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Frankfurt(GER)/Calais: Protests in Front of french consulate

19-02-2010 20:30

As a reaction towards the Hangar-Raids the ongoing repression against migrants and activists in the french Harbour City of Calais almost 30 people gathered this morning in Frankfurt/Main [Germany] to protest and demonstrate transnational solidarity in front of the french consulate.

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Gaza Protests: Harsh Sentences Likely To Deter Lawful Protest

18-02-2010 22:52

Harsh sentences delivered
On Friday morning last week the waiting room inside Isleworth Crown Court started to fill with some of the protesters who had taken part in the London-Gaza protests in January last year. They were there to be sentenced for their role in those protests. The defendants had all pleaded guilty to charges of violent disorder, some because of pressure from their lawyers, others as part of a plea bargain and in fear of a heavier sentence if they stuck to their original "not guilty" pleas. Also present were family members and friends who had come to lend their moral support. The atmosphere was one of tense, nervous anticipation. Most of the defendants had been told that they could expect to be sentenced to community service, which is what the author of the pre-sentence reports had recommended. Others expected a custodial sentence but, in light of their early "guilty" plea and other mitigating factors in their favour, a relatively short one.

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Heckler and Koch successfully shutdown

18-02-2010 11:36

Protestors Occupy the Roof and Lock Themselves to the Gates of the Nottingham Offices of Heckler and Koch

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Support The Gaza Protestors Currently Facing Heavy Sentences

17-02-2010 23:24

The Israeli bombardment of Gaza of 27th December to 18th January, provoked passionate protests across the UK. The familiar mass demos of the anti-war movement were supplemented by large spontaneous break-away demos and a wave of university occupations. The police used indiscriminate baton charges, kettles and heavy surveillance, in an effort to impose their control on the movement.

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Aldermaston Big Blockade 2010

17-02-2010 14:22

Anti-nuclear and peace activists from CND, Trident Ploughshares and other groups descended upon the Atomic Weapons Establishment, Aldermaston, on Monday to protest against the replacement of the UK Trident nuclear system and increasing nuclear weapons manufacturing.

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Migrant Hangar reopens despite police repression

17-02-2010 11:32

After last weeks violent raid, the Kronstadt Hangar is back in business!!

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PRESS RELEASE: Hundreds blockade nuclear bomb factory

15-02-2010 10:01

Campaigners call for disarmament of Trident and abolition of nuclear weapons

An estimated eight hundred campaigners from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and a number of other countries have joined a blockade of every gate of the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) at Aldermaston, Berkshire, England. [1] The blockade started at 7am.

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Oil-ympics Come To Trafalgar Square

15-02-2010 00:29

On Saturday, 13 February at 12 noon, UK and Canadian environmental activists opened the ‘Oil-ympics’ at Canada House in Trafalgar Square. The event, timed to coincide with the opening of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, highlighted the role of British companies in the single biggest industrial project on earth, the Canadian Tar Sands (1).

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Climate Camp Invades BP Petrol Stations Over Tar Sands

14-02-2010 12:52

On Saturday 13th February activists from the South Coast neighbourhood of the Camp for Climate Action invaded the three BP petrol stations in Brighton, on the Lewes Rd, Ditchling Rd and London Rd, to protest at BP's plans to invest in the Alberta Tar Sands in Canada. Moving by bicycle 8 activists carried a banner reading 'Tar Sands Oil Is Blood Oil'. They handed out information on the Canadian tar sands and BP's plans to invest in it to customers and urged them to boycott BP.

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Solidarity Demo In Greek Embassy In London 10/2/10 And Fotos

13-02-2010 21:12

On Wednesday,10/2/10 at around eleven am. a group of comrades and friends went to the Greek embassy in Holland Park,

London, in protest against prison conditions in Greece, and to hand in a fax to the Greek Ministry of Justice (see below)

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Noahs ark zoo farm - campaign continues

13-02-2010 19:25

Noah's Ark Zoo Farm decided to celebrate Valentine's Day with a themed day at the zoo, so we thought it would be rude of us not to be there too. !

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150 Angry Activists March to Close Down the Bradford Lab

13-02-2010 18:11

[pictures coming shortly]

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London Protest at SERCO over Yarl's Wood assaults

12-02-2010 23:02

Around 50 people demonstrated today (Friday 12 Feb, 2010) outside the Holborn offices of SERCO in Hand Court in support of the women detained in Yarl's Wood Immigration Removal Centre, run by SERCO, who are protesting at the inhumane treatment they receive there and whose hunger strike was broken up in a violent assault by SERCO officers on Tuesday.

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Justice For Cleaners - Reinstate Alberto Durango

12-02-2010 22:01

Around a hundred people took part in a noisy demonstration outside the offices of UBS Capital in Liverpool St, London at Friday lunchtime (12 Feb 2010) in support of the office cleaners and their sacked shop steward, Alberto Durango. Pictures Copyright (C) 2010 Peter Marshall, all rights reserved

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Sanctuary for Mireille Mbimbo (Very urgent support needed)

12-02-2010 15:26

Mireille Mbimbo a national of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and a resident of Bradford, is currently being held at Penine House Manchester STHC and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 15th February @ 19.00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101, from Manchester to Nairobi for onward transit on flight KQ550 to Kinshasa.

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Women In Yarl’s Wood Vow To Stay On Hunger Strike

12-02-2010 10:25

We have spoken to over 50 women in the last few days and they all have a compelling case to be released: their continued detention is either inhumane or contravenes Home Office rules. Some have been referred to lawyers because their detention is illegal. [1]

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IDF Raids ISM Media Office for the 2nd Time in 3 Nights

11-02-2010 15:30

Nine Israeli soldiers kicked in the door of the ISM media office and demanded the passports of the internationals present. The soldiers confiscated a desktop computer used by ISM volunteers.

Two internationals, Ryan Olander of the U.S. and Nick Bryer of the U..K., were awoken from their night’s rest as nine Israeli soldiers barged through the door at 4am brandishing M16 fully-automatic assault rifles. Luckily, the door had not yet been repaired from a previous raid on Sunday morning. This facilitated their entry and reduced the damaged they inflicted upon the apartment.

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Defend the Yarl's Wood Four

11-02-2010 10:09

[Hunger Strike is still strong, 68 women refusing food as of yesterday]

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Shut Down Yarls Wood Internment Camp

10-02-2010 23:02

It is time to restore some decency and human rights to the UK.

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Activists Hold Day of Action at Bradford University

10-02-2010 19:26

Twelve activists today held an extremely successful day of action against the University of Bradford to coinside with their first open day of 2010. It must be noted that the Open Day itself was very poorly attended.