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Another journalist disappears in mexico- Reporters without Borders

30-11-2006 22:22

Reporters Without Borders voiced alarm today at the news that Adolfo Sánchez Guzmán, the correspondent of the TV station Televisa Veracruz and the radio station Xhora Ori Stereo 99.3 in Orizaba, in the eastern state Veracruz, has been missing since 28 November. He is the third journalist to have disappeared this year in Mexico. Seven others have been murdered.

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The truth behind the deportation statistics

30-11-2006 22:06

We have seen this week what detention at Harmondsworth and Lindholme have driven people to, here's why...

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Demonstration at Harmondsworth/Colnbrook

30-11-2006 19:42

Protesters outside Harmondsworth/Colnbrook
A large scale disturbance broke out at Harmondsworth after HM Inspector of Prisons (HMIP) published a report on Harmondsworth which it described as "Undoubtedly the poorest report" issued on any immigration removal centre to date.

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Merseyside Fire Authority Stirs Up More Trouble

30-11-2006 19:32

Following the partial defeat of their cuts agenda this summer, Merseyside Fire Authority is trying to get its own back, and weaken the morale of victorious firefighters. Three weeks ago, letters were served to fourteen emergency crew members, calling them to hearings over incidents during the walkout, including one for 'smiling aggressively'. Now a firefighter is in trouble for drinking a cup of tea!

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Close Counter Terror World!

30-11-2006 19:12

In a few days time, Olympia plays host the Counter Terror World, an exhibition at which companies and countries from around the world will share with each other lessons learned in the war on terror, a war on their own populations. Israel will be a prominent attendee, eager - no doubt - to share the lessons they've learned from the recent campaign in Lebanon and the ongoing repression in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

London Class War have called a picket of Olympia at 1pm on Tuesday 5 December, the first day of the sordid exhibition. Further details are available on the website, www.classwar.org

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"Put me down! I won't bring you happiness" More Buy Nothing Day Pixie-ing

30-11-2006 18:22

Yomango!
A merry band of Oxford pixies full of the joys of the season visited many, many shops - including Miss Selfridges, Topshop, Gap, HMV and Dixons - placing thought-provoking stickers in dressing rooms and on products.

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John Reid Invokes Riechstag Fire Tactics For Detention Centre Fire

30-11-2006 16:46

Home Secretary invents fictional "immigrant terrorist" group to increase support for it's nationalist policies

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Smash EDO Victory Masquerade

30-11-2006 16:44

Victory Masquerade at EDO MBM, Home Farm Road, 4-6. Come and Celebrate EDO's dismal 3rd Quarter

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Boycott Day of Action - 9th December

30-11-2006 16:12

This will be the third day of action in favour of a boycott of Apartheid Israel since Israel's invasion of Lebanon...

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Demonstrate at Kalyx/Sodexho HQ! Solidarity with Harmondsworth uprising!

30-11-2006 15:59

Demonstrate at Kalyx/Sodexho HQ! Solidarity with Harmondsworth uprising!

3.30pm to 5.30pm Friday, 1st December 2006
Headquarters of Kalyx on Edgware Road
25 Chapel Street NW1, Nearest tube Edgware Rd.


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Report back from Defy-ID gathering in Nottingham

30-11-2006 15:54

Two members of Liverpool Defy-ID attended the gathering in Nottingham last Saturday,
there were over 50 people there at the SUMAC centre. There were workshops where
the people were broken up into three different groups:

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The Truth in Rushmoor

30-11-2006 15:54

The Truth in Rushmoor is the latest in a growing trend of non-corporate-controlled alternative media.

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Palestinians are being denied the right to non-violent resistance

30-11-2006 15:27

Human Rights Watch has lost its moral bearings

NAZARETH. If one thing offers a terrifying glimpse of where the experiment in human despair that is Gaza under Israeli siege is leading, it is the news that a Palestinian woman in her sixties -- a grandmother -- chose last week to strap on a suicide belt and explode herself next to a group of Israeli soldiers invading her refugee camp.

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Urgent: Yarl's Wood Quarantined

30-11-2006 15:10

Asylum seekers at Yarl's Wood have claimed today that Yarl's Wood IRC is quarantined and that visitors are not being allowed in due to the dangerous health conditions there.

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Big Brother: Watching, Listening And Shouting:

30-11-2006 15:01

 http://www.infowars.net/articles/november2006/281106BB.htm

Behavioural control agenda continues as cameras will now record our conversations in the street and determine whether we are aggressive

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Parties from Polish goverement involved in Neo-nazi-party. Call for boycott.

30-11-2006 12:53

Picture form the Nazi-Camp led by Leokadia Więcek, assistant of an eudodeputy
Call to Members of European Parliament to boycott Maciej Giertych, whose assistant was a leader at a Polish Neo-Nazi camp! Call to stop the Polish Neo-Nazi movement, that is rising in power!

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The Business of World Hunger

30-11-2006 11:36

The Business of World Hunger

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Solidarity with the Harmondsworth detainees! Demonstrate at Communications House

30-11-2006 10:26

The brave actions of the detainees at Harmondsworth Immigration Detention Centre, have publicised the disgusting conditions and treatment they face far wider than could ever have been achieved simply by the publication of the Chief Inspector of Prisons’ report criticising the immigration prison.

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Campaign to free Dame Dieng, a young computer genius imprisoned in Senegal

30-11-2006 06:23

Dame Dieng is 21 and has been arrested without any valid explanation, the Senegalese police invented the same old insult and threat known for centuries stuff when they invaded the political opponent, Idrissa Seck, headquarters where Dame Dieng happened to be, he had been recruited by this contradictor to the authoritarian Wade regime after having worked for a newspaper’s website and proved there his incredible gifts for computer matters.

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Tension in Mexico City

30-11-2006 05:10

Mexico City, 27th November 2006. The signs of discontent are visible all over the city. Graffiti on public buildings, banners from monuments, camps in the main plazas. And the police are hanging out in gangs everywhere.
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