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Southern oil workers versus corporations in Iraq

08-03-2005 17:26

Video Hassan Juma'a talking at public meetings in London
Privatisation and corporate rule or workers' control? That's the situation for southern Iraqi oil workers, who are fighting Haliburton for control of their industry. The Southern Oil Company Union (SOCU) is one of the workers' organisations that is resisting this privatisation; their President, Hassan Juma'a, visited the UK in February 2005.

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Protest at home of bailiff Bryan Constant

08-03-2005 17:14

Around a dozen people protested outside the home of bailiff Bryan Constant, of Riseley, Bedfordshire on Sunday. Protestors rang bells, blew whistles & hit pots & pans.

Mr Constant runs Constant & Co, a Bedford - based company that specializes in evicting Travellers using violence, often from land that they have bought and occupied for years. In January Constant Baliffs jumped on a man at Twin Oaks, Borehamwood, cracking his ribs.

Letters were delivered to Constant's neighbors, informing them of his activities, and posters were put up in the village, calling on Constant & Co to end their Brutal & Racist evictions.

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Canada grabs Bi-Woman on IntlWomensDay.

08-03-2005 16:45

A Bisexual woman Wendy Maxwell was grabbed by Canadian authorities at an Intl Women's day event. Threatened with deportation.

Petition at end of posting below...

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Zanon attacks

08-03-2005 11:36

There's been some attacks in Zanon.

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An appeal for solidarity concerning the threathening demolition of a Palestinian

08-03-2005 03:32

Underlying information is revealing not only a highly condemnable event, but especially symbols the Israeli policy of mass land and house-exproprations within Israel at the cost of a great number of Israeli Arabs.

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COORDINATED INTER-SQUAT DIRECT ACTIONS IN FRANCE SUPPORTING LES 400 COUVERTS

08-03-2005 02:38

OCCUPATIONS, BANNER-RELEASES, WALLINGS, RUBBLE DROPPING, DEMONSTRATIONS, OPENINGS, CONFRONTATIONS OF REPRESENTATIVES….

ACCOUNT OF THE COORDINATED ACTIONS PROTESTING AGAINST SQUAT EVICTIONS IN FRANCE AND SUPPORTING THE 400 COUVERTS ALLEY IN GRENOBLE.

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Infernal Noisse Brigade coming to the G8 meeting

08-03-2005 02:26

The INB is coming to the G8 this summer followed by a tour of Europe. We need help! (integrating into the G8 demos, booking shows, places to sleep, etc.)

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Solidarity benefit weeken for political prisoners

07-03-2005 22:31

Solidarity weekend for political prisoners.

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Why should the police decide on a political matter?

07-03-2005 13:52

The right to protest.

First they ban democratic right to protest in parliament square, next cornmarket…

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Colombia and Human Rights Defenders talk

07-03-2005 13:24

Talk on Colombia and Human Rights Defenders at thecommonplace -Tues 15th March 7pm

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Anti-WTO demonstrations in Kenya lead to dozens of arrests

07-03-2005 09:53

Chaos greeted the World Trade Organisation (WTO) mini-ministerial
conference yesterday as lobby groups tried to invade the venue in
Mombasa's South Coast.

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The Sunshine Project News Release - 3 March 2005

06-03-2005 19:01

press release from the sunshine project march 03 /05.

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March London Calling

06-03-2005 17:51

March's London Calling looks at London's new police chief ( having one Mr Blair who wants to lock everyone up is surely enough) we continue debate about the Hackney Empire, and comment on the first anti-olympics march in London.

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Vigil - Solidarity with Iraqi women - 8 March 12 noon

06-03-2005 14:39

Please try to attend this vigil in support of Iraqi women on International Women's Day, Tuesday 8 March, at 12 noon, outside the Iraqi Embassy in London (full details below).

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Human Rights in Uzbekistan

06-03-2005 10:18

The Uzbek pro-democracy movement regularly posts news and information about the struggle for freedom in this Central Asian dictatorship.

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Red Nose Day Banned in Catholic Schools in South Wales

06-03-2005 08:26

Welsh children in Catholic comprehenive schools banned from raising money for Comic Relief!!

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A STEP FORWARD FOR AUTONOMY IN THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS

05-03-2005 23:48

The 16th February saw 1,500 people gather in the zapatista autonomous municipality of that name, to celebrate the construction of their new Autonomous Council building. Meanwhile at the same time in Scotland, supporters of Edinburgh-Chiapas Solidarity Group held an event to show solidarity with their twinned zapatista municipality.
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