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Fantasia Film Festival Forced To Add Screenings For Your Mommy Kills Animals

01-07-2007 19:37 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Terror War | World

The controversial feature film documentary Your Mommy Kills Animals sold out before the Fantasia Film Festival opens next week forcing it to add more screenings. Critics have stated that this film will outcontroversy Michael Moore's Sicko this summer and is a 'must see'.

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Account of DISARM DSEi public meeting

This meeting was called to discuss plans for disrupting the world’s largest arms fair, DSEi (Defence Systems and Equipment International) which takes place on 11th – 14th September 2007 at the ExCeL Centre in East London.

The K.I.S.S. Principle

01-07-2007 09:42 | Analysis | Other Press | Social Struggles | World

For those not familiar with the acronym ‘KISS’, it expands to, “Keep It Simple Stupid”! The KISS (K) principle was/is the most invaluable teaching/training aid in the IT industry, especially in the early days when people actually feared the ‘complexity’ of computers. Anyone who is confronted by an overwhelming amount of ‘information’ tends to lose themselves in a sea of confusion. Fortunately, a very bright and creative mind developed the ‘K’ principle for dealing with these situations.

Urgent Action for women in Ciudad Juarez

01-07-2007 01:47 | Gender | World

Members of an organization set up to fight for justice for women abducted and murdered in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua state, and lawyers working with them, have been threatened and harassed, apparently because of their work.

Tony Blair: What, me worry? (by Latuff)

30-06-2007 22:34 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Palestine | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Refuting Climate Sceptisism on Indymedia

30-06-2007 15:58 | Climate Camp 2006 | Climate Chaos | World

Are there people out there fed up with Indymedia being used as a platform for ill-informed and dangerous climate change denial? Can we do anything about it?

Brazil/Curitiba: Eighty a thousand families without dignified home.

30-06-2007 15:57 | Ecology | World

Cities that do not have public policy of popular habitation do push devoid populations for non buiding areas as fertile valleys of the rivers. The result is periodic flooding, with all the ominous and known consequences for local inhabitants, other populations and for the environment.

Cults of Unreason and the End of Species

30-06-2007 06:35 | Analysis | Culture | Other Press | World

People today seem perplexed as civilisation as we know it plummets into the abyss. Yet, in the broad sense, the future is entirely predicable. The much lauded system of economic rationalism has resulted in huge disparities in wealth comparable to ancient societies; the wealth of Pharaoh-God-Kings of the past was staggering and in stark contrast to the wealth of their subjects. The peoples’ living standards were maintained at ‘adequate‘ levels to ensure a fit work/slave force for their rulers – remind you of anything, are you able to draw any comparisons today? In fact ancient Egypt (utilising modern poverty statistics) would have fared better in the social sense than most of today’s societies. So much for economic rationalism and laissez-faire capitalism! The inequity of today’s economic reality is far from mysterious; however, one mystery remains, the masses of today tolerate far greater inequities than the masses of yesterday.

Peace envoy Tony Blair (by Latuff)

30-06-2007 05:56 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Palestine | World

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

Absurd London “Bomb Plot” Inaugurates “Control Freak” Brown

30-06-2007 00:28 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War | World

Of course, you need evidence to claim “al-Qaeda” is behind the sloppy and wholly amateurish work in London today, but that has not stopped the corporate media or the fear-monger hacks with an agenda—i.e., slaughtering Muslims and divvying up the Middle East—from leading to conclusions and thus subjecting the public to non-stop propaganda.

This Week in Palestine – Week 26 2007

29-06-2007 18:02 | Palestine | World

This Week in Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for June 23 through 29, 2007.

US/UK Arms Trade Treaty Increases Military-Industrial Secrecy

29-06-2007 13:22 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

On his last day in office as PM, Tony Blair signed the 'US-UK Defence Trade Co-operation Treaty' with George Bush, extending the UK Official Secrets Act to all imports from the US of military technologies on the US 'Military List'.

The treaty (if ratified) will make it an offence under the OSA for employees of UK contractors to disclose any information about US imports of military list items into the UK, and in return licencing will also be relaxed by US authorities for Amercian companies sharing information with their UK subsidiaries. The UK already waivers requirements by UK contractors to get export licences for the export of military equipment to the US, and this arrangement will continue.

The treaty marks an unprecedented level or co-operation between two aggresive militaristic countries who are the top two arms manufacturers and arms traders on earth, and who are jointly responsible for the creation of ongoing instability and violence in the Middle East.

