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Benefit Gig for Unity 17.04.08, Glasgow

14-04-2008 17:10

Fund-raiser Benefit Gig for UNITY!

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Refugees fight forced return to Iraq war zones

14-04-2008 17:00

UN dismay as tribunal allows British expulsions

The United Nations last night accused the government of holding a 'sword of Damocles' over the heads of Iraqi refugees in Britain after it emerged that the Home Office had won a landmark test case giving it the power to return refugees to war-torn parts of their home country, including Basra and Baghdad.

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AAPDEP Initiates Community Fishing Project in Oloshoro, Sierra Leone

14-04-2008 16:51

Oloshoro, Sierra Leone
The All African People's Development and Empowerment Project is working with the people of Oloshoro, Sierra Leone to develop the town's local fishing economy.

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Urgent: demonstrate for Mumia Abu-Jamal, this Saturday 19 April: Free Mumia now!

14-04-2008 16:24

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org (includes international leaflet, full list of endorsers and further information about Mumia Abu-Jamal)

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Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Delegation - Day 5

14-04-2008 11:31

This report is part of a series of diaries from a delegation of Palestine Solidarity activists visiting occupied Palestine. The delegation is part of an ongoing project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at making links between grassroots groups in Brighton, UK, and Tubas, Palestine....

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Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Delegation - Smashed to Pieces...

14-04-2008 11:28

This report is part of a series of diaries from a delegation of Palestine Solidarity activists visiting occupied Palestine. The delegation is part of an ongoing project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at making links between grassroots groups in Brighton, UK, and Tubas, Palestine....

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Reports from the Brighton-Tubas Delegation - Resourcefulness and tenacity

14-04-2008 11:18

This report is part of a series of diaries from a delegation of Palestine Solidarity activists visiting occupied Palestine. The delegation is part of an ongoing project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at making links between grassroots groups in Brighton, UK, and Tubas, Palestine....

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“The breadbasket of Palestine”

14-04-2008 11:09

This report is part of a series of diaries from a delegation of Palestine Solidarity activists visiting occupied Palestine. The delegation is part of an ongoing project by the Brighton-Tubas Friendship and Solidarity Group. A group aimed at making links between grassroots groups in Brighton, UK, and Tubas, Palestine....

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Homeless earthlings’ camp at the border DİKİLİ - Turkey 25.8. – 2.9.2008

14-04-2008 11:06

call for a no-border camp in Turkey nearby İzmir and some infos about the situation of the Greek/Turkish sea border.

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Pope will pray for the redemption of Islamic terrorists at Ground Zero

13-04-2008 14:28

The Pope will pray for the redemption of Islamic terrorists when he visits
the site of the September 11 attacks in New York next week.

The pontiff will call for terrorists to convert to Christianity, saying:
"Turn to Your way of love those whose hearts and minds are consumed with
hatred."

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Hope not Hate in Wrexham - march and rally

13-04-2008 08:13

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As part of Searchlight's 'Hope not Hate' fortnight of action against racism and fascism, Wrexham Trades Union Council organised a march and rally in Wrexham on Saturday 12 April. Local trade unionists, politicians, groups working for peace and justice and lots of local people took part, along with supporters from across Wales.

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12-Year-Old Killed, Children Wounded in Israeli Attacks on Gaza

12-04-2008 00:07

The bias of the corporate media is becoming almost too glaring to be taken seriously.

History will not judge us well for allowing this abhorrent situation to go on for so long.

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Wed 16th: Demo in solidarity to the Harmondsworth detainees

11-04-2008 11:31

Althogh many detainees have resumed eating following the repression, some are still on hunger strike. The repression continues, we just had news that another of the hunger strikers has been taken and put in isolation. The detainees want us to demonstrate and make their voice heard.

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All out on 19 April! Free Mumia now! (Includes new leaflet and endorsers)

11-04-2008 00:35

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org

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Rose Abukha Update: Further action needed to halt her deportation

10-04-2008 14:30

Rose Abukha has been told she will be deported to Uganda tonight at 10pm on British Airways flight BA0063. However, as far we know she has still not been given official removal papers, which may mean the deportation is illegal.

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Hey, Tibet's been part of China for 700 years plus!

10-04-2008 10:20

Humanitarian Interventionists and Benevolent Global Hegemonists, most of whom lack even a rudimentary understanding of China's long and complex history, share a particularly nasty trait. Many of these Globocops imagine because they have downloaded a few pages of separatist propaganda from tibet.org, and shed a tear or two while watching ‘Seven Years in Tibet,’ that qualifies them as China experts. They believe this qualifies them to pass judgment about whether China ‘deserves’ to remain intact or be forcibly Balkanized by the World's Only Remaining Superpower. Their attitude rivals that of the most contemptible 19th century imperialists.

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(BNP Rape etc...)What he actually said was put out of context,

10-04-2008 10:03

What he actually said is much worst then the media would let us believe

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Tibet and Palestine

10-04-2008 02:23

The fact that the media has turned global protest into 'Free Tibet Month', after ignoring the slaughter and oppression of the Palestinians, and downplaying antiwar sentiment worldwide, is a glaring example of their Bias.

If Kant were dug up tomorrow and asked about the Palestinians, he would probably answer: "Give them what you think should be given to everybody, and don't wake me up again to ask silly questions."

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Reminder: Demo at the Home Office Fiday 11th noon

09-04-2008 20:21

Stop handcuffing and manhandling asylum seekers in the detention centres and forcibly deporting them!

End detention and deportation!