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Shells Work Stopped for 4 hours

22-03-2011 22:21

This morning 5 members of the Rossport solidarity camp blockaded Shell Oil from accessing thier proposed compound in Glengad Co.Mayo.

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Review: Activism vs Slacktivism debate: but what happened to Hacktivism?

22-03-2011 10:14

Micah White
I went along to St Annes College this afternoon to the debate Activism vs. Slacktivism, part of the eCampaigning Forum conference taking place on 22nd and 23rd March in Oxford. I wondered what it was all about.

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Woodland Violated!

19-03-2011 15:26

Sinister invasion of beautiful ancient woodland!

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An Anti-Social Document Prepared in Secret by the European Commission

16-03-2011 23:45

The Secret Pact: its complete text, here presented as obtained by the European Deputy Patrick Le Hyaric.

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Rolls Royce sells its soul to the Defenders of Beelzebub

16-03-2011 22:07

The mother of all wars, Nuclear War, is upon us.

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Greece in Revolt

15-03-2011 06:44

This is a short film about austerity and resistance in Greece.

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New Ecovillage, food forest, Gloucestershire

13-03-2011 15:35

A new eco-village will soon be started, this year, near Gloucestershire. The group plans to establish a network of productive community gardens, food forests, log cabins, eco-buildings and occupied spaces in which people can enjoy the food and relax after a day of gardening, or swimming in the river. The group remains to be named, and is rather elusive, only an email address and an invitation to a face-to-face meeting in gloucester or cheltenham, to be arranged in the near future has been given. The group is calling for interested parties to contact them.

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Earthquake and Tsunami Update

12-03-2011 00:12

Atomanlage Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
Vienna, 11 March 2011 (1245 CET) | The IAEA's Incident and Emergency Centre has received information from Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) that a heightened state of alert has been declared at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. NISA says the plant has been shut down and no release of radiation has been detected.
Japanese authorities have also reported a fire at the Onagawa nuclear power plant, which has been extinguished. They say Onagawa, Fukushima-Daini and Tokai nuclear power plants were also shut down automatically, and no radiation release has been detected. ....  http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/2011/tsunamiupdate.html

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Point of no return: U.S. and NATO prepare for war with Libya

08-03-2011 23:10

March 7 was a pivotal moment in plans by Western powers to launch military operations against Libya. After meeting with Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Washington, President Barack Obama stated "we've got NATO, as we speak, consulting in Brussels around a wide range of potential options, including potential military options, in response to the violence that continues to take place inside of Libya."

Britain and France, in close consultation with the U.S. and Germany (collectively the NATO Quad), are jointly writing a draft resolution for a no-fly zone over Libya to be presented to the Security Council. If the resolution is supported by nine or more of the fifteen nations on the Security Council and if permanent members China and Russia don't veto it, the stage will be set for a series of further military actions by the U.S. and NATO against Libya, which will be presented by the West as UN-sanctioned, in a manner alarmingly evocative of the process used to prepare the attack on Iraq in 2003.

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What happened to the hope-inspiring 'sweet bird of youth' of Ernst Bloch?

07-03-2011 16:42

Who does not expect the unexpected will never find the anticipatory New, never be the emancipatory New.

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'Without Borders' Issue 3 - February 2011

06-03-2011 11:54

'Without Borders' is a French zine written by Calaisian Activists and published in French and English at regular intervals.

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Richard Stallman: Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks

05-03-2011 22:18

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Richard Stallman spoke in Sheffield on 5th March 2011 on Copyright vs Community in the Age of Computer Networks.

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Shambala coaches going to anti-cuts demo 26th March from Bristol

05-03-2011 15:53

Join the Bristol convoy traveling en masse to London on Saturday 26 March for the anti-cuts demo. Coaches being organised by Shambala Festival with a coalition of creative and socially minded organisations. £12 Adults / £6 kids (covering costs only). Click for more info...

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LCE Architects (in Libya) and their relationship with Studioearchitects and ARK

04-03-2011 18:02

Minutes from the Brent Youth Parliament meeting, 22 July 2008, relating to the ARK Academy in Brent, is distributed to LCE Architects, who build schools in Libya

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Government, guns, and mind tricks...

04-03-2011 00:27

Whilst most people live their arduous days far away from intellectual discourse and analysis, the corporate world is growing in power. The Edward Bernay days of Public Relations are long gone; we have been left behind "at the dawn of a new millennium”… which is a quote, from the movie Bullworth.

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Libya evacuations: Africans ‘left out’

03-03-2011 12:28

Refugees flee Libya
Africans ‘left out’ in Libya evacuations ....... In the rush to rescue foreigners from Libya, thousands of migrant Africans are being left behind, holed up at home terrified as insurgents mistake them for mercenaries fighting for Muammar Gaddafi’s regime. Rumours that Gaddafi has hired fighters from south of the Sahara to quash a popular revolt against him have made hordes of Africans targets of popular anger, many from poor countries unable to organise their evacuation.

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Standing on the shoulders of Giants or Titans?

26-02-2011 16:16

Has globalisation lead to a changing of the rules? We see Multi-National Corporations who are no longer aligned to any particular nation-state, who hold entire countries ransom and even bankcrupt others. With governments trying desparately to reign in their public deficit through tought austerity measures, we see a retreat of power at the local level. National boundaries in the financial world are inreasingly blurred and they never existed in the virtual one. Do we need to redefine the nature of relationships, interactions and networks that we find ourselves in? Is it truly time for a new world order?

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Libya: Is US pushing for civil war to justify a US-NATO military intervention?

25-02-2011 19:58

Tony Blair met Muammar Gaddafi at his desert base outside Sirte, 29 May 2007
One should be opposed to dictatorship, but one should not forget the issue of foreign domination.

Is “manufactured destruction” or “creative destruction” at work?

Is Tripoli being set up for a civil war to justify U.S. and NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya?

If Qaddafi is not ousted, are the talks about sanctions a prelude to an Iraq-like intervention?

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To Honour Mohamed Bouazizi

24-02-2011 12:46

An article from the popular press in South Africa on Mohamed Bouazizi and the revolutions in North Africa.

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Call for solidarity: Kulon Progo Self-organised Struggle

24-02-2011 07:30

We call for the strongest possible international solidarity with the fighting peasants of Kulon Progo, Indonesia. They are organising to defend their lives and the environment from the ruthless mining operations of the exploiting capitalists and their state backers, with an absolute rejection of leftism and political wrangling. Let’s internationalize the anti-capitalist resistance!