Indymedia UK ESF NEWSBLAST #1
This is a listing of some of the reports posted around the European Social Forum and the Autonomous Spaces in London, October 2004.
There were still serious problems with the Indymedia webserver after the seizure of the servers in London, so many people had problems posting reports. If you have unublished reports of events please post them to Indymedia or to the text reporting database @
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This listing is not complete, there's still a lot of content to come in and be tracked down - another updated version will be released soon including links of other media coverage.
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The Assembly of the Social Movements Call
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Final Text on official esf website
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MAJOR ESF REPORT PAGES ON INDYMEDIA UK:
Indyemdia UK Precis Feature
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Indymedia UK ESF Section
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IMC ESF Thursday Reports
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IMC ESF Friday Reports
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IMC ESF Saturday Reports
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IMC ESF Sunday Reports
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Also see:
Indymedia Ireland Feature and Reports
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Indymedia Belgium Reports [NL] [FR]
[Overview] ESF2004 | London | FSE2004
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GENERAL ESF PICTURES:
Pictures of Alexandra Palace ESF
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Belgium Delegation and Registration
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First impressions of the ESF
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Some more impressions of the ESF
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Stalls At Alexandra Palace
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Art and Banners At Alexandra Palace
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General ESF Pictures
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Speaker Portraits
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Photos of the speakers at "GM-Free Europe" and
"A Trans-Atlantic GMO Trade War" (+relevant links)
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Photos of the speakers at "Developments in Human Genetics " and
"Beyond GM: Nanotechnology in Food and Agriculture" in Bloomsbury (+relevant links)
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Photos of the speakers at
"Resisting corporate monopolies and new enclosures",
"Prenatal screening: eugenics or women's rights?" and
"Human cloning and genetic engineering: what's at stake?" in Bloomsbury (+relevant links)
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Autonomous Spaces Newspaper Pics
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INDYMEDIA CENTRE PICTURES
Indymedia Centre @ Camden Centre (pics)
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IMC Centre / Indymedia on the streets / Party
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IMC and European Forum On Communictaion Rights
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Phone Pics of Indymedia Flags
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Have Nots / No Vox Party at IMC (Friday)
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Pictures from the Penelopes who worked out of the centre
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Indymedia Madiaq Tee Shirt Picture
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THURSDAY 14TH OCTOBER REPORTS
ESF registration in chaos
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PICTURES: Police at ESF registration at Conway Hall
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VIDEO: Arrest at ESF Registration
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Women's Open Day Autonomous Space
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PICTURES: Beyond ESF Autonomous Space
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No Borders Waterloo Action Reports
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No Borders Waterloo Action Statement
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Pictures: Waterloo station No Borders Action
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Evening Standard: "Protesters to defy Canary Wharf ban"
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FRIDAY 15TH OCTOBER REPORTS
Fairford coach kidnap High Court appeal hearing:
Samba action, police harrassment and arrest
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Pictures Outside Royal Courts of Justice
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G8 Climate Criminals Critical Mass Action Report
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European Social Forum Starts!
