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URGENT: Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

07-04-2008 19:26

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org

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Euromayday Berlin 2008 demo

07-04-2008 10:31

Text of the German language EUROMAYDAY Berlin 2008 flyer, translated via EuroMayday email list.

Mayday Parade // 1 May '08 // 2pm // Boxhagener Platz // Friedrichshain // Berlin.

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Berlin MayDay Call

06-04-2008 20:47

The following is the Berlin Call for the MayDay Parade!

Similar Parades are taking place in cities across Europe on May 1!

More info soon at: www.euromayday.org

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Nottingham MayDay 2008 - public meeting & march/rally

06-04-2008 17:43

Two events are organised to celebrate MayDay this year. There's a public meeting on May 1st with Moazzam Begg (One of nine Britons held without trial at Guantanamo Bay) and Amdani Juma. And on May 3rd there's the march and rally, with speakers, stalls and music.

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EuroMayDay Parade 2008

06-04-2008 14:39

This year for MayDay, two worlds clash together: the global movement vs strong-armed governments; grassroots networks and squatted social centers vs EU power; Utopian Society vs Capitalist Market; the radical europe of multitudes vs the conservative Europe of elites.

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Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

05-04-2008 17:44

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

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Direct action gets the goods once again, this time in London

03-04-2008 13:10

An underpaying, exploitative restuarant boss in London was forced to pay a foreign kitchen porter his owed wages and also holiday pay when a picket arrived outside his restaurant, backed up by threats of legal action.

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EuroMayDay Promo Video

03-04-2008 11:27

A EuroMayDay promo video has been made and is on YouTube. Check it out! Link it. Add it to your blog/MySpace, etc...

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Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

03-04-2008 00:44

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

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Urban conricerca 2008: inside the Culture of Capital

02-04-2008 21:39

Starting this Friday, 4th April, a 'conricerca' or workers' inquiry into the class composition of Liverpool will begin. More details will be posted on Indymedia, but here is a short analysis from one of the founding members of the group, who has recently moved to the UK from Slovakia.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, March 2008

02-04-2008 10:19

Eight actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated in March 2008, and four improved, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch

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Postal unions push through attack on pensions

01-04-2008 22:02

UK postal workers are currently voting on pension reforms demanded by Royal Mail. Both the Communication Workers Union (CWU) and Unite, which represents postal managers, are balloting their members following the end of the company’s consultation period.

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UK teachers set for first national strike in 21 years

01-04-2008 21:59

Members of the National Union of Teachers are set to take part in the first national teachers strike in 21 years in response to the government's failure to keep pay-rises in-line with the rate of inflation.

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EuroMayday 2008 parade and protest: Aachen, Germany

31-03-2008 16:16

On the First of May in Aachen / Aken / Aix-la-Chapelle / Aquisgrana / Aquisgrán / Akwizgran / Ahan, ancient carolignian city, Nicolas Sarkozy will present Angela Merkel with the EU Oscar, the Prix Charlemagne. Irony of the calendar, syndicalist MayDay this year coincides with catholic Ascension Day, when the Eurocracy Awards are traditionally handed out.

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RMT and TSSA vote for joint strike action

30-03-2008 00:35

RMT station staff and train operator members voted Thursday by a margin of five to one for strike action in defence of safety on the London Underground.

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Save Our Blood Service - 11th April Watford

29-03-2008 15:27

demonstrate friday 11th April 12pm in Watford to defend the National Blood Service and defend the NHS. Meet at 12 outside Watford Junction station.

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CDG - the lying continues

29-03-2008 11:49

The lying at CDG has evolved from little white lies to massive big black lies.

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UK/US backed attack on Basra aims to break popular and trade union resistance

28-03-2008 20:38

In a series of telephone calls from Basra over the past 48 hours, Iraqi trade union activists appeal for solidarity and describe how the so-called ‘Security Plan’ started midnight 24 March with intense shelling and fire from all kind of weapons.

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BP AGM Protest: BP in Iraq = 'Blatant Piracy'

28-03-2008 14:14

BP is using war and occupation and fuelling sectarian conflict by trying to control Iraqi oil for the next 30 years. We need to stop them.

Whilst not the only oil company angling for long-term contracts in Iraq, Shell is too and we will target their AGM too, BP is wholly British and enmeshed with the British occupation effort and establishement.

Thats the Bad News - the Good News is that they havent got their hands on Iraqi oil yet and there is space to stop them....

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West Midlands Pensioners Convention

28-03-2008 12:34

Help stop devaluation of YOUR state pension! Join in our state pension demonstration and rally.
Saturday 29 March, Birmingham.
Demonstration Assembly point: Victoria Square, Birmingham City Centre 1:00pm and march to Carrs Lane Church Centre.
Rally: Carrs Lane Church Centre, 2:00 - 4:00pm
Programme: Clarion Choir (1Ž4 hr)
History of State Pension: David Kippest (Unison)
Women & State Pension: Vera Kelsey (CWU)
Banner Theatre (1Ž2hr live show)