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Protest and Street Theatre in Newport against NATO

31-05-2014 21:25

Roll up Roll Up, the NATO Circus is coming to town

Some photos from today's Newport Rising events in Newport City Centre. Cameron, Obama and other world leaders put in an appearance, along with the leader of Newport City Council, Bob Bright, all working together to make money for corporate warmongers by hosting the NATO Summit in September at the expense of the people of Newport and all the victims of NATO wars. Today's events, which included earlier banner drops, are part of efforts to raise awareness of the Summit taking place at the Celtic Manor in Newport.

There will be a public meeting about the Summit at 95-96 Commercial Street, Newport from 4pm tomorrow, Sunday 1 June.

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March for Dignity Arrives in Newport

31-05-2014 20:44

The march arrives in Pill just after 8pm

Bristol - Chepstow - Newport - Cardiff.

29 May - 2 June.

"Walking together to end the injustices of the UK asylum system."

The march arrived at St. Michael's Church in Pill, Newport at around 8.15 this evening after a 17 mile stretch from Chepstow. Tomorrow the march continues to Cardiff, with a demonstration at the Home Office on Monday.

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Banner drop in Newport today against EADS

31-05-2014 13:12

As part of Newport Rising, there was a banner drop today off the footbridge and at the top of the Kingsway car park against warmongering Newport company EADS.

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Photos from Newport Rising Festival of Radical Change

28-05-2014 20:18

Outside of the venue, right in centre of Newport
Here are a few photos from Newport Rising Festival, which continues until Sunday. See you there!

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26 May - 1 June: Newport Rising: Come & prepare for NATO Summit in Sept

19-05-2014 08:05

From the 26th May to the 1st June 2014 Anarchist Action Network is holding a week of Anarchist events dubbed the Anarchist Travelling Circus in Newport, South Wales. The week will include, workshops, discussions and skillshares and more. We hope that these events will address some of the issues which most people are facing right now from problems with housing, to welfare cuts and the government austerity agenda, as well as increased poverty, environmental destruction, police repression, racism and the racist border system.

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Daring dawn blockade of Britain's Nuclear weapons factory

19-05-2014 06:39

This morning at 7.20am a group of peace campaigners began blockading the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) site at Burghfield, near Reading. The protesters, acting as part of ActionAWE campaign of non-violent direct action, are trying to disrupt construction of a new nuclear warhead factory on the site.

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' Corruption revealed of.Frack giant ('Rathlin') Director 'Dermot Nesbitt

18-05-2014 11:58

Ex Northern Ireland Environment Minister, Dermot Nesbitt, (now a 'Rathlin Energy' director,) requires the police to arrest two anti fracking, objectors for Meditating at well site.

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Six years on: Remembering Pauline Campbell and her campaign against prisons

17-05-2014 18:56

Pauline & Sarah Campbell's grave, tended by Joan, Malpas cemetery

I spent a couple of hours today in Malpas, Cheshire with Joan Meredith, who walked alongside and supported Pauline Campbell in her campaign from 2003-2008 to prevent the deaths of women and young people in the prison system and to close all prisons. Afterwards, I visited the grave of Pauline and her daughter Sarah in Malpas cemetery, pictured below.

Pauline Campbell's only child Sarah died aged just 18 in Styal Prison in 2003. Thereafter, Pauline would protest outside prisons where a death had occurred, stand in front of prison vans arriving with new prisoners and demand that the women inside be taken instead to a place of safety. After five years of tireless campaigning during which Pauline was arrested numerous times but rarely brought to court and never convicted, she was found dead on her daughter's grave in Malpas on 15 May 2008. That was six years ago this week and Pauline is remembered by Joan in a post on her blog. [ See also: Guardian obituary | Remember Pauline | Pauline Campbell Remembered, 11 Aug 2008, Styal | Prisoner Justice Day, 13 Aug 2008, Holloway ]

Reports on indymedia of some of Pauline's prison protests: [ 5 Feb 2008, Styal | 17 Jan 2008, Holloway | 27 Sep 2007, Not Guilty | 12 Jul 2007, Holloway | 23 Oct 2006, Eastwood Park ]

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An Attack on the Zapatistas is an Attack on us all: A Call to Action in Support

17-05-2014 10:59

A CALL TO ACTION IN SUPPORT OF THE ZAPATISTAS
Justice for Galeano; Stop the war against the Zapatista communities
Week of action: May 18th-24th

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Nottingham Green Picnic

16-05-2014 15:51

Bring your sun hats and vegan delights!!

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Lancaster UKIP Billboard Improved

16-05-2014 03:42

On the morning of the 16th of May, the UKIP billboard on Scottforth Road, Lancaster, was improved.

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World War I, a lost generation and conscientious objection

14-05-2014 22:12

Lib Rowlands-Hughes

Conscientious Objectors Day, 15 May

World War I Centenary, 2014

15th May is Conscientious Objectors Day and this year it's 100 years since the start of WWI. Mindful of these two anniversaries, I spent this afternoon visiting my friend the great anti-war campaigner Lib Rowlands-Hughes, who was born right at the end of the First World War and is now 95 years old, and learning a little of her family's history. This includes four uncles lost in the war, a military man turned pacifist and a conscientious objector imprisoned for resisting war.

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Land-Registry staff on 48-hour strike against privatisation plan

14-05-2014 13:25

Today and tommorrow (14-15 May), a 48-hour strike by thousands of workers at the Land Registry is taking place over plans to privatise the 150-year-old agency, which is expected to lead to hundreds of job cuts. Members of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union have walked out in 14 locations across England and Wales. The Law Society, high street solicitors, property search providers and the PCS were among many to voice opposition to privatisation. PCS and others argue that it will affect the quality and accuracy of service, the security of data and force up the cost of the service to the public.

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Fukushima 3rd Anniversary meeting in Houses of Parliament. 10.3.2014.

13-05-2014 15:48

Here is a link to a 15 minute video of Rik from Kick Nuclear, London, speaking in parliament, committee room ten, with slides, followed by links to the other speakers, at the meeting held to Remember Fukushima, 3 years on. No To Nuclear Power!! No to the proposed new one near Bristol, Hinkley Point.

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Welsh Language Action / Gweithred Hawliau Iaith

12-05-2014 09:31

Three Welsh language are arrested in Aberystwyth this morning in a Welsh language rights protest. / Tri ymgyrchydd wedi eu haresstio heddiw am weithredu dros yr iaith.

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Hunger strike and protests now in 3 UK migration prisons

07-05-2014 13:12

Harmondsworth 5 May
On Friday (2 May) over 150 detainees in Harmondsworth migration prison occupied the main courtyard in a sit down protest and began a mass hunger strike. On Monday (5 May) supporters held solidarity noise demos outside
Harmondsworth and simultaneously at Dungavel (Scotlans). Yesterday evening (Tuesday 6 May) protests started to spread to Colnbrook and Brook House migration prisons.

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May Day March London

07-05-2014 09:21

Setting off.
A day of celebration commemorating Tony Benn and Bob Crow.

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50 Years to Destruction

05-05-2014 23:49

Gathering of people to call for serious investment into and research of renewable energies and sources in light of the UN climate report giving just 50 years for world co2 emissions to be reduced by 40% and the call for the end to all fossil fuel use.

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Supplemental photos to May Day event of Saturday May 3rd

05-05-2014 21:22

Some supplementary photos of the May Day event of Saturday May 3rd with collation of reports from around the globe.

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FOI Hearing. Re. HLS

05-05-2014 12:31

Hearing Details 12 May.