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Phil Woolas answers your questions

02-02-2010 18:02

***please spread this widely***

Tomorrow (Wednesday) at 12.30, anti-immigration minister Phil Woolas will
participate in a live webchat to answer questions on immigration, ID cards
and the UK Border Agency for the Manchester Evening News.

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Camden Bio Hazard and Animal Lab - Environment Disaster public meeting in Camden

02-02-2010 16:09

There are plans to build a high level [3] virus containment facility in Kings Cross, Camden alongside St Pancras International behind the British Libary close to an environmentally protected area, Camley Conservation Area. There is a "last chance" public development forum where the public can ask questions & speak out against the lab. Wednesday Feb 10th 2009 6.30-8.30pm.

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BBC parrots Iranian government propaganda

02-02-2010 15:53

BBC less wary than other key news agencies.

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Tony Blair as consultant to Rio 2016 Games!

02-02-2010 15:43

Rio 2016 press conference
Is warmonger Tony Blair a suitable person to act as consultant to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games?

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Last Hours January's Monthly Round-up

02-02-2010 15:07


Last Hours January's Monthly Round-up  http://www.lasthours.org.uk

Rather than republishing our articles from across the month on various forums and news wires we are going to try a monthly round up of some of our more substantial content! So here it is January's best bits (with a bit of December thrown in for good will)

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J18 London & N30 Seattle 1999 - 10 years on

02-02-2010 15:01

Booklet compiled by Bristol Anarchist Bookfair Collective - 3 articles looking at recollections and critiques of J18 and the anti-capitalist movement and the possibilties for future organising.

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Mossadegh and Ahmadinejad: Iran faces almost the same dilemma as 1953

02-02-2010 14:47

[1] Time magazine, 25 September 2006 - [2] Time magazine, 4 June 1951
There is a stark similarity between some aspects of the political atmosphere dominant over Iran today and those under Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh right before the U.S.-led coup of 1953 that resulted in the overthrow of the legitimate government of Iran and the establishment of a U.S.-puppet government of the Shah.

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Camden Bio Hazard Lab - your LAST CHANCE to speak out public forum in Camden

02-02-2010 14:46

There are plans to build a high level [3] virus containment facility and animal testing lab in Camden on a residential Camden council houses estate, Somers Town in Camden. The lab could contain deadly pathogens such as anthrax and if built will be alongside St Pancras International in Kings Cross behind the British Library. There will be a development forum and public meeting in Camden on February 10th in Camden. This is your LAST CHANCE to ask questions and speak out. Attend!

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The killing tracks of Britain

02-02-2010 14:23

You can never be sure of a winner in greyhound racing but greyhound’s getting smashed-up is a dead cert. Gulleen Star, Loughmore Boy, Kilkeedy Blue, Ardera Express, Malbay Katie, Glenske Sky, Skywalker Brenda and Fida Cascada were just some of the greyhounds to lose their life in January 2010, all in the name of sport, all soon forgotten.

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Continuing Conflicts that Create Refugees, January 2010

02-02-2010 09:08

Two actual or potential conflict situations around the world deteriorated and two improved in January 2010, according to the new issue of CrisisWatch.

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San José Peace and Justice Award Honours Free Gaza Pioneers

02-02-2010 08:53

Pete McHugh, Kathy Sheetz, Paul Larudee, Greta Berlin, Sharat G. Lin
The San Jose Peace and Justice Center awarded its Gertrude Welch Peace and Justice Award to pioneers of the Free Gaza Movement who sailed the first small boats to break the Israeli siege of Gaza. The award prompted the city of Milpitas, California to present commendations and U.S. Congressman Mike Honda to award Congressional recognition to the recipients.

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EDL are racist thugs

02-02-2010 01:17

The English Defence League (EDL) claim to be against extreme Islam yet on their website is a link to a news story of an Asian man being convicted of rape. What has this got to do with extreme Islam? Which other groups highlight black/asian crime? The BNP and the NF.

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Warning & prompt for action against the Chagos Conservation Trust

02-02-2010 00:25

This is serious: environmental issues are being shamelessly manipulated by vested government and military (UK/US) interests to undermine the entire ethical position of the global environmental movement. See below for links:

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Zapatista Communities Evicted For ‘Ecotourism’ Centres

02-02-2010 00:11

Zapatistas denounce the eviction and destruction of an indigenous
community and accuse the government of aiming to set up ecotourism
centres.

'Reforestation' is the pretext used by the authorities to perform the
operation against the EZLN support bases.

Hermann Bellinghausen, La Jornada Sunday 31 January 2010, p. 7, originally
published in Spanish.

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Photos of Mainshill camp after police destruction

01-02-2010 19:27

mainshill camp after eviction and destruction
Images made of the evicted and destroyed Mainshill protest camp in Scotland.

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Stop deportations to Nigeria now!

01-02-2010 18:20

[If you would like to add your group or organisation's name to the list of signatories to this statement, please email  nodeport2ng@riseup.net. Other things you can do to help stop mass deportations to Nigeria are listed below.]

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Protest against Blair at Chilcot Inquiry - Photos

01-02-2010 15:08

All these police under investigation
Protesters kept up a day-long protest outside the QEII confrerence centre while Tony Blair was performing at the inquiry. Photographs Copyright (C) 2010, Peter Marshall, all rights reserved.

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Free Vermont, and long live the UNtied States.

01-02-2010 14:38

"The U.S. government is an immoral enterprise -- engaged in imperial wars, propping up corrupt bankers and supersized corporations, crushing small businessmen, plundering the tax-base for corporate welfare, snooping on the private lives of citizens -- and we want no more part of it. The gods of the empire, are not the gods of Vermont."

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Animal Rights Film Night Southampton

01-02-2010 13:53

Subvert The City Arts Collective presents an evening of animal rights films.

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the rise of the far right and anti-fascism: february 16th, sheffield

01-02-2010 12:52

Next meeting of Sheffield's communist discussion group.
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