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Tara Protester in tunnel to stop Construction of M3 Motorway near Hill of Tara

15-03-2008 14:29

A Female Protester has sealed herself into a tunnel under a hill upon which the Rath Lugh National Monument is positioned to stop construction of the M3 Motorway near the Hill of Tara. 100 protesters have now joined the protest at Rath Lugh.

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Protester in Tunnel to Block Motorway near Hill of Tara

15-03-2008 14:05

Tara Protester in tunnel under Rath Lugh National Monument, 100 Protesters are now at Rath Lugh Frontline Camp.

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pills profit protest ; film night at the vaults this friday (14th march).!

13-03-2008 01:52

pills, profit protest chronicles the international aids protest movement 7.30 at the vaults an ganden on .

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World says ‘No bloody thanks!’ to Australian sheep cruelty

12-03-2008 21:32

World consumers are turning away in their droves from blood stained Australian wool. Horrific farm practices in Australia are being exposed thanks to the work of animal welfare groups including PETA and more recently the Swedish media. One of the current issues is the barbaric practice of muesling, ripping the skin off the backside of live sheep to prevent flystrike which diminishes the export value of this woeful trade. At the same time we witness corruption of Australian government officials and a representatives of Australian Wool Innovations, Kevin Craig.

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Manchester Space Invaders.....Taking Over the City

11-03-2008 13:22

Manchester Space Invaders are a collective of autonomous groups and inidividuals working together to reclaim our city...we are mobilising to fight gentrification, 'regeneration' and all the borders that exist within the city. We call for all groups, individuals, networks and families to get involved and to join in our glorious celebration of autonomous spaces...

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A first shadow of G8 repression goes through Siberian Russia and Japan

10-03-2008 19:26


After leaving Russian FSB detention, left activists is returned to sea by Sapporo authorities

Sapporo-Otaru. 10.03.08 – 13:00 GMT: The German left activist Dr. Martin Kraemer has been refused landing in the port of Sapporo-Otaru. He has been condemned by Japanese authorities to remain stay put on the Panama vessel BM-2, which had brought him from Sakhalin on Friday, 7th of March. “Just released from special confinement by the Russian political police FSB, it’s now the Japanese repressive forces who try to top them.

In Russia, I got kicked and received an official death threat in custody, but this is worse,” says Martin: “Today’s blow against Japanese dignity set in before I could even open my mouth in this splendid country.” The surprising decision by Japanese immigration officers was announced today after receiving central instructions at 16:00 o’clock local time (8:00 GMT). At that time, Dr. Kraemer had already spent 66 hours waiting in the port of Otaru to get landing permission.

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British coal company spells disaster for Bangladesh

10-03-2008 17:27

A UK company, Global Coal Management comes under fire from campaigners about the proposed open-cast coal mine in Bangladesh. The mine will displace thousands of people and could leave hundreds of thousands more with reduced access to food and water. The World Development Movement is calling on people to lobby Global Coal Management to force them to pull out of this harmful scheme.

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World Transnational Corporation Regulatory Authority

10-03-2008 16:33

How can the power of transnational corporations be held in check? The following policy suggestion is being submitted to the Simultaneous Policy (SP) campaign. Read on to find out more about the suggestion, the campaign and how you can give your support.

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UK attacked Iraq for oil – poll

10-03-2008 13:16

A larger number of people believe that Britain invaded Iraq to gain control of its oil than for any other reason, a new ICM poll for War on Want says today.

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Monument to the Victims of Communism?

09-03-2008 23:48

Washington, aided by the corporate media, never miss an opportunity to re-inforce the dominant ideology of inequality. According to them only those oppose capitalism cause human suffering. Capitalism accordingly to our rulers has no victims. This mind-warping indoctrination demands a constant war on our memory and the truth.

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Flash mob reclaim space in Birmingham's Bull Ring (article & video)

09-03-2008 21:38

At 1.30pm on Saturday 8th March, upwards of 80 people took part in a flash mob in the Bull Ring (TM) in Birmingham city centre, where people froze in 'suspended animation' for 5 minutes.

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Collapsing the European security architecture

09-03-2008 20:41

german:  http://gipfelsoli.org/Home/Maddalena_2009/4818.html
italiano:  http://gipfelsoli.org/Multilanguage/Italiano/4821.html

For greater security-critical behaviour in Europe - A concrete proposal for the resistance movement against the G8 2009 in Italy


Each protest enables us to draw conclusions of how to do things better next time. In the same way, we can draw conclusions from the mobilisation against the G8 summit 2007 in Heiligendamm on how to achieve successful and broad resistance. Apart from three large self-organised protest camps and an international infotour in the months leading up to the summit, there were attempts to have international exchanges and establish networks beyond Germany. The decision was made not to respond to the G8 climate debate but to frame the protests in terms of other self-determined topics the movement was focussing on: migration, antimilitarism and global agriculture.

Looking ahead to the G8 2009 in Italy, this text takes up these points to propose a campaign against the new “European Security Architecture“. We outline some developments in police cooperation on a European level and call for a kind of antirepression work that goes beyond a simple critique and a scandalising police violence, and that is coordinated on a European level. Such political antirepression work would have to take new forms of social control seriously as an integral reference point for radical movements.

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SERCO picket, London March 8, 2008

09-03-2008 17:44

Demonstrators arriving at SERCO
As a part of the International Women's Day, Feminist Fightback, All African Women’s Group and Black Women’s Rape Action Project picketed the SERCO
Research Institute in central London, demanding the immediate closure of Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre.
Pictures copyright © 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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New 26cinemalibre.tk film screening night - mondays @ inspiral

09-03-2008 17:37

starts this monday (10th march) @ inspiral lounge, camden high street - "life + Debt" + Djs

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New Forum - Digital Anarchy

08-03-2008 20:00

Enjoy this forum for open space debate on current issues of transnationality and International Brigades ongoing.........

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New 'Turbulence: Ideas for movement' eNewsletter

08-03-2008 17:37

'Turbulence: Ideas for movement' now has a new low-traffic e-newsletter. Subscribe now to be kept up to date!

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Colombia solidarity picket outside Downing Street

07-03-2008 18:05

As part of an international day of action in remembrance of the victims of paramilitarism and state terror in Colombia a large group of people picketed Downing Street in London on March 6th.

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Shell Shuts Up

07-03-2008 11:44

Student activists raised issues such as corporate corruption and climate change at a Shell-run event. Shell employees only commented "I do not have an opinion on this subject" when asked how they respond to these polemical matters.

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Guatemala: hiperdam threatens living space of guatemaltecos

07-03-2008 06:49

Worldwide, already around 80 million people have been displaced from their living space by dams.
The hydroelectric installation “Xalalá” in the state Quiché in Guatemala is one of the next large projects that will be realized within the Plan Puebla-Panamá (PPP) and will have negative impacts on around 6000-8000 people.

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South American anarchists and anti-militarists say NO to war

07-03-2008 02:26

* The threat of armed conflict involving the governments of Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela has mobilized anarchists and anti-militarists across the continent, in words and in action, to repudiate what would be a monstrous aggression by state powers against our peoples. Below there are two documents that call for struggle against this evil.