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Palestinians walled-in by IDF

16-02-2002 02:53

In Response to Settlers’ Demands, Palestinians Forced to Use Walled-In Concrete

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Why the £25 million won't prevent cuts

16-02-2002 02:14

Responding to the three-year budget presented to the government in November last year, the government announced it would offer Hackney council £25 million, but as the old saying goes, ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’.

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PHOTOS of Fire At Yarls Wood Detention Centre

15-02-2002 23:14

14-15 February, 2002 (article 1)

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Refuse Israel Defense Forces (cartoon by Latuff)

15-02-2002 22:45

Refuse Israel Defense Forces (cartoon by Latuff)
Support Israeli reservists who are refusing to carry on occupation and killing of Palestinians. Click on the link below for details.

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"War on Cancer" 30 Yr Failure

15-02-2002 18:36

The 30 year so-called "war on cancer" has been an abysmal failure for cancer patients, but an enormous $$$$$$ maker for the pharmaceutical/medical complex. They have, and are, making billions peddling the same toxic, cancer causing drugs that have failed for over 50 years.

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Campaigner's statement about Yarlswood

15-02-2002 18:22

The Campaign Against Arbitrary Detention at Yarls Wood and the Committee Defend Asylum seekers have issued a statement. Ncadc reports:

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US troops in philippines `ready for action`

15-02-2002 15:45

U.S. troops began deploying Friday on a
remote Philippine island used by Muslim guerrillas linked to Osama bin Laden
(news - web sites) and a senior diplomat said they were ready for action,
although on a training mission.

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Book Recommendation

15-02-2002 14:53

Comrades & Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers in Palestine 1906 -48 by Prof Z Lockman (1996 California University)
ISBN 0-520-20259-7

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RMT elect Bob Crow

15-02-2002 13:59

Members of rail workers union RMT have elected Bob Crow as their General Secretary by a big margin. Bob is the most left-wing of the three candidates and has been widely attacked in the mainstream media as a 'wrecker'. Link to RMT press release:

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Finally: US Law is established and active in Afghanistan.Kabul now ready to.

15-02-2002 13:53

Finally: US Law is established and active in Afghanistan.Kabul now ready to.
Finally: US Law is established and active in Afghanistan.Kabula now ready to joint the civliized USA World and maybe become the first or next US States in the Middle East

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Two words to remember - empires fall

15-02-2002 13:39

For the past few years, the global justice movement has been like the child at the back of the crowd as the parade of history wheels by. As the pundits applaud and the marketeers cheer, we stand and shout that the Empire has no clothes, that its cloaks of finery are woven from financial fictions and economic voodoo.

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Yarls Wood Detention Center burnt to the ground

15-02-2002 12:18

Since the opening of Yarlswood in November 2001, detainees have protested against the conditions in it. Yesterday night, it burnt down. It is not clear how the fire started.

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bono, global saviour or capitalist cheerleader

15-02-2002 11:55

article from canada on bono pretensions and danger to the movement

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Pics antiWef from Switzerland

15-02-2002 10:45

Pics

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Fire after riot at asylum centre.

15-02-2002 06:39

Firefighters are battling a major fire after a riot broke out at Yarl's Wood asylum seeker detention centre.

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BOYCOTT ALL U.S. GOODS!

15-02-2002 05:45

In support of the Palestinian people and in opposition to the growing and vicious U.S. war on the people of the world and growing move towards fascism in the U.S., we appeal to the people of the world to support those of us who are suffering under this evil regime by boycotting the goods that the brutal U.S. rulers sell overseas to finance their brutality and war.

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A Political History Of Ketchup

15-02-2002 05:29

''Pork-barrel politics are nothing new to Marion Nestle. When she moved to Washington, D.C., in 1986 to help craft the first Surgeon General's Report on Nutrition and Health, she was told point-blank that the report could not recommend that Americans eat less meat, sugar, or--for that matter--any other food....''

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Urge the Nobel Institute to reject the Bush/Blair Peace Prize Nomination!

15-02-2002 05:25

They say that satire died when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, but if a Right-wing Norwegian MP has his way, the Nobel committee will be spitting on its grave. Norwegian MP Harald Tom Nesvik nominated Tony Blair and George W. Bush for the Nobel Peace Prize for "decisive action against terrorism, something I believe in the future will be the greatest threat to peace."

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URGENT APPEAL for Homeless Workers' Movement

15-02-2002 04:41

Campaign against a 3,5 thousands families eviction!

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ANTI HIERARCHY! (continued)

15-02-2002 00:07

Let's work together and put our differences to one side :-)
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