UK Indymedia - UK Repression Newswire Archive

FBI Agents Raid US Homes in Search of “Anarchist Literature”

05-08-2012 09:44

When FBI and Joint Terrorism Task Force agents raided multiple activist homes in the Northwest last week, they were in search of “anti-government or anarchist literature.”

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International Call for Solidarity with Zapatista Support Bases of San Marcos Aviles

04-08-2012 13:39

“It is not only the task of the independent/alternative media to circulate the truth, but rather it is the responsibility of us all to do so.”

“Our compas from San Marcos Avilés are suffering this violence because they are indigenous, because they are Zapatistas, and because they have opened their own autonomous school.”

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"We'll expose the blood on Tory hands"

04-08-2012 12:36

Campaigners pledged today to "name and shame" the Con-Dem coalition for every death caused by its vicious attack on disability and jobless benefits.

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USA: Human Rights Activist Ordered to Jail

03-08-2012 21:30

The case of Ed Frey is reminiscent of an earlier Santa Cruz case where Sandy Loranger did time in jail for feeding the homeless soup. When the judge offered her counseling instead of jail Sandy Loranger replied, "If feeding my fellow man is a crime, I am beyond rehabilitation."

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Libya and Syria: When Anti-Imperialism Goes Wrong

03-08-2012 10:03

Reflexive opposition to Uncle Sam’s machinations abroad is generally a good thing. It is a progressive instinct that progressively declined in the 1990s, as presidents Bush Sr. and Clinton deftly deployed the U.S. military to execute “humanitarian” missions in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans and progressively increased in the 2000s, as Bush Jr. lurched from quagmire to disaster in transparent empire-building exercises in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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another corrupt housing association

02-08-2012 17:03

the fifteen pound shuffle

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March for Justice for Kingsley Burrell

02-08-2012 11:53

Saturday 18th August 2012

Assemble 12:00 Noon:

Summerfield Park, Icknield Port Rd Birmingham B16 OBT

March to Centenary Square, Broad Street, B1 2EA

A year after the death of Kingsley Burrell no one has been charged and his body has still not been released to his grieving family for burial.

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Calais Migrant Solidarity: Birmingham info-talk Sunday 5th Aug

02-08-2012 11:29

An info-talk on the persecution of 'people without papers' across Europe with a focus on Calais, a bottleneck for people coming to the UK.

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suka war

02-08-2012 08:41

Art exhibition . collaberation with john bowden . @ old street 6-9 pm
tonight 2/08/2012

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Occupation of French consulate in Brussels: Justice for Noureddin

01-08-2012 21:05

Eight people scaled scaffolding around the French consulate in Belgium to unfurl two banners “Justice for Noureddin” and “Calais is Everywhere, Justice is Nowhere”, whilst a noise demo was held outside the building to condemn the recent death in Calais of Noureddin, a friend of many...

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Breaking……. Urgent: Community In Chiapas, Mexico, Threatened

31-07-2012 19:53

Human rights organisations have warned that the population of nearly 200 Zapatista supporters in the indigenous community of San Marcos Aviles are at very serious risk of violent assault and displacement. The threats made against them have increased sharply since the Mexican elections in July.

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Pussy Riot Support Newcastle

31-07-2012 16:07

Newcastle support for Pussy Riot

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A Letter Campaign On Behalf Of Jerome White-Bey – Occupy The Prison Mail Room

31-07-2012 08:26

This is a call out for a new letter writing campaign to protest the treatment of Jerome White-Bey, who yet again is being held in isolation on the punishment blocks under a false investigation. His situation in his own words:

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Calais Olympics: the other side of the medals

30-07-2012 12:23

In the lead up and during the Olympics migrants and refugees continue to be chased on the streets and at the border of Calais ...

See: Olympic Cleansing in Calais

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/498264.html

Counter-olympic demo: games without borders

https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/498420.html

More Olympic Evictions in Calais

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2012/07/498266.html

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New Leeds ABC Leaflet

30-07-2012 09:57

Prisoners need support. New general-use Leeds ABC leaflet and small poster for notice-boards, etc.

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Mark Kennedy

29-07-2012 05:13

Undercover plod

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"Police Liaison"= soft FIT

28-07-2012 18:12

PLOs are intellegence gatherers, as well as there to disrupt/pacify demos. They were allowed to mingle on the Olympic demo. We need to make sure this doesnt happen again

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International Call To Action:

28-07-2012 06:55

“Worldwide Echo in Support of the Zapatistas:
Freedom and Justice for San Marcos Avilés and Sántiz López”

Today, with urgency, we are called upon to mobilize, with our whole being, solidarity and support for our Zapatista sisters and brothers of the community in resistance of San Marcos Avilés

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