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Video G8-bike-caravan Utrecht

08-05-2007 10:29

Peoples Action Net made a nice video about the anti-G8 Bicicle demonstration, of which more than 100 people got arrested saturday May 5th in Utrecht, Netherlands.

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Send in the Clowns: CIRCA saves the day! YAY! ;) a piece of activism history;

08-05-2007 09:46

Send in the clowns:
A montage of events as they unfolded (hint: see the DVD for the live action! It is great!)

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Mobilisation against detention camps in Northern greece

08-05-2007 08:46

Greek activists against borders plan interventions in the war zone against migraants that is Evros

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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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G8 Bike Caravan Action Nijmegen

07-05-2007 17:19

Today a bicycle demo against the G8 was held in Nijmegen, Holland..

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Sarko Wins One for the Global Elite

06-05-2007 22:31

It certainly helps that enough people in France were bamboozled—as the Americans were bamboozled twice running—to put a dull shine of legitimacy on this phase of what will soon enough become one world tyranny and global slavery.

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French elections: capitalism and imperialism are the "danger"

06-05-2007 14:00

Nicolas Sarkozy is not more "dangerous" than Ségolène Royal. The SYSTEM is the "danger". Royal supports the euro-miltarist strategy of François Bayrou, and wish to prevent Iran from developing CIVIL nuclear technology. Furthermore, the French "left" is not well known abroad. Even young French ignore what "their left" really is.

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The Insular Conservative: John Winston Howard

06-05-2007 06:32

The Federal Minister of Employment and Workplace Relations (big) Joe Hockey was forced this week to draw his leader’s attention to the oppressive reality facing average working Australians. Crushing debt, loss of penalty rates and other entitlements have forced many Australian families to the wall. Mortgagee sales in working class areas throughout the nation have increased at an alarming rate. John Howard, the darling of big business and the Corporate sector wondered why the common people were not eating cake!

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Netherlands: anti G 8 bike rally stopped by police. 115 arrested.

05-05-2007 20:01

Netherlands, Utrecht: An anti-G 8 bike rally heading towards Heiligendamm, Germany, where the G 8 will take place in june, was arrested by police.
About 115 people were arrested and brought to the headquarter of the police. The bikes were taken away from the owners and are now in posession of police. Police officials say the people were arrested because they were too many to drive in normal traffic.

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One day you’re gonna wake up, America.

04-05-2007 22:12

And, like every other one since last you can remember, it’s gonna be an ugly morning.

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Space Hijackers Mayday report

04-05-2007 21:03

The growing crowd
A report on the Mayday Suited & Booted party from the Space Hijackers site.

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Globalization - Christian Life in the One World

04-05-2007 11:56

In the Bible, justice is always measured in the well-being of the weakest. Freedom could be understood as bond to community, not egomania. People are not commodities or a mass. There are no superfluous persons or superfluous continents. Ms. Kassmann is a Lutheran bishop in Hamburg, Germany.

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UK 9/11 Truth round table

04-05-2007 11:27

Audio
Summary: A London Sound Posse "round table" with London based 9/11 Truth activists. Why are ordinary British citizens motivated to research and campaign for 9/11 truth?

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Saving Iceland Talk + New Films

03-05-2007 17:00

Sacrificed for ALCOA
Two talks same day!

2pm, Mandela Hall, Sussex University Campus

and

8pm, The Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Brighton

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How to Fix Capitalism: Benjamin Barber

03-05-2007 13:30

Book review of Benjamin Barber's "Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole"

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Anti-Capitalism in Five Minutes or Less

03-05-2007 12:28

We know that capitalism is not just the most sensible way to organize an economy but is now the only possible way to organize an economy. We know that dissenters to this conventional wisdom can, and should, be ignored. There’s no longer even any need to persecute such heretics; they are obviously irrelevant.

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Interventionist Left (IL) G8 Call to Action

03-05-2007 09:15

The following is the English translation of the Interventionist Left's (IL) call to action against this year's G8 Summit in Heiligendamm. The IL are a German-wide network of groups (including: AKU Wiesbaden; Antifaschistische Linke Berlin (ALB); Antifaschistische Linke International (A.L.I.) Göttingen; AVANTI – Projekt undogmatische Linke; Für eine linke Strömung – FelS (Berlin); gruppe d.i.s.s.i.d.e.n.t.; the Federal Coordination, "Krieg ist Frieden" (KIF); the German-wide campaign Libertad!; Organisierte Autonomie (Nürnberg); radikale linke (rl) Nürnberg - Projekt für revolutionäre Organisierung; Rote Aktion Kornstraße (Hannover)), publishing projects (ak - analyse und kritik; Fantomas; arranca!; and so oder so) and a number of individuals. More information is available via the IL website, here: www.g8-2007.de

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Thousands of migrants demonstrate in Italy for Mayday

03-05-2007 01:23

More than one thousand migrants took part to a demonstration in Reggio Emilia, Italy, last 1st of may.

The demo was organized by the autonomous Comitato Lavoratori Irregolari supported by Lab. Aq16 and association Ya Basta! of Reggio Emilia.

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Mayday Switzerland: fire bomb attacks on banks, courts, police stations

03-05-2007 01:08

Switzerland, Zürich: After many hours of streetfighting between protesters and police, people began to attack banks, private companies, courts, police stations and cars of the rich with fire bombs and paint bombs. countless windows were smashed.