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This Sunday 20th May - All day of Films and Remembrance in Camberwell

19-05-2007 20:42

This Sunday 20th May from 2pm till late
All day of Films and Remembrance ... come along !

TALK and short dicussion at about 8:30 pm

Them (the police) throw me in ah van and tek me dow ah station, them insult me intelligence when them question me, ah treat me like ah animal ah call me monkey, them want me sign statement which wasn't written by me, but me nuh rob people fi get my money, so hey officer address me properly, cau me nuh born big me nuh drop out ah tree, I am more intelligent than you'll ever be, cos ah street life educate me, ah hard life educate me.

( Lezlee Lyrix, Put Back You Truncheon, 1985 )

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Wind turbine building course, June 8th - 10th

12-05-2007 10:54

Want to build your own wind turbine? v3power is running courses to show you how. v3power is a recently formed Nottingham based social enterprise organization, dedicated to providing affordable renewable energy solutions.

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REMEMBER EACH ELEVENTH campaign - EVOLVING ! YOU TOO?

11-05-2007 15:59

THIS SPRING, 2007, IDEAS FOR FUTURE ACTION DISCUSSIONS, RE THE "REMEMBER EACH ELEVENTH" CAMPAIGN.
SUGGESTING RADICALS ETC ENGAGE, USING, SAY, THE "WREATH" LECTURES . . . . proposing some unusual "overlaps" - dates to follow - encouraging extra involvement . . . . new moments, unities, etc

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Compact G8 Info for the UK

07-05-2007 21:59

As I felt there is a lack of (practical) information on how to participate in this years G8 protests, I have designed this little info thingy, originally for the Essex Uni area but usefull for everybody.

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Dismissed for disclosing misconduct

07-05-2007 15:36

An academic has been dismissed from the School of Computing and IT
at the University of Wolverhampton on the grounds of Gross
Misconduct following the use of email and an online blog devoted to
bullying in academia to express criticisms and complaints towards
management and policies within the University.

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Help Send Books and a Bookmobile to Cuba!

05-05-2007 19:33

The US embargo on trade with Cuba continues. This summer Pastors for Peace will again challenge the blockade with a friendship caravan. A fully stocked bookmobile will accompany it. Before the revolution there were only 32 libraries in Cuba. In 2002 there were 400 public libraries and 6000 school libraries. Cubans are avid readers and life long learners but Cuban librarians struggle to meet their needs under the blockade. We urge you join us in sending books to Cuba!

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Anarchist Radio Seeks You

04-05-2007 16:34

This is a call-out to anarchists interested in sharing our living history, ideas, debates and vision to collaborate on a new weekly radio project on anarchism.

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International Compost Awareness Week

03-05-2007 13:56

International Compost Awareness Week takes place 6-12 May 2007.

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NZ parents retain right to smack children?

02-05-2007 12:02

It is not a matter of marching, decent, good parents into court. It's a matter of leading by example. Violence does not win and smacking children is the root cause of domestice violence.

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Government watchdog launches official investigation into SOAS CEO

02-05-2007 02:00

National Audit Office inquiry into Lady Judge’s business dealings

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Follow up to OSA makes mockery of Justice...Psychopaths Rool, ok?

29-04-2007 11:20

It seems my recent offering on the misuse of the Official Secrets Act (is there really any use for it except to cover the backs of highly-placed miscreants, in a so-called democracy?), tying the Al Jazeera bombing to 'revisionism' over the Downing Street Memo fell on deaf ears...so here's another try:-

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Save ESOL demo in Hackney

27-04-2007 18:08

Please come to the demo in Hackney tomorrow to defend free ESOL

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UMSU Students not profit demo May 1st

27-04-2007 15:45

Students not profit demo at UMSU on May 1st. Also joint with anti war and anti climate change people.

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HBOS Plc AGM Brighton - Evicted Family Petition Executive Directors For Help

26-04-2007 21:33

Yesterday, (25th April) the evicted houseboat – ‘Shalom’ Family of seven, from Wales, called on banking giant HBOS PLC at their AGM which was being held at the Brighton Dome. A simple message, asking for ‘help’, was conveyed to the Crest Nicholson ‘major shareholder’, and a letter of petition was received by bank staff.

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Fri, London: Film on Cameroon anti-colonial leader, Félix Moumié, & other progs

26-04-2007 07:14

THIS FRIDAY, 6.30PM, On the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the death of Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Pan African Strategist and President of Ghana,
(maybe after you attend abit of the Shut Down Guantanamo! Demo outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Sq, 6-7pm!)

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The Copy/South Reader Response Project vs. WIPO's IP Day

25-04-2007 23:42

To mark World Intellectual Property Day (26 April), the Copy/South
Research Group calls on you to take up its slogan --'Encouraging
Creativity'-- and send in your creative thoughts and opinions on the
role of copyright law and ideology in the countries of the global South.

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MPs call for Government investigation into SOAS Head

25-04-2007 00:21

Questions raised about suitability of SOAS Chairman Lady Barbara Judge for Nuclear job

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rampART / eviction / London / solidarity / La Universidad Pirata / Barcelona

24-04-2007 08:23

WHILE upscale universities open bio-technological parks sponsored by big
pharmaceutical companies
WHILE software companies and corporate record labels entertain themselves
with the futile exercise of hunting down so-called copyright delinquents
WHILE all forms of knowledge get privatized and the access to them becomes
even more elitist...

Universitat Pirata opens its doors

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URGENT ACTION: Glasgow Family Detained

23-04-2007 14:03

16 year old Zahid Ahmed (on the right in the photo below) had been studying hard for his Physics exam this afternoon at the All Saints School in Springburn as part of his Standard Grades, but it is unlikely he will be able to take it.

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Speak Out For ESOL

22-04-2007 16:48

On Saturday 21st April, almost three hundred people assembled on Sheffield's Devonshire Green and marched through the city centre to hear speakers from many organisations at Barkers Pool. These people were demonstrating their rejection of the Government proposals to cut the provisions of free ESOL classes.