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Un-nerving Update to Recent Climate Report

02-12-2007 16:13

What the IPCC Report Didn't and Couldn't Say

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250+ march against fur in London

02-12-2007 16:04

Many thanks and well done to everyone who made the anti-fur march and rally in London such a big success yesterday, Saturday December 1st. At least 250 anti-fur protesters took the anti-fur message right to the heart of the UK's fur retail trade. Protesters came from as far afield as Manchester, Leeds, York, Newcastle, Cambridge, Oxford, Norhampton, Devon, Wales and Gloucester to support the march.

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Photos and short report of World against War conference

02-12-2007 15:12

Some notes and 20 photos from the World against War conference in London on Saturday 1st December 2007.

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Brian Haw - 6 and a half years not out!

02-12-2007 14:48

Short piece with 4 photos of Brian's continuing demonstration.

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BNP 'No Platformed' Again in Barnsley

02-12-2007 13:46

Previously in Barnsley
Yesterday, the British National Party were again prevented from spreading their racist filth in Barnsley.

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Argos strike - English scabs shipped in

02-12-2007 12:17

Audio Picket line
Argos workers in Ireland are on strike. An agreement with the union since 2000 has broken down and talks faltered. So in the run up to Christmas workers have left their tills. The management have taken to moving workers from England and Wales to help break the strike.

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Scottish Police arrest Campaigner for Anti-Race Leafleting in Dundee

02-12-2007 11:01

On Tuesday evening in Dundee, 27 November, the police arrested a comrade from Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!/Revolutionary Communist Group.

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Teenagers Take to the Roofs! Protest in Leeds Against Rich Food Emporium

01-12-2007 17:44

TODAY TEENAGERS GATHERED OUTSIDE THE CORN EXCHANGE IN LEEDS TO SHOW OPPOSITION TO ZURICH AND THEIR PLANS TO TURN THE ALTERNATIVE CENTRE INTO A FOOD EMPORIUM FOR THE RICH

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Sizewell Nuclear Power Blockade

01-12-2007 13:18

Locked On
Eight protesters took part in a 2 and a half hour blockade of Sizewell Nuclear plants A & B in response to Gordon Brown's recent announcement on nuclear power.

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Arrest at Nottingham Uni over Palestine Protest

01-12-2007 09:31

Wall goes up
Yesterday, a protest occurred outside the Hallward Library on the University Park Campus, to raise awareness about the Israeli West Bank barrier, aka 'the wall'.

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Detention profiteers shut down for the day!

30-11-2007 19:56

How many activists does it take to shut down the UK head offices of a multinational corporation?

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This Week In Palestine – Week 48 2007

30-11-2007 17:24

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This Week In Palestine, a service of the International Middle East Media Center, www.IMEMC.org, for November 24th through November 30th 2007.

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Protestors disrupt Parliamentary Committee into 'Future of BAA; 29.11.07

30-11-2007 15:26

Stephen Nelson turns a blind eye to the Tyndall report.
Climate activists opposed to plans for a third runway at Heathrow this afternoon disrupted a Parliamentary inquiry going on inside the House of Commons.
Protestors from climate action group, Plane Stupid, disrupted the proceedings of the Transport Select Committee who were hearing evidence from BAA boss, Steven Nelson and Aviation Minister, Jim Fitzpatrick.

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Paint Attack at EDO MBM - Fishersgate

30-11-2007 13:54

Paint and bricks thrown onto walls and security cameras at EDO MBM, Fishersgate.

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The Night Shift : A Parable Of Electricity

30-11-2007 13:07

Shutting down coal-fired power stations could be as simple as doing your washing overnight. Making a 90% cut in energy consumption could be just as easy.

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Pacifist on trial: DSEi protest planned on Monday (3rd Dec) in east London

30-11-2007 03:35

A female pacifist pensioner is facing a malicious prosecution for 'trespass at Custom House Docklands Light Railway station' during the DSEi arms fair in September. Her trial concludes on Monday 3rd December, from 9.45 am at Stratford Magistrates' Court in east London (tube: Stratford - jubilee line). There will be a protest with music outside the courthouse.

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Netherlands: All high-schools on strike! Riots cops against pupils.

29-11-2007 22:36

The past few days have been exiting in the Netyerlands because suddenly the pupils of almost all (high)schools in the Netherlands walked out into the streets and started to create a big mess.

In Amsterdam riotcops on horses chased 13-year old kids over the Museumplein and applied the watercanon on them. 250 kids were arrested (in the whole of Holland). At many places small riots broke out, kids pelted buildings with egs and stones. One of the buildings attacked was that of the main media centre in Hilversum and that of the parliament in The Hague.

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Sheffield Vigil for Palestine Photos

29-11-2007 20:56

On Thursday 29th November the Sheffield Palestine Solidarity Campaign held a vigil outside the Town Hall.

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First FITwatch trial ends in NOT GUILTY verdicts.

29-11-2007 19:52

Steve Discombe - appeared to order the arrests
The second day of the trial of 2 protestors arrested outside ULU in Malet Street, ended with both defendants being found not guilty by a District Judge. The arrests of a woman and a 14 year old youth followed their attempts to obstruct the civilian cameraman, who was filming people as they arrived for a planning meeting for protests against the DSEi Armsfair which took place at the ExCeL centre in Docklands in September 2007.

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Squat raid by Rottweiler in Brighton

29-11-2007 11:38

According to the local rag The Argus, a squat in Kingsway, Hove was raided on Monday afternoon by a gang of six men carrying crowbars and baseball bats led by a Rottweiler. A group of 12 men and women have been using the site for about 3 weeks and were so terrified that they had to barricade themselves in an upstairs room.
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