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World Food Day

16-10-2008 01:56

October 16th, World Food Day is also the 23rd International Day of Action Against McDonalds, once again to be marked by Veggies in Nottingham, this year with a Vegan Free Food Giveaway at Exchange Walk, and in London by Vegan Campaigns with a protest at Regents Street.

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Subvert 2008 Festival: Bristol – 24 to 26 October

15-10-2008 21:04

A weekend Festival of Resistance drawing together the themes or anti-prison campaigning & prisoner support, and organising against border controls and the demonisation of migrants. You don’t need to be a genius, nor an anarchist, to see the links between the two, as the number of prisoners and detained migrants rockets, as state surveillance reaches new levels of intrusiveness, all against a backdrop of global financial crisis and the start of a major economic depression.

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This Saturday 18th: Stand Up for Your Rights festival

15-10-2008 19:37

Stand Up for Your Rights Festival - Saturday October 18th, 2.00-8.30pm, with guest speakers and panelists includuing Paul Feldman (author of Unmasking the State), John McDonnell MP, Rahila Gupta (Southall Black Sisters), Kevin Smith (Carbon Trade Watch), Global Women's Strike, The Gypsy Council, Coalition for Independent Action, & John Stewart (HACAN-Clearskies). Also, new plays about the Levellers and the Chartists - 'The Putney Principles' and 'Unfinished Business', plus live music. Organised by 'A World to Win'
Venue: Waterloo Action Centre, 14 Baylis Road, London SE1 7AA
Public Transport: Waterloo tube station, Buses: 1, 59, 68, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188

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WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE IN VICHY (FRANCE) ON THE 3RD OF NOVEMBER 2008

15-10-2008 19:01

Call against the upcoming summit of ministers of Interior and Justice on Immigration in Vichy (France)

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Remember "Pseudo-groups". . . .how far back does that pattern go? "Blackshirts?"

15-10-2008 18:49

Recent information at least re-opens questions about "accepted" bits of the "historical" past. The intervention of those with pots of cash to spend on gumshoe types, either trying to smear, frame, or associate sensible-sounding types with "fire-breathing terrorists" is at least matched by the frequency of the same sort of paid gumshoe types ( sometimes touting for work, or whipping up "customers" paranoia to play a bit of "tail-wag-dog" ) setting up entirely "owned" false-flag operations, occasionally by dropping their people into a group then pushing serious/sensible people out ( either with a bit of character smearing, the accusal of them as "agent provocateurs", or wearing them down - or worse. . . . ) - but at times with entirely created groups - sometimes with several different "depths" (for when people unwittingly dragged into them saw through one layer of the spin!)

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Plods to get more dastabase powers...

15-10-2008 16:22

Home Sec Jacqui Smith attempts to back expantion on database state and more powers to police. ( All done for our own good of course.. yeah right)

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The White House Ghost

15-10-2008 14:13

The President of the United States, George Bush, enters today his last 100 days in power overshadowed by very high unpopularity rates and one of the worst economic crises in recent decades.

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Abdi Ahmed: "England is the only place I can call home"

15-10-2008 14:02

"Somalia is not only a deadlock and a place of conflict generating many refugees, but for me a country that I simply do not call 'home'. I left the country when I was four years old. I have never been to Somalia since and my entire family is in the UK. I do not even speak Somali fluently enough to make my way around this country that I only know through stories."

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Free Software Community Project needs Hardware

15-10-2008 09:34

Manchester Free Software are looking to replace a low-spec server which powers a free software suite at the Marbella Cafin Manchester, and is used to provide zero-cost Internet access and as the basis for education and training projects.

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Workers' Climate Action national gathering - 15/16 November, London

15-10-2008 08:19

The Workers' Climate Action network - a relatively new campaign which exists to build links between the workers' and environmental movements, and fight climate change on the basis of class struggle - is holding its first national gathering at the London School of Economics on 15 and 16 November.

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Stopping the city.

14-10-2008 22:14

On Friday a demo in the City of London was met with far fewer MET than expected. So the mixture of trots, students and activists went on a tour of some of our more wealthy institutions, much to the alarm of the outnumbered cops who got increasingly sweaty over the next hour as they tried and failed to control the crowd.

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Parliament rushed - but not by suffragettes.

14-10-2008 18:23

A great multitude of ladies, gentlemen and some from the underclasses gathered in Parliament Square last night.

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2nd North East Working Class Bookfair Nov 22nd 12-4pm

14-10-2008 16:38

North East Working Class Bookfair
Durham Clayport Library, Millennium Place, Durham City.
Saturday November 22nd 2008, 12-4pm

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New issue of Gagged! - South Wales Anarchist Newsletter

14-10-2008 15:40

The 'better late than never' issue! Number 24 no less!

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@nti-capitalist/ bail out Demo/action at anarchist bookfair?

14-10-2008 14:36

There has already been a callout for an action against the bank bailout for the friday before the Anarchist bookfair, but why not also do one on the day itself?

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Cant Pay Wont Pay- Demo in city Friday

14-10-2008 09:43

Seeming as there maybe several friends arriving early to the 'capital of capital' on friday for saturdays Anarchist Bookfair- lets not waste an oppotunity to show our collective anger at a senile economic system that refuses to die.

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Jane Mary Mutetsi Detained again / second attempt to remove

14-10-2008 05:16

Jane Mary Mutetsi from Rwanda was 'captured' when reporting Monday morning in Nottingham and is currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Thursday 16th October @ 20.00 hrs on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 from London Heathrow to Nairobi and KQ410 to Entebbe.

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Dennis Wheatley on the supernatural... and the ultimate crash of Civilisation

13-10-2008 23:00

Dialect Radio is a Bristol (UK) internet broadcasting Co-operative run by volunteers. Our main activity is our weekly current affairs and arts magazine programme Dialect, which is recorded at our Queen's Square studios and posted for download every weekend. Want to volunteer? Volunteering Bristol, Royal Oak House, Royal Oak Avenue, Bristol. BS1 4GB Tel: 0117 989 7733.

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Protest Oct. 21 - For a Woman's Right to Choose

13-10-2008 22:46

Please join Abortion Rights on Tuesday Oct. 21, 5:30pm at Old Palace Yard, outside Parliament, St. Stephen's entrance. Protest has been called to oppose further anti-abortion attempts to drive back women's rights and support the first Parliamentary opportunity in a generation to improve the law for women and extend rights to Northern Ireland. All pro-choice supporters welcome!

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Rush Parliament Photos

13-10-2008 20:48

An poweful and moving demo at parliament saw over five hundred people pushing through police and reaching the (locked) doors of parliament.