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Are you a 'favourite' of the Avon and Somerset Police?

24-05-2011 18:55

The appeal of climate activists

24-05-2011 18:07

Twenty activists, many of them with long links to Oxford, have launched an appeal to challenge their convictions of conspiracy to commit aggravated trespass.

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Ray Davies wins damages against Met re Gaza demo

24-05-2011 17:24

Caerphilly councillor and peace activist Ray Davies has at last received damages for the injuries he sustained in the march to protest the bombing of Gaza in 2009.
Video footage obtained from the Met enabled the police who carried out the attack to be identified, and Ray has now received compensation

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Demo against Santander, Brighton - in Solidarity with the Arab Uprisings

24-05-2011 16:51

Friday 27th May - 4pm-6pm

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Tesco reopens - time for PRSC to earn their money

24-05-2011 14:55

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Palestine Today 05 24 2011

24-05-2011 14:53

Welcome to Palestine Today a service of the International Middle East Media Centre www.imemc.org, for Tuesday May 24th, 2011

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Spanish Revolution at London

24-05-2011 14:22

Hundreds of people attended a rally and demonstration over the last week in Belgrave Square, opposite the Spanish Embassy in London, in support of‘Democracia Real Ya’ (‘Real Democracy Now’). Numbers peaked on Saturday 21st May at 8pm with around 700 people in attendance.

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UG#551 - Understanding The Financial 'Crisis' (The Spectre Haunting Europe)

24-05-2011 14:21

The show this week looks at the so-called financial 'crisis' from two different perspectives. Firstly, I give an audio commentary on a presentation I created last year, Understanding the Financial 'Crisis'. Next, Michael Hudson speaks on The Spectre Haunting Europe, detailing the financial goings on in Europe, focussing on the evisceration of the Latvian economy and expanding upon his prediction of a new feudalism and a neo-liberal style fire sale of the European welfare state.

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#Spanishrevolution Has Reached Bristol

24-05-2011 12:55

Support for the Spanish protesters in Madrid reached Bristol today. Protesters gathered in the centre of Bristol with placards echoing the demands made in Madrid. They expressed their wish for real democracy and a change to the political and economic systems chanting slogans such as "They Don't Represent Us" and "Real Democracy Now

Support for the Spanish protesters in Madrid reached Bristol today, on May 22nd 2011. Protesters gathered in the centre of Bristol with placards echoing the demands made in Madrid. They expressed their wish for real democracy and a change to the political and economic systems chanting slogans such as "They Don't Represent Us" and "Real Democracy Now".

The protests in Madrid started on 15 May with a camp in the central "Puerta del Sol" square. The gathering of thousands is continuing following a vote to remain in the square for another week.

Full Story | Please Support the Spanish Revolution | They All Must Go (London Indymedia) | Protests Set to Continue Outside Spanish Embassy (London Indymedia) | Constructing, Living and Demanding Participatory Democracy in the #Spanishrevolution (P2P Foundation) | Spain's Tahir Square (Znet) | Arab Spring to Spanish Summer (Znet)

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‘why us?’ possilpark youth speak out against dispersal zone

24-05-2011 11:55

An interview conducted with youth in the Possilpark area of Glasgow, subject to a trial ‘dispersal zone’ order.

‘I’m wondering, though, if there’s four police cutting about, can we tell them to disperse?’

Counter-demonstration against Zionists using memory of Holocaust to condemn Iran

24-05-2011 11:52

On May 1st, Zionist groups held a vigil in front of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in New York City to use the memory of the Holocaust to condemn Iran. Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews showed their opposition to this provocation by demonstrating on the opposite side of the avenue.

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Sheffield Anarchists Bookfair: Luddites Organising Forum

24-05-2011 11:50

Attached is a recording of a talk at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair held on 21st May 2011, titled, Luddites Organising Forum.

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Sheffield Social Centre: Why? What? Where?

24-05-2011 11:35

Attached is a recording of a meeting held at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair on 21st May 2011 titled, Sheffield Social Centre: Why? What? Where?

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Draft Proposal to Replace the Manifesto 'Real Democracy Now'

24-05-2011 11:25

DRAFT PROPOSAL FOR A SERIOUS ALTERNATIVE TO DIRECT DEMOCRACY

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Anarchist Studies Network Book Launch

24-05-2011 11:08

Attached is a recording of a meeting at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair held on 21st May 2011 at which the editors of 3 books discussed their publications:

All three books are edited collections of contemporary anarchist theory, with contributors from around the globe offering some unique and original perspectives on anarchism.

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Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair 2011: Anarchism 101

24-05-2011 10:37

Attached is a recording of a session held at the Sheffield Anarchist Book fair on 21st May 2011 titled, Anarchism 101, and described as:

Everything you wanted to know about anarchism/libertarian communism but were afraid to ask. A panel discussion featuring members of the Anarchist Federation

http://www.afed.org.uk/ , Solidarity Federation

http://www.solfed.org.uk/ and the Commune

http://thecommune.co.uk/ .

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Elephants, Dogmas and Taboos: a Friendly Critique of Anarchism

24-05-2011 10:25

Attached is a recording from a talk held on 21st May 2011 at the Sheffield Anarchist Book Fair, titled "Elephants, Dogmas and Taboos: a Friendly Critique of Anarchism".

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This revolution is sponsored by you!

24-05-2011 10:21

Hundreds of thousands of Spaniards are decending on their cities' main squares to demonstrate their indiganation in actions that many commentators are comparing to the movements to have recently graced the Arab world. A fair comparison? Something new to Europe?

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