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The Music Industry Faces the Music

01-10-2003 13:17

The record industry is experiencing a blow to its profits as file sharing grows in popularity. But despite the dire warnings coming from the industry, does this spell an opportunity for people to reclaim music as a cultural and form and art rather than a commodity available only to the rich?

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Posters for "Trading Freedom" screening

29-09-2003 23:14

Here are some posters for the upcoming screening of "Trading Freedom: the Secret Life of the FTAA", which will take place on Sunday 12 October at the Locomotive Pub, 44 Mill Road, in Cambridge.

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pics of "Kasa de la Muntanya" support protest in Edinburgh

29-09-2003 23:00

Dancing to the beat of resistance
Demonstrators descended on the Spanish Consulate in Edinburgh on 29th September to express solidarity with the threatened Barcelona squat LA KASA DE LA MUNTANYA.

Placard-waving protestors plastered the Consulate with flyers, delivered a letter to the Consulate-General and distributed leaflets denouncing the attempted eviction of the self-managed community centre.

"For 14 years LA KASA DE LA MUNTANYA has been a community, cultural and social centre run on principles of self-organisation and self-regulation. Despite the fact that there is clear evidence that the Spanish government has obtained ownership of the building illegally and has no plans for its use, an eviction has been scheduled for 2nd October," declared flyers distributed by the dozen demonstrators.

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New 'Shortcutz' Guide to Manchester available

29-09-2003 13:23

Shortcutz Guide to Manchester
The new Shortcutz guide to Manchester is available now.

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Subvertising in Manchester

29-09-2003 12:23

FCUK billboard - think harder
A collection of subvertisied billboards photographed in Manchester over the past few months.

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Like farts in the wind

25-09-2003 06:03

Like farts in the wind is a farce with Bush, Berlusconi, Rumsfield, Condy Rice, Powell and many others...

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International art blog exhibition

21-09-2003 09:26

A network of operatives covering the globe. This exhibition aligns and deploys art world practitioners using the power of digital technology to survey the art scenes from across the world.
Surveillance enables us at the Centre to provide an alternative version of events and to challenge the hegemony of those who persist in setting our agenda.

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Enrager.Net - British Anti-Authoritarian Resource & Community - Coming Soon!

20-09-2003 17:08

Enrager.Net - British Anti-Authoritarian Resource & Community - Coming Soon!

Description of the ground breaking new online presence you will soon find at www.enrager.net...

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Artist's journey inspires powerful and moving exhibition

18-09-2003 12:31

Making Sense: A Rwanda Story is a powerful and moving exhibition that opened this week at Bristol City Museum & Art Gallery and runs until 23 November 2003. Inspired by the artist Helen Wilson's visit to Rwanda in 2002, the exhibiton features large scale paintings, film, poems and music showing the beauty of Rwanda and the resilience of its people in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide that claimed one million lives in 100 days.

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Art Regurgitates Life

15-09-2003 12:43

1 Invite - 2 Test - 3 Riot - 4 Latuff - 5 Prez - 6 Audio Puppet - 7 B.O.G. OT
'Virtual Agit-prop Theater' - News, Art, Propaganda or Entertainment?

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Who Was Neil Stonechild?

15-09-2003 05:35

In 1990, an aboriginal teenager's frozen body was found on the outskirts of Saskatoon. Police ruled Neil Stonechild's death accidental which caused much public outcry. An inquiry into his death was never launched even after other aboriginal men were found frozen to death on Saskatoon's outskirts.

SASKATOON - Saskatoon's police chief says officers may have been dumping native people outside the city for years, an admission that comes as new information emerges about a 13-year-old case.

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The Fight for New Palestine (Fernwood/The Hood)

15-09-2003 05:29

Every place needs a mythology. It sings for it. When it gets to the point which it is singing then it only hopes that it is heard. I hope I got to transcribe the notes right. It has a certain tone to it -- a certan bassline. This place/my hood/barrio/community, well, it became a place where you knew people cared enough to help each other out

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Unprecedented at The Showroom

14-09-2003 17:33

Ninety people attended a showing [in association with Sheffield Indymedia] at the Showroom Cinema of Unprecedented: the 2000 Presidential Election. As the name implies, this is a documentary about the chicanery, deceipt and fraudulent behaviour of the rich and [mostly] Republican around the infamous "too close to call" election in the self-styled "great state of Florida".

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Cancun Radio update

12-09-2003 22:48

Transcript from Cancun indymedia radio

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Intellectual property invites itself to the WSIS

11-09-2003 09:00

The organization I3C (Internet Créatif, Coopératif et Citoyen - Creative, Cooperative and Community Internet) is organizing a meeting on 11 October called “Intellectual property invites itself to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).”

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St Giles Fair - views from people attending

09-09-2003 20:37

A team from Indymedia visited the St Giles Fair in Oxford on Tuesday evening to take a few pictures and interview a few people who were attending. This is what they said...

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St Giles Fair

08-09-2003 16:56

St Giles Fair - call to photographers!

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politicising the creative design community

08-09-2003 13:29

click on the link-

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Zapatista Doll Spotted In Tunisia Wearing A Kafiya

05-09-2003 15:28

The ceremonial commander-in-chief of the famed ESB,
(ejércitos sin fronteras, or armies without borders)
donned other clothing to make his or her point. Here's
the scoop in his or her own words!

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Nottingham & Manchester Gay Pride Events.

04-09-2003 10:58

Gay Pride
Nottingham Gay Pride - A lovely gay afternoon out in the park. Stalls and info exchange around the field and bands and singers from the Bandstand all afternoon