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Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22

09-04-2011 16:06

You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22.

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WE ARE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY WE KEEP

09-04-2011 10:34

WE ARE KNOWN BY THE COMPANY WE KEEP

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Lampeter wakes up against the Cuts

08-04-2011 16:33

On 6th March staff, students, and townsfolk gathered at Lampeter – home to Britain’s smallest university – for a Carnival against the Cuts.

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Food Sovereignty Tour + Agroecology Short Course in Venezuela – July 10-22

07-04-2011 18:34

You are invited to participate in a study tour to study food sovereignty, social movements and social change in Venezuela, July 10 to 22. The tour will examine issues of land reform, urbanization issues, rural development and food sovereignty within a dynamic political context. Venezuela is an outstanding example of a country that strives to ensure its citizens’ right to food while bolstering its domestic agriculture sector, with an emphasis on organic practices and agroecology

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Review: Poll Tax Riots films

07-04-2011 16:10

Last Sunday OARC was host to two films that told the story of the Poll Tax riots that happened in Trafalgar Square in 1990.

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The Great BP-sponsored Sleep-in Flash Mob

07-04-2011 14:57

Sunday 17 April 2011, 2PM at Tate Modern, Bankside, London, SE1 9TG.
To mark the one year anniversary of the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill, join us for ‘The great BP-sponsored sleep-in’, a 4-minute flashmob art installation inside Tate Modern. Imagine the turbine hall of this former power station filled with BP-branded sleeping figures, who will soon wake from their BP-sponsored coma to sound the climate alarm.

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PHILIPPINES: Our Failed Labor-Export Policy

07-04-2011 12:45

The impacts of disasters occurring in other parts of the world, from Libya to Japan, have perhaps been communicated more drastically to the Philippines than to other countries. Whether it is the tragic trilogy of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear fallout in Japan or the civil war in Libya, external crises are swiftly transformed into internal crises for our country, as thousands of families are pushed into poverty and economic hardship when their breadwinners are dislocated and repatriated back to the Philippines, where jobs offering decent wages are scarce.

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Report launch: political protest and the police

07-04-2011 12:31

5PM TODAY. POLITICAL PROTEST AND THE POLICE: YOUNG PEOPLE IN BRIGHTON A REPORT ON STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN BRIGHTON, 24TH AND 30TH NOVEMBER 2010

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Russia -Novosibirsk: Unlimited Protest March April 1

06-04-2011 11:28

Can't see this being on Indymedia for long, but for interested readers, this seems an ongoing protest in th city of Novosibirsk, Siberia, with numbers increasing each time. The method of constant hammering at the authorities with no let up is something the UK left is doing but needs stepping up I reckon.

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Are 'dissident republicans' really behind Omagh Catholic policeman's murder?

05-04-2011 23:21

Every week on Behind The Headlines we unpick some of the national and international spin, as well as picking out particularly significant stories for discussion

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Attack of the cruise missile liberals

05-04-2011 21:40

Americans are warlike – as long as they think they can be victorious. These nominal Democrats and Republicans “differ only on who they want to see doing the dominating.” Today, a Black Democrat is the head killer in charge, allowing the likes of Ed Schultz, Bill Maher and Juan Cole to endorse the criminal assault on Libya. When the chips are down, fraudulent anti-war liberals show their true racist, Manifest Destiny-loving colors. “The true anti-war movement must reawaken itself and hit the streets in the hundreds of thousands.”

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Anti-Benefit Cuts Activity This Week Glasgow

05-04-2011 20:43

ANTI-BENEFIT CUTS LEAFLETING
GLASGOW
WEDNESDAY 6TH APRIL
1.30-2.30PM

ATOS HEALTH CARE
CORUNNA HOUSE
29 CADOGAN STREET
GLASGOW
G2 7AB

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Cannabis Law Reform (CLEAR) calls on the Irish government to allow Noel McCull

05-04-2011 16:44

DISABLED IRISH MAN DENIED THE RIGHT TO VISIT HIS FAMILY BEFORE HE DIES.

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War on Kleptocracy

05-04-2011 13:59

Nice youtube footage by Queuepolitely

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From the 1991GulfWar to the war on North Africa:On the true meaning of democracy

05-04-2011 13:31

Initially, the U.S. effort against Qaddafi's Administration in Libya was termed a "humanitarian intervention" to protect the people. But, when since September 11, 1990 have U.S. troops been mobilized to innocently rescue civilians in danger? In reality, the U.S. military has been selectively called into action to cause civilian pain, suffering, destruction, and death since September 11, 1990 and to further unstated objectives.

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Call out for zine contributions from those arrested in the Anti- Cuts movement

04-04-2011 23:41

CALLING ALL those arrested, detained, charged,or bailed in connection with the Anti Cuts movemENT- we want your voice!

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Flashback: Way past time to break silence on militarism

04-04-2011 21:31

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death,” warned Martin Luther King Jr. in his famous speech at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967, 44 years ago this Easter Sunday.

The speech was titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.” It was delivered exactly one year to the day before his 1968 assassination in Memphis.

The people who heard that speech recognized it as one of the most powerful speeches ever given articulating the immorality of the Vietnam War and its destructive impact on social progress in the United States.

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Anarchists Against the Cuts: discussion points after March 26

04-04-2011 12:20

Some discussion points after March 26.

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Libya: The destruction of a country. The bombing of civilian targets

04-04-2011 00:00

The account provided by the team of Russian Doctors constitutes an eyewitness account of what is happening on the ground in Libya. It contradicts the stream of media disinformation. It confirms that the coalition is routinely bombing civilian targets. For those progressives who have endorsed the US-NATO "humanitarian mandate", this account provides us with evidence of extensive war crimes by those you claim to be coming to the rescue of civilians. Residential buildings, hospital are being targeted by the coalition's smart bombs. The latter are extremely precise. The bombing of civilians is deliberate. These are so-called validated targets. they are part of a list of targets.

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3 Arrested as Over 20 Protest Cambridge Fur Seller

03-04-2011 19:03

Over 20 protesters said no to fur in Cambridge leading to police making 3 unlawful arrests of activists.