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Four Questions on Violences against Women.

12-08-2008 15:07


This simple questionaire is based in two earlier reports and links to
the Ban Ki-Moon campaign on gender and violence:

 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/87053
 http://www.indymedia.ie/article/86426

And of course to the issue of marginalisation of women's political voice by National Governments.

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Information Links & Sources for the (short) war in South Ossetia (2)

12-08-2008 14:09

First the good news! Russia has ceased operations.

This article will Follow on from the daily updated series of links & sources which began on the 8th of August on the conflict between Georgia & Russia & the aspirations to statehood by both South Ossetia & Abkhazia.

As a bonus extra this article also compiles all IMC UK & IMC Russia pieces which has so far appeared.

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Palestine Today 081208

12-08-2008 14:03

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Centre, www.imemc.org, for Tuesday August 12th, 2008.

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Help us to update the directory from the next libertarian agenda book

12-08-2008 13:57

This year the “Center of d’Estudis Josep Ester Borràs” and “l’Ateneu Anarquista Columna Terra i Llibertat” (Berga, Barcelona) are in charge of the proyect to publish the yearly “Libertarian Agenda Book”

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Georgia - War - London Meeting

12-08-2008 13:07

GEORGIA, NATO & THE SPREAD OF WAR
Friends Meeting House (Small Hall)
173 Euston Road London NW1 2BJ
6.30 pm, Thursday 14 August, 2008

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Russia, Georgia and South Ossetia

12-08-2008 12:52

Thoughts on the crisis.

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NETCU and Climate Camp

12-08-2008 12:48

The Hoo Peninsular becomes a fully functioning police state but police fail miserably!

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Rossport Recruitment Night Tuesday August 19th

12-08-2008 12:12

Tuesday, August 19th 7:30 pm
Pogo Café, 76 Clarence Rd, Hackney E5 8HB

Rossport Recruitment Night – Shell to Sea Needs You!

Information, Cake, Films & Fundraiser

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Anarchy Alive - Uri Gordon speaking in Liverpool Fri 15th Aug

12-08-2008 11:54

Book cover - Anarchy Alive by Uri Gordon - ISBN 9780745326832
News From Nowhere Radical & Community Bookshop presents anarchist author Uri Gordon speaking about his book "Anarchy Alive! Anti-Authoritarian Politics From Practice to Theory", at 7pm, this Friday 15th August, at Liverpool Social Centre, basement 96 Bold St, Liverpool L1 4HY  http://www.liverpoolsocialcentre.org. (Entrance next door to bookshop - ring basement bell). All welcome.

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Communication with the Climate Camps movement (from Canadian Climate Camp)

12-08-2008 11:53

The Autonomous camp (part of the Climate Camps movement) is now taking place in Lévis (Québec), nearby the future site for the methane port. This is a letter sent to the other Climate Camps now in action.

This is a letter to all who care.

Campement Autogéré - Autonomous Camp
Lévis, 10 août 2008

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Hugo Chavez Spearheads the South American Revolution

12-08-2008 11:49

How Venezuela is leading the revolutionary integration of South America

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Two more deaths of asylum seekers

12-08-2008 11:33

Nadir Zarebee from Iran hanged himself in a Manchester park on Tuesday 5 August after being asked to leave his home in Trafford by Home Office's NASS-appointed 'accommodation provider' MNQ.

Mohammad Hussain from Iraq died last Sunday 3rd August. He had stomach cancer that went undetected and untreated while he was detained in Lindholme IRC.

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NW // Power station shut down: Netcu lying or Kent police lying?

12-08-2008 10:02

Skivens
Netcu have proudly published the following press release on their site:

"Fifty arrested during river rescue and scuffles - but protesters fail to close down power station

Around 50 people were arrested in disturbances today as climate camp protesters attempted to carry out their threat to break into Kingsnorth Power Station, near Hoo."

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DSEi Downing Street legal observer cleared of obstruction on appeal

12-08-2008 09:56

A legal observer convicted in February of obstructing a police officer during a stop and search outside Downing Street won his appeal at Southwark Crown Court in London on Friday, 8 August following a one-and-a-half-day hearing. The incident occurred during a peaceful vigil and blockade of Downing Street last September in memory of victims of the arms trade. The demonstration took place while arms dealers from around the world congregated in east London for Europe’s biggest arms fair.

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Carbon Sink Forest

12-08-2008 09:39

A Con and a Rip Off.

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A Small Dirty Victory for Barrick Gold in Famatina, La Rioja, Argentina

12-08-2008 08:22

Pro-mining lawmakers have reversed a citizen-led prohibition of open-pit gold mining enacted in 2007. Citizens vow to continue their struggle to resist transnational open-pit mining operations in the Famatina range of La Rioja, Argentina

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urgent callout against the fascist Nazi bnp

12-08-2008 03:38

urgent callout
the BNP's annual 'Red, White, & Blue Festival' is due to take place over the weekend of 15-17th of August. 2008

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Campesino Leaders Assassinated in Honduras

12-08-2008 00:42

Leaders and members of the cooperative, Guadalupe Carney in Colon, Honduras murdered in July and August. An urgent action is being organized to demand investigations and that the campesino community which has occupied the land at the former military installation the CREM be given title to the land as previously decreed by the National Agrarian Institute

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Climate campers target mining corporation

11-08-2008 23:45

Glued to windows
An affinity group from Thames Valley Climate Action, inspired by this year's climate camp, occupied the lobby of BHP Billiton today, supergluing themselves to the doors and windows and climbing onto part of the architecture. After several hours, they managed to negotiate leaving without any arrests.

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Two More UCLA Vans Expropriated by Liberationists

11-08-2008 23:34

Date: August 11, 2008
Communiqué from unknown liberationists
Institution targeted: UCLA Primate Vivisection

Received anonymously
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