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Activists Interrupt Coal Supply Destined for Ratcliffe-on-Soar

26-10-2009 11:08

Today 20 activists from Earth First! (1) stopped work at UK Coal's opencast coal mine near Shipley (2), Derbyshire. The protesters entered the site at 9.20am and climbed on top of machinery, intending to stay as long as possible they are currently occupying 6 vehicles. This protest is part of a campaign to stop new coal mines and coal power stations in the UK. It follows hot on the heels of last week's Climate Swoop at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station, where coal from Shipley is burnt.

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N Power's Didcot coal powered station under siege

26-10-2009 09:39

Didcot Power Station
Climate campaigners have this morning shut down N-Power’s flagship coal plant at Didcot in Oxforshire.



The twenty peaceful protesters rode their push-bikes past security guards at 4.30am this morning before splitting into two groups. One team has shut down the giant coal conveyors which feed the boilers at the plant, while a second group of nine men and women has climbed the inside of the iconic 200m-high chimney and reached the top. They say they have enough food and water to stay in place for ‘weeks, not days’ - during which time the plant will be unable to operate. Already the activists in the chimney are securing the route behind them to ensure they can’t be reached by police and security guards.

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Founder of EDL linked to former neo-Nazis and terrorists

25-10-2009 23:14

Paul Ray, originator of the English Defence League, has found a new friend: Nick Greger, the German former neo-Nazi who is now a close associate of the Northern Ireland Loyalist Johnny Adair. On Ray’s blog, he and Greger pose together with a t-shirt glorifying Loyalist terrorist organisations as part of a gallery announcing the launch of “The Ancient Order of Templar Knights”.

Founder of EDL linked to former neo-Nazis and terrorists

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24.10.09 - Troops Out Of Afghanistan National Demonstration

25-10-2009 14:08

PEACE!!!
National gathering to demand troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan. Co-ordinated by Stop The War Coalition

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Troops Out of Afghanistan March, London - pictures.

25-10-2009 12:28

Lance Corporal Joe Glenton.
As the British and US Governments military campaign in Afghanistan falls into debacle with the failure of the so-called democratic Government of Hamid Karzai, and against a backdrop of increasing British military casualties from sporadic engagements with Afghani regional partisans...

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Troops Out of Afghanistan: Anti-war march in London - Photos!

24-10-2009 19:20

Tens of thousands marched in London today to protest against Brown and Obama's plans to send more troops into Afghanistan. Photos of the demo.

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First Anniversary of Unjust House of Lords' Chagos decision

24-10-2009 17:41

A demonstration took place on October 22nd to draw public attention to the House of Lords revocation of the rights of the Chagos people to return home to their land from which they were unceremoniously kicked to make way for the US base of Diego Garcia.

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Last Day of Bristol TAA- get on down

24-10-2009 13:39

papiermasheeepig
BRISTOL TAA 2009 is nearly finished. Get on down quick!! The address is:
The Bell Hotel, 112 Bell Hill Road, Bristol, BS5 7NF. Here is the map:  http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=BS5+7NF&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hq=&hnear=Bristol,+Avon+BS5+7NF&gl=uk&ei=nQvfSszmCcefjAf8g8SkBg&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&ct=image&resnum=1&ved=0CAkQ8gEwAA

for more info and photos:  http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/691263

SATURDAY: OPEN ALL DAY with JUNK FASHION SHOW at night
SUNDAY: CLEAR UP all hands on deck to get it tidy!

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Pictures of Pedal Powered Picketline (22-10-2009)

24-10-2009 01:02

On a cold Thursday night in the twenty first century, I found myself a part of a situation that my parents would have remembered from their own youthful years back in the 1970s - on a picket line, with the guts of an old Washing Machine providing the heat, in the absence of Brazier as was used back in the day.

This time it was because postal workers, in disgust at the way their management and the government has been treating them decided to walk out en masse from the depot on the Clifton Road Industrial Estate for two days.

