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Sussex Uni students vote to oust military from students union

14-11-2008 19:38

Yesterday, students at the students union agm voted to support a motion to withdraw support for all military funded bodies.

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Prosecuting Bush and Blair for Genocide (21st November)

14-11-2008 01:45

Free important public meeting

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Uncommon Common Sense

13-11-2008 18:00

This is the first part of a 4 part series detailing 8 questionable unquestionables- social paradigms that pass without question in mainstream discourse, but which are so utterly false that it only requires an inch of extra perspective to notice this. This is what I would call “uncommon common sense”.

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Barack Obama- War Criminal in Waiting

12-11-2008 16:35

One astute observation made by a friend surrounding the US elections is that not voting for/being excited about Obama would be like not celebrating/being excited about Christmas. The analogy was actually more profound than intended, since not only are both events extravaganzas that bring people together, happen rarely, and make people feel good, they are also events whose founding principles have zero fundamental substance.

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Lakenheath 8 go to trial over 2 years later..

11-11-2008 16:44

On 3rd November 2008 the Lakenheath 8 had their final pre-trial review. The trial will take place from December 1st - 4th at Ipswich Crown Court, two years and two months after their taking action to prevent more innocent victims in the continuing bombing of Iraq and Afghanistan undertaken by US planes from USAF Lakenheath in Suffolk. . (Crown court applies to the venue, not this trial, which will be heard by a District Judge).
On the 2nd October 2006, 8 people cut the fence ran into the US military base and locked themselves to the gate of the Special Munitions Store at RAF Lakenheath in order to stop the use of those weapons and in order to secure evidence of War Crimes.

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CACI Torturers in Scots Census Rehearsal

11-11-2008 16:05

The Scottish census of 2011 has been awarded to CACI. CACI interrogators, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz and Mr. John Israel, were key to the torture and abuse in Abu Ghraib, and were condemned by each report into Abu Ghraib, including the Fay report and the US militarys own investigation, the Taguba Report.
The first hurdle for the census is imminent and is ripe for dissent.

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Anti-arms Campaigners remember War Victims outside EDO/ITT for Remembrance Day

11-11-2008 12:43

On the 11th of November a group of Sussex students and local activists gathered outside the gates of Brighton’s local bomb factory, laden with flowers and wreaths. 25-30 demonstrators placed the flowers outside the open gates at 11am and held a 2 minute silence to remember all those who have died because of war.

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NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.08.08

09-11-2008 00:28

Tens of millions of people want a new direction. The question is whether they can be organized to fight for it.

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UN First Committee Overwhelmingly Backs New Uranium Weapons Resoluti

07-11-2008 11:34

127 states have backed a second resolution highlighting health concerns over the use of uranium in conventional weapons. Several key states including Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands and Finland changed their positions to back the resolution.

For the full report please visit:

http://www.bandepleteduranium.org/en/a/204.html

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Iraqi History: For Whom the Bell Tolls

06-11-2008 12:53

“You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again" - Gertrude Bell

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Smash EDO Press Release - CPS discontinue oppressive prosecution

06-11-2008 10:40

Smash EDO Press Release

6/11/2008

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Raytheon in Bristol Blockaded

05-11-2008 11:31

Work Disrupted For The Third Time In Three Weeks At Raytheon Systems, Bristol.

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NYCLAW Antiwar Digest -- 11.04.08

04-11-2008 18:29

Election Day Reality Check

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Sheffield activists keep up the pressure on the military

04-11-2008 18:09

Alongside activists from No Sweat and Animal Friends, members of the newly formed Kick 'Em Off Campus network visited the Yorkshire Autumn Graduate Careers fair to let military recruiters and arms dealers know exactly how welcome they are at our university.

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U.S. presidential election (by Latuff)

02-11-2008 20:50

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff.

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NYCLAW Antiwar Digest (11.02.08)

02-11-2008 20:41

"There is one agenda, and whoever holds the [president's] chair will continue the other's job."

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The Second Peace Procession and Peace Plan, London - Pictures.

02-11-2008 19:53

The second London Peace Procession and Peace Plan takes place in London to hand in to the British Government a demand that it bring troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan and to sue for peace to end the so-called War on Terror.

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Obama in Iraq

02-11-2008 15:31

The following article, posted to Red Pepper's 'Change We Can Believe In?' blog on Obama might be of interest to Indymedia.org.uk readers. It's by Ewa Jasiewicz and on what an Obama/Biden presidency might mean for Iraq.

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Smash EDO Fundraising Sunday Roast - Nov 2nd

29-10-2008 15:41

www.smashedo.org.uk

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Bristol Uni Death Fair

29-10-2008 10:48

Today, Bristol University Students have been invited to a Engineering and IT Careers Fair. However, a brief look at the lists of companies and what they do to make their money, makes it seems like a list of who’s who of environmentally and socially destructive companies.