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International laws for animal rights & their welfare needed - Kadyan

19-12-2008 12:58

 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/954203338 online petition for kind attention :- Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations

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Ronnie Easterbrook – “Britain's oldest political prisoner” - on Death Fast

19-12-2008 12:28

Ronnie Easterbrook is a 78year old career criminal, who is serving a 'whole life' tariff sentence after a failed armed robbery in 1987. Following his recent transferred to Gartree prison in Leicestershire, he has decided to try one last hunger strike to highlight his claims for a retrail.

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International Organization for Animal Protection - OIPA news letter - Kadyan

19-12-2008 12:20

OIPA - International Organization for Animal Protection,
INTERNATIONAL NEWS LETTER,
December 2008 - OIPA INDIA

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LONDON: Eleventh of Every Month Until Justice Campaign

19-12-2008 11:26

Pictures from December 11th and the international grassroots Eleventh of Every Month Until Justice Campaign

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Corrupt EDO Corp Director Will Be Obama's Director of National Intelligence

19-12-2008 11:12

Washington insider says Admiral Dennis Blair will be appointed to the top intelligence post in the new Obama administration. This is despite protests from East Timor solidarity groups who charge him with collusion with genocide by Indonesia of tens of thousands of East Timorese civilians, as well as having corrupt links with the military industrial complex.

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International Solidarity Day with the Revolt in Greece

19-12-2008 10:31

Saturday 20 December, 2pm, Wood Green Library, N22
Demonstration against Police Brutality and State Terrorism

In combination with the commemoration of the 1999 massacre of political prisoners in the Turkish prisons and the revolt and
hunger strike that followed

Organised by Greek, Turkish, Kurdish, British in solidarity with the Revolt in Greece

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Mahmood Mamdani - Alibi for Extreme Oppression

19-12-2008 07:09

The once progressive scholar, Mahmmod Mamdani at Columbia in NYC, has now become an apologists for the one of the most oprpessive regimes on the planet. Horace Campbell hits back.

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Thursday (12/18): reports from Greece

19-12-2008 04:44

Nothing is over, thousands took the streets again!

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SENSORED from the YOUTUBE .. Athens .. clash with POLICE

18-12-2008 20:16

SENSORED from the YOUTUBE .. Athens .. clash with POLICE

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VIDEO of the Police Bus set on fire in Mihalakopoulou street ..Athens & more Fot

18-12-2008 19:19

VIDEO of the Police Bus set on fire in Mihalakopoulou street ..Athens & more Fotos

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A letter from Sean Kirtley to Gagged!

18-12-2008 18:09

Below is a letter received from Sean Kirtley to be used as an article for Gagged! More info about Sean's case can be found here  http://supportsean.wordpress.com and you can write to him at this address: Sean Kirtley WC 6977, HMP Stafford, 54 GAOL RD, Stafford, ST16 3AW (remember to send a SAE with your letter)

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Novartis Award Ceremony Invaded

18-12-2008 18:08

Today was the Novartis Medal Awards in Cambridge so we thought we should pop in for a SHAC hello!

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Veteran peace campaigner jailed for three months for US “missile defence” action

18-12-2008 17:46

Trident Ploughshares Press Release – Thursday 18 December 2008

Long-standing peace activist and member of nonviolent direct action group Trident Ploughshares Sylvia Boyes, from Keighley, was today sentenced to three months’ imprisonment at HMP New Hall, West Yorkshire by Bingley Magistrates' Court. The sentence was issued for Sylvia's refusal to undertake “community punishment” for her part in an action against US "missile defence" at Fylingdales Ballistic Missile Early Warning Station in North Yorkshire on 6 August 2008, the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima .

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Christmas in Prison for Peace Protestor Grandmother

18-12-2008 17:42

During August 2008, to mark the anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima, Sylvia Boyes cut the fence at Fylingdales Radar station near Whitby. Today (18th December) Sylvia (aged 65), a dedicated peace campaigner, was sentenced for 12 weeks by Bingley Magistrates Court for her action at Fylingdales. Her protest was against Fylingdales role as an early warning radar station, part of US Missile Defense.

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NIST Admits to Partial "Freefall" Collapse of WTC7

18-12-2008 17:09

The official National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Final Report on the Collapse of World Trade Center Building 7 admits that the top of the building accelerated at the rate of gravity for 2.25 seconds into it's own footprint -- 8 stories worth of collapse.

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Open Cast mine and the protection of England

18-12-2008 16:41

Undercurrents supplied dramatic images of open cast mine for a brilliant George Monbiot interview with the head of CPRE

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Palestine today 121808

18-12-2008 16:33

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org, for Thursday December 18 2008

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Call for a day of actions and mobilizations coordinated in Europe and the world

18-12-2008 15:44

ENGLISH
Friday 12/12, the assembly of the occupied Athens Polytechnic decided to make a callout for European and global-wide actions of resistance in the memory of all assassinated youth,

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Bus fares hiked by 8% in new year

18-12-2008 14:56



Bus fares across South Yorkshire are going up in the new year by an inflation-busting 8%.

Operator First said rising fuel, utilities and staff costs had forced it to make the decision.

Managing director Brandon Jones said the firm was “meeting ongoing challenges of rising costs”.

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an Other TV STATION occupied today in CHANIA Crete

18-12-2008 14:18

an Other TV STATION occupied today in CHANIA Crete
the video here ..
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