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Make Bono History!

12-07-2006 09:07

Ageing rock star Bono has shown his true colours by backing a video game which depicts an invasion of Venezuela. Multi-millionaire Bono is taking a break from his tireless work to end global poverty by promoting multi-national companies and making a bit of much needed cash for himself.

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pink - radical cheerleading - samba - clowns in moscow against G8

11-07-2006 18:43

Today a sucessfull public action against the G8 took place in central moscow.

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Strike at the BBC?

11-07-2006 16:46

It was revealed last week that director-general Mark Thompson saw his pay packet rise by £160,000, from £459,000 to £619,000. Adding insult to injury is the executive board's greed in swallowing inflated pay rises of between 10 and 30 per cent. BECTU members will vote for industrial action."

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International Financial Institutions Film Screenings Tues 11'th Jul

11-07-2006 08:38

Indymedia Film Screenings - 8 Days Against the G8

today 7.30 pm, Tuesday, 11 Jul,

theme: International Financial Institutions

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Spanish House of Representatives considers Third Republic proclamation

11-07-2006 05:14

The Requests Commission of the spanish House of Representatives (called Congreso de los Diputados) accepts a requirement asking to start a constitutional reform process aimed to suppress monarchy, reduce government branches interdependency while giving respect to liberty, equality, fraternity, austerity, laicism and pacifism.

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No M1 widening benefit gig

10-07-2006 19:55

there is a benefit gig on Saturday 15th july at the maze, mansfield road, Nottingham. 9pm till late, £3-50

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The Build Up To World War 3 Begins In Shanghai

10-07-2006 17:33

The growth of the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organisation), particularly the meetings emphasis on security and defence and the new membership applications, are creating worldwide tensions similar to the standoff before the Second World War.

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PUBLIC MEETING ON CUBA/LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTION

10-07-2006 15:53

Cuba: spearheading the Latin American revolution

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BRITISH RED CROSS FRAUD IN EARTHQUAKE AREAS

10-07-2006 15:52

Can anyone provide any information on the article appearing in the Asian Today newspaper in the Midlands regarding the fraud by British Red Cross in providing assistance in the Pakistan Earthquake of 2005.

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Outfoxed - the war on journalism

10-07-2006 12:02

London indymedia film festival continues this evening on a 'media' theme...

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NO BORDER CAMP 2006, AN INVITATION - A CALL TO ACTION

10-07-2006 10:36

NO BORDER CAMP 2006, a summer of freedom, Gorizia, north-east Italy, from 19 to 23 of july.

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OXFORD CAMPAIGNERS STAGE "G8 OLYMPICS"

10-07-2006 08:24

Oxford World Development Movement (WDM) will be staging the "G8 Olympics" in Oxford City Centre on Tuesday 18th July at 1pm to draw attention to the fact that the promises made at last year's G8 Summit by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have not been kept. Oxford WDM members dressed as Bob Geldof and Bono will be judging others dressed as Blair and Brown in a triathlon of debt, aid and trade.

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No G8 - 2006

09-07-2006 00:42

Video
mobilisation animation

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The beat goes on – drumming trade justice home

08-07-2006 18:28

Audio UK Treasury – stop paying for poverty
A year on from the Gleneagles G8 summit, at which Tony Blair promised to put trade justice and climate change at the top of the agenda, campaigners in Swindon joined a drumming petition to ensure that their trade justice message was still ringing in the ears of decision makers. Attached are some photos, a 7-minute film, and audio of the two speakers for anyone who lacks the bandwidth to download the film.

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Nous les zonards voyous

08-07-2006 10:33

riot in the banlieue 2005

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One year on…7.7.05

08-07-2006 00:10

Bristol - 6.7.05 (pic by Tom B)
As dusk falls, I try to remember…where exactly was I one year ago, as dusk fell?
Was I, as a legal volunteer from Bristol, monitoring protests against the G8 in Gleneagles (Scotland), still on duty outside the Stirling eco-camp attempting to monitor the police’s abuse of their powers? Or had I been replaced for the night, and made it back to our Edinburgh base (and pub)? It’s all such a blur now, yet only a year ago…

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SHOCK FOR EDINBURGH METRO READERS

07-07-2006 19:20

Passengers reading the Metro on Edinburgh's buses this week got a real shock - the paper contained something worth reading in. A leaflet entitled "The Carnival is not over" mysteriously appeared in over a thousand copies of the Metro "newspaper" which is distributed free on Lothian Region buses.

Issued on the anniversary of the anti G8 Carnival for Full Enjoyment, the leaflet encouraged citizens to resist injustice : "Together we have the power to disrupt the daily grind of the institutions that plunge us into overwork, poverty and debt."

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Photo update of Art Activism Caravan

07-07-2006 17:30

Comeing into Albania
This covers from the end of Bitola to Tirana

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London Bombers: Secret services had arrested them earlier and knew them.

07-07-2006 16:40

''The members of the network that carried out last week's attacks in London had been arrested earlier last year, and were and are known to British authorities." said French minister of Interior, the head of the secret services and police, Nicholas Sarkozy in Brussels. Clarke, the UK Home Secretary, went mad.

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Is the Dollar Hegemony Ending?

07-07-2006 13:18

The demand for dollars will fall significantly when oil is transacted in euros. The US must control its twin deficits and reduce its footprint to keep the confidence of foreign creditors Radical restruring and removal of incompetent, corrupt leaderships could avert global depression.
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