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Set Free to Molest Again - a breech of duty of trust - Tony Blair

23-08-2006 12:23 | Education | Social Struggles | World

I think the title pretty much says it all. When all the world deplores, hates - whatever word you use to describe the venom, most parents feel towards these subhuman creatures - a child molester and every man and his dog knows they cannot be rehabilitated... what inhumane bastard would set them free? Is that not a breech of duty of care? Has the world gone mad? Does no one care about the kids in our own country who are consistently being placed at risk by SETTING CHILD MOLESTERS FREE?

Baa Baa Baa: Tony's Liberal Sheep

23-08-2006 11:38 | Culture | Education | Social Struggles | World

I am absolutely sick and tired of being treated like a mushroom... kept in the dark and fed shit by the politicians who are ruining this wonderful nation of England. It's not a conspiracy folks... it's a pattern. Simple maths taught me to recognise the patterns from learning the two times tables to advanced calculus. The bastards dumn down the education system, gag the media and then its a free for all where corruption is concerned. Who will question when the children are not taught to reason and read? Who can do the maths of how many billions of pounds these arseholes have stolen from the English public? How many children have been slaughtered at their hands, paid for and funded by our tax dollars? It's time to wake up folks and smell the coffee - CORRUPTION has a stank all of its own.

The situation tonight in Oaxaca, Mexico

23-08-2006 03:40 | Repression | Social Struggles | Zapatista | World

In Oaxaca now as many possibly already know, the climate is of total ungovernability, the city has been completely taken, there are pickets and occupations of many government offices where already nobody works, whole streets are barricades with the participation of busand taxis drivers who have put their units into the blockades.

PHILIPPINES: Impeachment killers, murderers of justice!

23-08-2006 01:12 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Social Struggles | World

“Murderers of justice! This is what Congressmen who will vote for the dismissal of the impeachment complaint against Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo (GMA) will be remembered as.”, said AKBAYAN (Citizens Action Party) President Ronald Llamas today on the information that the House Committee on Justice will terminate the impeachment proceedings today.

OutRage!- HIV : Rich 'North ' must help South to deal with it.

22-08-2006 15:45 | Education | Health | Social Struggles | World

lgbt rights group OutRage! calls for much greater co-operation between the rich 'North' to help the South defeat HIV.

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Restoration of Sparkbrook Cottage Continues Despite Looming Court Case

The occupation of the Sparkbrook social centre known as the Cottage of Content is ongoing, yet while court proceedings and legalities are set in place against the occupation, the renovation and revival of the community asset is continuing unabated.

Solidarity for Marco Camenisch: Eco-Anarchist Prisoner

22-08-2006 09:48 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Marco Camenisch was born in Switzerland in 1952. In the late seventies, Marco, as a militant of the movement against nuclear power plants, was engaged in many struggles to fight the local Swiss nuclear mafia. Direct action was the base of such struggles; cutting down pylons, sabotage against power stations, attacks against the people involved in nuclear mafia.

Tea Party at the Hague

22-08-2006 03:25 | Analysis | Culture | Social Struggles | World

Is the Hague court a joke or have we just lost our sense of perspective? The latest indiscriminate slaughter of children and innocent civilians in Lebanon by ‘God’s chosen’ seems not to warrant the attention of the Hague court. Carla Del Ponte’s latest remonstration against the Serbian leadership for not delivering war criminals to her court seems ‘slightly’ dissociative in view of recent events. Her obsession with Serbs now borders on the pathological. Would the civilian death toll in Iraq warrant her attention? Iraq now approaches one hundred thousand innocent civilian deaths – eighty percent directly attributable to the forces of occupation!

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Convicted attention seeker Jack Roche called by afp as informant

21-08-2006 08:21 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The afp fraud and the abc propaganda, and spin should not persist any longer in the fear that our children with be indoctrinated with stupidity by imbeciles and morons making ridiculous claims in a court of law just like they were in the movies or something.

