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Colombia accompaniment training

12-09-2008 14:41

Espacio Bristol-Colombia is organising its second two-day introductory training weekend for people interested in travelling to Colombia as a volunteer to help with its solidarity and 'accompaniment' work there.

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US embassy tonight, 6-8pm: Justice for Aafia Siddiqui

12-09-2008 13:38

12/09/2008
Protest: Justice for Aafia Siddiqui (London)

CAGEPRISONERS

JUSTICE FOR AAFIA SIDDIQUI PROTEST

Friday 12th September 2008
6-8pm

Outside the US Embassy, Grosvenor Square, London

Speakers include:

Moazzam Begg (Ex-Guantanamo detainee, Cageprisoners)
Lord Nazir Ahmed
Rabia Zia (Tehreek e Insaaf)
Andy Worthington (Author, Reprieve)
Massoud Shadjareh (Islamic Human Rights Commission)
Asim Qureshi (Cageprisoners)

Speeches will commence at 6:30pm. Iftar and Maghrib at 7:30pm.

A petition for Aafia Siddiqui as well as leaflets and postcards will be available. Donations will be collected for Aafia's fund.

Please design and bring your own banners!

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Picnic Warfare brings call for freedom to the Ministry of Justice in London

12-09-2008 11:33

A small group of demonstrators handed out leaflets and held a picnic outside the Ministry of Justice in Westminster on Thursday 11 September 2008. This was the first of a planned series of monthly protests about civil liberties. Photographs (C) 2008, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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INTERVIEW: New British Film About Mumia Abu-Jamal Showing in US

12-09-2008 06:31

For the first time since the film's US Premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last January, "In Prison My Whole Life" will be shown to a US audience.

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Dissent as Terrorism: “Minnesota Patriot Act” charges filed against RNC Eight

11-09-2008 18:17

The charges of terrorism leveled against the eight youth who had sought to organize protests and civil disobedience against the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Minnesota last week sound an alarm that political opposition in the US is on its way toward being criminalized.

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St Modwen financial crisis worsens

11-09-2008 16:02

The view in the City is that there is going to be at least one major property casualty, with one or maybe more major property companies going to the wall. St Modwen is seen as a likely candidate.

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Glory Glory New World Order

11-09-2008 13:57

Glory Glory New World Order?

Your eyes have seen the horror of the coming of the Yanks
We are trampling down Earth's people with our cluster bombs and tanks
We have loosed the repossessions of our New World Order banks
Our lies are marching on.

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SOCPA 2005 Notification: Family for life - Final Draft

11-09-2008 12:27

34. With all due respect, I reasonably question, “Is this WESTMINSTERGATE?” as I wish to state clearly, “This is BOLLOCKS mate.”

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9/11 Accomplices vie for US Presidency

10-09-2008 16:04

In his much-ballyhooed acceptance speech, Barack Obama declared that he
would "finish the fight against the terrorists who actually attacked us on
9/11". If Obama wishes to be true to his promise, he could begin with his
own running mate, Senator Joe Biden.

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Nazdrove Benefit for Roma in Italy 20th Sept Sheffield

10-09-2008 13:49

In aid of the Roma being persecuted in Italy, Nazdrove DJs slap down some tunes at the Cremorne Pub in Sheffield.

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Bobby Roberts Posters Cancelled in Sean Kirtleys hometown!

10-09-2008 11:24

Posters taken down and destroyed by activists in solidarity with Sean!

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NUJ film shows police obstruction of journalists

10-09-2008 09:41

VIDEO: The NUJ has released a short film highlighting some of the problems faced by journalists covering public demonstrations.

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Defend freedom of expression against police repression

10-09-2008 00:31

As a response to the arrest for leafleting and over-zealous policing against those exercising their right to disseminate information, Nerve is calling a meeting on: Saturday, 20 September 2008, 1pm at Next to Nowhere, Bold Street

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UK activist faces 12 year sentence after RNC protests

09-09-2008 20:55

Dave Mahoney was cycling to the grocery store with his girlfriend in Minneapolis on September 4th 2008, when an un-marked van pulled up, and two men wearing FBI shirts inexplicably bundled him into the back, and drove off.

Dave was part of the protesters assembled at the Republican National Convention in the City that week, and was there to peacefully remind America and the rest of the world of some of the atrocities, and in-justices millions of people endure everyday across the globe - many of which link directly to the actions & policy of the Republican party.

Instead, Dave's become one of the victims... facing trumped up charges of Assault, and Conspiracy to Riot with a Furtherance of Terrorism; if convicted he could get up to 12 years in jail AND a $24,000 dollar fine...

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US Election Campaign: National Security and Permanent Wars. Vying to Be Toughest

09-09-2008 13:47

Ignoring public sentiment, both party nominees stress "national security" and face off on who's toughest on "terrorism." For 2009, expect more of the same. A continued right wing agenda. Bigger budgets for militarism. Police state repression for enforcement. Little attention to public needs. No end to wars and occupation. Possible new ones against Iran, Pakistan, elsewhere in Eurasia, and a resurgent confrontation with Russia.

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London fare rises are a con - Mayor leaves Londoners paying for £16bn Crossrail

09-09-2008 12:04

The recent London fare rises are just the beginning of how the City will fleece ordinary Londoners to pay for a rail line that reduces congestion for fat City bankers in the City of London and Canary Wharf. The City of London Corporation, the medieval unelected body of the City wants Crossrail but wants ordinary taxpayers to pay for Crossrail. Who is behind this? None other than the dodgy British Energy Adrian Montague who is good at leaving taxpayers paying for incompetent companies for instance, he negotiated leaving taxpayers paying for the decomissioning of nucelar waste (current cost £70bn and rising) and he is behind the Government wanting more nuclear power

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Support Danish WMD Whistleblower Frank Grevil

09-09-2008 10:05

Frank Søholm Grevil (born in 1960) had the rank of major in Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste [FE] (Danish military intelligence agency). On February 22, 2004 he acted as a whistle blower leaking classified information about the FE's assessment of the possibility of weapons of mass destruction [WMD] in Iraq. These documents proved that Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen lied to the Danish parliament when he claimed that there was evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

Frank Grevil was sentenced to four months in jail for leaking these documents.

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How Non-Violence Protects The State -Recording and Interview

09-09-2008 09:21

http://www.lasthours.org.uk/archive/interviews/peter-gelderloos/

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Pictures from the Carnival Against Vivisection

08-09-2008 17:43

@ Sequani Labs - 06/09/09

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Police attack on Parliament Square Peace Campaign.

08-09-2008 14:58

11 Police have just attacked the Parliament Square Peace Campaigners, fraudulently claiming power under s17 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 (PACE).