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Black Star 2

07-04-2006 13:12

Black Star is our regular newsletter, this is our second edition with a large article on 'Red Tuesday' aswell as articles on the CPE revolt in france, the west midlands travel dispute and the situation in bolivia.

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STOP LIES OF MAKE POVERTY HISTORY CAMPAIGN

07-04-2006 12:43

I am writing to request that people consider how Make Poverty History and attached charities are lying to the public and are not helping the millions starving or those without access to clean water to drink or clean with. Please take the time to read this and don't be made to feel guilty by another LIE 8

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Saturday April 29th - Make our streets political

07-04-2006 11:34

Saturday April 29th will be a day for all radical groups to get together and take back the streets of Liverpool for political expression.

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Make (Energy) Poverty History

07-04-2006 11:18

The aims of Make Poverty History and climate change campaigners may seem different, but there is a direct and blindingly obvious link between the two. This short article shows this link and how it can be turned into positive action.

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'Work Camps' to return to the UK for unemployed/disabled

07-04-2006 11:10

In the 1930's the unemployed were secretly placed in work camps where hard labour was the order of the day, perhaps now we will see a modern version of them,

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This week's SchNEWS - ETHICAL CLEANSING

07-04-2006 11:10

Ethical Investment
Exposing the reality behind The Co-operative Bank's so called Ethical INvestment policies with money going to pharmaceutical companies, mobile phone companies and, our favourite, oil companies.

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UKIP are ...

07-04-2006 10:58

Racist

UKIP’s present leader Roger Knapman has been a speaker at meetings of the Conservative Democratic Alliance (CDA), a shady organisation set up after Iain Duncan Smith expelled the notorious racist Monday Club. Leaders of the CDA include Stuart Millson, who left the tories in 1986 to join the BNP. Knapman allegedly was a former member of the Monday Club.

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Greenpeace activists take on Mcdonalds over Amazon Rainforest

07-04-2006 08:36

chickens in Mcdonalds
On Thursday Morning Greenpeace launched its campaign against Mcdonalds with a series of actions across the UK.

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PRESS RELEASE: Aldermaston blockades continue

07-04-2006 08:32

Police remove blockaders, January 2006
On Monday 10 April, nonviolent direct action group Block the Builders will return to AWE Aldermaston and attempt to prevent construction traffic entering Britain's WMD factory.

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Letter from Palestine - On the Right Side of the Wall

07-04-2006 06:00

Letter from a Palestinian activist from Jerusalem after they shut the gates in the Apartheid Wall near her home

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Critical resistance Survey for people in prison, and

07-04-2006 02:58

CR
CR hopes that this survey reaches as many people most impacted by these issues as possible. We would like you to share this survey with your families, communities, faith communities, and any other people or places where those of us who have been impacted by this crisis are

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Rough Music issue 9 is out

07-04-2006 01:44

Brighton's shit-stirring, dirt-diggin' free newsheet has a new issue out

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Radical Women Musical Artists Unite Against War

07-04-2006 00:59

Peace not War the not-for-profit musicians collective, present a unique bill of female artistes at Brixton on Friday 14th April. PnW parties are always special but this is something else. On a huge bill you have got to see grime diva Excentral the Tempest and acoustic queen Sarah Bear to name but two totally inspiring acts.

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It's offical, Israeli soldiers guilty of murder.

06-04-2006 23:41

In May 2003, James Miller was murdered by an Israeli soldier who deliberately targeted him while he was filming Palestinian children in a refugee camp. This was the unanimous verdict of the inquest jury at the St Pancras Coroner’s Court, in London yesterday. After an hour of deliberation, the jury decided that Mr Miller had been deliberately shot.


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Climate Camp organising weekend coming to Leeds, 8th/9th April

06-04-2006 23:09

Open Invitation to the Climate Camp Planning Gathering: Leeds April 8-9

Please distribute widely.

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English Partnerships Invited To Support Evicted Family’s Social Justice Campaign

06-04-2006 22:34

Stamp Duty On Selected Homes Crest Nicholson A Whole New Meaning
English Partnerships has appointed John Callcutt as their new Chief Executive Officer, former Deputy Chair and Chief Executive Officer, of Crest Nicholson Plc. By way of ‘open letter’, the Shalom Family has invited English Partnerships to join with them in their Family Campaign for Social Justice.

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Against the Liberal Instrumentalization of Auschwitz

06-04-2006 22:13

Auschwitz becomes the pretext for diverse atrocities, the incentive for preventing what is worse.. Auschwitz has become an export-hit. What an achievement! Language, community, truth and logic are threatened when offense becomes defense and ends justify means.

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Tel Rumeida Prepares for an Uneasy Shabbat

06-04-2006 18:09

These posts are from a Brighton based activist spending April in occupied Palestine with the International Solidarity Movement, a network of international activists set up to support Palestinian non violent resistance agaisnst Israeli occupation of Palestinian land. In these posts I will be writing short accounts of aspects of the occupation and resistance…

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Palestine RESISTS! (by Latuff)

06-04-2006 16:56

Palestine RESISTS!
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. funded Israeli occupation.

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Say NO to Enforced Mass Medication

06-04-2006 16:40

The Food Standards Agency (FSA) wants to have all bread compulsorily "fortified" with folic acid - this would be enforced mass medication.

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