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Free Thomas Meyer-Falk - Anarchist prisoner in Germany

20-08-2006 16:25 | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"Here was a strange world which resembled no other, here there were special rules, special garb, particular customs and usages. It was a death-house of the buried alive, within which a life was as nowhere else, and the people, as well, were different." - Dostoyevsky

NATIONAL DAN ACTION IN MANCHESTER - EARLY NOTICE.

20-08-2006 14:50 | Indymedia | Repression | Social Struggles | World

In unity with other local and national groups of disabled people acting
against the Government's proposed incapacity benefit cuts, members of the
disabled people's Direct Action Network are discussing and planning to bring
our skills to a demonstration which will coincide with the Labour Party
Conference.

AUSTRALIA: Today's Sunday Telegraph?

20-08-2006 13:48 | Analysis | Indymedia | Social Struggles | World

Sunday Telegraph reporter finds Ivan Milat story on Indy, publishes it today, 3 months after events

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The CIA: They Do Kill People, Don't They?

20-08-2006 13:47 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

"Bove was a master at detecting hidden phone networks. Recently, at the direction of Milan prosecutors, he'd used mobile phone records to trace how a "Special Removal Unit" composed of CIA and SISMI (the Italian CIA) agents abducted Abu Omar, an Egyptian cleric, and flew him to Cairo where he was tortured. The Omar kidnapping and the alleged involvement of 26 CIA agents, whom prosecutors seek to arrest and extradite, electrified Italian media. U.S. media noted the story, then dropped it."

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Lodhi lawyer welcomes Thomas appeal win

18-08-2006 22:52 | Health | Repression | Social Struggles | World

Perhaps the abc should get another Walkley award?????????????????????

+++ MEXICO: Rebellion in Oaxaca - activists kidnapped, tortured, killed +++

18-08-2006 15:55 | Social Struggles | World

Mexico, Oaxaca. Since a few months the people stand up to fight the corrupt government of Ulises Ruiz Ortiz. Since june the repression against the movement has grown. Activists were kidnapped, tortured and killed by police and paramilitary units.

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Judge quashes Thomas conviction

18-08-2006 07:34 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

This is fantastic news. Congratulations to Jack and the Thomas family! It is a vindication of everyone prepared to fight for basic rights -- and makes the bus trip all the more important. We're in the process of putting a press release out. Good news for a change!

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Court hears fishing expedition letter 'referred to sacrifices to a cause'

17-08-2006 22:26 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

The letter reads: "My love, How I miss you already? What would I ever do if we were separated for more than a day? Inshallah I will never find out. May the only cause for our separation be the cause of Allah. And may he grant me paradise alongside you as queen of your Hoor." [kiss, kiss, kiss, hug]

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Countryside Properties- Mayfield...and a field in May 2004...

17-08-2006 11:53 | Ecology | Health | Social Struggles | World

Countryside Properties have gone into advertising overdrive with its new housing development at the former Mayfield rugby club in Castleton.

After being criticised for illegal flyposting earlier this year:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/manchester/2006/03/336159.html

Countryside Properties have now paid Rochdale Council for road signs and half page colour advertisements in the Council's newspaper "Local matters" delivered to every home in the Borough.

There has also been a huge advertising spend by Countryside Properties with the Guardian Media Group in their Homesearch sections of the Rochdale Observer, Manchester Evening News and TV station Channel M.

It is a pity that Countryside Properties' budget doesn't cover the destruction of Woodlands in the Spodden Valley.

Mayfield and a field in May... here is the connection...

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Tragedy for Aboriginal Land Rights - Senate approves paternal bill

16-08-2006 06:46 | Analysis | Repression | Social Struggles | World

August 16, 2006: "This will be marked as a tragic day for land rights in Australia," said Senator Rachel Siewert today. Despite strong criticism the laws are "paternalistic and strip Aboriginal Australians of their property rights." Amendments to Northern Territory Land Rights Act passed through the Senate today. The changes scrap the NT's 30-year-old scheme of communal land ownership under land council administration...