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Will the Proposed European Constitution Make the European Union More Democratic?

29-03-2004 17:37

Europeans seem to have rapidly grown accustomed to the elements of economic citizenship that the European Union has provided for them. Those freedoms to buy and sell goods, to invest and exchange currency, to receive and deliver services, to move personally, and to exercise one’s profession across national borders are positively appreciated (and largely taken for granted), but they certainly have not generated a high level of identification with the institution that produced them.

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Danny Glover - Haiti & Venezuela: A Personal View

29-03-2004 10:37

Saturday 3 April, 2pm
Place: Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, London NW1 (Kentish Town Rd end, behind Camden Sainsbury's)
Entrance: £3 unwaged, £6-10 waged (no-one turned away for lack of funds)
Wheelchair accessible (toilet nearby)

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CARICOM Urged to Withhold Recognition of Haitian Regime

28-03-2004 23:31

BASSETTERE, St. Catherine


The chairperson of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership (HLL), Marguerite Laurent...wants CARIBBEAN COMMUNITY (CARICOM) leaders
meeting here for their 15th inter-sessional meeting, to call for the 'unequivocal' reinstatement of the
deposed Haitian leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide and his Government.

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Economics in Service of Life

27-03-2004 17:59

"The ideology of neoliberalism is incompatible with the vision of the ecumene, the unity of the church and the whole inhabited earth.. Injustice, exclusion and destruction are the opposite to sharing and solidarity, the indispensable part of our being the body of Christ.." translated from the German

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4ww screening in Edinburgh

27-03-2004 15:49

Video fourth world war

A war without a battlefield.
A war without an enemy.
A war that is everywhere.
A thousand civil wars.
A war without end.

11th of April, 7.30 pm at the Forest, 3 Bristo Square, Edinburgh.
Presented by the local "Dissent with the G8"- network group Reshape.

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Food Security for All - CAMSPAG meeting 7 April

27-03-2004 08:21

The next Meeting of the Cambridge Simultaneous Policy Adopters Group will take place at 7.30 pm on 7th April at Emmanuel Church, Trumpington Street, Cambridge (map and poster for the event available at  http://spdev.gn.apc.org/)

Food Security for All

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"Essay on Lucidity" - blank votes to show their disappointment

27-03-2004 05:24

Portuguese Nobel laureate Jose Saramago's latest novel, a fable about a right-wing government's violent reaction to an election in which 83 percent of the votes cast are blank, went on sale with the author predicting the book would spark huge controversy.

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Croaker Cola

26-03-2004 20:34

Here's an interesting article on Coca Cola business taken from the always excellent weekly Schnews issue 447.
 http://www.schnews.org.uk

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Cambridge against the G8?

26-03-2004 11:36

The G8 (the leaders of the richest and most powerful nations) are holding their annual meeting in the UK in 2005. In keeping with the commitment of people around the world to oppose the policies that come out of such meetings, a network has been set up to co-ordinate resistance to the meeting next year.

See  http://www.enrager.net/current/g8/ for more details.

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The SHORTWAVE REPORT 3/26/04 ¡LISTEN GLOBALLY!

26-03-2004 01:10

A weekly 30 minute review of news and opinion recorded from a shortwave radio. 2 files- broadcast quality (13.2MB) and quick download (3.3MB). With times and freqs for listening at home. Free to rebroadcast. Netherlands, Cuba, and Russia.

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Excellent new anti-G8 2005 website

25-03-2004 23:50

The G8 Summit is taking place in the UK in the summer of 2005. Enrager.net have just put up a webpage with really good info about the Dissent! mobilisation against the Summit, and capitalism in general.

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Workers On National Hunger Strike For The Right to Work

24-03-2004 19:12

Communiqué from the Coke workers' union
WORKERS ON NATIONAL HUNGER STRIKE FOR THE RIGHT TO WORK AND AGAINST THE VIOLATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AT COCA-COLA

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AP Report: Zapatistas increasing military training and recruitment

24-03-2004 10:32

The following Associated Press report has been taken from the Chiapas Link mailing list, a reliable source of information about the Zapatistas struggles.

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Planning application looms for Britain’s Henge Capital

23-03-2004 12:06

Thornborough - 12 times the size of Stonehenge.
The future of Britain’s Henge Capital - Thornborough Henges - a 5,000 years old henge complex that is only just gaining recognition as the UK's most important ritual location 5,000 years ago - is going to be decided this year.

Tarmac Northern Ltd, subsidiary of Anglo American Plc have confirmed, despite UK Government and English Heritage statements against further quarrying in the area, that they will be applying for planning permission to remove yet more of the ritual landscape of this, the UK's largest henge si

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Eviction At Blackwood Is Happening NOW!

23-03-2004 09:20

Blackwood Eviction Is Happening NOW!

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Boycott Bayer GM - Get yer posters here!

23-03-2004 08:02

Campaigners have produced free, brightly coloured "Boycott Bayer" posters. Ideal for posting next to chemists, vets, garden centres and doctors surgeries to let them and the public know about the campaign against Bayer and it's attempts to introduce GM crops into the UK. Bayer is the only remaining company pushing GM crops in the UK at the moment and the focus of a campaign against them. See below for more information.

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Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 3)

21-03-2004 20:41

Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 3)

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Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 4)

21-03-2004 19:41

Photos of the Anti-War march in London, March 20th 2004. (set 4)

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52 APF activists arrested under Apartheid law

21-03-2004 18:59

This morning, police opened fire with stun grenades on members of the Gauteng Anti-Privatisation Forum (APF) who were protesting against water privatisation and the installation of pre-paid water meetings. Fivety-two APF members were arrested, including 6 children, on charges of violating the Gatherings Act.

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Following is the report on the boycott bush campaign in India, Mumbai.

21-03-2004 15:47

Boycott Bush
The campaign started at 4:30 pm (Indian standard time) at Hutatma chok near Churchghate Station. More than 300 protesters & volunteers turned up on the streets, shouting out slogans and holding their placards. The protesters gathered an even more number of commuters making the whole protest look like a massive rally.
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