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GMB Accuses Brighton Bus Company of putting staff safety at risk

17-03-2009 18:36

The GMB Trade Union is calling on Brighton Bus Company to install protective screens on all buses following a series of assaults on Bus Drivers.

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Tinsley House blockade ends with arrests and deportees taken to airport

17-03-2009 18:28

Nine people have been arrested under Section 69 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994 (failure to leave land after a warning) following this morning's blockade of Tinsley House immigration detention centre at Gatwick airport. Six of the arrestees had locked and glued themselves to the prison's gate to prevent Iraqi refugees from being taken to Stanstead airport to be forcibly deported on a special charter flight to Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, later today. All nine have been taken to Crawley police station. They are expected to be released on bail later tonight or remanded overnight and taken to court tomorrow morning.

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Demonstration against cuts at JMU

17-03-2009 17:39

demo against cuts forced on staff and students a John Moores University

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Solidarity with Tristan Anderson, another victim of Israeli Apartheid (Latuff)

17-03-2009 17:36

Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of Rachel Corrie, Brian Avery, Tom Hurndall, Tristan Anderson and all the peace activists wounded or killed by Israeli Occupation Forces while defending the Palestinians.

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Only Entrepreneurs without Conscience support agrofuels

17-03-2009 17:11

Entrepreneurs without conscience - a better name for the event!
Food not Fuel (London) and Biofuelwatch held a banner protest against the presence of agrofuel company Blue NG at the “Entrepreneurs with Conscience” conference on Monday, 16th March. Blue NG are planning to build the UK’s first vegetable oil power plants.

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Water Access for Armed-Conflict Victims

17-03-2009 17:07

Safety
United Nations.The International Red Cross (IRC) has called government to ensure that victims of armed conflict or other violence have sufficient access to water.

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Smash EDO Commemorate the 6th Anniversary of the Invasion of Iraq

17-03-2009 16:03

Smash EDO Press Release

17th March 2009

For more Details call 07754135290

E-mail:  smashedopress@riseup.net

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Activist Critically Injured in Demonstration Against Israeli Wall

17-03-2009 15:59

On March 13th, 2009, Tristan Anderson, from Oakland, California was critically wounded in the village of Ni'lin after Israeli forces shot him in the head with a high-powered tear-gas canister. Tristan is a dedicated activist and reporter who has long been committed to social and environmental justice in the U.S. and abroad in places such as Oaxaca, Iraq, and Palestine. Tristan has posted his reports to Indybay since 2001.

Reports: 1 | 2 | 3 | Video | International Solidarity Movement

Recent Indybay Coverage By Tristan (he also posted as "Eric Blair" and "Cricket"):
Four Demonstrators Shot and Wounded in Ni'ilin, Palestine | Last Four Oak Grove Tree Sitters Forced Down | Reclaim The Streets SF | March 19 - A Day of Many Actions

More Of Tristan's Indybay Reports Over the Years.

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Free The EDO 2

17-03-2009 15:54

Free Robert Alford and Elijah James Smith.

MAKE SOME NOISE!!!

21st March 4 till 5.30, Horfield Prison, Cambridge Road off Gloucester Road. Meeting at Golden Lion at 3pm onwards.

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Italy - Defense Minister La Russa posing with a Sicilian Mafia family

17-03-2009 15:52

Defense Minister La Russa and the Crisafulli
There is the Defense Minister La Russa posing with a "comrade" of a Sicilian Mafia family, the Crisafulli, drug trafficking and drug dealing in Quarto Oggiaro, the northern outskirts of Milan. There is his party colleague and Government, the Minister for European Policy Ronchi, with one of the founders of the Nazi-Heart black circle: the toast of the Holocaust.

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Palestine Today 031709

17-03-2009 15:50

Audio

Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center,
www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, March 17th, 2009.

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Scotland Yard aid in quelling dissent in Greece

17-03-2009 14:44

The Greek mainstream news source Kathimerini announced yesterday that an appeal to Scotland Yard was made by Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis to aid Greek authorities in stamping out dissent in the country.

Greece has seen a wave of politically motivated rioting, occupations and direct action since the killing of a teenage boy by a police officer in December last year. The situation remains tense as protests have continued into 2009.

According to the article key figures from the British police force will be offering advice on dealing with dissent across the spectrum from bombings to low level vandalism.

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Updates on Guantanamo

17-03-2009 11:58

New Guantánamo Detainee Policy Rooted in International Law
 http://useu.usmission.gov/Article.asp?ID=02f80492-a861-4a91-a431-80895abe77e2

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William Johnston Back on Hunger Strike

17-03-2009 11:50

A while ago we were asking people to write letters of complaint on behalf of William Johnston. He was on hunger strike for nearly two months before the medical staff at Glenochil prison would give him painkillers, that had been prescribed to him for life by his GP, for a crippling spinal condition.

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Fundraiser to Combat War Trauma

17-03-2009 10:56

All Welcome!

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Sheffield Students Occupy Hicks Building

17-03-2009 09:57

View from concourse 1
Sheffield students showing solidarity with the people of Palestine have staged an occupation of the Hicks Building, close to the centre of the campus of the University of Sheffield.

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Tinsley House IRC blockaded by protesters 07:00 today

17-03-2009 07:49

Anti-deportation campaigners are risking arrest to stop the collective expulsion of approximately 50 Iraqi refugees from the UK. Campaigners have locked themselves to the gate of Tinsley House detention centre at Gatwick airport, where some of the deportees are being held, in an attempt to prevent the forcible deportation.

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Fur Demo's in Bristol

16-03-2009 22:44

Demo's continue against The Cruise in Cabot Circus (shopping center)- the cruise are a chain of shops with 21 outlets in the UK. The Bristol store itself dosent sell fur at the moment but other Cruise stores do.
Please send polite letters of complaint to:



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CWU demo against privatisation

16-03-2009 22:42

On Saturday 13th March, the Communication Workers Union organised a march through Bilston, Wolverhampton in protest against government plans to privatise the Royal Mail.
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