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Nestlé, Good Grief! - The Musical

11-05-2011 07:01

The annual demonstration over Nestlé's pushing of baby milk will take place on Saturday 21 May, 11:00 - 12:00 in Croydon. If you can't attend, you can still send us your 'Nestlé, Good Grief!' jingle.

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Stokes Croft Tesco about to reopen in Bristol with Chief Constable's support

11-05-2011 00:22

Avon & Somerset's corrupt firestarting Chief Constable Colin Port
Quite clearly Tesco's operations manager for the South West and our CORRUPT (according to the Bridgwater MP in the House Of Commons) Chief Constable Colin Port have had a little 'tete-a-tete' and agreedsupports an economic terrorism plan for Stokes Croft. Nothing is going to be allowed to stand in its way.

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Birmingham cops and 'community types' behind racist, illegal 'Project Champion'

10-05-2011 22:38

Here are the names of those responsible for implementing one of the most racist uses of public money in British history. The multi-million pound 'project champion' in which CCTV cameras were erected in Muslim areas where there was zero evidence that anybody in the area was a terrorist. The residents were being targeted simply for their colour and for their Muslim faith.
Paul Lewis wrote about 6 articles for the Guardian.
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jun/17/birmingham-stops-spy-cameras-project

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Anti Arms-Traders 'breach' parameter for Heckler and Koch picket

10-05-2011 19:57

A nice photo opp!!
Every second Monday of the month the Shut Down H + K campaign in Nottingham hold a peaceful picket outside the Easter Park Industrial Estate, Nottingham, to highlight and protest the presence on the business estate of the international arms manufacturers and traders, Heckler and Koch. Heckler and Koch have been in the city for over five years and an arms manufacturer of varying degrees and under various names has been in the city for many decades. Protesters have always been around to highlight these scum and protest against them, as I'm sure many of us would expect.

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Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp Blockade Faslane

10-05-2011 19:55


Trident Ploughshares and Faslane Peace Camp Blockade Trident Base

Tuesday 10 May, 2011

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Take Control – this weekend!

10-05-2011 19:22

Taking Control West Midlands gathering, this weekend in Birmingham.

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Iranian refugees suspend Hunger Strike after 37 days -- "the fight goes on"

10-05-2011 18:54

6 may demo 1 © 2011 Peter Marshall
The six Iranian activists protesting against the Home Office in Croydon and central London will stop their hunger strike tomorrow (Wednesday 11 May). They are calling for supporters to join them outside the Amnesty International head office (1 Easton St, London WC1) at 12 noon tomorrow, where they will cut the stitches sealing their mouths.

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Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair

10-05-2011 18:50

***Sheffield Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty***
8:00 til 2:00, Saturday 21st May
@ the Redhouse, 168 Solly Street

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Interview with David Edwards from Media Lens

10-05-2011 18:18

Media Lens is a media analysis organisation set up by David Edwards and David Cromwell in 2001 to highlight the shortcomings of mainstream media reporting in Britain. Sending out regular email alerts to its subscribers, it questions the coverage of key topics by ‘impartial’ sources like the BBC, as well as traditionally liberal publications like the Independent. Ultimately, it hopes to encourage members of the public to challenge journalists and editors over the way they report. After publishing a couple of Media Lens alerts in Now Then in the past few months, we spoke to David Edwards about the venture and how it got off the ground on the month of its 10th anniversary.

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Refugee services being cut

10-05-2011 17:49

Public sector cuts being introduced by the coalition government are having an overwhelmingly negative impact on public and voluntary sector organisations providing services for refugees and asylum seekers in Oxfordshire.

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Lips are sealed NIL by mouth

10-05-2011 16:25

Iranian Hunger Strikers and Petition submission by Peacestrike to 10 Downing Street

It is now 35 days since they started their action.

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Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed on the Death of Osama Bin Laden

10-05-2011 16:10

Stills from the Interview
During filming for the upcoming documentary feature 'The Crisis of Civilization' Dean Puckett asked best-selling author and international security analyst Dr. Nafeez Ahmed for his thoughts on the recent death of Osama Bin Laden.

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Back on the Map the Photo Shoot

10-05-2011 16:08

The fun begins........
The story in pictures

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New Bin Laden tapes appear fake like earlier ones

10-05-2011 16:04

Time's special issue on the death of Osama bin Laden, 20 May 2011
This article highlights a shameless Washington effort to compound one lie with others. Ad nauseam accounts continue, contributing to war on terror fear mongering that's changed America dramatically post-9/11 disturbingly. It suggests worse yet to come, including perhaps more war besides others now raging, while popular needs go begging.

Despite poll data showing opposition, they continue because people focus more on bread and circuses than activism, the only way to achieve constructive change. It's high time opinions became anger enough to significantly make a difference. It better because the alternative is too dire to imagine.

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Back on the Map Baby !!

10-05-2011 15:54


PEACE CAMPS FIRST ACTION IN THE YEAR OF THE GRAND RE-OPENING

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Palestine Today 05 10 2011

10-05-2011 15:18

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Welcome to Palestine Today on this Tuesday 10 of May 2011. This is the daily round up of today’s events from around Palestine as brought to you by the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org. I am David Steele

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Taunton Vegan Fayre This Saturday!

10-05-2011 14:55


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Stokes Croft Riots - £250,000 In Compensation To G20 Protestors

10-05-2011 14:55

Police have so far paid out £250,000 in damages to people arrested over the G20 protests, "the bulk of it to 66 activists held during a controversial raid on a squatted building." Sound a little familiar?

"Police paid £250,000 in compensation to people arrested over G20 protests"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/may/09/police-pay-dam...rests


From the footage I've seen of the Stokes Croft riots it looks like there's plenty of scope for people to begin claiming damages against the Police, and to turn the tables back on them.

These damages, plus the 'unlawful killing' of Ian Tomlinson hardly put the Police in a position to be given any benefit of the doubt regarding events on a more local level.

In the longer term any funds the Police manage to secure from central government to pay for their provocative and brutal policing in Bristol, may well end up being diverted back into the hands of local residents.

"Extra funds could pay for tackling Bristol riots"
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-13339388

This money, depending on the inclinations of each claimant, could then be ploughed back into compensating local businesses for lost custom, and even to start new ones, securing our own redevelopement of the area along non-corporate lines.

So, I would suggest it's time to now start turning the tables on the Police, to bring them to book, and to turn the screws on any funding they may receive, and to divert those funds back into the community.

To reuse some of the language the Police have used against protestors in Bristol...

It's time Police were now "hunted down relentlessly" while "leaving no stone unturned" in pursuit of this.

Legally speaking of course!


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