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Spanish Academics Criticize University Reforms (Trans)

26-03-2009 13:31

Declaration of university professors and researchers concerning the strike called for the 12th of March by the student movement against the current university reform (Plan Bologna)

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Bristol - Greek revolt info tour & solidarity fundraiser

25-03-2009 23:02

Greek benefit flyer - front
News from Greece may be being whitewashed out of the mainstream media, but its still going off big time over there, and the European bosses and politicans remain terrified its gonna go off in their countries soon.
So its all going a bit Greek in Bristol this weekend:
Friday 27 March, 7.30pm at Kebele social centre - Greek Revolt Info Tour
Saturday 28 March, 8pm to 2am - Bristol's Big Greek Benefit - Viva La Resisdance

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'My Big Gay' LGBT Nottingham photo

23-03-2009 23:55

There was interest in having a group photo of out and proud LGBT in Nottingham.

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OhMyGosh Charity Live Graffiti Art Session Street Party: Pix 2

23-03-2009 23:12

On Saturday 21st March, Graffiti Artist gathered to repaint the wall at the side of the shop in Major Street, off the Mansfield Road.

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OhMyGosh Charity Live Graffiti Art Session Street Party: Pix 1

23-03-2009 23:07

On Saturday 21st March, Graffiti Artist gathered to repaint the wall at the side of the shop in Major Street, off the Mansfield Road.

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Oil Goliath BP Felled By Fossil Fool's Day David

22-03-2009 21:36

*** Art Not Oil press release, March 21st 2009 ***

BP has been forced to postpone its centenary party at the British Museum
on April 1st, as word had leaked out and triggered a demonstration by Art
Not Oil(1).

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art of architecture

20-03-2009 17:26

A retrospective of Le Corbusier, the most influential architect of the 20th century, has opened at London's Barbican Centre this week. Corbusier rose to prominence in the 1940s as a pioneer of Modernism. His urban planning theories have been developed in much of the world.

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Amok run of Winnenden, in Germany, is comprehensible

12-03-2009 13:31

In a State Media television interview yesterday the German Chancellor Angela Merkel from the Christian Democratic Union Party, CDU, announced the Amok run of Winnenden in the Federal State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, near the regional capital of Stuttgart, as being "incomprehensible". In fact there are specific historical, sociological and psychological influences and efficacies.

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Nottingham City Council on the Scrounge

12-03-2009 10:16

Nottingham City Council tries to fleece flickr members by using their pics for free.

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Miss University London Pageant Infiltrated and Disrupted

11-03-2009 13:17

Protestors infiltrate Beauty Pageant, disrupting it from the inside. To complement the different protests against this event, one group braved the inside of the club. They used a variety of means to disturb it, halt it and show why its not okay to do this.

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C.R.A.S.H - a postcapitalist A to Z

10-03-2009 19:50

Take part in a free course combining art, activism and permaculture or get paid to actively imagine a postcapitalist world !

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The Demo Project at the Hand and Heart - Thurs 12th March

10-03-2009 17:35

Raising money for Rossport

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In Memory of Steve Cohen

10-03-2009 10:18

Steve Cohen, a socialist and fighter against all forms of racism and immigration controls, died on Sunday morning, 8. March 2009.
"Right now, ‘Don’t Organise, Mourn!’ - his only slightly tongue-in-cheek injunction to grieving friends’ seems as tidy and insightful as anything else he came up with." (Jane on Engage Online)

Here is a my attempt at public remembering and mourning.

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Face life in jail... or three days in Punishment Park

07-03-2009 17:25

Punishment Park
On Thursday 12th March, 7pm in the Hallward Library Screening room, University Park, Nottingham Student Peace Movement will be showing the classic film Punishment Park. The film raises the difficult question of how to face state repression - is violence or pacifism the answer? How will we respond when the authorities come for us?

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Poetry with Bite: Hammer and Tongue Open Poetry Slam

04-03-2009 17:00

Performance poetry with an activist edge at Camden's Green Note cafe- Open Slam featuring Simon Munnery aka Alan Parker Urban Warrior.

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Freedom Press Launch of Kropotkin's Mutual Aid

03-03-2009 01:50

Freedom Press are holding a launch party to mark the publication of their new edition of Peter Kropotkin's classic Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution.

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#14 March 2009 Show

02-03-2009 11:29

the Riseup! "do it yourself" ethic runs deep

Latest podcast from the Riseup! Radio team

Listen: #14 the March 2009 show

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Shac City Shakedown 27 February 2009

28-02-2009 17:19

Video
The City of London trembled on Friday as Animal Rights protesters marched its streets in what has been one of the largest Animal Rights turnouts since some unlucky activists got 50 years.

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Smash EDO benefit gig tomorrow

28-02-2009 11:07

As a part of the "Artivism" week of events there will be a benefit gig for Smash EDO tomorrow, 1st March, at the Prince Albert, Trafalgar Street, Brighton from 8.00pm.

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Council's £50,000 attack on volunteer-run social centre

27-02-2009 19:46

Press release from The Common Place, for immediate release 7pm 27th Feb 2009
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