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Stop Press - EDO Injunction Collapses - Watch this Space

10-02-2006 20:30

The EDO MBM High Court injunction case has collapsed

see www.smashedo.org.uk for details

victory demo - 1st March at EDO MBM 4-6

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Defend Civil Liberties Public Meeting - 23rd February

10-02-2006 20:26

This is erroneously advertised On the Smash EDO site as 23rd March

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Death in Plumstead. The Muslim demo that the corporate media ignored.

10-02-2006 16:41

Mourning a loved one.
Last Saturday the corporate media were going into an racist feeding frenzy at the Danish Embassy. Meanwhile a bigger (and just as angry) demonstration by Somali Muslims was taking place at Plumstead Police Station. It went unreported except for here, a left paper and a Somali youth magazine. It seems that the death of an innocent young man in suspicious circumstances is just not newsworthy if he is black.

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Believe as I do, or I shall assassinate you!

10-02-2006 16:30

What do you mean? Freedom of What? In the US a teacher is spending a fortune in legal fees to defend her constitutional right to 'Freedom of Speech': she used the word PEACE. Who decides what you, other people or I can say, ask or think? And why?

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Colombia Solidarity Oxford Launch!

10-02-2006 15:52

The new Oxford Colombia Solidarity Campaign launches this Thursday 16th February.

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Dawn Raids Back in Glasgow: Protest Saturday

10-02-2006 14:02

This week, the first "dawn raid" of 2006 against Glasgow's asylum-seeking population was launched. The victims were the Akyol family, of Kurdish origin, who have lived in Glasgow for five years. Following a pledge to picket after each raid launched from Brand St, Glasgow No Borders is calling for a demo there from 7am on Saturday

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Arrests in Oxford for using the megaphone

10-02-2006 13:43

Two arrested at the animal lab in Oxford for chanting on the megaphone. Thames Valley police leap forward in attacks on the right to protest.

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The social threat of tracking technologies

09-02-2006 20:06

Largish RFID tag - they are getting smaller...
Radio-frequency Identification (RFID) tags, using a tiny chip with an aerial that can be placed on just about any object, and having proved their usefulness for stock control in warehouses and supermarkets, are fast becoming a tool for state and corporate people-tracking.

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Protest against apartheid in Bhutan

09-02-2006 18:38

Bhutanese Community in The Netherlands organized a day long silent protest against apartheid policy of Bhutan's autocratic regime at Dutch Foreign Ministry complex, The Hague on 6th Feb 2006. It was also aimed at pressuring Bhutan's donor like that of Netherlands to suspend aid to Bhutan unless it stop discriminations against its minority communites specially of Lhosampa community of the south.

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Demonstration against xenophobia

09-02-2006 17:24

The Muslim Council of Britain called on Monday, 6th of February 2006, for a rally against the rising xenophobia in Europe. The protest will take place on Saturday at 1pm in Trafalgar Square in London.

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17 year old rape victim to be hanged

09-02-2006 12:26

An Iranian court has sentenced a teenage rape victim to death by hanging after she weepingly confessed that she had unintentionally killed a man who had tried to rape both her and her niece.

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Smash EDO - CPS drop CIA case

09-02-2006 04:11

Smash EDO Press Release

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C of E Divest from Caterpillar

09-02-2006 03:58

War On Want report on divestment

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Rotten judgment in the state of Denmark

08-02-2006 15:29

The Danish paper that printed the cartoons wanted to stir up trouble -- and the government wanted a culture war. They got more than they bargained for.

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2nd Renaissance -4

08-02-2006 09:00

How to live in peace
In due course, there is one achievement of overriding significance that Caral might well provide. One great contribution or lesson that can be applied to the 2nd Renaissance. How to live in peace, with spiritual meaning, and without warfare, for a thousand years.

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Barcelona Another incident of police BRUTALITY.

08-02-2006 03:19

Barcelona, wild beating and groundless arrests out of a squatted building.

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"The Hamas Breakthrough"

08-02-2006 03:10

A new era in the Palestinian liberation struggle is upon us. Rather than just a electoral repudiation of Fatah’s long years of corruption, mismanagement and collaboration with the Israeli plutocracy, the extraordinary success of Hamas at the polls comes from the gut, the depths of despair of an entire population.

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The QUICKTIME REPORT 8/2/06 - SEE GLOBALLY!

08-02-2006 02:21

Free to rebroadcast
A review of news, opinion, and photography recorded, from the Indymedia Newswire. With times and freqs for tuning in anywhere you can, at your leisure. Free to rebroadcast. The world & recorded for the community archive!

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DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA - IT'S SPELLED C-O-R-R-U-P-T-I-O-N

07-02-2006 20:48

US past and current policy using a broader definition of corruption

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Clash of civilisations

07-02-2006 16:32

The fascism of religious fundamentalism is threatening the free world.