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Presidential Candidate Wants to Re-Tool Detroit

23-04-2007 18:35

In March 2006 Stewart A. Alexander introduced an ambitious $75 billion plan to revive the struggling U.S. automobile industry, the plan was introduced as a proposed California- Automobile Industry Partnership. Now Alexander, running as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate for president, wants to create a U.S. – Automobile Industry Partnership to save American jobs and to jump start the U.S. economy.

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'Rebel' bulletin - The Nottingham Sparrow - May 2007 - no.2

23-04-2007 10:26

Front page extract from The Nottingham Sparrow no. 2 (May issue)
'THE NOTTINGHAM SPARROW' SQUAWKS AGAIN!
The second issue of local bulletin by the Nottingham group of the Anarchist Federation is out for Mayday. Read articles on Community 'protection' & talking CCTV, market square demos against asylum seeker deportations, local council capers around election time, slave trade 'abolition', squatting for Eastside Climate Action, reduced library access using ID cards. Direct link to current issue:  http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/nottingham_sparrow_2.pdf
We welcome letters and leads for the next issue. Contact Nottingham AF at:  http://www.afed.org.uk/nottingham/

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Speak Out For ESOL

22-04-2007 16:48

On Saturday 21st April, almost three hundred people assembled on Sheffield's Devonshire Green and marched through the city centre to hear speakers from many organisations at Barkers Pool. These people were demonstrating their rejection of the Government proposals to cut the provisions of free ESOL classes.

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Merseyside May Day March and Rally

21-04-2007 18:59

Save our public services!

Say no to racism!

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Stewart Alexander Enters Race for President

21-04-2007 03:26

Recently the Peace and Freedom Party launched a nationwide presidential search campaign seeking candidates for President of the United States; this week Stewart A. Alexander is the first candidate to formally announce his candidacy as a Peace and Freedom Party candidate for president.

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Blood diamonds tour launches in U.S.

20-04-2007 21:12

Touring Uhuru leaders say “All diamonds are blood diamonds”;
seek African indigenous control of Africa’s natural wealth

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Rally: Free Mumia Now! Speakers announced

20-04-2007 11:20

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an innocent man!
Free Mumia Now!
Mumia's life is in danger - mobilise now!

Rally, sponsored by the Partisan Defence Committee

Saturday 5 May, 1 pm
University of London Union, Room 3C&D,
Malet Street, London WC1

Abolish the racist death penalty!

Contact the PDC on 020 7281 5504 or at  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk for more information and to help build the rally. Distribute the attached leaflet to your friends, fellow workers and organisations.

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London Mayday 07' - Join the Autonomous Workers Bloc!

19-04-2007 12:50

// LONDON MAYDAY 07'

// Join the Autonomous Workers Block

// 12pm Clerkenwell Green behind the red and black flags

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Mayday 07 - Invite

18-04-2007 19:30

Invite your friends
For those who don't want to march, how about some dancing on Mayday.

The Haymarket Martyrs were protesting for an 8 hour day, a 9-5. When was the last time anyone just worked 9-5? Why should we live in a world where profit is put above anything else, what about the planet, what about our lives, how about some fun?

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New video: CSOMilano 0.1

18-04-2007 18:20

A group of activists from the "8 de Marzo" collective squattered the old wedding hall "Milano". One week later, and one hour before starting a neigbourhood afternoon snack organized for the neighbours and local people as a part of the "presentation working days", the police sealed the building and started a pressure campaign trying to nip the project in the bud before it could grow.

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Fundraiser for Organisation of Women's Freedom in Iraq, Saturday

17-04-2007 13:50

On Saturday, come and help raise money for Iraq's most high profile radical women's organisation.

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Capitalism Is Dead

16-04-2007 12:10

Where do you think the world's problems actually exist?

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May 5th: Mayday 2007

15-04-2007 13:02

Nottingham's Mayday march and International Music Festival, 2007.

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

13-04-2007 12:27

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

13-04-2007 12:25

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

13-04-2007 12:23

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

13-04-2007 12:20

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.

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Home Office frivolous attitude to Article 8 'the right to family life' can be ch

12-04-2007 05:12

"Human beings are social animals. They depend on others. Their family, or extended family, is the group on which many people most heavily depend, socially, emotionally and often financially. There comes a point at which, for some, prolonged and unavoidable separation from this group seriously inhibits their ability to live full and fulfilling lives. Lord Bingham

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Support Blood Service workers! - IWW leaflet

11-04-2007 20:12

Here's the link for a leaflet from the IWW in support of NBS staff in dispute with management over service cuts + 600 looming job losses.

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Dayschool on class, capitalism and women's liberation, 21 April

11-04-2007 15:04

Come and discuss the politics of socialist feminism at this dayschool on Saturday 21 April.