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Durham Working Class Bookfair goes ahead on Nov 3rd

02-11-2007 09:41

Despite venue problems we are determined to press ahead with this event, which will be established in the annual political calendar in the North East

Troop NEWS (Two) Afghanistan, Iraq, War Reports

31-10-2007 23:12

The United States Governments recruitment drive in Afghanistan and Iraq, to fill empty spaces in Arlington cemetery from amongst the troops is bringing results.
Extra millions of dollars spent will improve the ''profit'' margins for the 'contractor' building companies. In this issue there is no mention of ''Greek fires'' in California.

Lancaster student's anti-BAE halloween mischief

31-10-2007 17:30

Students enter careers fair in order to protest the inclusion of arms manufacturer BAE Systems.

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M. Yates Up To Their Old Tricks? Live Exports Info Needed!

25-10-2007 23:44

Stephen Yates is the infamous live exports driver, who drove a lorry full of veal calves over Jill Phipps. This photo was taken recently of one of the company's (M. Yates of Driffield) lorries full of calves.

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Community Website For Your Area

25-10-2007 10:52

Two working friends have set up a website in their spare time to help local social interaction. The site is free to use and offers a user a place to swap local information with other residents. It is called www.whosyourneighbour.co.uk. John is from York and David is from Bradford

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Vegan day celebration, Bradford

24-10-2007 20:19

Come along to the Tree House on November 1st to celebrate world vegan day.

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Anti-war play on Iraq, this Saturday, Carriageworks, Leeds

23-10-2007 19:44

Jack's Hard Rub Theatre present 'The boy who dropped an egg on the world', a contemporary political play which uses mythology and the supernatural in a morality play of good and evil.

Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza

22-10-2007 18:00

Benefit night for Break the Siege - Free Gaza at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge on Dec 20th to raise money for the Freegaza campaign. It is 'A Winter Festival Party' featuring Sketch (Maggie Boyle, Gary Boyle and Dave Bowie), Captain Hotknives, Clive Russell and The Bookworms (plus DJ).
Doors open at 8.30pm, £5 or £4 entry. All proceeds go to humanitarian aid.

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Fur & Foie Gras Demos In Leeds

21-10-2007 18:35

FUR & FOIE GRAS DEMO'S IN LEEDS

Trafalgar Club mugs meet again

19-10-2007 14:15

Tomorrow night at the plush Ardencote Manor Country Hotel in Claverdon, Warwickshire, the great and the bad who support the British National Party through its Trafalgar Club dining club will tuck into a meal that they hope will be better than the stale sandwiches they were fed last year.

A veteran of the Great War remembers:

18-10-2007 17:56

Sons of Paradise is new play about the fictional last surviver of WW1. He is offered a state funeral but feels his body is to used, as it was 90 years previously, for political ends.

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Blockade of D1 Oils - anti-agrofuel demo

18-10-2007 14:40

Protestors from No Agrofuels UK blockaded DI oils refinery and offices this morning to raise awareness of the detrimental impact of agrofuels. The protest was timed to coincide with the national Biofuels Conference in Newark.

Nara Update: Blue Rinse Remove Fur Coats

17-10-2007 22:48

The newly formed Northern Animal Rights Alliance (NARA) are pleased to let supporters know that Blue Rinse in Leeds have removed all real fur items and the white power patches.

Our new website should be up and running soon, so please keep an eye out.

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HLS demo, November 10th

16-10-2007 17:29

Despite the recent government and police repression, the SHAC campaign is as strong as ever. HLS is still nearly $100 million in debt, and it is the only company in the world which does not have a bank account or insurance, both of which are instead provided by the UK government in a desperate bid to shore up this failed business.

"Drum Them Out!" The NSA Menwith Hill demo, 13 Oct.

15-10-2007 19:18

Britain has declared that spybase NSA Menwith Hill can be used as part of the American Missile Defense system. "Drum Them Out!" - was the recent demonstration to protest this and indeed the whole system of American bases in the UK and their total lack of accountability.

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3 Fur Shops!

13-10-2007 17:48

The following shops are selling real fur. Lets put an end to the fur trade once and for all.

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Talk in Leeds by Silvia Federici author of 'Caliban and the Witch'

12-10-2007 16:15

MA in Activism and Social Change. Seminar Series 2007-08

Silvia Federici

**** Education and the Enclosure of Knowledge in the Global University ****

6pm. Monday November 5th 2007. Followed by wine reception.

Silvia Federici is long time feminist activist and teacher, co-founder of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa and Associate Professor in Political Philosophy at Hofstra University, USA. Her recent work includes: ‘Enduring Western Civilization’ and ‘Caliban and the Witch: Women, the body and primitive accumulation’

Bookstall by Re-pressed Books on the night

LOCATION: Geography Lecture Theatre. Geography East Building. University Road.
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