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April 22: EARTH DAY in Wales

18-04-2006 15:57

EARTH DAY:
CLIMATE CHANGE MARCH
Assemble 1 pm, Cathays Park (opposite Museum & City Hall), Cardiff
Saturday 22 April - Earth Day

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Audio Report From Palestinan Prisoner Day

18-04-2006 15:33

Audio
April the 17th is the annual day when Palestinians commemorate their friends and family members imprisioned inside Israeli Gaels. Listen to a report recorded on Prisoners' day with the head of the Bethlehem Palestinian Prisoner Society discussing the Israeli policy of Administrative detention.
For more information please visit www.ppsmo.org

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Merseyside May Day March and Festival

18-04-2006 15:26

The focus of Merseyside's May Day celebrations, organised by Merseyside TUC, moves to Liverpool this year.

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Global Days of Action Against Immigration Detention - website

18-04-2006 14:30

Sydney, 18 April 2006: Blood on your hands, John Howard
April has seen the first coordinated Global Days of Action Against Immigration Detention.

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Melbourne: Easter protest over refugees' rights

18-04-2006 14:23

Sunday, 16 April 06

The Easter bunny swapped chocolate eggs for placards in central Melbourne today in support of the rights of refugees.

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100% Biodiesel Now Available in the Cambridge Area

18-04-2006 13:07

Tired of climate change? War? Smelly diesel exhausts? High fuel prices?

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Manchester Mayday weekend: anti-nuclear demo

18-04-2006 12:26

Commemorate the 20th anniversary of Chernobyl and join our opposition to a new nuclear generation.
DEMONSTRATE
Meet at The Basement, 24 Lever St, 11.45am Sat. 29th April WEAR BLACK. Procession arrives at Cross St Chapel 12.45pm

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Operation Refuse War

18-04-2006 10:48

A Week of Action Uniting Resisters In Celebration of International Conscientious Objectors Day

May 11-16 2006

New York City and Washington DC

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Sheffield Anarchic Theory/Action Group

18-04-2006 09:49

...a desire to act to improve and transform our lives in the very
moment of the immediacy of the present

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Iran’s crime of transporting oil!

18-04-2006 08:15

IRAN
That’s right; years ago the struggle was all about the resources of black gold now it’s about getting it around and about to use and sell it.

Many have wondered why Bush Junior was obsessive about Iraq and what the real American interest has been behind toppling Hussein.

The answer can simply be put in two words: Check Mate! The current Middle East Crisis is a text book example of traditional power play.

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Menezes killers not to face charges.

18-04-2006 05:28

As reported on BBC Radio 4 this morning, killer cops get off scot free yet again, despite gunning down an innocent man.

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Report:Tyneside Solidarity with Manchester 15/04 asylum-rights demo (more photo)

17-04-2006 23:38

On 15th April a contingent from Tyneside Community Action from Refugees travelled to Manchester to support the demonstration against the arbitrary detention and criminalisation of those seeking asylum in Britain (overall report at  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2006/04/338328.html)

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CLIMATE ACTION NEWS SHEET 58, April 2006

17-04-2006 23:26

Compiled and sent out by Rising Tide UK:  info@risingtide.org.uk
To receive this News Sheet monthly, email  news-subscribe@risingtide.org.uk
with the subject line 'subscribe' (without the quotes).

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Hungerstrike update

17-04-2006 21:33

Detanees on hunger strike in Colnbrook and Haslar immigration detention centres (prisons for migrants).

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Immigration Policy: Send Us Your Poor, They Will Wind Up in Iraq

17-04-2006 19:42

They are coming by the millions from all
over the world. Let them come here. Let
them find that there are not enough jobs.
They will find the military to be the last
resort when their welfare is cut off. And
let them acquire Gulf War Syndrom
(radiation sickness from uranium
munitions).! It works just fine in the
minds of the neo-cons.

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HOUSE CCUPATIONS AND SETTLER VIOLENCE IN HEBRON

17-04-2006 19:00

These emails 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 emails I will be
writing short accounts of aspects of the occupation and resistance.

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY
BLOG AT WWW.BRIGHTONPALESTINE.ORG

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Climate Chaos - it's not too late. Meeting in Oxford

17-04-2006 18:28

Public Meeting on climate chaos and radical options for stopping it:
Friends' Meeting house, St. Giles, Oxford
7.30 Wednesday 26th April

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Pics from European Alternative Resistance Sound System Parade Demo

17-04-2006 16:58

EAR Sound System Parade
Some collected pics from the Strasbourg european anti-repression demo held on saturday 15th april.

The demo was against the repression against free parties, festivals and squats - and in particular last summer's brutal attack by czech riot police against the Czechtek tekno festival.

Up to 3000 people attended the demo, including some from the uk.

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Irish Anarchists Clash With Police During 1916 Commemoration

17-04-2006 12:40

While the Irish state held it's first military parade in over 36 years in rememberance of the 1916 insurrection against British rule a group of 60 Anarchists marched on a military base just outside dublin.

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Refugee Rights Protest Hits Kirribilli House

17-04-2006 07:42

Kirribili Protest
Upon arrival at Kirribilli house the police used force to push everyone off the street onto the footpath. With the few hundred people protesting it made it cramped and uncomfortable. Loud and passionate speeches took place from various people from activist groups, religous leaders and media personalities. The action ended with some street theatre from Perth activists.
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