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This Week In Palestine – week 4 2008

25-01-2008 23:35

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This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for January 13th through to January 25th, 2008.

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Fit Watch Delay Start of Police March

25-01-2008 23:29

Okay – maybe for only five minutes – but at least we got to obstruct 20,000 cops, which might be a record.

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Chiswick protest against Total Oil support for Burma dictatorship

25-01-2008 22:30

Twelve protesters held a demonstration at the West Four Total Oil petrol station at 137 Chiswick High Road on January 24th, calling on the company to stop giving the brutal military junta hundreds of millions of dollars a year, as the largest western supporter of the military regime.

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Escape from Gaza or Voluntary Transfer?

25-01-2008 19:34

Forget everything you've read about the “Great Escape” from Gaza. It's thoroughly misleading, most probably cooked up in an Israeli think tank as way to rid Palestine of its indigenous people.

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Around the Campaigns Friday 24th January 2008

25-01-2008 18:47

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US Passport Cards to contain RFID chips

25-01-2008 17:25

The US will begin issuing Passport cards for frequent travel between the US and Mexico, Canada, the Carribbean, and Bermuda. These cards will contain Radio Frequenqy Identification Chips linked to government databases.

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Harassment at CDG continues

25-01-2008 16:22

CDG, Careers Development Group, run New Deal 'boot camps' on behalf of Job Centres.

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Justice For Atenco!!!

25-01-2008 15:37

CASE FILED IN THE SPANISH NATIONAL COURT (AUDENCIA NACIONAL) AGAINST THE MEXICAN GOVERNMENT FOR THE CRIME OF TORTURE.

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Gordon Goebbels Brown's head in a SOCPA 2005 noose please

25-01-2008 14:54

Good for the goose is good for the gander.

What is the punishment for high treason in England or in Iraq, as the case may be? Where have they been committing their crimes? Where should they be tried?

What should the punishment be for any war criminal?

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++ Brad Will Film at rampART ++ WED 30TH ++ 8pm

25-01-2008 13:56

Popular Uprising in Oaxaca
When Mexican paramilitary forces shot Brad Will in the chest, killing
him, his camera fell from his hands. But it didn't stop recording. It
continued moving from hand to hand.
Brad's camera paints us a picture of what his life was about, and what
so many of his friends continue to struggle for.

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US election,help consensus, vote like CNT did in pre-revolutionary spain

25-01-2008 13:34

Bans on heirarchical political parties makes sense, we had problems with Marxist "proletarian" dictators, but green party founded in the UK uses consensus & delegation.Its being slaughtered by corporate media in US elections.This article is not from the "heirachy", its from an individual member with anarchist views

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Teenager arrested after tying herself to Japananese Embassy

25-01-2008 12:54

A British teenager has been arrested after tying herself to a staircase at the Japanese Embassy in London in a protest over whaling, she said. Sophie said last night: "I honestly think that me having a criminal record is not a big price to pay when what the whales are going through is so much worse."

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Who's Lying? The police or the police.

25-01-2008 12:35

The scum can't have it both ways. Who's lying? Take your pick.

Either the police federation lied and the BNP were invited to their march. Or the Bronze Commander lied to Fit Watch.

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Friends of Brigitte & Lizzie Kamtcheu

25-01-2008 12:21

Brigitte & Lizzie Kamtcheu
Brigitte and Lizzie currently detained in Yarl's Wood IRC, are facing deportation to Cameroon on Tuesday 29 January 2008 on Kenya Airways flight KQ101 @ 19:00 from London Heathrow terminal 4 to Nairobi, and onward to Douala Cameroon. Her partner Bernard and father of Lizzie is currently detained in Campsfield IRC and booked on the same flight.

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GM Potato trial application by Leeds University

25-01-2008 12:15

Information about an application by Leeds University to run field trials of GM potatoes this year at a farm in Yorkshire

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sefton park trees cut down

25-01-2008 12:14

the re-designing of sefton park or the mass tree felling to ensure the funding has begun.

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Sick of genocide? KNOW the Law; USE the Law...

25-01-2008 11:53

Are YOU aware that it is illegal in the UK to pay taxes that go towards supporting genocide? Read on and ACT NOW!

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Vegan Prisoners Brithdays

25-01-2008 11:47

Just a reminder that Jonny Ablewhite's birthday is on 27 Jan and Heather Nicholson's is on 30 Jan, so please send them a birthday card. Jonny was found guilty of "blackmail" for his role in the (successful) Newchurch campaign and Natasha has been charged with conspiracy to blackmail Huntingdon Life Sciences and has been remanded in custody.

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Stop persecuting us, protesters tell police

25-01-2008 11:32

Tom Harris and Nicci Tapping
ANIMAL rights protesters arrested last week have today criticised police for detaining them, claiming they have done nothing wrong. The pair were arrested in Alver Road, Gosport, on Friday for the second time in nine months, but told The News they have never acted illegally... The arrests were part of Operation Achilles, a major police operation across the south targeting suspected animal rights extremists.

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North West Vegan Festival - a reminder

25-01-2008 09:47

The NW Vegan Festival is happening on Sat 26th Jan at Sachas Hotel, Tib St, Manchester. We have over 40 stalls, a list of talks and films, free food samples, and loads more. Free admission.
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