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Palestine Today 08 17 2010

17-08-2010 16:19

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday, August 17th, 2010.

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Growing Resistance - near Edinburgh - 21st Aug

17-08-2010 15:38

Growing Resistance is an event organised by Coal Action Scotland, in solidarity with Communities Against Airfield Open Cast, taking place during the Camp For Climate Action, which this year is in Edinburgh.

For two years the community surrounding Airfield Farm have been objecting to Scottish Coals plans to open cast the area in order to remove two million tons of coal. In an independent survey 95% of local residents object to the planned mine.

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Climate Campers invade Nant Helen Opencast Mine

17-08-2010 14:52

Activists from the relocated Climate Camp Cymru invaded the Nant Helen opencast coal mine in South Wales earlier today.

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Demonstration Against pro Israeli "Death On The Med" BBC programe 22 August 2010

17-08-2010 14:17

Demonstration Against pro Israeli "Death On The Med" BBC programme 22nd August 2010.
Panorama aired "Death On The Med" a documentary about the Israeli attacks on the Freedom Flotilla in May 2010 - Israel's version. The BBC once again aired and spread propaganda on Israel's behalf.

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CPC Convergence Direct Action Bloc - Website Launch!

17-08-2010 14:07

As most of you know, the Tories are holding their Conservative Party Conference in October to meet with various heads of industry to define the future of our communities.

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Palestinian Solidarity Benefit Gig

17-08-2010 12:32

All proceeds to Interpal www.interpal.org
Interpal is a non-political, non-profit making British charity that works with international funding partners and partners on the ground to provide relief and development aid to Palestinians in need, mainly in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and the refugee camps in Lebanon and Jordan.

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ITT's Hammertime - Mass Siege of EDO MBM/ITT

17-08-2010 11:49

Smash EDO Mass Demo - Wednesday 13th October
Venue to be announced - to receive updates email  smashedo@riseup.net or text 07538093930

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Bristol and The Rainforest (Short Film)

17-08-2010 11:22

Cows in Leigh Woods, St Werburghs City Farm & Farm Cafe
A short film made though a collaborative process for Bristol Ecoshow concentrating on the Links between The Rainforests and Bristol.
The film visits Bristol Festival of Nature and Leigh Woods where Cows have been re-introduced by The National Trust and The Story Group. We also talk to St Werburghs City Farm and the award winning City Farm Cafe. Also contains interviews with Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, The Soil Association, The Happy City Initiative and i-Scoot UK.

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Red in the Rainbow: The Fight for LGBT Liberation

17-08-2010 10:22

Public Meeting
7:30pm Wednesday 25th August
Easton Community Centre, Kilburn Street
Speaker Nick Gill
The election of a Tory government is a moment for all LGBT activists to take stock. The last 20 years have seen us arrive at something like formal legal equality – with similar advances in social attitudes towards lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people.
A recent poll found that 90 percent of British people were in favour of LGBT legal rights.
Yet LGBT oppression continues and abuse and assaults are commonplace. Sometimes there is worse – as we saw when bigoted teenagers beat Ian Baynham to death in Trafalgar Square last year.
Homophobic abuse is rife in many schools, and bigotry is all too common in the media, as Jan Moir’s disgusting article in the Daily Mail newspaper after the death of Stephen Gately showed.
The Tories’ track record means that nobody can be complacent about the future. David Cameron voted in 2003 to keep Section 28 – Margaret Thatcher’s law that forbade positive discussion of gay relationships in schools.
He has forged an EU alliance between the Tories and a rabidly homophobic Polish party.
Theresa May – now the minister responsible for equalities – also has a lousy track record. She voted against an equal age of consent in 1998, and in 2000 she voted against the repeal of Section 28.
In 2008 she voted against lesbian fertility rights, supporting a bill which argued that children need a male role model.
Cameron recognises that Tory bigotry is unpopular. During the election he distanced himself from shadow home secretary Chris Grayling, who said that B&B owners should be allowed to discriminate against gay couples.
The fight for liberation is far from over, come to the meeting to discuss how we win.

Organised by the socialist workers party

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BBC - the ultimate prostitutes of propaganda.

17-08-2010 08:06

Audio Ken O'Keefe interviewed by Jane Corbin of BBC Panorama
If you haven’t seen it, look for BBC Panorama’s “Death in the Med” program online, you will be treated to first class propaganda as only the BBC can deliver. [1]

I am one of the passengers/witnesses interviewed for this program and I am very much aware of BBC’s role in justifying war and covering up Israeli crimes. I am in no way naive about this; to the contrary my motivation for the interview lay largely in the all too likely opportunity to expose the BBC. A relevant job considering the BBC’s role in the slaughter of over one million Iraqi’s, a direct role by virtue of the war they justified. BBC from start to present, justifying Iraq, a massive war crime and crime against humanity based entirely on lies (propagated intensely by the BBC). The British Broadcasting Corporation, synonymous with millions of orphans and refugees and countless lives destroyed in Iraq, beating the drums of war without pause, the ultimate prostitutes of propaganda.

