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Carnival Against Vivisection! March details, Important Police Information

14-07-2008 21:06

As some of you will already know, the police issued a s12 and 14 to protesters last time there was a protest at Sequani which informed them that no more than 50 protesters could protest near the labs. They are going to need 1000 police to stop us if they think we aren't going to the labs this time.

Some advice for anyone who is attending the carnival.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING FROM THE POLICE.
DON'T TALK TO THE COPS THEY AREN'T YOUR FRIENDS
FILM THEM, PHOTOGRAPH THEM, COLLECT EVIDENCE

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Leeds Fascists Tony White & Kevin Watmough Arrested! Simon Sheppard On The Run!

14-07-2008 18:23

Tony White & Kevin Watmough have been taken into custody today. Simon Sheppard and Steve Whittle (AKA Luke O'Farrell) are on the run.

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Open statement and invitation to the trade union movement from the Climate Camp

14-07-2008 17:50

An invitation to the trade union movement to engage in a dialogue with the Camp for Action.

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West Mids IWW & Brum Indymedia present: A Night of Industrial Action

14-07-2008 17:45

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West Midlands Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and Birmingham Indymedia present a night of screenings and talks on recent local and national industrial actions.

Tuesday, July 22nd, 7pm @ The Lamp Tavern, Digbeth.

Click for Directions

FREE ENTRY

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False Flag Fever - US, UK Israeli & NATO Intelligence

14-07-2008 17:26

False Flag Fever - the sick world of western intelligence services
25 minute lecture and discussion about how 9/11 and 7/7 were almost certainly 'Business as usual' for Western Intelligence Agencies. Martin explain that they have a grisly record of killing their own countrymen and then blaming the attack on someone else. The so called 'false flag' black operation.

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We are hostages of an oppressive anti-democratic regime

14-07-2008 16:44

Hereby, we address our call to the civil society in democratic Europe, especially from the Czech republic, to the free mass-media to help us in the justified and lawful effort of autoexilation in order for us to be able to activate as free human beings and as a perfectly legal organization.

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Palestine Today 071408

14-07-2008 14:54

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Monday July 14th, 2008.

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Happy Birthday Binyam! actions: 6 Days for Six Year (18-24 July) & 24/7 demo

14-07-2008 14:42

End GTMO terror
Binyam Mohamed will be 30 years old on 24 July. Unlike most other people aged 30, on that day, Binyam will have spent one out of every five years of his life in illegal American detention. Join us for a week-long vigil outside the US Embassy in Mayfair (18-24 July) and/or at the 24/7 demo opposite Downing Street.

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Collapse of town centre regeneration schemes

14-07-2008 14:41

The first casualty of the property crash and credit crunch has been the collapse of town centre regeneration schemes.

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Alton Food Festival 2008

14-07-2008 14:38

Alton Food Festival
Now an annual event, the third Alton Food Festival was held Saturday 12 July 2008, part of the Hampshire Food Festival, a month long county wide event held each summer.

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The luck of the Irish?

14-07-2008 14:16

Surveillance by British State of communications with Eire have been condemned by the Court of Human Rights. The ruling by the European Court states that the interception of telephone calls, faxes and E-Mails constituted a violation of privacy under Article 8 of the European Convention of Fundamental Freedoms and Human Rights.

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Operation Stop The Monkey Business: Day 1

14-07-2008 13:14

Day 1 of the action alerts during the week of action against Nepal's monkey exports. Nepal is currently supplying monkeys to the vivisection industry and they msut be stopped!

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Australian Climate Change protestors block trains and ports

14-07-2008 12:15

In the last few days Australia' Climate Camp was established at Newcastle,
Australia. Yesterday, people from the camp chained themselves to a
coal train, blocking access to Carrington coal terminal for most of the
day and costing the company an estimated 1.2 million US dollars.
Today, more climate camp activists are blocking work at the world’s
largest coal port at Kooragang.

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Tony Blair: A Sudden Turn Of Conscience? No.

14-07-2008 11:50

My inbox has been overflowing with love and best wishes to the planet from all sorts of people recently — one of them is no less than Tony Blair, that great peacekeeper (1), climate saviour (2) and lover of human rights (3) is pushing his big plan (yes, another one) to return the planet to its former health. It’s called “Breaking The Climate Deadlock” and you can read the latest report here [ http://www.theclimategroup.org/assets/resources/BTCDJune08Report.Fin.pdf] (4).

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IWW blood service techno benefit gig saturday 19th

14-07-2008 11:36

Just Defy the Vampires

DnB // Dubstep // Techno // Mashup @ The Redstar, 319 Camberwell Rd.

Benefit gig for campaign against cuts in the National Blood Service hosted by the Industrial Workers of the World, the UK's one and only radical autonomous grassroots union.

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Manchester Free Software Meeting - Ian Forrester - BBC Backstage

14-07-2008 11:31

Manchester Free Software is a group based in the Manchester area that focuses on free software and GNU/Linux primarily and issues which infringe on the freedoms of computer users.
They hold monthly meetings of a non-technical nature on a range of intersting issues.
This month Ian Forrester from the BBC is to talk about "BBC Backstage".

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Can you photograph a bouncer who is being aggressive?

14-07-2008 11:27

A number of people had complained about the aggressive and threatening behaver of the security guards at EOCC employed during the Cowley Road Carnival this year.

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End this injustice - stop the removal of Anselme Noumbiwa!

14-07-2008 07:34

Anselme Noumbiwa, a Cameroon national, is currently detained in Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre and due to be forcibly removed from the UK on Monday 14th July 2008 at 20:00hrs on Kenya Airways Flight KQ101 to Nairobi and onward to Douala, Cameroon.

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Wembley Tent City Occupation: Urgent Call To Action

13-07-2008 23:20

We need more people, numbers, for the day, a morning or afternoon or come and stay, squat the land. Smash school privatisation. Oppose education for profit.
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