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Blair in Manchester: Urgent

30-01-2005 09:17

I have just found out from an inside source that Tony Blair will be in Manchester in MONDAY AFTERNOON to open the Wythenshawe Forum.

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Alternative Academics: International Relations

29-01-2005 23:50

The next alternative academics workshop is this Sunday!

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Swiss police bring prosecuted for G8 attack

28-01-2005 23:45

Good news about Aubonne Bridge case, police being charged.

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(International) March on WDC to End AIDS , May 2005

28-01-2005 20:43

Salih Booker (Africa Action) arrested in front of White House WDC . 26nov02
Planning has begun for a May 2005 'National March to End AIDS' in Washington DC. Leading national AIDS groups including AIDSVote.org (www.AIDSVote.org) invite you to plan to participate in a national and international 'March to End AIDS' that will kick-off in mid-April 2005 and converge on Washington for four days of action, support and prayer on May 1, 2, 3, and 4.

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G8 in the News

28-01-2005 15:31

frontpage of todays Edinburgh Evening News.
Today the forthcoming G8 summit in gleneagles is in the news again. The Edinburgh Evening news published pictures of riots and stone-throwing, windowsmashing protesters, whileas on the radio it was stressed, that there "would be a permanent security cordon around the Scottish parliament and Holyrood Palace",
as well as 200 000 protesters expected. It was mentioned that the security forces now make preperations to draft in English police forces to Scotland, too.

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DISARM DSEi - Action planning meeting

28-01-2005 12:54

Planning Meeting and film showing
13th February, 3pm, LARC, Fieldgate Street, Whitechapel
International Day of Action and DSEi 2005
Get involved, plan actions, eat food, watch films.

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cops threaten G8 repression

28-01-2005 12:44

police are preparing to use submachine guns and rubber bullets to defend leaders of the G8 who will meet at gleeagles. they are carrying out training in a mock up village on the site of a closed down hsopital. the closed down law hospital, lanarkshire has been turned into a mock village, complete with its own names, in which to train riot squads.

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Tesco Boy Cott

27-01-2005 17:51

RFID News The ZombieWire
Dear ZombieWire RFID News Readers

We are launching a boycott campaign against Tesco, the world's
third-largest retailer, for its involvement in item-level RFID tagging
trials. These trials, involving tens of thousands of British shoppers,
set an unacceptable example for the retail industry.

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XXI Century film showing

27-01-2005 16:55

XXI Century, the mammoth seven-part underground documentary is coming to Liverpool, and so is its director!

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Least Filtered News

27-01-2005 11:35

The World Economic Forum is taking place in Davos. "Mainstream" news channels like CNN are being quite severe in how they cut it together - like going to an ad break when someone is criticising the Bush administration. As far as I can tell, the least filtered coverage from the halls is by Swiss national broadcaster SFDRS, in both German and original language (often English).

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Hilary Benn in Oxford – 27/01/05

26-01-2005 21:58

Hilary Benn is in Oxford on Thursday 27th January 2005.

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Venezuelan March for Sovereignty: Caracas January 23 2005

26-01-2005 19:12

March in Caracas -1-23-05
Tour of the Revolution II: Photo Essay
Venezuelan March for Sovereignty: Caracas January 23 2005
"En Defensa de la Soberanía"

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Nestlé are having an open day - what fun!

26-01-2005 14:08

Come play at the Powwow Water Open day until 7pm today at Oxford Business Park South

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Middle Paraná Social Forum

26-01-2005 12:46

The Middle Paraná Social Forum has now a date "Another world is possible" In the end of the year encounter, called by the Mobilizing Committee of the Middle Paraná Social Forum (FSPM by its initials in Spanish), the citizens and social organizations present constituted themselves into an Assembly resolving the date for the realization of the second edition of the Forum.

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Help light 3,000 virtual Candles online for Tsunami Candlelight Global Vigil

26-01-2005 10:54

H-O-P-E Spelled out at Ocean Beach, San Francisco, with 300 homemade lanterns
We need 3,000 virtual candles lit online at our website with your accompanying words and reflections by Wednesday in time for a giant 1,000 foot wide Candlelight Tsunami Global Vigil for the Global Village.

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Kyoto Climate Demo London (Sat 12th Feb) + Regional Meetings

26-01-2005 00:23

Kyoto Climate March - Sat 12th Feb
Campaign against Climate Change
 http://www.globefox.com/cacc

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Meeting Sat 29th: World Festival of Students and Youth, August 5-13th, 2005

25-01-2005 23:45

If you are interested in going to the festival, or supporting a Sheffield delegation, please attend the following meeting. By working together to raise money, we are hoping that some of the costs involved would be covered, to enable anyone who is interested to attend - ALL ARE WELCOME.

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Reclaim The Streets: San Diego Against Bush J20

25-01-2005 21:17

Thought you folks would like to see this :-)

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G8Alternatives: Main Demo at Gleneagles Train Station 1st Day of G8 (6th july)

24-01-2005 17:16

The last meeting of the G8Alternatives mobilisation in January 2005 agreed to call their main mass demonstration on the first day of the G8 Summit (Wednesday 6th July) with the meeting point at Midday at Gleneagles train station.