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Tyranny And Rebellion – The Breaking Of The Corporate Media Monopoly

03-03-2011 09:51

Historian Howard Zinn (1922-2010), would be remembered above all for his humanity and warmth, were it not for the crystal clarity of his insight. In 'A Power That Governments Can’t Suppress,' he wrote:

‘There is a tendency to think that what we see in the present moment will continue. We forget how often we have been astonished by the sudden crumbling of institutions, by extraordinary changes in people's thoughts, by unexpected eruptions of rebellion against tyrannies, by the quick collapse of systems of power that seemed invincible.’ (Zinn, A Power That Governments Can’t Suppress, City Lights, 2007, p.267)

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David Cameron: We will use military force to free Libya

02-03-2011 21:17

The Times, 1 March 2011
The US and NATO bases in Italy are preparing for military action against Libya. Britain, France and the United States have dispatched hundreds of military advisors to Libya to set up military bases in the country's oil-rich east. British and US special forces entered Libyan port cities of Benghazi and Toburk on February 23 and 24.

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international action against bam

02-03-2011 18:06

Today 2nd march at 14 pm, a fake press release from Royal Bam Group was sent to a large press list including hundreds of financial and economic contacts in Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland and Germany, the European country where such group is operating. The press release was announcing disastrous annual economic results, and it attached a detailed fake financial document showing all the reasons of the losses.

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TUC and Liberty undermine independent monitoring of police actions

02-03-2011 17:11

News Release – for immediate release

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The revolt in the Centres d'identification in Italy

02-03-2011 14:12

"It 'a living hell from which escape"

Voltage at maximum levels. Four hundred new visitors to Lampedusa. In Bologna, a hundred activists of the social centers have entered the Cie over the wall. An assault: "To free the immigrants." Flames and riots in Turin and Gradisca Cie d'Isonzo
Cie-center for identification and expulsion

Protests of the activists of the social centers in the Center for identification and expulsion of via Mattei

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Collective statement from some individuals affected by recent infiltrations

02-03-2011 10:13

A group of people involved in radical action around the environment and other social struggles who have been involved with and been affected by recent exposes of infiltrators have come together to create a joint statement on how the issue has evolved and been represented in the media.

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Camden Town Hall: Is This What Democracy Looks Like?

01-03-2011 13:20

Public gallery after police refused to let the public into the building
Again and again across the UK, a pattern is being repeated of local government denying the public access to their town halls where decisions are being made that will devastate their lives.

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Sign our Open Letter to President Obama: Release Shaker Aamer

01-03-2011 12:06

Downing Street:recent action to mark 9 years of Shaker Aamer's illegal detention
Shaker Aamer, a Saudi national who lived in the UK for many years, and has a British family, has been held illegally without charge or trial for over 9 years at Guantánamo Bay. The British government has made various efforts over the past 4 years for his release but he remains, for reasons unknown, in American custody. Please sign our letter and let the US administration know that the UK would like him back

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Defend Julian Assange! Behind the witch-hunt of #WikiLeaks

28-02-2011 22:38

Audio
Robert Stevens spoke at a public meeting in Sheffield on 23rd February about the persecution of WikiLeaks,  http://wikileaks.ch/ and in defense of Julian Assange.

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UK Census 2011: Why I Will Be Breaking The Law on March 27, 2011

28-02-2011 16:14

On Sunday March 27, 2011 I will be breaking the law.

If you live in the England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland then I would also like you to break the law. We can do it together, and I know for a fact that an awful lot of people will be doing the same.

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Protect Assange, don’t abuse him

28-02-2011 13:52

Forty years ago, a book entitled The Greening of America caused a sensation. On the cover were these words: "There is a revolution coming. It will not be like revolutions of the past. It will originate with the individual." I was a correspondent in the United States at the time and recall the overnight elevation to guru status of the author, a young Yale academic, Charles Reich. His message was that political action had failed and only "culture" and introspection could change the world. This merged with an insidious corporate public relations campaign aimed at reclaiming western capitalism from the sense of freedom inspired by the civil rights and anti-war movements. The new propaganda's euphemisms were postmodernism, consumerism and "me-ism".

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'The Road to Wigan Pier' Revisited
 By Stephen Armstrong‏

28-02-2011 12:57

The Roots Research Centre and Equanomics UK are assisting author Stephen Armstrong in research for a book with a modern day take on the Orwell book about poverty in the UK 'The Road to Wigan Pier' and he would really like to make contact with people in Manchester, Bradford, Sheffield, Liverpool and Wigan.

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AUCPB Member Jailed For 7 Days

27-02-2011 10:28

25 FEBRUARY - RUSSIA- NOVOSIBIRSK

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Libya: Is US pushing for civil war to justify a US-NATO military intervention?

25-02-2011 19:58

Tony Blair met Muammar Gaddafi at his desert base outside Sirte, 29 May 2007
One should be opposed to dictatorship, but one should not forget the issue of foreign domination.

Is “manufactured destruction” or “creative destruction” at work?

Is Tripoli being set up for a civil war to justify U.S. and NATO military intervention in oil-rich Libya?

If Qaddafi is not ousted, are the talks about sanctions a prelude to an Iraq-like intervention?

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7 March - Freedom of Speech is on trial Westminster Magistrates

25-02-2011 19:39

Kroll, Guy Carpenter ltd, City Police Counter Terrorism Directorate used to silence plumber Ian Puddick for exposing corruption at board level at the worlds largest reinsurance company.

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Libyan Demo outside Welsh Assembly

25-02-2011 18:20

Third demo to support libyan freedom

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Brighton demo in solidarity with Libya

24-02-2011 19:14

Solidarity with the Middle Eastern and North African Uprisings

Demonstrate 4.30pm Friday 25th February 2010, Old Steine, Brighton

Over the last eleven days the people of Libya, inspired by revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia and uprisings spreading across the Middle East and North Africa, have risen up against the dictatorship of Muammar Gaddafi. The regime has responded by shutting down phone and internet networks, attacking protests and massacring their own population from the air and with hired mercenaries. The casualties are not yet known but those murdered are estimated at 1000.

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Cardiff demo in support of Libyan uprising

24-02-2011 18:31

Demonstration to support the libyan people who are fighting to free thier country of 42 years of dictatorship