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Canary Wharf Banned Protest Goes Ahead - Report and Pics
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Pictures: Global warming G8 protestors halt traffic
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Pre-event G8 Climate Criminals Press Release
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Evening Critical Mass Ride
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Pictures and Report: LAB Action Against CCTV
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Tube Party Reports
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IMC Breaking News Timeline: Police surround and close off Victoria station after tube party
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News of Arrests after Tube Party
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Pictures: Tube Party, Reclaiming Public Transport + Repression
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Beyond ESF: Grassroots movements against the Clash of Civilisations Report
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Beyond ESF: Caracoles, Zapatismo and the Piqueteros
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Beyond ESF: Swapping lives - Social Centres Discussion
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Beyond ESF: G8 Scotland Sessions
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SATURDAY 17TH OCTOBER REPORTS
Police Film and Video Autonomous Spaces
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Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination : Action Reports
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Actions Against Consumerism Reports
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Street Theatre: 'The Chaps' out in force 'civilising the city'
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Worldwide Anti-McDonalds Day - mass leafleting event
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SATURDAY 17TH: INTERVENTION AGAINST KEN LIVINGSTONE / GLA / ESF PROCESS
(otherwise knows as 'storming the palace')
IMC Feature
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IMC Breaking News and Timeline
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Babels Coordinators Statement, 7pm, October 16 2004
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Storming the Palace (report and pic)
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Assembly of Social Movements And Anti-Ken Livingstone Intervention
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Storming Palace visual report
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The storming of the palace - criticism
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Middle class white kids playing at politics AKA the anarchists
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PICTURES:
Livingstone AllyPally speech replaced by protest
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storming the palace (more pics)
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FOLLOWING CONTROVERSY
A letter condemning the takeover of the ESF stage in protest against the lack of democracy of the ESF organsing process was published in the Guardian. It accuses protesters of being white anarchists, denies that the intervention had anything to do with the ESF process and implies a racial attack. Here are some of the letters and exchanges:
Ken Livingstone's Special Advisor Accuses White Anarchists of Racial Violence
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REPLY: Anti-Racist Groups Accuse Lee Jasper of Playing 'Race Card' re ESF
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Stop using race to smother dissent: another Letter to The Guardian
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Collection of Letters sent to the Guardian and other articles
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IMC Lancaster Open Letter to the European Anti-Social Forum
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Alex Callinicos blames violent "Black Bloc"
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GR Scotland tries to capitalise on disruption re G8 Organising
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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER - KINGS CROSS DETENTION REPORTS
People detained in king kross ldn, sunday 14:03
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Preventitive arrests, police violence
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PICTURES:
75 police at King's Cross surrounding about 15 peaceful protestors
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Kings Cross Detention of anti-capitalist block - Pics and Report
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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION REPORTS
Report of anti-war march and rally in London October 17th 2004
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Photo Essay: A protestor's eye view
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Clowns versus Pro Capitalists at Leicester Square
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Police Shut Down Bicycle Sound System
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VIDEO:
Sunday march, ECF Carnival bus video (1.7mb wmv video)
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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION PICTURES
The main ESF demo
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StopWar March and Arrests - Pix and Report
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70,000 demonstrate against war in london
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Photos from the ESF march / Arrests and Kings Cross / Surveillance
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Samba against war in london
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Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 1 of 5
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Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 2 of 5
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Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 3 of 5
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Pix of ESF 2004, Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 4 of 5
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Pix of ESF 2004 (Pro-Capitalist Bloc), Sun 17 Oct 04 - Set 5 of 5
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Banners and General Demo Pics
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Photos from the anti-war march at the end of the ESF
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More Demonstrations Pics and Portraits
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Diversity at the London ESF demo
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Indymedia takes to the streets
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Stop The War Demo Pics
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Backwards Intelligence Team (FIT surveillance cop piss take)
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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER ESF DEMONSTRATION MAIN STAGE AUDIO:
Main Stage: Lee Jasper, Secretary of National Assembly Against Racism speaking on behalf of Ken Livingstone, Mayor of London
MP3 at 1.5 mebibytes (3.18 mins)
AUDIO LINK:
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Main Stage: Venteran Campaigner Bruce Kent
MP3 at 2.6 mebibytes (5.35 mins)
AUDIO LINK:
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Main Stage: Ismail Patel, Chairman Friends of Al Aqsa, speaking on Palestine
