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G8 outcomes: better than nothing but...

08-07-2005 13:02 | G8 2005 | Ecology | Globalisation | World

$50bn for Africa, $3bn for Palestine but no progress on climate change

In a statement outlining the results of talks at the G8 summit, Tony Blair described the G8 agreements as "a beginning not an end".

Photos from 7/7 Edinburgh vigil against war and bombings

Photos from a vigil held in Edinburgh last night. There are also photos of an Iranian contingent who were there last night and held a demonstration in the same location at 11am today. more info at

http://www.indybay.org/news/2005/07/1751454.php

The London Bombings: Time for Blair to Wake Up or Resign

The US & UK’s oil & war-hungry foreign-policies look set to see London and other major western cities facing years, perhaps decades, of terrorist guerrilla warfare. Could our elected representatives be doing more to speak out against the illegal wars that have precipitated these barbaric acts?

The Voices and the Violence in Auchterarder

08-07-2005 01:28 | G8 2005 | Analysis | World

When I began to write the day after the march in Gleneagles, it was the violence that griped my mind, that formed the words. I, unlike many of the people I spoke to on wednesday, had been drained by sight of it. I felt the moral force ebb away from our protest even as it happened, and it was my sincere wish to be somewhere else. But there are many other stories of that day, and I shall begin with them, because the worst effect of violence is that nothing else can be heard above it - no other voices find their way through. The issues are forgotten, even if the violence is short lived.

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Stattfor prime suspect in London Bombing

In the long tradition of news leaks, the latest results of my investigation of the London bombings as I work backwards in time to get a positive ID lock on an exact asshole

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London bombing to the eyes of the third world

What is the feeling in the so called third world about the bombing?
As in all matters, all depends on the glass you see the reality thru.

general statement on police allowing G8 protest

i know this is the wrong space to publish this kind of mainstream statement, but i posted it on bbc "have your say"- while submitting it I realised that they wont publish it anyway. So, posting it here is kinda just to beat my frustration with the corporate media.

The BBC discussion was on the issue of allowing G8 protests.

Where are the London cops?

07-07-2005 16:56 | G8 2005 | Repression | World

They are in Scotland harassing political protesters!

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Solidarity demo interupted by police provocation

07-07-2005 15:36 | G8 2005 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

A detention next to a solidarity demo does not provoke a riot

Solidarity demo in front of court 3:30 TODAY

07-07-2005 13:23 | G8 2005 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

~There will be a solidarity demo today at 3:30 in the afternoon outside the court on Chambers Street in Edinburgh.

Thursday Glasgow Timeline

07-07-2005 12:16 | G8 2005 | World

Breaking news on anti-G8 actions in Glasgow.

Thursday Stirling eco-village timeline

07-07-2005 11:31 | G8 2005 | World

Breaking news from the Eco-village near Stirling.

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Auchterarder Diary & Video Diary from a marcher on BBC News website

Contains a link to some more good independent reportage from a member of the BBC's UK interactive panel - good and reasonably accurate - and some of my own comments and reflections on march events and the accuracy of mainstream media reporting surrounding it.

Geldof declares African empowerment and representation "not important"

Today, Bob Geldof finally put on the record what many development campaigners have suspected for a while - namely that the empowerment of African people to represent themselves and solve their own problems, rather than relying on rich, guilt-ridden celebrities to save them, is not important to him.

World G8 2005 Newswire Archive

G8 outcomes: better than nothing but...

Photos from 7/7 Edinburgh vigil against war and bombings

The London Bombings: Time for Blair to Wake Up or Resign

The Voices and the Violence in Auchterarder

Stattfor prime suspect in London Bombing

London bombing to the eyes of the third world

general statement on police allowing G8 protest

Where are the London cops?

Solidarity demo interupted by police provocation

Solidarity demo in front of court 3:30 TODAY

Thursday Glasgow Timeline

Thursday Stirling eco-village timeline

Auchterarder Diary & Video Diary from a marcher on BBC News website

Geldof declares African empowerment and representation "not important"

On the way to Gleneagles -- Edinburgh

corporate media photo selection

Photos from our trip on the A9

Heli - Camping at Stirling

G8: prisoner solidarity

Carnival For Full Enjoyment - some reports

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