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Nerve Magazine Party in Liverpool

22-06-2006 17:57

Catalyst Media - who publish Liverpool's free grassroots art and politics magazine 'Nerve' - are holding a party at Aigburth Cricket Club (opposite St Michael's station) on Friday, 7th July from 8pm.

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Five-day strike by Asda workers

22-06-2006 17:20

Asda says it will try to maintain a normal service in stores as
thousands of Asda distribution workers will stage a five-day strike from 30 June, in a protest over pay and bargaining rights.

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Stop the BNP

22-06-2006 13:07

A local meeting to discuss campaigning against them

Thu, 29th June, 7.30pm, International Community Centre

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Australian government retains detention powers

22-06-2006 11:51

Riding roughshod over deep disquiet
Attorney-General Philip Ruddock issued a media release last week welcoming the passage of the ASIO Legislation Amendment Bill 2006. The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation’s (ASIO) “questioning and detention powers will continue for the next decade,” he declared.

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CLIMATE INJUSTICE IN THE NIGER DELTA: 10 YEARS ON FROM KEN SARO-WIWA

22-06-2006 10:18

SUNDAY 2ND JULY @ THE COMMON PLACE

Ten years after the judicial murder of human rights activist Ken Saro-Wiwa shocked the world, the communities of the Niger Delta in Nigeria continue to bear the burden of our demand for oil with escalating violence and environmental deterioration.

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Blair at Future Services Network and then on to Bristol

22-06-2006 09:35

Tracking Blair from London to Bristol...

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Stop the next Oil grab

22-06-2006 00:10

Pro Australian Coup in East Timor

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Minutes of Manchester NO2ID / Defy-ID Meeting, Wednesday 21st June 2006

21-06-2006 23:56

This evening, members of Manchester NO2ID and Manchester Defy-ID along with other interested parties met in the function room of the Town Hall Tavern, Manchester. The conversation was wide-ranging, productive and above all friendly and informal. We even convinced one of the barmaids of the merits of our cause! It was a fun and invigorating evening and confidence and spirits remain high.

These minutes are being sent to the Manchester NO2ID mailing list [1], and the Defy-ID mailing list [2]. They will be posted to Manchester Indymedia [3] and other places. Apologies for the length, we've had another busy evening!

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Chartered Institute of Housing to Distance Itself from Corporate Bullying?

21-06-2006 20:01

John Callcutt English Partnerships Corporate Bully Boy, Self Absolved?
Presently holding a four day conference and exhibition at Harrogate, the Chartered Institute of Housing have received a letter of invitation to check up a few details of one of their guest speakers. Mr. John Callcutt, Chief Executive Officer of English Partnerships is in the firing line.

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MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER ALEJANDRO CEREZO SPEAKS IN READING 27 JUNE

21-06-2006 15:26


// A VOICE OF RESISTANCE AGAINST REPRESSION!

// MEXICAN EX-POLITICAL PRISONER - ALEJANDRO CEREZO - SPEAKS IN READING!

// DATE / TIME - TUESDAY 27TH JUNE, 8.30PM

// VENUE (TBC) - ROOM 3, RISC, 35-39 LONDON STREET, READING

// FREE / DONATION

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Khoodeelaar! No to Crossrail Bill rattles Blair's Big Business cage

21-06-2006 14:04

Tony Blair is so nervous about Khoodeelaar! camapgn exposing the lethal flaws in the Big Business Conglomerates grabbing Crsosrail hole plan that he has seen to it to make it hard for Khoodeelaar! campaigners to use the 'democratic institutions' - of Westminster or of the local Tower Hamlets Council. Khoodeelaar! campaigners are finding it hard to gain access to these institutions… Shows just how effective the Khoodeelaar! camapgn is in exposing further flaws of the Crassrail big Business plan

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Holocaust denial and the Arab world

21-06-2006 12:53

Why anti-fascists must be or become pro-Israeli. To support the Arabs against Israel is the support of fascism.

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STROLL, ROLL, and RALLY for positive welfare reform

21-06-2006 12:41

Setting off
There was a good atmosphere as fifty campaigners strolled and rolled from Devonshire Green to Sheffield Town Hall last Saturday.

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A dangerous precedent: Australian man convicted of “preparing terrorism”

21-06-2006 05:17

Fishing Expeditions and Thought Crime
Since 2001, the government has seized upon the “war” declared by US President George Bush for both domestic and international purposes. Under the guise of combating terrorism it has participated in the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, diverted attention from mounting economic and social problems at home and legitimised previously unthinkable police state-style measures, including semi-secret trials, “preventative” detention and the ability to impose life sentences without any evidence of an actual terrorist act.

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Australian government presses ahead with plans to dominate East Timor

21-06-2006 01:05

Compel Alkatiri to make that decision
Neither Horta nor his Australian backers want to test this “tremendous support” at elections due next year. “The problem is, obviously, can the country afford the next six months, the next nine months of this continued pressure on the prime minister to resign?” Horta asked. “Can we afford this increasing loss of credibility of the government and the poor image of the country? Or should the prime minister say, ‘Well, I step aside in the interests of my own party. It seems that I am a liability to my own party, if not the country’.” The threat of criminal charges is obviously designed to compel Alkatiri to make that decision.

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Big noise to hit Britain's immigration reporting centres this Thursday

20-06-2006 20:10

The last BIG NOISE demo
Newcastle based group Tyneside Community Action for Refugees (TCAR) is coordinating a National Day of Action against Home Office reporting centres and detention camps in Britain on Thursday, 22nd June.

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Pathfinder exposed by Corporate Watch

20-06-2006 18:47

John Prescott's government department may have vanished, but the wrecking ball he has set in motion is still poised to demolish thousands of homes across Northern England and the Midlands - there's far too much money involved to let this one go.

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Royal Dutch Shell unsuccessful attempt to halt Ogoni U.S. Class Action

20-06-2006 18:23

The latest news on a U.S. class action lawsuit brought against Royal Dutch Shell by the Ogoni people of Nigeria.

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Remember Des Warren - Justice for the Shrewsbury Pickets

20-06-2006 18:14

3pm, Saturday 5 August 2006 at the Casa, Hope Street, Liverpool

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Boycott Yahoo, Microsoft and Google

20-06-2006 15:27

In light of the collaboration of the, profit-first morality second, corporate interests with China to imprison it's own people I have decided to boycott these bastards. I would encourage you to take a stand too and withdraw your support.