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No Fees demo (Cambridge) & Career fair

06-11-2008 23:56

Regional East Anglia demonstration against fees, for grants and proper education funding.

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sollydarity!! to oll prisoners on hugrestrikes in greece

06-11-2008 23:48

Arson at New Democracy (ruling party) offices (Thessaloniki, 6/11/2008)
Photo from the mass media (www.zougla.gr), while the text is a translation of a claim published at athens.indymedia.org. Previous action by the same group.

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E.ON Recruiters Targeted AGAIN - in Oxford

06-11-2008 19:18

Climate-trashing energy monsters E.ON continued their national recruitment tour with a stall at the Oxford Careers Fair today. They seemed miserable but not surprised when a group of local activists turned up too...

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Picket of Cardiff Border Agency offices

06-11-2008 18:25

Regular monthly picket of the Home office buildings at 31-333 Newport Road, Cardiff.

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Students Dying to Ditch Dirty Development

06-11-2008 18:18

Students from the West Midlands participated in a die-in against the Royal Bank of Scotland at the Graduate Recruitment Fair at the NEC in Birmingham. Protesters then had to deal with the usual security and police disproporionate and ad-hoc overreaction to the action, which for some was their first protest.

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Shelter to promote eco-towns

06-11-2008 17:07

Shelter has accepted one hundred thousand pounds of government money to promote eco-towns.

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Palestine Today 110608

06-11-2008 15:46

Audio
Welcome to Palestine Today, a service of the International Middle East Media Center www.imemc.org for Thursday November 06 2008

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President Obama's trickery

06-11-2008 14:34

It is understandable that after 8 years of the most odious rapacious vile and corrupt administration in American history people would be very eager to see change. However amongst all the hand-wringing back-slapping and enthusiasm that has greeted the election of Barak Obama no-one seems to have thought through what an Obama Presidency will actually mean.

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South London Critical Mass,Friday 7 Nov

06-11-2008 14:03

Liberating the streets of south London

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Afghans in Calais to be mass deported on Anglo/French charter flights

06-11-2008 13:51

This is a the latest result of anglo/french cooperation. As both countries sacrifice the lives of their soldiers in a war they cannot win. The victims of that war will be deported back into harm's way without ever exercising their right to asylum. Its worth remembering that its the Dublin 2 convention that gives the green light for this

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Cardiff Credit-Crunch Fightback Meeting

06-11-2008 13:48

Tuesday 11th of November at 7.30 pm, Wallace Lecture Theatre, Main
Building, Cardiff University, Park Place (opposite Student Union
Building). For more info:  cardiffchartists@live.co.uk

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Christmas Fair opens to ridicule over owners' arms fair purchases

06-11-2008 13:08

Press Release from Campaign Against the Arms Trade (CAAT)

5 November 2008

As the Spirit of Christmas Fair opened in London this morning, its owners Clarion Events faced ridicule over their assertion that they were "entirely comfortable" with their recent purchase of arms fairs. A peaceful protest by the Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) saw campaigners dressed as Santa Claus and elves carrying sacks of weapons rather than presents (photographs available on request).

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Forced to stay in school – a monstrous imposition

06-11-2008 12:57

Dave Douglass looks at plans to increase the age of compulsory education for the most recent issue of Freedom anarchist newspaper

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Iraqi History: For Whom the Bell Tolls

06-11-2008 12:53

“You may rely upon one thing — I'll never engage in creating kings again" - Gertrude Bell

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Economic and Ecological Collapse:An Ecosocialist solution

06-11-2008 12:32

The article announces a meeting on the the above topic by Richard Greeman, a wellknown US Radical and Humorist

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Peak Oil: Corporations start to wake up, will the Government?

06-11-2008 10:44

Last week a "taskforce" made up from representatives from the FirstGroup plc, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE), Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group, Virgin, Arup, Foster + Partners, Yahoo launched a report of Peak Oil and Peak Gas: The Oil Crunch - Securing the UK’s energy future, PDF:  http://peakoil.solarcentury.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/oil-report-final.pdf

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Riseup! Radio #10 - The November Show

06-11-2008 07:51

Annie, one of our regular listeners

Welcome to the penultimate RiseUp!Radio show of 2008. Apologies to those who set their alarms for midnight on 31st of October in anticipation of the November show, a large chunk of our team have bean hit with extravavgant amounts of illness but we feel it will be worth the wait.

Jaques talks to the streets about their takes on our government, Doms takes us into the world of student politics and RiseUp!Radio goes to the Urban Harvest Festival and gets the low down from the windy miller. Also live music from local singer song writer My Crust, also some in studio discussion and Hilary gives us an introduction to his exciting new show ‘Looking into the Crisis’. Topped offed with a rendition of Martin Luther King’s ‘I have a dream’ speech, read live last month in Market square as part of Black History Month. Bon Appétit!

Listen: #10 The November Show

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Why I Moved From Seattle Washington

06-11-2008 05:45

The Destroyed Reputation of The United States Federal Government (Part Two)

I lived in Seattle Washington for 15 years. I worked on computer automated design and drafting for twenty years. My life "fell apart" (yes; - there was mushrooms, a woman, and a brother involved - to add some drama for you!) . I ended up living in my truck and couch surfing with friends for about ten months. Then I got a low rent transitional housing apartment in downtown Seattle - at the Glenn Hotel.

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NYCLAW ANTIWAR DIGEST -- 11.05.08

06-11-2008 01:22

"Obama will be able to work with his European allies to do a better job of selling the war to skeptical publics."
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