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UAF Oppose EDL March in Westminster - Pictures

08-03-2010 21:22

The UAF opposed the EDL march in Westminster in support of in support of Geert Wilders on Friday 5 March 2010. Police largely kept the two groups apart and ensured the march could take place. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall 2010, all rights reserved.

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Newcastle protest in solidarity with Yarl's Wood Hunger Strikers

06-03-2010 17:53

Members of No Borders North East unfurled a banner from a rooftop in Newcastle city center this morning. They were showing their support for the women from Yarl's Wood detention center, who have been on hunger strike for several weeks, and demanding an end to immigration detention.

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Oppostion to Telford opencast mine plans continue...

06-03-2010 11:44

CAMPAIGNERS AGAINST UK COALS HUNTINGTON LANE SURFACE MINE were out on the bridges of Telford this morning, equipped with a large banner broadcasting their message of 'No New Coal'. The opencast coal site near New Works in Telford is due to commence operations in the near future.

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Sea Shepherd: It All Pays Off..

05-03-2010 22:07

Southern Ocean, February 2010

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Across the Big Blue Students March Fourth.

05-03-2010 20:30

Why is it that neoliberal banks and corporations are bailed out while students are squeezed of every last penny by predatory student loans amidst this current financial feeding frenzy?

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The Kray twins in Parliament Square.

05-03-2010 17:25

In what must be the prime site in the UK, outside the British Parliament building, under the bell of Westminster clock-tower, now sits a stencil of infamous crime syndicate twosome, Ronald and Reginald Kray...aka The Kray Twins.

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Lappersfort Forest Eviction

05-03-2010 15:31

Lappersfort Forest, which has been occupied on and off since 2001, has finally lost it's battle and was evicted and cut down yesterday.

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Nottingham 114 Update

05-03-2010 15:02

Of the 114 people arrested last Easter during the police raid on the Iona school, Nottingham, 26 have been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass at Ratcliffe on Soar power station. Over 10 months after their arrest, all 26 entered a plea of NOT GUILTY at Nottingham crown court on February 19th.

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Few pics of Sussex Uni Occupation

04-03-2010 22:00

Yesterday Sussex Students occupied the Vice Chancellor's office against cuts.

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Drop the charges against L/C Joe Glenton. MOD, London - Pictures

04-03-2010 19:54

The day before Lance Corporal Joe Glenton of the Royal Logistic Corp appears before a military court to be sentenced for speaking out against the legitimacy of the continuing occupation of Afghanistan...

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Wave of repression shows that Israel is beginning to take our movement seriously

04-03-2010 19:08

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Yarl's Wood solidarity banners - Newcastle

04-03-2010 13:32

Banners were displayed over the Central Motorway in Newcastle during rush hour yesterday morning in support of the women on hungerstrike at Yarl's Wood immigration prison.

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Protest at Prison Supports Yarl's Wood Women

04-03-2010 10:34

More than 50 people protested at Holloway Prison on Wednesday evening against the holding of five women from Yarl's Wood immigration detention centre without trial or charge and to support the women at Yarl's Wood in the fourth week of their hunger strike against the degrading conditions and inhumane treatment there. Photographs Copyright (C) Peter Marshall, 2010. All rights reserved.

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Welsh Refugee Council urgent call to stop detention and removal of 14 year old A

04-03-2010 07:54

Welsh Refugee Council today called on UKBA and Cardiff Council to act quickly to release Mashal Jabari, 14 years of age, from Campsfield Immigration Removal Centre, and to suspend removal directions until a full assessment of his age can be made. Welsh Refugee Council does not normally comment on individual cases, but in this instance believes that there are compelling compassionate grounds why this boy should be allowed to remain in the UK.

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Audio: Is Clean Coal An Act Of Faith?

04-03-2010 00:21

Attached is a recording of a Sheffield Humanist Society meeting held on 3rd March 2010 in Sheffield, titled Is Clean Coal An Act Of Faith?

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Good News in Decommissioners Preliminary Hearing

03-03-2010 22:55

The prosecution led the days argument they claimed by causing over a quarter of a million pounds worth of damage to EDO/ITT we in no way could have saved lives in the occupied territories. This therefore meant we had no right to a jury trial. The judge then asked the prosecution to provide evidence to substantiate such a claim, the prosecution had nothing to show.

The defence then came back to say there were two linked issues that required consideration.
i) The circumstances in which a judge may withdraw a defendant’s defence;
ii) Whether the facts relied on by the defendants’ amounts to a defence in law.

The points of law up for scrutiny were from the:

Criminal Damage Act 1971,
Criminal Law Act 1967,
The Common Law Defence of Necessity.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, February 2010

02-03-2010 09:17

Four actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in February 2010, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch.

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Student Occupation at University of Westminster

01-03-2010 19:43

Students at the University of Westminster today took action to oppose the proposed cuts to 10% of jobs at the university by storming the board meeting and then occupying the Vice Chancellor's office.

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Photographs of Livesey Open Day

01-03-2010 13:41

Pictures from family fun day held at the occupied Livesey Museum on the Old Kent Road

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Livesey Occupiers Re-Open Community Museum

01-03-2010 13:09

Families flock to the Livesey Museum for the re-opening of the former children's museum to mark two years since Southwark Council shut the building down