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Track closed: 170 greyhounds need homes

22-08-2008 12:54

South West Animal Protection
PLEASE HELP THE WALTHAMSTOW GREYHOUNDS
HOMES NEEDED ASAP - 160-170 greyhounds are now redundant

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Promo video for the Carnival Against Vivisection

22-08-2008 12:44

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Promo video for the carnival against vivisection at Sequani Labs and suppliers on the 6th September! More information visit  http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/actions/2008/sequani/ or  http://www.smashsequani.wordpress.com

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The problem with activism/campaigning and getting the everyday person involved..

22-08-2008 12:18

A personal opinion on what limits the numbers of everyday people getting involved.

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SPEAK Demo Reports

22-08-2008 12:12

Tuesday 12th and Thursday 14th August

In a week that saw a conservative estimate of 115million put on the number of animals abused and killed each year worldwide in so-called scientific research, SPEAK campaign supporters met twice in Oxford to demonstrate their opposition to Oxford University's contribution to this shameful and disgusting statistic.

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Road building costs increase by up to £4 billion

22-08-2008 11:32

Campaign for Better Transport reveals the spiralling cost of environmentally damaging new roads.

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Demonstration At Edinburgh Airport Going On Now

22-08-2008 10:06

Demonstration at Edinburgh Airport against repression in Zapatistas Autonomous Communities in Chiapas, Mexico, Going On Now, 10:58 AM

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More victims of the Big Brother Database state

22-08-2008 09:42

Yorkshire NO2ID condems latest data loss scandel

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Climate Camp - Selected photos

22-08-2008 08:30

Better late than never! A mixed bag of photos from the Climate Camp 2008. (All are copyright, but may be used for any sort of activism publicity.)

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Thessaloniki political prisoner and stitch-up victim Simon Chapman convicted?

22-08-2008 06:58

Four years on from his reported acquittal, British activist Simon Chapman has allegedly been sentenced in absentia to over five years in prison for taking part in protests against the Thessaloniki EU summit in Greece in 2003. He was the target of a high-profile activist defence campaign after widespread coverage of police corruption in the case - videos show riot police planting a bag of Molotov cocktails on him which formed the basis of the case against him.

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The tormented and the witness: Inside Sequani Limited Exclusive Report!

21-08-2008 17:26

In June this year Sequani Limited in Ledbury invited a group of students from Newent Community school on a guided tour of the labs for as part of an ethics lesson.

The following is the full account of what one student experienced.

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7 banks attacked 'no to UK Coal'

21-08-2008 14:39

7 attacks on Deutsche Bank, Commerz Bank, Allianz AG and Dresdener Bank
Berlin 14 August 2008

A communique sent via e-mail:

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Picket of the Wales & West regional office of the UK Border agency

21-08-2008 13:21

Activists from No Borders South Wales and No Borders Bristol demonstrated outside the UK Border Agency’s regional office for Wales and South West in Cardiff today in protest against the UK’s racist and repressive migration controls.

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Case dismissed: first SOCPA 128 on nuclear licensed site

20-08-2008 17:06

Flying the flag
Newbury magistrates today dismissed a case of trespass on a nuclear
licensed site against an Aldermaston peace campaigner. The prosecution
was the first of its kind brought under the Serious Organised Crime and
Police Act (SOCPA s128, as amended by s12 of the Terrorism, Act 2006, to
apply to nuclear licensed sites).

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Palestine Today 082008

20-08-2008 13:49

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Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Wednesday August 20th, 2008

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new social centre space opening in cambridge

20-08-2008 13:33

Squatters have moved into the Rose and Crown by Newmarket Road / East Road roundabout, with the intention of opening a new social centre, following the recent closure of the Mill Road Social Centre by Tesco.

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Shell to Sea: Notice served on Solitaire

20-08-2008 12:38

As part of the ongoing week of action in Rossport, a letter was today delivered to the Solitaire demanding its withdrawal from the project.

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Demonstration against the BNP Event in Derbyshire : Designated Protest Point!

20-08-2008 09:45

On Saturday 16th August, people gathered to protest at the BNP event there.

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Demonstration against the BNP Event in Derbyshire : The March

20-08-2008 09:32

On Saturday 16th August, people gathered to protest at the BNP event there.

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Demo at BNP festival. Pics & report.

18-08-2008 23:07

The rally in Codnor.
After many weeks of bitter sectarian backbiting the demo against the BNPs Red White and Blue festival (RWB) finally went ahead. Upon reaching the event I was greeted by local IMCer Tash who informed me that there was a clear two way split in the assembled anti fascists. “Only two?” came my reply. There has never been a single campaign so effective at dividing the left as anti fascism. I suppose if nothing else our modern day Peoples Judean Fronts should be congratulated on their consistency. In the end they did manage to stage an official march on the hate-fest while elsewhere more militant anti fascists took the cross country route…
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