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Support the SOCPA 7

21-04-2014 15:39

Over recent years there have been many attempts to stop UK activists protesting against Europe’s largest animal testing laboratory; Huntingdon Life Sciences. Activists have been arrested, raided, imprisoned and banned from taking part in the campaign.

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Debbie Vincent jailed for six years today for SHAC involvement

17-04-2014 17:39

Debbie Vincent has been the latest in a long line of animal rights activists falsely imprisoned under terrorism laws for peaceful protests.

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Novartis Wins Court Order Blocking U.K. Animal-Rights Protests

17-04-2014 17:34

Novartis wins a court injunction restricting demonstrations to six people or fewer, in designated protest zones, with no amplified sounds, and forbids costumes, face-coverings or “blood-splattered costumes.”

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“Two Weeks of Worldwide Action: Juan Vázquez Guzmán lives! The Bachajón struggl

15-04-2014 19:28

Convocation for the

“Two Weeks of Worldwide Action: Juan Vázquez Guzmán lives!
The Bachajón struggle continues!”

From Thursday, April 24th to Thursday, May 8th, 2014: Juan Vázquez Guzmán lives!
The Bachajón struggle continues!”

From Thursday, April 24th to Thursday, May 8th, 2014

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People attacked under ConDem Govt are et down by the funded "advice"

10-04-2014 14:46

Cheatonesadvice is of course a word created today.

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The Anarchist Travelling Circus Presents: Newport Rising

10-04-2014 08:30

From the 26th May to the 1st June 2014 Anarchist Action Network is holding a week of Anarchist events dubbed the Anarchist Travelling Circus in Newport, South Wales. The week will include, workshops, discussions and skillshares and more. Emailo us to get involved!

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Calf Crate Crimes In Oregon

08-04-2014 16:25

A US concentration camp for calves in Oregon
calf confinement occurs around the world... but Oregon's concentration camp is from the lowest
level of hell

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Stop Basildon Council Evictions on Fri 11th April

05-04-2014 14:47

In excess of 30 cases will be heard regarding possible evictions due to rent arrears at Basildon County Court on Friday 11th April 2014. Most cases are as a result of the imposition of the 'Bedroom Tax' by Basildon Council. Please come and support them and show solidarity against the Tory/UKIP majority council. Meet 09.00 Basildon County Court. Address: The Gore, Basildon, SS14 2BU Essex
Bring banners and attitude.

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Day of Protest against ATOS & DWP. Report from Wrexham

01-04-2014 12:33

Protest at Wrexham Jobcentre, home of ATOS work capability assessments

Today, 1 April, has been called as a further day of action against ATOS and the Department for Work and Pensions. I decided to lend my support to the call for an end to the notorious work capability assessments that force disabled people to seek jobs that don't exist, and to the genocidal government policy of cutting off benefits and leaving claimants without the means of survival.

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Colombian government denounced for violation of human rights

31-03-2014 22:49

The continuing serious violations of human rights, the lack of guarantees to political and social opposition and the lack of international standards of the Colombian government were denounced yet again and continued to generate great concern among international NGOs and the participants who made up the 25th session of the Human Rights Council UN in Geneva, Switzerland

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NATO's Rape of Yugoslavia

25-03-2014 23:17

March 24, 1999 will go down in history as a day of infamy. US-led NATO raped Yugoslavia. Doing so was its second major combat operation. It was lawless aggression. No Security Council resolution authorized it. NATO's Operation Allied Force lasted 78 days. Washington called it Operation Noble Anvil. Evil best describes it. On June 10, operations ended. From March 1991 through mid-June 1999, Balkan wars raged. Yugoslavia "balkanized" into seven countries. They include Serbia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia.

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Demonstration in support of West Papuan prisoners - London 2nd April

25-03-2014 21:44

Please help to make the voices of the many political prisoners in West Papua heard by attending this demonstration and representing one of the political prisoners currently incarcerated.

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Resisting Together - Edinburgh, 29th March

23-03-2014 13:51

Resisting Together Poster
Resisting Together is an event of many ideas focussed on a single aim – the dissolution of Industrial Civilization through acts of resistance. There are many activists – community, political, radical individuals, groups and movements – operating both in the open and underground; we don’t agree on everything, but at our core we all seek to free humanity from the yoke of the industrial machine, the horror-play that the civilized world acts out every day, degrading the natural world and enslaving people in the pursuit of material wealth and power.

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Theatre for Change

21-03-2014 15:37

A article about two of the projects of Leith-based drama group Active Inquiry. The 'Resilience' project refers to the challenges faced by community groups in the economic crisis and "Flashback' to a consideration of the meaning of independence.

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Overview of Dutch Nuke Summit - 23-25 March 2014

21-03-2014 13:14

In a few days, the biggest summit ever held in the Netherlands will commence with both governments and the nuclear industry converging in Amsterdam and The Hague between 23 and 25 March 2014 (next Sunday to Tuesday). So far there are 4 demonstrations planned with diverse degrees of confrontation.

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Nuke Summit 2014 Netherlands - callout

19-03-2014 17:38

mobi
The Nuclear Security Summit (NSS) in The Hague will be the biggest summit ever held in the Netherlands. At the same time, the Nuclear Industry Summit (NIS) will be held in Amsterdam and after the NSS, a meeting of the G7 will take place. Lets make sure none of these meetings passes undisturbed!

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Eritrean detainee on hunger strike in Greece facing deportation to Eritrea

16-03-2014 21:22

Detainees of B wing Larisa prison inform of their solidarity to the fellow detainee Mohamad Hamid from ERITREA, who has been held for DEPORTATION for 10 months (from end of criminal sentence) and who is ON HUNGER STRIKE SEEKING RECOGNITION OF POLITICAL ASYLUM.

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When Chavez died, Washington celebrated

15-03-2014 10:20

Venezuela Also Is Being Overthrown By The Criminal Regime In Washington — Dear Readers, now that US Secretary of State John Kerry has issued an ultimatum to Russia, telling Putin that he has until Monday to follow Washington’s orders or else, hopefully everyone can see the repeat of the March of Folly that produced World War 1. In my last column, “Merkel Whores For Washington,” I mistakenly attributed to Khrushchev all transfers of Russian territory to Ukraine.

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CURO Housing issues 10% of its tenants with notices seeking repossession.

13-03-2014 13:54

A recent report from landlord The Curo Group to B&NES Council reveals “…there are no fewer than 800 families which have been issued with notices seeking repossession. Some 124 of these are in breach of a court order to pay money they owe.”

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Week of Action : Police Spies Out of Lives

10-03-2014 19:56

THE BATTLE AGAINST SECRECY CONTINUES

Women resist police attempt to strike out undercover police abuse cases

Court Hearing has been confirmed as taking place on 18th – 19th March 2014

This is the hearing which was postponed from last November, and involves a fresh fight against secrecy.