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April 24th: Make Gil Listen! Boycott Israel

20-04-2010 17:49

For the past week anti apartheid activists and Gil Scott Heron fans have bombarded him with appeals not to play in Tel Aviv. He has not even bothered to respond. So, we need to make him listen to us when he comes to London on 24th April. If you have an hour to spare, come and join us.

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May 15th 2010: Mass Action for Freedom of Movement

20-04-2010 17:39

May 15th, 2010
There's now just under a month to go before the Paris Day of Action for Freedom of Movement!
...Have a read of this mini-update & book your travel now...

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Emergency Callout - Bristol Eco Village Facing ILLEGAL Eviction Tomorrow Morning

20-04-2010 16:15

There will be an illegal eviction attempt on the Bristol Eco Village tomorrow morning at about 11, just 5 days after site was set up. This will be resisted. We need as many people as possible down there to witness the illegal attempt and help resist. For practical reasons there must be no violence or even abusive behaviour.

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Bristol: Serco van torched

20-04-2010 14:49

In the early hours of Tuesday, April 20th, a van belonging to Serco - a big player in the contruction and management of private prisons - was torched in Montpellier, north Bristol.

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The Animal Protection Party v The Vivisectors

20-04-2010 13:06

The APP & The Genaral Election
At last a reason to get excited about a General Election!

Keith Mann v Dr Death and the Oxford Animal Lab.

The Animal Protection Party v The Wickham Labs.

The APP Hunt the Hunt Hag at the General Election.

The APP v HLS – Kick them in the Djangoly's.

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BNP to appear at York hustings

20-04-2010 12:14

BNP to share stage with other political parties at York hustings

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An all new term of Sumac Skillshares

20-04-2010 11:55

The Sumac Skillshare has a new term! And this time it's going to be experimenting with it's form and style.
Emphasising the notion that we are all skill-sharers this term will be seeking to empower and facilitate dormant skills that we have all developed through our life experiences.

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Obama is masking the real issue: US Threatens to nuke Iran

20-04-2010 11:54

“What is disturbing about this summit in Washington is the fact that the real threat to global security is nuclear war between countries. It is not Al-Qaeda which in any event is an intelligence asset of the CIA, which is the threat, ”Chossudovsky acknowledged. “It is an elusive network of organizations. The real threat is the threat of nuclear war and particularly the threat of a nuclear attack by the United States and Israel directed against Iran.”

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A visit to the INAF worker-occupied factory

20-04-2010 11:44

A delegation of comrades of the IMT from several countries is visiting Venezuela, attending the congress of the Venezuelan Marxists and bringing support for the formation of the Fifth International. On their first day they were taken on a tour of the INAF factory, which has been occupied by the workers and is under their management.

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Rossport Solidarity Night

20-04-2010 11:32

MAY 19th at THE CUBE CINEMA, BRISTOL

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Video Shows Brutal Racist Attack in Australia

20-04-2010 10:53

A video obtained by HumanRightsTV captures a gang of violent and apparently drunk white Australians beating up an indigenous Australian elder who later that evening suffered from a heart attack.

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Erasing David - Feature Documentary about Civil Liberties and Privacy

20-04-2010 10:43

ERASING DAVID is a feature documentary about privacy and surveillance in the UK. Director David Bond went on the run for a month and hired the best two private investigators in the UK to track him down using his personal data. The film is a riveting exposé of our digital age that plays like a Hitchcockian thriller – both chilling and very funny.

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Will Europe let dogmatists write the future of copyright?

20-04-2010 10:32

More evidence from La Quadrature du Net that the international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement needs to be derailed

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Aim; to start a religion to make money

20-04-2010 08:55

Aim; to start a religion to make money

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FRIDAY.5PM.LONDON:Demo against UBS/for migrant cleaners

19-04-2010 23:45

Demo against sacking of cleaner and organiser Alberto Durango and to show UBS the fight has only begun. The bigger the turnout the greater the confidence cleaners will have fighting some of the most powerful banks in the world for a living wage, contracts and trade union rights.

[called by Cleaners Defence Comittee]

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BNP to appear at Aberdeenshire High School

19-04-2010 23:35

The BNP are to appear at a hustings at an Aberdeenshire high school this coming Wednesday. Please help us to stop this from happening by forwarding your concerns to the principle.

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Save Bita Ghaedi from Deportation, Home Office, London - pictures

19-04-2010 18:10

The Redundant Home Office!
The day before her deportation takes place, supporters of Bita Ghaedi gather in London to object to her forced removal to Iran. Bita is an Iranian woman who has been living in the UK and campaigning against chronic human rights abuses committed in Iran during recent Pro-Democracy protests.

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Turbulence Mag: News from Cochabamba Climate Conference

19-04-2010 16:08

We're in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at the World People's Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, which began today and runs until April 22. We're there to launch the Spanish language edition of Turbulence and to participate in the event.

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Dr Steve Best PHD asks are Vegans Space Aliens or compassionate Earthlings

19-04-2010 14:39

Dr Steve Best PHD, author of "Terrorists or Freedom Fighters" and animal liberation front activist asks the question are Vegans Space Aliens or compassionate Earthlings?

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Farnborough Airport breaches no fly ban

19-04-2010 13:14

Profit comes before people and planet.
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