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Creative Forum and Peace Not War

10-02-2005 19:51

Creative Forum with Peace Not War, this Saturday 12th Feb 2005. Great line up. Fab day. Cool people. 49 Tufnel Park Road. St.Georges' Theatre. Be there.

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Far from Over; 21 days after the Tsunami, India's coast still waits for aid

10-02-2005 11:02

A firsthand account of the situation on the ground in Tamil Nadu state of India. This is from a visit made 21 days after the Tsunami struck.

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"Life and Debt" in Oxford

10-02-2005 01:23

Thursday 10 February
5PM
Tanner Room, Linacre College

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New Dissent Newsletter

09-02-2005 20:41

Dissent is a new network, created to build a mobilisation against the G8. The network is based on the Peoples’ Global
Action Hallmarks, rooted in local and autonomous organising and action, and aims to go beyond the G8. The PGA is
a decentralised, non-heirachical, global network of social movements, for a copy of the hallmarks visit www.agp.org

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Protest against Barclays Bank Tues 15th Feb from 12-2pm.

09-02-2005 17:05

Barclays funding dodgy initiatives...again

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'Caminos De Resistencia' film festival

09-02-2005 12:29

Indymedia cinema presents...

'Caminos De Resistencia(Paths Of Resistance)' a Latin America film festival in London

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G8: Summat for the Summit

08-02-2005 19:00

The G8-summit is coming to Britain in July. This is going to be a big event. We need to organise now.

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Shakedown*05

08-02-2005 18:46

Come to Shakedown*05! This will be a very large non-profit event, featuring numerous acts. It's part of the G8-activities.

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March 19: European actionday in Brussels

08-02-2005 16:47

Together for another Europe
For a Social and Egalitarian Europe, For a Europe of Solidarity and Peace

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'Yes Men' Film Preview + Q&A Tour - dates and info

08-02-2005 15:02

The Yes Men film follows a couple of anti-corporate activist-pranksters as they impersonate World Trade Organization spokesmen on TV and at business conferences around the world...

These, you may remember, are the same folks who pulled the fake union carbide / Dow Chemicals spokesperson interviews on BBC TV when they apologised for the Bhopal disaster and said they would pay compensation.

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SHEFFIELD - DERBYSHIRE - GLENEAGLES: SHUT DOWN THE G8

08-02-2005 11:30

Meeting Thursday 17 February

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please, preserve the London continous protest, and say us how can we help

07-02-2005 19:14

I was, like turist some months ago in London.
I was positive surprised by the fact, some protestors continue since 2001 in Parliament Square.
And now, a friend in London said me by phone that the guvernement want to finish this kind of continous pdemostratio

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Positive Global Movements

07-02-2005 16:26

Positive Global Movements started yesterday Sunday the 6th with a nice turn up, we showed 'The Alberdi School' a film about the community involvement in revolutionising education in Venezuela. Then we had musicians and poet Sofia and Santiago both Peruvian artists reciting poetry and singing to the beat of the Global Revolution. After having lovely Venezuelan food Ricardo Galindez Venezuelan trade unionist gave a passionate speech about the role of the workers in the revolution not only in Venezuela but also in the world.

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MULTITUDE: MONSTER OR MASTER

07-02-2005 07:15

MULTITUDE: MONSTER OR MASTER

Often we suspect there is something ‘rotten’ in our global order and only an urgent adjustment can save us from calamity. But we are unable to articulate or convert our suspicions into logical concepts expressed in the context of past and current political and economic evolutions.

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TARGETTED ARREST OF ACTIVIST IN OAXACA, MEXICO. Urgent solidarity needed!!

06-02-2005 18:30

Cipo activists at their protest camp before its violent eviction last month
TARGETTED ARREST OF ACTIVIST IN OAXACA, MEXICO POINTS TO INCREASE IN REPRESSION OF INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES FIGHTING FOR THEIR EXISTANCE.

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Amazing, how Gloria Arroyo can smile and at the same breadth strangle and starve

06-02-2005 09:21

In all of this, one thing is reaffirmed: a government cannot be subservient to foreign corporate interests without, at the same time, strangling and starving the Filipino people. And if there is no solution to this crisis that isn’t within the unwritten rule of this regime’s obedience to foreign capital, then it is hard to know what is— without actually having to dismantle it.

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DHS Port Security Grants Given to OIL Firms, Texas Energy Companies, Logging Cos

05-02-2005 22:55

Conoco-Phillips GETS $10,592,310 in "Grants".
SHELL GETS $9,321,818 in "Grants".
Valero Energy Corp. GETS $8,531,356 ??????? in "Grants".
Chevron GETS $7,344,390 in "Grants".
Motiva Enterprises (Shell sister Company) GETS $3,988,634 in "Grants".
Sunoco GETS $3,499,275 in "Grants".
PPG Industries (Paint Co.) GETS $3,000,000 in "Grants".
Houston Fuel Oil GETS $1,682,256 in "Grants".
Occidental Chemical Co. GETS $1,465,000 in "Grants".
Marathon Ashland Petroleum GETS $938,800 in "Grants".
Williams Energy Partnership GETS $545,000 in "Grants". For what???

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Make Poverty History Rally

05-02-2005 01:45

miasmic.com
On February 3, 2005, thousands of people gathered in Trafalgar Square in London to demand the elimination of world poverty from the G7. Nelson Mandela delivered the keynote speech adjacent from the South African embassy, the site of anti-apartheid demonstrations during Mr. Mandela’s imprisonment.

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SchNEWS on the G7 Finance Minister's Meeting

04-02-2005 17:12

Here's this week's SchNEWS article on the G7 Finance Minister's Meeting in London today>>>

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rock around the blockade night

04-02-2005 14:59

AN EVENING OF MUSICAL FUNDRAISING FOR CUBAN YOUTH