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02-04-2015 16:13
We focus on drone technology, looking at the relationship between language and law. A range of speakers explain how the framing of the War On Terror has served the US military's purposes, and note that the US keeps details of its pretexts for state sponsored assassinations by drone as vague as possible. Plausible deniability is only needed if people are in a position where their actions are subject to informed questions. The core of this week's show is made up with a set of speeches from a 2015 meeting about the use of drone warfare, introduced by Bruce Gagnon and augmented by SAS whistleblower, Ben Griffin and a few classic words of Chris Hedges on how war affects its participants.
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26-03-2015 14:47
We are currently resisting a large scale eviction attempt in Dublin. Grangegorman is a large complex of occupied warehouses, converted offices, residential houses and community gardens. We have occupied the site for over a year and a half and are asking for people to help us resist eviction in any way they can
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23-03-2015 00:19
15 photos from the demonstration at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh to protest against far right group Pegida. The racists failed to make an appearance however and perhaps the far right are on the back foot. It pays to be vigilant though.
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22-03-2015 19:37
As you may be aware the people of Liverpool have been involved in a long, protracted and nasty battle with the British state, and their mediums of communication. In particular the Sun newspaper, or as it's known here the Scum. We don't buy it, we don't stock it in our newsagents. If you visit Merseyside you will not find a copy of that shit in any of our railway stations, railworkers amongst many others refuse to have anything to do with it...Don't ask for it because you will be causing offence.
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18-03-2015 11:07
This will be a march and protest in London over the treatment of homeless people in the UK/Ireland and beyond. Amongst the many actions across London on the day being held by various housing/homeless groups there will be a co-ordinated meeting point at Whitehall at 6 p.m. on the day. We encourage people to stand in solidarity with our streets as well bring along items that may be of use to those who find themselves homeless or in need to our Streets Kitchen, where a number of groups will also be serving food and distributing essential items to our homeless communities from 6 pm…
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12-03-2015 21:01
Crufts dog Jagger - do ordinary dogs and cats matter when treated by vets?
The ‘international outcry’ over the reported poisoning of the Crufts dog Jagger
should serve as a most urgent reminder of the need to watch what the vets businesses es actually do about vulnerable helpless animals and their emotionally trapped owners and carers who take them to the vets
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12-03-2015 16:30
Local Edinburgh indie rock band the Garempots, the Pop At You Band, and their own in-house record label Pop At You Records, are open supporters of the EDL and Britain First, despite being based in Scotland. They also represent other bands - the Baby Wakers and the "Phsycadelic" camels, and use their official twitter account @garempot to incite hatred against Muslims.
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11-03-2015 21:27
Matthew Pope, the founder of German neo-nazi UK group Pegida UK, has been becoming more and more confrontational in the past few days, since his Islamophobic lies were exposed on Facebook. Having boasted about crying to the police for being called a racist, and promising to have EDL News closed down, Pope is now issuing violent threats against antifascist campaigners.
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06-03-2015 07:39
The purpose of this piece is to better understanding of mass media's relationship to rebels (including anarchists of all stripes), in general as well as in the context of a repressive atmosphere in Bristol. As well as raising local specifics, it hopes to encourage stronger awareness around wider issues of representation and counter-insurgency.
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05-03-2015 15:10
Today’s news that the Information Commission has stopped monitoring Tower Hamlets Council after allegedly improving made by that Council on Information Provision will come as news to many.
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