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Chomsky Comes to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne

07-04-2008 20:21

Projectile 2008, May 23 - 26, opens with a Noam Chomsky webcast.

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Running for Life, running for Water

07-04-2008 20:12

Can we just get enough money together to get these folks a well?

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Action against; vivisection, hunting, fishing and leather

07-04-2008 19:49

B&K UNIVERSAL SUPPLIER TARGETED (UK)
HUNTING SCHOOL PAINTED, CARS VANDALIZED (Germany)
ACTIONS AGAINST FISHING AND LEATHER (Germany)

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Usborne children's books and the BNP

07-04-2008 19:34

Anything for a quick buck!

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URGENT: Free Mumia now! All out for 19 April united-front demonstration!

07-04-2008 19:26

Free Mumia now!

Mumia Abu-Jamal
is innocent!

Abolish the racist
death penalty!

Saturday 19 April
1pm, US Embassy,
Grosvenor Square, London W1A
(Nearest Tube: Bond Street)

See attached PDF leaflet, contact the PDC for more information and to help build the demonstration, to speak and to endorse the protest. 020 7281 5504  partisandefence@yahoo.co.uk www.partisandefense.org

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judges for justice - 15th march

07-04-2008 18:52

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short film of the 'judges for justice' action which took place in london on the 5th anniversary of the illegal attck on iraq. an ad hoc group paraded through london dressed as high court judges and armed with leaflets and an excellent banner. they started at the high court, visited downing street (without socpa authorisation) then to blair's new 'faith foundation' at grosvenor square and finally to his family home in connaught square

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Torch Went Out in London Too!

07-04-2008 18:21

What no torch?
The French weren’t likely to be caught napping when it comes to kicking off so it’s good to see that the Olympic Torch protest was abandoned in Paris today (1).

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Get ready

07-04-2008 17:37

A QUOTE REVEALING THE PLANS FOR A NAZI FESTIVAL THAT WE MUST PREVENT .

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HLS worker escapes driving ban

07-04-2008 16:17

HLS worker escapes driving ban

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This Government Makes Asylum Seekers Sick

07-04-2008 15:56

Public Meeting - "Atrocious Barbarism": Limiting Healthcare Access to Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Monday 14th April 7pm at Showroom Cinema, Room 5, Paternoster Row, Sheffield S1 2BX

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US congressional hearings on Iraq foreshadow aggressive stance against Iran

07-04-2008 15:52

In testimony before the US Congress this week, General David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, is widely expected, as part of his assessment of the military situation, to slam Iran for allegedly arming and training anti-US insurgents. However, British officials warned in the Telegraph on Saturday that Petraeus could go further, by accusing Tehran of waging a proxy war against the US in Iraq and laying the basis for military strikes against Iran.

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Diana Inquest: Expect a spate of attacks in media against the jury 'system'!

07-04-2008 15:42

The INQUEST:

The Diana 'death' was 'unlawful killing', the jury in the High Court in London has decided!

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Olympic torch relay abandoned in Paris as flame is extinguished FOUR times

07-04-2008 15:30

Olympic torch relay abandoned in Paris as flame is extinguished FOUR times

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Olympic Relay Free Tibet Rally

07-04-2008 15:28

Tibet Flat on Russell St.
Free Tibet!

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Olympic torch relay protest timeline

07-04-2008 15:15

Olympic torch relay protest timeline

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Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay, London April 6, 2008

07-04-2008 14:49

There was a large crowd
The Tibetan Freedom Torch Relay also came to London on April 6, on its way around the world from Olympia, Greece to Tibet. Several thousand attended a packed rally in London.
Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.

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Palestine Today 040708

07-04-2008 14:41

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday April 7th, 2008.

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Indy Global Report' from Bethlehem, on Resonance FM104.4 for the 7th April 2008

07-04-2008 14:28

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This weeks Indy Global Reports, brings an interview with Two Palestinian activists, who are trying to find out the truth about the missing and disappeared bodies of dead political prisoners and fighters.
The "Cemetery of Numbers" is a name for secret grave yards where Israel keeps the dead bodies of its' political enemies.

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Olympic Torch Relay: Heated Arguments in Trafalgar Square

07-04-2008 14:16

Neither Fingers nor Minds quite met
After the torch had left there were arguments in Trafalgar Square between Chinese supporters of the Olympics and human rights demonstrators.
Pictures copyright (C) 2008, Peter Marshall. All rights reserved.
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