growing, just as the front line against new coal looks forward to its one month birthday (complete with picnic). So get down here! Its now or never! The Mainshill Solidarity Camp is extremely grateful for the continuing support from the local community and will be celebrating its one month birthday on Sunday 19th July with a community picnic at 3pm to which everyone is welcome.

Local residents awoke on Monday morning to the news of yet another application for an extension at Poniel [1], a Scottish Coal mine in the Douglas Valley, something that communities had been assured would not happen, and which new planning policy guards against...

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Grot Vs Squat? continued Nottingham Council inaction on empty properties

16-07-2009 16:18

In August 2005, A building in Burns Street, Nottingham, empty at that time for 7 YEARS, had been occupied by squatters.

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Palestine Today 071609

16-07-2009 15:22

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Thursday July 16th 2009.

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Climate Emergency Alternative UK Parliament

16-07-2009 10:04

In response to the muddled and inadequate response of the UK Government over the challenges of climate change, an emergency session of an alternative Parliament was held by the Campaign against Climate Change (CCC) on Wednesday evening, 15 July, in Old Palace Yard opposite the Houses of Parliament. Pictures Copyright (C) 2009, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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"I am not a Terrorist": 'Not A Crime' photography Campaign

15-07-2009 18:50

Nottingham photographer 'Tash' strongly supports the British Journal of Photography Campaign

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Palestine Today 071509

15-07-2009 15:49

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org for Wednesday July 15th 2009.