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Birmingham Shitty Council Demonstration

13-01-2008 18:08

Council House = Shit House
Saturday 12th January 2008- West Midlands IWW attended a demonstration in front of the council house against Birmingham City Councils intended ‘re-structure’. We felt that our feelings had to be expressed about the council’s proposed plans – Birmingham has a SHITTY council!

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Resist, Rebel and Revolt!

13-01-2008 17:31

All places where the elite caste talk, control and package the news, are monopolized and not accessible by university workers.

It is time for the revolt!

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Starbucks United!

13-01-2008 16:59

Fast workers die young....take a break!
On Christmas Eve, local IWW members organised a drive to raise awareness of the benefits of forming and joining employee union branches amongst the baristas working in Birmingham’s seven city-centre Starbucks stores.

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Dustmen blockade town hall.

12-01-2008 10:22

Waste management consultants arrive at the town hall.
On Thursday refuse workers in Waltham Forest spelled how rubbish their new pay deal is by bringing several tons of the stuff to the town hall. Around 30 refuse vehicles converged on the town hall and its approach road effectively blocking it for about an hour. Speeches made to those who assembled on the town hall steps promised action over their treatment by the council

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Disabled man from Kenya suing Home Office supports Harmondsworth detainees on tr

12-01-2008 07:15

Peter Gichura
Peter Gichura, a wheelchair user from Kenya, detained twice in Harmondsworth detention centre, and still under threat of deportation, will take part in the demonstration outside Southwark Crown Court in support of the Harmondsworth 4.

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Resisting the Corporate Theft of Iraqi Oil

11-01-2008 00:05

PUBLIC MEETING

Resisting the Corporate Theft of Iraqi Oil

Ewa Jasiewicz and Greg Muttitt, PLATFORM

Next to Nowhere (next to News from Nowhere bookshop), 96 Bold St.

18th January 2008 - 7.30pm

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The role of the “left” within the trade unions

10-01-2008 21:35

The Socialist, newspaper of the Socialist Party—formerly the Militant group—recently published a revealing exchange in which one of its leading industrial organisers ticked off a member for suggesting that the “left” in the trade unions should be fighting to throw out the bureaucracy and build genuine rank-and-file organisations.

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The fight for equal pay for women: Britain’s Guardian defends union’s dirty deal

09-01-2008 19:09

The Guardian newspaper began the New Year by publishing two January 2 articles and an editorial on women workers employed by local authorities fighting for equal pay.

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'Ethnic Charter flights' = 'Hamburg International Airlines'

08-01-2008 18:35

A deportee has positively identified 'Hamburg International Airlines' as the charter flight he was put on taking him and 30 others to Afghanistan.

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Alex Belongs to Bristol

08-01-2008 11:12

Alexandre Sidenko
Alexandre Sidenko from Russia is currently detained in Tinsley House IRC, with removal directions set for Wednesday 16th January on British Airways Flight BAo874 from Heathrow Airport @ 12:25 to Moscow. He was 'snatched' from his Bristol home and community where he has lived for seven years, on Wednesday 2nd January 2008.

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IWW and friends callout to protest Blood Service cuts

08-01-2008 11:00

As part of its ongoing fight to prevent massive cuts in the National Blood Service, the IWW is calling for a demonstration on Thursday 10th January at the NBS Management meeting in London.

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Friends of Therese & Ngalieuk

07-01-2008 08:46

Notewo Therese Laure and her son Ngalieuk Touko Thed Landery are currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, facing deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday 8th January at 19:00 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 from London Heathrow terminal 4 to Nairobi, and onward to Douala Cameroon

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Shadows of a gloomy future for the elite caste

05-01-2008 13:43

The Minister of State for Lifelong Learning, Further and Higher Education, Bill Rammell, 27th November 2007 has given a speech on Academic Freedom and extremism in British Higher Education.

Since then he is looking for allies; for people who want to reinterpret freedoms "in the context of the new challenges and threats that face our society". In reality, with just this sentence he narrows down the scope for debate, framing it as a mere reinterpretation of the word freedom in the context of external threats and imagined dangers from an hypothetical external environment.

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Harmondsworth 4 Trial Adjourned

05-01-2008 06:27

- No demonstration at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 7th January

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Pssst - International Sick-Out Day: July 24, 2008. Pass it on!

04-01-2008 21:04

National Sick-out day in America is scheduled for 24th July 2008

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Harmondsworth 4 Trial Adjourned

04-01-2008 17:49

- No demonstration at Southwark Crown Court on Monday 7th January

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Call For Solidarity With Paris VIII Vincennes-Saint Denis Strikers

03-01-2008 10:11

For seven weeks, a massive movement has been growing within the French
University system, uniting professors, students and staff in a struggle
against Sarkozy's new university reform law, the law concerning the
"Liberties and Responsabilities of the Universities" (LRU).

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Global Call-in Continues Jan 2-4: Hands off the Uhuru Movement

03-01-2008 05:23

Boley Center is attacking the Uhuru Movement through illegal firings, a false arrest, and taking away people's housing vouchers – effectively throwing them out on the street. The only connection to all these incidents is that all these people are supporters of the Uhuru Movement. Boley is violating freedom of speech, freedom of association, federal housing and worker's rights! Now the Uhuru Movement is uncovering and exposing Boley Center's culture of larceny!

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Third attempt to remove Comfort Adefowoju and Family

02-01-2008 07:59

Comfort Adefowoju and children
Comfort Adefowoju and children still detained at Yarl's Wood IRC, have been issued with a new removal directions, on British Airways flight BA0075 from Heathrow airport terminal 4 to Lagos/Nigeria at 12.50 hours Thursday 3rd January 2008.

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Derby Nurses Claim To Be Too Busy To Meet Union Over Pay Cuts

01-01-2008 13:52

The Derby Evening Telegraph reports:
Nurses working in Derby's hospitals say they have not been able to attend meetings about planned pay cuts because their wards are too short-staffed.