(Source: Society for British Aviation,

http://www.sbac. co.uk/community/ cms/content/ preview/news_ item_view. asp?i=16782& t=0)

Saving Iceland International Conference 2007 - 7 & 8th July

29-06-2007 12:55 | Climate Chaos | Ecology | Globalisation | World

Global Consequences of Heavy Industry and Large Dams
Saving Iceland Gathering Saturday & Sunday July 7 - 8th, 2007
Hótel Hlíð, Krókur, Ölfus, Iceland

Anti-Trident camp sends clear message to Gordon Brown

29-06-2007 12:22 | Faslane | Anti-militarism | World

Anti-nuclear activists from Universities across the United Kingdom are camping in Peaton Glen, adjacent to the Coulport depot where the United Kingdom's arsenal of nuclear warheads are stored, ready to be loaded on to the submarines berthed at Coulport. The camp, named the Strident Tent State, will be holding workshops, events, and nonviolent direct actions from Thursday June 28th to Tuesday July 3rd.

The San Juan Massacre

29-06-2007 11:59 | Workers' Movements | World

Fortieth anniversary of a mining tragedy in Bolivia

Loan defaults escalating: Big Finance and governments Responsible

29-06-2007 08:36 | Analysis | Globalisation | Other Press | World

Many articles have been written on the tactic of pervasive and continuous debt as a form of economic social management. However, few financial ‘wizards’ and politicians understood the ramifications of such a tactic. To meet regular needs average people have been forced to borrow at rates never before seen. As a result of the created necessity to borrow large amounts and the ease of obtaining large loans, a rapid increase in loan defaults is occurring. Perhaps statistical information on the ‘spike’ in long term debt servicing and mortgagee defaults highlights the failure of the debt strategy. Hailed at the time as the optimum method of economic and social management, today it is proving to be just another strategy of big business appropriating more at the expense of EVERYTHING and everyone else.

Bukovksy: EU is Soviet Union Reborn

28-06-2007 22:35 | Globalisation | History | Repression | World

It takes a victim of sovietism to recognize a likewise process in Europe. “Vladimir Bukovksy, the 63-year old former Soviet dissident, fears that the European Union is on its way to becoming another Soviet Union,” writes Paul Belien for the Brussels Journal. “In a speech he delivered in Brussels last week Mr. Bukovsky called the EU a ‘monster’ that must be destroyed, the sooner the better, before it develops into a fullfledged totalitarian state.”

Migaloo the White Whale frustrates US-Australian War Games

28-06-2007 17:16 | Animal Liberation | Anti-militarism | Ecology | World

Migaloo, the white humpback whale, is forcing the USA and Australian military forces to reconsider using the Great Barrier reef for war games. The USA and Australian Defence forces have faced down a civil disobedience peace campaign against their Talisman Sabre War Games, from June 19 to July 2, at Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, only to come up against the white whale!

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Bristol Indymedia film night: MOVE documentary - 2 July

28-06-2007 14:18 | History | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Bristol Indymedia film night, in association with Kebele social centre, present “MOVE” the documentary, plus talk by Ramona Africa, long-time MOVE member.
Monday 2 July, 7.30pm for 8pm start, @ the Cube Cinema. £2/3 on the door.

Note: 1 July, 6.30pm, benefit cafe for MOVE at Kebele social centre, 14 Robertson Rd, Bristol BS5 6JY (

http://www.kebelecoop.org)

Who’s sawing off the Horn of Africa?

28-06-2007 13:28 | Anti-militarism | Globalisation | Terror War | World

An analysis of the Horn of Africa’s political outlook in the short to medium term should include an assessment of geopolitical conditions in the Middle East. As part of Operation Enduring Freedom US naval vessels have engaged in several military strikes in Somalia. This shows that the Ethiopia-Somali axis is to some extent the “Southern front” of the larger Middle East theatre of war. US intervention in the Horn of Africa is brought about by the policy framework of the war on terror, as well as the need to safeguard shipping routes through the Suez Canal. This raises significant political questions that the AU has to confront, foremost among which is the impact foreign military aid (and political interference) has on the stability of African states.

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World Newswire Archive

Fantasia Film Festival Forced To Add Screenings For Your Mommy Kills Animals

Account of DISARM DSEi public meeting

The K.I.S.S. Principle

Urgent Action for women in Ciudad Juarez

Tony Blair: What, me worry? (by Latuff)

Refuting Climate Sceptisism on Indymedia

Brazil/Curitiba: Eighty a thousand families without dignified home.

Cults of Unreason and the End of Species

Peace envoy Tony Blair (by Latuff)

Absurd London “Bomb Plot” Inaugurates “Control Freak” Brown

This Week in Palestine – Week 26 2007

US/UK Arms Trade Treaty Increases Military-Industrial Secrecy

Saving Iceland International Conference 2007 - 7 & 8th July

Anti-Trident camp sends clear message to Gordon Brown

The San Juan Massacre

Loan defaults escalating: Big Finance and governments Responsible

Bukovksy: EU is Soviet Union Reborn

Migaloo the White Whale frustrates US-Australian War Games

Bristol Indymedia film night: MOVE documentary - 2 July

Who’s sawing off the Horn of Africa?

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