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25ft gun being marched to Heckler and Koch

03-11-2009 01:02

A small but dedicated group of Nottingham residents and activists have built a 25 foot willow wood rifle. It will be marched to the UK head quarters of international gun makers and sellers Heckler and Koch, Easter Park Industrial Estate, Lenton, Nottingham.

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Poppy Appeal billboard 'vandal' apologises

02-11-2009 15:48

photo from kent news
Both the Army Romors Service website and a local paper in Kent are today reporting that a public 'apology' has been issued by the person who subvertised one of the Afghan Generation poppy appeal posters at Gillingham train station. According to the report on Kent News, the same billboard has been subvertised again, this time with the new message "SORRY. NEVER AGAIN...?"

 http://www.arrse.co.uk/Forums/viewtopic/printertopic=1/t=136587/postdays=0/postorder=asc/start=20.html

 http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Poppy-Appeal-billboard-vandal-apologises--newsinkent29535.aspx?news=local

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Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?

02-11-2009 06:15

Olympics and Hajj to Shut Down due to Swine Flu – Global Warming?

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Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Group - Ex Prisoner Speaks Of Israeli Cruelty

01-11-2009 13:25

Six members of Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group are now in the West Bank. They have been visiting communities in the Jordan Valley and Bil'in, and have a lot of plans for the next few weeks. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

The Brighton Tubas Region Friendship and Solidarity Group is a network aiming at fostering links between community organisations in Tubas, occupied Palestine and Brighton. The Tubas Region, which includes the Northern Jordan Valley, is an area Israel wants to ethnically cleanse and annex. Israel is doing this by making life impossible for the people of the valley.

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Eight Protesters in Court for 'No Borders' Blockade of EDO

01-11-2009 13:15

Eight activists are in court from Monday for a blockade of EDO MBM/ITT in solidarity with migrants during the Calais No Borders camp this summer.

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Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Group - Labour Conditions on israeli Settlements

01-11-2009 13:11

Six members of Brighton Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group are now in the West Bank. They have been visiting communities in the Jordan Valley and Bil'in, and have a lot of plans for the next few weeks. Read their blog at www.brightonpalestine.org to keep up to date with what is happening.

The Brighton Tubas Region Friendship and Solidarity Group is a network aiming at fostering links between community organisations in Tubas, occupied Palestine and Brighton. The Tubas Region, which includes the Northern Jordan Valley, is an area Israel wants to ethnically cleanse and annex. Israel is doing this by making life impossible for the people of the valley.

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US aid to Pakistan (by Latuff)

01-11-2009 07:33

Pakistan
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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Support For The Afghan Poppy Appeal Poster Defacement

31-10-2009 16:09

As the mainstream media outrage (from the likes of the Hate Mail and Torygraph) dies down, the voices of many people in the armed forces and others who support the posters new message starts to be heard.

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Brian Haw Arrested

30-10-2009 23:28

Brian Haw was arrested around 7pm this evening - Friday 30 October 2009 - in Parliament Square. Photos Copyright (C) 2009 Peter Marshall, All rights reserved.

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DIY Guide - Afghan appeal subverts - Bring 'Em Home before Xmas

30-10-2009 14:26

Around the country billboards containing Poppy Appeal posters from the Royal British Legion are displaying images of British soldiers in Afghanistan, or their greiving widows and family. While the appeal tried to raise it's annual £30 million, most people think the best way to help the troops is to bring them home and prosecute the politicians who sent them. Below we outline how to modify these billboards yourself to carry the messages 'BRING 'EM HOME' and 'PROSECUTE BLAIR'

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Subvertising hits the big time - media outrage at poppy appeal subverts

30-10-2009 02:09

The power of simple subvertising was demonstrated this week when a little cut and paste work on a few billboards became a national media story. Elevated from a being noticed by just a few passers by to tens of thousands of readers and TV viewers, the subvertisement of poppy appeal posters has apparently hit a chord.

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Defence company to undertake U.K. National Census (and those of other countries)

29-10-2009 19:18

The UK 2011 census will be undertaken by Lockheed Martin. This US corporation is the world’s largest defence company, manufacturing Trident and part owning Aldermaston. US law could allow census data to be passed to the US government. (The following is a draft motion to be presented by Canterbury Green Party to the National Conference. It is not party policy.)

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The Invisible Men

29-10-2009 16:11

Worker in the Ariel settlement
One of the cruellest ironies of the occupation is that Palestinians are building it. Tens of thousands of labourers are employed in construction of the wall, settlements and the industries around them. Despite a 2007 Israeli High Court ruling that gave the same rights to Palestinians working in settlements as Israelis, the reality is still low wages, hazardous conditions and no job security.

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Target Brimar public meeting, 2nd November

28-10-2009 23:27

In the wake of a its citizens' weapons inspection and successful launch
demonstration, the Target Brimar campaign has called a public meeting at
the Friends Meeting House, Mount St, Manchester at 7.30pm on Monday 2nd
November. We want to gauge the support in Manchester for an ongoing
campaign to put pressure on this manufacturer of military components used
by Israel in Palestine, by the US and British armies in Iraq and by NATO
in Afghanistan. For more information on the campaign, see
 http://www.targetbrimar.org.uk

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York Students Disrupt BAE Recruitment

27-10-2009 17:18

A group of nearly 20 students took part in a non-violent intervention against the arms company BAE at today's University-wide careers fair, by staging a die in and handing out leaflets to passers by. The group, members of University of York's DISARM campaign, used the action to highlight BAE's impending trial for corruption.

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A slow coup in Venezuela?

27-10-2009 16:31

"In Miami, rightwing Cuban exiles and Venezuelan ex-military officers and wealthy exiles have maintained a joint anti-Chavez project. Like Cuban-American counterpart groups, the so-called Venezuelan Patriotic Union carries out training exercises in the Everglades."

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NATO call to action - Edinburgh - 13th November

26-10-2009 14:10

SMASH NATO! * CRASH THEIR PARTY!
EDINBURGH * 13TH - 17 NOVEMBER

In November the NATO Parliamentary Assembly will meet in Edinburgh. The NATO Parliamentary Assembly is an attempt at legitimising the alliance with a hint of democracy. This is a front. The NATO PA does nothing but maintain NATO's role as a global military force used by the west to dominate and control. Its influence stretches from the highlands of Scotland where nature reserves are used as playgrounds for NATO's war games, to the highlands of Afghanistan where villages live in fear of NATO attack.

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Afghan War Lantern Tribute on Parkers Piece, Cambridge (23/20/2009).

25-10-2009 22:56

Setting up...
On Friday 23rd October 2009, a small band of artivists came together on Parkers Piece, Cambridge at 6:00pm to do something in rememberance of all those who have perished in a war that has lasted longer than World War Two.

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24.10.09 - Troops Out Of Afghanistan National Demonstration

25-10-2009 14:08

PEACE!!!
National gathering to demand troops are withdrawn from Afghanistan. Co-ordinated by Stop The War Coalition