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Free Trade Summit EU-Latinamerica kicks off in Guadalajara, Mexico

29-05-2004 10:28

According to mainstream media reports, riots have prevented a press conference of the french president Chirac in Mexico.
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EXHIBITION of PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS AT LARC

28-05-2004 17:27

AN EXHIBITION OF 21ST CENTURY PROTEST PHOTOGRAPHS IS ON SHOW AT LARC, 62, FIELDGATE STREET, WHITECHAPEL, LONDON UNTIL 21ST JUNE 2004

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Money, Power and the State: Capital Needs Control

28-05-2004 16:44

"Practical necessity and lack of alternatives in social development contradict basic democratic principles. Freedom of choice, the choice between alternatives, is a constitutive element of democracy.. When one doesn't have a choice any more because the same policy is made irrespective of one's choice, that is the end of democracy.."

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LIBERATE GEORGIA, U.S.A. !!! HELP THE G8 PROTESTERS!!

28-05-2004 06:06

12 days away from the Sea Island 2004 G8 summit, the repression in Georgia (USA) escalates. State of emergency declared by Georgia Governor in six coastal counties.
Police given the go-ahead to stop all demonstrations.

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WTF's The Future

27-05-2004 17:09

The next WTF (WTF's The Future) will be taking place from:

11am, Saturday, 29th May (This Saturday!)

WTF is an open space gathering/conference of the various
grassroots projects, people and organisations working
together to create the worlds we want.

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3 young basques under european arretation

27-05-2004 13:12

3 young basques under european arrest. The 3 of Segi

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PGA Benefit Night - Sunday 30th May 2004

27-05-2004 12:42

PGA Benefit Night - Sunday 30th May 2004

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Illumination Without Batteries: Of Gas, Glow Sticks And War

27-05-2004 12:21

This essay is a reflexive commentary on the current war in Iraq and the US military's abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib.

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Privatization Dissolves Civil Society

26-05-2004 16:54

"The leading 200 corporations are so powerful that their combined annual sales surpass the total economic output of 182 out of the 191 countries of the world.. Walmart, the second largest corporation, has a greater economic volume than the national economies of 178 countries.. A pyramid as in the South comes out of the egg in the North. The key question is whether a pro-poor policy exists nationally and internationally.."

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Refugee Film Festival 15 - 17 June

24-05-2004 18:51

Refugee Film Festival 15 - 17 June

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computer sweatshops

24-05-2004 13:19

workers making computers in Thailand, Mexico and
China are being exploited

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Paxman interviews Chomsky

24-05-2004 09:34

A short interview with Noam Chomsky, including transcript and video stream (Realplayer, low bandwidth). Jeremy Paxman, conducting the interview, is obviously trying to do what he can to hit Chomsky with the "tough questions", in notable contrast to his extremely subservient interview with Tony Blair before the war started...personally, I'd appreciate it if Mr. Paxman would secure another interview with Mr. Blair and ask some real questions this time.

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The Free Market Ends in Robbery: Professor Rademacher

24-05-2004 02:18

"The free market ends in robbery." Professor Rademacher urges an alternative to "naive market fundamentalism". "Seek and you will find. Rhine capitalism and the social market economy could be modles of a global, eco-social market economy. Information- and commu-nication technologies combined with modern transportation annul the separating function of state borders.."

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September 11th video evidence of missile.

23-05-2004 21:12

New video evidence archived at the LA Times substantiates missile claim

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George Monbiot Lecture, Oxford, Wed 26 May

23-05-2004 15:15

CORPORATE LOBBYISTS AND PLANNING - The vampires take over the bloodbank
Wed 26 May, 5.30pm at Oxford Brookes University

A public lecture by Prof. George MONBIOT
Lloyd Lecture theatre, Lloyd Building, Gypsy Lane Campus, Oxford Brookes University

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Police cover fears over G8 summit

22-05-2004 22:28

frontpage of Edinburgh Evening News 22nd of May 2004
Sat 22 May 2004 JANE HAMILTON - CRIME REPORTER
Edinburgh Evening News

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Attacks on British Embassy in Tehran: ANOTHER SET UP?

21-05-2004 21:47

Remember attacks on American Embassy in Tehran?

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The Silencing of America: Americans Are Afraid of Bush’s Violent Regime

21-05-2004 17:16

American Police
George W. Bush is scaring Americans into silent complicity. Creating “no protest zones” patrolled by American police riot squads, aiming high-powered weaponry on unarmed American people TRYING to exercise free speech...this is not freedom.

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Dublin Mayday Update: Polly (uk arrestee) + witness appeal + more...

21-05-2004 08:30

Updates from indymedia ireland and other sources - main article on the outrageous treatment being given to Polly and others for a VERY MINOR matter - obviously part of a political persecution...