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Spodden Valley: regeneration concerns ...

GOVERNMENT TESTS PROVE FACTORY RUBBLE CONTAINS DEADLY ASBESTOS TRACES

-URGENT DEBATE CALLED FOR UK PARLIAMENT TODAY.

Inside the Murky World of Make Poverty History

27-06-2005 23:16 | G8 2005 | Birmingham | World

Make Poverty History would seem an unprecedented success story. Uniting trade unions, charities, NGOs and a stellar-cast of celebrities, its cause is dominating media coverage while the campaign's white wristband is being worn the world over. So why, as the G8 summit approaches, are leading members briefing against each other to the press and African social movements saying ‘nothing about us, without us'? Stuart Hodkinson investigates.

Rethink policy of deporting failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers

27-06-2005 22:11 | Migration | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Officials in the Zimbabwe government have publicly said Britain is training spies, mercenaries and agents to destabilise the country and is sending them into Zimbabwe under the guise of returning failed asylum seekers.

On arrival the deportees are invariably met by Mugabe’s secret police, detained, tortured and interrogated. Some of the deportees have not been heard of since. Their families, both in Zimbabwe and in Britain, report that the last they heard of them was that they had been picked up by the secret police.

DROWNING IN FILTH

27-06-2005 19:50 | Analysis | World

WORLD'S LARGEST OPEN SEWER...

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Corruption in "Good Ol" North Carolina?

27-06-2005 17:14 | Animal Liberation | World

Is there a “Good Ol Boy” Network in North Carolina?

AmnestyI- Iran- Urgent help for man sentenced to having eyes gouged out!

27-06-2005 16:16 | Health | Social Struggles | South Coast | World

Please send appeals to stop this barbaric sentence being varried out in Iran

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The 'Jesuits of Capitalism'

27-06-2005 15:57 | Culture | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Blair's apparent fave consultancy firm McKinsey.

Debt

Less developed countries' external "debt" impedes their economic development and attempts to reduce poverty. But it generates huge revenues for rich countries. In the decade 1994 to 2004, Brazil paid rich country creditors US$400 billion just in interest, equivalent to the entire population of Brazil working a whole year.(1) "Debt" serves various seamlessly linked purposes, all to the advantage of rich country creditors.

UN links herb smokers to terrorism: propaganda!

27-06-2005 09:10 | Culture | Repression | Terror War | World

Antonio Maria Costa: "We know that even the occasional marijuana smoker is a link in a much longer and more dangerous chain."

NO EXTRADITION OF CANADIAN INDIGENOUS PERSON TO USA

27-06-2005 08:29 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Canadian Indigenous person John Graham is going to be extradited to the USA to a country with the death penalty for a crime he did not commit.The FBI are accusing him of a murder that occured in 1976.

Searching for resistance in Afghanistan

27-06-2005 01:00 | Anti-militarism | World

After the assassination plot against U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad was revealed to Kabul officials, spokesman Jawed Ludin said, "Our people are dying, our schools are getting burned, our mosques are getting blown up, and our clergy are getting assassinated."

Photos of G8 info point and Jack Kane centre.

26-06-2005 23:21 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

Here are some photos of the G8 info point in Edinburgh.

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Environmental Protection is a Question of Justice

26-06-2005 22:26 | Ecology | World

Environmental protection can only be realized when there is a relatively equal distribution of prosperity and social peace. When an eco-tax is introduced and income distribution is very unequal, environmental protection will obviously meet with little acceptance.

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ID card database infomation in exchange for Trident

26-06-2005 19:47 | Analysis | Anti-militarism | Repression | World

Under the arrangements that Britain has with the US that allow us access to their nuclear technology in the Trident programme, America has long insisted that it should have access to all our intelligence material. That means the ID database will be automatically available to it.

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Brian Haw says `Just do it`

Here are 8 recent photos of Brian Haw who has now been in Parliament Square for over 4 years. The photos were all taken on Friday 24th June 2005.

M.Howard on new EU Conv against People Trafficking

26-06-2005 10:54 | Anti-racism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Tory leader M.Howard replies to constituents enq over view on EU Convention Against Trafficking in Human Beings.

Radical Radio Coalition at G8 in Scotland

26-06-2005 10:23 | G8 2005 | Globalisation | Indymedia | World

Announcement and call for participation - locally and internationally - in the Radical Radio Coalition during and before the G8 summit (1-9 July).

Please distribute widely

Ministers plan to sell your ID card details to raise cash

26-06-2005 08:15 | Globalisation | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Personal details of all 44 million adults living in Britain could be sold to private companies as part of government attempts to arrest spiralling costs for the new national identity card scheme, set to get the go-ahead this week.

What's so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal???

25-06-2005 23:37 | Ecology | Globalisation | Social Struggles | World

* This article is about expanding coal mining consessions in Venezuela`s western state of Zulia. It explains the threats coal mining poses to indigenous communities and water security for Maracaibo, Zulia`s state capital. The article also explains how this initiative is part of a larger regional development plan, IIRSA, and other proposed projects that fall into Zuila`s regional development. The article is also about the grassroots resistence movement against the proposed projects.

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ICELAND- On its Whaling policy

25-06-2005 14:48 | Animal Liberation | Ecology | Globalisation | World

Reply received from Icelandic Embassy on its Whaling policy in response to a Greenpeace campaign.

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World Newswire Archive

Spodden Valley: regeneration concerns ...

Inside the Murky World of Make Poverty History

Rethink policy of deporting failed Zimbabwean asylum seekers

DROWNING IN FILTH

Corruption in "Good Ol" North Carolina?

AmnestyI- Iran- Urgent help for man sentenced to having eyes gouged out!

The 'Jesuits of Capitalism'

Debt

UN links herb smokers to terrorism: propaganda!

NO EXTRADITION OF CANADIAN INDIGENOUS PERSON TO USA

Searching for resistance in Afghanistan

Photos of G8 info point and Jack Kane centre.

Environmental Protection is a Question of Justice

ID card database infomation in exchange for Trident

Brian Haw says `Just do it`

M.Howard on new EU Conv against People Trafficking

Radical Radio Coalition at G8 in Scotland

Ministers plan to sell your ID card details to raise cash

What's so Revolutionary about Venezuelan Coal???

ICELAND- On its Whaling policy

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