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DEMOcracy in Action

12-11-2005 18:00

Video
some of the messages of the antiwar protest on September 24th

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Assassination of Nestle Philippines strike leader - audio interview

12-11-2005 08:56

New in Baby Milk Action's broadcast section: campaigners speak of Nestlé's abuse of workers' rights, the assassination of trade union leader Diosdado Fortuna, baby food marketing and what they think of Nestlé's new Fairtrade product. Listen at  http://www.babymilkaction.org/ram/broadcasts.html#philippines1005

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Competition is not a Natural Law

10-11-2005 14:57

Instead of working out and overcoming the causal problems, people try to put a veil of the fun society over the whole-as in the times of Rome.. Ideologues elevate the principle of competition into a natural law to immunize the market econmy from all criticism.

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US Army Admits Use of White Phosphorus as Weapon

10-11-2005 12:39

The claim by the US Government that White Phosphorus was used "only for illumination" at Fallujah has been pre-emptively debunked by the US Army.

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CONVOCATÓRIA GERAL

09-11-2005 16:44

“Agir local, pensar global”, Jacques Ellul

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Climate Camp, Late Summer 2006

09-11-2005 16:26

With the government failing and unable to take action on the greatest issue facing our planet, climate chaos, we have to create a grass roots solution

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Climate Camp, Later Summer 2006

09-11-2005 16:22

With the government failing and unable to take action on the greatest issue facing our planet, climate chaos, we have to create a grass roots solution

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Climate Camp, Late Summer 2006

09-11-2005 16:17

With the government failing and unable to take action on the greatest issue facing our planet, climate chaos, we have to create a grass roots solution

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Buy nothing Day and do summat's Anti overconsumption month

09-11-2005 13:05


Saturday club declare november-december anti-overconsumption month!!!

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Demonstrate to defend Oxfordshire's health services

09-11-2005 03:45

Stop the cuts
Stop the privatisation

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Global Capitalism: the Scourge of Democracy

08-11-2005 18:37

global capitalism is an economic Colt 45 for the times

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Weekend flights to double at Farnborough?

08-11-2005 16:22

TAG Aviation have applied to double the number of weekend and bank holiday flights at Farnborough Airport from 2,500 per annum to 5,000 per annum.

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Against Hollywood and Globalization: UNESCO and Cultural Diversity

08-11-2005 14:56

The Convention on Protection of Cultural Diversity was passed at the UNESCO General assembly over the objection of the isolated US government.

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Fallujah: "Bodies melted away before us."

08-11-2005 00:15

White Phosphorus sticks to the skin, and burns the victims' flesh away to the bones. It's banned under the Geneva Convention. US forces have used White Phosphorus and Napalm, another weapon banned under the Geneva Convention, in the recent action against Fallujah.

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Sheffield Indymedia Pre-film fest night out

07-11-2005 15:31

Thursday 17th November @ 8pm FREE ENTRY

Matilda Social Centre, 111 matilda street, S1 4QF

Giving a taster of the variety of filmsto be screened at the second Sheffield Indymedia Alt.Doc.Fest: Films from the Frontline, on 24-26th November

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Clown Communiqué

06-11-2005 21:46

Unbearable Poverty Affects G8 Pop stars

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Nestle Fairtrade a 'big joke' says Colombian trade unionist

05-11-2005 15:50

Nestlé launched a Fairtrade coffee in the UK in October 2005 and claims that it is the latest example showing how Nestlé cares for its suppliers. A trade unionist from Colombia claims : "This is a big joke. They are lying to the people" citing the devastating impact of Nestlé's policies on dairy and coffee farmers in Colombia.

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"Dialogue with the Philosopher Toni Negri:

05-11-2005 05:27

The Italian philosopher Toni Negri analyzes the United States’ invasion of Iraq as a “defeat.” He spoke to Pagina/12 from the recuperated Hotel Bauen, in Argentina, expounding an auspicious perspective for Latin America and criticizing the “traditional” European left.

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Grand Theft Argentina

05-11-2005 01:17

The neo-liberal economy effectively moves wealth from the bottom strata of society to the top. They use public money to pay off debts and then sell the entity to the highest bidder. The investors walk off with a money tree and have no loyalty whatsoever to those they steal from.