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Harmondworth Demo - timeline

08-04-2006 08:46

This timeline for the demonstration at the Harmondsworth detention camp on 8 April was produced in collaboration between those at the demo and people in the Indymedia chatrooms.

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Rossport Five send Shell to Hell in Mayo, Ireland....again!

07-04-2006 21:03

This is the latest twist in the fight between Shell, Stat Oil and the Irish Government, and Rossport, County Mayo, on the West Coast of Ireland, over corrupt plans to build a ludicrous gas pipeline through the area.

This is a campaign that has won significant victories. Shell was supposed to have already built the pipeline last year, the blockading by local people of the pipeline and refinery site effectively meant that no building has occurred since last summer. There is massive local, national and international opposition to this project. Shell and its partners must be stopped, and they will be stopped here, on the west coast of Ireland.

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coverage of April 8th No Borders Action

07-04-2006 18:06

From 10pm till 3pm (approx) on Saturday 8th April, we'll be doing live coverage of the No Border's demo taking place near Heathrow airport.

The streams used will be
 http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/rampART-low.mp3 (mono ~16kbps)
 http://radio.indymedia.org:8000/rampART-hi.mp3 (mono ~64kbps)

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Medic Trainings in London and Leeds

07-04-2006 17:17

Would you know how to help someone if:
* They collapsed at a demo?
* They were hit by a police baton?
* They were suffering from the cold on a protest site?

Would you like to know?

UPCOMING TRAININGS

April 21/22/23 London
May 19/20/21 Leeds
June 2/3/4 London

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Glasgow Police Try to Stop UNITY Rally, March Still On!

07-04-2006 17:16

In a last-minute move, Glasgow's Trades Hall has cancelled the booked rally of asylum seekers and friends there tomorrow afternoon. Strathclyde Police appear to have had a role in the decision a No Borders activist condemned as "racist".

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PROTEST & CONTACTS: CANADIAN SEAL SLAUGHTER

07-04-2006 13:47

The Canadian commercial seal hunt is the largest mass slaughter of marine mammals in the world. It is going on now.

Cyberactivism needed.

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STOP LIES OF MAKE POVERTY HISTORY CAMPAIGN

07-04-2006 12:43

I am writing to request that people consider how Make Poverty History and attached charities are lying to the public and are not helping the millions starving or those without access to clean water to drink or clean with. Please take the time to read this and don't be made to feel guilty by another LIE 8

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This week's SchNEWS - ETHICAL CLEANSING

07-04-2006 11:10

Ethical Investment
Exposing the reality behind The Co-operative Bank's so called Ethical INvestment policies with money going to pharmaceutical companies, mobile phone companies and, our favourite, oil companies.

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Greenpeace activists take on Mcdonalds over Amazon Rainforest

07-04-2006 08:36

chickens in Mcdonalds
On Thursday Morning Greenpeace launched its campaign against Mcdonalds with a series of actions across the UK.

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PRESS RELEASE: Aldermaston blockades continue

07-04-2006 08:32

Police remove blockaders, January 2006
On Monday 10 April, nonviolent direct action group Block the Builders will return to AWE Aldermaston and attempt to prevent construction traffic entering Britain's WMD factory.

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Letter from Palestine - On the Right Side of the Wall

07-04-2006 06:00

Letter from a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem after they shut the gates in the Apartheid Wall near her home

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It's offical, Israeli soldiers guilty of murder.

06-04-2006 23:41

In May 2003, James Miller was murdered by an Israeli soldier who deliberately targeted him while he was filming Palestinian children in a refugee camp. This was the unanimous verdict of the inquest jury at the St Pancras Coroner’s Court, in London yesterday. After an hour of deliberation, the jury decided that Mr Miller had been deliberately shot.


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English Partnerships Invited To Support Evicted Family’s Social Justice Campaign

06-04-2006 22:34

Stamp Duty On Selected Homes Crest Nicholson A Whole New Meaning
English Partnerships has appointed John Callcutt as their new Chief Executive Officer, former Deputy Chair and Chief Executive Officer, of Crest Nicholson Plc. By way of ‘open letter’, the Shalom Family has invited English Partnerships to join with them in their Family Campaign for Social Justice.

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Tel Rumeida Prepares for an Uneasy Shabbat

06-04-2006 18:09

These posts are from a Brighton based activist spending April in occupied Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement, a network of international activists set up to support Palestinian non violent resistance agaisnst Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. In these posts I will be writing short accounts of aspects of the occupation and resistance…

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First Peace Protestors to Challenge New Law

06-04-2006 14:01

Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament activists Helen John (68) and Sylvia Boyes (62) were arrested at Menwith Hill Spy Base on Saturday 1st April, the day the new Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005 came into force.

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Bus drivers come out over pay

06-04-2006 13:02

With pay stagnating and conditions under constant review by management workers have voted three to one in favour of industrial action with three days of action planned for 22nd April, 28th April and the 8th May many services across the midlands will grind to a halt causing massive disruption. The workers have taken there demands time and time again to the management but after the last talks broke down the workers have decided to take action.

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Gaza Shelled at dawn today

06-04-2006 11:42

Brief descriptions of yet more Israeli incursions in the West Bank, thursday the 6/04/2006 as reported to the International Middle Eastern Media Centre in Beit Sahour, Bethlehem.

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Thursday Morning round up of Israeli Military Invasions & arrests in Palestine

06-04-2006 11:22

On the ground 06/04/2006 brief round up of Israeli Military actvities in the West Bank

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G8 Diaz trial latest - Police tamper with video evidence, witness threatened

06-04-2006 03:18

New video evidence released. Cameraman testifies the video was cut. He is then stopped and searched on a train leaving Genova and threatened.
Il Manifesto - 26/03/06
Translation is not 100 percent, due to time and state of health problems.

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g8 St.petersburg legal group

05-04-2006 19:31

Group for Legal Support of the Network Against G8 (NAG8) was founded at the international coordination meeting of NAG8 in february 2006. The main tasks of group are: - information gathering about repression against people and groups who are suspected of protests preparing for the summit G8 in St.Petersburg - legal and informational support of people who are aim of repression - spreading information about cases of persecution of participants of protests and participants of protests preparation process. We completely share foundations of Network Against G8. We need help of professional lawyers and translators.
Contact:  piter.legal@yahoo.com (russian, english and german)