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Support the women in struggle at Yarl's Wood

01-03-2010 11:24

The struggle against the UK's immigration detention system is gathering pace. Inside Yarl's Wood, the women's fight continues with some inmates still refusing food. The UK Border Agency is now under pressure. You can help.

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Defend the Yarl's Wood Five - Release them from Prison Today!

01-03-2010 07:30

None of the women have been charged with any offences or were in any way involved in any actions at Yarl's Wood that were other than peaceful. UK citizens cannot be remanded to prison, except they have been brought before a judge and the judge orders it so. Denise, Aminata, Sheree, Shellyann, and Gladys, have not and will not be brought before a judge, they have been remanded to prison on the whim of Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State for Borders and Immigration.

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Climate Camp Invades Lewes Tesco

28-02-2010 18:26

Climate change activists teamed up with local residents to invade the Tesco superstore in Lewes, East Sussex on Saturday in protest at plans to increase the size of the supermarket by 50%. More than 80 protesters took part, entering the store and embarking on a game of Tesco Whirl. The idea is to grab a trolley keep it empty and form up with others to create a giant conga chain.

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Protest outside UK Border Agency offices in Cardiff

27-02-2010 22:41

Friday’s protest outside the UK Border Agency in Cardiff was the largest one to date with over 200 people, mostly refugees. Read full report here:

http://noborderswales.org.uk/2010/02/27/mass-protest-outside-ukba-the-first-of-many/

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Demo at Noah's Ark Zoo Farm

27-02-2010 22:36

Today 6 activists from Bristol Animal Rights Collective ( BARC ) and Bath Animal Action ( BAA ) held another protest outside Noah's Ark Zoo Farm.

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National Front lose their flag and chased out of Ripley

27-02-2010 18:47

Derby Midlands National Front called a 'day of action' in towns across Derbyshire today. Only five 'warriors' of the 'master race' bothered to turn up in Ripley, only to have their union jack and literature taken off them by antifascists. They were then chased out of town.

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Bradford University Richmond Labs Visited by ALIU

27-02-2010 18:38

The ALIU commits no criminal offences in the course of our investigations, but conduct vital work into exposing animal cruelty conducted by institutions. We are independant from any other groups, including the Animal Liberation Front.

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Is London Critical Mass getting its act together?

27-02-2010 11:42

During last night's February 26th ride I had the distinct impression that CM is gaining control of the traffic which threatens it. Corked drivers were mostly patient and were thanked by corkers as the end of the ride passed and there seemed to be less hooting. Could this be because there is now a plentiful supply of corkers and they appear more confident, or is it just a phase? I did speak to one corker who had been rammed by a driver but he said his bike was undamaged.

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This Week in Palestine -Week 08 2010

26-02-2010 18:18

Welcome to This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for February 20th, to the 26th, 2010

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UK: 'Fast Track' Asylum System Fails Women

24-02-2010 06:54

The 'detained fast track' system doesn't meet even the basic standards of fairness. It is simply not equipped to handle rape, slavery, the threat of 'honor killings,' or other complex claims, and yet such cases are handed to it regularly." Gauri van Gulik, women's rights researcher at Human Rights Watch

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"Fumble For The Fatherland", Boxing's Fascist Fight Night

23-02-2010 16:57

The sport of legends Muhammad Ali and Amir Khan, is being hijacked this weekend at the world-famous Caesars Nightclub venue at Streatham in South London. This coming Sunday, the 28th February 2010, a team of eight fascist-friendly semi-professional English boxers will supporting the neo-Nazi EDL, entering a boxing ring displaying EDL logo shorts and flags for an official EBC prizefighter contest.

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Tar Sands Oil-ympics – Pix-&-Vidz – Sat 13 Feb 10

23-02-2010 16:21

Dateline: Trafalgar Square, London, UK, 12:00-13:30, Sat 13 Feb 10 – On the opening day of the Winter Olympics in Canada, around 50 folk mobilised by the UK Tar Sands Network and London Rising Tide partook of sporting events of a sharper, more satirical sort: The Canadian Tar Sands Oil-ympics. With Canada House as a backdrop, among the Canadian-state-funded ballyhoo of big screen live feeds and 5-ring ice sculptures, we staged tug-o-war, relay race and street curling events to help highlight the biggest single industrial climate crime on Earth: the Canadian-state-backed toxic rape of tar sands deposits in Alberta, and the consequent death wave decimating the boreal forest, its flora, fauna, water courses and indigenous First Nations people.

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Last few days in Calais

23-02-2010 11:46

an update of attempts to get back into the hangar, police stonewalling, occupation of calais town hall, keeping warm!

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Palestine Today 02 22 2010

22-02-2010 20:46

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday, February 22nd, 2010.

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Local Democracy Dumped! - Sizewell nuclear plant blockaded again

22-02-2010 09:22

As government ends flawed consultation on nuclear power, anti-nuclear power activists step up resistance and blockade Sizewell nuclear power station in Suffolk, England.

Since 6.40am this morning, anti-nuclear power activists from the 'People Power not Nuclear Power Coalition' [1] have been blockading Sizewell power station in protest against the flawed government consultation on nuclear new build, which ends today, and the dumping of local democracy.

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Report and photos of Scotland United Against Racism and Fascism march and rally

22-02-2010 00:32

A report and 20 photos of the anti-racism march and rally in Edinburgh on Saturday 20th February 2010

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Photos of the Yarl's Wood protest, 21st Feb

21-02-2010 21:11

Activists from No Borders London, Campaign Against Immigration Controls and Feminist Fightback today held a protest at Yarl's Wood immigration prison in solidarity with women detainees who have been on hunger strike since 5th February. The protesters managed to get past the security barriers and walk around the barbed-wire fence with banners, shouting solidarity slogans via loudspeakers and making noise with pots and whistles for well over an hour. They were repeatedly cheered by detainees inside, who waved their hands through half-open windows and displayed hand-written placards expressing their suffering.

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Protest at Yarl's Wood in solidarity with detainee hunger strikers

21-02-2010 20:09

Anti-detention campaigners today held a protest at Yarl's Wood immigration prison in Bedfordshire in solidarity with women detainees who have been on hunger strike since 5th February. Activists from No Borders London, Campaign Against Immigration Controls and Feminist Fightback managed to get past the prison's security barriers and walk around the barbed-wire fence with banners, shouting solidarity slogans via loudspeakers and making noise with pots and whistles for well over an hour.

The protesters were repeatedly cheered by detainees inside, who waved their hands through half-open windows. Some also displayed hand-written placards summerising their suffering and shouted 'freedom' and 'shame on Serco', the private security company that runs Yarl's Wood on behalf of the UK Border Agency.

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Scottish Defence League in Edinburgh

20-02-2010 17:33

Glorious success for the defenders of freedom and all that is good in this land

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Further Unjust Sentences for Gaza Protestors - Friday 19th February

20-02-2010 14:58

All the young men sentenced at Isleworth County Court yesterday afternoon for Violent Disorder during Gaza protests started harsh stints behind bars last night...