MP3 at 2.1 mebibytes (4.32)
AUDIO LINK:
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Main Stage: Paul Mackney, General Secretary of NATFHE Union
MP3 at 2.5 mebibytes (5.25 mins)
AUDIO LINK:
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Main Stage: Rose + Maxine Gentle, relatives of Gordon Gentle, a 19-year-old Glaswegian soldier killed in Iraq, plus Tommy Sheridan , Scottish Socialist Party MSP
MP3 at 6.2 mebibytes (13.36 min)
AUDIO LINK:
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SUNDAY 17TH OCTOBER - ARRESTS BACKSTAGE AT ESF DEMO RALLY
Anti- ESF process action at Trafalgar Square report, Sunday, 17th of October
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stage storming attemt at Trafalgar square
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ESF: arrest at stage at Trafalgar Square - eyewitness report
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COBAS Union condemns UK ESF organising committee (swp/sa/gla)
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Clown Army Show Solidarity at Charing Cross Police Station
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VIDEO: Clown Army Show Solidarity at Charing Cross Police Station
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ARRESTS REPORTS
Arrests reports (at least 8 on sunday, and more from before)
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Arrested for 'molotov cocktail' - turnS out to be bottle of whisky
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VIDEO
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QuickTime movie at 18.6 mebibytes
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QuickTime movie at 9.3 mebibytes
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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: INDYMEDIA RADIO LONDON
Post ESF Show: Wednesday 20th October (58 mins long)
Indymedia Radio London Weekly Show on Resonance FM
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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: FROM GENOA TO GUANTANAMO
Human Rights Discussion Held at the IMC - Friday 15th October
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Speakers include a campagning journalist , a diaz school (Genoa) survivor, the mother of Tom Hurndall (shot dead by the IDF), the mother of Carlo Guiliani, and one of the UK Guantanamo detainees released this year:
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Introduction audio: MP3 at 10.3 mebibytes
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Diaz_lawyer audio: MP3 at 6.8 mebibytes
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Palistine_audio: MP3 at 6.6 mebibytes
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Campaigning_journalist audio: MP3 at 2.8 mebibytes
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Human_rights_journo audio: MP3 at 6.2 mebibytes
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Questions_to_the_panel audio: MP3 at 15.6 mebibytes
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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: European forum on communications rights
Raw Stream Archives (patchy):
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Some short excerpts from the audio of the sessions at the Indymedia Centre and European Forum of Communication Rights (www.efcr2004.net) - an autonomous space around the European Social Forum in London, October 2004
1) Gus Hossein - Privacy International on Communication Rights Challenges to civil society post 911 (2.59mins)
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2) Indymedia Server Seizure I (2.41 mins)
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3) Indymedia Server Seizure II (1.06 mins)
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4) Corporate Media + Propaganda Against Dissent in UK (4.02 mins)
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5) Corporate Media and Dissent in Ireland (6.51 mins)
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6) Steve Buckley - AMARC - Corporatisation of The Media + Community Media (3.34 mins)
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7) Institute of Race Relations and and Communication Tools + Strategies (4.25 mins)
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8) Justice for Janitors and Communication Tools (4.30 mins)
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9) Electronic Security Issues and Politics (5.48 mins)
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ADDITIONAL AUDIO: Interview with Marcelo Andrade
(director of "Venezuela Bolivarian: People & Struggle of the 4th World War") 2004-10-15 in Caracas by phone (recorded & uploaded at indymedia ESF-media centre, king's cross, london)
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ADDITIONAL VIDEO:
Gonzalo Gomez - editor and founder of aporrea.org an independent news wire in Venezuela talks about the situation in Venezuela
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MPEG at 36.5 mebibytes (7.06 mins)
VIDEO LINK:
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COMMENTS REPORTS CRITIQUES AND ANALYSIS
Babels Coordinators Statement, 7pm, October 16 2004
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MY ESF EXPERIENCE
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European Social Forum events - short report and thoughts on lack of media coverage
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IMC Solidarity Missing From ESF Assembly of Social Movements Declaration!
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Hacking networks of power: Report on the contrast between the 'official' ESF and autonomous spaces
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A discussion for the autonomous movement networks about the ESF and the N/europa challenge
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The European Social Forum: time to get serious
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Precarity: New forms of exploitation, new forms of resistance at Beyond ESF
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ESF Coverage - Mainstream & Indymedia Criticism
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Anti-SWP posting is killing indymedia
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The Trots will destroy ESF
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This is all desparately sad. We can not let it end like this.
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ESF future: We should go deeper, to find more links between movements
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Changes Must be Made for the Next ESF - Greece 2006
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Some comments on ESF
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Last word from the ESF
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Litter at ESF
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TUC leader calls for closer links between unions and social movements
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General Motors strike - Tues 19 October - European day of solidarity action!
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What's Hot and What's Not at the ESF 2004
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OTHER REPORTS:
Female Media Network - The Penelopes ESF Reports [FR]
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Red Pepper ESF Blog
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Other Red Pepper Coverage
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Open Democracy Cover Social Forums
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