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Lesbian hunger-striker ends 33-day fast

20-12-2005 11:57

Zimbabwean still fighting for release from detention - A Zimbabwean lesbian protesting against her detention without trial in a Bedfordshire asylum centre has ended her 33-day hunger strike.

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Take Action: 100's of protesters still detained in Hong Kong

20-12-2005 11:15

Hundreds of anti-WTO protesters are still detained in Hong Kong after December 17-18 protests. This is a call for action to write a letter demanding that the people be released.

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Solidarity Cafe Night - Thurs 22 Dec - Broadway Market occupation

20-12-2005 09:20

Solidarity Cafe Night -Thursday 22 December

Tony's Cafe
34 Broadway Market
Hackney E8
7pm onwards.

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Causachun coca! Wañuchun yanquis!

20-12-2005 02:35

We are living a new time "and the Third Millennium belongs to Peoples, not to the Empire!"

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Kong Yee Sai Mau (No to WTO): The Battle of Hong Kong

19-12-2005 22:15

Sat Dec 17, Hong Kong—It’s 1:30 am in Hong Kong. We have just returned to the house after being in the Hong Kong streets all afternoon and evening in the most intense street battle that we have ever seen. We are taking turns showering the teargas and pepper spray off as we write this up. Farmers, workers, women’s organizations, fisher folk, Hong Kong youth, migrants and other movement people from Korea, across Asia and around the world marched on, broke through several police lines to less than a block from the site of the WTO conference center and laid siege to it until we were dispersed with teargas and mass arrests tonight.

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Rising tide's actions Saturday 16th December 2005

19-12-2005 18:01

Marching down the High Street
Rising Tide london and several independant activists took part in various subversive consumer free christmas actions on Saturday. A number Department stores such as Gap, Nike Town and Self ridges were targeted

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Crush christmas Consumer Chaos Cardiff

19-12-2005 14:03

outside starbucks
Depressed looking Santa's roamed Cardiff city centre shops amid pre-christmas consumer frenzy

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Police brutality and inhumane treatment of prisoners at WTO summit in Hong Kong

19-12-2005 10:22

The brutality and inhuman treatment of the protestors against the
World Trade Organisation (WTO) by the Hong Kong police comes as a shock and must immediately be stopped.

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Santas Against Excessive Consumption invade Oxford Street

18-12-2005 18:49

On Oxford Street
On Saturday, the busiest shopping day of the year, activists from London Rising Tide dressed up as Santas and elves and invaded Oxford Street to make the point that excessive Christmas consumption is causing climate chaos.

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NO-WTO! REPORT OF READING SOLIDARITY DEMO:

18-12-2005 16:54

In Reading last night, around 20-30 anti-capitalists, environmentalists, students and others marched from the Reading International Solidarity Centre, to make a free cafe and anti-World Trade Organisation demonstration outside Starbucks in the town centre. Protesters moved quickly into the Oracle Riverside - busy private land on both sides of the canal which is lined with posh restaurants, bars and the cinema between the huge Oracle shopping center and it's multi-story carpark.

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Caterkiller activist defends right to protest.

18-12-2005 15:07

Caterkiller's hired goons outside Solihell magistrates court last year
Peace activist wins appeal against conviction for criminal damage after being driven into by caterkiller financial credit controller.

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performance art in the protest exclusion zone (short film)

18-12-2005 01:16

Video
performance artist mark mcgowan walked backwards from parliament square passing downing street while wearing a t-shirt stating 'this is not a protest' and quietly chanting the same words. although briefly questioned by communtiy support officers he was not arrested.

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Artists T-shirt demo a success

17-12-2005 21:24

This is not a protest
ARTIST FLOUTS WITH NO PROTEST LAW AND WINS

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Sheffield Top Shop No Sweat Protest

17-12-2005 18:30

Topshop protest
No Sweat protested outside Top Shop in Sheffield on Saturday 17th December 2005.

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Sheffield Anti-Iraq Deportations Protest

17-12-2005 18:19

Asylum is a Human Right
There was a protest in Sheffield city centre on Saturday 17th December 2005 against the forced deportations of Iraqis' to northern Iraq.

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Some More Photos From The Cambridge Demo Against NHS Cuts

17-12-2005 17:00

Some more pictures from the Cambridge demo against health cuts in the region.

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Cambridge Demo Against Health Cuts

17-12-2005 16:55

Photos from todays demo in Cambridge against health cuts in the region.

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Inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong

16-12-2005 23:30

Here some more inspiring photos from the WTO summit in Hong Kong. See feature for more info.

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Court agrees to review constitutional questions in the case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

14-12-2005 15:43

mumia
Supporters of Pennsylvania death row inmate and independent journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal celebrated on December 6th as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals granted two "certificates of appealabilty" to Jamal for alleged violations of constitutional rights in his 1982 trial and his 1985 state appeal. The court also called for a brief on a third point that had been previously certified for appeal

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Council questioned over arms investments

13-12-2005 23:42

Welcoming the councillors...
A group of campaigners held a protest this morning outside a meeting of Cambridgeshire County Council to draw attention to the large investments that the council pension fund has in the arms industry.
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