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Harrods injunction case protestors vindicated + the protests continue

19-06-2006 20:40

On Monday June 12th the court case involving Harrods, Europe’s largest department store, and three anti-fur activists along with the campaign group CAFT (Coalition to Abolish to the Fur Trade), was concluded at High Court in London. This follows six months of legal action and four high court hearings

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Letter to Press From Campsfield Hungerstrikers

19-06-2006 09:56

120 migrants detainees on hungerstrike in Campdfield Immigration Removal Center, near Oxford, went on hungerstrike last week to protest against conditions. Here is a letter some of the hungerstrikers wrote for the press.

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Video from the hunger stike in Oslo

19-06-2006 09:17

The hunger strikers on friday were attacked by the police who stole all their tents and blankets.

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violent socpa arrest outside downing street this afternoon

19-06-2006 02:04

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a peaceful single male held a placard with two quotes outside downing street yesterday afternoon. police told him he would be arrested, and although he agreed to go peacefully they violently handcuffed him in front of a crowd of astonished tourists.

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Rossport Solidarity Camp Gathering

18-06-2006 19:52

This wooden cottage, called ‘the communal’, served as an info centre
Report about a major gathering at Rossport Solidarity Camp, which is a protest camp that is part of a community based defence of part of Ireland’s Atlantic coast under threat from Shell, Statoil, Marathon, and the Irish state.

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Rahimi Family Must Stay! - Public Meeting

18-06-2006 19:21

How small a cage is for a bird!
How boring a fish bowl is for a fish!
How scary and dark a grave is for a living and breathing boy!
How ugly detention is for a child!
Hand cuffs, iron locks, closed doors, fences
I was just six years old.
I felt great sorrow, as I had been doing very well at school And they
didn't permit me to go to school
when they took me to Yarlswood prison
For what crime? I don't know.
We came from a far land
with exhausted feet,
to this strange land
I want to smell calming flowers,
I want to search for secure moments,
I wish that I could fly!

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ISM Freedom Summer Campaign Approaches - Slander Campaign Against ISM Stepped-Up

18-06-2006 13:40

Freedom Summer 2006 is nearly here. Palestinians are continuing to employ a greater variety of creative, non-violent resistance to the occupation and you’re invited to participate.

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Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign vigil, 17 June 2006

18-06-2006 01:08

Guantanamo vigil, High Street, Birmingham
At 1pm on Saturday 17 June 2006, Birmingham Guantanamo Campaign held a vigil on High Street in the city centre following reports of the deaths in Guantanamo of three prisoners - named on a placard as Yassar Al Zahrani, Mani Al Utaybi and Ali Abdullah Ahmed.

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Killing season in the Philippines

17-06-2006 23:16

The escalating repression taking place now in the Philippines is no coincidence. Twenty years since the end of the dictatorship and three "people's power" uprisings later, Philippine society is hugely polarized.

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ART COMES TO LIFE TO TELL A DARK AND OILY STORY AT BP PORTRAIT AWARD, 13.6.06

17-06-2006 22:09

London Rising Tide brought to life the image used to publicise its Art Not Oil 2006 exhibition outside the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) on the night of the ceremony for the BP Portrait Award. The Nick Turner image is a petroleum-based version of the iconic Vietnam photograph depicting a brutal assassination, this time with a nozzle replacing the gun, and with the action taking place in front of a BP logo. It took on three dimensions outside the gallery as a simple, powerful way to convey the murderous impact of BP and the entire oil industry, an impact that is brilliantly obscured by cultural sponsorship.

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Radio University Oaxaca closed down by the police

17-06-2006 21:03

Oaxaca June 14 (CIMAC)-
Students from the university went on air in Radio University to give voice to the teachers and the civil society in Oaxaca after the ateempted eviction of the teachers concentrating in the city centre by the police. The police forcely closed down the radio.

Autor: Cimac translation John D
Soledad Jarquín Edgar, correspondent

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Oaxaca: Informative Bulletin from the Sixth Commission of the EZLN

17-06-2006 20:35

An Urgent Call to All Adherents at the National and International Levels to Condemn this New Demonstration of State Repression

By Subcomandante Marcos

The Other Mexico

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Teachers Repel 3,000 Police from Oaxaca’s Historic Center

17-06-2006 20:31

Thousands of Police Surround the City Center as Strikers Hold Their Ground
By Geoffrey Harman

The Other Journalism with the Other Campaign in Oaxaca

June 14, 2006, OAXACA CITY:
In a scene that is starting to look all too familiar in Mexico, the police attempted to disrupt the Oaxaca teachers strike in downtown Oaxaca City this morning. At roughly 3 a.m. a police helicopter flew low over the tent city where the teachers have been camped for the past 23 days and shot canisters of tear gas.
Meanwhile, 3,000 state police armed with riot shields and clubs entered the chaos and tore apart the roughshod shelters where the teachers had been staying. During the course of the six-hour police intervention three people were reported to have been killed, two women and one child.

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STROLL, ROLL, and RALLY against the Incapacity Benefit Cuts

17-06-2006 20:21

There was a national demonstration against the government's plans to reform Incapacity Benefit in Sheffield on 17th June 2006 in Sheffield.

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List of missing, arrested and wounded in Oaxaca, 11 dead

17-06-2006 20:07

bullet shells
According to La Jornada, 11 are said to be dead and here is a list of people still missing/disappeared, arrested and wounded.

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sharphill woods saved! (for now)

17-06-2006 19:10

a success!! thanks to a huge local campaign, the council were forced to vote against plans to build next to Sharphill woods nr Nottingham. Congratulations to everyone who worked so hard and showed up in the rain!

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The reality of M1 Motorway noise

17-06-2006 19:07

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Today (17/06/06) the Highways agencies M1 motorway exhibition was (allegedly) disrupted by members of the No M1 Road widening campaign.

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Violent repression of Afghani refugees hunger strike in Norway

17-06-2006 18:19

Early Friday morning around 100 policemen, some of them with horses, came in place, and violently entered the hunger strikers tents, in order to remove them. The police exercised exceed pressure and violence and even broke fingers of refugees.

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Titnore protest at Taylor Woodrow

17-06-2006 16:31

SUPPORTERS of the Titnore Woods tree protest camp in Worthing have taken their battle to one of the property developers behind the controversial West Durrington scheme.

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Sea-action at Faslane Fair

17-06-2006 14:49

Sea Action and Helensburgh CND protested at the Faslane Fair at Helensburgh, near Faslane.

Every year the MoD take over the car park at Helensburgh with a celebration of the war machine and the culture of war.