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Represive Strike In Chile!! Solidarity NOW!!!!

17-08-2010 07:33

Represive strike in Chile: 17 house raided and 14 companions kidnnaped by the power

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Anti-Anarchist Repression In Chile. Immediate freedom to the 14!!!

17-08-2010 05:32

Raids Lead To Arrest Of 14 Alleged Members Of Chilean Anarchist GroupMonday, 16 August 2010 00:52
Police say financing likely came from Italy, Greece, Mexico and Argentina.
Police on Saturday led simultaneous raids that resulted in the arrests of 14 people suspected of belonging to a Chilean anarchist group accused of more than 100 bombings.

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Protest at French embassy in Warsaw against evictions and police brutality

17-08-2010 02:10

Polish activists and migrants subvertise a bilboard and hold protest outside french embassy in warsaw over police brutality, evictions and racism in France

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Fascist demonstration in Brighton on August bank holiday

16-08-2010 21:44

Call out for a counter mobilisation

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Protest camp starts at Highgate Farm

16-08-2010 21:31

Highgate Farm is an animal lab breeder in Lincolnshire which has been exposed to breed rabbits and ferrets in dirty, barren conditions for the vivisection industry. There was a protest camp there last year, so activists decided it was time for another one!

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Month of "carnage" at Swindon greyhound track

16-08-2010 21:22

Call for end to racing after four dogs die
An international greyhound protection group has called for an end to dog racing at Swindon, after learning that four greyhounds were fatally injured in races at the track last month.

An international greyhound protection group has called for an end to dog racing at Swindon Greyhound Stadium, after learning that four greyhounds were fatally injured in races at the Blunsdon track last month.

On July 7th, Rackethall Kenny, age two, fell after he was involved in a pile up with three other dogs on the second bend and, two days later, another two year old, Swift Abel, fell at the same bend and was carried from the track with a serious leg injury.

Then, on July 30th, a two year old female, called Wots Er Name, also fell at the second bend and, the following day, six year old Daytwo fell after a collision with two other greyhounds at the first bend.

All four dogs were so seriously injured that the track vet decided that they should be "put down".

Now campaign group Greyhound Action, which claims to have received the information from a sympathiser working at the stadium, is calling for the dog track to be closed.

The group's UK Co-ordinator, Tony Peters, said: "We were informed of this appalling carnage by an employee at the track, who has become increasingly disturbed about the suffering and slaughter of dogs caused by the greyhound racing industry.

"He also told us that there were concerns about a recent deterioration of the racing surface at the track, which may have contributed to these tragic incidents.

"Thousands of injuries to greyhounds, many of them serious, occur every year in Britain. The main reason for this is that the shape of the tracks, with fast straights leading into tight bends, creates a very dangerous environment for dogs to run in.

"In addition, hundreds of other greyhounds, bred because of the demand created by the Swindon track, are put to death as puppies or young dogs, before they even make it to the track, after being judged unsuitable for racing.

"According to recent research, more than 12,000 greyhounds, bred for the British racing industry, are 'put down' every year, after failing to make the grade as racers or when their 'careers' on the tracks come to an end.

"An RSPCA report on greyhound racing has stated that 'at least 20 greyhounds a day - either puppies which do not make the track, or retired dogs aged three or four - simply disappear, presumed killed'.

"Members of the public can help put an end to this horrific situation by not attending dog tracks or betting on greyhound racing, so this appalling industry fades away through lack of financial support."

A photo taken at a demonstration by local Greyhound Action supporters outside Swindon Greyhound Stadium can be viewed and downloaded (right click on picture) at http://tinyurl.com/SwindonDemo for use, free of charge.

For more information, please visit Greyhound Action's website at http://www.greyhoundaction.org.uk

Contact: Tony Peters on 01562 700 043 or 07703 558724.

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Halal Dates Inspectors are in Leeds!

16-08-2010 19:23

Every Ramadan Israel floods the European markets with dates, which enrich its economy thereby helping it continue its oppression of the Palestinian people. Many Muslims are unaware of this and unwittingly purchase Israeli dates, thereby supporting the Israeli economy and it’s occupation of the Palestinian people. Every Ramadan the boycott of Israeli blood dates grows stronger and stronger.

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Class War Enters Team In Pub Quiz At Tory Conference

16-08-2010 18:58

Taken from Ian Bones blog.

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Climate Camp Cymru, a camper's view

16-08-2010 18:46

I have just got back from South Wales, and got internet access for the first time in four days, to check any news about the Climate Camp Cymru, and I find there is next to none. I suspect the camp facilitators may be too embarrassed to say much because it was their poor organisation that helped the camp get evicted in short order.

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Nottingham Carnival on Alfreton Road

16-08-2010 18:24

Nottingham School of Samba leading the parade as it approaches the final leg.
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