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Posties on Strike!

23-10-2009 23:04

The first coverage of the postal workers strike from Manchester.

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SchNEWS 696 - Sooty and Swoop

23-10-2009 19:41

Over a thousand swoopers descended on Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station over the weekend - Britain's 3rd largest carbon emitter - with the aim of shutting the whole place down... plus, Britain’s newest anti-arms campaign, Target Brimar, staged their inaugural demo on Saturday, a counter demo of around 600 anti-racists ensured the English Defence League in Wales came a cropper in Swansea on Saturday, two protesters convicted during the Smash EDO Carnival Against the Arms Trade have had their convictions quashed by an appeal court, and more...

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This Week in Palestine -Week 43 2009

23-10-2009 18:06

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Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for October 17th to the 23rd, 2009

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Novartis threaten the right to protest banners and costumes

23-10-2009 17:57

On Wednesday 28th Novartis are back in court trying to extend their injunction against Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty. You may think that this is just an animal rights issue, but the new terms that Novartis are seeking will set a frightening precedent that will affect everyone's right to protest.

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3 arrests at Zippos circus

23-10-2009 17:06

On Thursday night there where 3 arrestsa Zippos circus in Cambridge

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New Deal is bad for your health

23-10-2009 15:12

Welcome to CDG detention camp
Bastards at CDG and Job centre destroyed my health!

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Report about Greek prisons

23-10-2009 13:27

Christos Stratigopoulos is a greek anarchist who recently arrested for bank robbery together with Italian anarchist Alfredo Bonnano. They both are in prison

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Carmel Agrexco Blockaders in Court

23-10-2009 13:03

The first trial of Carmel Agrexco campaigners since 2006 will commence on Monday 26th October. The protesters were arrested in february 2009 during the week of action preceding Valentine's Day.

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The establishment mugs Nick Griffin, but only to steal his political clothes

23-10-2009 12:52

What entertainment! What a fascinating and gruesome TV spectacle! Griffin the fool on the box! What a ratings boost for ‘Mentorn’ (the private company that runs question time, that’s been begging the BBC for years to have the Griffo freakshow). Yes it was great to see Nick Griffin look ridiculous on TV. He really is an unctuous buffoon. But it was still a bad idea to give him a platform on Question Time. The only mitigating factor was being able to see a huge, angry demonstration by anti-fascists outside the BBC TV centre to show how we all feel. (The woman seen being dragged along the floor still wagging her finger at a copper is my especial hero).

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Do anarchists exist in the class struggle?

23-10-2009 12:39

Article published in the last edition of Freedom newspaper. Originally titled 'The Struggle is one and the same' it asks the question is the return of workplace militancy a cue for anarchists to engage more fruitfully with the working class?

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Griffin torn apart, but not literally unfortunately

23-10-2009 09:42

Yesterday, Thursday the 23rd October saw unprecedented protests outside BBC television centres across the country over the planned appearance of the fascist BNP party leader Nick Griffin on the current affairs programme Question Time. Numbers eclipsed even the protests sparked by the BBC's refusal to air a Gaza aid appeal last January. Crowds gathered to hear the usual speeches and chant the usual slogans, but after a car entered the television centre a large crowd surged forward towards the main gates to be met by police. Soon enough the cops were overpowered and pushed aside with officers climbing over the gates to escape. The gates were forced open, officers on the other side struggling to hold them shut. Seconds later the crowd stormed the gates and headed towards the BBC entrance with dozens of activists entering the building. Protestors were seen being dragged outside by security. As the evening wore on the scene became moody with reports of police using CS gas. Inside the television studio the scene was not much calmer.

I saw a rather succinct review of Question Time: "Griffin came across as a blithering idiot while the other three politicians acted like a bunch of kids fighting over a bag of sweets, Jack Straw seemed to drop most of his sweets on the floor when asked about immigration. Bonnie Greer was hilarious". This about sums up what happened, but here follows a more in depth analysis.